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Sushi prepares to reopen some restaurants in England, it has had to adapt its conveyor belt system.", "Monkeys are treated like \"picking machines\" to harvest 1,000 coconuts a day, an animal rights group says.", "Cambridge University accepts David Starkey's resignation, saying: \"We do not tolerate racism.\"", "The review follows a fresh wave of calls to scrap a team name long-criticised as racist.", "The impact of cuts at the wing factory in Broughton, Flintshire will be felt across the region.", "Mark Drakeford attacks the UK government's handling of foreign travel arrangements.", "With travel restrictions and tight budgets many British people are choosing to holiday at home this year.", "The first person to get blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment explains why she's taking part in the trial.", "The aerospace firm blames coronavirus for the cuts, warning of 1,700 job losses at its UK plants.", "The plane-making firm is cutting 15,000 jobs worldwide as it reels from the coronavirus pandemic.", "Lockdown measures in Wales are still in force as pubs open in England on Saturday.", "Recreational cricket is set to resume from 11 July, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson, despite previously saying it was \"not safe\".", "Move in England comes after experts have been calling for the checks to contain the virus.", "The company is cutting 15,000 jobs, with 1,700 expected to go in Flintshire and Bristol.", "Air France-KLM plans thousands of job cuts at its French arm as the air industry reels from the pandemic.", "NI's deputy first minister says she stuck to lockdown regulations at Bobby Storey's funeral on Tuesday.", "At one stage the oxygen level in Davide Compagnone's blood was lower than on Everest's peak.", "The historian faces a backlash after comments he made during an interview are condemned as \"racist\".", "Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds calls for jobs schemes to be extended during local lockdowns.", "The figures from the ONS are the first to reveal the full toll of the epidemic in care homes.", "The UK helps rescue company from bankruptcy as part of a plan to replace the EU's Galileo sat-nav system.", "Michigan's supreme court says it will review the original family court ruling against 'Grace'.", "Johnny Depp's ex-fiancee says it is \"impossible to believe\" claims from Amber Heard that he was violent.", "Tributes have been paid to Shea Ryan who died in hospital after the accident on a Glasgow site.", "After more than 220 years, a lighthouse is being dismantled before it is claimed by the sea.", "The company has already added nearly as many subscribers as it did in all of 2019.", "Marichka Padalko simply put the tooth in her hand and continued presenting the news.", "Snowdonia National Park says visitors have left litter, dog mess, and excrement on paths.", "Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are among the public figures whose accounts were hacked by fraudsters.", "News and updates on the response to the pandemic in Wales.", "Public and private spaces in England can be closed from Saturday to deal with outbreaks, the PM says.", "Jurors hear Charlie Elphicke tell police he paid the woman to keep quiet about the incident in 2007.", "Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty called for honesty about the lack of investment in health protection in recent years.", "Spectators could be able to watch sport inside stadiums in England again from October, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "Aaron McKenzie must serve a minimum of 35 years in jail for killing Kelly Fauvrelle and her baby.", "Up to 1,200 jobs are at risk after Azzurri Group, which also owns Ask, was sold out of administration.", "Hotels are used only \"as a last resort\" to reduce the spread of coronavirus, the government says.", "It has risen 6% compared with the previous year, but overall offending has fallen, figures suggest.", "The Indian actress and her daughter had been isolating since testing positive earlier this week.", "Leeds United are back in the Premier League after 16 years away as West Brom's defeat by Huddersfield seals promotion.", "Kirk Butcher, a father of three, was killed when his car was hit by Thomas Hughes' van.", "Darren Roberts' partner claims Ealing Council has not helped sort out the twins' immigration papers.", "The first minister says the breakdown in her relationship with her predecessor has been like \"a grieving process\".", "The Queen honours the 100-year-old in her first official engagement in person since lockdown.", "The 100-year-old is knighted in a socially distanced ceremony - thought to be the first of its kind.", "The government is working on pilots for indoor socially distanced performances in England.", "Cédric Chouviat, 42, shouted \"I'm suffocating\" seven times as officers put him in a chokehold.", "When Tash Young was given weeks to live, she was determined to marry her boyfriend before she died.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The court's most senior liberal justice has a recurrence of cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.", "The BBFC's reclassification means the comedy has had four different ratings since its 1979 release.", "India's capital lost control of the pandemic but now cases are plummeting. Can we trust the data?", "The UN says up to 265 million people could face starvation because of the impact of Covid-19.", "Huge waves have lashed the New South Wales coastline this week, causing erosion beneath homes.", "Jubilant Leeds fans ignore warnings to stay at home and instead gather outside Elland Road.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The magazine described him as \"a visionary publisher\" and \"a tireless champion of city culture\".", "Her marriage to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi took place in Windsor and was attended by the Queen.", "The men were in a car which crashed into a road barrier in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, police say.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there was no evidence of harm - but the kits should not be used.", "The flag of pro-slavery states during the US Civil War is no longer authorised on military property.", "The 20-year-old, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria, has been denied a fair hearing, judges say.", "Boris Johnson also outlines plans to give local authorities more powers in his 17 July announcement.", "The former presenter and church minister admitted abusing children and adults in the UK and Romania.", "The body of Fahim Saleh was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday.", "A headstone honouring 617 Squadron's mascot - a black Labrador - is replaced at RAF Scampton.", "The Mets says it has not received a public complaint and there had been no misconduct in the case.", "Bowling shoes could become a thing of the past says one firm, as it prepares to reopen in August.", "A blaze destroys a fairground ride and damages an engineering shed on the seaside landmark.", "PM says the government is \"planning for the worst\" as he warns Covid-19 may be more virulent in winter.", "Owner Mondelez says the move will fight obesity, but the firm faces accusations of \"shrinkflation\".", "UK safety campaigners raise concerns about an increase in the number of US deaths caused by SUVs.", "The Department for International Development is due to be combined with the Foreign Office.", "A virtual orchestra of 350 musicians will launch a lockdown version of the annual music festival.", "Government campaign will also carry advice for UK and EU firms before the transition period ends.", "The fast-fashion firm is the latest to face allegations of poor working condition at its suppliers.", "Shopping centres can reopen, dentists can offer some routine procedures, and children can play organised contact sport outdoors.", "A 12-year-old boy has been arrested by police investigating racist messages sent to Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha on social media.", "Lisa Marie Presley is \"heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated\" at Benjamin Keough's death.", "The rules will also apply to taxis and other places where 2m social distancing is not possible.", "The new points-based system has a visa for health staff but most care home workers will be excluded.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "It is one of several restrictions introduced by President Ramaphosa amid rising infection rates.", "The actress and wife of John Travolta died after a \"two-year battle with breast cancer\", he says.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says he will be going on holiday to Pembrokeshire when he gets the chance.", "Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, her father-in-law, husband and daughter test positive for Covid-19.", "The Duchess of Cambridge helps the BBC launch its new Tiny Happy People initiative to help under-fives.", "A 24-hour tally of 15,299 new coronavirus cases eclipses the worst rates seen in New York in April.", "Minister Michael Gove says he does not think face coverings should be mandatory in shops in England.", "For critics, the debate over face coverings is an example of ministers allowing confusion to spread.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "\"Targeted action\" means outbreaks are being swiftly dealt with, the health secretary says.", "A statement says the 24-year-old had named her child Reign with her partner Boga.", "Cross party group of MPs say the economic impact of the pandemic could drive young people to crime.", "Jonny McFadden says the fence is to remind people about social distancing when they are drinking.", "Two years after the maximum term was doubled in England and Wales, ministers may do so again.", "Beauty salons, spas and tattoo parlours are also allowed to reopen in the latest phase of changes.", "Two men are arrested after police officers find nothing suspicious on the Ryanair plane.", "Mixed messages from leaders are undermining public trust amid the pandemic, the WHO head says.", "Becky Jones' car was broken into while she went for a meal in Nottingham with her boyfriend.", "Evidence shows the teen was pushed into a river and died - so why hasn't the suspect been prosecuted?", "The BBC's Caroline Hawley follows Syrian refugee Rouaa to her new home, four years after first meeting her in Lebanon.", "The Pope is the latest faith leader to voice concern at the Istanbul museum reverting to a mosque.", "The first minister describes the week ahead as \"the most significant easing of lockdown\" in Scotland.", "Ministers may confirm on Tuesday that face coverings will be compulsory inside shops in England.", "The money will go towards tacking racial inequality in the UK and will be donated over 10 years.", "The \"breakthrough\" chemical solution has been created by Bonnybridge-based E&O Laboratories.", "A libel case hears that Johnny Depp, who denies domestic violence allegations, was a victim of abuse.", "The country's flood response alert has been raised to the second highest level.", "MPs are calling for action to help so-called mortgage prisoners, including thousands of key workers.", "Scientific evidence suggests singing increases the risk of spreading coronavirus among a crowd.", "Manchester City successfully overturn their two-year ban from European club competitions.", "Several boats are spotted as the home secretary visits France for talks on tackling people smuggling.", "More lockdown easing takes effect, but masks will be required on public transport in two weeks time.", "The actress went missing on Wednesday after going boating with her son at a lake in California.", "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has previously been criticised for calling the virus a \"little flu\".", "Five million are told to stay at home after the highest daily surge since the pandemic began.", "The move by the short-form video app comes after China imposed its new security law on the city.", "Meet the care workers who opted to live in their care home to protect the residents from Covid-19.", "The chancellor will announce some households could get grants up to £10,000 for energy-saving projects.", "Joshua Wong first rose to prominence during the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong in 2014.", "Police, politicians and Glasgow's council had asked members of the public to avoid George Square.", "Reach, which also owns the Daily Express, says revenues have dropped 30% during the pandemic.", "Heads in England call for reduced courses or open-book exams for next year's GCSEs and A-levels.", "The foreign secretary announces the freezing of assets in “notorious” cases of human rights abuse.", "China is working to be the world's superpower \"by any means necessary,\" Christopher Wray said.", "Duke of Sussex tells young leaders \"uncomfortable\" past Commonwealth wrongs need to be put right.", "A day after leaving the band, Tom Meighan pleads guilty to attacking the woman in front of a child.", "UK government advisors say post-pandemic recovery funds should go to firms reducing carbon emissions.", "The president was seen coughing at a public rally, as criticisms against his response grow.", "The PM said \"too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures\" on combating coronavirus.", "Dan Williams says he and guide dog Zodiac have been refused taxi rides more than 100 times.", "In a special investigation, several gymnasts tell BBC Sport of an alleged \"culture of fear\" in the sport of weight shaming and abuse.", "Kerem Koseoglu was stuck in Turkey for three months, then had to wait two weeks to see his daughter.", "About 100 videos of an offensive song were viewed more than six million times before it took action.", "People will be able to have a trim - but with strict rules, it will be a different experience.", "The Domestic Abuse Bill now rules out \"consent for sexual gratification\" as a defence for causing serious harm.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning.", "Senior police officers have written to councils saying demonstrations pose risks to public safety.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tells her daily briefing there has been one death from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.", "\"I will never be off the hook,\" says the musician, a year after allegations of abuse surfaced.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Nelson Teich resigned as Brazil's health minister in May after a disagreement with President Bolsonaro.", "Plans to reopen hair salons without the wider beauty industry in Wales are described as \"ridiculous\".", "Stephanie Winston Wolkoff has claimed she was \"thrown under the bus\" by the White House.", "Three major online retailers have dropped Boohoo over allegations of low pay and unsafe conditions.", "The actor strongly criticises people who don't wear face coverings amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The Treasury grants tax exemption for the tests following criticism from MPs.", "Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething calls for caution despite no coronavirus deaths on Monday.", "The company will get public money to help bring up to 500 jobs to the town.", "Downing Street hits back at claims Boris Johnson was trying to shift blame for coronavirus deaths.", "The comments came after a leading scientist said everyone should wear them in crowded public spaces.", "Bianca Williams and her partner Ricardo dos Santos were stopped while driving a Mercedes in London.", "Footage of Bianca Williams and her partner being searched by officers has sparked controversy.", "Helen Hancock and her new partner Martin Griffiths were found dead in the early hours of New Year's Day.", "The ex-Army officer had a movie clip of children with one as young as 12 months old, a court hears.", "The suspects were located following the hack of a Europe-wide phone system.", "At least three pubs in England announce they have closed just days after opening their doors again.", "Paulinho Paiakan was best known for the fight against the Belo Monte hydroelectric project in Brazil.", "Some foreign students may need to move to a university with in-person classes to stay in the US.", "The Hollywood star is suing the Sun newspaper over a story saying he abused his ex-wife Amber Heard.", "The environment should be a priority as plans for a post-Covid future are made, NHS staff say.", "Claire Cross says the masks with a clear panel are vital for people who rely on lip-reading.", "Campaigners say the move is \"morally bankrupt\" after ministers find \"isolated\" humanitarian violations.", "A Lancet study estimates that around just 5% of the Spanish population has developed antibodies.", "Tackling climate change must be woven into post-Covid economic solutions, UK ministers say.", "Henry Long says he did not know the officer was caught in a tow rope attached to his getaway car.", "Boris Johnson vows a \"new deal\" for UK after coronavirus - but Labour says saving jobs is top priority.", "The TV historian and author says he made \"a bad mistake\" for which he is \"very sorry\".", "The inquiry into 72 deaths is urged to be on the \"right side of history\" when it publishes its findings.", "Some regions show significant drops in air pollutants as the coronavirus hits work and travel.", "New court documents from Rebekah Vardy's legal team detail the distress she says she felt over her row with Coleen Rooney.", "Four-year-old Hari Jones is back home after spending 28 months in a children's hospital.", "Kai Denovan, 22, denies the manslaughter of footballer Jordan Sinnott during a night out.", "Having stabilised the virus just a few weeks ago, Spain is again struggling to keep it under control.", "With the hospitality sector savaged by the pandemic, jobs are attracting many more applicants.", "Travellers from Portugal will have to self-isolate but restrictions are relaxed for other nations.", "James Healy attacked Mr Jones because of his politics and LGBTQ beliefs, the court heard.", "The video was shown to the High Court, after being provided by an anonymous source on Thursday.", "Four women and one man have been arrested on suspicion of murdering Lee McKnight.", "The president says his executive orders will overhaul the drug market, but some experts are sceptical.", "From Irish pub, to potting shed, they've offered a sanctuary for many during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Finding Freedom claims there was tension between Harry and Meghan and other royal households.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says rules are under review but \"downsides\" remain to their use.", "The 2020-21 Premier League and EFL seasons will start on 12 September.", "Business owners and customers grapple with the new rules which make coverings mandatory in stores.", "The move means people returning from Spain will have to self-isolate, as part of coronavirus rules.", "The increase from 50mph to 60mph in England is intended to ease driver \"frustrations\".", "The Welsh Secretary says it is \"fresh money\" but is a result of spending in England.", "Beverley Knight performs to a sparse, safety-conscious crowd at one of the first post-lockdown gigs.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced the biggest ever vaccination programme in Wales.", "Up to 150 English venues will get help to stop them going to the wall after four months with no gigs.", "But the prime minister remains reluctant to go into detail over possible government mistakes.", "The consequences of rape, maltreatment, disease and racism are revealed by the findings.", "The grime artist's manager says the company has \"cut all ties\" amid a series of social media posts.", "Public Health England's conclusions come as ministers consider new measures to combat obesity.", "Boris Johnson says there are “open questions” about whether the coronavirus lockdown came too late.", "Tributes were paid to the victims of the pandemic outside the Royal Palace in Madrid.", "More than 400,000 documents are yet to sent out because of fewer staff due to the Covid pandemic.", "Hundreds of cars parked illegally on Snowdonia roads, while a lifeboat station was blocked by motorbikes.", "Aziza Aljahwari says she waded through water searching for her son before the pair were rescued.", "Visitors are being warned they could be towed away if they park illegally at the foot of Snowdon.", "Graphic designer Keith Williams came up with alternative messages to keep shoppers socially distant.", "Businesses say they have been inundated with inquiries but it will not make up trade lost in lockdown.", "Two women document their birth stories for the BBC, to show what it’s like to have a baby in a pandemic.", "After watching an on-air broadcast, an eagle-eyed viewer urged Victoria Price to see a doctor.", "Craig Harakh will appear before magistrates accused of attacking a man in the theme park.", "The home secretary pledges a review into the hostile environment following the Windrush scandal.", "B&Q owner Kingfisher sees sales soar in lockdown as people do more DIY.", "Despite restrictions being eased, many firms have been unable to fully restart operations.", "Alison Rose, the chief executive of Natwest Group, warns not all firms will survive the current crisis.", "Crowds clap as the World Cup winner's cortege passes through the former mining town of Ashington.", "A committee says the economic reaction to Covid-19 was rushed and the impact could be long-term.", "The TV personality discusses her husband's bipolar disorder, following a string of erratic tweets.", "The president also asked all Americans to wear face coverings, saying they show \"patriotism\".", "Amber Heard claims Johnny Depp hurled around 30 bottles at her during \"three-day hostage situation\".", "Harry's mother appeals to the government to make her son \"top priority\" at the US Secretary of State visit.", "Figures reveal 14 properties bought by ministers for the axed M4 relief road remain vacant.", "There have also been more than 617,000 deaths worldwide, says Johns Hopkins University.", "Boris Johnson takes MPs' questions amid fallout from the Russia report.", "Kenny Dalglish will present the trophy - the first time the Reds have won the title in 30 years.", "Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson lifts the Premier League trophy to seal the club's first top-flight triumph for 30 years.", "Portuguese police are investigating if a suspect in the case may be linked to a rape three years earlier.", "Tesla’s soaring share price means Mr Musk also gained the option of accessing $2.1bn worth of stock.", "Police say a child and a parent have been found and are out of the river.", "Homeowners using a energy efficiency grant must be protected from bad quality work, campaigners say.", "The future king flashes a smile at the camera in photos taken by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.", "The UK has stiffened its attitude to Russia - but it's been an uncomfortable evolution for Tory politicians.", "The UK and US agree to amend an \"anomaly\" that allowed Anne Sacoolas to claim diplomatic immunity.", "Harry's parents are fighting for justice after he was allegedly killed by US citizen Anne Sacoolas.", "Boris Johnson visits Scotland as the SNP says he is worried about support for independence.", "An official report reveals how children have struggled to continue learning at home during lockdown.", "Deaths linked to coronavirus in Scotland have fallen to the lowest level since the pandemic began, new figures show.", "A \"poisonous ideology\" endures despite the group losing territory in Syria and Iraq, a minister says.", "A more lenient approach to replacement exam grades will see results going upwards, says watchdog.", "Russian influence in the UK is now \"the new normal\", according to a parliamentary committee.", "The government publishes a report on a leaked document used by Labour at the 2019 election.", "Cory Hewer died two days after suffering serious head injuries at a motorcycle track.", "Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.", "Covid-19 appeared on just six death certificates last week - making it the lowest weekly fatalities total since the pandemic began in March.", "The Amazon-owned supermarket is accused of discriminating against black staff over BLM face masks.", "A manager at contractors Rydon was asked if cladding could resist fire in concern over a 2009 blaze.", "The party apologises for the \"distress\" caused to ex-members of staff who spoke out in BBC programme.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Residents can reunite with loved ones, but must see the same one visitor, government guidance says.", "Social distancing means fewer tables for customers - but many aren't showing up for their reservations at all.", "Eamonn Harrison is wanted over his alleged role in transporting a trailer in which 39 people died.", "Ministers say \"new offences and powers\" may be needed as Labour warns of a \"serious gap\" in UK defences.", "Dame Cressida Dick hopes shoppers who refuse to wear masks will be \"shamed\" into compliance.", "The refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas over Harry Dunn's death comes despite an Interpol notice.", "An attempt to make the Foreign Office release evidence on diplomatic immunity is rejected.", "Lea Michele and Jane Lynch are among those paying respect, after the actress's death was confirmed.", "Meghan told delegates at a gender equality summit to push humanity in a \"more inclusive\" direction.", "BBC Wales' health correspondent meets patients and staff at the heart of the coronavirus battle.", "Modelling suggests there could be a deadly second peak, killing more than 100,000 people in the UK.", "Nine council areas of Wales show no deaths with coronavirus in the latest weekly figures from ONS.", "The new points-based system has a visa for health staff but most care home workers will be excluded.", "UK government is set to announce the Chinese firm is to be excluded from the country's 5G networks.", "Like thousands of people in council tax debt, Penelope Dudley fears the bailiffs who will soon restart work.", "Cross party group of MPs say the economic impact of the pandemic could drive young people to crime.", "Jonny McFadden says the fence is to remind people about social distancing when they are drinking.", "Becky Jones' car was broken into while she went for a meal in Nottingham with her boyfriend.", "The BBC's Caroline Hawley follows Syrian refugee Rouaa to her new home, four years after first meeting her in Lebanon.", "The auctioned game, still in its original 1985 packaging, sold to an anonymous bidder for $114,000.", "The 20-year-old was shot at an LA mansion he had rented out in February.", "Residents face tougher limits on visitors and are being urged to bump elbows instead of hugging.", "New maternity clothes were taken from pregnant Becky Jones's car while she was having dinner.", "The Hong Kong theme park will shut its gates after a recent surge in coronavirus cases.", "A court rules that refusing to rent to a person because they are on housing benefit is unlawful.", "Hollows in the ground to catch and store heavy rain water are among projects that will get cash.", "The Natural History Museum, V&A and Science Museum all announce they will reopen in August.", "The latest developments on the response to the pandemic in Wales.", "Amit's relationship with Michelle was a secret for years because he feared his family's reaction.", "The Duchess of Cambridge helps the BBC launch its new Tiny Happy People initiative to help under-fives.", "The enigmatic graffiti artist returns to his Underground roots for his new pandemic-inspired piece.", "Leader Adam Price estimates policies for the 2021 election manifesto will cost £1bn.", "Properties up to the value of £250,000 will now be exempt from paying until next March.", "Two men are arrested after police officers find nothing suspicious on the Ryanair plane.", "The Orange Order urged people to stay at home, but crowds gathered in some parts of Belfast.", "Cities and states on several continents reimpose coronavirus restrictions as cases rise again.", "A libel case hears that Johnny Depp, who denies domestic violence allegations, was a victim of abuse.", "Just two patients in Scotland are in intensive care with coronavrius and only three new positive cases were reported in the last 24 hours.", "The British socialite denies grooming underage girls for the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.", "Wigan Athletic score seven first-half goals to stun relegation-threatened Hull City before equalling the biggest victory in Championship history.", "Judges are asked to decide if a coroner's decision to limit the scope of an inquest was \"flawed\".", "A Michigan officer kills a man suspected of stabbing someone who chided him for not wearing a mask.", "The sixth day of a libel case hears that Amber Heard \"berated\" her then partner on a Christmas trip.", "Wales needs to \"move fast\" to make wearing masks compulsory in shops, Plaid Cymru says.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Sir Richard Branson's airline pulls off the \"impossible\" to secure a £1.2bn deal to head off collapse.", "The actress went missing on Wednesday after going boating with her son at a lake in California.", "The online grocer saw \"years of growth in months\" amid the lockdown and says the retail world has changed.", "For critics, the debate over face coverings is an example of ministers allowing confusion to spread.", "Dozens of women would have shared the payout but other accusers had objected to its terms.", "Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith calls the Chinese telecoms firm a \"risk\" to national security.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday evening.", "The starting point for land and buildings transaction tax is to rise to £250,000, the finance secretary announces.", "The government is also banning telecoms firms from buying new Huawei 5G kit after 31 December.", "A child and seven other people are lowered to safety from a fire in a three-storey block of flats.", "A whistleblower in Leicester says demand for cheap clothing left workers exposed to Covid-19.", "A libel case hears the Hollywood actor threw a magnum of champagne at his ex-wife - a claim he denies.", "The company missed delivery targets, according Ofcom, and overcharged customers for stamps.", "Darrell and Darren Roberts face being sent to two different Caribbean countries they have never visited.", "Labour says the government must \"come clean\" on PPE procurement process after £120m face shield deals.", "It is thought a visitor left a gate open allowing the animal to make its way to the water's edge", "The Hollywood star tells a libel hearing his ex-wife threw a bottle of vodka at him during a fight.", "It is understood the government is looking at whether to make face coverings compulsory in England's shops.", "The latest developments as further measures to ease lockdown restrictions are announced.", "Parents say it is frustrating to wait months to register their babies, as councils face large backlogs.", "There were more than 160 cases of sports coaches having legal sexual activity with a 16- or 17-year-old in their care since 2016, BBC Sport has found.", "The rapper, whose debut album was released this month, was killed in a suspected robbery in February.", "More people are having surgery as they can work from home while they recover and hide behind masks.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The majority of emissions cuts from electric cars will be wiped out by new road-building.", "Naya Rivera has been missing since Wednesday after going on a boat trip with her young son.", "Restrictions in England are further eased - with beauty businesses also able to reopen on Monday.", "Police say the body of the Glee star has been found in a California lake, after she went missing on Wednesday.", "Open-air gigs, festivals and theatre shows can resume from this weekend, the government says.", "Earlier, the company had asked staff to remove the TikTok app from phones over \"security risks.\"", "Majella O'Hare was 12 years old when she was shot dead by a soldier in 1976 on her way to church.", "One of the fashion firm's biggest shareholders dumps stock amid reports over poor working conditions.", "The airline halts flights for the next two weeks after the Scottish government left Spain off the quarantine exemption list.", "Inquiry into care by NHS trust is now assessing about 1,500 cases, the BBC learns.", "Pilots say the airline will include sick days when assessing job losses - a claim EasyJet rejects.", "British Transport Police issued 10 fines to people not wearing face coverings on public transport.", "Cinemas, museums and galleries can reopen on 27 July, the first minister says.", "A private funeral is held as friends and fans also pay respects to the Forces' Sweetheart.", "The streets were lined with people wanting to pay their respects, while two Spitfires flew past.", "France's president puts an end to speculation that the restored spire will be modern in style.", "British Olympians Becky and Ellie Downie say abusive behaviour in their gymnastics training became \"so ingrained in our daily lives that that it was completely normalised\".", "The driver in south-western France was set upon by people who reportedly refused to wear face masks.", "From his laptop in Essex, Dr Tahir Akhtar is advising Pakistani doctors on treating coronavirus patients.", "An Office for National Statistics survey suggests just two-in-10 would be happy to dine indoors.", "Probationary officer Benjamin Hannam is charged with being a member of banned group National Action.", "A day after the chancellor unveiled a plan to save jobs, two of the UK's biggest retailers announce cuts.", "Park Won-soon disappeared after reportedly leaving a message for his daughter, who raised the alarm.", "Antibodies detected in 45% of healthcare workers at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust.", "Her iconic shot of the band leaping in the air was used on the sleeve of their Twist and Shout EP.", "Bruno Fernandes inspires Manchester United to another impressive Premier League victory that deepens Aston Villa's relegation worries.", "Lockdown measures in Wales are still in force as pubs open in England on Saturday.", "Animal rights groups say a ban on the sale of dog meat in Nagaland is a milestone.", "An online portal will launch in England later this month to help people with ongoing symptoms.", "The landlord of the Swan Inn in Kent says \"how much bad luck can we have?\"", "There is a \"serious risk\" schools will not be ready unless plans are published soon, a union claims.", "Britain’s biggest supermarket has reportedly given suppliers until 10 July to agree price cuts.", "Recreational cricket is set to resume from 11 July, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson, despite previously saying it was \"not safe\".", "The acting leader of the Liberal Democrats asks whether Nigel Farage has broken quarantine rules.", "A father who paid £4.99 for his daughter to use a smartphone app was shocked to find a £4,642 bill.", "Wales is the only UK nation without a date for when the sector can trade again.", "Pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and other businesses are open for the first time in months.", "Air France-KLM plans thousands of job cuts at its French arm as the air industry reels from the pandemic.", "They could be trialled in towns and cities as the government promotes their use.", "Earl Cameron, who died aged 102, was one of the first black actors to star on screen in 1951.", "Scrapping of the \"stay local\" restrictions from Monday are confirmed by Mark Drakeford.", "People across the country could go to pubs and restaurants after coronavirus restrictions were eased.", "Louise Arnold and Jennifer Wilson are believed to be the first couple to marry after measures eased.", "The BBC speaks to people out and about in England as coronavirus restrictions are lifted.", "Landmarks will be lit up blue ahead of a nationwide applause celebrating 72 years of the health service.", "Wheelchair-user Ginny Butcher says disabled people in the UK have been abandoned during the pandemic.", "Portuguese leaders say the country's exclusion from a list drawn up by the UK government is \"absurd\".", "Greece, Belgium and Spain are among the countries on the list but Portugal and the US are not.", "Ghislaine Maxwell will not speak about Prince Andrew as part of a potential plea deal, according to a friend.", "Bricks and other missiles were thrown as officers tried to disperse the gathering in west London.", "Brazil's president vetoes articles making masks obligatory in shops, churches and schools.", "Three officers are sacked in Aurora, Colorado after they shared photos re-enacting a chokehold.", "An historic hotel has been hit by floods.", "The man in his 20s died at the scene in Islington after being found with gunshot wounds, police say.", "The artist said she wanted \"to make people question the Western myth that Jesus had fair hair and blue eyes\".", "Valtteri Bottas beats Lewis Hamilton to pole position as Mercedes dominate qualifying at Austrian GP, while Ferrari have shocking day.", "A spokesman says the water was up to his knees as north west Wales sees the worst of the downpours.", "The Met Office said there was a \"small chance\" properties and roads could be flooded, with travel also hit.", "Gareth Cooper was left bankrupt after Debra Leyshon obtained loans and mortgages in his name.", "The first person to get blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment explains why she's taking part in the trial.", "Police can fine people repeatedly flouting restrictions up to £3,200 from Saturday.", "At least 16 people have died and a dozen are missing on the island of Kyushu amid devastating rains.", "Chelsea boss Frank Lampard says his team will have to get used to added pressure during a nervy Premier League run-in after they beat Watford on Saturday.", "Residents say Leicester has a \"very eerie\" atmosphere and police are patrolling the streets.", "The late civil rights activist is taken over the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge for a final time.", "The drummer co-founded Fleetwood Mac with the blues rock guitarist, who has died aged 73.", "Grant Shapps is on a family holiday in the country and will have to quarantine on his return.", "The Perseverance robot will take Martian rock with it when it launches from Earth on Thursday.", "Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures have never been featured on British legal tender.", "Three cases were confirmed last week, and health officials predict the number will rise.", "The travel industry reacts with dismay to the 14-day quarantine for travellers arriving from Spain.", "The faltering recovery of Spain's vital tourism sector is likely to worsen after the UK decision.", "Her career spanned more than 50 years and she was the last surviving star of Gone with the Wind.", "The Rwandan refugee, who worked as a volunteer warden, is relieved to confess, his lawyer says.", "Four women and one man have been arrested on suspicion of murdering Lee McKnight.", "From Irish pub, to potting shed, they've offered a sanctuary for many during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle says announcements should always be made to Parliament, not the media.", "Manchester United defeat Leicester 2-0 to secure a top-four finish and a place in next season's Champions League.", "The home secretary says anti-Semitic posts should be taken off Twitter and Instagram more quickly.", "The increase from 50mph to 60mph in England is intended to ease driver \"frustrations\".", "The rally in Thailand's capital is the latest in a series of youth-led pro-democracy protests.", "The \"massive\" four-year-old dog was showing signs of pain in her legs and was refusing to move.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "Face-to-face teaching starts again at the University of Nottingham, with safety rules on campus.", "The RNLI says eight people were pulled from waters off a beach after getting caught in currents.", "The hurricane was downgraded after making landfall, but authorities say heavy rains will continue.", "The grime artist's manager says the company has \"cut all ties\" amid a series of social media posts.", "The dean of Westminster Abbey says it is down £12m this year and is set to make staff redundant.", "Public Health England's conclusions come as ministers consider new measures to combat obesity.", "Mr Dunn's family believe a suspect in the case was allowed to leave the UK unlawfully.", "Almost 200 sex offenders were released from prison in a year without anywhere to live.", "A 17-year-old is arrested after violence erupts between two groups in Moss Side, Manchester.", "Graphic designer Keith Williams came up with alternative messages to keep shoppers socially distant.", "Champions League qualification and the battle to avoid relegation are the major issues at stake as the Premier League season concludes on Sunday.", "The court's most senior liberal justice has a recurrence of cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.", "Prosecutors say three fires were started at the site, and are treating the blaze as a criminal act.", "The Indian actress and her daughter had been isolating since testing positive earlier this week.", "Major heritage sites like Conwy and Beaumaris Castles are to be reopened after lockdown.", "Dr Anthony Fauci says recent efforts by the Trump administration to discredit him are \"nonsense\".", "The crown prince will 'temporarily' take over some of Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah's duties.", "India's capital lost control of the pandemic but now cases are plummeting. Can we trust the data?", "The warning from Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland heads into the first weekend of pubs being open indoors.", "Buckingham Palace shares the images after she married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on Friday.", "The burial of Badreddin Abadlla Adam was delayed for an hour after a crowd breached Covid-19 rules.", "Lewis, who was the last of the Big Six civil rights leaders, was diagnosed with cancer in December.", "The government reveals interference in elections just ahead of the long-awaited Russia report.", "The body of Fahim Saleh was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday.", "Video counselling is helping some but there is no way of supporting people in abusive relationships.", "PM says the government is \"planning for the worst\" as he warns Covid-19 may be more virulent in winter.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "People living in the suburbs outside Leicester reflect on being released from the local lockdown.", "Russian-born Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya competed for Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics.", "The 100-year-old is knighted in a socially distanced ceremony - thought to be the first of its kind.", "The magazine described him as \"a visionary publisher\" and \"a tireless champion of city culture\".", "Russia's representative in the UK also dismisses suggestions of interference in British politics.", "UK safety campaigners raise concerns about an increase in the number of US deaths caused by SUVs.", "The surge in electronic payments and takeaway delivery charges has hit Scottish businesses hard.", "The government is working on pilots for indoor socially distanced performances in England.", "The coastguard says it is now dealing with several more incidents off the Kent coast.", "Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta outmanoeuvres his mentor Pep Guardiola as the Gunners reach the FA Cup final with victory at Wembley.", "Over 1,200 infections are reported in Catalonia, as restrictions are imposed on life in its capital.", "In the first 17 weeks of the year 22% more deaths were registered in Ceredigion than average.", "Spectators could be able to watch sport inside stadiums in England again from October, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "England pace bowler Jofra Archer is fined and warned by the England and Wales Cricket Board for returning home between Tests.", "Two men are arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an altercation between two groups.", "The intelligence watchdog will give its findings on alleged involvement in an election and the Brexit vote.", "US presidents are among those paying tribute after the civil rights icon died of cancer, aged 80.", "Up to 1,200 jobs are at risk after Azzurri Group, which also owns Ask, was sold out of administration.", "The national clinical director says the new cases are not a \"cluster\" and day-to-day variation is expected.", "Marcus Coutain's lawyer says the arrest \"mirrored almost identically what happened to George Floyd\".", "Hotels are used only \"as a last resort\" to reduce the spread of coronavirus, the government says.", "Demonstrators say they are taking to the streets \"because our governor was stolen from us\".", "Residents of two US states where infections are ballooning describe how it's affecting them.", "Dr Anthony Fauci is fighting to stop the spread of Covid-19 and misinformation from President Trump.", "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has previously been criticised for calling the virus a \"little flu\".", "Meet the care workers who opted to live in their care home to protect the residents from Covid-19.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "The WHO has acknowledged there is evidence that Covid-19 can be spread by airborne particles.", "Dozens are hurt as clashes erupt in Belgrade over restrictions imposed after a big rise in cases.", "The government needs to create new jobs to help younger workers severely hit by the pandemic.", "The Welsh Government will get half a billion pounds from the Treasury, the UK government says.", "There are 18,000 more registered than a year ago, but some fear the pandemic could hit recruitment.", "Heads in England call for reduced courses or open-book exams for next year's GCSEs and A-levels.", "Several US states are seeing a surge in new infections, and plans to reopen have been paused or reversed.", "Clubs call for government help after a survey suggests many face closure without financial support.", "The crew were hurt after being called to check on the welfare of a man at his home in Wolverhampton.", "A 15-year-old boy is being held on suspicion of driving offences after the victim was hit on the pavement.", "The audit highlights Facebook's failures on hate speech, voter protection, and more.", "China is working to be the world's superpower \"by any means necessary,\" Christopher Wray said.", "The Chancellor says Scotland will now receive £4.6bn in Barnett funding from the UK government.", "Tottenham midfielder Eric Dier is given a four-match ban and fined £40,000 for climbing over seats to confront a fan after a match.", "There are questions over whether the Joint Biosecurity Centre has the expertise needed for the job.", "The president was seen coughing at a public rally, as criticisms against his response grow.", "A report says the approach was \"flawed\" and care home deaths now account for 28% of Wales' total.", "In a special investigation, several gymnasts tell BBC Sport of an alleged \"culture of fear\" in the sport of weight shaming and abuse.", "About 100 videos of an offensive song were viewed more than six million times before it took action.", "The vote by the community's advisory board comes after weeks of anti-racism protests around the world.", "Finance minister says the plans to kickstart the economy are \"not ambitious enough\".", "Despite surges in new infections, the White House wants to press forward with school reopenings.", "Health and social care leaders warn the prime minister about the impact of the new immigration bill.", "Pullin, Australia's flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics, was found unconscious while spearfishing.", "Amadou Gon Coulibaly was a favourite to succeed Alassane Ouattara as president in October's elections.", "The Hollywood star tells a libel hearing his ex-wife had been \"building a dossier\" against him.", "Nelson Teich resigned as Brazil's health minister in May after a disagreement with President Bolsonaro.", "A man, thought to be 18 years old, has died after he was found with stab injuries in south London.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled an \"eat out to help out\" discount as part of wider measures.", "Three major online retailers have dropped Boohoo over allegations of low pay and unsafe conditions.", "There are hefty spending promises from the chancellor but many measures outlined run against traditional Tory instincts.", "Firms that have furloughed staff will be given £1,000 bonus per employee to keep workers in jobs.", "There must be no shortages in protective gear if the UK faces a second wave of coronavirus, say MPs.", "Footage of Bianca Williams and her partner being searched by officers has sparked controversy.", "Attractions and restaurants may not pass on the chancellor's VAT cut to visitors.", "The 2020 Ryder Cup, scheduled to take place in September, is postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "British sprinter Bianca Williams tells the BBC her \"heart hurts\" after being stopped by police with her partner.", "The suspects were located following the hack of a Europe-wide phone system.", "The publication of Matt Hancock's messages focuses attention on what happened in care homes during the pandemic.", "Ameer Davies-Rana says it is time to \"get rid\" of a monument to Sir Thomas Picton in Carmarthenshire.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning.", "The crane crashed on to a block of flats under construction and two terraced houses in east London.", "The retailer will review its supply chain after reports of exploitation at a factory in Leicester.", "The Hollywood star is suing the Sun newspaper over a story saying he abused his ex-wife Amber Heard.", "The UK boss of the fast food giant said the chain could cut between 5% and 10% of its staff.", "Terry Ashton said he did not read information sent to him because he was not the \"primary recipient\".", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak cuts VAT on hospitality and offers firms a bonus to keep furloughed staff, in a bid to stop mass unemployment.", "Henry Long says he did not know the officer was caught in a tow rope attached to his getaway car.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Rishi Sunak announced his plans to help the economy recover. Here's what you need to know.", "Liverpool continue their relentless pursuit of a Premier League points record with victory over Brighton at The Amex Stadium.", "Boris Johnson agreed the pension contribution for Sir Mark Sedwill, ahead of his exit in September.", "Police say many people officers spoke to were from England and thought lockdown rules were the same.", "Wales' first minister announces the payment as coronavirus deaths in care homes continue to rise.", "A social care tax was among options discussed to cover the costs, it is understood.", "The acting leader of the Liberal Democrats asks whether Nigel Farage has broken quarantine rules.", "After days of stand-off the passengers, who include children, will be taken into quarantine in Sicily.", "New rules mean F1, international football, golf and snooker tournaments can return in England.", "The Welsh Government says it wants assurances from the Treasury that the money won't be taxed.", "The 55-year-old woman was attacked in a Siberian tiger enclosure at a zoo in the Swiss city.", "The government pledges £111m for schemes in England to get young people into work.", "Before and after portraits as the people of Coventry visit the salon for the first time in three months", "President Trump used a 4 July address to attack the “radical left” and laud his Covid-19 strategy.", "Council and health officials call on staff to come forward after colleagues test positive at two plants.", "There are many key workers carrying on with jobs that you may not have realised are classified as critical.", "The TraceTogether Token is designed to make an app more effective, but worries privacy campaigners.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson joins in the tribute as the National Health Service marks 72 years.", "A government plan for the performing arts is met with calls for financial support and a timetable.", "With the usual parades and events on hold, it's set to be a unique year for US Independence Day.", "There is a \"rise in the extent\" that limits are broken during lockdown, says road safety manager.", "The hospitality sector has warned that half of firms will not break even this year without help.", "Earl Cameron, who died aged 102, was one of the first black actors to star on screen in 1951.", "People who have had healthcare postposed could be treated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow.", "The man in his 20s died at the scene in Islington after being found with gunshot wounds, police say.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says he is \"very worried about employment practices in some factories\".", "The magazine says it was trying to raise awareness after it was accused of using dystopian imagery.", "Early results in the general election give opposition candidate Luis Abinader an unassailable lead.", "Sir Simon Stevens tells the BBC the Covid-19 crisis has shone a \"very harsh spotlight\" on the sector.", "Safety measures did not put off the champions, who ate 75 and 48.5 hot dogs respectively in 10 minutes.", "The landlord of the Swan Inn in Kent says \"how much bad luck can we have?\"", "The video game Minecraft becomes the perfect inspiration for some home schooling on Bronze Age history.", "An Electron rocket launched from New Zealand's North Island fails in flight, destroying its satellites.", "Six young photographers document an evening out as lockdown measures are eased in England.", "People across the country could go to pubs and restaurants after coronavirus restrictions were eased.", "Six young photographers document an evening out as lockdown measures are eased in England.", "The police watchdog has been informed because a Kent Police vehicle was \"in close proximity\".", "A leaked letter reveals an extensive list of concerns about how the social care sector is coping.", "Police chief explains why his rural force issued so many penalties despite small population.", "The South East will be badly hit initially, but other areas will face a painful recovery, says a report.", "Buildings across the country have been decorated with pink ribbons, as venues remain shut.", "Minister says figures do not show how soon people are told to self-isolate if contact tests positive.", "With rising demand and shrinking budgets, who is receiving social care from the state?", "Christopher Gault left medicine for the priesthood, but returned to a hospital during the pandemic.", "The fallout from Covid-19 poses a \"significant threat\" to UK higher education, analysis suggests.", "An online portal will launch in England later this month to help people with ongoing symptoms.", "The applause was inspired by the weekly Clap for Carers during the peak of the coronavirus lockdown.", "They follow outbreaks at Anglesey's 2 Sisters, Wrexham's Rowan Foods and Merthyr Tydfil's Kepak.", "As people in England enjoy their first night out in months, police voice fears about social distancing.", "Kitchen and domestic workers, as well as agency and nursing staff, are among those entitled to it.", "Scotland rugby legend Doddie says reaching life's milestones helps him live with MND.", "The chancellor is expected to announce plans to recruit 13,500 extra staff at job centres.", "The US rapper claims that he has entered the 2020 race but it is unclear if he has actually registered.", "The BBC speaks to people out and about in England as coronavirus restrictions are lifted.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "Doctors, nurses, surgeons and other NHS and healthcare workers have died with coronavirus. Here are their stories.", "Tribal Clash says there is \"no cash\" after cancelling events around the world because of coronavirus.", "Ghislaine Maxwell will not speak about Prince Andrew as part of a potential plea deal, according to a friend.", "Authorities have warned people not to travel in or to Wales in breach of restrictions.", "In a speech at Mount Rushmore, President Trump said the monument \"will never be desecrated\".", "Valtteri Bottas beats Lewis Hamilton to pole position as Mercedes dominate qualifying at Austrian GP, while Ferrari have shocking day.", "Che Adams scores his first Premier League goal as Southampton withstand a Manchester City barrage to earn victory at St Mary's Stadium.", "The figures from the ONS are the first to reveal the full toll of the epidemic in care homes.", "British sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner accuse the Metropolitan Police of racial profiling and acting violently towards them.", "Gareth Cooper was left bankrupt after Debra Leyshon obtained loans and mortgages in his name.", "Chelsea boss Frank Lampard says his team will have to get used to added pressure during a nervy Premier League run-in after they beat Watford on Saturday.", "A National Police Chiefs' Council report analyses 17,039 fines imposed between March and May.", "The late civil rights activist is taken over the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge for a final time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday evening.", "The location of the first Biden-Trump debate is moved from Indiana to Ohio over coronavirus precautions.", "Confirmed Covid-19 cases have now reached more than 16 million, with new clusters recorded in China.", "Schools are told by watchdog to be more lenient if pupils miss the grades for staying on for A-levels.", "A government source says no immediate decision is expected as No 10 warns \"no travel is risk free\".", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures have never been featured on British legal tender.", "Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill says anonymous briefings against officials have increased.", "The four locally transmitted cases in Da Nang prompt a tourism ban and renewed prevention measures.", "The travel industry reacts with dismay to the 14-day quarantine for travellers arriving from Spain.", "Scot Stephen Cameron spent more than two months in a coma in Vietnam after contracting coronavirus.", "The event comes after China's state media said HSBC played a role in the arrest of Huawei's finance chief.", "The prime minister says GPs in areas with poor health will be encouraged to prescribe cycling.", "MI6 officers are accused of interfering in a major legal battle over crimes linked to intelligence agencies.", "Her career spanned more than 50 years and she was the last surviving star of Gone with the Wind.", "The officers left after saying sorry to the residents of the property.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle says announcements should always be made to Parliament, not the media.", "The airline says it will continue flights to Spain as normal, despite the UK's 14-day quarantine.", "The Falkirk-based firm has confirmed a quarter of its 2,300 employees are at risk of redundancy.", "The home secretary says anti-Semitic posts should be taken off Twitter and Instagram more quickly.", "The cabinet minister went on holiday knowing restrictions were likely and will quarantine on his return.", "The social media giant says EU investigators have unnecessarily demanded sensitive information.", "UK prime minister's spokesman says the social network \"needs to do better than this\".", "Manchester United defeat Leicester 2-0 to secure a top-four finish and a place in next season's Champions League.", "Analysts say it will take longer than expected for the economy to return to its pre-coronavirus size.", "The Foreign Office now advises against non-essential travel to the Balearic and Canary Islands.", "David Beckham, Tyrone Mings, Andros Townsend and Steph Houghton talk to Prince William about mental health in football.", "Daisy has made a full recovery after collapsing on Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain.", "It is thought the animal caught the virus from its owner.", "The World Health Organization warns of a long road ahead despite huge efforts made to curb the virus.", "Police were called to Poplar on Monday night after reports a child had \"fallen from a height\".", "Living without fillers and Botox under lockdown is a mental health challenge for some individuals.", "The fitness-tracking gadget-maker has confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber-attack.", "Research suggests listed companies do better when women fill more than one in three executive roles.", "Thirteen novels have made the longlist, which will be whittled down to six in September.", "More than 2,000 sign a petition calling for Tahir Malik and two other Luton councillors to resign.", "Face-to-face teaching starts again at the University of Nottingham, with safety rules on campus.", "Experts from Heriot-Watt University's Orkney campus analysed the genetic composition of oarweed from 14 areas.", "Rapper Wiley's Twitter account has been temporarily locked after a long series of anti-Semitic posts.", "Men are spending more time on childcare and housework than in the 1970s, but women still do the bulk.", "Public Health England's conclusions come as ministers consider new measures to combat obesity.", "No 10 will also keep the quarantine policy for other countries under review, a minister says.", "A 17-year-old is arrested after violence erupts between two groups in Moss Side, Manchester.", "Stella Frew was pronounced dead at the scene after being struck by a van on Friday.", "But the first minister says people should continue to work from home \"wherever they can\".", "Same or next-day delivery will now be free for Prime subscribers in London on orders above £40.", "Businesses say they have been inundated with inquiries but it will not make up trade lost in lockdown.", "The new ecology minister says outside heating or air conditioning is an \"ecological aberration\".", "A whistleblower in Leicester says demand for cheap clothing left workers exposed to Covid-19.", "A libel case hears the Hollywood actor threw a magnum of champagne at his ex-wife - a claim he denies.", "11-year-old Anthony Mmesoma Madu is challenging ballet stereotypes.", "President Trump has commuted his former adviser's prison term, which had been due to begin next week.", "It is thought a visitor left a gate open allowing the animal to make its way to the water's edge", "A 24-hour helpline and training on how to call out inappropriate behaviour are part of the plans.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Saturday morning.", "The lockdown-easing visitor experience is markedly different from the pre-pandemic wander-at-will affair.", "A suspect, 42, is in custody after a car passenger was stabbed on Weston-super-Mare's M5 sliproad.", "Parents say it is frustrating to wait months to register their babies, as councils face large backlogs.", "NI's first minister says Covid-19 restrictions affecting parades are to \"protect the community\".", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says he will be going on holiday to Pembrokeshire when he gets the chance.", "The delay in publishing the findings of the investigation, launched in March, is labelled \"unacceptable\".", "Jack Charlton, a World Cup winner with England in 1966 and former Republic of Ireland boss, dies aged 85.", "Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, says economic closure is impossible as outbreak worsens.", "Holidaymakers are due to arrive at cottages and caravans in Wales for the first time since March.", "Job cuts and furlough reductions have left more people worried about making repayments, says Citizens Advice Scotland.", "The actor, 77, and his son are in hospital in Mumbai, and his wife and daughter also have the virus.", "Some volunteer-run attractions say a shortened summer season is \"not financially viable\".", "A Stonehenge-style wooden formation and a lead-lined Roman burial are also among the finds.", "The family of the teenager who died in Malaysia in August last year have campaigned for an inquest.", "It was released into the Trafalgar Square fountains in protest against animal farming, police say.", "Leicester is the only UK city on the Belgian government's list of higher risk coronavirus areas.", "Demonstrators shouted \"UK is not innocent\" after a video showed a man being restrained in the city.", "Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith were talking on her Facebook chat show Red Table Talk.", "Earlier, the company had asked staff to remove the TikTok app from phones over \"security risks.\"", "Police in Malaga said the Briton had landed on another man below, killing him too.", "Leading jockey Barry Geraghty, who won the Grand National and rode 43 Cheltenham Festival winners, announces his retirement aged 40.", "Nearby by surfers rushed to his aid but first aid efforts on the beach failed to save his life.", "Inquiry into care by NHS trust is now assessing about 1,500 cases, the BBC learns.", "Pilots say the airline will include sick days when assessing job losses - a claim EasyJet rejects.", "Labour has accused the government of being underprepared, saying the money was \"too little, too late\".", "A man is detained by police as the victim is being treated in hospital in Bolton.", "A private funeral is held as friends and fans also pay respects to the Forces' Sweetheart.", "The Football Association of Ireland says former manager Jack Charlton \"changed Irish football forever\" as it led tributes after he died aged 85.", "The church, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, was attacked amid reports of fighting over leadership.", "Norwich City are the first club to be relegated from the Premier League this season as Michail Antonio scores four goals to ease West Ham's troubles.", "The PM says \"we owe it to the victims\" to remember the massacre and \"to ensure it never happens again\".", "The child is being treated for a serious head injury and police are investigating.", "The driver in south-western France was set upon by people who reportedly refused to wear face masks.", "The London man is the first Islamic State supporter from the UK to die in Syrian Democratic Forces custody.", "Thousands rally on the streets of Khabarovsk as a regional leader is accused of contract killings.", "Scott McGlynn says bullies targeted him at school, leaving him lonely and depressed.", "Jack Charlton, who has died aged 85, was one of football's legendary characters and excelled as a player, manager and pundit.", "US President Donald Trump weighed in on his long-term ally Roger Stone's 40-month prison sentence.", "Labour urges the government not to leave regions behind after the PM promised to \"level up\" the country.", "Jack Charlton explains his football philosophy in a BBC Sport interview during his reign as Republic of Ireland boss from 1986 to 1995.", "How can coronavirus affect the brain? The BBC’s medical correspondent investigates.", "There were seven new cases and no Covid-19 deaths reported in Scotland in the last 24 hours.", "Visitors are required to wear masks, socially distance and have temperature checks on arrival.", "The late wartime singer, the NHS fundraiser and the rugby legend secured 50% of the votes in an online poll.", "The sculpture was placed on the plinth in Bristol where a toppled Edward Colston statue once stood.", "Tory MP Julian Lewis beats Chris Grayling to win the position, but loses his place in the parliamentary party.", "Meghan told delegates at a gender equality summit to push humanity in a \"more inclusive\" direction.", "Benjamin Keough died on Sunday in California at the age of 27.", "An immediate public inquiry could help save lives, say relatives of 450 virus victims.", "Spencer Kelly explains all - with the help of a stuffed penguin.", "A star has been sent hurtling across the galaxy after undergoing a partial supernova.", "The broadcaster says it's the \"right time for me to hang up the headphones\".", "Eva Williams, nine, has been unable to travel to the United States due to the coronavirus lockdown.", "The auctioned game, still in its original 1985 packaging, sold to an anonymous bidder for $114,000.", "Residents face tougher limits on visitors and are being urged to bump elbows instead of hugging.", "Jonathan Edwards must \"undertake a period of self-reflection\", said Plaid Cymru.", "Citizens Advice Cymru fears a \"wave\" of expulsions when the pause on evictions ends.", "New maternity clothes were taken from pregnant Becky Jones's car while she was having dinner.", "Dr Anthony Fauci says recent efforts by the Trump administration to discredit him are \"nonsense\".", "The actress played the sherry-loving gossip Betty Eagleton for 21 years in the ITV soap.", "Consumer price inflation rises slightly to 0.6% in June, although food prices fell.", "Wednesday's coverage of coronavirus pandemic developments, including the green light to resume driving lessons.", "Amit's relationship with Michelle was a secret for years because he feared his family's reaction.", "Twitter says a hacking attack on employees was to blame for one of its biggest ever security lapses.", "The enigmatic graffiti artist returns to his Underground roots for his new pandemic-inspired piece.", "Tran Nguyen died in 2006 after being brought to hospital beaten and unconscious.", "The 87-year-old underwent a procedure to clean out a bile duct stent in Baltimore's hospital.", "The biggest easing of lockdown restrictions get under way, but first minister Nicola Sturgeon says she is nervous about virus cases rising.", "The 27-year-old man was charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.", "Plaid Cymru wanted ministers to seek the right for the Welsh Parliament to legislate for the poll.", "The Oscar-nominated 2011 film was created in the \"cesspool of systemic racism\", the actress says.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The British socialite denies grooming underage girls for the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.", "Starbucks and McDonald's also say they will cut prices after the chancellor's VAT reduction.", "The group of 63 labourers working in Scotland were on the same flight as people who travelled to a coronavirus-hit farm in England.", "Wigan Athletic score seven first-half goals to stun relegation-threatened Hull City before equalling the biggest victory in Championship history.", "A former employee tells a libel case that the couple's arguments escalated from \"banal beginnings\".", "The Republic of Ireland argues it should not have to recover €13bn of unpaid taxes from Apple.", "A Michigan officer kills a man suspected of stabbing someone who chided him for not wearing a mask.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning.", "There are no plans to make office workers in England wear face coverings, the health secretary says.", "The Republic of Ireland will not move forward into Phase 4 of its roadmap, the taoiseach confirms.", "Many have been left unsure about how to get support, according to the National Childbirth Trust.", "Hospital admissions in England dropped by a third, suggesting thousands did not receive expert care.", "Health officials are attempting to trace dozens of farm workers who came to the UK together.", "The WHO warns that a drop in lifesaving jabs could cause more harm than Covid-19 itself.", "After more than 50 years in Llandaff, BBC Wales programmes will now be produced in the city centre.", "The Cabinet Office had been investigating the home secretary's alleged behaviour towards staff.", "A significant easing of the country's lockdown has begun, but it comes with a warning from a \"nervous\" first minister.", "Boris Johnson says virus track and trace is \"as good as or better than\" any other system in the world", "A study of 120,000 volunteers in England also suggests those aged 18 to 24 were more likely to test positive.", "Dozens of women would have shared the payout but other accusers had objected to its terms.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething says a more targeted regime will replace testing of entire sectors.", "The NHS ombudsman asks government to listen to patient complaints in order to learn from mistakes.", "Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith calls the Chinese telecoms firm a \"risk\" to national security.", "Women aged 17 are most likely to have been put on furlough during the coronavirus crisis, data shows.", "British Gymnastics steps aside from a review into allegations of mistreatment in the sport, as an athlete helpline is also launched.", "The stage and screen star, whose career lasted more than 60 years, appeared in hundreds of films, plays and television shows.", "The use of credit cards dropped by nearly half in April as people shunned big purchases.", "The decline in immunisations against some diseases is the first in nearly 30 years, the UN says.", "The government is also banning telecoms firms from buying new Huawei 5G kit after 31 December.", "The figure of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid appeared in Bristol early on Wednesday.", "Edward Enninful says he was racially profiled after being told to \"use the loading bay\" at his offices.", "The artist's piece on a Circle Line train was removed before anyone knew he was responsible for it.", "The phone app shows which beaches are crowded along 15 miles of coastline.", "Woman's experience prompts calls for changes to law barring students from claiming funeral benefit.", "Thieves hit Fabinho's home as Liverpool were presented with the Premier League trophy, police say.", "London Fire Brigade says the blaze has created a lot of smoke and warns people to avoid the area.", "MPs criticise the government for rushing out the decision as Parliament breaks for the summer.", "Paulette Wilson was one of thousands affected by the scandal and has been hailed an \"inspiration\".", "Cory Hewer, 13, died after falling from his bike at Aberbeeg Motorcross track.", "Updates on the pandemic in Scotland as the prime minister marks a year in office with a trip north of the border.", "MPs say Rishi Sunak has \"effectively drawn a line\" under helping 1m people needing virus support.", "A committee of MPs says Covid-19 risks causing \"a cataclysm in the arts and cultural space\".", "The worst-affected country in the world is seeing surges in several states, including California.", "Only one of the seven St Mirren staff members who tested positive for Covid-19 actually has the illness.", "UK and EU negotiators say progress has not been made in difficult areas, such as fishing and competition rules.", "A public information campaign on face coverings will be launched before a decision is finalised.", "Research from the University of Glasgow finds watching two hours or less of television a day could minimize health risks.", "A committee says the economic reaction to Covid-19 was rushed and the impact could be long-term.", "As more people learn guitar amid lockdown, the UK's biggest online seller of instruments sees sales surge.", "Locals and tourists have been evacuated as fires continue to rage near the city of Corinth.", "The TV personality discusses her husband's bipolar disorder, following a string of erratic tweets.", "Woody Johnson says media reports he made insensitive comments about race and gender are \"false\".", "Amber Heard claims Johnny Depp hurled around 30 bottles at her during \"three-day hostage situation\".", "Sir Thomas Picton's statue has been on display in 'Welsh heroes' gallery for more than a century.", "There are \"stark inequalities\" between those moving to London and those not, says Social Mobility Commission.", "Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson lifts the Premier League trophy to seal the club's first top-flight triumph for 30 years.", "Portuguese police are investigating if a suspect in the case may be linked to a rape three years earlier.", "Northern Ireland will be the first part of the UK to have a contact tracing app", "The Hollywood actor says he has no association with the companies that make CBD oil.", "A mother, 31, and her two sons aged two and five, were injured in the explosion in June.", "The singer's hitherto un-announced eighth album will arrive on Friday.", "People in northern England \"rightly expect action, progress and ambition\", the government says.", "The new Star Wars and Avatar movies are pushed back a year while Mulan is postponed indefinitely.", "The UK and US agree to amend an \"anomaly\" that allowed Anne Sacoolas to claim diplomatic immunity.", "The Islands Growth Deal will support communities in the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland.", "An estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic is destined for the environment by 2040 unless global action is taken, scientists say.", "Boris Johnson visits Scotland as the SNP says he is worried about support for independence.", "Money from Prince William and Catherine's charity will pay for counselling for front-line emergency staff.", "The company behind the first bag-less vacuum cleaner said 600 of the cuts would be in the UK.", "Thousands of fans gathered as Sir Kenny Dalglish presented the Premier League trophy.", "Calls to the National Domestic Abuse Helpline were up 80% in June, says the charity Refuge.", "A \"poisonous ideology\" endures despite the group losing territory in Syria and Iraq, a minister says.", "The UK says the Russian satellite launched \"a projectile with the characteristics of a weapon\".", "A rise in support for Scottish independence and approval of Nicola Sturgeon lead the prime minister north.", "The club has been criticised for parading the Championship trophy after telling fans to stay home.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Visitors are being warned they could be towed away if they park illegally at the foot of Snowdon.", "MPs will probe a £400m investment in the satellite firm after a top civil servant warned of financial risk.", "Nightclubs and soft play areas call for clarity over when they will be able to start trading again.", "Renate Blauel, who married the singer in 1984, is suing over his book, Me, and the film Rocketman.", "The gunmen shot a man, 19, and two 15-year-old boys in a car park in Tottenham and then drove off.", "Ice cream sales surge but demand for deodorant and shampoo is down, says consumer goods giant Unilever.", "Residents can reunite with loved ones, but must see the same one visitor, government guidance says.", "A Premier League club was close to losing £1 million during a transfer deal due to cyber hackers.", "Officials are worried people are still not coming forward for testing when they are infected.", "At least seven UK universities and one in Canada were affected by attack on a cloud computing provider.", "A spike in coronavirus cases leads officials to postpone the reopening of leisure facilities.", "Carabinieri military police are held on suspicion of crimes that have shocked the city of Piacenza.", "One of those affected was Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, who called it \"unacceptable\".", "Andriy Yarmolenko came off the bench to hit an injury-time winner to boost West Ham's survival bid against Chelsea at London stadium.", "Leicester's police and crime commissioner complains that agencies have been \"drip-fed\" information.", "Young people's eating habits have meant more snacks but also more shared meals, say researchers.", "A Swedish study found twice as many people had protective T-cells as tested positive for antibodies.", "Shares in the electric carmaker have surged, giving it a market value of $209bn.", "Thousands attended the festive event in Prague, sharing food and drink with people around them.", "Pro-democracy supporters say the move does not represent most Hong Kong people.", "Thousands of jobs are slashed in retail and aviation - two of the sectors hardest hit by lockdown.", "Confusion and delay causes anxiety amongst business owners in the city.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The partnership, which also owns Waitrose, is reviewing the business after its annual profits dive.", "London police chief Dame Cressida Dick calls for people to \"be sensible\" as lockdown is eased.", "In a surprise message, Harry said people like them gave him the \"greatest hope\" for the future.", "A complaint against Ed Henry involving a co-worker was made last week, Fox News said.", "The airline says it is consulting on plans to close bases at Stansted, Southend and Newcastle.", "Rayshard Brooks' widow said the ex-officer was dangerous and asked the judge to deny bail.", "Police make arrests and fire water cannon and pepper spray on crowds marking the handover anniversary.", "Leicester's mayor said officials had been trying to get hold of local data \"for weeks\".", "Sayagi Sivanantham was found with knife wounds at a property in Mitcham on Tuesday and later died.", "Jack Leslie, who would have been England's first black player, was dropped because of his ethnicity.", "A 24-year-old man is held on suspicion of criminal damage linked to Bristol's Edward Colston statue.", "Five-year-old Tony Hudgell set a target of raising £500 for the hospital that saved his life.", "Simon Cheng is granted asylum in the UK almost a year after he was detained by Chinese authorities.", "The force, which has been using a swastika in its emblem since 1918, said it had caused misunderstandings.", "Hundreds of thousands sign up to the NHS-backed running app during the coronavirus pandemic.", "The house in Neath Port Talbot was destroyed and a woman and her two sons seriously injured.", "Wigan Athletic go into administration, becoming the first English professional club to do so since the coronavirus pandemic.", "It's been years since Emma told police she had been raped - and now lockdown has further delayed her case.", "There's a warning that if all Christmas shows are called off, many theatres \"will go to the wall\".", "Some 350 elephant carcasses have been spotted in Botswana's Okavango Delta since May.", "The airline is advertising flights to Malaga and Faro from Cardiff Airport for Friday.", "The report said the increase in reported cases could be down to \"growth in availability of testing\".", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The decision reflects a souring of the atmosphere in the UK-China relationship.", "\"This is the most unusual campaign, I think, in modern history,\" the Democratic nominee said.", "Liam Gallagher, Dua Lipa and Sir Paul McCartney sign letter warning government of Covid-19 impact.", "The impact of cuts at the wing factory in Broughton, Flintshire will be felt across the region.", "The landlord of the Colston Arms in Bristol asks for the public's help in choosing a new name.", "Only 35 deaths linked to coronavirus were recorded last week - the lowest since the middle of March.", "It is the first time weekly deaths have been below the five-year average since mid March.", "As the government's furlough scheme starts to wind up, the real impact of the pandemic is being felt.", "The aerospace firm blames coronavirus for the cuts, warning of 1,700 job losses at its UK plants.", "Artist and activist Ai Weiwei warns lawyers and activists could be \"disappeared or sentenced\" after China passed a controversial security law.", "Up to three million people living in the former colony are being given the chance to settle in the UK.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning.", "A 37-year-old woman was also hurt in the incident on Morningside Road in Edinburgh.", "The company is cutting 15,000 jobs, with 1,700 expected to go in Flintshire and Bristol.", "There have been calls for NI's deputy first minister to resign after she attended Bobby Storey's funeral.", "Women unable to buy sanitary products have used newspaper or pillow cases instead, one charity says.", "Boris Johnson rejects suggestion that Leicester virus data wasn't shared", "Humanist ceremonies are recognised in law in Scotland and Northern Ireland but not in England or Wales.", "The crisp giant says its products are unaffected, and it believes infections occurred off-site.", "The NHS ombudsman asks government to listen to patient complaints in order to learn from mistakes.", "Nine cases are identified around Gretna and Annan as the number of deaths linked to Covid-19 falls for the ninth week in a row.", "NHS Dumfries and Galloway confirms nine new cases in Gretna and Annan areas since Monday.", "An 18-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murdering sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry.", "Boris Johnson vows a \"new deal\" for UK after coronavirus - but Labour says saving jobs is top priority.", "Families of children with special educational needs tell MPs support \"fell off a cliff\" in lockdown.", "Experts issue warnings about lax rules ahead of e-scooters becoming legal this coming weekend.", "SSP Group has been hit badly by the reduction in train and air travel caused by the coronavirus.", "Eva Longoria and Cynthia Erivo are among those who have been invited to join the Academy.", "The chance of breaching one of the Paris accord goals in the next five years has doubled, a study says.", "The chancellor has announced a stamp duty holiday until next March, pleasing some but angering others.", "The Welsh Government will get half a billion pounds from the Treasury, the UK government says.", "Swimmers might have to arrive in their costumes, with limits on how many people can go in at a time.", "There are 18,000 more registered than a year ago, but some fear the pandemic could hit recruitment.", "Support will be particularly focused on disadvantaged pupils and those studying for exams.", "Local businesses and politicians say they were expecting more financial support from the government.", "The partnership, which also owns Waitrose, is reviewing the business after its annual profits dive.", "She was shot in Toxteth, Liverpool, following reports of a woman armed with a knife.", "The chancellor warns the UK is facing a \"severe recession,\" with \"significant\" job losses.", "The Chancellor says Scotland will now receive £4.6bn in Barnett funding from the UK government.", "Bruno Fernandes inspires Manchester United to another impressive Premier League victory that deepens Aston Villa's relegation worries.", "Frank Ludlow was caught in a post office sending dozens of bogus remedies to the United States.", "The musician also talks about why he was cheering at the recent Black Lives Matter protests in London.", "The majority of emissions cuts from electric cars will be wiped out by new road-building.", "The vote by the community's advisory board comes after weeks of anti-racism protests around the world.", "BT and Vodafone warn that users will face days without a mobile signal if a 2023 ban is imposed.", "Probationary officer Benjamin Hannam is charged with being a member of banned group National Action.", "Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden outlines measures for England at a press conference.", "Despite surges in new infections, the White House wants to press forward with school reopenings.", "The rise comes as the chancellor announces another £30bn of measures to try to help the economy.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The chancellor's huge economic support schemes will have to be paid for via higher taxes, the IFS says.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak rejected fears job retention bonus and meal discount are not value for taxpayers.", "The Hollywood star tells a libel hearing his ex-wife threw a bottle of vodka at him during a fight.", "Health and social care leaders warn the prime minister about the impact of the new immigration bill.", "Max Aubin said he lay on the ground believing he was going to die after the unprovoked attack.", "The firm is suffering after the drop of air travellers during the coronavirus pandemic.", "Restrictions in England are further eased - with beauty businesses also able to reopen on Monday.", "Amadou Gon Coulibaly was a favourite to succeed Alassane Ouattara as president in October's elections.", "Specialist workers are still working to recover June Harvey's body from one of the damaged houses.", "The Hollywood star tells a libel hearing his ex-wife had been \"building a dossier\" against him.", "Hundreds of job cuts are announced and all state schools will resume full lessons in September.", "A man, thought to be 18 years old, has died after he was found with stab injuries in south London.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled an \"eat out to help out\" discount as part of wider measures.", "NHS England figures reveal how the pandemic has changed planned surgery, tests and A&E.", "France's president puts an end to speculation that the restored spire will be modern in style.", "There are hefty spending promises from the chancellor but many measures outlined run against traditional Tory instincts.", "A day after the chancellor unveiled a plan to save jobs, two of the UK's biggest retailers announce cuts.", "Park Won-soon disappeared after reportedly leaving a message for his daughter, who raised the alarm.", "Firms that have furloughed staff will be given £1,000 bonus per employee to keep workers in jobs.", "Two thirds of UK councils increase costs for cremation ceremonies during the pandemic.", "Attractions and restaurants may not pass on the chancellor's VAT cut to visitors.", "The health minister apologises to women, and their children, failed by healthcare professionals.", "The crane crashed on to a block of flats under construction and two terraced houses in east London.", "Open-air gigs, festivals and theatre shows can resume from this weekend, the government says.", "Firms hit back after more UK economy coronavirus support measures announced.", "The culture secretary announces that gyms will reopen later in July with extra safety measures.", "The UK boss of the fast food giant said the chain could cut between 5% and 10% of its staff.", "Nicola Sturgeon confirms the next phase of lockdown easing, which includes reopening bars, restaurants and hotels.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirms the move to \"phase three\" of her government's route map out of lockdown.", "But universities reject that tests on online learning in China are accepting \"censorship\".", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak cuts VAT on hospitality and offers firms a bonus to keep furloughed staff, in a bid to stop mass unemployment.", "Rishi Sunak announced his plans to help the economy recover. Here's what you need to know.", "Boris Johnson agreed the pension contribution for Sir Mark Sedwill, ahead of his exit in September.", "Households could see their energy bills cut by £20 a year under proposals from the regulator.", "The 56-year-old victim is in a stable condition following the \"unexplained\" attack in Brighton.", "Lewis Hamilton wins Hungarian Grand Prix for the eighth time with Max Verstappen second following pre-race crash.", "New cases are rising around the Lancashire town, sparking warnings about the NHS test and trace system.", "The property portal and caterer are the latest to shun payouts for staff brought back from furlough.", "Greater Manchester Police launches an internal investigation into the \"disgraceful and disgusting act\".", "The crown prince will 'temporarily' take over some of Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah's duties.", "As the country passes 2m cases, we tell the story of how the outbreak spread in pictures.", "Ruth Morrissey was awarded €2.1m in damages after smear test results were incorrectly reported.", "The 'Nightingale Courts' will help clear a backlog caused by the pandemic, the justice secretary says.", "Buckingham Palace shares the images after she married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on Friday.", "Uncertainty over the Chinese video sharing app comes as tension mounts between the UK and China.", "The burial of Badreddin Abadlla Adam was delayed for an hour after a crowd breached Covid-19 rules.", "The government has acknowledged the initiative was launched without a data privacy assessment.", "The government reveals interference in elections just ahead of the long-awaited Russia report.", "Wales should have been better prepared for coronavirus, the Senedd health committee's chair says.", "The national park says many car parks are full and urged people not to park along roadsides.", "China's ambassador to the UK is confronted with drone footage that appears to show Uighurs being blindfolded and led to trains.", "The first minister and SNP leader was speaking in an interview to mark her 50th birthday.", "Khloemae Loy, 23, was pronounced dead at the Holiday Inn in Greenwich on 5 July.", "An investigation is under way after six people test positive at the NHS call centre in Motherwell.", "Chinese officials reject what Dominic Raab says are \"deeply troubling\" reports of forced sterilisation.", "Russian-born Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya competed for Australia at the 2018 Winter Olympics.", "The Rwandan refugee, who was responsible for closing the building, is released without charge.", "There are fewer than 72 female Suffolk Punches remaining in the UK and fewer than 300 in the world.", "Russia's representative in the UK also dismisses suggestions of interference in British politics.", "A report says China is carrying out a campaign of forced birth control to limit the minority group.", "They have moved from rental areas, with one resident describing \"poisoned rodents on the pavement\".", "Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta outmanoeuvres his mentor Pep Guardiola as the Gunners reach the FA Cup final with victory at Wembley.", "Chelsea will play Arsenal in the FA Cup final after two howlers from David de Gea settle their semi-final against Manchester United.", "Two men are arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an altercation between two groups.", "The intelligence watchdog will give its findings on alleged involvement in an election and the Brexit vote.", "The \"near-extinct\" species is thriving 30 years after being reintroduced in England.", "Nearly a quarter of all the deaths have been in the US.", "The national clinical director says the new cases are not a \"cluster\" and day-to-day variation is expected.", "Marcus Coutain's lawyer says the arrest \"mirrored almost identically what happened to George Floyd\".", "Campaigners say rules for Changing Places toilets in new buildings are \"nothing short of life changing\".", "Police say they did not have the resources to halt the event which attracted more than 3,000 people.", "The programme will offer \"unprecedented flexibility\" to 80,000 workers in Japan, says Fujitsu.", "The National Cyber Security Centre has presented its report into the Chinese firm to government.", "The country's medical council set a 15 August date for a Covid-19 vaccine for public use.", "Nick Cordero suffered sepsis infections and mini-strokes and had a leg amputated while in hospital.", "Helen Hancock and her new partner Martin Griffiths were found dead in the early hours of New Year's Day.", "A man was Tasered by police after the ambulance crew were stabbed in Wolverhampton.", "The PM said \"too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures\" on combating coronavirus.", "Charlie Elphicke is on trial accused of sexually assaulting two women between 2007 and 2016.", "After days of stand-off the passengers, who include children, will be taken into quarantine in Sicily.", "Diana Higman meets her grandson for the first time after shielding since lockdown began.", "Business owners have warned their biggest hurdle could be persuading customers that it is safe to go out.", "Since 1962, Florida has reported only 37 cases of the deadly pathogen, which attacks brain tissue.", "British sprinter Bianca Williams tells the BBC her \"heart hurts\" after being stopped by police with her partner.", "The applause was inspired by the weekly Clap for Carers during the peak of the coronavirus lockdown.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were both found stabbed to death in a park in Wembley.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Joshua Wong first rose to prominence during the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong in 2014.", "The firm is to probe claims staff are underpaid and not socially distancing at a supplier in Leicester.", "\"I will never be off the hook,\" says the musician, a year after allegations of abuse surfaced.", "The hospitality sector has warned that half of firms will not break even this year without help.", "The boy was found after police responded to reports of a disturbance in the Ely area of Cardiff.", "The prolific composer's credits included the \"spaghetti\" Westerns that made Clint Eastwood a star.", "At least three pubs in England announce they have closed just days after opening their doors again.", "The arts sector is relieved at the £1.57bn cash injection but says more detail is needed.", "The government pledges £111m for schemes in England to get young people into work.", "There was a shortfall of almost 600 trainees in 2018-19 signing-up to become teachers.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning.", "The Domestic Abuse Bill now rules out \"consent for sexual gratification\" as a defence for causing serious harm.", "The police watchdog has been informed because a Kent Police vehicle was \"in close proximity\".", "The foreign secretary announces the freezing of assets in “notorious” cases of human rights abuse.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "The sandwich chain said the coronavirus downturn in trading meant it had to take a \"difficult decision\".", "The South East will be badly hit initially, but other areas will face a painful recovery, says a report.", "Buildings across the country have been decorated with pink ribbons, as venues remain shut.", "Nicola Sturgeon says customers must follow the guidelines - and advises people to leave if no safety measures are in place.", "The magazine drops the cover, which has been criticised as \"outdated\" and in \"bad taste\".", "Shelter says action is needed before a ban on evicting tenants ends next month.", "Derek Draper was put into an induced coma in March after contracting coronavirus.", "It is the first day since March that Public Health Wales has not announced any further deaths.", "Tom Meighan is leaving \"by mutual consent\" after \"personal issues that have affected his behaviour\".", "It is thought \"Asda\" the frog arrived from Colombia, the UK's biggest supplier of bananas.", "The latest developments as the five-mile \"stay local\" advisory limit is removed.", "The research is based on the number of missed screenings, urgent referrals and delayed treatments.", "Che Adams scores his first Premier League goal as Southampton withstand a Manchester City barrage to earn victory at St Mary's Stadium.", "The fallout from Covid-19 poses a \"significant threat\" to UK higher education, analysis suggests.", "BBC News presenter Clive Myrie says racism was the rocket fuel that fuelled British conquest of much of the planet - and its effects are still felt today.", "A government plan for the performing arts is met with calls for financial support and a timetable.", "The TV historian and author says he made \"a bad mistake\" for which he is \"very sorry\".", "British sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner accuse the Metropolitan Police of racial profiling and acting violently towards them.", "Four Scottish universities will help study the long-term health impacts on hospitalised patients.", "Duke of Sussex tells young leaders \"uncomfortable\" past Commonwealth wrongs need to be put right.", "Bianca Williams and her partner Ricardo dos Santos were stopped while driving a Mercedes in London.", "A fire safety expert did not think cladding the tower needed a separate appraisal, the inquiry hears.", "New court documents from Rebekah Vardy's legal team detail the distress she says she felt over her row with Coleen Rooney.", "Four-year-old Hari Jones is back home after spending 28 months in a children's hospital.", "Kai Denovan, 22, denies the manslaughter of footballer Jordan Sinnott during a night out.", "Some business owners said they have been asked up to 100 times for deductions on food bills by NHS staff over the lockdown.", "The disruption to schools in the pandemic will cause long-term damage, says Royal Society.", "An estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic is destined for the environment by 2040 unless global action is taken, scientists say.", "Money from Prince William and Catherine's charity will pay for counselling for front-line emergency staff.", "Thieves hit Fabinho's home as Liverpool were presented with the Premier League trophy, police say.", "London Fire Brigade says the blaze has created a lot of smoke and warns people to avoid the area.", "Travellers from Portugal will have to self-isolate but restrictions are relaxed for other nations.", "There have been no new deaths as a result of the virus recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.", "James Healy attacked Mr Jones because of his politics and LGBTQ beliefs, the court heard.", "Two friends agreed nearly 30 years ago that if one scooped the Powerball lottery they would split it.", "The video was shown to the High Court, after being provided by an anonymous source on Thursday.", "Measures to cut obesity are yet to be finalised but could include a ban on junk food TV ads before 21:00.", "Video captured by a police patrol car shows the moment PC Harper confronted his killers.", "Paulette Wilson was one of thousands affected by the scandal and has been hailed an \"inspiration\".", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex claim pictures of Archie were taken at their US home during lockdown.", "The 2020-21 Premier League and EFL seasons will start on 12 September.", "Drivers are fuming as delays mount at the DVLA, with stories of lost documents and delayed driving licences.", "Business owners and customers grapple with the new rules which make coverings mandatory in stores.", "The UK says the Russian satellite launched \"a projectile with the characteristics of a weapon\".", "The Welsh Secretary says it is \"fresh money\" but is a result of spending in England.", "The shark had attempted to beach itself and could not be persuaded to go back out to sea.", "Wearing a face covering in enclosed public spaces - such as shops, banks and takeaways - is now compulsory in England.", "Florida's decision to reopen all brick and mortar schools in August caused a teacher backlash.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 17 and 24 July.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced the biggest ever vaccination programme in Wales.", "Only one of the seven St Mirren staff members who tested positive for Covid-19 actually has the illness.", "But the prime minister remains reluctant to go into detail over possible government mistakes.", "What lessons has coronavirus taught us - and will ministers and health leaders act upon them?", "The man was given a fixed penalty notice after he was seen without a face covering in a Jedburgh supermarket.", "PC Andrew Harper's tragic killing led to tributes and support for the police being made from across the globe.", "Infected women can stay with and breastfeed their babies if safety measures are taken, a study says.", "The broadcaster says it is \"time to move on\" from the Radio 4 show after 33 years.", "The consequences of rape, maltreatment, disease and racism are revealed by the findings.", "Public Health England's conclusions come as ministers consider new measures to combat obesity.", "Boris Johnson says there are “open questions” about whether the coronavirus lockdown came too late.", "The government borrowed £127.9bn between April and June, the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.", "A video shows two teenagers who dragged a police officer to his death laughing as they leave court.", "Footage has been released of the moment two teenagers were arrested following the death of a police officer.", "UK and EU negotiators say progress has not been made in difficult areas, such as fishing and competition rules.", "The Olympics are now one year away - again - but some athletes fear that they won't happen at all.", "The new Star Wars and Avatar movies are pushed back a year while Mulan is postponed indefinitely.", "Boris Johnson says the government did not fully understand coronavirus in the first weeks and months.", "Seven coaches and backroom staff at the football club initially tested positive for coronavirus.", "Renate Blauel, who married the singer in 1984, is suing over his book, Me, and the film Rocketman.", "The gunmen shot a man, 19, and two 15-year-old boys in a car park in Tottenham and then drove off.", "Florida is becoming the new US epicentre - but what's behind the rising case counts?", "The victim, believed to be in his 30s, was found collapsed after suffering gunshot wounds.", "Winners of a BFI competition will get their submissions broadcast on national television.", "The party says it will not advertise on the site \"in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter\" movement.", "They are advised in enclosed public spaces in England, so what's with the mask-free photo ops?", "A 12-year-old boy has been arrested by police investigating racist messages sent to Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha on social media.", "NI's first minister says Covid-19 restrictions affecting parades are to \"protect the community\".", "It is one of several restrictions introduced by President Ramaphosa amid rising infection rates.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland is at risk of Covid-19 cases from elsewhere in the UK.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says he will be going on holiday to Pembrokeshire when he gets the chance.", "Holidaymakers are due to arrive at cottages and caravans in Wales for the first time since March.", "Jack Charlton, a World Cup winner with England in 1966 and former Republic of Ireland boss, dies aged 85.", "Plaid Cymru's leader accuses the Brexit Party of an attempt to turn Wales \"into western England\".", "Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, her father-in-law, husband and daughter test positive for Covid-19.", "A 24-hour tally of 15,299 new coronavirus cases eclipses the worst rates seen in New York in April.", "The actor, 77, and his son are in hospital in Mumbai, and his wife and daughter also have the virus.", "Minister Michael Gove says he does not think face coverings should be mandatory in shops in England.", "Demonstrators shouted \"UK is not innocent\" after a video showed a man being restrained in the city.", "Police say officers came under attack from youths, some of whom were masked and threw bottles and masonry.", "Police in Malaga said the Briton had landed on another man below, killing him too.", "US President Trump is seen wearing a face mask for the first time during the Covid-19 pandemic.", "Leading jockey Barry Geraghty, who won the Grand National and rode 43 Cheltenham Festival winners, announces his retirement aged 40.", "Nearby by surfers rushed to his aid but first aid efforts on the beach failed to save his life.", "The daily increase was the largest in the US state since 4 July and comes a day after Disney World reopened.", "Labour has accused the government of being underprepared, saying the money was \"too little, too late\".", "A man is detained by police as the victim is being treated in hospital in Bolton.", "The Pope is the latest faith leader to voice concern at the Istanbul museum reverting to a mosque.", "Alice Williams' wedding plans have been delayed by the Thomas Cook collapse and coronavirus.", "The church, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, was attacked amid reports of fighting over leadership.", "Thousands have rallied against what they say is hardship caused by the mishandling of the crisis.", "The Short Stirling Bomber based at RAF Downham Market was lost returning from a German raid in 1943.", "The London man is the first Islamic State supporter from the UK to die in Syrian Democratic Forces custody.", "Scott McGlynn says bullies targeted him at school, leaving him lonely and depressed.", "The country's flood response alert has been raised to the second highest level.", "Scientific evidence suggests singing increases the risk of spreading coronavirus among a crowd.", "Mick McCarthy believes the passing of former Republic of Ireland manager Jack Charlton \"will be felt in Ireland more than anywhere else\".", "Several boats are spotted as the home secretary visits France for talks on tackling people smuggling.", "How can coronavirus affect the brain? The BBC’s medical correspondent investigates.", "Visitors are required to wear masks, socially distance and have temperature checks on arrival.", "Police had earlier warned of \"consequences\" for those involved in the previous night's violence.", "Simon Lawrence says the \"sheer amount of information\" led to a fire safety document being missed.", "The hashtag #do_not_execute trended after a court upheld the death sentences of three protesters.", "Kyle Bowen, 29, killed David Williams in a \"senseless and brutal\" attack after knocking on his door.", "Tory MP Julian Lewis beats Chris Grayling to win the position, but loses his place in the parliamentary party.", "The sculpture was placed on the plinth in Bristol where a toppled Edward Colston statue once stood.", "Random testing of blood samples between April and June reveal that 4.3% had coronavirus antibodies.", "Physical distancing rules may apply to staff but not pupils when Scotland's schools reopen in August.", "Spencer Kelly explains all - with the help of a stuffed penguin.", "Johnny Depp's ex-fiancee says it is \"impossible to believe\" claims from Amber Heard that he was violent.", "Lyra McKee was shot dead during rioting in Londonderry in April 2019.", "Universities at financial risk will have to change subjects and bosses' pay to qualify for rescue package.", "Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are among the public figures whose accounts were hacked by fraudsters.", "Jurors hear Charlie Elphicke tell police he paid the woman to keep quiet about the incident in 2007.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Health secretary says infection rate in city has fallen but that some restrictions need to stay in force.", "The social network may have secured accounts but it could still face aftershocks from the attack.", "Dr Anthony Fauci says recent efforts by the Trump administration to discredit him are \"nonsense\".", "The actress played the sherry-loving gossip Betty Eagleton for 21 years in the ITV soap.", "New figures show reports of child abuse images online increased by 50% during lockdown.", "Consumer price inflation rises slightly to 0.6% in June, although food prices fell.", "The European Solar Orbiter probe captures images just 77 million km from the Sun's surface.", "Twitter says a hacking attack on employees was to blame for one of its biggest ever security lapses.", "Ingrid Antoine-Onikoyi was accused of \"jumping on the bandwagon\" when she complained to officers.", "MP Philip Dunne says it is \"shameful\" it took the pandemic for the retailer to acknowledge issues.", "The Welsh Government says UK ministers must get four-nation consent for post-Brexit arrangements.", "Al-Hol is a Syrian camp that has grown to 70,000 people - inside are the women and children of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).", "Tributes were paid to the victims of the pandemic outside the Royal Palace in Madrid.", "The husband of Shamima Begum discusses life with his bride living under Islamic State rule.", "The intelligence watchdog will give its findings on alleged involvement in an election and the Brexit vote.", "UK banks fear up to three million jobs could be lost if firms cannot defer payments on coronavirus loans.", "The group of 63 labourers working in Scotland were on the same flight as people who travelled to a coronavirus-hit farm in England.", "The effectiveness of the committee, which has not sat since the 2019 election, has been questioned in the past.", "No 10 confirms Tony Sewell will lead the new body looking into \"all aspects\" of racial disparity.", "China's economy grew 3.2% in the second quarter of this year following a record coronavirus-related slump.", "Dom Sibley and Ben Stokes bat England into a strong position on an attritional first day of the second Test against West Indies.", "The Scottish government hopes to pause 'shielding' altogether at the end of July.", "Did you hear the one about the cancelled bookings? There was a call for financial help.", "England fast bowler Jofra Archer is excluded from the second Test against West Indies after breaching the bio-secure protocols.", "Women are often portrayed as peacemakers, but research suggests they can play an active role in extremism.", "The staff member at Home Farm care home in Portree has been advised to isolate following the test.", "The government publishes a report on a leaked document used by Labour at the 2019 election.", "The Manchester Cathedral service was attended by a maximum of 70 people to aid social distancing.", "Scottish and UK ministers clash over whether Holyrood will gain or lose powers after Brexit.", "The Republic of Ireland will not move forward into Phase 4 of its roadmap, the taoiseach confirms.", "Health officials are attempting to trace dozens of farm workers who came to the UK together.", "Police appeal for witnesses after a car driver and passenger are killed in the collision in Gwynedd.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there was no evidence of harm - but the kits should not be used.", "Unemployment increased by 34,000 in April to reach 1.3 million, according to official data.", "The 20-year-old, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria, has been denied a fair hearing, judges say.", "The Scottish government receives scientific advice which concludes there is no need for physical distancing between pupils.", "The Cabinet Office had been investigating the home secretary's alleged behaviour towards staff.", "The Mets says it has not received a public complaint and there had been no misconduct in the case.", "PM says the government is \"planning for the worst\" as he warns Covid-19 may be more virulent in winter.", "Parent company Centrica says a fresh wave of layoffs is a \"last resort\".", "The Department for International Development is due to be combined with the Foreign Office.", "Cyber-attacks can be hard to trace and easy to deny, making it difficult to weigh their risks.", "Digital technology will enable Scottish juries to follow cases from another room in the courts.", "The tour was set to feature the hit musical Six, and performances by The Streets and Dizzee Rascal.", "The healthcare sector is being targeted online by hackers linked to foreign states, the two nations say.", "Edward Enninful says he was racially profiled after being told to \"use the loading bay\" at his offices.", "The artist's piece on a Circle Line train was removed before anyone knew he was responsible for it.", "The top model is given a large fine and ordered to serve nine months of community service.", "It comes amid rising tensions between London and Beijing over a controversial national security law.", "The BBC's medical correspondent on why volunteers are the lifeblood of medical innovation.", "New cases are rising around the Lancashire town, sparking warnings about the NHS test and trace system.", "Greater Manchester Police launches an internal investigation into the \"disgraceful and disgusting act\".", "The property portal and caterer are the latest to shun payouts for staff brought back from furlough.", "The CPS upholds its earlier decision, despite an appeal by 13-year-old Christopher Kapessa's family.", "Factories in south Wales and Lancashire start making \"high quality\" face coverings.", "Christopher Nolan's time-bending action film was originally expected to launch during the summer.", "Ruth Morrissey was awarded €2.1m in damages after smear test results were incorrectly reported.", "The latest round of measures to ease lockdown come into force on Monday.", "The government has acknowledged the initiative was launched without a data privacy assessment.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The retailer says that the move is part of a plan to reduce store management and head office roles.", "The vaccines are still being researched, but offer hope of getting life back to normal.", "Cases have doubled in the past week, prompting fears of tighter restrictions in the borough.", "The foreign secretary says China's national security law is a \"serious violation\" of international obligations.", "Scientists say we have time to save polar bears if we act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.", "Only four councils say they will continue care for school-aged children over the summer holidays.", "An investigation is under way after six people test positive at the NHS call centre in Motherwell.", "A compromise on the Covid-19 recovery fund is now on the table, at an often testy Brussels meeting.", "Khloemae Loy, 23, was pronounced dead at the Holiday Inn in Greenwich on 5 July.", "Chinese officials reject what Dominic Raab says are \"deeply troubling\" reports of forced sterilisation.", "Thousands of fans gathered in Leeds to celebrate their club's promotion to the Premier League.", "Germany's Hermes says it will invest £100m in the UK after a surge in online shopping during lockdown.", "More than 2,900 people have crossed this year in small inflatable dinghies.", "A vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears to be safe and trains the immune system.", "Changes to Student Loans Company's website exaggerate outstanding loans, says money expert Martin Lewis.", "A senior company official tells the BBC the video-sharing app would never give user data to the government.", "The report has been delayed since last year and No 10 has been accused of evading scrutiny.", "Amber Heard claims ex-husband Johnny Depp \"was pressing so hard on my neck I couldn't breathe\".", "The country is the second largest film market in the world after the US, with a box office of $9.2bn in 2019.", "Hundreds of cars parked illegally on Snowdonia roads, while a lifeboat station was blocked by motorbikes.", "The charity which runs the Tower of London says the pandemic had a \"devastating\" impact on finances.", "Hundreds of beachgoers have seen the fire spread up the hillside at the back of the beach.", "Chelsea will play Arsenal in the FA Cup final after two howlers from David de Gea settle their semi-final against Manchester United.", "\"The pandemic did for us,\" says the editor of the UK's biggest rock magazine.", "The \"near-extinct\" species is thriving 30 years after being reintroduced in England.", "Ben Stokes and Stuart Broad again provide the inspiration for England to complete a 113-run win over West Indies in the second Test.", "Up to three million people living in the former colony are being given the chance to settle in the UK.", "Police say they did not have the resources to halt the event which attracted more than 3,000 people.", "Jeffrey Epstein died in prison waiting for his sex trafficking trial - but who was he?", "The former model and reality TV star talks about her experiences as MPs launch a new inquiry.", "The move comes after video of a sex act in UN-marked vehicle in Israel went viral.", "Shares in the electric carmaker have surged, giving it a 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incentives for buyers.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced a temporary holiday on stamp duty on the first £500,000 of all property sales in England and Northern Ireland in his summer statement.\n\nBut that measure came into force in July - too late to be reflected in the latest sales figures.\n\nProperty sales from April to June were the lowest for three months of any year since current HMRC records began in 2005.\n\nThe tax authority said this reflected the \"impact\" of coronavirus on the UK property market.\n\nThe sector was effectively closed down during lockdown, with England the first part of the UK to resume viewings and sales in mid-May, some weeks ahead of other countries of the UK.\n\nPeople reconsidering their domestic set-up during lockdown, the easing of restrictions, and the stamp duty holiday are reported to have boosted demand from potential buyers.\n\nThe market will be watching closely to see if this feeds through to actual sales, with some commentators suggesting interest may be short-lived as people feel the financial pressures of job losses and a drop in income.\n\nPaul Stockwell, chief commercial officer at Gatehouse Bank, said: \"While the transactions figures have not improved significantly since May, the nature of the property market means people have not had enough time to get through the moving process.\n\n\"It will take a bit longer for us to see how much new activity there has been in the market since it reopened in May.\"", "The model and her mother were found guilty of tax evasion\n\nIsraeli top model Bar Refaeli has been given a large fine and sentenced to nine months of community service for evading taxes.\n\nThe 35-year-old pleaded guilty to charges of providing false tax returns while living abroad in order to avoid Israeli taxes.\n\nThe court in Tel Aviv ordered her to pay a 2.5m-shekel fine (£577,000; $730,000), in addition to arrears.\n\nThe model's mother was also convicted of tax offences.\n\nTzipi Refaeli, who also acted as her daughter's agent, was sentenced to 16 months in prison and also ordered to pay a 2.5m-shekel penalty and taxes owed.\n\nThe two women pleaded guilty and were sentenced under a deal agreed with authorities last month.\n\nIsraeli authorities began their investigation into the case in 2015.\n\nBar Refaeli admitted to not declaring her worldwide income for certain years, claiming that she spent most of the time abroad, although her lawyers said she had not intentionally avoided the tax payments.\n\nHer mother, meanwhile, was convicted of signing property leases under the names of relatives to obscure the model's residency status, among other charges.\n\nThe model, who previously dated US actor Leonardo DiCaprio and hosted the 2019 Eurovision song contest, has been involved in controversy during her career.\n\nShe has faced anger from the Israeli army for not completing military service and in 2018 appeared in a controversial advert featuring the niqab.\n\nIn 2015, her request to close the air space over her wedding venue sparked a row.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli want a no-fly zone?", "Remi, Sharon and Leonardo are all struggling to secure their lives in the UK after learning they're not legally British.\n\nChanges to UK law over the past 40 years have meant the legal status of thousands of people is unknown, and that some British-born people can be threatened with deportation and left unable to work.\n\nThe BBC's Fahima Abdulrahman has been speaking to people who say they are British but are fighting for proof.", "Andy Haldane says we have seen a bounceback\n\nThe UK economy has \"clawed back\" about half the fall in output it saw during the peak of the coronavirus lockdown in March and April, according to the Bank of England's chief economist.\n\nAndy Haldane told MPs there had been a \"V\" shaped \"bounceback\".\n\nLast month, Mr Haldane said the economy was \"on track for a quick recovery\" - the so-called \"V\" shape.\n\nHowever, other economists have expressed doubts about the potential for such a swift recovery in activity.\n\n\"Roughly half of the roughly 25% fall in activity during March and April has been clawed back over the period since,\" Mr Haldane told members of the Treasury Select Committee. The economy had grown by about 1% per week, he said.\n\n\"We have seen a bounceback. So far, it has been a 'V'. That of course doesn't tell us about where we might go next,\" he added.\n\nThe latest economic growth figures for May indicated an increase of 1.8%, but Mr Haldane is known to take into account unofficial real-time data, such as Google searches and credit card receipts.\n\nCommenting on those figures at the time, Thomas Pugh, UK economist at Capital Economics, said the data showed the recovery was \"maybe not so V-shaped after all\" and that \"hopes of a rapid rebound from the lockdown are wide of the mark\".\n\n\"Indeed, the path to full economic recovery will probably be much longer than most people anticipate,\" he added.\n\nMr Haldane was speaking at a hearing to reconfirm him as a member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).\n\nHe was the only member of the nine-strong MPC who last month voted against an expansion of quantitative easing - expanding the asset purchase programme aimed at boosting the economy.\n\nHowever, he told MPs unemployment was rising fast and was probably about 6% now, compared with 3.9% in the most recent official figures.\n\nHe also repeated his fear that unemployment could hit its highest level since the mid-1980s as the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic hit demand for staff in retail and hospitality.\n\nA speedy bounceback to activity, livelihoods and incomes is what we all hope for.\n\nBut most economists doubt it'll be that straightforward or painless to get back to business as usual.\n\nSo far the official data hasn't been encouraging. After losing a quarter of its output in the first six weeks of lockdown, output - or GDP - recouped only 1.8% in May.\n\nMr Haldane is known to be fond of more up-to-date unofficial data - Google searches, credit card transactions for example. That's why he's hopeful we're halfway back to the previous level of activity.\n\nBut even if it is so far so good, the real issue is what happens next.\n\nThe Bank of England expects unemployment to jump to 9% - but it's unusual in assuming that will fall back quickly, with no long-term fallout, or scarring, on prospects and incomes.\n\nIt is that risk that most other analysts worry will derail confidence and spending - the underpinnings of any recovery.\n\nSo the hoped-for V could look quite different. And that's even before the possibility of a second wave and shutdown is considered.", "Public Health England not set up as 'mass' organisation - Hancock\n\nReturning to the health secretary's evidence to the Commons Science and Technology Committee. Public Health England was \"designed as a scientific organisation\" and \"was not set up to be an organisation ready to go to mass national scale\", Matt Hancock tells MPs. He says the country was \"like almost every other country in the world\" in that it \"didn't go into this crisis with that mass of testing capability\". Asked whether he is engaged in reforming PHE, he says: \"There will be a time for that, my priority now is on controlling the virus and preparing for winter.\" Mr Hancock says the \"rate-limiting factor\" on delivery of a vaccine is its manufacture, while the distribution itself is \"not simple\". \"You need a cold chain because the vaccine needs to be kept below room temperature, and then the administration of it needs to be done by people who are qualified,\" he says. He adds that ministers are proposing to \"broaden the range of qualifications that are allowed to do the vaccination\".", "Dominic Grieve was a Conservative MP until he was kicked out of the parliamentary party for rebelling against the government Image caption: Dominic Grieve was a Conservative MP until he was kicked out of the parliamentary party for rebelling against the government\n\nFormer chair of the committee Dominic Grieve says he has “no idea” why the report was delayed.\n\n“There are two schools of thought - one is that they didn't like part of the content and they didn't want it publish just before the election.\n\n\"I’ve never really understood that - there are some things that might make uncomfortable reading but I think it was a very much in the public interest.\n\n“The other one is that it was done because I was the chair and I had become an independent MP and they didn't want me to have the publicity.\n\n“If that is the explanation it is shallow and base.\"\n\nHe says he is pleased the report has now been published but adds: “My pleasure is mitigated by a sense of frustration and bluntly anger at the way the government behaved over this report in October last year.\n\n“There is no valid reason for it not being published then.\"", "There have been protests in Hong Kong over China's new national security law\n\nThe UK will \"bear the consequences\" if it continues to go \"down the wrong road\" on Hong Kong, China has warned.\n\nOn Monday, the UK suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong over a new security law for the ex-colony, which gives Beijing more power.\n\nIn response, the Chinese ambassador in London said the UK had \"blatantly interfered\" in China's affairs.\n\nLiu Xiaoming said: \"China has never interfered in UK's internal affairs. The UK should do the same to China.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to offer three million Hong Kong residents the chance to settle in the UK, allowing them to ultimately apply for British citizenship.\n\nThe moves came after Beijing introduced the controversial new security law at the end of June, creating offences that could see Hong Kong residents sent to mainland China for trial.\n\nCritics have claimed the law could see pro-democracy protesters in the region being served with life sentences.\n\nTensions between London and Beijing have been rising, with the UK government separately announcing it would require the removal of Chinese technology from the UK's fledgling 5G mobile network.\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in London on Monday evening ahead of talks with the PM on issues including China and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to its opponents, the new security legislation breaches an agreement made with the UK before Hong Kong - a former British colony - was handed over to China in 1997.\n\nUnder a 50-year agreement, China enshrined civil liberties - including the right to protest, freedom of speech and the independence of the judiciary - in Hong Kong's Basic Law, an approach which came to be known as \"one country, two systems\".\n\nMike Pompeo is in the UK for talks on a range of international issues, including China\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the suspension of the UK's extradition treaty with Hong Kong on Monday, saying there was \"uncertainty\" about how the new security law would be enforced.\n\n\"I would just say this: the UK is watching and the whole world is watching,\" he said.\n\nThe decision means that if someone in the UK is suspected of a crime in Hong Kong, they will not automatically be handed over by British authorities to face justice there.\n\nAmbassador Liu said in a tweet that the UK had \"contravened international law and the basic norms governing international relations\" with the move.\n\nAnd a statement published on the Chinese Embassy's website said: \"China urges the UK side to immediately stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs, which are China's internal affairs, in any form.\n\n\"The UK will bear the consequences if it insists on going down the wrong road.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liu Xiaoming This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Raab on Sunday accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against a minority group known as the Uighurs, and said sanctions against those responsible cannot be ruled out.\n\nThe Uighurs are mostly Muslims and see themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations, and their language is similar to Turkish. The majority live in Xinjiang, western China, where they number about 11 million people.\n\nIt is believed that the Chinese government has detained up to a million Uighurs over the past few years in what the state defines as \"re-education camps\". The government is now also accused of a programme of forced sterilisation against Uighur women.\n\nChina initially denied the existence of the camps, before claiming they were a necessary measure against separatist violence in Xinjiang. It also denies carrying out forced sterilisations.\n\nBut Ambassador Xiaoming denied abuses were taking place and said talk of a concentration camp was \"fake\" after being confronted with drone footage appearing to show Uighurs being blindfolded and led to trains.\n\nLast week, the UK government announced it would require the removal of technology manufactured by Chinese company Huawei from the country's fledgling 5G mobile network.\n\nThat decision followed sanctions imposed by Washington after claims the firm poses a national security threat due to its links with China - something Huawei has denied.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, denied reports of a \"concentration camp\" in Xinjiang", "Apple has said that a new robotic device called Dave will be used to help extract rare earth magnets from old devices\n\nApple has announced a target of becoming carbon neutral across its entire business and manufacturing supply chain by 2030.\n\nThe company says the commitment means its devices will have had \"zero climate impact\" at point of sale.\n\nIt told BBC News any company hoping to become a supplier would have to commit to \"be 100% renewable for their Apple production\" within 10 years.\n\nIt follows climate-focused pledges by other technology giants.\n\nMicrosoft arguably has gone further, by promising:\n\nIt has also just announced the creation of a consortium involving Nike, Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz among others to share information on carbon-reducing technologies.\n\nAmazon has set a 2040 target to go carbon neutral, reflecting the challenges it faces in converting its home-delivery vehicles to more eco-friendly energy sources.\n\nAnd Google has said it also intends to extend the carbon-neutral status it claims for its own operations to encompass its supply chain but has yet to set a deadline.\n\nThe companies often note their goals are years ahead of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's 2050 target for net-zero carbon-dioxide emissions, which the IPCC says is necessary to limit global warming.\n\nApple is investing in renewable energy infrastructure as part of its carbon-neutral commitment\n\nBut the environmental campaign group Greenpeace told BBC News the technology giants were among the most profitable companies in the world and therefore had a responsibility to act quickly.\n\n\"I am happy to see that Apple has worked with suppliers to source actual renewable energy and that it has not relied on low-impact solutions like offsetting or renewable energy credits,\" said Greenpeace USA's senior corporate campaigner, Elizabeth Jardim.\n\n\"But I will want to see how the company is further phasing out reliance on fossil fuels throughout its operations on a near-term timeline.\n\n\"At present, the company has matched data-centre energy demand with renewables and committed to do the same for its supply chain.\n\n\"But this is not the same as phasing out fossil fuel use altogether.\"\n\nBy contrast, she added, Google had committed to power its data centres with renewables around the clock.\n\nApple acknowledges its plan involves investment in new eco-friendly projects as well as the purchase of green energy offsets to compensate for some continued use of carbon-emitting fuels.\n\nIt intends to reduce emissions from its current carbon footprint by a further 75% before the 2030 deadline.\n\nBut it points to the fact some energy use - for example liquid fuel used in long-haul aviation - cannot be easily swapped for a greener alternative.\n\nApple has published a 10-year roadmap detailing some of the actions it plans to take.\n\nThese include the use of a new robot, nicknamed Dave, to recover materials from the vibrating Taptic Engine of devices returned for recycling.\n\nThe part is used to provide haptic feedback to owners of the company's smartwatches, tablets, smartphones and laptops.\n\n\"Once we have the engine removed [by another robot] Daisy, Dave will disassemble the engine itself and remove the rare-earth elements and the tungsten so that they can be reprocessed and put back into supply chains,\" Apple's environment chief, Lisa Jackson, said.\n\nShe said more than 70 of the company's existing suppliers had already committed to use 100% renewable energy for work on its products by 2030.\n\n\"Some of the investment we're making is to work with suppliers to convince their own governments to put more clean energy on the grid,\" Ms Jackson added.\n\nApple is investing in a project to benefit Colombia's coastline ecosystem among other projects\n\nWhen a business says it is carbon neutral, it aims to effectively add no carbon to the atmosphere.\n\nUntil now, most companies have focused on offsetting emissions to achieve neutrality.\n\nThis often involves funding projects in developing economies to reduce carbon emissions there, for example building hydroelectric power plants, encouraging families to stop using wood-based stoves, and helping businesses make use of solar power. These reductions are then deducted from the main company's own output.\n\nThe result of this slows carbon emissions rather than reversing them.\n\nTo be carbon negative a company must actually remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits.\n\nMicrosoft has said it will do this using a range of carbon capture and storage technologies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump pivots on masks: 'I'm getting used to the mask'\n\nPresident Donald Trump has warned the US pandemic may \"get worse before it gets better\", as he revived his virus briefings with a more scripted tone.\n\nMr Trump also asked all Americans to wear face coverings, saying \"they'll have an effect\" and show \"patriotism\".\n\nThe president, who was not wearing a mask at the briefing, has previously disparaged them as unsanitary.\n\nHis aides have reportedly pressed him to adopt a more measured approach as virus caseloads spike across the US.\n\nThe daily White House news conferences ended soon after Mr Trump suggested in April during freewheeling remarks from the podium that the virus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into people.\n\nIn his first White House coronavirus briefing for months on Tuesday, a less off-the-cuff president echoed what public health officials on his pandemic task force have been saying as he warned: \"It will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better.\n\n\"Something I don't like saying about things, but that's the way it is.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask.\n\n\"Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they'll have an effect and we need everything we can get.\"\n\nMr Trump - who more than once referred to Covid-19 as the \"China virus\" - took a mask from his pocket in the briefing room, but did not put it on.\n\nThe president is facing an uphill climb to re-election in November against Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, according to opinion polls.\n\nMr Biden on Tuesday accused Mr Trump of having failed Americans in his handling of the pandemic. \"He's quit on you, he's quit on this country,\" the former US vice-president said.\n\nDonald Trump's afternoon coronavirus press briefings are back. Regardless of what the president said during his brief appearance on Tuesday, the simple fact of their return speaks volumes about the dismal course the pandemic has taken in the US in the past three months.\n\nCases are rising, particularly in the south and west, perhaps most directly as a result of the administration's support for states to end mitigation measures before public-health benchmarks were met.\n\nAnd so the president, sticking closely to his prepared remarks, sombrely noted that things \"will probably get worse before they get better\". After previously dismissing a mask-wearing reporter as being \"politically correct\", he now encouraged people to wear face coverings.\n\nA number of recent polls have indicated that sinking public support for the president's handling of the virus has been dragging down his re-election prospects. The White House reportedly hopes getting the president back in front of the American people will help rebuild their confidence in his leadership.\n\nA real solution to the president's dilemma, however, won't come until coronavirus cases once again go down, the hospitals empty, Americans go back to work, schools reopen and life returns to some semblance of normal. That day still seems a long way off, while election day is drawing close.\n\nMr Trump appeared without the medical experts who used to address the briefings. He kept his remarks brief and focused, avoiding sparring with reporters who asked a few questions.\n\nHe continued: \"We're asking Americans to use masks, socially distance and employ vigorous hygiene - wash your hands every chance you get, while sheltering high risk populations.\n\n\"We are imploring young Americans to avoid packed bars and other crowded indoor gatherings. Be safe and be smart.\"\n\nMr Trump has been reluctant to wear a mask himself in front of the media, claiming that some people only wore such face coverings as a political statement against him. The press pictured him recently wearing a mask for the first time as he visited a military hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why the US struggled with its reopening\n\nWhen asked on Tuesday about his shifting support for masks, the president pointed out that even health experts had changed their minds.\n\nBack in March, both Dr Anthony Fauci, one of the leading members of the president's coronavirus task force, and US Surgeon General Jerome Adams said there was no reason people in the US should wear a mask.\n\nSince at least April, the US Centers for Disease Control has recommended Americans wear face coverings in public.\n\nDr Fauci now argues US authorities should be more \"forceful\" in compelling mask wearing, though Mr Trump has rejected calls for the White House to issue a national order on the issue.\n\nDuring the briefing, the president continued to assert the virus would one day \"disappear\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lost six weeks when the US failed to control the virus\n\nHe also wrongly claimed the US has a lower coronavirus death rate than \"almost everywhere else in the world\".\n\nAccording to Johns Hopkins University, the US mortality rate is ranked 10th out of the 20 worst-hit countries.\n\nThe United States has recorded nearly 3.9 million Covid-19 cases and over 141,000 deaths - the highest by volume in the world.\n\nMr Trump was also asked by a reporter about the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who was charged this month by US authorities with sex-trafficking children for her ex-boyfriend, the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe president said: \"I haven't really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach [Florida], and I guess they lived in Palm Beach.\"\n\n\"I don't know the situation with Prince Andrew,\" added Mr Trump, mentioning the British royal who denies claims he had sex with a teenage girl who says she was trafficked by Epstein.", "Crowds of people were waiting to leave the park after the stabbing\n\nA man has been charged following a knife attack at Thorpe Park.\n\nA 26-year-old man suffered a serious stab wound to his stomach following an altercation at the Surrey theme park on Saturday.\n\nThe attack took place on a bridge near the exit of the attraction during a row between two groups, causing the park to be put in lockdown.\n\nCraig Harakh, 26, from south London, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, police said.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMr Harakh, of Jeffreys Road, Lambeth, is due to appear at Staines Magistrates' Court via video link on Wednesday.\n\nThe victim has since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Warner Bros has said it is delaying the release of Christopher Nolan's latest movie Tenet again due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe fantasy spy epic was originally set to debut on 17 July but this was pushed back to 12 August.\n\nTenet was expected to be the first big-budget Hollywood film to be released in US cinemas during the summer.\n\nBut the studio said it would be re-evaluating its release date \"amidst all this continued uncertainty.\"\n\nIt also suggested that it might consider releasing the film in overseas markets before the US.\n\n\"We are not treating Tenet like a traditional global day-and-date release, and our upcoming marketing and distribution plans will reflect that,\" said Toby Emmerich, chairman of the studio's Pictures Group.\n\nMr Emmerich said that a release date would be shared \"imminently.\"\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 Warner Bros. Pictures 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\nTenet focuses on a protagonist, played by John David Washington, trying to save the world from disaster. Its other stars include Robert Pattinson and Sir Kenneth Branagh.\n\nBritish director Christopher Nolan's other films include Inception, Interstellar and the Oscar-winning World War II film Dunkirk. He also directed the three films in the so-called Dark Knight trilogy - Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.\n\nThe delay of Tenet's release comes as coronavirus shutdowns continue to devastate the film industry.\n\nIn the face of rising infections and deaths, cinemas in New York City and Los Angeles, two of the biggest markets in America, still do not have permission from city authorities to open.\n\nCinemas in China - one of the world's largest box-office markets - reopened on Monday for the first time in six months, though strict rules are in place which limit their capacity.\n\nIn light of the pandemic, several studios have postponed the filming and release of movies, including Disney's live-action remake of Mulan, which is now set for release on 21 August.\n\nBut while some distributors have shifted to on-demand releases, Tenet is one of several big-budget films that have been delayed to ensure a full theatrical release.", "Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environment campaigner, has been awarded a new humanitarian prize worth one million euros.\n\nThe 17-year-old founder of School Strike for Climate, won the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity.\n\nJudges described her as \"one of the most remarkable figures of our days\".\n\nMs Thunberg said she will be donating the prize money to charitable projects that are combating \"the climate and ecological crisis\".\n\nAs well as being awarded Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2019, Ms Thunberg has been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nResponding to the news, she said: \"I am extremely honoured to receive the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity.\n\n\"We're in a climate emergency, and my foundation will as quickly as possible donate all the prize money of one million euros to support organisations and projects that are fighting for a sustainable world.\"\n\nThe prize, awarded each year, aims to \"recognise people, groups of people and/or organisations from all over the world whose contributions to mitigation and adaptation to climate change stand out for its novelty, innovation and impact\".\n\nChairman of the prize's grand jury Jorge Sampaio applauded the teenagers ability to mobilise the younger generation, adding: \"her tenacious struggle to alter a status quo that persists, makes her one of the most remarkable figures of our days\".\n\nThe jury also highlighted her \"charismatic and inspiring personality\".\n\nThe prize is part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which was established in 1956. It is a Portuguese philanthropic institute \"dedicated to the promotion of arts, charity, science, and education\".\n\nThis 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", "The child died four days after police called at a property in Haverfordwest\n\nTwo people have been arrested on suspicion of assault and neglect following the death of a two-year-old child.\n\nIt comes after Dyfed-Powys Police officers were called to a property in Haverfordwest, in Pembrokeshire, on Friday morning.\n\nThe force said the child \"tragically passed away in hospital\" on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the investigation into the death was continuing and the family was being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time,\" said a spokesman for the force.\n\nDetectives said they were appealing for anyone with any information about the matter to contact the police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brits working from home during lockdown have turned to the comforts of coffee, tea and biscuits, and a good book.\n\nWe've splashed out an additional £24m on tea and coffee and an extra £19m on biscuits in the past three months, says market research firm Kantar.\n\nThe company also reported that grocery sales reached a record £31.6bn in the 12 weeks to 12 July.\n\nWe've also been reading much more, according to publisher Bloomsbury, which has seen book sales jump.\n\n\"The cost of working from home is starting to add up for many,\" said Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, talking about the extra cash we've spent on hot drinks and biscuits.\n\nThe research firm said grocery sales during lockdown have climbed 16.9%, the fastest growth rate since its records began in 1994.\n\nWith more people turning to online supermarkets, the home delivery grocers now account for 13% of the market, up from 7.4% in March at the start of lockdown.\n\n\"Although restrictions have eased, more than one in five households still made an online order during the latest four weeks,\" said Mr McKevitt.\n\nHe said that despite pubs, bars and restaurants re-opening recently, more than half of consumers say they are still uncomfortable with visiting a pub.\n\n\"As a result, take-home alcohol sales were still up by 41% this month as people were unable or avoided drinking out,\" said Mr McKevitt.\n\nThere's been a surge in reading during lockdown, according to publisher Bloomsbury.\n\nIts sales have climbed almost a fifth compared to last year, with its consumer division reported a 28% rise in revenue.\n\n\"Our good May and June performance in particular were unexpected,\" the company said.\n\nIts bestsellers have included the ever-popular Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, but also books related to the Black Lives Matter campaign.\n\n'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' by Reni Eddo-Lodge has led the bestseller lists in recent weeks, while the 2016 book 'White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide' by Carol Anderson, climbed to the New York Times to 10 bestseller list.\n\nReni Eddo-Lodge's book about race has led the UK's bestseller lists in recent weeks\n\nPrint revenues were 9% above the same period last year, while digital revenues grew by 63% year-on-year, Bloomsbury said.\n\nKantar said that during the last four weeks shoppers were embracing the new freedoms and cautiously returning to their pre-lockdown behaviours.\n\nIt said there were signs that shoppers might be growing more confident and travelling further afield for their weekly shop.\n\n\"Convenience stores were a lifeline for many people in the early days of the crisis, providing essential supplies close to home,\" said Mr McKevitt.\n\nCorner shops attracted 2.6 million fewer shoppers through their doors than at the peak of lockdown in April as the average distanced travelled to a grocer has climbed to 4.9km, a 10% increase from the April low.\n\n\"As lockdown restrictions are gradually eased and non-essential retail outlets re-open, some consumers are slowly resuming their pre-Covid routines and shopping habits,\" said Mr McKevitt.\n\nYear-on-year supermarket sales growth slowed to 14.6% in July, down from 18.9% in June.\n\n\"However, we are clearly a long way off a complete return to normality,\" he said.\n\nFootfall was still 15% lower during the past four weeks and the average supermarket trip cost £25.05, 35% more than the same period last year, as most people continue to eat more meals and snacks at home.", "The home secretary has promised \"sweeping reforms\" to Home Office culture after the Windrush scandal which saw people wrongly deported.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Priti Patel said there would be a \"full evaluation\" of the hostile environment policy.\n\nShe also announced mandatory training for Home Office staff, reconciliation events with the victims of the scandal and diverse shortlists for senior jobs.\n\nLabour said the government was \"falling woefully short\".\n\nMs Patel said her commitment to changing the Home Office was \"fundamentally solid and firm\" adding: \"I have been on the receiving end of certain practices in the Home Office as well, which quite frankly speak to some of the points that came out of Wendy Williams' review.\"\n\nThe Windrush scandal saw people being detained or even removed from the UK despite having lived in the country for years.\n\nThe scandal prompted criticism of the government's \"hostile environment\" measures introduced to tackle illegal immigration such as a 'deport first, appeal later' policy and tougher 'right to work' checks.\n\nA report into the scandal by Wendy Williams, an inspector of constabulary, accused the Home Office of demonstrating \"ignorance and thoughtlessness\".\n\nShe made 30 recommendations and in June Ms Patel said she accepted the report in full.\n\nMaking a statement in the House of Commons, the home secretary told MPs the scandal was \"an ugly stain on the face of our country and our Home Office\" adding that her response had been \"swift, strong and uncompromising\".\n\nShe said she wanted to ensure \"sweeping reforms\" to Home Office culture and would be \"reviewing every aspect of how the department operates, its leadership, the culture, policies, practices and the way it views and treats all parts of the communities it serves\".\n\nShe told MPs that over £1.5m had been offered by the Windrush compensation scheme but added \"this is just the beginning\".\n\nIn her statement she announced:\n\nMs Patel said: \"There are simply not enough individuals from black, Asian or minority ethnic staff working at the top in senior roles and there are far too many times where I am the only non-white face in the room.\n\nThe Empire Windrush, which arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948, brought workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands, as a response to post-war labour shortages in the UK.\n\n\"The injustices of Windrush did not happen because Home Office staff were bad people, but because staff themselves were caught up in a system where they did not feel they had the permission to bring personal judgement to bear,\" she said.\n\nShe also announced that in September 2021, Ms Williams would revisit the Home Office to review its progress.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the Windrush scandal \"must lead to real and lasting change\".\n\n\"Looking at the failure to act on so many previous reviews, the government is falling woefully short on that action and that's why we will be holding them to account for delivering the vital changes outlined in this report and to act with the urgency that is required.\"\n\nPatrick Vernon, a Windrush campaigner, urged the government to speed up the payment of compensation to victims of the Windrush scandal.\n\nHe said Mrs Patel's statement \"paid lip service to this review, but does not respond to the urgency of the matter - several Windrush victims have already died without receiving compensation for the injustice they faced.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ayesha Orlanda had been in intensive care for 41 days after being admitted in May.\n\nA senior nurse who had been in a coma for 40 days with coronavirus has been given an emotional send-off from hospital by her colleagues.\n\nAyesha Orlanda, 52, a senior sister at Bradford Royal Infirmary, had been in intensive care for 41 days after being admitted in May.\n\nShe had been critically ill but says she now has a \"second chance at life\".\n\nStaff from four wards gathered to applaud her leaving their care after nine-and-a-half weeks in hospital.\n\nMs Orlanda, who lives in Bradford and is originally from the Philippines, had initially been looked after in the intensive care unit where she was put on a ventilator because she had become critically ill.\n\nThe senior sister, who works on the acute dialysis unit, eventually regained consciousness and was moved on to another ward to continue her recovery, spending a total of 67 days in hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I feel like I have been given a second chance at life; I am one of the lucky ones.\"\n\nMs Orlanda added: \"I learnt a lot from this journey - it's really hard to be a patient when you're a nurse.\n\n\"I understand so much now about how important it is to be there for your patients, to spend time talking to them and to try and slow down.\n\n\"Be patient with your patients.\"\n\nMatron Sonya Tetley, whose team looked after her, said: said: \"She's been in hospital a long time and it's been very traumatic for her, but she's made a brilliant recovery and we are very proud of her.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "GCSE and A-level results in England will be higher this summer, with exam boards set to be more lenient.\n\nWritten exams were cancelled because of the pandemic - with pupils' results to be based on predicted outcomes.\n\nThe watchdog Ofqual says the numbers getting good grades will be 2% higher at A-level and 1% at GCSE.\n\nBut they will be much lower than the \"optimistic\" predictions from teachers, which at A-level would have pushed up results 12% higher than last year.\n\nThe exam regulator says it is also confident, from preliminary results, that there has been no \"unconscious bias\" in predicted grades that would have disadvantaged ethnic minorities or poorer students.\n\nA report from the education select committee this month warned of the risk that some pupils could be discriminated against.\n\nBut Ofqual says there is no evidence of any widening gaps in this summer's results, in terms of ethnicity, gender or deprivation, compared with years when pupils have taken exams.\n\nWhile individual pupils will not find out their GCSEs and A-levels until next month, the process of standardising these predicted grades means that the overall national picture is already emerging.\n\nThe exam regulator says this will be a more generous year, with candidates more likely to be given the benefit of the doubt.\n\nSo for instance, last summer 25.5% of candidates achieved an A grade or above at A-level - and this year it will be more like 27.5%.\n\nThere have been no GCSEs or A-levels this year - with results to be based on estimated grades\n\nOfqual says to expect variations in terms of subject and grades - but overall results will be \"slightly better\" than the previous year.\n\nBut teachers, who had to submit predicted grades, would have been much more generous and the exam boards have had to bump down the grades much closer to last year's.\n\nAt A-level, the predictions for A grades would have pushed up results by 12.3 percentage points - if they had not been knocked back down by the exam boards.\n\nFor GCSE, results would have jumped upwards by 9 percentage points, based on teachers' predictions.\n\nThe grades to be given to pupils will be based on a range of evidence - including their previous exam results, the distribution of grades in the school in recent years, how schools ranked their pupils in expected outcomes, as well as their teachers' predictions.\n\nBut because grades will be linked to schools' performance in previous years, schools that have been rapidly improving will not necessarily see that in this year's results.\n\nIf pupils are not happy with their results based on predictions, they will be able to take written exams in the autumn.\n\nNansi Ellis of the National Education Union welcomed the \"commitment to equalities\" in the results so far, in terms of the risk of bias - and that \"there appear to be no obvious differences between the grades of different groups of students\".\n\nPaul Whiteman of the National Association of Head Teachers backed the replacement grades, saying \"while not a perfect solution, this is the fairest and most pragmatic alternative to sitting exams\".", "Pubs and restaurants not taking customers' contact details, or customers refusing to give them, could endanger the one-metre social distancing rule, an owner is warning.\n\nColin Wilkinson, of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, yesterday suggested on Drivetime that recording such details was one of the reasons the Scottish government reduced the two-metre rule.\n\nThe government has today pointed out that the collection of names is \"strongly recommended but not mandatory\", although it was keeping the matter under review.\n\nMalcolm Duck, who owns Ducks Inn in Aberlady, says: \"Really, you are being pretty stupid as a publican or restaurateur if you are not doing it. We really want to keep that one-metre rule.\n\n\"If somebody refuses to give their details, that's okay and it's only one person in a group that has to do it. But, whilst it's not law, if we want it to remain not the law, we really should be doing it.\"", "Misleading and harmful online content about Covid-19 has spread \"virulently\" because the UK still lacks a law to regulate social media, an influential group of MPs has said.\n\nThe Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee urged the government to publish a draft copy of promised legislation by the autumn.\n\nIt follows suggestions the Online Harms Bill might not be in force until 2024.\n\nThe group's chairman said tech firms could not be left to self-regulate.\n\n\"We still haven't seen correct legislative architecture put in place, and we are still relying on social media companies' consciences,\" said Julian Knight.\n\n\"This just is not good enough. Our legislation is not in any way fit for purpose, and we're still waiting. What I've seen so far has just been quite a lot of delay.\"\n\nGoogle and Facebook have said they have invested in measures to tackle posts that breach their guidelines.\n\nBut the report has already been welcomed by the children's charity NSPCC.\n\n\"The committee is right to be concerned about the pace of legislation and whether the regulator will have the teeth it needs,\" said Andy Burrows, its head of child safety online policy.\n\nThe committee report specifically calls for recommendations set out in the Online Harms Paper published in April of last year to be made into law.\n\nThe paper suggested a legal \"duty of care\" should be created to force tech companies to protect their users, and that a regulatory body be set up to enforce the law.\n\nThe government has said legislation will be introduced \"as soon as possible\".\n\nBut last month, a House of Lords committee that looked into the same issue reported that the law might not come into effect until three or four years' time.\n\nIn its own report, the DCMS committee said it was concerned that the delayed legislation would not address the harms caused by misinformation and disinformation spread about fake coronavirus cures, 5G technology and other conspiracy theories related to the pandemic.\n\nIt also claimed social media firms' advertising-focused business models had encouraged the spread of misinformation and allowed \"bad actors\" to make money from emotional content, regardless of the truth.\n\nJulian Knight took charge of the DCMS select committee earlier this year\n\n\"As a result the public is reliant on the good will of tech companies or the 'bad press' they attract to compel them to act,\" the report said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Knight said the major players - Facebook, Twitter and Google owner YouTube - now had to be dragged \"kicking and screaming\" to do more to regulate their platforms.\n\n\"We need social media companies to actually be ahead of the game and we need government as well to be very clear to them,\" he added.\n\n\"This is not a freedom of speech issue. This is a public health issue.\"\n\nFacebook has responded: \"We don't allow harmful misinformation and have removed hundreds of thousands of posts including false cures, claims that coronavirus doesn't exist, that it's caused by 5G or that social distancing is ineffective.\n\n\"In addition to what we remove, we've placed warning labels on around 90 million pieces of content related to Covid-19 on Facebook during March and April.\"\n\nYouTube said: \"We have clear policies around promoting misinformation on YouTube, and updated our policies to ensure that content on the platform aligns with NHS and WHO [World Health Organization] guidance.\n\n\"When videos are flagged to us, we work quickly to review them in line with these policies and take appropriate action.\"\n\nTwitter told the BBC its top priority was \"protecting the health of the public conversation - this means surfacing authoritative public health information and the highest quality and most relevant content and context first\".\n\nThe report also lists some of the main groups responsible for spreading online misinformation.\n\nFor various reasons, individuals had also contributed by spreading false information and ideas about fake cures to others online during the pandemic, the MPs said.\n\nMr Knight also expressed concern that anti-vaccine conspiracy theories might frustrate efforts to tackle Covid-19 once a suitable preventative treatment became available.\n\nSocial media companies, he added, \"need to ensure that they aren't just neutral in this - they absolutely must take an active part in ensuring that our society, our neighbours, our friends and our loved ones are safe\".\n\nThe report also criticised the government for setting up its own Counter Disinformation Unit in March.\n\nIt suggested this was late, since fake news about coronavirus had begun spreading online in January, adding that in any case the unit had largely duplicated the work of other organisations.", "UK government \"badly underestimated\" the Russian threat and the response it required, according to an inquiry.\n\nThe Intelligence and Security Committee's long-awaited report into Russian activity in the UK said the government was \"playing catch-up\" and needed to take \"immediate action\".\n\nThe report also claimed the government made no effort to investigate Russian interference in the EU referendum.\n\nNo 10 said the government was \"fully aware of the significant and enduring threat\" Russia posed.\n\nThe ISC's inquiry covers a number of topics, including disinformation campaigns, cyber tactics and Russian expatriates in the UK.\n\nMuch of the \"highly sensitive\" detail was not published due to fears Russia could use the evidence to threaten the UK.\n\nThe committee said Russian influence in the UK was now \"the new normal\", and the UK was a \"top Western intelligence target\" for the state, only behind Nato and US.\n\nISC member, Stewart Hosie, told reporters the government \"took its eye off the ball, because of its focus on counterterrorism\", adding: \"The government had badly underestimated the response required to the Russian threat, and is still playing catch up.\"\n\nIn its report, the group said UK was \"clearly a target\" for disinformation campaigns around its elections, but that the issue was described as a \"hot potato\", with no one organisation taking a lead to tackle it.\n\nThe report criticised intelligence agencies for not taking action during the EU referendum, despite there being \"credible open source commentary\" suggesting \"influence campaigns\" from the Russians during the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.\n\nAnd it said the government only \"belatedly realised the level of threat which Russia could pose\" after the so-called \"hack and leak\" operation against the Democrats in the 2016 US election, calling it a \"game changer\".\n\nThe committee said: \"Had the relevant parts of the intelligence community conducted a similar threat assessment prior to the [EU] referendum, it is inconceivable that they would not have reached the same conclusion as to Russian intent, which might then have led them to take action to protect the process.\"\n\nThe report also said that social media companies \"hold the key and yet are failing to play their part\", adding that the government should \"name and shame those which fail to act.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stewart Hosie MP says the government \"didn't take action to protect the UK\"\n\nMr Hosie also said no-one in Government wanted to touch the issue of Russian interference when it came to elections with a \"10-foot pole\".\n\nHe told reporters: \"The report reveals that no one in government knew if Russia interfered in or sought to influence the referendum, because they did not want to know.\n\n\"The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfere.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab later told a press conference the government 'categorically rejected' the claim, saying it was \"the comment of one MP\" on the committee.\n\nThe government also rejected the committee's call for a full assessment by intelligence agencies of potential Russian meddling in the 2016 referendum, saying it had \"seen no evidence of successful interference\".\n\nThis report may not be what some expected, but it is still damning.\n\nMany expected the committee to have answered the question of whether there was interference in political events like Brexit.\n\nInstead, it says the problem was the government and the spy agencies failed to even look at this question.\n\nBritish intelligence has, at least in recent years, been reluctant to get involved in anything that looks \"political\" and treated the issue of trying to protect democracy like a \"hot potato\".\n\nBut ultimately it's the government that the committee blames.\n\nMore broadly, there are serious questions about the failure of the UK to confront the spread of Russian money and influence over a long period.\n\nAnd there is an urgent call for new legislation to deal with an ongoing challenge.\n\nThe report also accused successive governments of welcoming Russian oligarchs \"with open arms\" due to the investments they brought with them.\n\nThe committee said \"few questions if any were asked about the provenance of this considerable wealth\", with particular issues around the UK's investment visa scheme, the housing market, the judicial system and PR firms.\n\nThey said: \"A lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene, are accepted because of their wealth.\"\n\nThe report said it had concerns about links between these wealthy Russians and the House of Lords.\n\n\"It is notable that a number of members of the House of Lords have business interests linked to Russia, or work directly for major Russian companies linked to the Russian state,\" it read.\n\n\"These relationships should be carefully scrutinised, given the potential for the Russian state to exploit them.\"\n\nThe reaction to the ISC's report from Russia has been a big collective shrug.\n\nThe Russian foreign minister dismissed it out of hand and called it \"Russophobia\".\n\nAnd a Kremlin spokesman said Russia doesn't meddle in other countries elections.\n\nWhat this report has done is to present a broad picture of Russia as a powerful foe.\n\nAnd I don't think in the Kremlin they will be too unhappy at that.\n\nCommittee members also criticised No 10 for the delay in the report's publication - seven months after it was submitted to No 10 to sign off.\n\nDowning Street was accused of holding back the report ahead of December's UK election and for delaying its nominations to set up the new committee - both claims it has denied.\n\nBut speaking at a press conference to launch the report, one of the ISC's committee members, Kevan Jones, criticised Boris Johnson for not signing it off sooner, saying there was \"no reason for delay\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab tweeted: \"We've been clear that Russia must desist from its attacks on the UK and our allies.\n\n\"We will be resolute in defending our country, our democracy and our values from such Hostile State.\"\n\nThe ISC's former chair, Dominic Grieve - who pushed for the report to be published before the election - told BBC News his pleasure at seeing it come to light was \"mitigated by a sense of frustration and bluntly anger at the way the government behaved\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Grieve says there were “no valid reason” and no explanation for delaying its publication\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy accused the PM of taking a \"political decision\" to block the report.\n\nShe added: \"The government has underestimated the response required to Russia and it is imperative we learn the lessons from the mistakes that have been made.\"", "Ece Yorenc is one of Turkey's most successful screenwriters\n\nNetflix has cancelled a Turkish drama on the eve of filming, with its writer saying the government blocked it because it included a gay character.\n\nScreenwriter Ece Yorenc said Netflix scrapped If Only after the government refused to grant it a licence.\n\n\"Due to a gay character, permission to film the series was not granted and this is very frightening for the future,\" she told Turkish film website Altyazi Fasikul, according to the FT.\n\nIf Only was due to tell the story of Reyhan, an unhappily married mother of twins, who is suddenly transported back 30 years to the night her husband proposed.\n\nYorenc said there were no gay sex scenes or physical contact between the gay man and other characters.\n\nThe streaming service did not want to bow to Ankara's demands, and instead decided to cancel the show after talks with Turkey's audiovisual authority RTUK, she added.\n\nThe deputy chairman of Turkey's ruling party, Mahir Unal, tweeted on Monday that he believed Netflix would \"show greater sensitivity to Turkish culture and art with deeper co-operation\" in the future.\n\nWhile homosexuality has been legal throughout modern Turkey's history, official opposition to the LGBT community has grown in recent years. The Istanbul Pride march has been banned for five years in a row.\n\nNetflix said it remained \"deeply committed\" to its Turkish subscribers and those in the country's creative community.\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"We currently have several Turkish originals in production - with more to come - and look forward to sharing these stories with our members all around the world\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "MPs voted in June to set up an independent panel to examine bullying allegations against them.\n\nMPs could be banned from foreign trips or made to take anger management classes under a proposed revamp of Parliament's sanctions regime.\n\nThe Commons Committee on Standards said a wider range of penalties was required for MPs found to have broken the official code of conduct.\n\nBreaches can include misuse of office expenses and incorrectly registering financial interests.\n\nMPs are typically asked to apologise, but can be suspended in extreme cases.\n\nThe committee's power to investigate MPs for bullying or harassment is set to be handed over to a new independent panel recently approved by MPs.\n\nThe decision to set up the panel, to be made up of eight members, follows a 2018 inquiry led by Dame Laura Cox into how allegations are handled.\n\nUnder the current sanctions system, set up in 1995 in the wake of the \"cash for questions\" scandal, the committee can order MPs to apologise or pay back money if they are found in breach of the code.\n\nIn serious cases, it can also ask for MPs to be suspended without pay or expelled from Parliament - although this requires approval from the Commons as a whole.\n\nUnder the current regime, the committee has never recommended expulsion, and has only recommended suspension on 15 occasions.\n\nSince 2015, MPs suspended for longer than two weeks have also been subject to a recall process which can result in them being forced to re-stand as an MP.\n\nIn a report, the committee said an \"expanded suite of sanctions\" was required to more appropriately deal with MPs who fall foul of the rules.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant, who chairs the committee, said: \"For too long the only sanctions available against MPs have been a slap on the wrist or suspension from the House.\"\n\nHe added that an expanded range of sanctions would give MPs \"a clear idea of the kind of attitudes and conduct we are trying to promote and those we wish to eliminate\".\n\nUnder their proposals, Parliament's Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone would get the power to force MPs to attend diversity training - or sign up to \"behaviour agreements\".\n\nShe would also be able to ban MPs from official overseas trips or withdraw their membership of a select committee for up to five years.\n\nMPs could also be banned from accessing parliamentary services such as bars and the Commons library - although MPs would have to decide the details.\n\nThe committee has also recommended that the new independent panel investigating bullying allegations should get a similar range of powers.\n\nThe committee said it had made its recommendations to help the new panel to quickly decide its own sanctions framework.\n\nBoth the proposed changes to the sanctions for breaking the code, and the new powers for the panel, will need to be signed off by the Commons as a whole.\n\nIn an effort to make penalties fairer, the committee has also published a list of aggravating and mitigating factors to be taken into account.\n\nUnder the committee's proposed system, a harder line could be taken with longer-serving MPs compared to their less experienced colleagues.\n\nOn the other hand, MPs could escape harsher sanctions if they can show they are suffering from mental health problems, or show \"genuine remorse\".\n\nThese factors would, however, not apply in cases to do with bullying or harassment.\n\nMPs who have fallen foul of the code in recent years include Boris Johnson, who in April 2019 was found to have not declared a financial interest in a timely manner.\n\nHe was ordered to apologise in the chamber and told to attend a briefing from officials on the rules.\n\nThe most recent example of an MP suspended from Parliament came earlier this year, when Conservative MP Conor Burns was found to have used his position as an MP to intimidate a member of the public.\n\nMr Burns said he accepted the sanction \"unreservedly\" and also resigned as a trade minister.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warns Beijing: \"The UK is watching and the whole world is watching”\n\nThe UK government will suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong \"immediately and indefinitely\".\n\nAnnouncing the move, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK \"wants a positive relationship\" with China.\n\nBut he said the \"imposition\" of the new security law in Hong Kong by Beijing was a \"serious violation\" of the country's international obligations.\n\nLabour said it would support changes to the law, calling it a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nThe extradition treaty means that, if someone in Hong Kong is suspected of a crime in the UK, then the British authorities can ask Hong Kong to hand them over to face justice - and vice versa.\n\nThe UK fears the arrangement - which has been in place for more than 30 years - could see anyone it extradites to Hong Kong being sent on to China.\n\nMr Raab also confirmed the government would extend its arms embargo - which has been in place with China since 1989 - to Hong Kong, stopping the UK exporting equipment, such as firearms, smoke grenades and shackles, to the region.\n\nBut China has accused the UK government of \"brutal meddling\", insisting it is committed to upholding international law.\n\nThe country also promised a \"resolute response\" if the UK withdrew from extradition arrangements.\n\nBeijing introduced the security law at the end of June, creating new offences which could see Hong Kong residents sent to mainland China for trial.\n\nCritics said it could see pro-democracy protesters in the region being served with life sentences.\n\nThey have also said the law breaches an agreement made with the UK before Hong Kong - a former British colony - was handed over to China in 1997.\n\nUnder the 50-year agreement, China enshrined civil liberties - including the right to protest, freedom of speech and the independence of the judiciary - in Hong Kong's Basic Law, an approach which came to be known as \"one country, two systems\".\n\nMr Raab told MPs: \"There remains considerable uncertainty about the way in which the new national security law will be enforced.\n\n\"I would just say this: the UK is watching and the whole world is watching.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary also confirmed plans for a path to UK citizenship for around three million Hong Kong people would be in place by early 2021, in response to the law.\n\nHowever, Border Force officials have been given the ability to grant leave to any applicants before then.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolitical and economic relations between the UK and China have become strained in recent months.\n\nMr Raab referenced a number of tensions during his speech, including the decision by the UK government to ban Chinese firm Huawei from the country's 5G network.\n\nHe told MPs: \"We will always protect our vital interests including sensitive infrastructure and we won't accept any investment that compromises our domestic or national security\"\n\nThe foreign secretary also raised his \"grave concerns\" about the \"gross human rights abuses\" taking place in China's Xinjiang region against Uighur Muslims, after reports of forced sterilisation and wider persecution of the group.\n\nHe said they had raised the issue with his Chinese counterparts and with the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab added: \"We want a positive relationship with China. There's a huge amount to be gained for both countries, there are many areas, where we can work productively, constructively to mutual benefit together.\n\n\"For our part, the UK will work hard and in good faith towards that goal. But we will protect our vital interests, we will stand up for our values, and we will hold China to its international obligations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, denied reports of a \"concentration camp\" in Xinjiang\n\nThe change in the treaty was praised by MPs from other parties.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said Labour \"strongly welcomed\" the measures, adding they should lead to a \"new era\" in the two countries' relationship.\n\n\"This must mark the start of a more strategic approach to China based on an ethical approach to foreign policy and an end to the naivety of the 'golden-era years',\" she told MPs.\n\n\"Our quarrel is not with the people of China, but the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong, the actions of the Chinese government in the South China Sea and the appalling treatment of the Uighur people is reason now to act.\n\n\"We will not be able to say in future years that we did not know.\"\n\nBut other MPs called for the government to go further.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael wanted action on imports from China - especially surveillance equipment - while the SNP's Margaret Ferrier called for sanctions against individuals responsible for human rights violations.\n\nConservative MPs also called for further action.\n\nTory MP and former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said: \"For decades we have turned a blind eye to China's democratic deficit and human rights violations in the hope that it would mature into a global, responsible citizen [but] that clearly hasn't happened.\n\n\"Can I ask the secretary of state, is this now the turning point that we drop the pretence the China shares our values, given its actions... [and] can we have a strategic overhaul of our foreign policy in relation to China?\"\n\nMr Raab said the government was carrying out an integrated review about its strategy.", "Sea ice is declining in the Arctic in both thickness and extent\n\nPolar bears will be wiped out by the end of the century unless more is done to tackle climate change, a study predicts.\n\nScientists say some populations have already reached their survival limits as the Arctic sea ice shrinks.\n\nThe carnivores rely on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean to hunt for seals.\n\nAs the ice breaks up, the animals are forced to roam for long distances or on to shore, where they struggle to find food and feed their cubs.\n\nThe bear has become the \"poster child of climate change\", said Dr Peter Molnar of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.\n\n\"Polar bears are already sitting at the top of the world; if the ice goes, they have no place to go,\" he said.\n\nPolar bears are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with climate change a key factor in their decline.\n\nFemale polar bears need to store sufficient fat to feed their cubs\n\nStudies show that declining sea ice is likely to decrease polar bear numbers, perhaps substantially. The new study, published in Nature Climate Change, puts a timeline on when that might happen.\n\nBy modelling the energy use of polar bears, the researchers were able to calculate their endurance limits.\n\nDr Steven Amstrup, chief scientist of Polar Bears International, who was also involved in the study, told BBC News: \"What we've shown is that, first, we'll lose the survival of cubs, so cubs will be born but the females won't have enough body fat to produce milk to bring them along through the ice-free season.\n\n\"Any of us know that we can only go without food for so long,\" he added, \"that's a biological reality for all species\".\n\nPolar bears rely on sea ice to catch their prey\n\nThe researchers were also able to predict when these thresholds will be reached in different parts of the Arctic. This may have already happened in some areas where polar bears live, they said.\n\n\"Showing how imminent the threat is for different polar bear populations is another reminder that we must act now to head off the worst of future problems faced by us all,\" said Dr Amstrup.\n\n\"The trajectory we're on now is not a good one, but if society gets its act together, we have time to save polar bears. And if we do, we will benefit the rest of life on Earth, including ourselves.\"\n\nUnder a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, it's likely that all but a few polar bear populations will collapse by 2100, the study found. And even if moderate emissions reduction targets are achieved, several populations will disappear.\n\nThe findings match previous projections that polar bears are likely to persist to 2100 only in a few populations very far north if climate change continues unabated.\n\nSea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface, forming and melting with the polar seasons. Some persists year after year in the Arctic, providing vital habitat for wildlife such as polar bears, seals, and walruses.\n\nSea ice that stays in the Arctic for longer than a year has been declining at a rate of about 13% per decade since satellite records began in the late 1970s.", "The British artist has won two Grammy Awards and three Brit Awards\n\nBritish pop star Dua Lipa has sparked a huge reaction online with a tweet often associated with supporters of extreme Albanian nationalism.\n\nLipa posted a map that includes Albania, Kosovo and parts of neighbouring Balkan countries and a definition of the word \"autochthonous\" to suggest Albanians belonged there.\n\nThe tweet sparked strong reaction from supporters and critics alike.\n\nLipa's parents are from Kosovo. She was born after they moved to the UK.\n\nIn a follow-up statement, Lipa said she rejected ethnic separatism and her post \"was never meant to incite any hate\".\n\nLipa was accused of favouring Albanian expansionism after posting the map which forms part of hard-line nationalist dreams of creating a Greater Albania that would incorporate all ethnic Albanians.\n\nIt has sparked controversy before. A football game in 2014 between Albania and Serbia descended into open brawls after a drone carrying that map appeared above the stadium.\n\nAt the centre of the current dispute is the status of Kosovo which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, nearly a decade after Nato's bombing campaign ended the rule of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic there.\n\nKosovo is recognised by the US and most European governments, but not by Serbia and its main allies, including Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DUA LIPA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe British artist posted the map after a petition appeared online calling for Apple Maps to show Kosovo as an independent nation.\n\nAs of Tuesday afternoon the petition has more than 130,000 signatures.\n\nRita Ora - another fellow British pop star who was born in Kosovo's capital Pristina in 1990 - has also tweeted in support of the country appearing on Apple Maps, and in support of Dua Lipa.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her original tweet, Lipa included a definition of the word autochthonous - meaning indigenous to a place.\n\n\"We all deserve to be proud of our ethnicity and where we are from,\" she added in a later statement. \"I simply want my country to be represented on a map and to be able to speak with pride and joy about my Albanian roots.\"\n\nAlbanian nationalists allege that their people settled in the region long before the Serbs, and use this to claim nearby lands. Serbs say Kosovo is part of its territory - and nationalists often voice their sentiments with \"Kosovo is [part of] Serbia\" slogans.\n\nSome online users accused Lipa of being a \"fascist\", and began using the hashtag #CancelDuaLipa.\n\nUS-based organisation Team Albanians defended the artist, however, saying she was \"debunking the dangerous far-right claims that Albanians are not indigenous people in the Balkans\".\n\nLipa is the latest celebrity to cause an uproar by wading into Balkan history and politics.\n\nGermany and Bayern Munich's captain Manuel Neuer was filmed singing a popular Croatian football anthem while on holiday in the country earlier this month.\n\nBut the song references a region of neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina, and there was a backlash in Germany and in the Balkans after the video appeared online.\n\nWorld number one tennis player Novak Djokovic meanwhile was filmed in January singing what was alleged to be an ultra-nationalist Serbian song. Last week, he received an award by the ethnic Serbian Republika Srpska government in Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Albanians and Serbians remain divided after the War", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"Reasonable confidence\" Russia tried to interfere in 2019 election\n\nRussians almost certainly sought to interfere in the 2019 UK general election through illicitly acquired documents, the government has said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said any attempt to meddle in UK democracy was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe documents - on UK-US trade discussions - emerged online and were used by Labour in the 2019 campaign.\n\nA much-delayed report into allegations of wider Russian interference into UK democracy is due next week.\n\nLabour said it condemned \"any attempt by Russia, or any foreign power, to interfere in our country's democratic processes\" and pledged to work to protect the nation's security.\n\nThis is the first time the government has acknowledged with such certainty that Russians interfered in the UK's democratic processes.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman dismissed as \"nonsense\" suggestions that the timing of Mr Raab's statement was aimed at pre-empting the publication of the Russia report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.\n\nAt the 2019 election, then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the documents proved the Conservatives were planning to include the NHS in a future trade agreement with the US - something denied by the government.\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, Mr Corbyn accused the Conservatives of wanting \"to distract from the damage a Trump trade deal would do to our NHS by continuing to push the bogus claim Labour received Russian support\".\n\nHe added that the government's claim \"is an attempt to divert attention from the threat to the NHS and the Tory party links to Russian oligarchs expected to be revealed in the long-buried parliamentary Russia report.\"\n\nThe government launched an inquiry into how the papers got into the public domain, with help from the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nThe announcement comes as a group of national security services warn that Russian hackers are targeting organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nDespite many suspicions of Russian attempts at meddling in the referendum and other campaigns, significant concrete evidence is in short supply.\n\nSo, it matters that this is the first time a UK minister has made an explicit link to Russia, in one way or another, trying to meddle in elections in the UK.\n\nBut the timing of that statement creates its own intrigue too.\n\nNext week, at long last, the powerful group of MPs who monitor UK intelligence will publish a report on the Russian threat to the UK - a report that has been anticipated for a very long time and may perhaps set the record straight on all of this.\n\nIs it politically convenient for ministers to acknowledge the threat themselves just before others may make embarrassing claims about it?\n\nLabour politicians have frequently accused the Conservatives of ignoring Russian interference because of their relationship with Tory Party donors.\n\nDid it suit the government to publicise the claims that material used by Labour was also manipulated by Russia?\n\nIt seems, as one former UK ambassador to Moscow said, a \"remarkable coincidence\" that the government decided at this moment to admit explicitly, for the first time, that Russia has tried to stick its nose into our politics - especially when there is a running criminal investigation into who obtained the documents to start with.\n\nBut Downing Street denies that there is any link in the timing at all.\n\nIn a written ministerial statement, Mr Raab said \"the government has concluded that it is almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 general election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked government documents.\n\nHe said the documents were disseminated online via the social media platform Reddit.\n\n\"When these gained no traction, further attempts were made to promote the illicitly acquired material online in the run up to the general election,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign secretary goes on to say that there is \"no evidence of a broad spectrum Russian campaign against the general election\" but that \"any attempt to interfere in our democratic processes is completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe forum website Reddit said the unredacted papers had been uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nIt suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".\n\nMr Raab's statement is not connected to the Intelligence and Security Committee's report into Russian interference, which is due to be published next week.\n\nJeremy Corbyn holds up the leaked documents at a press conference on 27 November\n\nThe committee launched its inquiry in November 2017 following concern Russia sought to influence the US 2016 election and the 2016 Brexit vote.\n\nAfter the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March 2018 the investigation became the \"primary focus\" of the committee.\n\nThe committee heard evidence from independent experts as well as the secret intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.\n\nBBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the committee's report has looked into Russian activity from traditional espionage to subversion - with a particular focus on possible interference in the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nIn addition to cyber-espionage and social media campaigns, the report also examines Russian influence through money.\n\nThe delay in publication has led to speculation the report contains details embarrassing for the Conservatives - specifically in relation to the party's Russian donors.\n\nHowever, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted the hold-up was due to a number of committee members leaving Parliament and the need \"to make sure that the right people with the right level of experience and responsibility could be appointed\".\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Mr Raab's statement was \"ambiguous\" and \"confusing\".\n\nShe said Mr Raab had said there was \"no evidence of full-scale interference\" by Russia in his statement but had also claimed \"any attempts of such interference are unacceptable\".", "There could be more than 3,500 avoidable cancer deaths in England in the next five years as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, researchers say.\n\nThe virus had disrupted services and some people had avoided healthcare, they told The Lancet Oncology journal.\n\nThe team looked at the likely impact on four major types of cancer - breast, colorectal, oesophageal and lung.\n\nEarly diagnosis and treatment can save lives and anyone who suspects they may have cancer should seek help.\n\nDuring lockdown, some cancer services were scaled back or delayed, although people were still encouraged to have any essential or urgent care.\n\nUK-wide screening programmes to detect early signs of bowel, breast and cervical cancer in people with no symptoms are now trying to catch up with a backlog of appointments.\n\nIf you are invited for a screening appointment, the NHS staff that see you will be following strict guidance on infection control to protect you and themselves against coronavirus.\n\nThe study used hospital data on more than 93,000 cancer patients to estimate the effect of delays in cancer diagnosis on survival.\n\nThe researchers stress the figures are a prediction of what might happen, rather than what will.\n\nThe model assumes that disruptions due to the pandemic will affect access to routine and urgent cancer diagnostic services and alter health-seeking behaviour for a 12-month period.\n\nOther estimates suggest excess deaths from all types of cancer (due to coronavirus delays) could be as high as 35,000 in the UK within a year.\n\nOther new research in the same edition of The Lancet Oncology journal suggests delays in diagnosis and treatment of two months could lead to a substantial proportion of patients with early-stage tumours progressing from having curable to incurable disease.\n\nStudy leader Prof Clare Turnbull, from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said taking fast action now could still turn things around.\n\n\"Prioritisation of particular patient groups may be effective in mitigating the extent of excess deaths and lost life years,\" she said.\n\nMichelle Mitchell, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"It's not easy to pin down the exact number of additional cancer deaths we expect to see over the coming years.\n\n\"But studies like this help us to understand the devastating long-term effect a pandemic like Covid-19 will have on the lives of thousands of cancer patients.\n\n\"People should feel reassured that it's safe to use our health services again.\n\n\"If you have any concerns, please do contact your GP or specialist cancer team for more information.\"\n\nThe government must work closely with the NHS to ensure it has sufficient staff and equipment to clear the backlog and deliver prompt care, she added.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the NHS was getting services back up and running as fast as possible and that during the peak some services had be stopped for clinical reasons.\n\nNHS figures show that 106,535 urgent cancer referrals were made by GPs in England in May 2020, down from 200,599 in May 2019 - a fall of 47%.\n\nAt the same time, 55,500 more people are now waiting to have key cancer tests in England's hospitals compared with the same point last year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The funeral cortege was warmly welcomed as it arrived in Ashington\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of football great Jack Charlton's hometown to pay their respects ahead of his funeral.\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland boss Charlton, who won the World Cup playing for England, died on 10 July aged 85.\n\nHe was born in Ashington, Northumberland, and often returned to the former mining town.\n\nWell-wishers applauded and cheered as the cortege passed through the streets, with many waving flags and banners.\n\nHis family said they had been \"overwhelmed\" by the support shown and added \"he would have been thrilled by the outpouring of kindness\".\n\nPeople threw flowers on the hearse as it passed slowly through the town where he and his younger brother Sir Bobby honed their football skills.\n\nThe procession slowed as it passed close to the terraced house on Beatrice Street where the Charltons once lived and played in the back lane.\n\nOne floral tribute marked Charlton's wearing of the number 5 shirt in the 1966 World Cup final\n\nFloral tributes in the hearse included a football and a red England shirt with \"Jackie 5\" on it.\n\nThe cortege then made its way to a private service at a crematorium in Newcastle, where just a small number of relatives attended due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe family said Sir Bobby had not been well enough to be there.\n\nJack Charlton was \"incredibly proud\" of Ashington, his son said\n\nNewcastle United, Leeds United, Ireland and England scarves were draped over the coffin as it was carried into the crematorium\n\nIn a eulogy at the service, his grandchildren, Emma, Kate and Tom Wilkinson, paid tribute to \"a proud Englishman, a proud northerner and a proud honorary Irishman\".\n\n\"The footballer, the friend, the family man we all knew was forged in Ashington - during a happy childhood with the parents and three brothers he always loved dearly.\n\n\"As they whiled away hours kicking a ball around Hirst Park, Grandad could never have imagined how remarkable his life would go on to be.\"\n\nReferencing him dropping to his knees at the end of the World Cup final in 1966, they added: \"Many have often wondered what he was thinking - was it pure elation? Was it the gravity of the achievement?\n\n\"Was it relief that the hopes of a nation had been realised? Well he always told us he was just bloody knackered.\"\n\nA message from brother Sir Bobby was among the many tributes\n\nThe former Leeds United defender had been diagnosed with lymphoma in recent years and was suffering from dementia.\n\nIn more than 20 seasons with the club, he made 773 appearances and won the 1969 league title and the 1972 FA Cup.\n\nHe later found success managing the Republic of Ireland, but his family said while his achievements brought him recognition \"he always had his feet firmly on the ground\".\n\n\"It's clear that the many fleeting moments of kindness he showed to strangers had a lasting impact, and we're extremely proud to be able to say that the man everyone met is the man we knew.\n\n\"A man who struck the balance so perfectly between football icon, fan favourite and loving family man.\"\n\nSpeaking before the funeral, his son John said: \"Many will know now that, as a family, we wanted to give local people the opportunity to say goodbye to Jack, and pay their respects before he's laid to rest.\n\n\"Jack was incredibly proud of his hometown, which is why we made the decision to take the funeral cortege around Ashington.\"\n\nFlags and banners celebrating his involvement with the World Cup win have been placed around the town\n\nAs soon as the funeral car appeared, the hundreds of people on Alexandra Road started to applaud and cheer. One of the town's most famous sons was home.\n\nA Northumberland piper accompanied the cortege part of the way. It was a tribute that brought his family to tears.\n\nThese are strange times. The family requested that people kept their distance from each other and wore a mask. Despite the pandemic, everybody here left their home or took the morning off work to pay their respects. That's how much he is loved in this part of the world.\n\nThey all have a story about Jack Charlton too - a time he turned up at the local pub, or when he shared his packed lunch when he was out fishing.\n\nFootball defined him, but his personality also made him a local hero.\n\nMessages of love for Charlton were evident on flags around the town\n\nOne youngster paid tribute by having \"Wor Jackie\" painted on his back\n\nPeter Mather, a 68-year-old semi-retired bricklayer, stood on the route of the funeral with a sign saying \"Howay Wor Jack\".\n\nHe said: \"I lived over the road from here and I vividly remember watching the World Cup final.\n\n\"At the final whistle, he went to his knees, a big hard man like that showing such emotion. I'll never forget it.\"\n\nCharlton (centre) and his team-mates cemented their place in English football history in 1966\n\nBobby and Jack Charlton leave their mother's house in Ashington for a civic reception after the World Cup win in 1966\n\nHe spent his entire playing career at Leeds United and is seen here challenging his brother Bobby in action for Manchester United\n\nThe funeral procession left the Charlton family home in Dalton, Northumberland, and was met by a police escort in Ashington before going along Newbiggin Road into the town centre.\n\nIt stopped outside Hirst Welfare Centre, where Charlton and Sir Bobby played football as children, before travelling to the crematorium.", "After several months of sweating it out on the front line of an unprecedented crisis, a pay rise across the public sector is some welcome news for almost a million key workers.\n\nBut economists say that once inflation is stripped out, average pay for public sector workers remains below levels seen in 2010, due to pay freezes, or very modest increases, in the years of austerity that followed.\n\nAnd departments won't get extra funding to pay for these rises, a reminder that the government is still having to watch the pennies and pounds as it faces the biggest deficit in its finances in peacetime.\n\nThe Treasury claims the pay awards are assessed for affordability; that they shouldn't affect the provision of public services.\n\nBut budgets are already under pressure in some areas - in schools, for example, where extra costs may have arisen and income streams from the likes of clubs may have disappeared. In those cases, these pay rises might well pose some tough questions.", "Delivery giant Hermes says it will create 10,500 jobs in the UK after seeing a surge in demand from people shopping from home during lockdown.\n\nThis will include 1,500 full-time roles across its delivery network and head office, and 9,000 freelance couriers.\n\nHermes also said it would not accept any money from the government's job retention bonus scheme, designed to help struggling firms.\n\nIt comes as a raft of companies make job cuts due to the pandemic.\n\nHermes boss Martijn de Lange said: \"The pandemic has expedited the already phenomenal growth of online shopping and we see no sign of this changing.\n\n\"As a result, it is important that we have the right infrastructure and people in place to support this. This is good news for the many people who have sadly had their income affected and we are pleased to be able to support the UK economy with so many jobs at this time.\"\n\nHe said the firm had received thousands of applications from pub staff, hairdressers, pilots and others who had been let go at the start of lockdown.\n\nThe German firm, which has operated in the UK since 2000, has a network of more than 15,000 self-employed couriers in the country. It said it was investing £100m in its expansion and had already opened 90 new sub depots this year.\n\nHermes follows Primark, John Lewis and Rightmove in promising to shun the government's job retention bonus scheme, which will pay firms £1,000 for every furloughed worker they retain past January.\n\nIt is meant to stop struggling firms from cutting jobs, but MPs and economists have warned that healthy companies could also be tempted to use it.\n\nHermes, which has been criticised for its treatment of casual workers in the past, also said that all new self-employed hires would get holiday pay. It follows a deal with the GMB union last year.\n\nThe jobs news comes after a raft of companies have announced cuts citing the effects of the pandemic.\n\nOn Tuesday, Marks & Spencer and fashion brand Ted Baker said they would slash almost 1,500 roles between them.\n\nOther lay-offs announced in recent months have included:", "Almost 900,000 public sector workers are to get an above-inflation pay rise, including doctors and teachers.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he recognised their \"vital contribution\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Treasury said the money for the pay increases of up to 3.1% would come from existing departmental budgets.\n\nBut Labour said the rise would not make up for years of real-terms cuts and the British Medical Association said doctors had hoped for \"far better\".\n\nLater, Mr Sunak warned that the government must \"exercise restraint\" in future public sector pay awards.\n\nHe said this while launching the 2020 comprehensive spending review, which is to be published in the autumn.\n\nNurses are not included in Tuesday's announcement because they negotiated a separate three-year deal in 2018.\n\nThe rise does also not apply to junior doctors, who agreed a new four-year pay deal last year.\n\nNot all settlements will be UK-wide.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"These past months have underlined what we always knew, that our public sector workers make a vital contribution to our country and that we can rely on them when we need them.\n\n\"It's right, therefore, that we follow the recommendations of the independent pay bodies with this set of real-terms pay rises.\"\n\nMore than 300 NHS workers and care home staff have died in England alone after contracting coronavirus, many doing so while caring for patients.\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the Conservatives had frozen public sector pay for seven years, and the rises they introduced after that failed to plug the gap.\n\nShe said the pay rise was \"good news\" but added that it \"won't make up for a decade of real-term pay cuts\" for many front-line workers.\n\n\"Many other public sector workers - including those working on the front line in social care - won't get a pay rise out of this at all because the Tories haven't made good on their promises to boost local authority funding,\" the Labour MP said.\n\n\"That's not fair - and it's no way to reward those who've been at the forefront of fighting this pandemic.\"\n\nSocial worker Maureen Cummins told the BBC she felt cheated that she was not getting a pay rise, saying those in her current profession and her previous career as a nurse have been chronically underpaid for years.\n\nKit Malthouse, the crime and policing minister, said the vast majority of social care workers were employed in the private sector so the government's \"ability to influence pay rates there is limited\".\n\nHowever, some social care providers accused the government of sidestepping the issue of low pay for social care staff.\n\nMark Adams, chief executive of the charity Community Integrated Care, said it was a matter of \"national shame\" that social care workers had been on the front line during the coronavirus pandemic on minimum wage salaries.\n\nVic Rayner, executive director at the National Care Forum - which represents 120 of the UK's social care charities - said it was \"unacceptable\" for the government to \"sidestep\" the issue, adding that care workers had been \"a stalwart of the Covid front line and need recognition\".\n\nAfter several months of sweating it out on the front line of an unprecedented crisis, this is some welcome news for almost a million key public sector workers.\n\nBut economists say that once inflation is stripped out, average pay for public sector workers remains below levels seen in 2010, due to pay freezes, or very modest increases, in the years of austerity that followed.\n\nAnd departments won't get extra funding to pay for these rises, a reminder that the government is still having to watch the pennies and pounds as it faces the biggest deficit in its finances in peacetime.\n\nThe Treasury claims the pay awards are assessed for affordability; that they shouldn't affect the provision of public services.\n\nBut budgets are already under pressure in some areas - in schools, for example, where extra costs may have arisen and income streams from the likes of clubs may have disappeared. In those cases, these pay rises might well pose some tough questions.\n\nEvery year, independent pay review bodies recommend pay rises for sectors, and the government said it had accepted all of their suggestions for 2020-21.\n\nDr David Wrigley, vice-chairman of the British Medical Association, said doctors would feel \"disappointed and let down\" by the announcement as pay \"has fallen way behind\" where it should be and \"we were hoping for far better\" than the 2.8% increase.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"These are the sort of rises we'd expect to see in normal times, not in a time when many of us have not had a day off in six months and have been putting our lives on the line.\"\n\nSome teachers' unions have welcomed the offer for newly qualified teachers but said they were disappointed by the pay award for more experienced staff.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said raising starting salaries by 5.5% had made the profession \"more attractive to graduates\" but the prospect of salaries \"tapering off as they progress\" meant it would be difficult to retain teachers.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it was a \"kick in the teeth\" for \"long-serving teachers\".\n\nThe comprehensive spending review is carried out about every three years to allocate funding to government departments so they can plan ahead.\n\nFor the 2020 review, the Treasury said one of the priorities would be \"strengthening the UK's economic recovery from Covid-19 by prioritising jobs and skills\".\n\nBut it added: \"Given the impact Covid-19 has had on the economy, the chancellor was clear there will need be tough choices in other areas of spending at the review.\"\n\nAnd Mr Sunak told ministers: \"In the interest of fairness we must exercise restraint in future public sector pay awards, ensuring that, across this year and the spending review period, public sector pay levels retain parity with the private sector\".\n\nLabour's shadow treasury chief secretary Bridget Phillipson said: \"The choices made this autumn will determine whether our economy and society can rise to the challenges ahead.\n\n\"The government must not respond to this crisis with more spending cuts - which resulted in the slowest economic recovery in eight generations.\"\n\nAnd TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"It's hard to see how public sector workers can trust ministers after this cynical ploy to disguise plans for more pay restraint.\n\n\"In the last decade, we learned the hard way that austerity and pay restraint slow down recovery.\"", "Renowned surgeon Dr El Tayar worked in the NHS for 11 years before moving back to his native Sudan to help establish a transplant programme.\n\nHe returned to the UK in 2015, working as a locum surgeon before his death.\n\nHe gave the \"precious gift of life to so many people around the world\", fellow surgeon Abbas Ghazanfar wrote in a tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA husband and wife have been charged with unlawful use of a weapon for pointing guns at demonstrators outside their home in St Louis, Missouri.\n\nLawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey drew guns on racial justice protesters marching through the grounds of their $1.15m mansion last month.\n\nThe couple said they armed themselves because they felt threatened.\n\nBut St Louis' top prosecutor said their actions had risked creating violence at an otherwise peaceful protest.\n\n\"It is illegal to wave weapons in a threatening manner at those participating in non-violent protest, and while we are fortunate this situation did not escalate into deadly force, this type of conduct is unacceptable in St Louis,\" said Kim Gardner, who is the city's first black circuit attorney.\n\n\"We must protect the right to peacefully protest, and any attempt to chill it through intimidation will not be tolerated,\" she added.\n\nThe McCloskeys also face a charge of fourth-degree assault.\n\nThe couple's lawyer, Joel Schwartz, called the decision to press charges \"disheartening as I unequivocally believe no crime was committed\".\n\nThe couple, both personal injury attorneys who live on a private street, have said they were within their rights to defend their property.\n\nMissouri Governor Mike Parson has said he was prepared to exercise his pardon powers if prosecutors brought criminal charges in the case.\n\n\"I don't think they're going to spend any time in jail,\" the Republican told a local radio station last week.\n\nWhen he was a legislator, the governor co-wrote Missouri's \"castle doctrine\" law that justifies deadly force for those who are defending their homes from intruders.\n\nOn Friday, the couple made an appearance at a virtual Trump campaign event. Earlier, Mr Trump told the conservative news website Townhall: \"They want to prosecute these people, it's a disgrace.\"\n\nVideo footage showed Mr McCloskey, 63, and his wife, 61, draw firearms as demonstrators marched past their mansion to the home of St Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson to call for her resignation on 28 June.\n\nThe mayor had infuriated activists by reading out on Facebook Live the names and addresses of people advocating defunding the police.\n\nThe McCloskeys' legal team has said two or three white protesters had threatened the couple and their property.\n\nAccording to a police report on the incident, the couple said a large group of people had broken through an iron gate marked with \"No Trespassing\" and \"Private Street\" signs. One of the protest leaders maintained the gate was already open.\n\nThe march was part of a nationwide wave of demonstrations over police brutality and racism prompted by the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by a white policeman.\n\nMs Gardner is recommending that the husband and wife participate in a \"diversion programme\" designed to reduce unnecessary involvement with the courts.\n\nIt could see them ordered to take part in community service or a remedial course.\n\nClass E felonies like unlawful use of a weapon can carry prison sentences of up to four years.", "The world eagerly awaits a coronavirus vaccine, and labs are racing to develop one. Some have now reached the stage of human trials and are looking for volunteers. So what's it like to be part of a vaccine trial?\n\nI remember very clearly my first medical trial. It was in Oxford where I was going to receive an experimental vaccine against bird flu.\n\nThis was in 2006 and at the time H5N1 avian flu was a big deal. It was a deadly virus, killing half of those it infected. That would make it perhaps 50 times more lethal than Covid-19.\n\nSo there was a need for a vaccine, and the Oxford Vaccine Group was to conduct a trial of healthy volunteers.\n\nI didn't hesitate about sticking my hand up, or rather, rolling up my sleeve. After all, I rely on patients to agree to me filming them in order to illustrate some aspect of healthcare, so it was a good thing for me to experience what that's like. Very often they are taking part in a medical trial, be it for cancer, diabetes or any number of other conditions.\n\nNaturally I was filmed while receiving the vaccine. I can remember being determined not to grimace because I didn't want to set a bad example. The immunisation takes just a few seconds, and I also had to give some blood samples the same day.\n\nAs the needle for the blood draw was about to go in, a kindly doctor said \"sharp scratch\" which was my cue to look into the lens and deliver a faultless \"piece to camera\" - the bit in most TV reports when correspondents pontificate. But with a needle in your arm you have to get it right the first time.\n\nAs my blood entered the test tube I spoke about antibodies and immunity.\n\nI think it went fine, but I remember a recent occasion that was a nightmare. Again, I started speaking as the needle went in, and my words, thankfully, flowed out on cue. The trouble was, the red stuff did not. It was like getting blood from a stone. It took four needles, and by the end of the filming the colour had drained from my face and I was in a cold sweat.\n\nAs the BBC's medical correspondent, since 2004 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. Now it's here I wish, like everyone else, it would go away. Sadly, we may have to live with coronavirus indefinitely. In this column I will be reflecting on that new reality.\n\nThe bird flu vaccine trial went well. The following year it was approved for use, but bird flu never made the full jump from animals to humans, so it's not been needed.\n\nNot so with coronavirus. To say the results of vaccine studies are eagerly awaited would be the understatement of the year. There are lives, livelihoods and whole economies depending on a successful vaccine against Sars-CoV-2, to give the virus its proper name.\n\nMore than 100 vaccines are in development around the world. Many of these may never get to human trials, but several have already reached that stage, in record time. Normally it would take years, decades even.\n\nThe Chinese government shared the genetic sequence of coronavirus on 11 January, and within weeks a team at the University of Oxford had developed an experimental vaccine. Their human trial, the first in Europe, began last month.\n\nMore than 1,000 volunteers are now part of the Oxford vaccine study. Half will get ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, as the vaccine is called, and the rest a control vaccine which protects against meningitis. The trial is \"blinded\" so that the researchers and the volunteers won't know which jab they are getting.\n\nThe use of a real vaccine as a control, which may result in the odd sore arm, means volunteers really won't know whether they have got the real thing. That's important, as all of them will need to keep a daily health diary for up to four weeks, and come back for several blood tests.\n\nSamples of the vaccine have been made for the trial\n\nI wanted to volunteer for the first phase of the vaccine trial, but was ineligible. It's the first time I've been too old for a clinical study - the cut-off was 55 years and I'll be 59 in September. Though the trial has now been extended to include older adults and children aged five to 12, I may still be ruled out. Anyone who already has antibodies to coronavirus is excluded, and as I explained last week, I'm pretty sure I have these. I have signed up online just in case they will have me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elisa Granato was the first volunteer to be injected\n\nIn order to check whether the vaccine works, it is vital that those given the jab come across the virus in their daily lives. So the team would like volunteers who have public-facing roles, especially health workers, who are more likely to be exposed to coronavirus.\n\nYou don't need all of your volunteers to get up close and personal with the virus, but it's important that some do, and in the absence of a guaranteed treatment it would be unethical to deliberately infect them.\n\nThe volunteers are all told to maintain the same social distancing as the rest of us. And remember they don't know which vaccine they have received.\n\nFergus holding a vial of the vaccine developed by the Oxford team\n\nThere's one big problem surrounding all of this, which is that you need a lot of virus to be circulating to know whether the vaccine protects the people who've been immunised, and at present cases are decreasing. It's reckoned about one in 1,000 people in England are currently infected, not counting cases in hospitals or care homes.\n\nA further 10,000 volunteers are being recruited at sites across England, Wales and Scotland. At present there are more cases in parts of the north of England and Scotland than in Oxford.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nVolunteers are absolutely crucial to medical advances; we'd never get anywhere without them. The same goes for blood donors. With all the volunteers I've spoken to over the years there's a really strong element of giving something back. People say, \"Well, it may not help me, but it'll help those coming after me.\"\n\nSome years ago, I covered a typhoid study in Oxford, in which they were immunising people with a new vaccine, and then infecting them deliberately with the disease - they could do this because it can be treated with antibiotics. The volunteers had to swallow a drink that had typhoid bacteria in it, and I remember one of them saying, \"Down the hatch!\" before they drank it.\n\nThat vaccine is now being used in Pakistan and Zimbabwe, and has reduced cases of the disease by 80%. When I let those volunteers know recently, they were delighted. That trial was of absolutely no benefit to their daily lives, they did it purely because they felt it was the right thing to do. But with the coronavirus trial there may be some benefits for volunteers.\n\nThere has been much speculation about when we will get results from the Oxford vaccine trial. I've heard September, even June. The hard truth is, it's not certain when we will know. It depends on whether we get a second wave of infections.\n\nIf, and it's still a big if, the vaccine does work, hundreds of millions of doses could be made within months because of a manufacturing deal struck with the pharma giant, AstraZeneca. It says it could produce a billion doses by the end of 2021.\n\nAnd the Oxford vaccine is not the only show in town. Imperial College London is developing a coronavirus vaccine which will begin human trials next month. All the researchers I've spoken to have said this is not a race to be first, but a race against the virus. It's a race we all hope they will win.\n\nFind out more about the Oxford Vaccine trial\n\nAntibody tests which show that you have had a Covid-19 infection are being rolled out, prioritising NHS and care staff. So what happens when you test positive? Carry on as before - and I should know.", "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\nMisleading and harmful online content about coronavirus has spread \"virulently\" because the UK still lacks a law to regulate social media. That's the verdict from an influential group of MPs. They highlight rumours of fake cures and conspiracy theories about 5G technology and vaccines, and say government recommendations to reduce harm must be urgently implemented and enforced. Google and Facebook insist they are taking action. Read more on the human cost of virus misinformation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There is no virus, it’s 5G radiation poisoning\"\n\nAlmost 900,000 public sector workers, including doctors, teachers and police officers, are to get an above-inflation pay rise. The chancellor said the workers made a \"vital contribution\", particularly during the pandemic, but Labour argues the rises will not make up for years of real-terms cuts. BBC business correspondent Dharshini David says tough questions will be asked about affordability given the pressure on budgets caused by coronavirus. Not all settlements will be UK-wide.\n\nThere could be more than 3,500 avoidable cancer deaths in England in the next five years as a result of the pandemic, according to researchers. Fewer people have sought advice for potential symptoms due to fears of catching the virus, and some cancer services, like routine screening, have been disrupted. But study leader Prof Clare Turnbull said taking fast action now could still turn things around.\n\nThe BBC has spent months speaking to scientists advising the government to try to find out how important the concept of herd immunity was to the strategy adopted at the beginning of the outbreak. Herd immunity is achieved when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, either because they've caught it or been vaccinated. Find out more by watching Panorama - Britain's Coronavirus Gamble on BBC iPlayer.\n\nCheltenham Festival went ahead in March amid warnings the UK should already have gone into lockdown\n\nTen-year-old Arlo Lipiatt, from Bristol, came up with a lockdown project to create a music fanzine and Pint-Sized Punk has become a surprise hit. He's secured interviews with the likes of Manic Street Preachers, and has orders coming from as far afield as Australia. Not all start-up enterprises have it easy, though, and the pandemic has created extra challenges, as our technology of business reporter explains.\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 all the latest in our live page.\n\nPlus, with summer holidays abroad back on the cards, what might your trip be like? Here we tell you what to expect.\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.", "Dominic Raab has insisted the UK was not \"strong-armed\" by the US into excluding Huawei from its 5G network.\n\nWhile US sanctions against the Chinese firm had affected the UK's decision, the foreign secretary said the allies' interests \"overlapped\" on the issue.\n\nHe said diversifying the UK's telecoms supply chain was a priority to fill the gap once Huawei's role ended in 2027.\n\nUS counterpart Mike Pompeo said the UK had made the right \"sovereign\" call and Chinese \"bullying\" must be resisted.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference in London during a two-day visit to the UK, he praised the UK's recent actions on Hong Kong and suggested it and other allies must stand up to China's threatening behaviour \"in every dimension\".\n\nThe US had lobbied the UK to reverse its decision earlier this year to give Huawei a lead role in building the infrastructure for the next-generation mobile communications network.\n\nLast week, the government announced that it would ban domestic mobile providers from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after the end of this year and force them to remove all of its 5G kit from their networks by 2027.\n\nLast week, Mr Pompeo signalled that he hoped the UK would act more swiftly but, speaking in London, he thanked the government for its decision and its actions more broadly against China, saying \"well done\".\n\nMr Raab was asked by journalists whether the UK had effectively been forced into the u-turn by Washington's decision to sanction both US and foreign firm supplying technology to the Chinese company.\n\n\"As a result of US sanctions we have to look with a clear-sighted perspective...and we have taken a decision based on that,\" he replied. \"But I don't think there is any question of strong-arming.\n\n\"Mike and I always have constructive discussions and, in the vast majority of cases, our views overlap.\"\n\nMr Pompeo acknowledged the two countries had not always agreed over the issue but that the UK had ultimately acted in its own national interests.\n\n\"I think the UK made a good decision,\" he said.\n\n\"But I think that decision was made not because the US said it was a good decision but because the leadership in the UK concluded the right thing to do was to make that decision for the people of the UK.\"\n\nAsked whether the US wanted to \"crush\" the Chinese firm, which Washington has accused of state-sponsored espionage, Mr Pompeo said the US would vigorously defend its national security and stop its citizens' personal data from ending up \"in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Pompeo met Boris Johnson in Downing Street for \"candid\" talks on a range of security and economic issues, including current US-UK trade negotiations.\n\nNo 10 said Boris Johnson had also raised the death of Harry Dunn and the need for \"justice\" for his family.\n\nThe UK continues to seek the extradition of Anne Sacoolas in connection with the 19 year-old's death in a road traffic collision outside a US military base in Northamptonshire last year.\n\nThe US has said it cannot allow Ms Sacoolas, who has been accused of causing Harry Dunn's death by dangerous driving, to return to the UK to be questioned, insisting she has diplomatic immunity.\n\nIn a statement, Downing Street said the PM had made Mr Pompeo aware of the \"strong feeling among the people of the UK that justice must be delivered\".\n\n\"The prime minister reiterated the need for justice to be done for Harry Dunn and his family,\" it said.\n\nDowning Street said the two men also spoke about \"shared global security and foreign policy issues, including China's actions in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, the situation in Iran and the Middle East peace process\".\n\nThe two-day visit is likely to be Mr Pompeo's last to the UK before November's presidential election.", "Hundreds of migrant boats have been filmed being stored at a location in Dover.\n\nSince the beginning of the year, 2,900 people have crossed the English Channel in small dinghies.", "The UK government borrowed a record £127.9bn between April and June as tackling the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the public finances.\n\nThe figure - the difference between spending and tax income - was more than double the £55.4bn borrowed in the whole of the previous tax year.\n\nHowever, borrowing in June was lower than in May at £35.5bn.\n\nThe re-opening of more retailers and other firms saw a drop in furlough scheme spending and a rise in tax take.\n\nNevertheless, June's borrowing figure was still the third highest monthly total since records began in 1993 and about five times more than the same month last year.\n\nThe figure took total government debt to a record £1.98 trillion.\n\nThe director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, told the BBC that the borrowing in the first three months of the financial year was \"the most we would ever have borrowed over a quarter\".\n\n\"It is more than double over this first quarter than we were expecting to borrow over the entire year and we'll be looking to borrow a lot more as a fraction of the size of the economy over this year than we did during the financial crisis.\n\n\"Probably something around 15% of national income, maybe a bit more, which is easily the most we've ever borrowed in a year outside of the first and second world wars.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said debt at the end of June 2020 as a percentage of economic output was 99.6%, the highest debt to GDP ratio since the financial year ending March 1961.\n\nBut the ONS also warned that its borrowing estimates are currently \"subject to greater than usual uncertainty\".\n\nIt has revised down May's borrowing figure by £9.8bn to £45.5bn, mainly because tax receipts and National Insurance contributions were higher than previously estimated.\n\nThomas Pugh, UK economist at Capital Economics said the fact that borrowing fell in June suggested that government support was starting to wind down as the economy reopened.\n\n\"However, government borrowing is still rising at an exceptional rate and we suspect that a slowdown in the recovery and further rise in unemployment later this year will prompt the government to announce additional fiscal spending at the next Budget,\" he added.\n\nAs businesses reopened in June, some were able to wean themselves off state support. But that still meant the deficit for the first quarter of this financial year was more than twice that for last year as a whole.\n\nAnd there's more to come. Economists say the chancellor's Plan for Jobs, the package intended to support firms and workers as the furlough schemes are wound down, won't be enough to stem the spread of layoffs.\n\nWith even Rishi Sunak's own forecasters predicting joblessness could top four million, many expect extra help will have to be unveiled in the Autumn Budget.\n\nThen what? Already, the deficit is likely to top £300bn this year. There is a limit to how much the government can and will borrow cheaply to plug that.\n\nThe chancellor today repeated his vow to get the coffers back on to a sustainable path of in the \"medium term\". With austerity out of fashion, that's code for tax rises when he thinks the economy can bear it. The question is not only when that will be - but how much.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"It's clear that coronavirus has had a significant impact on our public finances, but we know without our response things would have been far worse.\n\n\"The best approach to ensure our public finances are sustainable in the medium-term is to minimise the economic scarring caused by the pandemic.\n\n\"I am also clear that, over the medium-term, we must, and we will, put our public finances back on a sustainable footing.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Sunak launched the 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), which will set out the government's plans for this parliament.\n\nThe Treasury said one of the priorities would be \"strengthening the UK's economic recovery from COVID-19 by prioritising jobs and skills\".\n\nBut it added: \"Given the impact COVID-19 has had on the economy, the chancellor was clear there will need be tough choices in other areas of spending at the review.\"\n\nPwC senior economist Alex Tuckett said June's \"moderately lower borrowing numbers - and a downwards revision to the deficit in May - should not distract from dramatic repercussions for public finances\".\n\n\"After announcing further stimulus measures this month, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will face a delicate balancing act in trying to bring the deficit down to less dramatic levels whilst avoiding pulling the fiscal rug from under the economic recovery,\" he added.\n\nLast week, the government's spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, said the government was on course to borrow £372bn this year to pay for the shortfall between tax revenues and public spending.\n\nThis includes extra borrowing to pay for the chancellor's £30bn package unveiled earlier this month to protect jobs and boost the economy.\n\nWith the UK's debt pile set to grow substantially, Robert Chote, the OBR's outgoing chairman, said policymakers faced tough choices.\n\n\"In practice, no government could allow net debt to persist for long on these explosive paths, as it would find it hard to finance its mounting deficits,\" he said.\n\nHe said getting the UK's debt share back down to around 75% of GDP would require tax rises or spending cuts of about £60bn in today's money every decade for the next 50 years.", "ONS figures include people who have died with coronavirus confirmed or suspected by a doctor\n\nThe number of registered deaths involving coronavirus in Wales has dropped to 22 in the week ending 10 July.\n\nThis compares to 35 the previous week, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nMore than half of local council areas (12) saw no deaths from coronavirus.\n\nThe number of so-called \"excess deaths\" is also six below the five-year average.\n\nThis is seen as a key indicator as it compares death numbers with what we might expect to see at this time of year.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths in 2020 up to 10 July was 20,865, which is 2,050 (10.9%) more than the five-year average.\n\nThe total number of deaths involving coronavirus is now 2,484 deaths (11.9% of all deaths).\n\nThese are for deaths registered by 10 July - and the total is 2,489 for those up to 10 July but registered by 18 July.\n\nIn total, Cardiff has the most deaths in Wales - 378, followed by Rhondda Cynon Taff (296).\n\nRCT also has the highest death rate - 123.2 deaths per 100,000, which is ranked 22nd across England and Wales for the size of its population.\n\nThe ONS includes all deaths when doctors suspect or confirm coronavirus is a factor - and unlike the daily Public Health Wales (PHW) figures they also include deaths in all places, including care homes and people's homes.\n\nThere were also six deaths with coronavirus mentioned in care homes in the latest week.\n\nSeparate figures from Care Inspectorate Wales out today confirm 736 care home resident deaths with suspected or confirmed cases of the virus up to 17 July - with deaths overall 71% higher than the same period last year.\n\nThe ONS figures take longer to come out but are seen as giving a fuller picture - PHW's own figures have been around 60% of the eventual total, and there is a difference of 947 deaths up to 10 July.", "Unison says they have raised a grievance for 36 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust staff\n\nHospital nurses were told their \"lives would be made hell\" if they complained over conditions on a coronavirus ward, a union has claimed.\n\nUnison has raised a group grievance for 36 employees, most of them nurses, at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.\n\nIt said staff on the Queen's Medical Centre ward were not trained properly, faced bullying for raising concerns and denied PPE \"as punishment\".\n\nThe trust said the allegations were \"very troubling\".\n\nThe union said the staff, which included nurses, senior nurses and healthcare assistants, volunteered to work on the hospital's only ward dealing with end-of-life coronavirus patients.\n\nIt claimed they were not given any specialist training or counselling for dealing with dying patients and their grieving relatives.\n\nAn anonymous member of staff described it as \"incredibly stressful\".\n\n\"Normally, the palliative care team who deal with end-of-life patients handle 200 deaths each year - we dealt with 185 in just 10 weeks,\" they said.\n\n\"People doing that job normally receive high levels of training and support because of the stress. We had none of that.\"\n\nThe union said staff were not given adequate training to deal with dying patients and their relatives\n\nDave Ratchford, from Unison, said staff were unprepared for dealing with such high frequency of death and should have had access to psychological support.\n\nHe said after the team raised concerns, management were \"hostile\" and locked away PPE \"as punishment\".\n\nAnother worker said a board with everyone's record of sickness was put on display in a break room to intimidate staff.\n\n\"We're talking about a very high-performing team who fell foul of a culture that permits bullying and fails to address it.\n\n\"Staff were told their lives would be made hell for complaining.\"\n\nThe team said they had experienced the treatment from April, during the peak of the coronavirus crisis, until this month.\n\nDr Neil Pease, of the trust, said he was \"disappointed\" to hear about the concerns and added: \"We greatly value our staff for the incredible dedication and resilience they have shown during the pandemic.\n\n\"They have done amazing things in the face of truly unprecedented challenges, so to hear of these grievances is very troubling indeed.\n\n\"Bullying and harassment are not tolerated in our organisation.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Doctors 'not taken seriously' over safety fears", "Two photographs of Prince George have been released to mark his seventh birthday on Wednesday.\n\nIn both the photos, taken by his mother the Duchess of Cambridge, the future king flashes a gap-toothed smile at the camera.\n\nShe photographed her son earlier this month and the pictures are likely to have been taken at their Norfolk home.\n\nKensington Palace said Prince William and Catherine were \"delighted\" to share the photos.\n\nIn one of the pictures, George is dressed in a dark green polo shirt and in the other he stands side-on, dressed more casually in a T-shirt with a camouflage design.\n\nThe prince is the great-grandchild of the Queen. He will be the 43rd monarch since William the Conqueror obtained the crown of England in 1066 if, as is expected, he follows on as king from his grandfather, the Prince of Wales, and then his father, the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nPrince George was pictured several times during the coronavirus lockdown with his younger siblings, five-year-old Princess Charlotte and two-year-old Prince Louis, as they applauded heath and care workers during the weekly Clap for Carers.\n\nPrince George Alexander Louis - known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge - was born on 22 July 2013.\n\nHe was born in the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in central London and appeared in front of the world's media one day later, when Prince William and Catherine stood cradling him on the hospital steps.\n\nEarlier this year, the duke and duchess spoke about home-schooling George and his brother and sister while schools closed to most pupils during lockdown.\n\n\"The children have got such stamina I don't know how,\" Catherine told the BBC.\n\n\"You pitch a tent, take the tent down again, cook, bake. You get to the end of the day and they have had a lovely time - but it is amazing how much you can cram into one day, that's for sure.\"", "Amber Heard and Johnny Depp were at London's High Court for day 10 of the case\n\nActor Johnny Depp \"threatened to kill\" ex-wife Amber Heard \"many times\", the US actress has claimed.\n\nShe described a \"three-day hostage situation\" during which she claimed Mr Depp was on a \"drug and alcohol binge\".\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper maintains it was accurate.\n\nHe denies 14 allegations of domestic violence on which News Group Newspapers is relying for its defence.\n\nMs Heard took to the witness stand at London's High Court on the 10th day of the case, and her written witness statement was also submitted to the court.\n\nIn it, she accused Mr Depp of verbal and physical abuse including screaming, swearing, issuing threats, punching, slapping, kicking, head-butting and choking her, as well as \"extremely controlling and intimidating behaviour\".\n\n\"Some incidents were so severe that I was afraid he was going to kill me, either intentionally, or just by losing control and going too far,\" she said.\n\nUnder cross-examination, Ms Heard later said that although there were times when she \"lost her cool\" with Mr Depp, it was only in self-defence.\n\nMs Heard, 34, claimed Mr Depp had a \"unique ability to use his charisma to convey a certain impression of reality\" and \"he is very good at manipulating people\".\n\n\"He would blame all his actions on a self-created third party instead of himself, which he often called 'the monster'.\n\nA court artist sketch shows Amber Heard giving evidence, as ex-husband Johnny Depp looks on\n\nShe said at the beginning of their relationship, he would be \"intensely affectionate, warm and charming\" and it felt like she was \"dating a king\".\n\nMs Heard, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017, said Mr Depp had pursued her romantically while they were filming The Rum Diary in 2009 but nothing happened between them then because she was in a relationship.\n\nShe said they next saw each other whilst promoting the same film in 2011, which was when their \"romantic relationship\" began.\n\nMs Heard said the pre-nuptial agreement was left on Mr Depp's team's desk and \"no-one did anything\"\n\nHer witness statement added: \"When Johnny puts his attention on you, with all his intensity and darkness, it is unlike anything I've ever experienced.\n\n\"When I say he was dark, he had a violent and dark way of speaking: the way he talked about our relationship being 'dead or alive' and telling me that death was the only way out of the relationship.\"\n\nIn her statement, Ms Heard also described visiting Mr Depp in Australia in March 2015, while he was filming Pirates of the Caribbean, and described the trip as \"like a three-day hostage situation\".\n\nShe said during this time, there were \"extreme acts\" of \"psychological, physical, emotional and other forms of violence\".\n\n\"It is the worst thing I have ever been through. I was left with an injured lip and nose, and cuts on my arms.\"\n\nShe claimed Mr Depp grabbed her neck, shoved her against the fridge, tore off her nightgown and pushed her against a bar.\n\n\"He was pressing so hard on my neck I couldn't breathe. I was trying to tell him that I couldn't breathe. I remember thinking he was going to kill me in that moment,\" she said.\n\nJohnny Depp is bringing the case against the Sun over an article published in 2018\n\nShe added that she later found her nightgown, saying: \"There were pieces of it wrapped round something and I realised it was the steak I had planned to cook.\n\n\"He had also gone around and painted on all my clothes in the closet,\" she said.\n\nThe court previously heard from Mr Depp, who said the top of his finger was severed when Ms Heard threw a vodka bottle at him during the trip to Australia.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Heard said: \"I didn't actually see the finger being cut off, but I was worried that it had happened the night before.\n\n\"I figured it might have happened when he was smashing the phone on the wall by the fridge.\"\n\nMs Heard also said Mr Depp accused her of having affairs with fellow actors, and claimed she had to justify to him why she accepted film roles.\n\n\"He accused me of having affairs with each of my co-stars, movie after movie: Eddie Redmayne, James Franco, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Costner, Liam Hemsworth, Billy-Bob Thornton, Channing Tatum; even women co-stars like Kelly Garner.\n\n\"He also accused me of having affairs with stars I auditioned with, like Leonardo DiCaprio. He would taunt me about it - especially when he was drunk or high - and had derogatory nicknames for every one of my male co-stars he considered a sexual threat.\n\n\"For example, Leonardo DiCaprio was 'pumpkin-head'. Channing Tatum was 'potato-head'.\"\n\nEarlier, from the witness stand, Ms Heard told the court that she had been subjected to repeated and regular physical violence by the time of the couple's marriage in 2015.\n\nMr Depp's lawyer, Eleanor Laws QC, asked her about her allegations regarding an argument in January 2015, and suggested it was over discussions with lawyers about a pre-nuptial agreement between herself and Mr Depp.\n\n\"There was an argument in a hotel room in Tokyo that resulted in Johnny kneeling on my back and hitting me on the back of the head,\" Ms Heard told the court.\n\nShe added: \"But then Johnny was also accusing me of having an affair with a co-star and that is what led to the actual argument.\"\n\nMs Heard said Mr Depp had told her he did not want a pre-nuptial agreement but it was his sister, Christi Dembrowski, who wanted the couple to get one.\n\nMs Heard added that she had hired a lawyer who worked on a draft pre-nuptial agreement and it was sent to Mr Depp's team but never signed.\n\nShe denied that she was interested in Mr Depp's money, saying: \"I never had been, I never was.\"\n\nShe said she did not have a \"problem\" with controlling her temper, when challenged by Mr Depp's lawyer, who also suggested that Ms Heard would have \"outbursts of rage and anger\".\n\nMs Heard said \"there were times when, yes, I lost my cool with Johnny in our fights...\"\n\nMs Laws referred to a medical note written by a nurse, Erin Boerum, who wrote that Ms Heard had reported \"experiencing increased anxiety and agitation and has had several outbursts of anger and rage\", and also that she was \"nervous about being alone while husband is working on movie set in London (and) dealing with feelings of insecurity and jealousy\".\n\nAsked by Ms Laws if she felt \"insecure and jealous\" when she wasn't in Mr Depp's presence, Ms Heard said she had expressed \"concerns\" about his travel because it was a \"trigger\" for him, when they were apart.\n\nMs Laws asked Ms Heard if she ever \"got violent\" with Mr Depp, to which the actress replied \"no\", adding that he put her in situations where she was faced with \"unimaginable frustrations and difficulties, often that were life-threatening to me\".\n\nShe added that she would \"try to defend myself when he got serious and when I thought my life was threatened, but I was never violent towards him\".\n\nMs Heard said it was \"years into the relationship\" before she tried to defend herself; adding \"before that\" she had \"just checked out\".\n\nMs Heard was then played a recording of a conversation between her and Mr Depp, in which Mr Depp can be heard to say that he is not the one who \"throws pots\".\n\nIn the recording, she can be heard saying that she has \"thrown pots and pans\". When questioned by Ms Laws on this admission, she said she threw things \"only to escape\" Mr Depp.\n\nThe lawyer put it to Ms Heard that she was \"not injured at all\" as a result of anything that happened on the night of 21 May 2016.\n\nMs Heard had alleged that Mr Depp had thrown her mobile phone at her face, hit her in the eye, pulled her hair and grabbed her face.\n\nMs Laws suggested that Mr Depp \"didn't cause any damage whatsoever in that penthouse\", to which Ms Heard said the actor had \"caused damage to multiple apartments and my face... he did a significant amount of damage to the property\".\n\nMs Laws showed Ms Heard a photograph taken days after the 21 May incident, and after Ms Heard was said to have had \"a four-hour meeting with your legal team\".\n\nThe lawyer said: \"It doesn't appear as if you have got any marks on your face at all there\".\n\nMs Heard said the photo was a \"paparazzi shot with long lenses\", adding: \"If I went out in Los Angeles, I would wear makeup, except for my court appearance.\"\n\nMs Laws then suggested that, in earlier photos which are said to show injuries, she had put bruises on \"yourself through makeup or lighting or any other means - it wasn't any injury from Mr Depp\".\n\nMs Heard said she disagreed \"wholeheartedly\" with this, adding that she had been forced to \"cover up many bruises\" as it was \"embarrassing\" to be seen with them.\n\nThe lawyer added that \"far from being petrified of Mr Depp\", Ms Heard had, between 21 May and 27 May, contacted Mr Depp on the phone.\n\nMs Heard she had been \"attempting to\", and Ms Laws said: \"You were not displaying any signs of being fearful of him in those texts.\" Ms Heard replied: \"No.\"\n\nMs Laws suggested that, by the time Ms Heard and Mr Depp met in July 2016 in San Francisco, \"you were no longer petrified of him\".\n\nMs Heard denied this. She alluded to her earlier statement that it was \"the monster\" in the relationship that she was \"terrified of\" and not \"Johnny\" whom she \"loved\".\n\nThe libel case centres on an article published on the Sun's website in April 2018 headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe article related to allegations made by Ms Heard. The hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "The Welsh Government would still consider using a contact-tracing app if a viable option comes available, the health minister has said.\n\nVaughan Gething told the weekly press conference an app would be a \"useful addition\" to contact tracing.\n\nHe said: \"If there is a viable UK wide app that works, and provides information into our system - as it will need to do to help assist contact tracing - we'd want to be part of it\".\n\nMr Gething added that Welsh officials are in contact with colleagues in Northern Ireland where an app is being developed based on technology used in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHe said: \"If it works within one part of the NHS, then obviously there are questions for us about making use and adapting that here. We're still not there in terms of making a decision.\"\n\nBut Mr Gething did praise the success of the current contact tracing scheme in Wales.\n\n\"The latest management information is that we're getting to 88% of index cases,\" he said.\n\n\"We're getting to 80% of index cases within 24 hours. We're getting to 89% of contacts index cases. We're getting to 74% of those contacts within 24 hours as well.\"", "The independent review of maternity care at the trust was ordered in 2017\n\nThe largest ever review of maternity care in the NHS has revealed it is now examining nearly 1,900 cases.\n\nAn investigation into care at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is reviewing 1,862 incidents, the vast majority since the year 2000.\n\nThe update comes as a separate report said the trust had delayed publishing a critical report into maternity care for fear of negative media coverage.\n\nThe trust admitted standards had \"fallen short for many families\".\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt ordered the independent review into maternity care at the trust in 2017.\n\nAt the time, the chair, midwife Donna Ockenden, was asked to look into 23 cases.\n\nBut since then an avalanche of families have come forward with concerns about the care they received. The BBC understands most cases relate to incidents since 2000.\n\nMost of the new cases emerged after the review team asked the trust to examine its paper records.\n\nAn initial review ordered by NHS Improvement in 2018 only focused on electronic data, but a fresh study was ordered when some families came forward to say they had been excluded.\n\n\"I would like to thank them [the trust] for all the work undertaken to reach this point,\" said Ms Ockenden.\n\n\"By working together we have sadly identified a further 496 families as part of the review, who I am writing to this week.\"\n\nChair of the review Donna Ockenden will be writing to the families who have now been identified\n\nIn an open letter, chief executive of the trust Louise Barnett said: \"We should have provided far better care for these families at what was one of the most important times in their lives and we have let them down.\n\n\"An apology is not enough. What needs to be seen is evidence of real improvement at the trust. This is why we are committed to listening to families, our community and working with Donna Ockenden's review.\"\n\nIn June, West Mercia Police announced a criminal investigation had begun into maternity care at the Shrewsbury and Telford trust, which is arguably England's worst.\n\nThe rise in the number of cases comes as the trust has been severely criticised for its handling of a review of maternity care in 2017 by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).\n\nFormer chief executive Simon Wright \"would not accept the report\" when it was initially presented to him and led efforts to get the college to change its highly critical findings.\n\nAn investigation, carried out by NHS Improvement, said Mr Wright was motivated not just with concerns about the contents of the report, but also the \"potential negative media scrutiny\".\n\nSenior managers travelled to London for a highly unusual meeting, where they sought to assure the college that care had improved.\n\nOnly after the reviewers produced a more positive addendum report was the original published, together with the additional report.\n\nNHS Improvement is critical too of the role of the trust's board, who it found did not ask any questions of the contents of the report, despite being told at a private meeting that the RCOG reviewers had sent through their findings.\n\nFour of the board from that February 2018 meeting, including chairman Ben Reid, are still at the trust.\n\n\"A number of individuals have described a culture of defensiveness, denial and/or lack of openness that existed at the time in the maternity service and trust more generally. While such a culture clearly does not excuse any actions or behaviours, it may help explain them,\" NHS Improvement concluded.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "A row has broken out over the publication of an intelligence report into Russian covert actions in the UK, with critics saying Downing Street is stalling on its release until after the election.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said the timescale for the publication of the report from Parliament's Intelligence Security Committee (ISC) was \"perfectly normal\".\n\nBut pressure is mounting on No 10 after the Sunday Times claimed nine Russian business people who have donated money to the Conservative Party were named in the document.\n\nSo what is in the Intelligence and Security Committee report?\n\nThe answer is that only a small circle of people know for sure and none of them are saying. But it is possible to get a sense of what might be in it.\n\nWe know the report looks at a wide range of Russian activity - ranging from traditional espionage to subversion - and not just in the UK.\n\nBut the greatest interest has been in what it might say on political interference in the UK. The Mueller inquiry in the US laid out a broad pattern of interference in the US 2016 presidential election, particularly using social media and leaking of documents.\n\nSo far, no evidence of a cyber campaign on the same scale has been produced in the UK. While it is possible there is evidence of attempts in the report, government ministers have already said there is no evidence of \"successful\" interference in elections, including the Brexit referendum (although defining what \"successful\" means is hard and may be disputable).\n\nHowever, last week former deputy national security adviser Paddy McGuinness told the BBC not enough had been done to deal with vulnerabilities that the Russians and others could exploit. Mr McGuinness, who sat on the Oxford Technology and Elections Commission, said reforms were needed, including more transparency from political parties on how they collect and use data.\n\nThe ISC report is likely to focus more on broader aspects of Russian influence in politics and public life.\n\nThe committee took evidence from a number of independent experts and also from the secret intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.\n\nSome of those external experts are well known figures. Bill Browder is a former investor in Russia who became an arch-critic of the Kremlin and campaigns for sanctions on Russian individuals in the form of the Magnitsky Act (named after his former lawyer who died in jail in Moscow).\n\nAnother witness is understood to be Chris Steele, the former MI6 officer behind the famous dossier on US President Donald Trump. Another is journalist Edward Lucas.\n\nThese and other observers are understood to have been highly critical of the UK's openness to Russian influence - in particular the way in which Russian money had compromised first the financial system in London and then bled over into politics.\n\nThere have been questions about some donors to political parties and the Sunday Times suggests that nine who gave to the Conservative Party could be named in the report (although this may be more likely in a classified annex rather than the public report).\n\nThere may also have been evidence about specific relationships with Russians. For instance Boris Johnson as foreign secretary went to a party at an Italian villa hosted by Evgeny Lebedev, who runs the Evening Standard and whose father is a former KGB officer.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Chancellor Sajid Javid said: \"When it comes to party donors, whether it is to the Conservative Party or any other party, there are very strict rules that need to be followed and of course we will always follow those rules.\"\n\nAsked whether he was sure no Russian money was pulling the strings in December's general election, he said: \"I am as sure as I can be. I'm absolutely sure in terms of our own party and I am very confident about how we are funded and we are very transparent about that.\"\n\nMr Javid says the Tory Party follows strict rules on party donors\n\nThe BBC understands that witnesses have given evidence to the ISC that the UK government itself is partly to blame because it has not done enough to deter Russian subversion and interference - for instance in successive governments' weak response to events like the killing of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.\n\nThe UK, it was argued, is uniquely placed to be able to push back precisely because of the amount of Russian money in London and the importance of the city to Russia's elite. The failure to push back and instead to protect the financial centre in London has been, it is argued, a choice - but one with consequences.\n\nIt is easier to know what evidence from well-known critics of the Kremlin will have been. What is harder to know is how much of this the committee accepted and included in the final report.\n\nThe committee will likely have given most weight to evidence produced by the intelligence agencies themselves. What they said is less clear but it is unlikely they will have wanted details of specific individuals included in the report and any names will probably have been redacted and blacked out.\n\nThe report has gone through the formal security clearance process and sources have told the BBC there was no objection from any other government agency or department to its publication.\n\nThat left the decision entirely with Downing Street. It has been adamant that a normal process needs to be followed which explains why it could not be released ahead of the election.\n\nBut critics have been unconvinced. They believe that the embarrassing details - perhaps of party funding - were something that the government did not want out ahead of the election.\n\nAnother source suggested it could also have been references to evidence of interference in the US which might have added to the concerns since Donald Trump is due to come to the UK for a Nato summit just days before the election.\n\nOne official told the BBC there were details of Russian interference in the report but they also thought the government could have rebutted many of the allegations.\n\nThey suggested these were not as explosive as some people thought and that Downing Street had made a mistake by not releasing the report since by failing to do so, the questions of what is in the report and why it has not been released will now dog them throughout the campaign.", "A manager at the main contractor for Grenfell Tower's refurbishment ignored email concerns that the cladding could be combustible, the inquiry has heard.\n\nRydon's Simon Lawrence received an email from the Tenant Management Organisation (TMO) which ran the tower seeking clarity on whether the new cladding would resist a fire.\n\nThere is no evidence that he or anyone from Rydon replied to that email.\n\nThe inquiry's first phase found that cladding fuelled the June 2017 fire.\n\nHearings in the second phase of the inquiry returned last week after a four-month break due to coronavirus.\n\nThis second phase is examining the refurbishment of the 24-storey residential block in North Kensington, west London, in which 72 people died.\n\nThe inquiry heard on Tuesday that Mr Lawrence, a contracts manager at Rydon, received an email from Claire Williams from the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO) responsible for the running of the tower, on 12 November 2014, seeking clarification on whether the new cladding would resist a fire.\n\nShe told Mr Lawrence, who was involved in the project between June 2014 and October 2015, that she was having a 'Lakanal moment' - referring to the 2009 fire in a high-rise residential block in London with cladding, which killed six people.\n\nThere is no evidence that Mr Lawrence or anyone else from Rydon responded to the email.\n\nInquiry lawyer Richard Millett QC asked him what he thought Ms Williams meant by a 'Lakanal moment'.\n\nMr Lawrence said he knew there had been a fire at Lakanal some years ago, but did not know \"the specific details\" or that it was relating to fire in the context of the fire retardance of the new cladding.\n\nHe added that he believed Ms Williams' concerns related \"specifically\" to the fire retardance of the cladding on the lower floors of the residential block, \"but not cladding overall\".\n\nDavid Gibson, another member of the TMO, said in a witness statement that he asked Mr Lawrence if there would be a 'Lakanal type problem', due to the danger of flames getting trapped in the gap between the external insulation and rainscreen cladding on the outside of the building.\n\nMr Lawrence said he did not recall Mr Gibson raising this matter with him in a meeting, when asked by Mr Millett.\n\nMr Gibson said Mr Lawrence assured him that the materials being used were 'inert' and would not burn - which Mr Lawrence denies saying.\n\nAsked again by Mr Millet if ever he assured Mr Gibson that the materials being used were \"inert\", Mr Lawrence said he would \"not give technical assurances\" unless he had that information from \"designers or specialists\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. No food or drink will be on sale to cinema-goers if premises open\n\nCinemas in Wales are unlikely to reopen next week because of restrictions on how they can operate, according to a trade association.\n\nPhil Clapp, chief executive of the UK Cinema Association, said \"few, if any\" will reopen as planned on 27 July.\n\nCurrent guidance says cinemas will not be able to sell any food if they reopen on that date and there is no concession on easing social distancing rules.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it was working with the association.\n\nThe Maxime in Blackwood, Caerphilly county, is one of the cinemas which will not be reopening on Monday.\n\nIt has five screens with the biggest seating 232 people, but with 2m social distancing only 60 would be allowed in.\n\nSteve Reynolds, director of Picturedrome Cinemas which runs the Maxime, said: \"If we had to drop our capacity and there was no food sales then it would not be viable for us to open.\n\n\"And I think I can speak for most cinemas in Wales on that, the big companies as well.\n\n\"While we may be able to manage on the smaller capacity, we wouldn't wish to, but if we had to, maybe that would be an option with the food and sales, but if you take both away, then we wouldn't survive.\"\n\nThe pick and mix trays would have to remain empty if cinemas were to open on Monday\n\nThe Maxime employs 37 people and, while the last few months have partly been spent refurbishing the building, they are desperate to reopen.\n\n\"You see a business like this which has been closed for four months, it's very difficult,\" Mr Reynolds added.\n\n\"Without the government's furlough system I think it would have been impossible to survive and keep our staff.\n\n\"We didn't have the advantage of the business rate refund, most businesses in town did. As yet, we've had no financial help.\n\n\"There has been an announcement for the arts and independent cinemas, a fund of £1.5bn. We've had no information about that yet, we have enquired.\n\n\"We are financially viable to open up if we have the rules right. The staff are so eager to come back.\"\n\nThe Maxime is due to open on Monday but restrictions means that is unlikely to happen\n\nThe pandemic has been hard on the film and cinema industry.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association (UKCA) estimates 95% of cinema staff across the UK were put on furlough and film releases were in doubt because of the worldwide nature of the industry.\n\nWales is the only part of the UK where cinemas are yet to reopen.\n\nPhil Clapp, chief executive of the UKCA, has been speaking to the Welsh Government about the current advice and thinks it is unlikely people in Wales will be going to the cinema next week.\n\n\"Clearly, we've not spoken to all cinemas in Wales, but we we suspect that few, if any, will feel able to open at that time,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a conversation which is ongoing.\"\n\nSteve Reynolds said his staff were eager to return to work but that conditions had to be right\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are working with cinemas on the issue of selling food and drink as part of reopening of indoor hospitality [which can open from 3 August].\n\n\"We are exploring options around a package of funding support for the culture sector.\"", "Ben Stokes and Stuart Broad again provided the inspiration for England to complete a series-levelling 113-run victory over West Indies in the second Test at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nStokes cracked 78 not out from 57 balls to allow England to declare on 129-3, setting West Indies 312 to win or 85 overs to survive.\n\nBroad took 3-1 on the fourth evening and tore through the top order with three more wickets on Monday to leave West Indies 37-4.\n\nTheir recovery came in the shape of a century partnership between Jermaine Blackwood and Shamarh Brooks, who both made fifties.\n\nStokes produced the breakthrough, having the tangled Blackwood top-edge a pull to a diving Jos Buttler in a sustained spell of short bowling.\n\nFurther resistance came from West Indies captain Jason Holder but, when he was bowled by Dom Bess, England could scent victory.\n\nThe win was completed with nearly 15 overs to spare, Bess having Kemar Roach caught at short leg to leave West Indies 198 all out and the series level at 1-1.\n\nThe only concern for England was the sight of Stokes pulling up mid-over, appearing to hold his groin, late in the day, but he said there are no concerns over his availability for the third and final Test beginning on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'Stokes is Mr Incredible - we are in the presence of greatness'\n• None Watch Today at the Test on iPlayer\n\nDespite the surreal behind-closed-doors environment, this series has served up two superb finishes - West Indies' run-chase in Southampton and England's race against time in Manchester.\n\nIn order to level the series, England produced an excellent performance, overcoming the disruption caused by Jofra Archer's breach of the bio-secure protocols, being asked to bat in difficult conditions on day one and the obstacle of the entire third day being lost to rain.\n\nIn doing so, they have set up an intriguing finale when they will look win back the Wisden Trophy, defend a six-year unbeaten home record and prevent a first West Indies series win here since 1988.\n\nThey face decisions, especially around the make-up of a pace attack that has been rotated. Do they retain any of Broad, Chris Woakes and Sam Curran, or recall Archer and either of rested pair James Anderson and Mark Wood? Will off-spinner Bess make way for Jack Leach?\n\nCan West Indies, an hour away from earning the draw that would have guaranteed a share of the series, stir themselves to ensure they do not end their tour empty handed?\n\nThe suspicion is that England have the momentum, and they will have been relieved when Stokes explained that his discomfort was only a result of stiffness from his exertions in this match.\n\nStokes and Broad have combined to engineer this victory one match after Stokes, as stand-in captain, was part of the decision to omit Broad for the first Test, leaving the pace bowler \"angry, frustrated and gutted\".\n\nWhile Broad responded with a reminder of his enduring quality, Stokes produced another sensational all-round display.\n\nWith England resuming on 37-2 and looking for quick runs on the final morning, Stokes - on 16 after opening the batting - signalled his intent with a glorious loft over long-off for six off pace bowler Roach in the first over.\n\nLet off on 29 when John Campbell dropped a simple chance at deep cover, Stokes moved to 50 from 36 balls - the fastest half-century in Tests by an England opener - and took his match tally to 254 runs after his careful 176 in the first innings.\n\nBroad's burst revived England on Sunday, and he picked up where he left off, nipping the ball in to the right-handers from a full length, endangering pads and stumps.\n\nWhen England were held up, Stokes produced another Herculean spell of 11 overs to open the door, and the hosts chipped away from there.\n\nWest Indies have been determined with the bat throughout the series, and their spirit almost ensured they escaped this match with a draw.\n\nAfter 15 overs, they were in disarray. Campbell played an awful drive to be caught behind, Shai Hope was bowled by one that nipped back and Roston Chase was lbw shouldering arms, all to Broad. Kraigg Brathwaite was stuck on the crease to be leg before to Woakes.\n\nHowever, Blackwood rescued West Indies from 27-3 in Southampton and he counter-attacked here. Brooks was more circumspect, but also hit Bess for two straight sixes.\n\nThey were parted when Blackwood flapped at Stokes, Buttler taking a wonderful catch, and after Shane Dowrich and Brooks were leg before to Woakes and Curran respectively, only Holder and the tail remained.\n\nBess had endured a frustrating afternoon, but two balls after he was launched for a straight six by Holder, he fizzed a quicker ball through the captain's defence.\n\nStokes had Alzarri Joseph held at point by Bess before hobbling to his fielding position in the slips midway through an over, leaving Bess to take the final wicket.\n\n'I expected this from England a week ago' - what they said\n\nPlayer of the match Ben Stokes on BBC Test Match Special: \"To come here after a disappointing loss in Southampton, to perform like we did here, especially with rain, shows we are capable of putting in performances like this. It can be driving force for us.\"\n\n\"The way we bowled all day was unbelievable. The way Broady has come back has been absolutely awesome. Everyone has put their hands up and contributed to a great win.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"Ben keeps developing his game and improving all the time. Credit to him - he really has taken every opportunity to make himself a better player.\n\n\"Throughout the game you've seen how destructive he can be when he needs to be, and when he needs to bat time and play to the situation, he can do that too.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"This kind of performance by England is what I expected a week ago. For whatever reason last week they didn't arrive with the bat in hand.\"\n\nEx-England captain Alastair Cook: \"England will be pleased with how they batted here. They dug in and learnt the lesson of going big. You don't lose many games when you get 450.\n\n\"England will go into Friday with a lot of confidence.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder: \"I'm a little disappointed with the way we batted. Yesterday's evening batting performance really set us back.\n\n\"We need a few more of those starts and capitalising on certain moments in the game. We just have to tighten up a little more.\n\n\"It's all to play for. This is the perfect return to cricket.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAston Villa's players must prepare for a \"cup final\" after showing \"courage\" to secure a priceless win over Arsenal and move out of the Premier League relegation zone with one game to go, says boss Dean Smith.\n\nTrezeguet beat Emiliano Martinez with a powerful first-time finish after Tyrone Mings had diverted a corner into the Egypt international's path to lift Villa out of the bottom three for the first time since 28 February.\n\nVilla moved above managerless Watford, who had started the day 17th before a heavy 4-0 home defeat by Manchester City, on goal difference.\n\nThe Midlanders' second win in three games sets up a dramatic final day at the bottom of the table on Sunday, which Villa will begin level on points with Watford and three points ahead of Bournemouth - with two of those three teams likely to go down.\n• None Who needs what to survive? Final-day permutations\n\nMeanwhile, 16th-placed West Ham, who also play on Wednesday, still require one point to secure safety, although their goal difference ought to keep them up.\n\nVilla's last game is away to West Ham and if they win - providing Watford do not win by a margin two or more goals greater than they do - Smith's men will secure another season in the top flight, having spent much of it in the bottom three.\n\n\"We had seen Watford play earlier and get beat. We knew we had to get a win to even catch them up,\" Smith told BBC Sport. \"By getting the win it puts our fate in our own hands.\n\n\"There was a lot of character and a lot of courage from the players. It was a massive performance and I am proud of the players for that but now we have to recover and get ready for our cup final.\n\n\"We're working hard to maintain our status and the last three results have shown that.\"\n\nA 10th league defeat means Arsenal, playing in their first match since reaching the FA Cup final, will finish outside the top six for the first time in 25 years.\n\nThey can come no higher than eighth after a disappointing performance by Mikel Arteta's side, Eddie Nketiah going closest to equalising with a header which hit the post.\n\nHowever, the Gunners will still have a big say in the relegation battle when they host Villa's rivals Watford on Sunday.\n\nDuring the match, a banner reading \"Back Arteta Kroenke Out' was towed by an aeroplane over Villa Park in reference to Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke.\n\nVilla's fate back in their own hands\n\nAfter Watford's 2-1 win over Newcastle on 11 July, Villa looked down and out - seven points from safety with four games to go.\n\nBut Smith's side have reacted magnificently in the closing stages of the season, beating Crystal Palace, drawing at Everton before overcoming Arsenal with a gritty display oozing in character to give themselves a fighting chance of staying up.\n\nWatford's defeat earlier on Tuesday opened the door for Villa to climb out of the relegation zone for the first time in five months, despite being forced to reshuffle their defence in the first half after Ahmed Elmohamady was forced off with an injury.\n\nSmith's side have scored six goals since the restart with Trezeguet netting half of them, his latest an instinctive finish which beat Martinez for pace and power.\n\nVilla were forced to endure some nervous moments, particularly towards the end after substitute Keinan Davis wasted a glorious chance to double the lead after firing wide.\n\nSmith reacted to the final whistle by clenching his fist - with Villa's fate back in their own hands.\n\nThey will be safe if they win (presuming Watford do not win by two more goals than they do), or draw providing the Hornets do not win. But defeat would send Villa down if Watford avoid defeat or if Bournemouth win at Everton.\n\nThis felt like a big step backwards for Arsenal after a positive spell in which they collected 13 points from six games.\n\nHaving followed up victory over runaway champions Liverpool by beating Manchester City to seal a first FA Cup final visit since 2017, the Gunners did not force Villa keeper Pepe Reina into a serious save.\n\nIt was the first time Villa had not faced any shots on target in a Premier League game since January 2016.\n\nPierre-Emerick Aubameyang's stream of goals have been a highlight of his side's season, but the Gabon forward was frustrated at Villa Park and his future remains a hot topic of conversation among supporters.\n\n\"The quicker we do it the better because the player will be more focused, more determined and more calm,\" said Arteta on the eve of this game when asked if Aubameyang, whose current deal expires next summer, will sign a new contract.\n\nIt was Nketiah who went closest to scoring for the visitors, the England Under-21 forward heading against the post after connecting with a corner.\n\nThe Gunners can still qualify for Europe but they will now have to win the FA Cup to play in next season's Europa League.\n\n\"I don't think the league table lies at all,\" conceded Arteta. \"You can see the gap and the difference in points with the other teams. It's where we are. That's the reality.\"\n• None Villa have beaten Arsenal at Villa Park in a Premier League game for the first time since they did so in December 1998 under John Gregory, ending a run of 17 home games without a win against the Gunners.\n• None Arsenal have lost four of their six away Premier League matches since the restart.\n• None The Gunners have lost 10 league matches for a third consecutive season for the first time since a run of seven seasons between 1981-82 and 1987-88.\n• None 21 of the 46 goals Arsenal have conceded in the Premier League this term have come from set-pieces.\n\nBoth teams are involved in games which affect relegation on the final day of the season - while Villa visit West Ham on Sunday (16:00 BST) looking to stay up, Arsenal round off their Premier League campaign at home to relegation-threatened Watford at the same time.\n• None Joseph Willock (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Matt Targett (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.\n• None Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Sead Kolasinac (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How can romance spark in a global pandemic?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Berman: \"If you believe you are a victim of this man... we want to hear from you.\"\n\n\"I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'\" Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011. \"It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.\"\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nIt came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender.\n\nThis time, he was accused of running a \"vast network\" of underage girls for sex. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe 66-year-old in the past socialised with Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut who was Jeffrey Epstein?\n\nBorn and raised in New York, Epstein taught maths and physics in the city at the private Dalton School in the mid 1970s. He had studied physics and maths himself at university, although he never graduated.\n\nA father of one of his students is said to have been so impressed that he put Epstein in touch with a senior partner at the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.\n\nHe was a partner there within four years. By 1982, he had created his own firm - J Epstein and Co.\n\nThe company managed assets of clients worth more than $1bn (£800m) and was an instant success. Epstein soon began spending his fortune - including on a mansion in Florida, a ranch in New Mexico, and reputedly the largest private home in New York - and socialising with celebrities, artists and politicians.\n\n\"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\" Donald Trump told New York magazine for a profile on Epstein in 2002. \"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\n\n\"No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein, left, with Donald Trump at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997\n\nIn 2002, Epstein flew former President Bill Clinton and the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on a customised private jet. He made an unsuccessful bid to buy New York magazine with then film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2003 - the same year he made a $30m donation to Harvard University.\n\nBut he also strove to keep his life private, reportedly shunning society events and dinners in restaurants.\n\nHe dated women like Miss Sweden winner Eva Andersson Dubin and Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of publisher Robert Maxwell, although he never married.\n\nRosa Monckton, the former CEO of Tiffany & Co, told Vanity Fair for a 2003 article that Epstein was \"very enigmatic\" and \"a classic iceberg\".\n\n\"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath,\" she said. \"What you see is not what you get.\"\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. A police search of the property found photos of girls throughout the house.\n\nThe Miami Herald reports that his abuse of underage girls dated back years.\n\n\"This was not a 'he said, she said' situation,\" Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told the newspaper. \"This was 50-something 'shes' and one 'he' - and the 'shes' all basically told the same story.\"\n\n\"He has never been secretive about the girls,\" columnist Michael Wolff told New York magazine for a 2007 profile piece, as the case against Epstein moved through the courts.\n\n\"At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, 'Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.'\"\n\nHowever, prosecutors forged a deal with the hedge fund manager in 2008.\n\nHe avoided federal charges - which could have seen him face life in prison - and instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nPrince Andrew, left, has been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nThe Miami Herald says that the federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta - who was Secretary of Labour in the Trump administration - struck a plea agreement hiding the extent of his crimes and ending an FBI investigation into whether there were more victims or more powerful people who took part. The paper described it as the \"deal of the century\".\n\nMr Acosta resigned in July 2019 over the scandal, though he defended his actions as guaranteeing at last some jail time for Epstein.\n\nSince 2008 Epstein had been listed as a level three on the New York sex offenders register. It is a lifelong designation meaning he was at a high risk of reoffending.\n\nBut Epstein maintained his properties and his assets after his conviction.\n\nIn December 2010, Prince Andrew, the third child of the Queen, was pictured in New York's Central Park with Epstein, drawing controversy.\n\nIn a BBC interview in November 2019, the prince, who had known Epstein since 1999, said he had gone to New York to break off their friendship. He said he regretted staying at the financier's house while he was there, and that he had \"let the side down\" by doing so.\n\nAn Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - would later allege that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew in the early 2000s when she was 17.\n\nPrince Andrew categorically denied having sex with her and said he has no recollection of a photo of the pair being taken together in London.\n\nEpstein was arrested in New York on 6 July 2019 after flying back from Paris on his private jet.\n\nProsecutors were reportedly seeking the forfeiture of his New York mansion, where some of his alleged crimes occurred.\n\nEpstein always denied any wrongdoing, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.\n\nAfter being denied bail by the court, he was being held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center. He was taken to hospital briefly in July for what was widely reported to be injuries to his neck - which neither prison officials or his lawyers would officially comment on.\n\nAt his last court appearance on 31 July, it became clear that he would spend a year in prison, with a trial no earlier than summer 2020. Prosecutors said they wanted no delay, and bringing the trial quickly was in the public interest.\n\nNow, Epstein will never face the trial at all.\n\nAfter Epstein's death, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nShe was arrested in July 2020 at her secluded mansion in the US state of New Hampshire on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nIn December 2021, a jury in New York City found her guilty on five out of six counts, including the most serious charge - that of sex trafficking of a minor.\n\nThis carries a possible 40-year sentence, which means the 60-year-old could spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe Oxford-educated Ms Maxwell is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York.\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator.\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors alleged Ms Maxwell preyed on and groomed young girls for Epstein to abuse. Her defence claimed she is being used as a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes following his death.", "Tesco has reportedly asked suppliers to agree price cuts as it steps up its battle with budget supermarkets.\n\nThe move is part of its shift to an \"everyday low pricing strategy\", which will see it use fewer promotions.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson said: \"We are committed to open, fair and transparent partnerships with all of our suppliers.\"\n\nTesco has given suppliers a deadline of 10 July to agree, according to the Grocer.\n\nSeveral suppliers told the trade publication that they faced pressure from the supermarket to lower their prices.\n\nSome raised concerns over the timescale of the demands, as well as a lack of clarity over how the change in promotions would work in practice.\n\nTesco launched its \"Aldi price match\" promise in March, where products including fresh and freezer food are matched against those offered at the budget supermarket.\n\nThe supermarket announced in June that it has extended the scheme to nearly 500 Tesco and branded products in response to increasing competition.\n\n\"We have also reduced the number of short-term promotions, as we focus our investment on everyday low prices instead,\" it said.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson told BBC News: \"We have been speaking to suppliers about how we can work together to continue giving our customers great value.\n\n\"We don't believe that our customers should pay more for a brand in Tesco than anywhere else.\"\n\nThey added: \"We are committed to open, fair and transparent partnerships with all of our suppliers, and that collaborative approach will continue as we look for new and innovative ways to bring our customers great value.\"\n\nTesco reported strong first quarter sales last week. The 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 that coronavirus-related costs were set to hit £840m this year.\n\nNeil Shah, director of research at Edison Group, said that 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.\"", "The UN has been under scrutiny over allegations of sexual misconduct in recent years\n\nThe United Nations has placed two of its workers on unpaid leave over allegations of sexual misconduct in an official car in Israel.\n\nThe men were filmed in a UN-marked vehicle on a main street by Tel Aviv's seafront.\n\nIn the video, a woman in a red dress is seen straddling a man in the back seat of the car.\n\nThe UN launched an investigation into the 18-second video after it was shared widely on social media last month.\n\nStéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN's secretary general, said he was \"shocked and deeply disturbed\" by the footage.\n\nNow the UN says the men in the video have been identified as staff members of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), UN military observers based in Israel.\n\nThe two staff members have been suspended without pay until the investigation into the incident has concluded.\n\nMr Dujarric told the BBC on Thursday their suspension was appropriate \"given the seriousness of the allegations of failing to observe the standards of conduct expected of international civil servants\".\n\n\"UNTSO has re-engaged in a robust awareness-raising campaign to remind its personnel of their obligations to the UN Code of Conduct,\" Mr Dujarric said.\n\nThe UN has strict policies against sexual misconduct by its staff members.\n\nStaff may be disciplined if they are found to be in breach of conduct rules. They may be repatriated or banned from UN peacekeeping operations, but it is the responsibility of their home nation to take further disciplinary or legal action.\n\nThe UN says it has \"zero tolerance\" for sexual misconduct within its ranks\n\nThe UN has long been under scrutiny over allegations of sexual misconduct by its peacekeepers and other staff. There have been frequent allegations in recent years.\n\nIn 2019, there were 175 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against UN staff members, a report said. Of those allegations, 16 were substantiated, 15 were unsubstantiated and all others were still being investigated.\n\nSecretary General António Guterres has pledged to take a \"zero-tolerance\" approach to sexual misconduct within the UN's ranks.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPeople arriving in England from countries including France, Spain, Germany and Italy will no longer need to quarantine from 10 July. The Department for Transport will publish a full list of nations deemed lower risk and so exempt from the 14-day isolation requirements later. But there is no guarantee holidaymakers won't have to isolate on arrival abroad. Quarantines still apply in the rest of the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is to urge the public to \"act responsibly\" when England's bars and restaurants reopen on Saturday. There's a similar plea in Northern Ireland, where the hospitality sector reopens later. Meanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urges Scots to be \"sensitive\" to rural communities as Scotland's five-mile travel limit is lifted and self-catering accommodation reopens. Her Welsh counterpart, Mark Drakeford, is also expected to confirm the easing of restrictions later.\n\nStaff in care homes in England will receive weekly coronavirus tests from next week, with residents over 65 tested every 28 days. The regime will also apply to younger patients suffering from dementia, while any home dealing with - or at increased risk of - an outbreak, will be more intensively tested.\n\nHairdressers in England can reopen on Saturday, and some salons have been inundated with calls from an increasingly unkempt population desperate for a trim. But, as we discovered, not everyone is so keen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet the people not to returning to the salon\n\nWhatever the changes in quarantine restrictions, many British people are choosing to holiday at home this year. England's Lake District is seeing a surge in holiday bookings, as Sarah Corker reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holiday parks are gearing up for an influx of visitors\n\n...to follow the rules on socialising. Health correspondent Laura Foster has some tips on safely hosting visitors.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via 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.", "Several Welsh stations are to lose train services for a \"short time\" because their platforms have raised social distancing concerns.\n\nThey are either too short or too curved to allow the opening of two train doors, Transport for Wales said.\n\nServices will no longer stop at Llanfairpwll and Valley on Anglesey, Conwy, Gilfach Fargoed in Caerphilly county or Sugar Loaf in Powys.\n\nThe changes come into force on Monday, TfW said.", "Boris Johnson introduced daily briefings in March for updates on the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe UK government is planning to introduce daily televised press briefings later this year.\n\nThe new format, similar to that used by the White House in the United States, is expected to come in by October.\n\nBoris Johnson told LBC Radio the recent daily televised coronavirus briefings showed the public wanted more \"direct engagement\" with decision-makers.\n\nIt is understood an experienced broadcaster will be recruited to host the question-and-answer sessions.\n\nAsked whether we would himself appear every day, the PM said this was \"not the plan\" but he would be \"popping up from time to time\".\n\nCurrently, political journalists are able to question the prime minister's official spokesperson - who is a civil servant - off camera every day.\n\nThese briefings are on the record, meaning they can be quoted and attributed to the spokesperson. Under the changes, the briefings will be on camera.\n\nA government spokesman said work would begin shortly on adapting 9 Downing Street, which will be used for the briefings. In recent years, this building has been used by the chief whip and the Brexit secretary.\n\nNobody has been recruited yet to host the briefings and asked about reports that former This Morning host Richard Madeley was being considered, the spokesman said that was \"news to me\".\n\nFor several months during the coronavirus pandemic, the government held daily briefings from No 10 every day.\n\nThey started on 16 March, following criticism of a lack of transparency over government plans to stem the spread of the virus. They were led by a senior minister - sometimes Boris Johnson - and normally accompanied by scientific and medical experts.\n\nDaily press conferences ended on 23 June., although ad hoc briefings are still taking place.\n\nFor many years, the White House held an on-camera daily press briefing every day, delivered by the administration's press secretary.\n\nUnder US President Donald Trump, the briefings were stopped for more than a year. In May 2020, new US Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a briefing - the first one in 459 days.\n\nThe US daily press briefings were first televised in 1995, under then President Bill Clinton, according to the White House Historical Association. The White House has its own press briefing room.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant said he was not a fan of the idea in the UK, saying it would divert attention away from Parliament, to whom ministers were accountable.\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 the FDA union, which represents civil servants, said it was concerned by reports of a planned cull of press officers in individual departments in favour of more centralised communications strategy.", "Carlos Ghosn fled from Japan to Lebanon last December\n\nJapan has asked the US to extradite a former special forces soldier and his son for allegedly helping ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn flee Japan last year.\n\nEx-Green Beret Michael Taylor and his son Peter were held in Massachusetts in May, several months after Japan had issued warrants for their arrest.\n\nThe US authorities confirmed a formal extradition request was submitted.\n\nMr Ghosn, who was detained in Japan on financial misconduct charges in 2018, made a dramatic escape last year.\n\nThe former Nissan boss denies the charges against him.\n\nDespite being under house arrest and monitored 24 hours a day, on 29 December he managed to fly to the Lebanese capital Beirut via Turkey.\n\nDetails of the Taylors' alleged involvement in the escape are unclear. But Japanese prosecutors have said the two were in Japan at the time and helped Mr Ghosn evade security checks as he left.\n\nIn May, prosecutors in Turkey charged seven people over the escape. The suspects - four pilots, two flight attendants, and an airline executive - are also accused of helping Mr Ghosn flee.\n\nThey go on trial in Istanbul on Friday, with Turkish prosecutors seeking up to eight years in jail for the four pilots and the airline executive.\n\nFull details of the escape have never been fully explained. Mr Ghosn, who holds Brazilian, French and Lebanese nationalities, ran Renault and Nissan as part of a three-way car alliance.\n\nHe is accused of misreporting his compensation package, but has insisted he can never get a fair hearing in Japan.\n\nSince his arrival in Lebanon, he has told reporters he was a \"hostage\" in Japan, where he was left with a choice between dying there or running.", "State media said Kim warned against a hasty relaxing of restrictions\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has hailed his country's \"shining success\" in dealing with Covid-19, according to state news agency KCNA.\n\nSpeaking at a politburo meeting, Mr Kim said the country had \"prevented the inroad of the malignant virus and maintained a stable situation\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders and put thousands into isolation six months ago as the virus swept across the globe.\n\nIt claims that it has no virus cases, though analysts say this is unlikely.\n\nMr Kim is said to have \"analysed in detail the six month-long national emergency anti-epidemic work\" at a politburo meeting on Thursday. He said the success in handling the virus was \"achieved by the far-sighted leadership of the Party Central Committee\".\n\nBut he stressed the importance of maintaining \"maximum alert without... relaxation on the anti-epidemic front\", adding that the virus was still present in neighbouring countries.\n\n\"He repeatedly warned that hasty relief of anti-epidemic measures will result in unimaginable and irretrievable crisis,\" said the KCNA report on Friday.\n\nHas coronavirus spread through North Korea? No-one really knows. The country has been closed off since 30 January. Very few people have made it in or out.\n\nThe International Federation of the Red Cross had volunteers in the border area working on virus prevention measures and there have been a number of unconfirmed reports of cases within the country.\n\nBut most accounts of life in the capital in recent weeks appear to show life carrying on as normal.\n\nWhatever the reality of the situation, Pyongyang wants to appear confident that it has crushed Covid-19.\n\nDomestically this is a strong message that the strict measures Kim Jong-un took to keep the virus at bay have worked.\n\nThe rest of the world may be in the grip of a pandemic and Mr Kim wants his people to know he has saved them from that.\n\nBut it has come at a cost. All border traffic has been cut off. That means getting essential supplies into the impoverished state have been impossible.\n\nDiplomatic sources have told me that there are stockpiles of PPE and medical supplies, including vaccines built up at the border unable to get through.\n\nThere were numerous reports of panic-buying of international goods at department stores in Pyongyang. Shelves being stripped bare as produce is restricted.\n\nIt's also worth noting that only 12 defectors have made it to South Korea between April and June this year - the lowest number on record.\n\nThe North Korean people may not be suffering from coronavirus, but they are now even more cut off from the outside world.\n\nIn late January, North Korea moved quickly against the virus - sealing off its borders and later quarantining hundreds of foreigners in the capital, Pyongyang.\n\nIt also put tens of thousands of its own citizens into isolation and closed schools.\n\nNorth Korea has now reopened schools, but has kept a ban on public gatherings and made it compulsory for people to wear masks in public places, said a Reuters report on 1 July quoting a World Health Organization official.\n\nThe WHO also reported that the country has now tested just 922 people for the virus - all of whom have reportedly tested negative.\n\nNorth Korea, which shares a long border with China, has long maintained that it has not suffered from a single case of the virus.\n\nHowever, Oliver Hotham, managing editor of specialist news site NK News, told the BBC earlier this year that this was probably not true.\n\n\"It's very unlikely that it has seen no cases because it borders China and South Korea. [Especially with China], given the amount of cross border trade... I really don't see how it's possible they could have prevented it,\" he said.\n\n\"[But] they really did take precautions early [so] I think its possible they've prevented a full on outbreak.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do eased travel restrictions mean for me?\n\nTravel restrictions in Wales will end on Monday, First Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed.\n\n\"Stay local\" guidance, asking people to stay within five miles of home will end with no limits on travel, and outdoor attractions will be able to open.\n\nTwo households will also be able to stay together indoors from Monday. It comes as the number of coronavirus cases continues to fall.\n\nMr Drakeford called for people to think \"carefully about where we go and why\".\n\nTravel restrictions were introduced across the UK at the start of lockdown in March, although Wales kept its travel restrictions longer than the UK government did in England.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson abandoned the rule in May - the difference in policy led to warnings not to drive to Wales.\n\n\"I want to do more to restore freedoms we have had to give up to us all,\" Mr Drakeford told the daily Welsh Government press conference.\n\n\"I want to see more of the Welsh economy in recovery. But that will depend, not on the actions of the Welsh Government, but on the actions of us all as Welsh citizens.\"\n\nMr Drakeford set out a list of \"golden rules\" people in Wales would need to follow if further restrictions were to be lifted, including:\n\nMeanwhile he confirmed the Welsh Government could allow the resumption of cricket as part of next week's review of lockdown restrictions.\n\nWales' beauty spots have been effectively closed to tourists since March\n\nDespite the request to avoid unnecessary travel, from Monday there is no longer a limit to the distance people can travel.\n\nIt follows an announcement on Thursday that restaurants and pubs can open outdoors from 13 July.\n\nVenues will be able to open in spaces they own and have licences for - as long as Covid-19 cases continue to fall.\n\nThe Welsh Government said two weeks ago travel restrictions could end, but it was dependent on cases of coronavirus continuing to fall.\n\nSome bars and restaurants with outdoor terraces are preparing to open from Monday week\n\nOn Friday, Mr Drakeford said there were only 19 patients receiving critical care in Wales - down 88% from a peak in April - and the lowest level since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe so-called \"R-number\" - the average number infected by each case - has stayed below 1, meaning cases are declining rather than increasing.\n\nThe Welsh Government has stuck to the 2m social-distancing rule but Mr Drakeford said in \"some contexts it may be important\" to reduce it.\n\nBut where it is, \"we will expect to see other important safeguards in place\", he said. Further guidance could be issued next week.\n\nTwo metres remains safer than one metre, he added. England is relaxing the rule in certain situations from Saturday.\n\nWales' busiest roads have been quieter during lockdown, like the M4 motorway through south Wales\n\nDarren Millar, Welsh Tory spokesman on Covid-19 recovery, said: \"I welcome news that the Welsh Labour-led Government's arbitrary and cruel five-mile rule is finally being scrapped in Wales but I urge the first minister to bring this forward to today to avoid another lost weekend for those wanting to see their loved ones.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said he would \"still like to hear a firming up of face covering rules in enclosed areas\".\n\n\"Let's also have clarity on the steps to be taken and the support that will be made available if there is a need to reintroduce some of restrictions in response to local outbreaks. And I'm also reiterating my calls to make maximum use of testing capacity so that the Test, Trace, Protect system can identify outbreaks urgently.\"\n\nTenby is among the places expecting visitors once the restrictions end\n\nTourist hotspots in Wales - such as Tenby in Pembrokeshire - are preparing for an influx once the restrictions are lifted.\n\nMayor Sam Skyrme-Blackhall admitted there had been a dilemma between balancing the need to kick-start the local economy while also maintaining the safety of both locals and visitors.\n\nPeople who live in Wales' seaside resorts \"want to be safe but also support businesses\"\n\n\"It's very daunting at the moment - obviously people are very worried, but there are two sides to that - people want to be safe, but also we need to support our businesses.\n\n\"Tenby relies heavily on tourism, which in turn provides jobs for the local community. If we're not allowed to open, there will be no jobs and a lot of businesses will close by the winter.\"\n\nKaren Evans, owner of the Bay Tree restaurant, added: \"I need to open. I need the tourists. Three winters back-to-back isn't funny.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to them coming back - we are nervous but life goes on and we've got to get on with it. I've been closed since 19 March and not earned a penny since.\"\n\nWith self-contained accommodation able to take bookings from 13 July, Tim Rees, chief executive of Quality Cottages based near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, said he had his highest-grossing weekend in terms of bookings in its history, last week.\n\n\"We're anticipating around 95% capacity for August this year and a record autumn is on the cards,\" he said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri - Snowdonia National Park 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\nSnowdonia, which usually attracts about four million visitors a year, will also reopen on Monday but the authority that maintains it wants visitors to \"protect\" and \"respect\" the national park.\n\nAs well as maintaining a 2m distance, especially at gates and stiles, national park wardens want walkers to tread lightly, take litter and food waste home and sanitise hands after touching hard surfaces.\n\n\"Wildlife, birds and farm animals may be closer than before - protect them by keeping to the paths,\" says advice from Snowdonia's wardens.\n\n\"Be kind and considerate of other users and the people who live and work here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path celebrated its 50th birthday earlier this year while it was shut due to lockdown\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, which attracts about four million visitors annually, is also reopening - but its chief executive said there were mixed views locally.\n\n\"The tourism industry is extremely important in our area, therefore we're very supportive of businesses that need to reopen,\" said Tegryn Jones.\n\n\"On the other side, there are some people in local communities that are tremendously concerned that we are going to have an influx of visitors and the possibility that the virus comes with that.\"", "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.", "People arriving in England from more than 50 countries including France, Spain, Germany and Italy will no longer need to quarantine from 10 July, the Department for Transport has confirmed.\n\nA full list of exempt countries posing \"a reduced risk\" from coronavirus will be published later.\n\nMost travellers to the UK currently have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nScotland and Wales are yet to decide whether to ease travel restrictions and described the changes as \"shambolic\".\n\nQuarantine regulations also remain in place in Northern Ireland for people arriving from outside the UK and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nEngland's quarantine restrictions only came into force in early June, in a bid to stop coronavirus entering the country at a time when UK infections were falling.\n\nThe new exemptions mean people arriving from selected countries will be able to enter England without needing to self-isolate, unless they have been in or travelled through non-exempt countries in the preceding 14 days.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said finalising the list of countries had been delayed - after scrapping the quarantine was announced last week - in the hope that the four UK nations could reach a joint decision.\n\nHe said there was \"still an opportunity\" for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to co-ordinate and therefore make the changes more simple.\n\nBut Scottish ministers have complained of being pushed to make decisions too quickly. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"We can't allow ourselves to be dragged along in the wake of another government's - to be quite frank about it - shambolic decision-making process.\"\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford agreed the UK government's approach had been \"utterly shambolic\".\n\nHowever, he added it was likely the Welsh government would impose the same measures as in England, provided the chief medical officer for Wales gave approval.\n\nMr Shapps told the BBC countries on the list would be labelled as either amber or green, in line with a traffic-light system based on their prevalence of coronavirus:\n\nMr Shapps said Greece would not be on the amber list to begin with, because it was currently not allowing flights from the UK.\n\nCountries that will be either on the green or amber list include some of the UK's overseas territories such as Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, Mr Shapps said, as well as smaller states such as the Vatican.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nMinisters have been under pressure to ease quarantine measures because of the impact on the travel industry.\n\nThe Department for Transport said a risk assessment had been conducted considering factors such as the prevalence of the virus, the numbers of new cases and potential trajectory of the disease in each country.\n\nThe list of exemptions would be kept \"under constant review\", so that if the health risks increased, self-isolation measures could be re-introduced, the DfT added.\n\nMr Shapps said people who were currently quarantining after returning from one of the green or amber countries could stop doing so on 10 July.\n\nMeanwhile, the Foreign Office will set out exemptions for a number of destinations from its current advice against non-essential international travel, which has been in place since 17 March.\n\nAll passengers, except those on a small list of exemptions, will still have to give contact information on arrival in the UK and details of where they have been during the previous 14 days.\n\nA spokesman for trade association Airlines UK said changes meant airlines would \"be able to re-start services to many key markets in time for peak summer travel\".\n\nBut he added: \"We would encourage rigour and science is applied in all future decisions surrounding our businesses.\"\n\nThe CEO of Gatwick Airport, Stewart Wingate, said it sent \"a very clear message that it is now safe to take summer holidays abroad\".\n\nHe hoped it would be \"the start of a turning point\" in the aviation industry's recovery from the effects of the pandemic.\n\nThe current quarantine policy has been criticised by some Conservative MPs, including former transport minister Theresa Villiers.\n\nShe said it had damaged the travel industry without reducing the risk from coronavirus.\n\nAsked about jobs already lost in the hospitality and aviation industries - in part as a result of restrictions on international travel - Mr Shapps said: \"The question I suppose everybody would have to ask is where is the right balance between making sure that we put lives first but also protect livelihoods. And this is not an easy balance.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered 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.", "Social distancing guidance in England is changing to \"1 metre plus\" and pubs, restaurants and hotels can reopen.\n\nRules are different in each UK nation - and rules will not ease in Leicester, which is currently under a local lockdown.\n\nFrom Saturday, two households of any size can now meet inside in England.\n\nYou can meet different households at different times and overnight stays are allowed.\n\nNo more than two households should meet at any one time, and it is important that you don't see anyone if you have any coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut social distancing still applies with everyone you don't live with - even your grandchildren.\n\nSo for the time being, unless they are in your support bubble, you can't hug them. Read the new social distancing rules.", "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\nBrazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro, has sanctioned a law making the use of masks in public obligatory during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, he has vetoed their use in shops, churches and schools.\n\nIn a social media broadcast, Mr Bolsonaro said people could have been fined for not wearing a mask at home.\n\nHe has refused to acknowledge the gravity of Brazil's Covid-19 outbreak, despite it having the world's second-highest numbers of cases and deaths.\n\nThe virus has infected almost 1.5 million people and killed 61,884 there since late February, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThere have been almost 1.5 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Brazil\n\nBBC South America correspondent Katy Watson says Jair Bolsonaro has never cared much for masks - a health recommendation that has become highly politicised, as has much of the handling of the coronavirus crisis in Brazil.\n\nEven where mask use has been made obligatory not everyone has observed the rules, and enforcement is often pretty lax, our correspondent adds.\n\nThe bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies included an article saying that masks had to be worn by people in \"commercial and industrial establishments, religious temples, teaching premises and also closed places where people are gathering\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Bolsonaro vetoed the article, arguing that it could lead to the violation of property rights.\n\nHe also vetoed another requiring the distribution of masks to the poor.\n\nCongress has 30 days to overrule the vetoes by absolute majority vote.\n\nLast month, a judge ordered the president to wear a mask in public - something he has often refused to do. However, the order was later rescinded by another court.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has insisted that quarantine and social distancing are not necessary to combat the coronavirus and will only damage the fragile Brazilian economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nelson Teich resigned as Brazil's health minister as the pandemic worsened\n\nOn Thursday night, bars were allowed to open in Rio de Janeiro, where more than 6,600 people have died of Covid-19.\n\nFederal Congressman David Miranda posted a photograph showing dozens of people drinking on a street in the city's Leblon district without appearing to wear masks or 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 David Miranda This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"A tragedy foretold,\" he tweeted. \"[Rio de Janeiro Mayor Marcelo] Crivella's decision to throw open the doors of business will come with a high cost.\"\n\nMr Crivella's office told Reuters news agency that law enforcement personnel had asked several establishments to close on Thursday for allowing crowds to gather.", "Pubs in England have been closed since March to slow the spread of Covid-19\n\nA council has apologised for telling people that coronavirus will be \"waiting for you\" at the pub when they reopen this weekend.\n\nSheffield City Council said Covid-19 would be \"happiest\" about rule changes which come into force on Saturday.\n\nA number of landlords responded angrily to the social media post, which has since been deleted.\n\nThe council said the post was \"badly worded but was done with the best intentions\".\n\nOn Thursday, the council tweeted: \"The virus loves crowded places and thrives on close contact.\n\n\"It won't be queuing to get inside the pub - it will already be there waiting for you.\"\n\nThe post also included a short video warning people: \"Don't put yourself at risk for the sake of a pint.\"\n\nThe post has since been deleted\n\nJohn Harrison, co-owner of the Beer House, said: \"I was shocked to see the tweet after we'd spent weeks working tirelessly to make sure our business is a safe environment, going above and beyond the government guidelines.\n\n\"It felt like a real kick in the gut for the hospitality industry in Sheffield that is on its knees.\"\n\nLiz Aspden, landlady at The Harlequin, said the tweet was \"very damaging to a trade which is just trying to get back on its feet and made no recognition of the fact that we'll be doing our utmost to create a safe environment\".\n\n\"Publicans have been spending long hours - and significant amounts of money - planning to re-open their pubs safely within the guidelines set out by the government,\" she said.\n\nCouncillor Mazher Iqbal, cabinet member for business and investment, apologised for the message.\n\n\"We are in a difficult situation, we want to support our local pubs and venues but we must also remember that we are still in the middle of a serious pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"We want people to enjoy themselves this weekend, visit your favourite pub, cafe or restaurant, but to do so in a safe and measured way.\"\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nRecreational sport will be allowed to resume in Wales from Monday as lockdown restrictions continue to be eased.\n\nThe Welsh Government announced on Friday that outdoor team sports would be allowed to resume from 13 July.\n\nPreviously only non-team outdoor sports - such as tennis and bowls - were permitted below elite level.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the guidelines for the return of football, rugby and cricket would be issued by those sports' governing bodies.\n\n\"They [guidelines] allow low-contact sport, so football is okay,\" he said.\n\n\"A rugby scrum is a different matter. Coronavirus would be very happy indeed to see people doing that, so that will not be part of what we are reopening.\n\n\"The advice and the guidelines will come from the governing bodies of those sports.\"\n\nNo rugby union at any level has been played in Wales since coronavirus restrictions were introduced in March.\n\nWhile professional players have already returned to training, these are the first steps towards a resumption for those who play semi-professionally or recreationally.\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) said it would host a webinar on Monday with \"club operations managers representing rugby clubs throughout Wales\" to \"share how this update impacts on the phased 'Return to Rugby' plans previously shared with clubs\".\n\nWRU rugby operations manager Julie Paterson said: \"It is vital that we keep player welfare and the impact on public health at the heart of our planning.\n\n\"Rugby is a close-proximity sport, even with modified rules, so a considered, phased approach is vital.\n\n\"We are determined to be part of the solution to Covid-19 so we are looking at all measures that need to be in place to ensure that players are physically prepared to safely return to contact as and when social distancing is no longer mandated by government.\n\n\"We know from discussions with clubs that they are keen to get back to rugby as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"Our role is to ensure that we issue clear guidelines to safeguard the game and the general public and make rugby facilities as robust as possible.\n\n\"We urge clubs to remain patient and to actively take part in the online meetings we have organised.\"\n\nFollowing Friday's Welsh Government announcement, Cricket Wales chief executive Leshia Hawkins said: \"We are absolutely thrilled with the news, and as I know the cricket family in Wales will be.\n\n\"There has been an extraordinary amount of work by Cricket Wales staff and club and league volunteers behind the scenes over the last few months to get us to today. I must say a huge thank you to them.\n\n\"My team and I will now urgently work with colleagues at the England and Wales Cricket Board, to analyse the detail of the written guidance from Welsh Government on sport's return, when it is issued, and ensure that the guidance for cricket in Wales is signed off and published as soon as is possible.\"\n\nOn its website, Cricket Wales has published some of the \"key adaptations\" for recreational cricket's return, \"in conjunction with latest Welsh Government regulations and guidance\".\n\nThe guidance includes a need for individuals involved to \"undergo a personal symptom check prior to matches and not take part if they demonstrate any Covid-19 symptoms\".\n\nIt also stipulates \"players should socially distance - including not celebrating wickets with traditional high-fives\".\n\nAnd like international cricketers, such as England and the West Indies players who are currently playing the first Test of their series, recreational players have been told not to use saliva to shine the ball.\n\nCricket Wales says \"full guidance will be issued as soon as possible\".\n\nCricket clubs in Wales will hope to salvage part of the season even though most formal league competitions will not take place.\n\nProfessional and elite team sports have already been allowed to resume in Wales, providing safety protocols are followed.\n\nGlamorgan returned to part-time training earlier this month following confirmation of county cricket restarting on 1 August.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales said it \"welcomed\" the resumption of team sports in Wales.\n\n\"The FAW and FAW Trust await the revised Welsh Government's coronavirus regulations, together with the Welsh Government's updated guidance, and will be working through the changes to translate this into easily understandable information to advise both clubs and individuals as soon as possible,\" read a statement.\n\n\"The FAW continues to work with the Welsh Government and Sport Wales to develop a phased approach for the return of football in Wales.\"", "Some residents of rural communities have expressed concerns about the return of tourists during the pandemic\n\nThe five-mile travel limit has been lifted and self-contained holiday accommodation can now reopen as virus restrictions in Scotland are eased.\n\nVisits to care homes can also now resume, and physical distancing rules for young people have been relaxed.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged Scots to \"behave responsibly\" and be \"sensitive\" to rural communities.\n\nThe changes to the travel rules do not apply in parts of Dumfries and Galloway due to a local outbreak of Covid-19.\n\nFurther changes to lockdown rules - including the reopening of bars and restaurants - are set to be phased in later in July.\n\nUp until today, people in Scotland have been advised against travelling more than five miles from home for leisure purposes.\n\nHowever with the infection rate low and fewer than 1,500 people currently thought to be capable of spreading the virus, this restriction is being eased.\n\nSelf-catering accommodation which does not have any shared facilities, such as holiday cottages and caravans, can also now reopen.\n\nBut visitors have been warned that Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park campsite and camping permit areas remain off limits, despite the easing of the five-mile travel restriction.\n\nCar parks and toilets will reopen from Friday in the national park but camping is not expected to be allowed again until 17 July.\n\nTourism Secretary Fergus Ewing said the changes were \"good news\" for a \"hard-pressed\" sector, but warned that \"the onus is on all of us to follow the guidance and ensure the virus continues to be suppressed\".\n\nThe Farmhouse Cafe has been using its Highland cow to assist with social distancing\n\nHe added: \"When travelling, it is essential that plans are made in advance and checks are done on what facilities are open, like public toilets and car parking availability.\n\n\"Please ensure you make use of booking systems where available prior to your journey and avoid busy beaches, parks and forests. If you arrive somewhere and it's crowded, it is essential that you try and find another place.\"\n\nOne cafe owner on the island of Tiree has come up with a novel way of ensuring customers socially-distance as they queue for takeaways.\n\nFiona Armstrong, owner of the Farmhouse Cafe in Balemartine, is using her Highland cow to keep people apart.\n\nBrian Fairburn got the chance to visit his mum Moira Fairburn face-to-face for the first time in months\n\nVisits to care homes can also resume from Friday, although strict rules will be in place after the facilities were badly hit by the virus.\n\nResidents can have one named \"key visitor\" attend if their home has been virus-free for 28 days, but they will have to remain outdoors, 2m (6ft 6in) away and must wear a face covering throughout the visit.\n\nAt Murray House and Evanthea House care home in Kelso there were no hugs, but lots of smiles as Brian Fairburn got the chance to catch up with his mum Moira face-to-face.\n\n\"It's been a long time, because we are used to seeing each other all the time but we can't do anything about it,\" said Moira. \"Things will change but this will have to do for now.\"\n\nDespite keeping his distance, Brian Fairburn was delighted to see his mother doing so well\n\nSon Brian said: \"It was good to see her again and good to see her in such good spirits. It was quite uplifting to see her the way she was.\"\n\nThere have also been changes for young children, with physical distancing rules being scrapped for those under 12 when meeting other children or adults outdoors.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she hoped this move would \"help children enjoy the summer holidays a bit more\" so they could \"play more normally with friends\".\n\nNoah, aged 6, was among children able to hug their grandparents for the first time on Friday\n\nMeanwhile young people aged 12 to 17 are allowed to meet people from an unlimited number of households in a day, as long as groups do not exceed eight and physical distancing is maintained.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is only because so many of us have stuck to the rules so far, that we are able to take these steps out of lockdown.\n\n\"And only if we continue to stick to the rules will we be able to drive the virus down further, and live less restricted lives in the weeks and months ahead.\n\n\"For more businesses to reopen, for public services to get back to normal, for more of us to be able to meet indoors, for our children to go back to school full-time - all of those collective benefits depend on the decisions we make as individuals now and in the days and weeks to come.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Kids and teenagers - what are the new rules?\n\nScotland is coming out of lockdown at a slower pace than England, something Ms Sturgeon has said she hopes will be \"more likely to be sustainable than if we went faster\".\n\nOutdoor hospitality, such as beer gardens and outdoor areas of cafes, can begin trading again from Monday.\n\nFurther changes are expected to be confirmed by Ms Sturgeon in a statement at Holyrood on Thursday, 9 July.\n\nThese will include allowing people to meet with two other households indoors from 10 July, and with extended groups outdoors, as long as physical distancing is maintained.\n\nShopping centres are likely to be allowed to re-open from 13 July, and indoor areas of pubs and restaurants on 15 July.\n\nHairdressers and barbers, museums, galleries, cinemas, monuments and libraries and the rest of the tourist industry will also be able to resume business on that date, subject to the continued suppression of the virus.", "People seen repeatedly breaking the Leicester lockdown could be fined up to £3,200\n\nLegislation ensuring Leicester's local lockdown can be enforced by law has been rushed through Parliament.\n\nThe new regulations come into force on Saturday, as the rest of the country begins to see an easing of lockdown.\n\nPeople or businesses that repeatedly flout the new law could receive fines of up to £3,200.\n\nLimits on social gatherings and a ban on the reopening of hotels, pubs and restaurants are all included in the new legislation.\n\nLeicester became subject to the UK's first local lockdown on Monday following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPolice have said they are bracing themselves for a busy weekend as pubs stay closed in Leicester but reopen across the country, with more officers on duty than during a typical New Year's Eve.\n\nOfficers would be policing the stricter lockdown measures as well as overseeing the relaxation of rules outside of the restricted zone.\n\nHospital bosses in the city also said they were preparing for \"typical behaviours of New Year's Eve\".\n\nPeople in Leicester have been told to stay at home since Monday\n\nThe regulations for the city were passed as a new statutory instrument easing lockdown for the rest of the country came into force on Friday.\n\nPeople in Leicester who live on their own, or single parents, can still form a social bubble with one other household, the legislation says.\n\nPublic gatherings of more than six people are now banned and there are restrictions on meeting people indoors.\n\nFixed penalty notices can be issued to people who are seen breaking the lockdown rules.\n\nFines begin at £100, and increase on a sliding scale so a person found breaking the lockdown for a sixth time could be fined £3,200.\n\nThe same fines could be issued by police across England before the easing of lockdown.\n\nLeicestershire Police said: \"We will be directing people to follow the regulations and encouraging to them to follow the guidelines.\n\n\"We want people to stay at home in the protected area and if you are outside of this to be responsible and socialise safely.\"\n\nLeicester City Council confirmed it had been informed of the legislation \"shortly before its publication\".\n\nThe regulations are due to be reviewed from 18 July.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live, work or run a business in the area? How will this affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We've been hearing about the government's plans to drop quarantine requirements for travellers who come back to the UK from a list of 59 countries and territories.\n\nNow we've had reaction from across the travel sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK - which represents UK-registered carriers - said it was a \"welcome announcement\".\n\nHe added: \"This gives a clear path to opening further predominantly long-haul destinations in the weeks ahead, and we look forward to working with ministers on measures to mitigate the risk from red countries [where the Covid risk is currently highest] such as via voluntary testing.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Abta, which represents UK travel companies, said: \"There is likely to be strong demand for holidays after months of lockdown and it is important that people consider how the lifting of these restrictions may affect their plans.\"\n\nShe urged people to check Foreign Office travel advice before booking and speak to their travel provider.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of TUI UK & Ireland, said the company was pleased \"summer holidays are saved\" and \"really excited to take our customers on holiday\". \"It's a significant and positive step forward for the travel industry, which had been in hibernation since March.\"\n\nPatricia Yates, director of VisitBritain, said the announcement was a \"timely boost for the tourism industry as we head into the peak summer season\" and a \"step on tourism's road to rebuilding\".\n\nAnd Glenn Fogel, boss of Booking Holdings - whose brands include booking.com and kayak.com - told BBC World News he wanted governments to \"co-ordinate their effort\" and come together to draw up travel guidance. That would include what you can and can't do on a plane, and how far apart people should be - as this varies by country.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) says the announcement is a good first step.\n\nIts general secretary Brian Strutton said: \"Pilots want to ensure that passengers can safely and quickly get flying again, to help people reunite with family and friends, to carry out essential business and for much-needed holidays. So this announcement is a good step forward after the setbacks caused by the government quarantine announcement in the first place.\"", "A father who initially paid £4.99 for his 11-year-old daughter to use a smartphone app was shocked to discover a bill for thousands of pounds a month later.\n\nSteve Cumming, 72, said he let her make what he thought was a one-off payment on his debit card to a firm called Roblox.\n\nAfter looking at his balance a month later, he saw thousands had been charged.\n\nRoblox says it will refund him.\n\nRoblox is an online multiplayer game with about 100 million users worldwide.\n\nIt is especially popular with children. Its business model relies on in-app purchases. Roblox is free to download, but users can then spend money during play.\n\nRoblox is a multiplayer platform where players can create their own games and join in with others\n\nMr Cumming wrote to BBC Radio 2's The Jeremy Vine Show to explain that his 11-year-old daughter had unwittingly run up the enormous bill while playing the game during lockdown.\n\n\"My daughter told me all her friends were playing this game and she wanted to spend £4.99,\" he said. \"She made that purchase using my debit card on 16 April and I thought nothing more of it.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic lockdown he decided to sign up to online banking.\n\n\"I'm not very tech-savvy. Due to coronavirus I couldn't visit the bank and I didn't want to use cash machines, so I decided to sign up to online banking,\" he said.\n\nWhen he first logged in, almost a month after that initial payment to Roblox, he was shocked to discover that £4,642 had gone and he was in his overdraft.\n\n\"When I first logged in nearly a month later I was astonished to see hundreds and hundreds of separate transactions, all between £0.99 and £9.99. I couldn't understand it. I thought I'd been scammed.\"\n\nHe realised he had lost about £3,500 so he phoned his bank, HSBC, to cancel his card. Despite doing that a further £1,000 or so left his account and was paid to Roblox via Google Play, he says.\n\nMr Cumming didn't realise his bank account was being charged with purchases from within the game\n\n\"My daughter was really upset when we told her about the financial consequences. She thought she was playing with monopoly money - it didn't seem real to her. How can these companies be allowed to trap minors in these games? To trap people who are vulnerable?\" he said.\n\nHe said he also thinks the government should step in and change the law.\n\n\"I get by on my pension. But this is a lot of money to me. I had earmarked it for a holiday when this pandemic is all over. I wanted to pay for my daughter to have a break. We can't now and I'm in my overdraft.\n\nSteve admits that he didn't read the terms and conditions of the sale when he allowed his daughter to initially spend £4.99 on his debit card.\n\nBut he says he's amazed that in a game designed to be played by children it would even be possible to spend thousands of pounds across a thousand transactions over the course of just a few weeks.\n\nAfter being approached for comment by the BBC, the company said it would issue a refund.\n\n\"We strive to prevent unauthorized purchases, by taking measures such as not storing billing information, and work directly with parents to provide appropriate refunds whenever possible, which is the case in this instance,\" Roblox told the BBC.\n\n\"We encourage parents to review their payment settings on third-party services, such as Google Play, as they typically have an option to require a password for each purchase made and/or to prevent any information from being saved in browser settings that could allow them to be reused.\"\n\nHis bank HSBC said: \"We sympathise with Mr Cumming and appreciate these payments have come as a surprise to him. We have received a claim for a dispute for these payments and we will be taking a closer look at the circumstances surrounding this matter in accordance with Visa dispute regulations.\"\n\nYou can hear an interview with Mr Cumming on Friday's Jeremy Vine Show.", "The great crested newt is rare in Europe\n\nThe prime minister has been accused of inventing an allegation that wildlife rules are holding back house-building.\n\nIn his recent speech on job creation, Boris Johnson said: \"Newt-counting delays are a massive drag on the prosperity of this country.\"\n\nBut environmental groups say the allegation is a political trick with no basis in fact.\n\nAnd BBC News has been unable to find recent evidence that wildlife surveys are unduly delaying development.\n\nThe Local Government Association said it was not aware of any evidence that newt surveys were unnecessarily holding back projects.\n\nAnd a property industry source said it had many concerns over planning, but newt surveys were towards the bottom of the list.\n\n\"The PM's speech was pure fiction,\" Craig Bennett, head of the Wildlife Trusts, which runs conservation projects and education projects, told the BBC.\n\n\"It may sound funny referring to newts, but actually it was rather sinister. In the environment movement we know referring to newts is a dog whistle to people on the right of his party who want environmental protections watered down.\"\n\nNumber 10 says Mr Johnson's remarks were based on government enquiries into red tape.\n\nHistorically, would-be developers would have to wait for a survey to check whether their plans might disturb great crested newts, which are uncommon in Europe.\n\nA 2017 review said newt survey delays could typically last nearly 15 weeks, which could make it hard to secure investment. One house builder reported the cost in 2013 at an average of £2,261.55 per newt relocated.\n\nThis took into account consultant fees, land purchase for the relocated newts and contracting costs for the physical relocation. Another large builder reported a sum of £500,000 spent on one site where just five newts were found.\n\nBut the wildlife watchdog Natural England says recently it's been working hard to restrict delays and costs.\n\nIt's using a method in which samples of pond water are taken and analysed to detect fragments of newt DNA.\n\nThe process is so fast that the organisation is often able to carry out research in advance so developers can get instant information.\n\nA springer spaniel called Freya is also playing a part. She works for Wessex Water, sniffing out newts in ponds. The firm says that, thanks to Freya, it can conclude its surveys in days, not weeks.\n\nWhat's more, if great crested newts are discovered, that doesn't sterilise development on the site.\n\nUnder recent rules, the developer can proceed so long as they provide alternative sites in a way that leaves nature better off than before. These changes may explain why newt surveys are no longer a great concern for many house builders.\n\nNewt rules have been under attack in the past from politicians complaining that the UK has \"gold-plated\" EU regulations.\n\nBut the head of Natural England, Tony Juniper, told the BBC: \"We have to find the best ways of pulling together our environmental ambition at the same time as the economic one. These two things have to be pursued together, not traded off against each other.\"\n\nGreen groups furious with Mr Johnson are meeting Environment Secretary George Eustice next week to express their concerns about his speech.\n\nJeremy Biggs from the Freshwater Habitats Trust told BBC News the processing time for a newt search in the South Midlands was now down to 10 days.\n\nBut the former chair of Natural England, Andrew Sells, said there were still delays in some areas. He said: \"The problem lies with local authorities. The new testing systems are there to be used, but they haven't been rolled out in all places.\"\n\nUpdate: At the time of writing, no government department had offered evidence for the Prime Minister's allegation that newts were causing serious delays. The story has since been amended following updated information from Number 10, which said his remarks were based on previous government enquiries into red tape.", "Quote Message: The Scottish government is perfectly entitled to take its own position on these matters, because quarantine handling – health and policing - are determined by Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon said the UK government was changing its mind daily, on the list and plans, describing their decision-making process as shambolic. She said it was completely unacceptable to expect Scotland just to sign up to it without any notice or discussion or serious thought. It is possible there could be a different list of countries for England and Scotland but I really think that is unlikely. It will be so complex and difficult for people to understand, and I wonder whether it could be policed in any case. I would expect Nicola Sturgeon to make an announcement pretty rapidly. She wants to align, but she wants to look at the detail first. It is causing a pretty big row. The first minister says she’s entitled to draw attention to the fact they were asked to sign up with half an hour’s notice to a completely different list of names at a meeting on Wednesday. This is causing a rammy, frankly, between the two governments.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is perfectly entitled to take its own position on these matters, because quarantine handling – health and policing - are determined by Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon said the UK government was changing its mind daily, on the list and plans, describing their decision-making process as shambolic. She said it was completely unacceptable to expect Scotland just to sign up to it without any notice or discussion or serious thought. It is possible there could be a different list of countries for England and Scotland but I really think that is unlikely. It will be so complex and difficult for people to understand, and I wonder whether it could be policed in any case. I would expect Nicola Sturgeon to make an announcement pretty rapidly. She wants to align, but she wants to look at the detail first. It is causing a pretty big row. The first minister says she’s entitled to draw attention to the fact they were asked to sign up with half an hour’s notice to a completely different list of names at a meeting on Wednesday. This is causing a rammy, frankly, between the two governments.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK government's decision-making on air bridges has been \"shambolic\", Scotland's first minister has claimed.\n\nNicola Sturgeon criticised the speed at which Westminster expected Scottish ministers to make a decision on lifting quarantine on overseas visitors.\n\nBut she said the Scottish government was \"very likely\" to agree to relaxing restrictions for people arriving in Scotland from \"low risk\" countries.\n\nShe said it needed to carefully scrutinise \"medium risk\" countries.\n\nUnder the UK government's plan, from 10 July people arriving in England from 50 countries including Spain, Italy and France will no longer have to isolate for 14 days.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have not yet agreed to the proposals, with Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford saying it had been \"impossible\" to get a \"sensible answer\" on how UK ministers intended to make the changes.\n\nDowning Street has said devolved governments should \"make and explain their own decisions\" on requirements for people to quarantine when returning from abroad.\n\nMeanwhile, the boss of two of Scotland's leading airports has warned that failure to adopt a four nations approach will put further jobs at risk.\n\nAnd the Scottish Chambers of Commerce called on the Scottish government to \"align with a UK-wide approach as a matter of urgency\" to help protect the economy.\n\nThe business organisation added: \"Politics must be put to one side by all in order to give Scottish businesses the ability to drive up demand and do what they do best, making Scotland the best place to invest and do business.''\n\nThe quarantine rules are due to be relaxed in England - but not Scotland\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said the Scottish government had to make \"difficult and complex\" decisions on the issue - but the UK government's position kept changing.\n\nThe list of countries that Westminster asked Scotland to sign up to on Thursday was different to that announced on Friday, she added.\n\n\"When so much is at stake as it is right now we can't allow ourselves to be dragged along in the wake of, to be quite frank about it, another government's shambolic decision process,\" she said.\n\n\"We want to welcome visitors again from around the world and we also want to allow our own citizens to travel.\n\n\"We also want, if possible for obvious practical reasons, to have alignment on these matters with the rest of the UK.\"\n\nShe said she hoped a decision could be made \"quickly\".\n\nThe Scottish government has assessed the prevalence of coronavirus in Scotland as five times lower than it is in England, the first minister added.\n\nAbout 50 countries are expected to be on the list of \"air-bridges\"\n\nAsked about Nicola Sturgeon's criticism of the UK government, the prime minister's spokesman said that \"the changes we're making now are cautious and will allow people to travel to an exempt country without the need to self isolate on their return.\"\n\n\"It is for devolved administrations to make and explain their own decisions around the measures that they are putting in place,\" he said.\n\n\"We have been working with all devolved administrations on quarantine from the outset and we continue to do so,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said he had been given 30 minutes to look at a list of countries under consideration for \"air bridges\" before being asked to make a decision on Wednesday night.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the Scottish government wanted to take a \"four nations\" approach and he asked for more time consider the issue.\n\nUK Transport Minister Grant Shapps said there was still time for the devolved nations to join the plans.\n\n\"Remember this isn't changing until the 10 July so there's still an opportunity for them to do that and they may well,\" he said. \"I wouldn't be surprised if we see countries come on board.\n\n\"I very much hope we can do this as four nations at the same time I think that would very much simplify it for people but they will need to make that decision themselves.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Derek Provan, chief executive of AGS Airports - which owns Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports - said regional variations will endanger livelihoods.\n\nHe added: \"Having a piecemeal approach will compound the devastating impact the blanket quarantine measures have had on our aviation, tourism and hospitality sectors.\n\n\"People are rightly concerned for their health, however, they're also fearful for their jobs.\n\n\"This isn't just about people being able to go on a summer holiday, it's about safely re-establishing the routes that drive trade and investment.\"", "Social media platform Twitter is dropping the terms \"master\", \"slave\" and \"blacklist\" in favour of more inclusive language.\n\nThe terms are frequently used in programming codes which originated decades ago.\n\nUS bank JPMorgan has also announced a similar move as more companies address racism following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.\n\nReplacing the terms could cost millions and take months, according to experts.\n\nIn programming speak, \"master\" refers to a device or process - such as a hard drive or a database - that controls other devices or processes, which are known as \"slaves,\" or replicas. \"Blacklist\" is used to describe items that are automatically denied, typically forbidden websites.\n\nOn Thursday, Twitter's engineering division tweeted out a set of words that it wants \"to move away from using in favour of more inclusive language\". The list includes replacing \"whitelist\" with \"allowlist\" and \"master/slave\" with \"leader/follower\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Twitter Engineering This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast month, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey donated $3m (£2.4m) to former NFL player Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp to \"advance the liberation and well-being\" of minority communities.\n\nJPMorgan said it is also dropping the outdated coding terms as the Black Lives Matter movement ripples through the corporate world. It said the terms had appeared in some of its technology policies and programming codes.\n\nLast month, GitHub, the world's biggest site for software developers, said it was working on changing the term 'master' from its coding language. The firm, owned by Microsoft, is used by 50 million developers to store and update its coding projects.\n\nGoogle's Chromium web browser project and Android operating system have both encouraged developers to avoid using the terms \"blacklist\" and \"whitelist\".\n\nGlobal brands are also looking carefully at their product logos and names to avoid racial stereotyping. In recent weeks, a number of well-known brands have said they will be changing or reviewing their branding including Quaker Oats which is renaming its Aunt Jemima line of syrups and foods.\n\nAt the same time, social media platforms are also under pressure to tackle hate posts, with Facebook facing a widespread ad boycott from the Stop Hate for Profit campaign. Ford, Adidas, Coca Cola, Unilever and Starbucks have all added their weight to the campaign, aimed at removing hateful content on social networks.", "People in Leicester have been told to stay at home since Monday\n\nPolice say they are bracing themselves for a busy weekend as pubs stay closed in Leicester but reopen across the country.\n\nMore officers would be on duty than during a typical New Year's Eve, Leicestershire Police said.\n\nHospital bosses in the city also said they were preparing for \"typical behaviours of New Year's Eve\".\n\nLeicester became subject to the UK's first local lockdown on Monday following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPolice said officers would be policing the stricter lockdown measures as well as overseeing the relaxation of rules outside of the restricted zone.\n\nLeicester's hospitals said the reopening of pubs outside of the city could have \"a big impact on the public\" and A&E admissions.\n\nActing chief executive of the hospitals' trust Rebecca Brown said: \"We're working with East Midlands Ambulance Service and the police to make sure that we're ready to support not only a surge in Covid, but also a surge in typical behaviours of New Year's Eve.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police is also deploying extra officers to Leicester railway station to check advice on non-essential travel is being followed.\n\nIt said rail users could expect to see an \"enhanced presence\" after the government said lockdown residents should only travel when essential.\n\nA number of pubs located just outside the lockdown boundary have decided not reopen this weekend.\n\nThey include The Royal Oak in Kirby Muxloe and JD Wetherspoon venue The White House in Scraptoft.\n\nA JD Wetherspoon company spokeswoman said: \"The pub is not technically within the lockdown area but it is located so very close to the red line border that we felt it responsible not to reopen on Saturday.\"\n\nNo decision has been made on when the pub will reopen.\n\nThe White House sits just outside the lockdown boundary\n\nThe Royal Oak will open on Monday - 48 hours later than bosses had originally planned to welcome back regulars.\n\n\"We just can't take the risk of loads of people coming and not being able to get in,\" said landlady Sarah Flavell.\n\n\"It's difficult because you want to get going again as quickly as you can because you need the money but you've got to be able to do it properly and safely.\"\n\nSarah Flavell had been getting ready to reopen on Saturday\n\nMeanwhile, door staff at a number of bars in Nottingham will be checking ID to keep out people from Leicester.\n\nRob Glasby, manager of Playhouse Bar and Kitchen and spokesman for an unofficial union representing hospitality staff in the city, said it was an important precaution aimed at keeping staff and other customers safe.\n\nMr and Mrs Smith were looking forward to a short stroll to the neighbouring village, which is now out of bounds except for essential journeys\n\nSue Smith gets a good view of the lockdown boundary - it extends to the bottom of her garden.\n\n\"We could climb over the fence and be free,\" she joked. \"But we won't.\"\n\nMrs Smith, 57, and her husband Denis have not left their house in Thurncourt in 15 weeks because Mr Smith, 70, has been shielding.\n\n\"So near and yet so far,\" said Mrs Smith. \"This further lockdown is disappointing but necessary.\"\n\nRead more about residents living on the lockdown border.\n\nNottinghamshire Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford said his force would also be monitoring the situation.\n\n\"If there's any intelligence that comes from Leicestershire about, for instance, a minibus of people coming to Nottingham for a night out, clearly we'd want to move into our education mode for those individuals,\" he said.\n\nNational Express has also said its coach services will not stop at Leicester during the lockdown period.\n\nLeicester City's home game against Crystal Palace on Saturday afternoon will go ahead as planned.\n\nThe restrictions are due to be reviewed by the government from 18 July.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live, work or run a business in the area? How will this affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of High Street restaurant chains Café Rouge and Bella Italia has gone into administration.\n\nNinety-one Casual Dining Group outlets will close immediately, and 1,900 of the firm's 6,000 staff will lose their jobs.\n\nAdministrators Alix Partners are seeking offers for all, or parts, of the remaining business.\n\nUK firms have announced thousands of job cuts this week as the impact of the pandemic on the economy continues.\n\nCasual Dining Group, which also owns the Las Iguanas chain, applied in May to appoint administrators at the High Court as it found it increasingly hard to pay its rents.\n\nOn Thursday, the firm said it had already received \"multiple offers\" for the business and hoped to pursue these.\n\n\"We are acutely aware of our duty to all employees and recognise that this is an incredibly difficult time for them,\" chief executive James Spragg said.\n\n\"Working alongside the administrators, we will do everything we can to support them through this process, with a view to preserving as much employment as we are able to.\"\n\nThe firm owns the Bella Italia chain of restaurants\n\nThe restaurants that are closing are mainly located in England, with some in Scotland and Wales. 159 of the group's 250 outlets will remain open.\n\nRestaurants in the UK were struggling even before the pandemic, but their revenues collapsed when the UK went into lockdown in March.\n\nRestrictions will be eased from Saturday, but demand is likely to remain depressed for some time and some chains have already acknowledged the severity of the impact.\n\nThis week Byron Burger said it planned to bring in administrators, putting 1,200 jobs at risk. Upper Crust and Caffe Ritazza owner SSP Group said it would cut up to 5,000 roles.\n\nThe government's furlough scheme - which is paying 80% of the wages of nine million workers - will start to be pared back from August, and so many firms are cutting jobs now to reduce costs.\n\nThousands of job losses were announced in other sectors too this week, including:\n\nWH Smith, Bensons for Beds, Wrights Pies, tableware-maker Steelite International, the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool and Norwich Theatre Royal have also announced plans to reduce staff.", "Almost 90% of people who lost their sense of smell or taste while infected with Covid-19 improved or recovered within a month, a study has found.\n\nThe study, in Italy, found 49% of patients had fully regained their sense of smell or taste and 40% reported improvements.\n\nBut 10% said their symptoms remained the same or had worsened.\n\nGiven the scale of the pandemic, experts warn hundreds of thousands of people could face longer-term problems.\n\nA change in - or loss of - someone's sense of smell or taste are now recognised as core symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nAccording to NHS advice, anyone who experiences them should isolate, together with their household, and be tested.\n\nThe international team of researchers surveyed 187 Italians who had the virus but who were not ill enough to be admitted to hospital.\n\nThe individuals were asked to rate their sense of smell or taste soon after they were diagnosed and again a month later.\n\nA total of 113 reported an alteration in their sense of smell and/or taste:\n\nPeople who had severe symptoms found they took longer to get better.\n\nProf Claire Hopkins, one of the researchers and president of the British Rhinological Society, said her team was now doing more research on people with long-lasting symptoms.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"Data from other viral illnesses, and some of the new data we are gathering, suggest the vast majority of people will get better but for some, recovery will be slow.\n\n\"For people who recover more quickly it is likely the virus has only affected the cells lining their nose.\n\n\"For people who recover more slowly it may be that the virus has affected the nerves involved in smell, too. It can take longer for these nerve cells to repair and regenerate.\"\n\nShe suggests anyone with concerns can find further information from charities such as AbScent.\n\nWriting in the same journal, Dr Joshua Levy, a specialist at the Emory University School of Medicine, said: \"Even with a high rate of resolution, the staggering number affected by this evolving pandemic suggests an almost certain deluge of patients likely to present for the treatment of unresolved symptoms.\"\n\nBut he says there are \"frustratingly few\" interventions for people who experience these problems.\n\nHe suggests that in long-term cases people could consider therapy used for similar conditions - such as smell-training.\n\nThe paper is published in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Spain is among the countries which can be visited without having to quarantine for 14 days on your return\n\nA full list of countries for which quarantine will not apply to people arriving back in England has been published.\n\nCountries including Greece, Spain, France and Belgium are on the list, which comes into effect from 10 July.\n\nBut countries such as China, US, Sweden and Portugal are not, meaning arrivals from those have to isolate for 14 days.\n\nScotland and Wales are yet to decide whether to ease travel restrictions and described the changes as \"shambolic\".\n\nThe quarantine rules will also remain in place in Northern Ireland for visitors arriving from outside of the UK and Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe restrictions came into place in early June in a bid to stop coronavirus entering the country as the number of cases was falling.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Instead of quarantining arrivals from the whole world, we will only quarantine arrivals from those countries where the virus is sadly not under control.\"\n\nPeople travelling from the 59 places and 14 British overseas territories on the list will not have to quarantine on arrival in England unless they have travelled through a place which is not exempt.\n\nPassengers will still be required to provide contact information on arrival in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nSome of those on the list include popular short-haul destinations such as Turkey and Cyprus, as well as long-haul locations including Australia, Barbados, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Vietnam.\n\nHowever, some countries will require visitors to isolate on arrival or will bar them from entering at all, such as New Zealand.\n\nThe Foreign Office is expected to update its travel guidance on Saturday, including naming which countries will have a reciprocal arrangement with the UK and not require British visitors to quarantine on arrival.\n\nA list of countries which will be exempt from the Foreign Office's advice against \"all but essential travel\" from Saturday has also been published.\n\nThe advice has been lifted for Portugal but only for the Azores and Madeira.\n\nPortugal's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"We are very disappointed with the decision of the British authorities. We think it is senseless and unfair.\n\n\"It is quite absurd the UK has seven times more cases of Covid-19 than Portugal so we think this is not the way in which allies and friends are treated.\"\n\nHis prime minister, António Costa, tweeted comparing the UK's number of coronavirus cases with that of the Algarve, a popular holiday destination, saying: \"You are welcome to spend a safe holiday in the Algarve.\"\n\nThe government said information for travel into Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be published in due course by the devolved administrations.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said finalising the list of countries had been delayed - after scrapping the quarantine was announced last week - in the hope that the four UK nations could reach a joint decision.\n\nHe said there was \"still an opportunity\" for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to co-ordinate and therefore make the changes more simple.\n\nBut the first ministers of both Scotland and Wales have criticised the government, with Nicola Sturgeon saying Scotland could not be dragged along by the UK government's \"shambolic decision making\".\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said the approach had been \"utterly shambolic\".\n\nHowever, he added it was likely the Welsh government would impose the same measures as in England, provided the chief medical officer for Wales gave approval.\n\nMr Johnson said in a televised coronavirus briefing from Downing Street that the nations of the UK were following \"very similar paths but at different speeds\".\n\nAsked if a family from Scotland could drive to England and fly out and back from an overseas country to get around different quarantine rules the prime minister said that while he knew the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales had a \"slightly different take\" on it the \"convoy is very much going in the same direction\".\n\n\"I'm sure we'll get there together and common sense will apply.\"\n\nThe introduction of the quarantine on 8 June was met with criticism from the travel, tourism and hospitality industries and the easing of restrictions on arrivals from some countries has been welcomed.\n\nA statement on behalf of airlines Ryanair, easyJet and British Airways said the move to quarantine people had been \"irrational\" and had seriously damaged the economy and industry.\n\nIt added the carriers wanted clarification on how countries included on the lists were selected.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of industry body Airline UK, said the lists gave \"a clear path to opening further predominantly long-haul destinations in the weeks ahead\".\n\nTUI UK and Ireland managing director Andrew Flintham said the company was pleased the government had confirmed \"summer holidays are saved\" and said it was a \"significant step forward\" for the industry.\n\nThe chief executive of Booking Holdings, which owns the brands Booking.com and Kayak.com, called for a coordinated effort from governments around the world to set out principles as to why someone can travel from one country to another.\n\nGlenn Fogel told BBC World News current measures were \"totally chaotic\" but he welcomed England's announcement saying the UK is \"an important part of the global tourism industry\".\n\nVisitBritain director Patricia Yates said the lifting of travel restrictions for some of the \"largest and most valuable visitor markets\" was a \"timely boost\" for the industry.\n\nPilots union, the British Airline Pilots Association, said it was an important first step and said it was working with authorities to make sure the return to operations would be safe for pilots, passengers and crew.\n\nAn Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokeswoman said there was likely to be a strong demand for holidays and it was important people considered how this might affect their plans.\n\n\"It is especially important that customers also check the latest Foreign Office travel advice before booking, to establish if there are entry restrictions or self-isolation procedures on arrival, or any other measures they need to comply with, in the destination they are planning to visit,\" she said.\n\nA High Court challenge by British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair against the government's 14-day quarantine is set to be withdrawn, their barrister Tom Hickman QC said.", "That's a wrap: The National Theatre in London\n\nEmpty theatre buildings nationwide have been covered in colourful messages of support, as they remain closed due to Covid-19 concerns.\n\nThe National Theatre in London has been wrapped in bright pink barrier tape, which reads \"Missing Live Theatre\".\n\nThe project, led by stage designers group Scene Change, also includes the Manchester Royal Exchange and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.\n\nAs well as the Lyric Belfast, the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff and Theatre Royale Plymouth.\n\nVenues have been shut since March, with many warning that they will go out of business in the coming months without support.\n\nThe art intervention was unveiled on the same day that the National Theatre confirmed 400 casual staff will soon lose their jobs.\n\n\"We have committed to paying our casual staff until the end of August, but very sadly due to the changes in the government Job Retention Scheme, we simply cannot afford to offer financial support beyond that point, when we won't be back performing as usual,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\nShe added they hoped \"additional financial support from government may be forthcoming\" to allow performing again \"in a limited way\" but said \"it is set to be many months before it will be possible to perform to audiences at usual capacities, so regrettably a proportion of job losses are unavoidable\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News on Friday, Oscar-winning actor, writer and theatre director Sir Mark Rylance warned that 70% of venues could be closed by Christmas, meaning 290,000 jobs in the sector are at risk, with redundancies being made already.\n\nSir Mark, who also revealed he will reprise his role in Jerusalem next year at some point, stressed that theatres can't go back to usual, and they are going to have to change how they operate and what stories they tell in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"They are devastatingly badly affected,\" said Rylance.\n\n\"We have discovered that what the pandemic has brought to the surface too, is that 70% of the workers in theatre are freelance,\" he added. \"They've not benefitted from any furlough scheme or any of the job retention schemes that the buildings and the permanent staff have benefitted from, so people are really in trouble, and they're going to be in more trouble in August and September.\"\n\nA close-up of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester\n\nIn a statement, Scene Change declared: \"This is a moment of reset in our industry and we believe the design community can be an essential part of the transformation that will see theatre buildings being reopened and the ways in which theatre can be reimagined,\"\n\n\"As shapers of theatrical space through the use of people and place, our work is pivotal in connecting an entire ecosystem within the theatre industry. We are ideally positioned to be at the heart of any discussions about how theatre operates in the future.\"\n\nThe tapes will stay up for a week and then be taken to envelop other theatres.\n\nVenues throughout London's West End will join in on Saturday, while The RSC, Sadler's Wells, Theatr Clwyd and Theatre Royal Stratford East will take part the following week, along with Sheffield Theatres, and the Ambassador Theatre Group.\n\nTom Piper, one of the team behind the campaign, told the BBC's Colin Paterson the design was \"inspired by the fact that the National Theatre was sort of wrapped with hazard warning tape it looked like a toxic sort of waste site\".\n\n\"And we know that theatres are not toxic places, they are places of great healing, where people will come together with a sense of community and that's what we're all missing at the moment,\" added Piper, who also who helped create the 2014 sea of ceramic poppies outside the Tower of London.\n\nHe encouraged people to go along and see the outdoor \"guerrilla\" artwork for themselves, from a safe distance.\n\n\"It's a gesture of love for these buildings really and to highlight that they're empty, they need to be full of people,\" he said.\n\nLast week, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published a five-stage plan for a \"phased return\", which will initially let performances take place outdoors, with indoors performances to follow later.\n\nHowever, the roadmap for the return of live theatre and music was met with calls for financial support and a timetable for reopening, with many dismissing the plan as inadequate.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "After the death of US financier Jeffrey Epstein in jail, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nHer trial on sex trafficking and other charges begins this week in New York City, where she has been jailed since her arrest in July 2020.\n\nShe faces charges in the US after being arrested by the FBI on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nFour charges relate to the years 1994-97 when she was, according to the indictment, among Epstein's closest associates and also in an \"intimate relationship\" with him. Two other charges - of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor - came in an amended indictment and relate to the period 2001 and 2004.\n\nAnother two charges are allegations of perjury in 2016. She has pleaded not guilty on all charges.\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August 2019 as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nDetails of the allegations against Ms Maxwell emerged earlier in documents unsealed by a US judge in August 2019 in a 2015 defamation case.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of Epstein, has accused Ms Maxwell of recruiting her as a masseuse to the financier at the age of 15.\n\nShe sued Ms Maxwell in 2015 for defamation - a case which has since been settled - after the media heiress, daughter of the late newspaper tycoon, Robert Maxwell, said Ms Giuffre was a liar.\n\nThe daughter of a disgraced newspaper tycoon, Ms Maxwell (R) is a well-connected socialite\n\nAnother of Epstein's alleged victims, Sarah Ransome, has told BBC Panorama that Ms Maxwell worked closely with him.\n\nShe said: \"Ghislaine controlled the girls. She was like the madam. She was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation.\"\n\nMs Ransome said Ms Maxwell would visit Epstein on his private island in the Caribbean \"to make sure that the girls were doing what they were supposed to be doing\".\n\nShe added: \"She knew what Jeffrey liked. She worked and helped maintain Jeffrey's standard by intimidation, by intimidating the girls, so this was very much a joint effort.\"\n\nMs Maxwell has previously denied any involvement in or knowledge of Epstein's abuse.\n\nBorn on Christmas Day in 1961 outside Paris, Ms Maxwell is Oxford-educated and said to speak several languages,\n\nA well-connected socialite, she is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York (who was accused in the court papers of touching a woman at Jeffrey Epstein's US home, although the court subsequently struck out allegations against the duke).\n\nBuckingham Palace has said that \"any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors\" by the duke was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward, the Washington Post reports.\n\n\"She had an upbringing and taste and knew how to run a house and a boat and how to entertain,\" an acquaintance is quoted by the UK's Daily Telegraph as saying. \"You can't buy that. You can't buy access, either.\"\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator, the Post reports.\n\nMs Maxwell is the daughter of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, his ninth and youngest child.\n\nShe is said to have had a very close relationship with her late father, and he named his luxury yacht - the Lady Ghislaine - after her.\n\nGhislaine was said to be very close to her father, Robert Maxwell, who died nearly 30 years ago\n\nIt was near this yacht that his body was found in the sea off the Canary Islands in November 1991.\n\nAlthough a verdict of accidental drowning was recorded, the mystery surrounding the circumstances of his death was never cleared up.\n\nHe had succeeded in building a global publishing empire, but after his death, it emerged that he had taken money from pension funds of his Mirror Group Newspapers to keep his companies afloat and boost the share price.\n\nSoon after her father's death, Ms Maxwell left the UK to settle in America, where she worked in real estate, and not long after met Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nShe sold her Manhattan townhouse in 2016, and kept a low profile until she was arrested last July at her secluded mansion in the state of New Hampshire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US prosecutors have appealed for alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein to contact the FBI", "The restaurant chain Yo! introduced the UK to the concept of choosing sushi dishes from a conveyor belt.\n\nBut as it prepares to reopen some of its restaurants in England, it has had to adapt its system in the age of coronavirus.", "A number of supermarkets have removed some coconut water and oil from their shelves after it emerged the products were made with fruit picked by monkeys.\n\nThe monkeys are snatched from the wild and trained to pick up to 1,000 coconuts a day, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said.\n\nThe animal rights group said pigtailed macaques in Thailand were treated like \"coconut-picking machines\".\n\nIn response Waitrose, Ocado, Co-op and Boots vowed to stop selling some goods.\n\nMeanwhile, Morrisons said it had already removed products made with monkey-picked coconuts from its shelves.\n\nIn a statement, Waitrose said: \"As part of our animal welfare policy, we have committed to never knowingly sell any products sourced from monkey labour.\"\n\nCo-op said: \"As an ethical retailer, we do not permit the use of monkey labour to source ingredients for our products.\"\n\nIn a tweet earlier on Friday, the prime minister's fiancée Carrie Symonds, a conservationist, called on all supermarkets to boycott the products.\n\nSainsbury's subsequently told the BBC: \"We are actively reviewing our ranges and investigating this complex issue with our suppliers.\"\n\nAsda said: \"We expect our suppliers to uphold the highest production standards at all times and we will not tolerate any forms of animal abuse in our supply chain.\" It pledged to remove certain brands from its shelves until it has investigated the allegations of cruelty.\n\nMs Symonds later took to Twitter again to urge Tesco to make a similar pledge: \"Come on @Tesco! Over to you! Please stop selling these products too,\" she wrote.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson told the BBC: \"Our own-brand coconut milk and coconut water does not use monkey labour in its production and we don't sell any of the branded products identified by Peta.\n\n\"We don't tolerate these practices and would remove any product from sale that is known to have used monkey labour during its production.\"\n\nPeta said it had found eight farms in Thailand where monkeys were forced to pick coconuts for export around the world.\n\nMale monkeys are able to pick up to 1,000 coconuts a day, Peta says. It's thought that a human can pick about 80.\n\nIt said it also discovered \"monkey schools\", where the animals were trained to pick fruit, as well as ride bikes or play basketball for the entertainment of tourists.\n\n\"The animals at these facilities - many of whom are illegally captured as babies - displayed stereotypic behaviour indicative of extreme stress,\" Peta said.\n\n\"Monkeys were chained to old tyres or confined to cages that were barely large enough for them to turn around in.\"\n\n\"One monkey in a cage on a lorry bed was seen frantically shaking the cage bars in a futile attempt to escape, and a screaming monkey on a rope desperately tried to run away from a handler.\"\n\nIn one case, the organisation was told that monkeys would have their canine teeth pulled out if they tried to bite handlers.\n\n\"These curious, highly intelligent animals are denied psychological stimulation, companionship, freedom, and everything else that would make their lives worth living, all so that they can be used to gather coconuts,\" said Peta director Elisa Allen.\n\n\"Peta is calling on decent people never to support the use of monkey labour by shunning coconut products from Thailand.\"", "Fitzwilliam College, at Cambridge University, has announced it has \"accepted the resignation of historian David Starkey from his honorary fellowship with immediate effect\".\n\nThe college said: \"Our student and academic bodies are diverse and welcoming to all. We do not tolerate racism.\"\n\nHis comments on slavery were criticised on Thursday for being racist.\n\nThe TV historian has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nStarkey told an online show hosted by conservative commentator Darren Grimes that slavery was not genocide, because of the survival of \"so many damn blacks\".\n\nThe master of Fitzwilliam contacted Starkey following his comments, and the college added: \"Fitzwilliam prides itself in leading the way in Cambridge in opening access to higher education for underrepresented groups.\"\n\nThe statement went on to note that while the author \"holds no teaching role\" there, that \"honorary fellows have the same responsibility as all members of our college to uphold our values\".\n\nCanterbury Christ Church University, meanwhile, has also announced it has \"terminated David Starkey's position as visiting professor with immediate effect\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CanterburyCCUni 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProfessor Rama Thirunamachandran, vice-chancellor of the university, apologised to staff and students who have been offended and upset by the \"appalling\" comments.\n\nHe said: \"Widely reported comments by historian David Starkey during a recent online interview are, in our view, completely unacceptable and do not reflect the values of our university and community.\"\n\nLancaster University has also initiated a review of Starkey's honorary graduate status.\n\n\"His comments are abhorrent and contrary to our values,\" the institution tweeted.\n\nWriting on Twitter, former chancellor Sajid Javid said: \"David Starkey's racist comments are a reminder of the appalling views that still exist.\"\n\nThe Mary Rose Trust said it was \"appalled\" by Starkey's comments, adding on Thursday evening they had accepted his resignation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by The Mary Rose This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by The Mary Rose\n\nStarkey made the offensive remarks in an episode of Darren Grimes's YouTube show Reasoned, entitled \"Dr David Starkey: Black Lives Matter Aims To Delegitimate British History\".\n\nThe show's host tweeted on Thursday: \"I reject in the strongest possible terms what Dr Starkey said in that clip and so very wish I'd caught it at the time. I am still learning the ropes, I will be much more alert to challenging this kind of thing in future.\"\n\nIn it, Starkey said: \"Slavery was not genocide otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.\"\n\nHe also claimed that the Black Lives Matter protests, following the death of George Floyd, had been characterised by \"violence\" and \"victimhood\".\n\nHe described cancel culture and the pulling down of statues as \"deranged\".\n\nThe academic went on to discuss the links between slavery and the British Empire.\n\nStarkey said: \"As for the idea that slavery is this kind of terrible disease that dare not speak its name, it only dare not speak its name, Darren, because we settled it nearly 200 years ago.\"\n\n\"We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.\"\n\nStarkey's comments were heavily criticised by several social media users.\n\nNicholas Guyatt, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, tweeted: \"Can't speak for my employer but as someone who teaches history at Cambridge I'm ashamed of our connections with David Starkey and urge both the university and Fitzwilliam College to cut all ties with him.\"\n\nIt's not the first time Starkey has been involved in a public race row.\n\nIn 2011, the BBC received nearly 700 complaints about Starkey's claim that \"whites have become black\", during a Newsnight discussion about riots in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Washington Redskins American football team will review its name after demands from major sponsors.\n\nIts headline sponsor, Fedex, joined a fresh wave of calls to scrap a team moniker long-criticised as racist.\n\nThe Washington DC-based team has faced years of pressure over a name seen as offensive to Native Americans. The latest calls come amid a fresh focus on racism sparked by worldwide protests.\n\nFedEx made the request at the behest of its own investors.\n\nDan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, said: \"This process allows the team to take into account not only the proud tradition and history of the franchise but also input from our alumni, the organization, sponsors, the National Football League (NFL) and the local community.\"\n\nAt the turn of the millennium, FedEx paid $205m (£165m) for the naming rights to the Redskins' 82,000-seat stadium in Maryland. The deal expires in 2025.\n\nBut that is not the delivery giant's only tie to the team. The boss and founder of FedEx, Frederick Smith also owns a minority stake in the Redskins.\n\nThe team has been under pressure to change its name for decades.\n\nNative Americans and supporters protesting against Redskins' name and logo\n\nSix years ago, FedEx shareholders voted to allow the Redskins to keep its name after the shipping giant received a complaint from the Wisconsin-based Oneida Indian tribe.\n\nBut as firms assess their stance on issues around race, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, FedEx has now called for the team to rebrand.\n\nLast week, 87 investment firms and shareholders wrote to FedEx, along with fellow Redskins' sponsors Nike and PepsiCo, calling on the firms to sever ties with the Redskins, according to trade publication AdWeek.\n\n\"'Redskins' remains a dehumanising word, characterizing people by skin colour and a racial slur with hateful connotations,\" the letter written to PepsiCo said.\n\n\"We have been in conversations with the NFL and Washington management for a few weeks about this issue,\" a PepsiCo spokesperson said.\n\n\"We believe it is time for a change. We are pleased to see the steps the team announced today, and we look forward to continued partnership.\"\n\nAs of Thursday, Nike's website did not display any Redskins merchandise. The Washington-based team was the only one of the 32 NFL teams no longer listed in the site's index.\n\nNike did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nIn the past, the team's owner Mr Snyder has remained steadfast on keeping the name, calling it a \"badge of honour\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Airbus: \"Most people who live in the area, work here\"\n\nWhen the fortune of a town is so inextricably linked to one employer, any threat to jobs will have a \"devastating\" effect on the local community.\n\nAirbus is to Broughton what Hoover once was to Merthyr Tydfil, Ford to Bridgend and Tata Steel still is to Port Talbot.\n\nMore people are employed at the Airbus factory than live in Broughton itself.\n\nSo it is little wonder jobs losses are seen as a \"hammer blow\" to the area.\n\nThe company said it planned to cut 15,000 jobs in total, including 1,700 in its UK sites at Flintshire and Bristol, as it dealt with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"The majority of people living in the area work there so [job losses] are going to be a great shame to a lot of people. I have family working there, everyone is going to impacted,\" said one resident.\n\n\"I thought I had a job for life, I'm devastated,\" said worker Ross Leeding\n\nAnother added: \"It's a big part of the community, one of the main sources of jobs around here. So if anything happens it would have a big blow - devastating.\n\nOn the shop floor, the mood has been \"sombre\" since the news broke.\n\n\"People are shocked and the uncertainty over numbers is only adding to that,\" said worker Daz Reynolds, of the Unite union.\n\n\"People have families to feed and they want to know what their future looks like at Airbus. It's simple.\n\n\"This is going to have a devastating effect. There are highly-skilled workers here but also thousands of people in the supply chain in towns and villages across north-east Wales and Cheshire. Everyone knows someone who works with Airbus.\"\n\nAgency worker Ross Leeding, already on furlough, added: \"I wish they would tell us if we're being made redundant or not - not maybe. It's frustrating not to know.\n\n\"I'm devastated. I was happy here and thought I had a job for life here. I'm 60 years old now, so where am I going to get a job like this?\n\n\"There are others with kids, mortgages, loans who are worse off than me. It's the bread and butter for Broughton.\"\n\nAirbus employs more than 6,000 people at its site in Broughton\n\nThe aftershocks from job losses are likely to ripple out across the entire region, to suppliers and the local economy that has been built around the success and size of Airbus.\n\nBen Francis, policy chairman at the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"extremely worrying news\".\n\nHe added: \"The importance of Airbus to the north Wales economy cannot be overstated. There are families, communities, and small businesses who rely on Airbus, as does the wider regional economy.\"\n\nThomas Smith runs the nearby New Glynne Arms inn that relies on Airbus staff for trade.\n\n\"We rely on passing trade so if you take away thousands of people, it's terrifying to think what might happen,\" he said.\n\n\"It's going to affect the local economy big time because so many work there. You just don't know what the future is.\"\n\nLocal businesses will also be badly affected, said local pub landlord Thomas Smith\n\nWrexham MS Lesley Griffiths said the effects would be felt \"throughout\" the local supply chain and Flintshire council leader Ian Roberts said the factory was of \"immense\" importance for the county.\n\n\"It's devastating for Flintshire and the wider region - 50% of the workers come from outside the county,\" said Mr Roberts.\n\nThere is concern that job losses will not only affect current staff, but young people in the area.\n\nColeg Cambria in Connah's Quay offers engineering students an undergraduate apprenticeship with Airbus.\n\nThousands more people are employed in the supply chain around the Broughton site\n\nDavid Jones, a former chief executive of the college, said the scheme was the biggest of its kind in the UK with 150 new apprentices joining each year.\n\n\"With older people and other workers that receive training, around 1,000 people are linked with Airbus training in Coleg Cambria and other colleges and universities,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"The goal now must be to win the contract to build a new type of wing that will be developed over the next five years.\n\n\"There are huge developments in the aerospace sector, meaning that wings will be produced in completely different ways to today.\n\n\"Whoever manages to secure that next contract, it will be hugely important regarding the long term future of wing building in north east Wales.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford says dealing with the UK government has been \"shambolic\"\n\nDealing with the UK government on plans to lift quarantine measures for travellers from abroad has been \"utterly shambolic\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nPeople arriving in England from more than 50 countries will not need to quarantine from 10 July.\n\nMark Drakeford said he wants to allow the UK scheme to operate in Wales.\n\nBut he said it had been \"impossible\" to get a \"sensible answer\" on how UK ministers intended to make the changes.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it had been \"trailed\" for \"a very long time\" and that the UK nations were following \"very similar paths, if at slightly different speeds\".\n\nUK ministers have said people arriving in England from countries including France, Spain, Germany and Italy will be exempted from quarantine rules.\n\nMr Drakeford's comments were echoed by the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who also said the UK government's decision making on the matter had been \"shambolic\".\n\nAlthough foreign affairs is not devolved, the implementation of the changes under public health legislation means it needs to be signed off by the governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Dealing with the UK government, over the last few days, has been an utterly shambolic experience,\" Mr Drakeford said, in some of the strongest comments the first minister has made about his political rivals in Westminster during the pandemic.\n\n\"If ever there was an example of making an announcement first and then trying to work out what you meant by it, that is what we have seen since,\" the first minister said at his daily Welsh Government briefing.\n\n\"Day after day we have attempted to get a sensible answer from the UK government of how they intend to make these changes - which countries they intend to extend the new arrangements to, and I just have to say it's been an impossible experience to follow.\"\n\nSpain is amongst the countries UK ministers intend to exempt from quarantine rules\n\nEarlier Grant Shapps, UK transport secretary, said he had \"held off\" from his announcement in the hope that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would reach a decision at the same time as England.\n\nHe said there was \"still an opportunity\" for them to co-ordinate ahead of the changes coming into effect on 10 July.\n\nThe first minister said he does not expect the Welsh Government to disagree with the list.\n\n\"But the law requires that we ask our chief medical officer to take an independent assessment of the list\", he said.\n\n\"If he were to come to any other conclusion then we will pursue his views, first of all with the UK government and then in terms of what we would do here in Wales.\"\n\nThe quarantine restrictions only came into force in early June, to try to stop coronavirus entering the UK at a time when UK infections were falling.\n\nBoris Johnson, at a Downing Street press conference, said: \"We've trailed this for a very long time.\"\n\nHe said the \"administrations in Wales and Scotland may have their own take on this\".\n\n\"But my impression of the way we've been working as a UK is that we, generally speaking, are following very very similar paths if at slightly different speeds.\"", "With travel restrictions and tight budgets many British people are choosing to holiday at home this year. The Lake District is seeing a surge in holiday bookings, as Sarah Corker reports.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ann \"felt so well\" after being given plasma from patients who recovered from Covid-19\n\nBlood plasma from patients who have recovered from Covid-19 is being tested as a potential treatment for those still suffering from the disease.\n\nIt is hoped transfusing seriously ill patients with the plasma - which contains coronavirus antibodies - can give struggling immune systems a helping hand.\n\nMother-of-seven Ann Kitchen was the first person to get the treatment.\n\nShe says her attitude to life is that \"you've got to give things a try\".\n\nAnn was being treated for coronavirus in intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital in London, when researchers asked her to take part in the blood plasma trial.\n\n\"I just felt it was the right thing. Someone has to start doing it. And if it's going to help other people. I just felt it was right.\"\n\nShe was conscious throughout, so saw the pouch of liquid and thought that it looked like \"liquid gold\".\n\nAnn was the first patient to take part, but since then about 200 more have agreed to join the trials. About half have received the plasma.\n\nIt's not new for plasma to be used in hospitals. It is often given when people have lost a lot of blood.\n\nBefore the pandemic, there was no specific national plasma donation programme.\n\nNow, more than 90,000 people have volunteered to donate their plasma in England. It can be frozen for three years.\n\nSo far, there's already enough in the system to treat 1,000 people.\n\nResearchers are keen to collect as much as possible now, especially in case of a possible second wave.\n\nThe idea behind this treatment is simple.\n\nOne way the immune system fights off infections is by producing antibodies.\n\nSo, in theory, giving these antibodies to someone who is ill now, should give them an instant shot of immunity.\n\nTwo separate UK trials are testing to see if this is true.\n\nDr Gail Miflin, chief medical officer for NHS Blood and Transplant, says we could know later this year whether or not plasma is effective.\n\n\"At the moment, we don't know. We hope it could make a huge difference and it could help people recover quicker and come out of hospital faster.\"\n\n\"All I know is that it was within a couple of days of having that plasma, I started to feel a lot better,\" she says.\n\n\"So hopefully it'll be proven that it works.\"\n\nShe has been recovering at home for several weeks now, and thinks she's beginning to understand how sick she was.\n\nHer sons and daughters told her they had been frightened because she had been in a \"really bad way\".\n\nNow, she has days when she is very tired, but mostly she says she feels \"fantastic\".\n\nAnd she says she is incredibly grateful to the donors who have given their plasma.\n\n\"I'm just pleased that there are people out there who are willing to give people a chance.\"", "Airbus has two UK sites, in Flintshire in Wales and Filton near Bristol\n\nAerospace giant Airbus says it plans to cut 15,000 jobs as it deals with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt will cut 1,700 jobs in the UK, along with thousands more in Germany, Spain and elsewhere.\n\nThe move is subject to talks with unions which have opposed compulsory redundancies.\n\nThe Unite union said the Airbus announcement was \"another act of industrial vandalism\" against the UK aerospace sector.\n\nSome 134,000 people work for Airbus worldwide, with around a tenth of them in the UK.\n\nThe firm said the UK cuts would fall only on the commercial aircraft division at its two sites at Broughton in Flintshire and Filton, Bristol.\n\nMore details of the job losses and how they will break down between the two giant factories will come at the end of the week after talks with unions.\n\nHowever, Unite said it expected 1,116 manufacturing jobs and 611 office-based jobs to go, shrinking Airbus's UK workforce by 15%.\n\nThese cuts were inevitable. The only question was just how severe the pain would be.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has been little short of catastrophic for the airline industry. At one point in April, global air traffic was down by more than 90%.\n\nWhen planes aren't flying, they aren't earning money. Yet they still need to be maintained and leasing costs or loans still need to be paid.\n\nThe result? Airlines are struggling to survive and simply can't afford to take on new planes right now. And that, of course, means Airbus has had to curb production.\n\nAirbus has delayed these cuts and has made full use of support from governments. But ultimately it had little choice.\n\nAnd the pain being felt in places such as Broughton, Toulouse and Hamburg will echo through the entire supply chain.\n\nThe firm expects to make the cuts by summer 2021, but hopes the majority of redundancies will be voluntary or through early retirement of staff.\n\nThe company warned in April that it was \"bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed\" as it struggled with the impact of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said on Tuesday that production had dropped by 40% in recent months, and that it did not expect air traffic to get back to pre-pandemic levels until 2023 at the earliest.\n\n\"Airbus is facing the gravest crisis this industry has ever experienced,\" said chief executive Guillaume Faury. \"The measures we have taken so far have enabled us to absorb the initial shock of this global pandemic.\n\n\"Now, we must ensure that we can sustain our enterprise and emerge from the crisis as a healthy, global aerospace leader, adjusting to the overwhelming challenges of our customers.\"\n\nNews of the cuts comes as the international aviation industry reels from the impact of the pandemic. On Tuesday, EasyJet said it would close three UK bases and cut about 2,000 staff.\n\nAnd Reuters reported that Air France/KLM was targeting more than 6,500 job cuts over the next two years.\n\nJim McMahon, Labour's shadow transport secretary, called for more government support in the UK.\n\n\"Labour has consistently called for an extension to the furlough in the most impacted industries, and a sectoral deal that supports the whole aviation industry including securing jobs and protecting the supply chain, while continuing to press for higher environmental standards.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We understand this will be a difficult time for Airbus's employees and their families, and we stand ready to support anyone affected in any way we can.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with the sector to ensure firms are able to rebuild as the civil aviation market recovers.\"", "Almost a quarter of the Airbus jobs in Broughton are being lost\n\nA total of 1,730 jobs will be cut at two of aerospace giant Airbus's UK factories, the company has confirmed.\n\nIt is part of plans to axe 15,000 jobs worldwide in response to the hit it has taken during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was \"deeply concerned\" about the 1,435 jobs being cut at Broughton, Flintshire and urged the UK government to \"get to grips\" with the economic crisis.\n\nA further 295 jobs will go in Filton, Bristol.\n\nPreviously, the company said the jobs would go by summer 2021.\n\nAirbus, which employs 6,080 workers at Broughton, hopes the majority will come via voluntary redundancies or staff retiring early.\n\nBut another 500 agency workers who were furloughed will not be returning.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"This split reflects the significant impact the Covid crisis has had on the UK's commercial aircraft manufacturing activities, which are concentrated in Broughton.\n\n\"Airbus will continue to meet regularly with its trade union partners in the UK in order to identify solutions that will help us implement this adaptation while minimising the social impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the company.\"\n\nSir Keir told a call with voters in Flintshire on Thursday evening he feared it was the beginning of an economic crisis \"the like of which we haven't seen for many, many years\".\n\n\"It's one of the reasons that we've been saying to the [UK] government, it is all very well saying build build build… but at the moment the thing that matters more than anything else is preserving jobs and having a laser-like focus on preserving and protecting jobs.\"\n\nOne of Airbus's senior vice presidents admitted \"it's going to be a difficult period,\" but added that the company remained \"confident in the future\" of the Broughton site.\n\nPaul McKinlay, head of major component told BBC Wales: \"If we didn't act, the viability and future of Airbus would be at stake. It's set at the right level, we believe, for when - we really hope - that recovery starts to come in two to three years, that we're ready for that brighter future.\"\n\nHe welcomed support given to the industry and company by both the Welsh and UK governments.\n\n\"With such devastating news and impact on our industry, any opportunity of support would be welcomed,\" he said.\n\n\"But I think if you look at the aviation sector and how much it's been devastated by this dreadful virus then I think there's quite a strong case for why the aviation sector needs support.\"\n\nBaroness Morgan said it was \"a larger number of jobs than we feared may happen\" and the Welsh Government would be \"working with the UK government to make sure that we keep on pressing to see if we can get more specific support for the sector\".\n\nThe cuts in Broughton represent almost a quarter of the workforce. Filton currently employs 3,200 people.\n\nThe job losses in Broughton have been described as \"a hammer blow\" for the area\n\nLlyr Gruffydd, North Wales Member of the Senedd, said it was \"gut-wrenching\" that 1,435 jobs were being cut at Broughton.\n\nThe Unite union described it as \"another act of industrial vandalism\" against the UK aerospace sector.\n\nIts regional secretary for Wales, Peter Hughes, said no one ever thought it would be \"this bad.\"\n\n\"Yesterday when the announcement was 'over 1,700,' we knew that was bad, and then today over 1,400 from here, (it) is just a massive number,\" he said.\n\n\"Especially when you think that's probably about a third of the workforce.\n\nMr Hughes said the union would be pushing for no compulsory redundancies and called on the UK Government to \"make sure they deliver for Welsh workers.\"\n\nThere would be \"a domino effect\".\n\n\"This is going to knock all of the other dominoes down,\" he said.\n\n\"There's going to be massive knock-on effects.\n\n\"Every one worker here is six in the supply chain, you can do the sums yourself.\"\n\nSome 134,000 people work for Airbus worldwide, with about 10% of them in the UK.\n\nThe factory in Broughton makes wings for the Airbus A380 - the world's largest passenger plane.\n\nThe Filton site is responsible for wing assembly and equipping the Airbus A400M, a military transport plane.\n\nIn April, the company warned it was \"bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed\" as it struggled with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said on Tuesday that production had dropped by 40% in recent months and it did not expect air traffic to get back to pre-pandemic levels until 2023 at the earliest.\n\nOn Tuesday, EasyJet announced it had started consultations on plans to close bases at Stansted, Southend and Newcastle, with Unite saying nearly 1,300 UK crew members faced losing their jobs.\n\nThe Airbus A400M is equipped at the company's Filton site\n\nLeader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Jane Dodds, said: \"Airbus is a huge part of north Wales' economy and provides thousands of well-paid, high-skilled jobs. This announcement is a real blow for Broughton and surrounding communities.\n\n\"We need to do all we can to support those who face losing their job at this difficult time. I hope both the UK and Welsh governments will respond quickly to put additional support in place.\"\n\nDelyn MP Rob Roberts called Airbus \"a vital part of the economy in our part of the country, and I am therefore deeply concerned for workers at the plant at Broughton, their families, and our wider community\".", "Pubs are reopening in England from 4 July and is being dubbed \"Super Saturday\"\n\nPolice are urging the public to heed the \"stay local\" message in Wales as pubs begin opening in England.\n\nIt follows concerns some people will travel by train or car to towns and cities across the border to enjoy a pint.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he did not want to see hard work to control coronavirus abandoned.\n\nTrain operator Transport for Wales also stressed public transport should only be used for essential journeys.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford announced the lifting of travel restrictions in Wales but this does not come into effect until Monday.\n\nAnd while pubs in England can open from 06:00 BST on Saturday, those in Wales will not begin welcoming punters to outdoor spaces until 13 July.\n\nNorth Wales Police urged people to \"stay local\" and Gwent Police said it would be engaging with communities to reinforce the \"stay safe, stay local\" message over the weekend.\n\n\"Our force area sits on one of the main gateways into Wales,\" said a force spokesman.\n\n\"We would like to remind our communities that there are still differences in the guidance in Wales and in England, and any changes to the government guidelines have not yet come into effect in Wales.\"\n\nBeer gardens in pubs will be able to open in Wales from 13 July\n\nThe Gwent force said it would be continuing regular patrols to drive home its message this weekend, ahead of travel restrictions being lifted in Wales from Monday.\n\nIt warned \"people ignoring government advice\" or \"repeatedly disregarding guidance\" would face enforcement measures, which include fixed penalty fines, which can rise to £1,920 for repeat offenders.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it wanted to remind the public that travelling in large groups or with people outside of your own household \"is still not permitted\".\n\nThey added: \"It is also vital that anyone planning on consuming alcohol away from their home ensures they are fit to drive before doing so, or arranges an alternative method of transport.\n\n\"Drink-driving can have tragic consequences, and after three months of the country pulling together for the NHS we hope everyone continues to act responsibly and stays safe this weekend.\"\n\nPubs, cafes and restaurants have been closed in Wales since March\n\nAddressing the same issues ahead of the weekend, the first minister repeated the stay local message: \"So while there are populations very close to the border who may chose to travel, for most of us that will not be a possibility.\n\n\"So please, wherever you are in Wales, this weekend is not a reason or an excuse to abandon all the things that you have worked so hard to achieve, please continue to do those things that help to keep Wales safe.\"\n\nTransport for Wales chief executive James Price said: \"Covid-19 is an evolving situation and over the next week there are important changes in advice from UK and Welsh governments.\n\n\"However, we need to reinforce our travel safer campaign highlighting that public transport is for essential travel and where there are no other travel alternatives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nRecreational cricket is set to resume in England from Saturday, 11 July, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nJohnson had previously said on Friday that it was not yet safe to play the game at grassroots level because of issues with \"teas and dressing rooms\".\n\nHowever, in a later briefing, he said the government would publish guidelines to help clubs and players prepare for the sport's return.\n\nChief medical officer Chris Whitty said it was \"very safe\" to resume playing.\n\nEngland's men will play West Indies in a three-Test series in a bio-secure environment from 8 July.\n\nWhitty said it should be possible to make the game \"safe at a distance\", adding that players should not hug one another or apply saliva to a ball.\n• None How to follow England v West Indies on BBC\n\nThe use of saliva will not be allowed during England's Test series and during warm-up matches players have celebrated by bumping elbows.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said it was \"delighted\" at the government's decision.\n\n\"We believe we have a role to play in getting people active across the country, especially young people,\" chief executive Tom Harrison said.\n\n\"It is heartening to know that club cricket - albeit with social distancing in place and some other adaptations - will soon be back across England.\"\n\nJohnson had been criticised by a number of players - both at domestic and grassroots level - for not allowing recreational cricket to resume.\n\nThe head of Badminton England criticised Johnson for allowing cricket to return, but not badminton.\n\n\"Why can a badminton club not play in a local community centre? If we all follow the same rules, what's the problem?\" Adrian Christy tweeted.\n\nIn an interview with LBC on Friday morning, Johnson said the debate about the sport's return had \"gone round and round\".\n\n\"The longer answer which I think probably Whitty would give, if he were here, about cricket - the risk is not so much the ball, although that may be a factor,\" Johnson said.\n\n\"It's the teas, it's the changing rooms and so on and so forth. There are other factors involved that generate proximity which you might not get in a game of tennis.\"\n\nHe said later in the day that he had been \"stumped\" by the question and \"the third umpire has been invoked\".\n\nA statement from the ECB said the risks of exposure to coronavirus were \"very low\" while playing cricket.\n\n\"The ECB believes that cricket is a non-contact sport, with very low risks of exposure, and that it can be played as safely as many other activities being currently permitted,\" it said.\n\nOther recreational sports such as golf, tennis and basketball have all resumed following the coronavirus lockdown, and pubs are set to reopen in England from Saturday.", "Elderly care home residents will be tested every 28 days\n\nStaff and residents in care homes in England will receive regular coronavirus tests from next week.\n\nStaff will be tested for coronavirus weekly with tests every 28 for days residents over 65.\n\nThe testing policy, which begins on Monday, will also apply to younger patients suffering from dementia.\n\nAny care home dealing with an outbreak, or at increased risk of an outbreak, will be more intensively tested.\n\nCare sector experts say that repeated testing is crucial to containing the virus, following criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic in residential homes.\n\nThere have been 29,000 \"excess\" deaths - the number of fatalities above the average for the time of year - in care homes in England and Wales during this year's coronavirus outbreak, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThere were just over 66,000 deaths of care home residents between 2 March and 12 June this year, compared with just under 37,000 deaths last year.\n\nBBC head of statistics Robert Cuffe says the new figures give the clearest picture yet of the toll of the epidemic in care homes, because they include the deaths of all residents, wherever they took place - not just those who died in the homes.\n\nOf the 29,000 excess deaths, 19,394 of them mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, leaving almost 10,000 deaths that were registered to other causes.\n\nThree-quarters of these deaths occurred within care homes and a quarter in hospitals.\n\nCoronavirus was the leading cause of death for male care home residents, accounting for a third of all deaths, and the second cause of death in female care home residents - after dementia and Alzheimer's disease - accounting for a quarter of all deaths.\n\nSpeaking on LBC, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government would \"go over and look at\" whether an earlier lockdown would have made a difference to the number of people who died in care homes.\n\n\"We will have to go back and look at the whole issue of what happened in care homes in great, great detail,\" he said.\n\n\"I think what happened was absolutely tragic, there's no question that we saw far too many lives lost in care homes and we mourn for everyone.\"\n\nA National Audit Office report last month said about 25,000 hospital patients were discharged into care homes in England at the height of the pandemic, without them all being tested for Covid-19.\n\nMr Johnson said he disagreed with claims that people were moved into care homes from the NHS to make space in hospitals.\n\n\"What we certainly wanted to do to was to ensure we had the space in the NHS, that's absolutely right, but what I'm told is every decision to move people out of the beds in the NHS was taken on a clinical basis and not in any way intended to endanger the care homes.\"\n\nA government survey of almost 9,000 care home managers has identified high levels of the virus among care staff, particularly among temporary staff who work in multiple care settings.\n\nThe data, being published on Friday morning by the ONS, will show care home staff may be at increased risk of contracting the virus, which they may then pass on to others if they have no symptoms.\n\nThe regular testing process will begin next week across all care homes for over 65s and residents with dementia who have registered to receive retesting.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the new policy would give \"certainty and peace of mind\" to families who might otherwise be worried about their loved ones.\n\nCare minister Helen Whately said: \"Social care and its workforce are at the front line of this unprecedented pandemic with many of our care homes looking after those who are most at risk from coronavirus.\n\n\"It is our priority to protect care residents and staff and testing is a crucial part of that. This is so important as it means care workers can be sure they are providing the very best care without worrying if they are carrying the virus themselves.\"\n\nCare providers have also been advised of the importance of reducing movement between care homes to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIt comes as the Department of Health published detailed guidance to pubs, restaurants, cinemas and other venues reopening in England on 4 July on the best way to collect records of staff and visitors to help NHS contact tracers.\n\nThe information will be kept for 21 days and used to reach anyone who at a later date was found to have potentially been in contact with a positive coronavirus case.\n\nAre you or a loved one currently a resident in a care home? What has been your experience of testing? 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:", "Wings for all the Airbus commercial planes are made in Wales\n\nPlans to cut 1,700 UK Airbus jobs have been described as \"utterly devastating\" by a Welsh minister.\n\nEconomy, Transport and North Wales Minister Ken Skates called on the UK government to take \"decisive action\" to support the flight sector.\n\nMr Skates said a \"significant share\" of the job losses were expected at Broughton, in Flintshire.\n\nThe company said it planned to cut 15,000 jobs in total as it dealt with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe site in Broughton makes wings for the Airbus A380, which is the world's largest passenger plane.\n\nMr Skates said \"compulsory action\" at the Broughton site, which employs 6,000, could not be ruled out.\n\nHe said within the next three weeks he would be convening a high level summit to discuss the future of the aerospace, automotive and manufacturing sector and he would be pressing the UK government to take part.\n\nThe minister added it was \"vital\" the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak \"takes the lead\", calling for an \"evolution\" of the furlough scheme to support a shorter working week.\n\nKen Skates called on the UK government to take \"decisive action\" to save jobs at Airbus in Broughton\n\n\"Nobody should be under any illusion about the impact covid is having on aerospace, a critical part of the Welsh economy,\" Mr Skates said.\n\n\"The sector is in crisis and the UK government needs to take swift and decisive action now to save the industry and its supply chain.\n\n\"The alarm bells have been sounding for weeks and we need urgent steps at a UK level to prevent this crisis becoming even worse.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart told Radio Wales: \"There's this idea that there hasn't been much UK government involvement, but there has been £10bn worth so far [in the aviation industry] and we'll keep doing that because we want it to survive…\n\n\"I spoke to [Airbus] yesterday or the day before and I have done throughout this crisis….\n\n\"There is a role for Welsh Government in this too, don't forget they protect their devolved areas very carefully… I'm looking forward to hearing what the first minister is going to do, what Ken Skates is going to do and what their role is in this rather than complain about the UK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, at Prime Minister's Questions in Westminster, Cardiff South and Penarth MP Stephen Doughty asked what Boris Johnson was doing to help workers who \"don't want to hear slogans\".\n\nThe prime minister said there was a \"£600bn plan for investment\" in jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Airbus: \"Most people who live in the area, work here\"\n\nAt the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Mr Skates said ministers would not \"abandon\" Airbus workers and would do all they could to help.\n\n\"This cannot - and will not - be the beginning of the end for Airbus at Broughton,\" he added.\n\nFlintshire council leader Ian Roberts said he would \"like to hear assurances that there will be a two-government approach to this\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"Too often governments blame each other.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford responded, saying he would \"definitely agree that all levels of government will need to work together very closely\".\n\nHe said it was what happened when Ford announced it was closing its engine plant in Bridgend last year.\n\n\"We will need to mobilise exactly the same sort of effort,\" he said.\n\nUnite Wales Regional Secretary Peter Hughes urged the UK government to act: \"If the UK government does not step in now to ensure the support is there for Airbus to get through this crisis, the consequences for Wales could be catastrophic.\"\n\nHe said the union would \"not accept any proposal that involves compulsory redundancy for our members\".\n\nHe called on Airbus to \"hold their nerve and step back from implementing their plan\".\n\nMore details of the job losses and how they will break down between the two giant factories will come at the end of the week after talks with unions.\n\nThe firm expects to make the cuts by summer 2021, but hopes the majority of redundancies will be voluntary or through early retirement of staff.\n\nMr Skates said his thoughts were with workers and their families.\n\n\"As a Welsh Government we will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the company, its workforce, the unions and the communities impacted by this,\" he said.\n\nAirbus employs more than 6,000 people at its site in Broughton\n\nPlaid Cymru's Llyr Gruffydd warned two-thirds of the 1,700 job losses could be in Broughton.\n\nThe Member of the Senedd for North Wales said workers had told him that they expected to potentially lose 1,100 jobs.\n\nHe said Airbus supported another three local jobs for every one at the firm.\n\n\"We are talking about 25,000 dependent on Airbus in Broughton for their work,\" he said.\n\nIn a joint statement, a group of Conservative MPs with constituencies in north Wales said the announcement was \"immensely worrying for local employees\".\n\nWrexham MP Sarah Atherton, Clwyd South MP Simon Baynes, Ynys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie, Vale of Clwyd MP James Davies, Clwyd West MP David Jones, Aberconwy MP Robin Millar and Delyn MP Rob Roberts said: \"We have spoken to Airbus and will continue to work closely with the company, trade unions and both the UK and Welsh governments to do everything we can to support Airbus' workers, their families and the wider community.\"\n\nThey said the UK government had provided \"significant support to help Airbus face the challenges that have emerged as a result of this pandemic\".", "Air France-KLM plans to cut more than 7,500 jobs at its French arm as the airline industry reels from the coronavirus crisis.\n\nEurope's second-biggest airline will cut 6,560 staff at Air France, with its regional French carrier Hop! losing 1,020 jobs, the company said on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, the firm said: \"Recovery looks set to be very slow\" due to uncertainties around Covid-19.\n\nThe cuts will take place over the next three years.\n\nThe group also cited the lifting of travel restrictions and changing customer demand as potential cause for concern in the future.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, revenues fell by 95% and the Air France airline was losing €15m (£13.5m) per day.\n\nAir France does not expect that activity will return to its pre-pandemic level before 2024.\n\nThe group's flagship airline expects to have cut more than 6,000 jobs by the end of 2022, out of a current total of 41,000 staff.\n\n\"Natural departures\", such as retirements and employees who leave of their own accord, are expected to make up about half of the reductions at Air France.\n\nIts sister airline Hop! will see 1,020 jobs cut over the next three years. It currently employs more than 2,000 people.\n\nProtestors at the entrance of an airport in Morlaix, western France\n\nThe company said: \"Air France and Hop! are working together with the unions to implement plans that give priority to voluntary departures, early retirement arrangements and professional and geographical mobility.\"\n\nAir France also said that a wider \"reconstruction plan\" would be presented at the end of July, along with one for the wider Air France-KLM group.\n\nUnion members and staff staged protests at several sites across France on Friday, including outside the company's offices near Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.\n\nThe French government has pledged billions of Euros to support Air France-KLM and the wider aviation industry as demand for travel has crashed as a result of coronavirus-related lockdown measures.\n\nLoans to Air France were contingent on the carrier scrapping some domestic flights in a bid to cut its carbon emissions.\n\nOther airlines have also been forced to adopt similar measures in anticipation of a long, slow return to former levels of demand.\n\nEasyJet previously said that it may need to reduce staff numbers by up to a third because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn June, Lufthansa said it planned to cut 22,000 jobs, and British Airways said in April that it could cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce.", "Sinn Féin's leader and deputy leader attended, along with former leader Gerry Adams (centre)\n\nMichelle O'Neill has said she is \"sorry for grieving families experiencing more hurt\" after complaints about her attending an ex-IRA leader's funeral.\n\nThe deputy first minister was accused of breaching social distancing regulations at Bobby Storey's funeral.\n\nHowever the First Minister Arlene Foster said the apology \"fell short\" in not acknowledging Ms O'Neill's \"role in causing the hurt\".\n\nFour executive parties, including the DUP, had called for her to step aside.\n\nMs O'Neill has said she believes she stuck to the coronavirus lockdown guidelines.\n\nAt a press conference on Friday, she said: \"I am confident that I worked within the guidelines in terms of attending a Requiem Mass, which was allowed, and also to walk in a funeral cortege of up to 30 people.\"\n\nShe said she was conscious that \"in the middle all the politicking, there are a number of families grieving, who have lost love ones throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"At a point in time, families were denied the right to have that family support in terms of a funeral and how they would grieve. I hear those families.\"\n\nMrs Foster told a press conference on Friday that she would be speaking to the other party leaders about this issue and \"trying to move forward\".\n\n\"It is important that we try to build the trust that has been lost,\" she said.\n\n\"The executive has tried to deliver messaging as regards public health guidance to keep our people safe and the credibility of that messaging has been severely damaged over the past week,\" she added.\n\nShe said it had been important the \"hurt was recognised\" but that the apology did not go far enough.\n\nShe reiterated her position that the deputy first minister should consider stepping aside while investigations were ongoing.\n\n\"If she decides not to that is a matter for Sinn Féin,\" she said.\n\nShe added that, as it was her opinion that Ms O'Neill had broken guidelines, the two would not be doing a side-by-side daily briefing on Monday.\n\nThere have also been calls for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr Storey's cremation at Roselawn Crematorium.\n\nMichelle O'Neill has reiterated that she believes she stuck to the coronavirus lockdown guidelines\n\nThe body of the former prisoner, who was considered the head of intelligence of the IRA for a period from the mid-1990s, was brought to the facility after initially being taken to Milltown Cemetery.\n\nIn relation to this, Ms O'Neill said \"everything was done by the guidelines\" and people should stop \"stirring the pot\".\n\nBelfast City Council said all cremations held on Tuesday complied with the guidance from the Northern Ireland Executive guidance which permits 30 people to gather outside.\n\nHands up who remembers the 1987 novelty single Star Trekkin' featuring the line \"It's life Jim but not as we know it\".\n\nFor the past five months it could have applied to the Stormont executive\n\nThe Covid crisis seemed to bring harmony to a place marked by discord in the past. No more.\n\nThe row over the Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill's attendance at Bobby Storey's funeral has driven a spike between her and the other executive parties.\n\nThe others want her out but she's not going and they can't force her.\n\nSo for the moment, no more happy family press snaps at their desks and no more joint press briefings extolling the message 'Keep your distance wash your hands'.\n\nArlene Foster says it will be a challenge. It looks like the executive really will be exercising social distancing with relish.\n\nFor one thing the situation still needs leadership even if the task is now infinitely more difficult. And secondly the parties must stumble on for this really could be devolution's last chance.\n\nIn other words ,It's Life Jim, a little more like we've known it.\n\nA large number of mourners turned out for the funeral on Tuesday\n\nThe UUP has called for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr Storey's cremation at Roselawn Cemetery.\n\nThere have been claims that a number of council staff were sent home from the cemetery during the funeral and that no burials were permitted after 14:00 BST and no cremations after 15:00 to accommodate Mr Storey's cremation.\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie said Sinn Féin had turned the situation \"into a circus\".\n\nThe council said plans were put in place for people appointed by the Storey family to work with it in stewarding the event so that \"those allowed on the site were only those permitted by the family\".\n\nIt said some staff who had been due to go home at 16:00 BST were allowed to leave at 14:00 \"to avoid a situation where staff would be photographed, as has happened... in the past\" and that a decision had been taken not to hold any more cremations that day \"in order to protect the privacy of other members of the public and their cremation services\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 120 mourners were inside St Agnes's Church in Belfast for Mr Storey's funeral, BBC News NI understands.\n\nUpdated guidance, seen by BBC News NI on Wednesday and published on the Department of Health website on Thursday, said funeral services could now be conducted in a place of worship.\n\n\"The size and circumstances of the venue will determine the maximum number that can attend the service safely whilst observing social distancing of at least two metres, wherever possible,\" it stated.\n\nIt also recommended face coverings for indoor services.\n\nThe guidance for those gathering outdoors remains \"a maximum of 30 to gather for the committal at the graveside or at the front of the City of Belfast Crematorium\".\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald told RTÉ she understood \"the images of very busy pathways in west Belfast... has caused some hurt among some of those families\"\n\n\"For that I am very sorry,\" she said.\n\nThe issue has become Stormont's biggest political crisis since devolution was restored in January after a three-year hiatus.\n\nOn Thursday, Mrs Foster said she could not currently \"stand beside\" Ms O'Neill and \"give out public health advice\" after her attendance at the funeral.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said Ms O'Neill had offered a \"half apology\", and that she should stand aside if she was not able to show contrition.\n\nDUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the deputy first minister \"failed to realise the public mood on this and the deep concern that people are taking this personally\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Davide Compagnone returned from the brink of death after a struggle with coronavirus\n\nCovid-19 survivor Davide Compagnone was brought back from the brink of death after a struggle with the disease.\n\nNow the pharmacist has met Dr Matt Morgan, the University Hospital of Wales consultant who saved his life.\n\nThe 37-year-old from Cardiff received ECMO treatment - which adds oxygen directly to blood - because he wasn't getting enough by ventilation.\n\nWales doesn't have its own centre for this so patients are sent to one of five across England.\n\n\"I feel so much gratefulness and appreciation towards life,\" father-of-one Davide said.\n\n\"He saved my life, he took the right decision at the right time along with the amazing team at UHW, Llandough and London.\n\nThe amount of oxygen in his blood was lower than at the peak of Everest without oxygen and he needed a really specialised treatment\n\nDavide was fit and well before contracting coronavirus and had no underlying medical conditions.\n\nDuring treatment, Dr Morgan saw his condition wasn't improving on a ventilator so referred him to London for ECMO.\n\n\"He was probably one of the illest people I've ever met,\" Dr Morgan said.\n\n\"The amount of oxygen in his blood was lower than at the peak of Everest without oxygen, and he needed a really specialised treatment, because adding oxygen into his lungs through a breathing tube wasn't enough.\n\nDavide Compagnone came back from the brink of death after a struggle with Covid-19\n\nFor the first time, the intensive care specialist was moved to keep his notes on Davide in the form of a letter.\n\nHe wrote: \"Hi Davide, I've had a long chat to your wife today and I could hear your daughter in the background.\n\n\"I explained that you were very unwell, needing as much as 80% oxygen when on your back, and we were really worried that you were sick enough to die.\"\n\nECMO treatment is risky and has strict eligibility criteria.\n\nBut for those that have it there's a 70% survival rate.\n\nDavide said he now has a greater appreciation of life\n\nA specialist team from London travelled to Wales to hook Davide up to the machine.\n\nThen they took him to the UK capital by ambulance.\n\nDavide's wife, Valentina Flamini, stayed in Cardiff to look after their nine-month-old daughter whilst he was treated in London.\n\nShe said: \"I saw that people who went through mechanical ventilation had a very slow recovery so I was expecting months and months of tough times for him, and for us as well, but after a week or 10 days, he was more or less fine.\n\n\"This is why I think the ECMO played a role.\"\n\nDavide is now recovering well.\n\nValentina said she will remember Dr Matt Morgan's voice forever\n\n\"I feel a little bit anxious about the future,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that I will now be some sort of vulnerable patient for the future.\"\n\nValentina and Davide said their story has a happy ending\n\nValentina and Davide credit Dr Matt Morgan with making the life-saving decision to refer him for ECMO treatment.\n\nAfter meeting him, Valentina was delighted to be able to put a face to his name after many hours on the phone to him.\n\n\"I'm really, really grateful,\" she said.\n\n\"I will remember his voice forever. It was a real pleasure to see him in person.\n\n\"To see that he is OK (after dealing with so many Covid-19 cases) and we are all right, that's a happy end to the story.\"\n\nDr Morgan said a patient a week had been referred from south Wales' hospitals since the first Covid-19 case emerged in February.\n\nThe Welsh Government is considering the viability of setting up an ECMO treatment centre in Wales.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"A decision about whether or not such a facility should be developed in Wales is not about cost but about the number of patients needed to sustain a clinically safe model and maintain clinical competence.\"", "Comments on slavery by David Starkey have been criticised for being racist.\n\nThe TV historian and author told an online show hosted by the conservative commentator Darren Grimes that slavery was not genocide because of the survival of \"so many damn blacks\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, former chancellor Sajid Javid said: \"David Starkey's racist comments are a reminder of the appalling views that still exist.\"\n\nStarkey has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nFitzwilliam College, part of Cambridge University, where Starkey holds an honorary fellowship, described his remarks as \"indefensible\".\n\n\"We support and promote freedom of speech in our academic community, but we have zero tolerance of racism,\" the college said in a statement on Thursday. \"Dr David Starkey's recent comments on slavery are indefensible.\"\n\nThey added: \"The matter of Dr Starkey's honorary fellowship will be considered by the Governing Body at its meeting next Wednesday.\"\n\nThe Mary Rose Trust said it was \"appalled\" by Starkey's comments, adding on Thursday evening they had accepted his resignation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Mary Rose This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Mary Rose\n\nStarkey made the offensive remarks in an episode of Grimes's YouTube show Reasoned, entitled \"Dr David Starkey: Black Lives Matter Aims To Delegitimate British History\".\n\nThe show's host tweeted on Thursday: \"I reject in the strongest possible terms what Dr Starkey said in that clip and so very wish I'd caught it at the time. I am still learning the ropes, I will be much more alert to challenging this kind of thing in future.\"\n\nIn it, Starkey said: \"Slavery was not genocide otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.\"\n\nHe also claimed that the Black Lives Matter protests, following the death of George Floyd, had been characterised by \"violence\" and \"victimhood\".\n\nHe described cancel culture and the pulling down of statues as \"deranged\".\n\nThe academic went on to discuss the links between slavery and the British Empire.\n\nStarkey said: \"As for the idea that slavery is this kind of terrible disease that dare not speak its name, it only dare not speak its name, Darren, because we settled it nearly 200 years ago.\"\n\n\"We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.\"\n\nStarkey's comments were heavily criticised by several social media users.\n\nNicholas Guyatt, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, tweeted: \"Can't speak for my employer but as someone who teaches history at Cambridge I'm ashamed of our connections with David Starkey and urge both the University and Fitzwilliam College to cut all ties with him.\"\n\nIt's not the first time Starkey has been involved in a public race row.\n\nIn 2011, the BBC received nearly 700 complaints about Starkey's claim that \"whites have become black\", during a Newsnight discussion about riots in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The shadow chancellor says the reward for workers after the coronavirus pandemic “cannot be a redundancy notice”.\n\nMore targeted economic support is required to prevent job losses in the wake of Covid-19, the shadow chancellor has said.\n\nIn a speech, Labour's Anneliese Dodds demanded that job retention schemes be extended in parts of the UK hit by local lockdowns.\n\nShe called on ministers to end a \"one-size-fits-all approach\" on help to shore up jobs.\n\nThe chancellor is due to outline an economic support package next week.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to bring forward infrastructure investment to create \"thousands of high-paid high-skilled jobs\".\n\nThe government's furlough scheme is paying 80% of the wages of more than nine million workers but is due to be pared back from August, and will finish at the end of October.\n\nMs Dodds' speech came after UK companies announced thousands of job cuts this week, with many firms cutting jobs now to reduce costs.\n\nFrom 1 August, employers will have to pay National Insurance and pension contributions for their staff.\n\nThey will then have to pay 10% of furloughed employees' salaries from September - rising to 20% in October.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Dodds blamed the latest round of job losses on the government \"refusing to shift from its one-size-fits-all approach\".\n\nShe added that workers in struggling sectors \"cannot and should not be treated the same way\" as those in sectors \"already back to full capacity\".\n\n\"To avoid the same flood of redundancy notices for workers within smaller companies later on this month, government must act now\".\n\nShe called on the chancellor to ensure projects announced as part of his recovery package are carbon neutral or help reduce emissions.\n\nMs Dodds also said jobs schemes should be extended in areas in localised lockdown, so that spikes in the virus in there \"don't wash away businesses and jobs in their wake\".\n\nThe owner of Cafe Rouge became the latest UK firm to announce job cuts on Thursday.\n\nIn an economic statement on Wednesday next week, Chancellor Rishi Sunak is due to set out \"the next stage in our plan to secure the recovery\".\n\nIn a speech earlier this week, Boris Johnson promised a £5bn \"new deal\" to build homes and infrastructure to help aid a post-Covid economic recovery.\n\nHe also outlined plans for an \"opportunity guarantee\" to ensure every young person had the chance of an apprenticeship or placement.\n\nResponding to Ms Dodds' comments, Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling said the government had a \"clear plan to protect and create jobs\".\n\n\"Every Labour government has left unemployment higher than when it entered. Sir Keir Starmer would be no different,\" she added.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted the furlough scheme must come to an end in October - saying it would not be \"healthy\" to extend it further.\n\nThe hospitality sector, including pubs and restaurants, is reopening in Northern Ireland on Friday, with England following on Saturday.\n\nIn Scotland, beer gardens and outdoor restaurants will be allowed to reopen from 6 July. Indoor areas are due to follow from 15 July.\n\nPubs, bars, cafes and restaurants in Wales are due to be able to reopen outdoors from 13 July.", "Almost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, ONS figures show.\n\nBut only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics figures are the first to reveal the full toll on care homes, including deaths that happened in hospital.\n\nCare homes in England will carry out routine testing from Monday.\n\nThere were just over 66,000 deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between 2 March and 12 June this year, compared to just under 37,000 deaths last year.\n\nCovid-19 was the leading cause of death for male care home residents, accounting for a third of all deaths, and the second most-common cause of death for female residents, after dementia and Alzheimer's disease.\n\nWhile 20,000 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, another 10,000 of the excess deaths were registered to other, non-Covid, causes.\n\nPrevious analysis from the ONS has suggested that many of those \"non-Covid\" deaths could have involved undiagnosed coronavirus.\n\nThree-quarters of these deaths occurred within the care homes themselves and a quarter were care home residents who died in hospitals.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We have been doing everything we can to ensure care home residents and staff are protected during this unprecedented global pandemic.\n\n\"We announced today that we will be rolling out repeat testing for care home staff and residents across the country from Monday, to help further reduce the spread of infection in care homes.\"\n\nDeaths from all causes in England and Wales have fallen to below the five-year average for the first time since before the coronavirus outbreak took hold, as of the week ending 19 June.\n\nONS figures showed deaths from all causes were lower than average for the time of year in care homes and hospitals.\n\nThe number of people dying at home was still slightly higher than average, but decreasing.\n\nDeaths where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate accounted for 8% of all deaths compared with 33% of deaths in the week ending 10 April.\n\nAlso on Friday, a survey of care homes in England which provide care for the elderly and younger people with dementia - the \"Vivaldi study\" - was published.\n\nMore than half of providers surveyed said they had coronavirus infections in their homes.\n\nIt also found care homes that offered their staff sick pay or relied less heavily on bank or agency staff (who may work in more than one home) had fewer infections.\n\nFrom next week, residents in care homes in England for over-65s, or younger patients with dementia, will receive monthly coronavirus tests.\n\nAny care home dealing with an outbreak, or at increased risk of an outbreak, will be more intensively tested.", "Artwork: The government wants OneWeb to run a sat-nav service as well as deliver broadband\n\nThe UK is spending $500m (£400m) on a stake in failed satellite firm OneWeb as part of a plan to replace use of the EU's Galileo sat-nav system.\n\nOneWeb went bankrupt in March while trying to build a spacecraft network to deliver broadband.\n\nThe UK is part of a consortium with India's Bharti Global which won a bidding war for the company.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said it would help deliver the \"first UK sovereign space capability\".\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sharma said: \"This deal underlines the scale of Britain's ambitions on the global stage.\n\n\"Our access to a global fleet of satellites has the potential to connect millions of people worldwide to broadband, many for the first time, and the deal presents the opportunity to further develop our strong advanced manufacturing base right here in the UK.\"\n\nThe consortium involving the UK government was the highest bidder in an auction for the bankrupt company.\n\nMatters will be clarified on 10 July, when the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York rules on the sale.\n\nIf the Bharti Global-led option goes through, the UK government will own an equity stake of 45% in the new operation.\n\nThe UK government sees satellites as a way to meet commitments on the roll-out of super-fast broadband and believes OneWeb's constellation could also deliver a precise Positioning, Navigation and Timing service, also known as sat-nav.\n\nThe latter has become a political imperative for No 10 since losing membership of Europe's Galileo satellite-navigation system on departure from the EU in January.\n\nAlthough Galileo's free and open signals remain accessible to the UK, its more secure signals, known as PRS, intended for military and government agency use, are only available to member states. UK ministers want to replace this capacity with a home-grown system.\n\nWhile exceptionally good news for the staff of OneWeb, the decision of the UK government to get involved in the company has raised eyebrows in the wider space sector.\n\nSome of the more established actors have questioned the financial viability of the broadband mega-constellation projects.\n\nSpaceX is building an even bigger network and Amazon has long talked about rolling out its own version.\n\nThese are extremely expensive endeavours involving multiple rocket launches - and it's an ongoing commitment.\n\nThe satellites need to be refreshed, to replace ageing and failed units, but also to take advantage of new technological developments.\n\nThe $500m (£400m), they believe, could be spent more fruitfully if spread across a wider set of less risky British space projects.\n\nThe interesting angle, of course, is the idea that OneWeb's network could also double as a satellite-navigation service.\n\nIt's not impossible technically, but it is challenging.\n\nThe UK's Satellite Applications Catapult is preparing a white paper to illustrate one potential way of using the initial OneWeb constellation to deliver precise timing for use in the country's power, telecoms and finance industries.\n\nBut experts warn that a bumpy road lies ahead on the issue of the frequencies used to transmit Positioning, Navigation and Timing signals - one that will require international agreement.\n\nOneWeb, which has its HQ in west London and parallel operations in Virginia, US, had initially raised $3.2bn (£2.6bn) of investment to build its mega-constellation.\n\nSeventy-four satellites in an initial network of 648 had been launched when the company announced recourse to bankruptcy protection, blaming the Covid crisis for the inability to raise additional financial support. Most experts believe a further $3bn at least is needed to bring the full constellation into use.\n\nAssuming there are no regulatory blockages put in the path of the consortium plan, OneWeb should soon be able to start pulling back staff who were laid off, and to resume the manufacture and launch of its satellites. The spacecraft are currently made in Florida in a partnership with European aerospace giant Airbus.\n\nOneWeb is headquartered in a former BBC building in west London\n\nThere has been talk of this production, or at least some of it, being moved to Britain in future as part of the new arrangements\n\nAdrian Steckel, CEO of OneWeb, said: \"We are delighted to have concluded the sale process with such a positive outcome that will benefit not only OneWeb's existing creditors, but also our employees, vendors, commercial partners, and supporters worldwide who believe in the mission and in the promise of global connectivity.\"\n\nAirbus in the UK welcomed the outcome of the auction.\n\nManaging Director Richard Franklin said: \"The UK government's vision in backing this project will drive innovation and new ways of thinking about how space can contribute even more to the UK economy, and the country's defence requirements, as well as playing a part in delivering broadband internet to communities across the country.\n\n\"We look forward to supporting OneWeb in the next phase of their business and growing the UK contribution to this market-changing business.\"\n\nOneWeb launched its first 74 satellites in three batches\n\nLockheed Martin UK Chief Executive Peter Ruddock said he hoped the OneWeb investment would not impact the much-anticipated UK national space policy or plans for a broader national space programme.\n\n\"Hopefully, it is more an indication of the level of ambition we can expect, as the UK government looks to secure additional investment, from companies like Lockheed Martin, to support future opportunities for growth in the space sector.\n\n\"Industry will be looking for the government, including the MoD, to work with us to sustain confidence in the UK space sector and future commercial and defence space programmes.\"\n\nChi Onwurah MP, Labour's shadow minister for science, commented: \"There are serious concerns about the government's decision to spend £400m buying a stake in this company. We were promised Galileo would be replaced by a UK-based programme, but this is not that.\n\n\"We need a 'Back to Work Budget' with a laser-like focus on UK jobs. The government needs to urgently explain how and why this decision was taken.\"\n\nBharti, through Bharti Airtel, is the third largest mobile operator in the world, with over 425 million customers.\n\nOneWeb's statement on Friday said Bharti Airtel's networks would in future act as the testing ground for all the satellite company's new products, services, and applications.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Students and teachers held rallies outside her school and the court in Michigan\n\nA Michigan judge's decision to send a 15-year-old girl to juvenile detention for violating her probation by not completing her online schoolwork during the coronavirus lockdown has prompted protests and calls for her release.\n\nThe African-American teenager has reportedly been detained since mid-May.\n\nHundreds of students gathered outside her school and the court to show their support for the girl known as \"Grace\".\n\nThe state's supreme court said on Thursday it would review her case.\n\nProPublica highlighted Grace's case in a report earlier this week. Following interviews with Grace's mother, the news site described how the teenager had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and had already been struggling with behavioural issues.\n\nShe had been placed on probation in mid-April via a zoom juvenile court hearing after facing an assault and theft charge last year; one of the terms of the probation was a requirement to do her schoolwork.\n\nThe teenager was detained in May\n\nProPublica report that the start of Grace's probation coincided with the first days of remote schoolwork, and she quickly became overwhelmed without the in-person support of her teachers.\n\nAt a mid-May hearing at the Oakland County Family Court Division to decide whether Grace had violated her probation, Judge Mary Ellen Brennan found the girl \"guilty on failure to submit to any schoolwork and getting up for school\" and called Grace a \"threat to the community\" because of the previous charges against her, ProPublica reports. Judge Brennan has so far not commented publicly on the ruling.\n\nFellow students and her teachers at Groves High School, in the Detroit suburb of Beverly Hills, came out in her support at a rally on Thursday, and several thousand people have signed online petitions calling for her release.\n\n\"A lot of people were behind on their work this semester, no one had motivation to do anything because the teachers weren't teaching and we were all online. I know so many people that didn't do their homework,\" 18-year-old student Prudence Canter told Reuters news agency.\n\nOther teens argued they too had failed to do school work during the pandemic\n\nSocial studies teacher Geoff Wickersham told Reuters: \"It didn't seem like the judge or the caseworker knew how grades and due dates and things were structured during the pandemic shutdown in the spring. I think this is a huge injustice.\"\n\n\"I know if Grace was a 15-year-old white girl she would not be sitting in juvenile detention right now,\" a mother, Sheri Crawley, told local TV news station WDIV.\n\nMichigan's Supreme Court said on Thursday it would review Grace's case after lawyers for the teenager filed a motion seeking an emergency review.\n\n\"The State Court Administrative Office is working with the Oakland Circuit Court to examine the processes in this case,\" John Nevin, the court's communications' director, said in a statement.", "Actress Winona Ryder, who was in a relationship with Johnny Depp for four years, gave a witness statement\n\nJohnny Depp's ex-partner Winona Ryder has said it is \"impossible to believe\" allegations from his former wife Amber Heard that he was violent.\n\n\"I truly and honestly only know him as a really good man,\" said Ms Ryder.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper maintains it was accurate.\n\nHe denies 14 domestic violence allegations which News Group Newspapers is relying on for its defence.\n\nMs Ryder and Vanessa Paradis, also a former partner of Mr Depp, had been due to give evidence at London's High Court via video link.\n\nBut on Thursday the actor's barrister David Sherborne told the court Mr Depp's legal team had decided there was no need to hear from them. Their witness statements were released to the media, following a successful application by the PA news agency.\n\nMr Depp arriving at the High Court on Thursday\n\nMs Ryder, who was in a relationship with Mr Depp for four years, said: \"I understand that it is very important that I speak from my own experience, as I obviously was not there during his marriage to Amber, but, from my experience, which was so wildly different, I was absolutely shocked, confused and upset when I heard the accusations against him.\n\n\"The idea that he is an incredibly violent person is the farthest thing from the Johnny I knew and loved.\n\n\"I cannot wrap my head around these accusations. He was never, never violent towards me. He was never, never abusive at all towards me. He has never been violent or abusive towards anybody I have seen.\n\n\"I truly and honestly only know him as a really good man - an incredibly loving, extremely caring guy who was so very protective of me and the people that he loves, and I felt so very, very safe with him.\n\n\"I do not want to call anyone a liar but from my experience of Johnny, it is impossible to believe that such horrific allegations are true. I find it extremely upsetting, knowing him as I do.\"\n\nIn her witness statement, musician, actress and model Ms Paradis said she had known Mr Depp for more than 25 years - including 14 years when they were partners and raised their two children together.\n\n\"Through all these years I've known Johnny to be a kind, attentive, generous and non-violent person and father,\" she said.\n\n\"On movie sets the actors, directors and entire crews adore him because he is humble and respectful to everyone, as well as being one of the best actors we've seen.\"\n\nMs Paradis' statement said the allegations from Ms Heard were \"nothing like the true Johnny I have known, and from my personal experience of many years, I can say he was never violent or abusive to me\".\n\n\"I have seen that these outrageous statements have been really distressing, and also caused damage to his career because unfortunately people have gone on believing these false facts,\" she added.\n\nEarlier, Mr Depp's bodyguard claimed it was a \"very common occurrence\" for the actor to call his security team \"to take him away from Ms Heard, due to her behaviour\" and \"he would then stay somewhere else\".\n\nSean Bett, who is Mr Depp's head of security, has worked for the Hollywood star for nine years.\n\nIn a written statement, Mr Bett said he saw the couple \"very regularly\" during their relationship, and \"never saw any cuts, bruises or other injuries on Ms Heard\".\n\nSean Bett is a former deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department\n\n\"On the contrary, throughout the course of Mr Depp and Ms Heard's relationship, Ms Heard was verbally and physically abusive towards Mr Depp,\" he claimed.\n\nHe added: \"I would describe it as a recurring cycle that Ms Heard would abuse Mr Depp, who would then remove himself from the situation.\"\n\nThe case centres on an article published on the Sun's website in April 2018. It was headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe article related to allegations made by Ms Heard, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017. The hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "Floral tributes have been placed at the site\n\nA 10-year-old boy has died following an accident at a works site in Glasgow.\n\nShea Ryan died in hospital after suffering serious injuries on the site near Glenkirk Drive in Drumchapel on Thursday evening.\n\nHis name was confirmed by his grandparents, Janis Meechan and William Brown, who told BBC Scotland Shea was a \"good boy\".\n\nPolice said their inquiries into his death were continuing but it was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nEmergency services were called to the site at 21:55 on Thursday.\n\nShea was taken by ambulance to the Royal Hospital for Children on the Queen Elizabeth campus in Glasgow. He died soon after arriving.\n\nHis grandparents were among those who laid floral tributes at the site on Friday.\n\n\"We think our wee granddaughter was there when he fell,\" Ms Meechan said.\n\n\"We've just came up to put these flowers down and then we'll get him a big grandson flower.\n\n\"He was a good boy,\" she said. \"Wild, but good\".\n\nWhen Shea's grandfather found out what happened he said: \"I thought I was hearing things\".\n\nHis grandparents said they saw Shea all the time\n\nWork was being carried out on the site by agencies including Scottish Water to address flooding problems from the Garscadden Burn.\n\nOn Friday a children's slide that had been taped off could be seen at the very edge of the construction site with police standing guard.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive confirmed it was assisting police with their inquiries.\n\nThe police investigation is being supported by the Health and Safety Executive\n\nMargaret Coyle, head teacher at Camstradden Primary School where Shea went to school, said they were devastated to learn of his death.\n\n\"In the short period of time Shea's been with us at the school he has made many friends with school staff and the children,\" she added.\n\n\"Everyone will be shocked to learn of his death and we will do all that we can to offer support to the family and wider community in Drumchapel.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nGary Copland was driving to the local garage when he saw the large police presence on Thursday.\n\n\"I saw all the lights and the sirens and I pulled in. I was like 'That isn't normal. That's not the average response to see police running down a hill towards something,'\" he explained.\n\nMr Copland said the gaps in the construction site fence concerned him as a father himself because of the \"major excavation\" that was taking place.\n\n\"There are gaps in the fence and parts of the fence that have been torn down and replaced but because of Covid-19 I don't think a lot of people have been going round to check on it,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there has to be a consideration into security now, maybe more personnel here at night as a deterrent or more signs, something instead of just a fence with holes.\n\n\"The site just looks like a big sandy hill to a kid. It's devastating. Your heart goes out to them\".\n\nA Drumchapel resident who heard the sirens, Agnes Ball, said the small community would pull together in the \"heartbreaking\" and \"tragic\" accident.\n\nTributes to the 10-year-old have been posted on social media from \"devastated\" Drumchapel residents.\n\nA post on a community Facebook page said: \"So sorry to wake up and see this. Every parents worst nightmare. RIP wee angel. Thinking of all the family at this heartbreaking time.\"\n\nAnother post said: \"This is absolutely heartbreaking. May god bless all his family and friends. Also sending love to Drumchapel. Life is so cruel.\"\n\n\"R.I.P little man, such terrible news, my heart is breaking for your family & friends, another life taken too soon xxx,\" read another contribution.", "After days of preparation, deconstruction work at the historic Orfordness Lighthouse got under way\n\nFor more than 200 years, the lighthouse at Orford Ness has warned mariners they are nearing Europe's longest shingle spit. But as the sea steadily reclaims the land on which it is built, its owner has decided the time is right for the lighthouse to come down, changing forever the skyline of the Suffolk coast.\n\n\"I feel highly emotional,\" says Nicholas Gold, owner of Orfordness Lighthouse. \"It's taken a big chunk of my life.\"\n\nThe Grade II-listed building is the 11th - and final - Orfordness Lighthouse.\n\nIt was established 228 years ago on a particularly perilous stretch of England's coast. Although it is impossible to say how many souls it has helped save during that time, a single storm off Orford Ness, for example, wrecked 32 ships during a single day in 1627.\n\nOn Thursday, the dismantling operation began and the roof was cut away\n\nEarlier in the week, a giant crane made its slow way along the spit towards the lighthouse. On Thursday, the dismantling operation began and the roof was cut away. Dismantling the lighthouse is expected to take about four weeks.\n\nIt is hoped parts of the lighthouse can be used in a permanent memorial nearby.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the early 1980s, its base was 90m (295ft) from the sea. In the winter of 2013-14, four metres (13ft) of beach was lost in a single storm.\n\nIt took a pounding in 2018's \"Beast from the East\" storms, and the sea is now just a few metres from the imposing red and white structure.\n\nTides have slowly eroded the shingle beach on the Ness bringing the lighthouse perilously close to the sea\n\nOrfordness Lighthouse Trust plans to remove the lantern room and other artefacts that will one day form the basis of a lighthouse memorial on the other side of the Ness, facing Orford town's quay.\n\nAdrian Underwood's father Charlie was the last lighthouse keeper at Orford Ness, working there from 1965 until his retirement in 1994 and recognised with an MBE for his service.\n\nMr Underwood, who published his father's second book on Orford in tribute to him after his death in 1997, has a small model of the lighthouse in his home in Ireland.\n\n\"I spent most of my Sundays on Orford Ness with him,\" said Mr Underwood, who, with no other vehicles on the shingle spit, taught himself to drive while his father worked.\n\n\"It was just part of life. When I look back on it, I was blessed.\n\n\"I have not been back to Orford since 2007 but in my mind the lighthouse will always be as it was. I'm almost glad that I've not seen it since so that for me it will always be as I remember it.\"\n\nAdrian Underwood spent most Sundays as a teenager with his lighthouse man father Charlie on Orford Ness\n\nRelentless tides have started to take away the shingle from underneath the lighthouse's concrete footing\n\nTo protect the lighthouse from erosion, the Orfordness Lighthouse Trust filled rubble sacks with shingle, bound them together with felt and laid them out in \"large sausages\" each weighing about 50 tonnes.\n\nThis flexible wall has kept the building standing for longer than most expected.\n\nLonger-term defences, such as steel piling or rock armour, would not be allowed due to the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) status of Orford Ness.\n\nThis status has also prevented the cutting-off of the lighthouse at the base and moving it back, as has been done with some others.\n\nEqually, as the sea can continue to cut around the sides, the trust would have had to keep adding to the defences to prevent this happening or the lighthouse could end up on its own small island.\n\nThe lighthouse was never designed to be in the sea because the salt water would have made short work of its lime mortar.\n\nThe lighthouse was decommissioned in 2013, after which Mr Gold bought it. He describes that decision as one made by a \"silly idiot\" since it was \"always doomed\".\n\nSince then, a small team of volunteers have sought to prolong the life of the building.\n\n\"The whole point was the lighthouse had been such a celebrated landmark over so many years since the 18th Century,\" he said. \"It would be a wasted opportunity to leave it unkempt and sad in its final years.\n\n\"We did a deal. The headline price was £2,000 but I had a capital commitment to sort out the taking down and removal of it. I won't get any change from a six-figure sum.\"\n\nMr Gold previously worked as a financial adviser in London and has always had a passion for buying \"one-off buildings\". They include a redundant church and a former US spy station.\n\nThe lighthouse \"seemed to fold naturally into the family,\" he said.\n\nThe view from the top of Orfordness Lighthouse in 2018 towards Aldeburgh and looking down from the spiral staircase towards the \"sectored light\" landing. Charts would show mariners the sea marked into coloured sectors. Green was safe, white \"heading into danger\" and red meant you were about to run aground\n\nThe site is closed to visitors and members of the public have been told to stay away while the deconstruction work takes place\n\nVolunteers from the lighthouse trust must now \"deconstruct\" the building while there is enough shingle beach left for a crane to come and lift its 14-tonne cap and lantern room - or they will be lost forever.\n\nThe team will then collapse the walls inside the lighthouse so that the brickwork does not spill across the shingle beach.\n\nWork is also under way to save as many of the building's original features as possible, along with its bespoke curved furniture.\n\nThe lighthouse in 1951, just over a decade before it became one of the first remote-controlled lighthouses in the British Isles\n\nWhile the lighthouse is owned by Mr Gold, the National Trust owns the surrounding Ness, an area with its own place in history as a site for ballistic weapons, radar and atomic research.\n\nBut from its point of view, taking on the preservation of the lighthouse would have been too costly.\n\nOrfordness lighthouse has attracted artists for more than two centuries. Landscape and marine painter William Daniell featured it in his 1820s series A Voyage Round Great Britain\n\nNick Collinson, its general manager for the Suffolk and Essex Coast, said the disappearance of the lighthouse was in keeping with the longer life and history of the Ness.\n\n\"Orfordness Lighthouse has been an iconic landmark on this stretch of Suffolk's coastline for centuries, and we are saddened to see it lost,\" he said.\n\n\"Sitting on such a dynamic shingle spit, constantly changed by the sea, man's presence here can often feel ephemeral.\"\n\n\"I find Orford Ness hauntingly beautiful,\" said Norfolk-based illustrator Rebecca Pymar. \"The Ness is home to fragile and endangered habitats and species which is mirrored by the lighthouses' own fragility as it makes its sad decline into the sea. It will be missed.\"\n\nThe lighthouse trust hopes to sell off its \"local bricks in wonderful condition\" to help raise funds to recreate a likeness of its top third more than a mile inland, featuring as many of the original elements as possible.\n\nThe nature reserve on which the lighthouse stands is currently closed to the public.\n\nThe Orfordness Lighthouse Trust hopes it will be possible to construct a tribute to the lighthouse, featuring a number of original features, at a new location nearly 1.5 miles (2.4km) from the sea\n\n\"The lighthouse itself is an emotional thing, certainly for the people of Orford who've lived with it on their horizon for generations,\" said Mr Gold.\n\n\"It's Orford's equivalent of the Taj Mahal.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story idea email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Never Have I Ever was watched by 40 million households in the first four weeks of its release\n\nNetflix has seen a surge in sign-ups due to the coronavirus lockdown, but has warned investors that subscriber growth will slow.\n\nThe streaming giant added more than 10 million subscribers in the three months to July, bringing the total of new subscribers to 26 million in 2020.\n\nIn contrast, Netflix saw 28 million new subscribers for the whole of 2019.\n\n\"Growth is slowing as consumers get through the initial shock of coronavirus and social restrictions.\"\n\nNetflix shares dropped in after-hours trading as investors digested the firm's quarterly update.\n\nThe streaming service's revenue increased almost 25% to $6.1bn (£4.9bn), while profits rose to $720m in the quarter, up from $271m a year go.\n\nThe subscriber additions were far higher than analysts had expected.\n\nWhile, some people might still end up quitting the service, \"the pandemic has clearly shown that Netflix is an indispensable part of viewers lives,\" said Paolo Pescatore, analyst at PP Foresight.\n\nSophie Lund Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the streaming service will have to continue to spend heavily on new shows and movies to keep its audience.\n\n\"While Netflix is still the biggest fish in the tank, if it wants to keep it that way, there is work to be done,\" she said, adding that it should focus on markets outside the US where there is more growth potential.\n\nNetflix also announced it was promoting chief content officer Ted Sarandos to co-chief executive.\n\n\"This change makes formal what was already informal - that Ted and I share the leadership of Netflix,\" chief executive Reed Hastings told investors.", "'Honestly, I thought the incident would go unnoticed,' Marichka Padalko said\n\nLive TV can throw up all sorts of potential hurdles - technical glitches, unpredictable guests and knowing that there is no take two.\n\nBut Marichka Padalko, a news anchor in Ukraine, faced an unusual problem this week when part of her front tooth fell out.\n\nHowever, like a true professional, she simply put the tooth in her hand and continued.\n\n\"Honestly, I thought the incident would go unnoticed,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"But we underestimated the attention of our viewers,\" she added, under a video of her losing the tooth.\n\nMs Padalko revealed that she required a tooth repair around a decade ago after her daughter smashed it accidentally while swinging a metal alarm clock.\n\nDespite the network initially not posting the video to YouTube, Ms Padalko said she had been impressed by the amount of support she had received.\n\nShe added: \"In any situation, keep calm, See you tomorrow morning.\"", "Rubbish has been left strewn on Snowdon, including this found outside the cafe at the summit\n\nPeople are being urged to respect the countryside after \"widespread\" reports of visitors leaving litter and using beauty spots as toilets.\n\nAt the height of lockdown, Wales' three national parks - Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia, and Pembrokeshire Coast - were closed, in a bid to help curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSince reopening on 6 July, dog mess and litter has been left on Snowdon.\n\nThe national park authority said the behaviour was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt said a \"small minority of people\" hiking up Snowdon since restrictions were eased had left litter, dog mess and human excrement behind.\n\n\"This is a emerging widespread issue not just in the mountains but also at lakeside locations, and across the national parks and visitor destinations in Wales,\" it said in a statement, adding similar problems were being seen in England.\n\nWith toilets closed at the summit of Snowdon, human excrement has been found\n\nWalker Arwel Griffiths said he was disgusted to find food and drink waste, bottles, cans and even blankets and items of clothing on the mountain.\n\n\"It was all the way from the bottom of the mountain to the top and outside the cafe by the doorwell,\" he said.\n\n\"It's disgusting, heartbreaking. The mountain was getting greener again and flowers were growing with lack of use during lockdown. Now there's gloves, socks, blankets, bottles, cans and lots of wipes thrown around.\n\n\"I'm going up there with a litter picker - it needs to be done.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by J This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnlike most mountains, Snowdon has a visitor centre at the summit, with a cafe and toilets.\n\nBut during lockdown many public toilets have been closed, and many have struggled without them, including people with medical conditions, older people and those with young children.\n\nThe toilets on the mountain are currently shut, and there have been issues previously with people using the toilet on the mountainside.\n\nAlwena Jones found a man using the toilet on her cafe halfway up Snowdon\n\nAlwena Jones, who runs the Halfway House cafe on the Llanberis path to the summit, said with more people taking to the mountain following lockdown the problem was getting worse.\n\nShe said she had found a man urinating against the door of her business on Sunday.\n\n\"I just asked him: 'Excuse me, why do you have to have a wall to pee on? You've got 1,100 acres here for you to have a wee - why do you have to do it on my back door'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Saturday before lockdown was the \"busiest ever visitor day in living memory\" in Snowdonia, officials say\n\nWith more than half a million people walking up Snowdon each year, and over 100,000 taking the train to the summit, Ms Jones feels it may be getting to the point where more toilets is the only answer.\n\n\"I think there is a need of a toilet - especially for the ladies. It's more difficult for them,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElfyn Jones, access and conservation Officer for Wales for the British Mountaineer Council, said putting toilets on the mountain was not practical.\n\nHe said while there would be times that people had to answer the call of nature, leaving waste on paths was \"outrageous behaviour\".\n\n\"People need to be prepared before they come here. They need to be aware that they have to go in the outdoors and they have to do that discreetly, sensibly and hygienically,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea that there should be toilets and facilities half-way up a three and a half thousand foot mountain - quite frankly, it's absurd.\"\n\nThe problem has not just affected mountains since the travel ban was lifted and restrictions were eased.\n\nResidents and councils have been left clearing up beer cans and left over picnics and barbecues on beaches in recent weeks.\n\nThe clear up after people went drinking in Cardiff Bay\n\nIn Cardiff Bay, where police have issued a dispersal order after people flocked to enjoy the sunshine and drink last weekend, residents reported seeing urine on the side of the Pierhead Building.\n\nWhile in Ogmore-by-Sea, residents were left dealing with the clear up after a \"mass brawl\" on the beach.\n\nLitter was left following a brawl in Ogmore-by-Sea\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had worked hard to welcome back visitors and reopened toilet facilities at sites.\n\n\"We are working with colleagues across Wales and the UK including public health and public protection to develop further specific messaging relating to these issues in order to keep our communities safe and to protect our landscapes,\" it said.", "Kim Kardashian West, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Barack Obama were all 'hacked'\n\nThe FBI has launched an investigation after hackers hijacked Twitter accounts of a number of high-profile US figures in an apparent Bitcoin scam.\n\n\"The accounts appear to have been compromised\" to perpetrate cryptocurrency fraud, said the bureau, urging the public to be vigilant.\n\nElon Musk, Bill Gates and Joe Biden were among those hit in what Twitter said was a \"co-ordinated\" attack.\n\nTheir official accounts requested donations in the cryptocurrency.\n\n\"Everyone is asking me to give back,\" said a tweet from the account of Mr Gates, the Microsoft founder. \"You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.\"\n\nThe US Senate Commerce committee has demanded Twitter brief it about Wednesday's incident by 23 July.\n\nTwitter said the hackers had targeted its employees \"with access to internal systems and tools\".\n\n\"We know they [the hackers] used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf,\" the company said in a series of tweets.\n\nIt added that \"significant steps\" had been taken to limit access to such internal systems and tools while the company's investigation continues.\n\nThe tech firm has also blocked users from being able to tweet Bitcoin wallet addresses for the time being.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre said its officers had \"reached out\" to the tech firm. \"We would urge people to treat requests for money or sensitive information on social media with extreme caution,\" it said in a statement.\n\nUS politicians also have questions. Republican Senator Josh Hawley has written to the company asking if President Trump's account had been vulnerable.\n\nPresident Trump's account was not compromised, the White House said.\n\nThe chair of the Senate Commerce committee has also been in contact with Twitter.\n\n\"It cannot be overstated how troubling this incident is, both in its effects and in the apparent failure of Twitter's internal controls to prevent it,\" Senator Roger Wicker wrote to the firm.\n\nOne cyber-security expert said that the breach could have been a lot worse in other circumstances.\n\n\"If you were to have this kind of incident take place in the middle of a crisis, where Twitter was being used to either communicate de-escalatory language or critical information to the public, and suddenly it's putting out the wrong messages from several verified status accounts - that could be seriously destabilising,\" Dr Alexi Drew from King's College London told the BBC.\n\nTwitter earlier had to take the extraordinary step of stopping many verified accounts marked with blue ticks from tweeting altogether.\n\nPassword reset requests were also being denied and some other \"account functions\" disabled.\n\nBy 20:30 EDT (00:30 GMT Thursday) users with verified account started to be able to send tweets again, but Twitter said it was still working on a fix.\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\nDmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded cyber-security company CrowdStrike, told Reuters news agency: \"This appears to be the worst hack of a major social media platform yet.\"\n\nOn the official account of Mr Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chief appeared to offer to double any Bitcoin payment sent to the address of his digital wallet \"for the next 30 minutes\".\n\n\"I'm feeling generous because of Covid-19,\" the tweet added, along with a Bitcoin link address.\n\nThe tweets were deleted just minutes after they were first posted.\n\nBut as the first such tweet from Mr Musk's account was removed, another one appeared, then a third.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe campaign of Joe Biden, who is the current Democratic presidential candidate, said Twitter had \"locked down the account within a few minutes of the breach and removed the related tweet\".\n\nThe BBC can report from a security source that a web address - cryptoforhealth.com - to which some hacked tweets directed users was registered by a cyber-attacker using the email address mkeyworth5@gmail.com.\n\nThe name \"Anthony Elias\" was used to register the website, but may be a pseudonym - it appears to be a play on \"an alias\".\n\nCryptoforhealth is also a registered user name on Instagram, apparently set up contemporaneously to the hack.\n\nThe description of the profile read \"It was us\", alongside a slightly smiling face emoticon.\n\nThe Instagram profile also posted a message that said: \"It was a charity attack. Your money will find its way to the right place.\"\n\nIn any case, the real identities of the perpetrators are as yet unknown.\n\nCameron Winklevoss, who was declared the world's first Bitcoin billionaire in 2017 along with his twin brother Tyler, tweeted a message on Wednesday warning people not to participate in the \"scam\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Cameron Winklevoss This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the short time it was online, the link displayed in the tweets of targeted accounts received hundreds of contributions totalling more than $100,000 (£80,000), according to publicly available blockchain records.\n\nThe Twitter accounts targeted have millions of followers.\n\nApple's official account has more than four million followers, while Amazon's chief has 1.5 million\n\nLast year, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey's account was hacked, but the company said it had fixed the flaw that left his account vulnerable.\n\nDr Drew recently co-authored a paper warning about the potential of Twitter being used to sow disinformation.\n\nShe said the latest incident highlighted the need for all major social media platforms to check their security measures, particularly in the run up to the US presidential vote in November.\n\n\"Social media companies such as Twitter and, Facebook all have a duty to consider the damage and influence their platforms can have on the 2020 election, and I think some companies are taking that more seriously than others,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Twitter actually has a good history of being forward-thinking and proactive in this space. But whatever the source of this attack [it seems they have] still not done enough.\"", "Advice to stay at home and work from home if possible is not changing in Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford says.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wanted to see a \"significant return to normality\" by Christmas with employers in England being given more discretion to bring staff back to workplaces if it is safe to do so.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said he did not want to see people returning to offices “in the way we did before coronavirus\".\n\nHe said one of the few positives of the last few months was learning how possible it is to work “very effectively” from home, without the need for large numbers to travel to and from office locations.\n\n“We have managed extraordinarily well by working differently,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"I think that’s been a positive lesson we can draw from coronavirus.\n\n“I will not be doing things to undermine our ability to learn from those lessons in Wales.”\n\nThe pandemic has shown it is possible to work \"very effectively\" from home, the first minister said Image caption: The pandemic has shown it is possible to work \"very effectively\" from home, the first minister said", "Councils in England will get new powers from Saturday to force owners to shut pubs, cafes, shops and restaurants in areas hit by coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nBoris Johnson said local authorities would also be able to close public places, like parks, and cancel events.\n\nAnd he announced the government would issue \"stay-at-home orders\" where there are local outbreaks from next month.\n\nThese would stop people leaving defined areas and restrict public transport use until infection rates fall.\n\nDuring a Downing Street press briefing, the prime minister announced the government's next range of measures aimed at restarting the economy while keeping the coronavirus infection rate down.\n\nHe said employers would get more discretion over asking people to return to workplaces, while indoor performance events would restart from August.\n\nMr Johnson said greater powers for local authorities would enable them \"to act more quickly in response to outbreaks where speed is paramount\", in what he called \"lightning lockdowns\".\n\nCounty councils and unitary authorities will no longer have to get permission from a magistrate to close contaminated premises not deemed to be part of \"essential infrastructure\", in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nGovernment guidance says this \"significantly\" increases councils' powers and urges them to use them \"with discretion\".\n\nThere will be a right to appeal for businesses affected and local lockdowns must be reviewed weekly.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Action by local councils will not always be sufficient, so next week we will publish draft regulations on how central government can intervene more effectively at a local level.\n\n\"Where justified by the evidence, ministers will be able to close whole sectors or types of premises in an area, introduce local stay-at-home orders, prevent people entering or leaving defined areas, reduce the size of gatherings beyond the national defined rules or restrict transport systems serving local areas.\"\n\nA more localised approach, when it comes to tackling Covid, has been used now for some time.\n\nBut Boris Johnson is also signalling a tougher approach: new powers for councils and for ministers as well.\n\nOne of those powers for central government is quite striking: the ability to prevent people entering or leaving defined areas.\n\nAs efforts to get the economy going mean the lockdown is loosening overall, the government's trying to tighten its ability to crack down on local outbreaks.\n\nJames Jamieson, chairman of the Local Government Association, which represents councils in England, said: \"Greater powers for councils to take swift and effective action to address local outbreaks will hopefully help avoid the need for more stringent measures to be imposed locally.\"\n\nBut John Phillips, acting general secretary of the GMB union, said: \"The prime minister has once again shown a failure of leadership in the face of this pandemic.\n\n\"Passing the responsibility of keeping the people safe to employers and local authorities is confusing and dangerous.\"\n\nThe government's latest measures follow the imposition of a lockdown in Leicester following a spike in coronavirus infections in the city.\n\nOn Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said some restrictions would be lifted there following a fall in cases.\n\nLabour's London Mayor, Sadiq Khan said he did not have any \"confidence that we could have a geographical lockdown in London\", but added: \"We probably could lock down a building, if it's a factory or a place of worship or a school.\"", "Charlie Elphicke is charged with three counts of sexual assault\n\nA former MP accused of sexually assaulting a woman agreed to pay her £5,000 to prevent his wife from finding out, a court heard.\n\nCharlie Elphicke, 49, said the complainant demanded to be paid \"compensation\" after he made advances towards her at his London home in 2007.\n\nMr Elphicke said he believed the woman had \"wanted to take matters further\" after they shared a bottle of wine.\n\nAt Southwark Crown Court he denies three counts of sexual assault.\n\nMr Elphicke and the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, drank together while Mrs Elphicke was away on business.\n\nThe former Conservative MP said he had been \"under a misapprehension\" in making advances towards her.\n\nThe woman, in her early-30s at the time, alleged Mr Elphicke tried to kiss her, groped her breast, then chased her around his home while trying to grab her buttocks.\n\nExcerpts from Mr Elphicke's interview with police in March 2018 were played in front of a jury.\n\nIn them he said the woman asked him not to tell his wife about the 2007 incident and to pay her £5,000.\n\nHe said: \"I got it [the £5,000] in smaller amounts - £500, £1,000 - because she was insistent Natalie shouldn't know.\"\n\nAsked if he had ever told his wife about the payments, Mr Elphicke told police: \"No.\"\n\nHe also described how the first alleged incident happened and said that he stopped immediately when the woman told him to.\n\nHe said: \"The atmosphere was very warm and convivial and I believed she wanted to take matters further.\n\n\"I leaned over and kissed her.\n\n\"At first she responded positively, then it became clear it was not what she wanted.\"\n\nHe said: \"I was incredibly apologetic. I believed this was what she wanted.\n\n\"She said she accepted my explanation, my apology, and that I had been under a misapprehension.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Local responses to coronavirus outbreaks could be threatened by a historic lack of investment in public health, government advisers warn.\n\nProf Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were speaking as councils were given new powers to close indoor and outdoor spaces and cancel events.\n\nThey were being questioned by peers on whether local public health teams would be able to cope over winter.\n\nPublic Health England has identified 12 areas of concern around the country.\n\nLeicester remains subject to the highest level of concern, followed by Blackburn and Pendle in Lancashire.\n\nSpeaking to peers on the Lords' Science and Technology committee, the Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said, \"countries that invested heavily in their public health systems\" had coped best with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis had not been the case in the UK, Sir Patrick said.\n\nChief Medical Officer for England, Prof Chris Whitty added health protection had not been invested in \"over the last several years...I think we should all be honest about that\".\n\nDiscussing the further easing of restrictions trailed by the prime minister on Friday, Prof Whitty said there were things that could be relaxed for \"three seasons of the year\" that might not be possible in the winter - \"because winter benefits respiratory diseases\".\n\nThe prime minister had made it \"very clear\" that some restrictions may have to be re-introduced, he said.\n\nThe higher the number of infections you have going into winter, the higher the likelihood is of having a \"significant peak\" in cases, Prof Whitty added.\n\nProf Nick Phin at Public Health England (PHE), also appeared before peers and warned that budget reductions had \"taken away\" local public health resilience.\n\nOn Friday, PHE set out the areas of England of greatest concern for local outbreaks.\n\nWhile Leicester and nearby Oadby and Wigston are subject to \"national intervention\" in the form of an extended lockdown, Blackburn & Darwen and Pendle in Lancashire are receiving \"enhanced support.\n\nEight other authorities in England including Barnsley, Kirklees and Oldham were listed as \"areas of concern\".\n\nThe positions of Bradford and Sheffield, while still areas of concern, had improved on last week, while Wakefield and Peterborough had moved up the watch-list.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nSpectators could be able to return to stadiums in England from October, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nPilots will take place from 1 August but any stadium reopenings would be subject to coronavirus guidelines.\n\nSome sports, including football and cricket, have resumed behind closed doors after the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\n\"We will pilot larger gatherings in venues like sports stadiums with a view to a wider reopening in the autumn,\" said Johnson on Friday.\n\n\"From October, we intend to bring back audiences in stadiums.\n\n\"Again, these changes must be done in a Covid-secure way, subject to the successful outcome of pilots.\"\n\nThe pilot projects will be held at:\n• county cricket friendly matches - including Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval on 26-27 July;\n• None The Goodwood horse racing festival - known as Glorious Goodwood\n\nThe Racecourse Association said the Goodwood event could cater for up to 5,000 people, plus participants.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said it was \"pleased that this announcement allows cricket to be among the first pilot events\" and that it would continue to work with the government on the safety measures required for supporters to return safely.\n\n\"For months, millions of us have felt the void of being unable to go to the match to support our team or attend a top-class sporting event,\" said sports minister Nigel Huddleston.\n\n\"So I am pleased that we are now able to move forward with a plan to help venues safely reopen their doors to fans.\n\n\"I recognise that not every sport, team or club has the benefit of huge commercial revenue, and it is often their dedicated fans that are the lifeblood which helps keep them going. By working closely with sports and medical experts, these pilots will help ensure the safe return of fans to stadiums.\n\n\"Although it will remain some time before venues are full to capacity, this is a major step in the right direction for the resumption of live spectator sport across the country.\"\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport also said further pilot events are likely to be held in other sports.\n\nIn order for fans to return to stadiums, the government has outlined operating guidelines that state:\n• None Fans must agree to a new code of behaviour that includes not attending if they potentially have symptoms of coronavirus or have been exposed to a person who has tested positive;\n• None Social distancing must be observed in seating arrangements;\n• None Crowd management plans should be in place, including the controlled entry and exit of fans and one-way systems;\n• None Additional hygiene facilities should be installed inside venues, particularly at entrances and exits;\n• None Screening procedures should be considered at stadium entrances.\n\nDomestic competitive sport in England resumed on 1 June for the first time since mid-March, with football's Premier League and English Football League (EFL) getting back under way on 17 and 20 June respectively.\n\nInternational cricket, golf, horse racing and snooker are among the other sports to have resumed.\n\nThe Premier League is understood to be pleased by the proposals and wants the maximum number of fans allowed back in stadiums as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\nThe league is also willing to offer pre-season games as possible trial events before the start of next season.\n\nThe Football Association said it welcomes the government's \"positive update\" that allows them to \"step up\" efforts to get fans back into stadiums.\n\n\"Supporters are the lifeblood of our national game, and that has been underlined by how much their absence has been felt over the last month,\" said the FA.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with relevant authorities on how we can bring them back in a safe and secure manner, including any help we can provide to the proposed pilot events.\"\n\nThe EFL said the Prime Minister's announcement started to \"provide some clarity\" as football authorities work to bring fans back.\n\n\"We will continue to work with our colleagues at DCMS, the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) and the wider football family in order to deliver on the timeframe and to assist clubs with the inevitable operational and financial challenges this will bring,\" said the EFL.\n\nPremiership Rugby says it would be ready to welcome fans back into grounds before the end of the season if given Government permission. The season is due to to resume on 14 August.\n\nIn Scotland, no date has yet been set for fans returning to stadiums. Now in phase three of the Scottish government's route out of lockdown, the Premiership - football's top flight - will begin on 1 August behind closed doors.\n\nThe second-tier Scottish Championship and Leagues One and Two kick off a reduced, 27-game season on 17 October, the same weekend as the first Old Firm derby between Celtic and Rangers of the 2020-21 campaign.\n\nThe Scottish government has held talks with Scottish Rugby about using Murrayfield as a test venue, where fans could return but be physically distanced.\n\nMore than 45,000 people in the UK have died with coronavirus, while there have been more than 292,000 confirmed cases.\n• None Watch the trailer for series 3 now", "Aaron McKenzie must serve a minimum of 35 years in jail\n\nThe ex-partner of a heavily pregnant woman has been jailed for stabbing her to death in her own home.\n\nKelly Fauvrelle was knifed 21 times in the middle of the night in her Croydon bedroom. Her baby boy Riley, who was delivered by Caesarean, died four days later.\n\nAaron McKenzie, 26, from Peckham, was found guilty of the murder of Ms Fauvrelle and Riley's manslaughter.\n\nHe was sentenced to life with a minimum 35 years at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nHe was also given 20 years for the manslaughter of baby Riley and three years for possession of a knife, to run concurrently.\n\nKelly Mary Fauvrelle's baby was delivered by paramedics but died later in hospital\n\nSentencing, Judge Mark Lucraft QC said: \"At 03:15 on 29 June last year, you broke into Kelly's bedroom at the home she shared with her family.\n\n\"You then launched a ferocious attack on Kelly, inflicting no fewer than 21 stab wounds.\n\n\"Kelly's family woke to the noise of her screams, rushed to her room and sought to care for her.\n\n\"It's clear from all the evidence this was the most vicious and deliberate killing.\"\n\nThe trial heard Miss Fauvrelle's relationship with McKenzie, with whom she shared an interest in motorbikes, had ended early last year.\n\nHer death was the result of McKenzie's \"cowardly\" response to learning Miss Fauvrelle wanted nothing to do with him, while his actions afterwards demonstrated no \"sorrow or remorse\", the judge added.\n\nMcKenzie gave the judge a thumbs up as he was sent down, while Miss Fauvrelle's family wept in court.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Miss Fauvrelle's sister Melissa said: \"This was an act of pure evil.\"\n\nShe said her sister was a selfless, caring, loving woman with a \"pure heart\".\n\nHer father Jean Fauvrelle said: \"Aaron McKenzie's evil act has devastated our lives. My heart physically aches, but those words do not feel sufficient.\"\n\nAaron McKenzie was captured on CCTV on his way to kill Kelly Fauvrelle\n\nDet Ch Insp Mick Norman said Miss Fauvrelle's family had been \"devastated\".\n\n\"This has been a harrowing and distressing case for all concerned. My thoughts today are with Kelly-Mary's family, who have suffered immeasurable loss and been put through the agony of a trial.\n\n\"Their future with Kelly and Riley was so cruelly taken from them, and it is fitting that McKenzie's future has today been taken from him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of Zizzi and Ask Italian restaurant chains said it will close 75 locations, risking the loss of up to 1,200 jobs.\n\nAzzurri Group, which also owns the Coco Di Mama pasta chain, has been sold out of administration to TowerBrook Capital Partners.\n\nThe move will keep 225 shops and restaurants open and maintain about 5,000 jobs.\n\nThe company said the coronavirus had hit restaurants hard.\n\n\"The Covid-19 crisis has had a profound impact on the casual dining sector, bringing many businesses like ours to a standstill,\" said Steve Holmes, chief executive of Azzurri Group.\n\n\"Despite being a successful operator, the immediate loss of revenue during lockdown meant that we have had to make some incredibly difficult decisions to protect the business for the long-term.\n\n\"It is with deep sadness that this process will result in the permanent closure of a number of sites and that we must say goodbye to greatly valued employees across our brands.\"\n\nLast month The Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie and Benny's, said it expected to cut up to 3,000 workers after confirming plans to shut 125 sites.\n\nAnd this month two of the UK's biggest High Street retailers, John Lewis and Boots, have announced 5,300 job cuts.\n\nThe moves come amid warnings that new economic support from Chancellor Rishi Sunak will not be enough to stop millions of workers losing their jobs.", "More than 140 prisoners have been housed in hotels and B&Bs after being released during the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThey include some offenders who have been freed from their sentences early to relieve overcrowding and reduce the risk of infection in jails.\n\nA letter to hotel owners, seen by BBC News, says if they agree to take part in the scheme they will not be told the crime the prisoner has committed.\n\nThe government said hotels were used only as a \"last resort\".\n\nAll offenders due for release are \"thoroughly risk assessed\", the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) added.\n\nThe department said it had started using hotels in May, as part of the \"Conditional Release Date\" accommodation scheme, to prevent newly-freed prisoners having to sleep rough during the pandemic.\n\nThe MoJ said 304 former inmates let out on their scheduled release date have been provided with housing, 136 of whom have been put up in hotels or bed and breakfast accommodation.\n\nHotels have also been used to house six offenders freed early under an emergency programme to reduce overcrowding, known as the \"End of Custody Temporary Release\" scheme.\n\nAccording to officials, hotels for prisoners are identified by two business travel, conference and accommodation agencies, CTM and Calder.\n\nA hotel owner in the north of England said he had received a letter, written by the Prison and Probation Service, asking whether he would have rooms available for offenders on the early release scheme.\n\nThe letter says accommodation in hotels, B&Bs and serviced apartments would be needed for up to 56 days.\n\nIt says: \"We will not share information with you regarding the offence(s) the individual has committed but would wish to reassure that they have been subject to strict vetting.\"\n\nThe letter explains that electronic monitoring equipment would have to be installed in an offender's hotel room to ensure they abide by a curfew, but says staff would not be responsible for managing a prisoner's licence conditions.\n\n\"All incidents of concern should be dealt with in the same way as you would deal with any other resident and if local measures don't work (eg a phone call from reception to keep the noise down) be reported to police,\" the letter says.\n\nAlthough it is highly unusual for released prisoners to be accommodated in hotels, they have been used for asylum seekers, most recently, and controversially, in Glasgow.\n\nIn June, six people were stabbed at a hotel in the city which had been used to house asylum claimants. Their attacker - Badreddin Abadlla Adam - was shot dead by police.\n\nA MoJ spokesperson said: \"All offenders due for release are thoroughly risk assessed and hotels have only been used as a last resort to reduce any potential spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"These temporary measures are part of the unprecedented response to the pandemic which has helped protect the NHS and save lives.\"", "The number of knife crimes In England and Wales has risen to a new record high, says the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThere were 46,265 offences in the 12 months to the end of March this year, up 6% from the previous year.\n\nThe figures, which do not include Greater Manchester Police, were partly driven by a 7% rise in London.\n\nHowever, the ONS said there was a \"significant\" reduction in overall offending, which fell 9%.\n\nThere was also a large rise in cases of murder and manslaughter, with 683 deaths - though the total includes the 39 people found dead inside a lorry in Essex last October.\n\nOf all the killings, 256 involved a knife or sharp object, up from 250 the year before.\n\nThere were 619 offences involving a corrosive substance - such as acid - the first time the figures have been published by the ONS.\n\nThe crime statistics appear to present a contradictory picture - with estimates from the survey suggesting a reduction in offending and the police figures showing a rise.\n\nIn fact, they're measuring different things. The survey indicates how many people have experienced crime; the police data show how many offences have been reported to and recorded by forces.\n\nFor overall and long-term trends, the survey is more reliable. For instance, the ONS says there's been a drop-off for the first time in six years in the proportion of adults saying they've been the victim of a sexual assault.\n\nThis is far more likely to be an accurate gauge of what's happening than police figures, which rely to a large extent on the willingness of victims to come forward.\n\nFor some of the most serious - but comparatively less prevalent - offences, such as knife crime, the police figures are a better guide, though they make for depressing reading.\n\nFor the first time, data from the ONS Crime Survey captured the gender identity of victims of crime.\n\nThose whose gender identity is different from that registered at birth were twice as likely (28%) to be a victim.\n\nPeople of a mixed ethnic background were the most likely to have been a crime victim - 20% compared to 13% for white people. Those from an Asian background were also more likely to have experienced crime (15%).\n\nThe figures were also significantly higher for those who identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual - 21% compared to 14% of those who are straight.\n\nThese figures exclude fraud and computer use, which the ONS says are generally considered to be less targeted crimes.\n\nHowever, the data from the survey, which is based on interviews with almost 34,000 people, suggest there was a 9% fall in overall offending.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics says this is a \"significant\" reduction, which was partly driven by steep falls in theft and criminal damage.\n\nSophie Sanders, from the ONS's centre for crime and justice, said: \"Overall, crime rates were lower in the months leading up to the coronavirus pandemic than they were in early 2019.\n\n\"However, it will not be possible to say whether this would have come to represent a change from the trend in recent years, as the pandemic will have had an impact on the level and types of crime since March.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said it was \"extremely encouraging\" to see a further fall in crime.\n\n\"This is a step in the right direction, but there will be no let-up in our relentless pursuit of criminals so that we can deliver justice for victims,\" she said.\n\n\"We are recruiting 20,000 additional officers and giving police the powers and resources they need to keep our communities safe.\"\n\nThe Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents rank-and-file officers, said that while it was \"heartening\" to see some crimes were coming down, it had \"serious concerns\" about the rise in homicide, knife crime, and robbery.\n\nThe organisation's national chair, John Apter, said: \"It is a tragedy these crimes continue to spiral as my colleagues are stretched to their limits, but with fewer officers available to be out on patrol it comes as no surprise.\n\n\"More than ever we need a visible presence and deterrent to violent crime. We need more officers available to deter and prevent these horrendous crimes and ease the burden on over-stretched colleagues.\"\n\nThe statistics show 3.2% of sexual offences led to charges, down from 5.2% two years ago\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of crimes in England and Wales that are solved has fallen to a new record low.\n\nJust 7% of offences led to a suspect being charged or ordered to appear in court, in the 12 months to the end of March.\n\nThat compares with 8% the previous year and 16% in 2014-15, when the figures were first compiled in this way.\n\nThe Home Office, which published the data, said that is the equivalent of 33,460 fewer offences leading to a charge or court summons than last year.\n\nThe statistics, which cover forces in England and Wales excluding Greater Manchester Police, show 3.2% of sexual offences led to charges, down from 5.2% two years ago.\n\nOnly 1.4% of rape offences resulted in a prosecution.", "Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Aaradhya all tested positive earlier this week\n\nAishwarya Rai Bachchan has been taken to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this week.\n\nThe Indian actress, a former Miss World and one of Bollywood's most famous faces, is being treated at Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital, ANI agency reports.\n\nHer daughter Aaradhya has also been taken to hospital, PTI agency reports.\n\nAishwarya's husband Abhishek and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan, both also famous actors, have been in hospital since Saturday with the virus.\n\nOn Sunday, 77-year-old Amitabh Bachchan - a Bollywood superstar who has achieved global fame during his long and illustrious career so far - tweeted that he had tested positive for the virus.\n\nAishwarya Rai and Aaradhya have both been taken to hospital in Mumbai\n\nAnother series of tweets from his son Abhishek, also a famous actor, confirmed that he, his 46-year-old wife Aishwarya and eight-year-old daughter Aaradhya had also tested positive.\n\nUntil now Aishwarya Rai and Aaradhya have been isolating at home.\n\nNews that the family, often described as Bollywood royalty, had been affected by the coronavirus sent shockwaves across India. This week, thousands of fans have held prayers for the family's recovery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday India recorded a record 35,000 new cases of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, surpassing the one million mark.\n\nThe country now has the third-highest number of cases in the world, after the US and Brazil. The current death toll is 25,602.\n\nThe western state of Maharashtra, where Mumbai is located, is still the biggest hotspot with the highest case count - more than 280,000 - of all the states.", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nLeeds United have been promoted to the Premier League after 16 years away.\n\nTheir place in the top flight for next season was confirmed by West Brom's 2-1 defeat at Huddersfield Town on Friday.\n\nLeeds will now be crowned champions if Brentford do not beat Stoke on Saturday or the Whites then take a point from Sunday's visit to Derby County.\n\nArgentine Marcelo Bielsa has led the Yorkshire side to promotion in his second season in charge after finishing third in the Championship in 2018-19.\n\nEven allowing for the enforced break because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been a campaign where Leeds have never really looked like repeating mistakes of previous seasons and they have not been outside the top two since November.\n\nThey had seemed set to win promotion last season only for back-to-back defeats by Wigan and Brentford to leave them third behind Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United, before a dramatic 4-3 play-off semi-final defeat by Derby.\n\nAfter that setback, fans could have been forgiven for fearing the worst about the future of Bielsa and the talented group of players he had assembled.\n\nBut he opted to remain with the club and together they have reaped the rewards.\n• None Which clubs were in the top flight the last time Leeds were there?\n• None Leeds are back - 10 moments that mattered under Bielsa\n\nIt has been a long and often painful journey back to the Premier League for Leeds and their fans, who had seen their team reach the semi-final of the Champions League in 2001.\n\nThe club was in a dreadful financial position when they were relegated to the Championship in 2004 and though Kevin Blackwell - the first of 15 managers employed by Leeds since they were last in the top flight - steadied the ship initially and nearly took them back up in 2005-06, they were placed into administration in 2007 and went down to League One.\n\nWorse was to come in the form of a 15-point deduction to start the following campaign and it took them three seasons to eventually win promotion back to the second tier under the management of Simon Grayson.\n\nGrayson eventually made way for Neil Warnock, who lasted just a year before Brian McDermott was brought in.\n\nMcDermott came with a good reputation after bringing success to Reading but controversial new owner Massimo Cellino decided he wanted a head coach, not a manager, when he took over in 2014 and appointed former Forest Green boss David Hockaday.\n\nHe lasted just six games, as did Hockaday's replacement Darko Milanic.\n\nNeil Redfearn, Uwe Rosler and Steve Evans all quickly came and went before Garry Monk fell just short of getting the team into the play-offs in 2016-17 and promptly left.\n\nDane Thomas Christiansen started well but faded badly and was replaced by Paul Heckingbottom, who endured a difficult four months in charge.\n\nThe appointment of world-renowned coach Bielsa in June 2018, by owner Andrea Radrizzani, brought a new spotlight to the club.\n\nThe veteran had been widely praised by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and former Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino for his techniques and meticulous nature and had worked with Argentina, Chile and Athletic Bilbao during his long career.\n\nLeeds started the 2018-19 season brilliantly with few teams able to cope with their high tempo pressing and incisive passing.\n\nEven allowing for the controversy that occurred in January, when Bielsa admitted he had sent a member of staff to watch all the other clubs in the division train, they seemed set to end their long wait for promotion.\n\nHowever, they fell away badly at the end of the regular season before the Rams got the better of them in a play-off classic.\n\nThere was to be no denying them in 2019-20 though and they once more find themselves back in football's elite.\n\n'The best manager in the world' - Leeds players celebrate promotion\n\nOne of the key figures in Leeds' success this season has been homegrown midfielder Kalvin Phillips.\n\nThe 24-year-old told BBC Radio Leeds he was struggling to put the promotion feeling into words.\n\n\"It's crazy,\" Phillips added. \"When the manager first came in I never thought I would be in this position two years down the line.\n\n\"The manager and the coaching staff are a massive part of that. He's the best manager in the world. There's no manager I would rather be under than Marcelo Bielsa right now.\n\n\"At an age when I'm trying to develop, he's the perfect manager to have. The Premier League is the best league in the world and, after 16 years, we're back in there.\"\n\nCaptain Liam Cooper said promotion took Leeds back to \"where we've always belonged\".\n\n\"It's unbelievable and it's still not properly sunk in,\" he told BBC Radio Leeds. \"Our club, our fans and our players have sacrificed so much - we've been in the doldrums for 16 years.\n\n\"To be part of this team and to lead this team to promotion back to where we know we've always belonged is unbelievable.\n\n\"We deserve it - we've been the best team all season on a consistent level and we've got the job done. We set out to get promoted and now we want to go and be champions and lift that trophy.\"\n• None Watch the trailer for series 3 now", "Kirk Butcher was described by his family as a \"fun-loving husband\" who adored his three daughters\n\nA van driver who drove the wrong way down a motorway slip road, killing a father of three in a head-on crash, has been jailed.\n\nThomas Hughes, 24, was trying to take his own life when he drove on to the M4 at Newport, hitting Kirk Butcher's car on 5 April.\n\nHughes, from Cwmbran, pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to causing death by dangerous driving and was sentenced to seven years.\n\nThe court heard how Hughes had been released from police custody, and had driven towards the M4 after being told by his flatmate he was not welcome back.\n\nIt was told he was trying to take his own life when he drove the wrong way down the slip road.\n\nBut the van he was driving crashed into Mr Butcher's car, who was on his way home from a 12-hour shift at a supermarket depot where he had started working during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHughes left the scene of the crash, and another driver called 999.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Butcher's widow Janet told the court the couple had been \"childhood sweethearts, soulmates who dreamed of getting old together\".\n\nShe said \"nothing in our lives will be the same\" following her husband's death.\n\nGwent Police said Hughes' actions were a \"senseless and selfish act\"\n\nSentencing Hughes, Judge Richard Twomlow said he \"gave Mr Butcher no chance to avoid you\".\n\n\"This was an unbelievably dangerous piece of driving with no thought for anyone but yourself,\" he said.\n\n\"The consequences for others were quite terrible.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, Mr Butcher's family called for a change in the law so that a car was recognised as a \"deadly weapon\".\n\nHis stepsister, Sarah Higgins, said: \"We're devastated. He's left three children behind and a beautiful wife.\n\n\"He was the busiest, nicest guy you could ever hope to meet and he's gone. Nothing's going to change that.\"\n\nPC Darren Sullivan, of Gwent Police, said Hughes' actions were a \"senseless and selfish act, which took the life of an innocent man\".\"This tragedy was completely avoidable and Hughes will have to live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life, although that will provide little comfort to the Butcher family,\" he said.\"Too many people die on our roads every year in senseless and often avoidable circumstances.\n\n\"I can only hope that the sentence passed today will act as a deterrent to anyone intent on driving in such a dangerous and reckless manner.\"Hughes was also banned from driving for eight and a half years.\n• None Crash victim was 'fun-loving' father of three", "Darrell and Darren Roberts were taken into care aged 13 when their mother died\n\nThe partner of a London-born man who could face being deported to the Caribbean has claimed his council never tried to register him as British.\n\nTwins Darrell and Darren Roberts, 24, said they were issued with deportation notifications while in jail.\n\nEaling Council, which took the boys into care when they were 13, said they had \"repeatedly engaged\" with the pair to sort out their immigration status.\n\nBut Darren's partner said the council \"definitely haven't\".\n\nThe Home Office said neither of the brothers \"are currently detained under immigration powers, nor are they subject to deportation orders\".\n\nBut lawyers claim they have \"physically seen the stage one notice of the intention-to-deport notice that was served.\"\n\nDarren's partner, who asked to remain anonymous, said the 24-year-old, who is serving a sentence for grievous bodily harm (GBH), had \"given up\" the fight with officials regarding his deportation.\n\n\"I think he's just at the point where he's given up,\" she said.\n\n\"He doesn't feel like he has the power to fight the system any more so if he goes [he told me] to make sure I bring our son to see him.\"\n\nThe twins were born in England, but neither their parents nor their carers applied for citizenship\n\nDarrell was sentenced to a six-year prison sentence for a separate charge of GBH at the age of 17.\n\nThe twins were born in west London to parents from the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Grenada, with neither parent having UK citizenship.\n\nThey were taken into care by Ealing Council's social services at the age of 13 when their mother died and their father returned to Dominica.\n\nDarren has been warned he faces deportation to Grenada when he finishes his jail sentence.\n\nNeither their parents nor social services applied for the their British citizenship when they were children, leaving the twins technically stateless.\n\nDarren's partner claims Ealing Council has not engaged with the twins to discuss their immigration status \"at all\".\n\n\"I've had a lot of dealings with Ealing Council on behalf of Darren and it's never been straightforward with them,\" she said.\n\n\"I do think Ealing Council should have registered them as British citizens when they were 13 and when they were minors.\"\n\nDarren and his partner have a five-year-old son\n\nAn Ealing Council spokesperson said: \"Ealing Council's children's services have repeatedly engaged with both Darren and Darrell, their solicitors and the prison service to provide all documentation to allow them to apply for immigration status.\n\n\"Neither of the young men signed the documentation to allow it to be progressed.\n\n\"Darrel and Darren will be 25 in September and are eligible for Leaving Care After Care service until then to support them with their immigration status, but they do need to engage to allow it to progress.\"\n\nSyed Naqvi, Darell's immigration lawyer, said: \"I'm aware of Darren telling his family members that he's been told by prison officials there is a plan to deport him to Grenada and with regards to Darrell I've physically seen the stage one notice of intention-to-deport notice that was served.\n\n\"They both have paid their debt to society. Why should they now be subjected to a double punishment when all but for an application which should have been done by adults who were in charge of their care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon were formerly close political colleagues\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she will feel a \"sense of relief\" when she gives evidence to a Holyrood inquiry into her government's handling of complaints against her predecessor, Alex Salmond.\n\nThe Court of Session ruled in January 2019 the government's actions had been \"unlawful\".\n\nMr Salmond was subsequently cleared of all criminal charges in a High Court case in March.\n\nThe first minister says their rift has been not unlike \"a grieving process\".\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon will give evidence to an upcoming Holyrood committee set up to examine how the Scottish government handled the initial sexual harassment claims.\n\nThe first minister, who served as Mr Salmond's deputy from 2007 to 2014, signed off the complaints-handling process.\n\n\"It's been personally difficult,\" said Ms Sturgeon, speaking to Times Radio. \"Imagine how it would feel, for any reason and whatever the circumstances, if somebody that has been one of the biggest presences in your life...and then they're not in that role anymore. And it's difficult.\n\n\"I've not been able to talk about this because of the criminal trial and then when the criminal trial ended, I was immersed, as I still am, in Covid. I will get the opportunity to talk about that in the parliamentary inquiries that are to come.\n\n\"While I wouldn't say I relish that prospect at all, there will be to some extent be a sense of relief at just being able to have my say and put my side across and then let people make up their own minds.\"\n\nThe parliamentary inquiry was set up in January 2019 after the Scottish government conceded that an internal investigation of sexual misconduct complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful and paid out £500,000 in expenses to the former SNP leader.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault and attempted rape\n\nThe inquiry was subsequently put on hold when criminal charges were levelled against the former first minister.\n\nBut after Mr Salmond was acquitted earlier this year, a panel of nine MSPs - four from the SNP, two Conservatives and one each from Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems - held its first public meeting in late June.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously told MSPs she herself had no role in the process and \"acted appropriately and in good faith\".\n\n\"There is a sense of something that I suppose is not a million miles from a grieving process,\" she added about the change in her relationship with Mr Salmond. \"But you know, we all go through difficult things and we have to cope with them.\"\n\nThe first minister also reiterated that she believes Scotland will become independent \"sooner rather than later\", an outcome which will see the country become \"an equal partner\" with the rest of the UK.", "Capt Sir Tom said it was \"an absolutely outstanding day\"\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore has been knighted in the Queen's first official engagement in person since lockdown.\n\nThe investiture to honour the 100-year-old, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities, was staged in a \"unique ceremony\" at Windsor Castle.\n\nHe has been recognised for walking more than 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.\n\nCapt Sir Tom, originally from Keighley, West Yorkshire, said it was \"an absolutely outstanding day\".\n\n\"I am absolutely overawed,\" he said,\n\n\"This is such a high award and to get it from Her Majesty as well - what more can anyone wish for? This has been an absolutely magnificent day for me.\"\n\nCapt Sir Tom said it had been a \"privilege to be close to the Queen and speak to her\"\n\nThe Queen personally praised Capt Sir Tom, telling him: \"Thank you so much, an amazing amount of money you raised.\"\n\nIn May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a special nomination for the war veteran to be knighted.\n\nBuckingham Palace said it was the first time the ceremony had been held in the strictly socially-distanced format.\n\nThe Queen spent about five minutes speaking to Capt Sir Tom and his family\n\nThe Queen used the sword that belonged to her father, George VI, to bestow the insignia of Knight Bachelor upon Capt Sir Tom.\n\nHer arrival was announced by the sound of bagpipes played by the Queen's Piper, Pipe Major Richard Grisdale, of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.\n\nEarlier, Her Majesty, the Duke of Edinburgh and other close family attended the unannounced wedding of their granddaughter Princess Beatrice to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a nearby chapel.\n\nThe ceremony took place in the quadrangle at Windsor Castle\n\nOther Royal investitures have been put on hold during the pandemic with those scheduled to take place at Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh in June and July postponed.\n\nCapt Sir Tom was joined at the ceremony by his family - daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, son-in-law Colin Ingram, grandson Benjie and granddaughter Georgia.\n\nMrs Ingram-Moore said: \"It is just the most sensational day, of all of the things Tom's been honoured by this is truly the icing on the cake.\"\n\nCapt Sir Tom, who was given the honorary title of colonel on his 100th birthday, had initially set out to raise £1,000 for NHS charities by repeatedly walking an 82ft (25m) loop of his garden.\n\nBut he eventually raised £32,794,701 from more than one-and-a-half million supporters.\n\nCapt Sir Tom (centre) was joined by his family son-in-law Colin Ingram, grandson Benjie, daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and granddaughter Georgia (left to right)\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Capt Sir Tom has been knighted in a socially distanced ceremony in the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nThe 100-year-old war veteran, who raised millions for NHS charities, told reporters he would not share what the Queen said to him as she honoured him.\n\nCapt Sir Tom said: \"I don't think I'll tell anyone what she said. It was just the Queen and I speaking privately.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace says it believes it is the first ceremony of its kind and other Royal investitures have been postponed.", "Indoor performances with socially distanced audiences can take place in England from the start of August, the prime minister has said.\n\nThe government is working with the sector on pilots of performances with socially distanced audiences in theatres and music venues.\n\nBoris Johnson said the findings would feed into final guidance for venues in the run-up to them reopening.\n\nBut the head of Theatres Trust said the move \"will not be economically viable\".\n\nDame Judi Dench was among many theatre figures to voice concerns for her industry\n\nAlthough Jon Morgan, director of Theatres Trust welcomed the news as \"a step in the right direction\", he said that \"for most theatres it will not be economically viable to reopen with 30-40% audience required under social distancing\".\n\nHe said they needed to progress to theatres being allowed to open fully \"with the appropriate safety measures\", adding: \"Without this most theatres cannot reopen viably and we need the go-ahead for Christmas shows, on which the survival of many theatres depends, in the next few weeks at the very latest.\"\n\nThe government stressed that \"audiences, performers and venues will be expected to maintain social distancing at all times.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How theatre can reopen during the pandemic\n\nIt added: \"This guidance will be for organisations in England. Organisations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should adhere to the advice of the devolved administrations at all times.\"\n\nVenues have been shut since March as part of the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport added it was now working with venues including the London Symphony Orchestra on measures for reopening.\n\nHowever it added that singing and the playing of brass and wind instruments in groups or in front of an audience is \"still currently limited to professionals only\".\n\nThe announcement is likely to be welcomed by theatre owners and producers, but a sense of frustration with the government is likely to remain.\n\nIt makes no financial sense for many venues to open with social distancing rules in place; theatre budgets tend to be based on a breakeven of around 70% capacity.\n\nIf social distancing measures mean a theatre can only run at 20-25% capacity, the producer cannot afford to put the show on.\n\nWhat the industry says it desperately needs from the government is some clear guidance on when stage five (fuller audiences indoors) of the phased return will be possible.\n\nThe call is for the government to announce a \"not before\" date, which would allow producers and theatre owners to make a plan of action for the coming months, be that preparing a show or reducing overheads.\n\nThe Society of London Theatre, which represents venues in London's West End, said it was \"delighted\" by what it called \"another welcome step on the road map towards reopening with full audiences\".\n\nYet it said it would not be \"practical or economically viable\" for many shows to open with social distancing restrictions.\n\n\"We welcome the news that theatres & performance venues can reopen with social distancing in August, but the reality is the vast majority will not be opening,\" tweeted actors' union Equity.\n\nChoreographer Sir Matthew Bourne also expressed doubts about theatres' ability to open with social distancing in place.\n\n\"Why make these announcements when they know that the vast majority of theatre, dance and music is not financially viable under 'Covid secure' conditions?\" he tweeted.\n\nThe UK's media and entertainment union Bectu said the news was \"a significant development\" but that venues would need government support if they are to reopen.\n\nMr Dowden said the announcement was a \"welcome step in the path to a return to normal\"\n\n\"We know that theatres and venues will not be open in two weeks' time,\" said its head Philippa Childs. \"Theatres will have to bring back productions, sell tickets, conduct rehearsals and prepare for how they will operate in a Covid-secure way before they can open up again.\n\n\"This announcement brings into sharp focus the need for urgent answers to the pressing questions that we have been asking since the arts recovery package was announced nearly two weeks ago.\"\n\nEarlier this month the government announced a £1.57bn support package, following several weeks of lobbying from theatres, music venues, art galleries and other cultural institutions, many of which had said they were on the brink of collapse.\n\nThe government has also now outlined measures to \"support the safe return of audiences\", including:\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"The UK's performing arts sector is renowned across the world and I am pleased that we are making real progress in getting its doors reopened to the public with social distancing.\"\n\nThis latest announcement will now see venues move to stage four of the government's \"five-stage roadmap for the return of professional performing arts\", which was recently outlined by Mr Dowden as follows:\n\nEven as the government was preparing to unveil its latest measures, however, more venues announced they were having to consider staff redundancies.\n\nThe Royal Opera House announced on Friday \"with huge sadness\" that it had made the \"difficult decision\" to begin \"a restructure process\".\n\nAnd in Edinburgh, the Traverse Theatre said it had made the \"painfully difficult decision to enter into redundancy consultation\" with \"a number\" of its team.\n\nIn a statement, the venue said it was likely that \"almost a third\" of its staff \"in customer-facing and technical roles\" would lose their jobs.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Three French police officers have been charged with manslaughter following the death of a delivery driver in Paris after a traffic stop in January.\n\nCédric Chouviat, a 42-year-old father-of-five, said \"I'm suffocating\" seven times as officers held him down, still wearing his scooter helmet, for about 20 seconds, footage showed.\n\nHis body then went limp and he died in hospital two days later.\n\nA coroner later ruled he had died of asphyxia and a broken larynx.\n\nA fourth officer is being investigated but has not been charged.\n\nMr Chouviat's family say the manslaughter charges are not severe enough \"for the violence and aggressiveness of the police officers\" seen in video footage of the incident.\n\n\"Voluntary blows led to the death of Cédric Chouviat,\" the family said in a statement. The charge of voluntary violence could lead to a harsher sentence under French law, AFP news agency reported.\n\nHis family also want the chokehold used on Mr Chouviat and another technique also used on him, where a person is forced onto the ground face down while pressure is put on their upper body, to be banned.\n\nIn June the former Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said chokeholds would be banned. However, the decision was reversed just a few days later after a backlash from police unions, who held demonstrations across the country.\n\nChokeholds - a controversial and potentially deadly form of restraint - are outlawed in many countries.\n\nMr Chouviat was of Algerian origin. In France, young Black and Arab men say they are disproportionately the victims of police brutality.\n\nFrance has seen demonstrations against police violence triggered by a report clearing police officers over the death of Adama Traoré, a young Black man who died in police custody in 2016.\n\nOne of the officers who arrested Mr Traoré has admitted that they used their combined body weight to pin him to the ground.\n\nHis death was likened to the police killing of George Floyd in the US, which sparked huge anti-racism protests around the world.", "After six months fighting cancer, Tash Young was told her body was not responding to treatment and she had weeks left to live.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who worked for Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire, had a rare spindle cell sarcoma that initially presented itself as chest pain.\n\nHer boyfriend Simon Young was waiting for the perfect moment to propose, but decided they could not wait any longer.\n\nWith the help of the team at Southampton General Hospital, they organised a wedding in just four days during lockdown.\n\nTash and Simon were married for a month before she died, and now her family are fundraising for the Teenage Cancer Trust.\n\nThis story was filmed using safe social distancing techniques.", "There are questions about whether new announcements on lockdown restrictions being eased further are too optimistic.\n\nAnd people do say Boris Johnson is an optimist.\n\nBut the prime minister says all of the plans are contingent on people behaving responsibly, they will be reviewed, and he is not ruling out some of these restrictions being put back.\n\nThat would be done in a different way, though.\n\nThe government is very much hoping a national lockdown won’t be needed again.\n\nInstead, it believes it can see local outbreaks happening and give more powers to local councils, and ministers, to act on that very, very quickly.\n\nWhat we are seeing Boris Johnson do is outline a longer term plan to, as he says, “get back to life as normal”, or as normal as possible.\n\nBut it is clear from listening to him that it is not going to feel normal for everybody for quite some time.", "Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the court's most senior liberal justice, and her health is closely watched\n\nUS Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said she is undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but will not be retiring.\n\nIn a statement, the 87-year-old judge said the treatment was having \"positive results\" and she was \"fully able\" to continue in her post.\n\nMs Ginsburg said a scan had revealed lesions on her liver, but the chemotherapy had helped to reduce them.\n\nAs the court's most senior liberal justice, her health is closely watched.\n\nShe has received hospital treatment a number of times in recent years but has returned swiftly to work on each occasion.\n\n\"On May 19, I began a course of chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of cancer,\" Ms Ginsburg said in her statement.\n\n\"The chemotherapy course... is yielding positive results,\" she added. \"My most recent scan on 7 July indicated [a] significant reduction of the liver lesions and no new disease.\n\n\"I am tolerating chemotherapy well and am encouraged by the success of my current treatment,\" she said. \"I will continue bi-weekly chemotherapy to keep my cancer at bay.\"\n\nSupreme Court justices serve for life or until they choose to retire, and supporters have expressed concern that if anything were to happen to Ms Ginsburg a more conservative judge might replace her while President Donald Trump, a Republican, remains in office.\n\n\"I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam,\" Ms Ginsburg said in the statement. \"I remain fully able to do that.\"\n\nThe Supreme Court justices pose for their official portrait in 2018\n\nMr Trump has appointed two judges since taking office, leaving the current bench with a 5-4 conservative leaning.\n\nIn May, Ms Ginsburg underwent non-surgical treatment for a benign gallbladder condition, and participated in the Supreme Court's oral arguments from hospital. She has been treated for cancer four times in 20 years, including two separate bouts last year.\n\nEarlier this week, she was released from Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital after a day of treatment for a possible infection. Ms Ginsburg is now \"home and doing well\", the court said on Tuesday.\n\nDespite her several health setbacks, Ms Ginsburg had not missed a single day of oral arguments in her 25 years on the court until last January, when she worked from home while recovering from surgery.\n\nJoan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933 to Jewish immigrant parents. At 17 years old, she lost her mother to cancer.\n\nShe attended Cornell University, where she met her husband, Marty Ginsburg. The pair had two children and remained together for 56 years, until Marty's death in 2010.\n\nThe progressive hero has grown into a pop icon in recent years\n\nBoth attended Harvard Law School. When Justice Ginsburg attended in 1956, one year behind her husband, she was one of nine women to enrol. While there, she and her female cohort were famously asked by the dean to justify taking the spot of a man in his school.\n\nMs Ginsburg later transferred to Columbia Law School in New York, becoming the first woman to work at both school's law reviews.\n\nDespite her academic success, she struggled to find work.\n\n\"Not a law firm in the entire city of New York would employ me,\" she once said. \"I struck out on three grounds: I was Jewish, a woman and a mother.\"\n\nShe went on to become a professor at Rutgers Law School in 1963, and co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As the ACLU's general counsel, Ms Ginsburg took up a series of gender discrimination cases, six of which saw her arguing before the Supreme Court.\n\nIn part due to her husband's enthusiastic lobbying, Ms Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993 by then President Bill Clinton. She became the second woman in US history nominated to the august body.\n\nJustice Ginsburg was the second woman in US history to be nominated to the Supreme Court\n\nDuring her years on the court, as the bench has become more conservative, she has increasingly moved to the left, gaining a reputation for her spirited dissents.\n\nAnd in recent years, she has grown into a pop culture phenomenon.\n\nIn part due to her scathing dissents, Ms Ginsburg became the subject of a Tumblr account called Notorious RBG - a nod to the late rapper, The Notorious BIG. She has been played by actress and comedian Kate McKinnon on Saturday Night Live, and has her likeness painted on T-shirts, mugs and posters.\n\n\"I'm 84 years old,\" Ms Ginsburg says about her newfound fame in the 2018 documentary RBG.\n\n\"And everyone wants to take their picture with me.\"", "John Cleese, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman in Monty Python's Life of Brian\n\nIn 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian was considered so controversial it was given an X certificate and banned from some British cinemas.\n\nLast year, however, its rating was downgraded to a 12A by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).\n\nIn its annual report, published this week, the BBFC said it now considered the film \"permissible at a more junior category\" under its current guidelines.\n\nThe film returned to cinemas in 2019 to mark its 40th anniversary.\n\nIt was rereleased in April last year with a 12A rating for \"infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, nudity [and] comic violence\".\n\nLife of Brian, the third film to feature the entire Monty Python collective, tells of a young man in Roman times who is born on the same day as Jesus and is subsequently mistaken for the messiah.\n\nThe film, now considered a classic, includes a character called Biggus Dickus, several uses of a swear word and a scene in which actor Graham Chapman appears naked.\n\nWhen it was first released, the BBFC - then named the British Board of Film Censors - rated the film AA, which meant those under 14 were not allowed to see it.\n\nContemporary concerns that the film was blasphemous in nature led to more than 100 local authorities opting to view the film for themselves.\n\nThe late Terry Jones directed, starred in and co-wrote the 1979 film\n\nThis led to 28 of them raising the classification to an X certificate, meaning no one under 18 could see it, and 11 banning the film altogether.\n\nWhen the film went to video and DVD, the BBFC gave it a 15 rating for strong language and nudity - meaning only those 15 and over were allowed to see it.\n\nOn reviewing the film in 2019, though, the ratings body felt its \"six uses of strong language in a comic context\" merited no higher than a 12A certificate.\n\nThe rating means the film is not generally suitable for children under 12 and they cannot see it in a cinema without the supervision of an adult.\n\nIt is not uncommon for the BBFC to revisit films that are being reissued theatrically and reappraise their original classification.\n\nEarlier this year Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back, released in 1980 with a U certificate, was reclassified as a PG for its \"moderate violence [and] mild threat\".\n\nComic book origin story Joker generated the most complaints from cinemagoers last year, with 20 people complaining that its 15 certificate was too lenient.\n\nThe BBFC said the Oscar-winning film, released in the UK in October 2019, featured \"scenes of strong violence... with accompanying bloody injury detail\".\n\nYet it said it had decided the scenes in question did not \"dwell on the infliction of pain or injury in a manner that requires an 18 [certificate]\".\n\nOther films that prompted complaints in 2019 included Alita: Battle Angel, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum and Transformers spin-off Bumblebee.\n\nAnimated film The Queen's Corgi, meanwhile, received five complaints about sexual references and animal cruelty.\n\nReleased last July, the film features a cartoon version of President Trump and a scene where its canine hero climbs into a washing machine.\n\nIn its report, the BBFC said no animals had been harmed in the making of the film.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "India's capital, Delhi, has seen a sharp dip in coronavirus case numbers in recent weeks. Is one of the country's biggest hotspots actually close to flattening the curve? Aparna Alluri finds out more.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Delhi was scrambling to fight a pandemic that appeared to be spiralling out of control.\n\nJune had been a terrible month for the city - with record surges almost every day, it accounted for most of the case load in the capital territory up to that point. Overrun labs and public hospitals added to the chaos and anxiety - as did conflicting information from the state and central governments.\n\nBy the end of the month, Delhi responded with a flurry of measures, from door-to-door health check-ups to increased testing, with the use of antigen tests, which are rapid but less reliable than the more widely-used RT-PCR tests.\n\nThese efforts seem to be paying off, says K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and member of the national Covid-19 taskforce.\n\nDelhi's daily case count has been dropping sharply, even as testing remains consistent.\n\nThis week it has recorded 1,200 to 1,600 new cases a day - about half of its daily count in the last week of June, when it was reporting more than 3,000 new cases a day.\n\nWhile Maharashtra, the state with the highest case load, continues to see a rise, Tamil Nadu, also a major hotspot, is seeing a more gradual decline in daily case numbers.\n\nAs far as the situation in Delhi goes, Prof Reddy is cautious. \"There are two explanations. One is that this is a genuine fall [in cases]. The other is that some of this is the result of the fact that they are using a lot of antigen tests.\"\n\nThat is, if antigen tests account for most of Delhi's increased testing rates, they may be missing a lot of cases, driving the case numbers down.\n\nAntigen tests are fast - they give results in minutes, unlike the RT-PCR test, which is longer, more complex and takes hours to generate a result.\n\nThe crucial difference between the two is that they look for different parts of the virus as evidence of infection. The antigen test looks for viral proteins whose presence is taken as proof of infection. But their absence does not mean the person is not infected. The RT-PCR test, on the other hand, looks for the RNA of the virus, which is a far more reliable indicator.\n\nIn fact, India's current testing guidelines require that anyone who tests negative for the virus must be retested with an RT-PCR kit.\n\nSo the question is how many tests of each kind is Delhi doing, and is everyone being retested? That data is not publicly available, leaving experts wondering how much of Delhi's \"turnaround\" could be the result of a poor testing strategy.\n\n\"I am inclined to believe there is a drop in cases, an observation that is bolstered by the falling deaths,\" says Prof Reddy.\n\nDelhi's reported Covid-19 daily deaths have fallen from 62 at the end of June to 41 earlier this week. It has now dipped below even Tamil Nadu, which has consistently reported fewer Covid-19 deaths than Delhi or Maharashtra since the pandemic began.\n\nWhile most experts, including Prof Reddy, agree that deaths are being under-reported, he says there is no reason to assume more deaths are being under-reported now than before.\n\nExperts see deaths as the second-best measure after confirmed cases, given the inconsistency of testing data.\n\nProf Reddy also points to the fact that the Delhi government has taken concrete steps that could explain a fall in cases to some degree, irrespective of the extent of testing with antigen kits.\n\n\"There is more emphasis on public health, more household visits, more testing, better public communication,\" he says.\n\n\"The public alarm helped, and there is a lot more energy in the system, and much better co-ordination between the centre and the state.\"\n\nBut at the same time, he says, it's too early to call this a turnaround. Only a continued drop in numbers - both cases and deaths - would count as evidence of a promising sign.\n\nInstead, he adds, the focus should be on improving hospital admissions and access to speedy treatment to lower deaths. \"That will also give confidence to people to self-report if they have symptoms.\"\n\nBut Delhi may not be the focus of attention for too long as cases are rising fast in other parts of the country.\n\nSouthern states such as Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are seeing some of the steepest rises. Telangana too saw a rapid rise in cases until recently, but its testing has been inconsistent.\n\nTamil Nadu's dip in cases might be the result of a strict state-wide lockdown for two weeks but it also has one of the country's highest testing rates, and it's only using RT-PCR kits.\n\n\"During the lockdown, they had fever camps, suspected cases were referred to testing centres, transportation was provided,\" says Manoj Murhekar, director of the National Institute of Epidemiology in Chennai (Madras), the state's capital.\n\n\"But it's too early to say if this trend will continue,\" he adds.\n\nClosed shops in Bangalore in Karnataka, which along with Tamil Nadu has a strict local lockdown\n\nMaharashtra continues to see a rise in daily case numbers - its capital city, Mumbai, has started to register a gradual decline, but surrounding districts, such as Thane, and Pune and other cities in the state are seeing spikes.\n\n\"After the lockdown, the movement of people was much more than what the government anticipated,\" says Subhash R Salunke, an adviser to the state government on its Covid-19 response.\n\n\"But my worry is the deaths.\"\n\nWith more than 10,900 deaths, Maharashtra has more Covid-19 fatalities than any state in India - and deaths have been rising too.\n\n\"You will see a downward trend in Mumbai definitely,\" Dr Salunke says. \"But this is not going to be over soon.\"\n\nData and analysis by Shadab Nazmi and Aparna Alluri", "In Yemen, a quarter of all those confirmed to have had the virus have died from it\n\nThe United Nations is making an appeal for $10.3 billion (£8.2 billion) to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, its largest ever fundraising call.\n\nThe UN says up to 265 million people could face starvation by the end of the year because of the impact of Covid-19.\n\nThe money will be for used for low income and fragile countries.\n\nThe UN warned that failure to act could undo decades of development. It initially asked for $2 billion in its first coronavirus appeal in March.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic is having a huge impact on the world's poorest, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.\n\nThis revised appeal is a record, but, the UN says, wealthy countries have thrown away the financial rule book to protect their own economies, and must now do the same for poorer nations.\n\nIf they do not, the UN warns, the world faces a series of crises, with millions pushed into starvation.\n\nMillions of migrant workers laid off under lockdown cannot send money home, vaccination programmes for childhood diseases are on hold, and countries already enduring years of conflict are ill equipped to handle Covid-19.\n\nIn Yemen, a quarter of all those confirmed to have had the virus have died from it, five times the global average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five years of civil war have left Yemen's medical system devastated and the spread of Covid-19 is going unchecked\n\nIt comes as an appeal to help the world's most vulnerable through the pandemic was launched by the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).\n\nFourteen charities - including Oxfam, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief and the British Red Cross - will join together to ask the British public to donate.\n\nThere have been more than 13 million confirmed Covid-19 cases so far globally and nearly 600,000 people have died.\n• None Appeal to help most vulnerable fight coronavirus", "Days of high tide have eroded Wamberal Beach north of Sydney\n\nHuge waves have pummelled the Australian state of New South Wales, eroding some coastal areas and putting homes at risk of collapse.\n\nIn beach suburbs to the north of Sydney, residents lost decks and fences as the surf lapped at the edge of properties.\n\nAuthorities say they have recorded waves as high as 11m (36ft) this week off the city's coastline.\n\nThe wild surf has been caused by a strong low pressure system.\n\nOn Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) re-issued a \"hazardous\" surf warning for the state's entire 2,100km (1,300-mile) coastline.\n\nIt advised people to stay away from the water, and warned against swimming, boating and rock fishing in the conditions.\n\nSurfers at Sydney's northern beaches on Thursday riding the massive waves\n\nThe biggest waves have been about four times the size of an average wave at this time of the year, said Weatherzone, a meteorology company.\n\nIn the suburb of Wamberal, an hour's north drive of Sydney, residents were evacuating beachfront homes at risk of collapse.\n\nPictures showed the tide had carved out some soil under houses, leaving foundations exposed.\n\nLocals fear the waves have caused structural damage to their homes\n\n\"We're anxious and and frightened and vulnerable and quite frankly, angry, we've come to this situation,\" one resident, Margaret Bryce, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\nShe said locals had in previous years called for a break wall to be built as they experienced higher tides.\n\n\"The wall was not built. People are devastated we have lost our pristine beach.\"\n\nAuthorities have placed concrete blocks along the shore to protect the homes\n\nIn 2016, a storm surge caused severe damage to beachfront homes along the Collaroy plateau in northern Sydney.\n\nIn its 2018 State of the Climate report, the Bom said that sea levels had been rising around Australia due to warming ocean temperatures.\n\nIt noted climate change had also led to an increase in extreme weather events such higher-than-normal rainfall and powerful storm surges.\n\n\"As climate change continues, the combination of increases in heavy rainfall and rising sea levels means that coastal and estuarine environments may have an increase in flood risk from multiple causes,\" the bureau said in its report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes. Video, 00:05:09Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes", "Some fans were seen wearing Leeds United face masks during the celebrations\n\nLeeds supporters have gathered outside the club's stadium to celebrate their return to the Premier League for the first time in 16 years.\n\nLeeds' owner Andrea Radrizzani and the police had urged fans to stay at home.\n\nHowever, there was jubilation outside Elland Road as the club's place in the top-flight was confirmed when West Brom lost to Huddersfield Town earlier.\n\nLast month Liverpool fans flocked to Anfield to celebrate winning the league.\n\nUnder social distancing guidelines, people in England should keep a distance of at least 1m while observing precautions to reduce the risk of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans celebrate at home as Leeds are promoted in the midst of the coronavirus crisis\n\nFans were seen celebrating together despite social distancing rules\n\nThe smoke from blue and yellow flares filled the air outside Elland Road\n\nWhile hundreds of Leeds fans headed to the ground, countless others celebrated the historic moment at home, although manager Marcelo Bielsa had said he would not watch the game.\n\nPhil Beeton, co-chairman of Leeds United Supporters Club said: \"It's absolutely brilliant, I'm just so pleased for everyone.\n\n\"It's been such an up and down few weeks and the games have come so thick and fast that you've not had one minute to get over the last game before you're looking at the next one.\n\n\"You've got to not lose sight of the fact that we've been through a horrendous period and an awful lot of people have lost their lives, I dare say a lot of Leeds fans too, and we've done it for them.\"\n\nSupporter Neil Sutcliffe said he was pleased that his grandchildren and other young fans would finally get the chance to see Leeds in the Premier League.\n\nHe said: \"It's been a long, long time coming. Sixteen years of heartache and we've finally managed to get back where we belong, all those ups and downs and it's finally come to fruition.\n\n\"Let's hope we can consolidate for next year and I'm sure we'll put on a good show and show the world we deserve to be where we are.\n\n\"I'm just hoping the supporters can be let back into the stadium, it's fantastic but it's tinged with a bit of sadness that you're not there live.\"\n\nStewards tried unsuccessfully to enforce social distancing outside the ground\n\nFans were heard chanting Leeds anthem Marching On Together\n\nEarlier this week, Radrizzani said it was \"vitally important we stay safe and keep those around us safe too by staying at home\".\n\n\"The fight against Covid-19 is not yet over and we must continue to be sensible,\" Radrizzani wrote in an open letter to supporters published in the Yorkshire Evening Post.\n\nHis sentiments were echoed by West Yorkshire Police.\n\nEarlier this week, a spokesperson for the force said:\" It's important to remember that Covid-19 is still with us and large gatherings are still not permitted.\n\n\"We understand that fans will want to celebrate but ask them to bear in mind their own safety and wellbeing, as well as that of others.\n\n\"The safety of fans and the wider public is our primary concern and the safest way that people can celebrate is in their own homes.\"\n\nFans were seen celebrating by the statue of club legend Billy Bremner\n\nFlags were waved at the ground including one bearing the face of manager Marcelo Bielsa\n\nHundreds of fans have gathered here at Elland Road for this historic moment.\n\nBlue and yellow flares were let off as people stood next to the Billy Bremner statue raising cans of beer in celebration.\n\nObviously it's still against the rules to gather in large groups and stewards were trying to enforce social distancing with police also patrolling.\n\nBut it was almost impossible for many of the fans not to be standing shoulder to shoulder and there were few masks on show.\n\nLeeds players were cheered when they appeared at a window overlooking the crowd\n\nLeeds-born Kalvin Phillips came out to celebrate with the crowd from a distance\n\nLeeds put themselves on the brink of promotion when they beat Barnsley 1-0 on Thursday to move six points clear of third-placed Brentford with two games remaining.\n\nThe result meant their long exile from the top-flight would end if West Brom failed to beat Huddersfield or the Bees dropped points at Stoke.\n\nPromotion was secured when the Baggies fell 2-1 to a spirited Terriers side who still needed points to ensure their Championship survival.\n\nAfter the result came in, celebrities and high profile figures form the world of football posted messages of congratulations on Twitter:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rio Ferdinand This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiverpool midfielder James Milner, who came through the ranks at Leeds, was among those to send his support:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 James Milner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 BBC's Match of the Day highlighted the shared history between the Reds and the Whites:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Match of the Day This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Match of the Day\n\nLeeds will now be crowned champions if Brentford do not beat Stoke on Saturday or the Whites then take a point from Sunday's visit to Derby County.\n\nSome fans watched in the city's bars as West Brom lost to Huddersfield Town\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video 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? 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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.", "Tony Elliott, the founder of Time Out magazine, has died aged 73 after a long illness, the organisation has said.\n\nElliott started the magazine in London in 1968 and it grew into a global media brand covering hundreds of countries.\n\nA statement on Time Out's website described him as \"a visionary publisher, a tireless champion of city culture and a staunch friend\".\n\nIt said Time Out's first post-lockdown print magazine in London on 11 August would be dedicated to him.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we announce that Time Out's founder Tony Elliott passed away on 16th July, after a long illness,\" the statement said.\n\n\"He will be sorely missed by his family, friends and colleagues.\n\n\"His life and his work inspired millions of people who did not have the good fortune to know him personally.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Elliott, BBC arts editor Will Gompertz described him as a \"visionary\".\n\n\"He really was the most wonderful, generous person whose passionate support for the arts was unstinting and invaluable,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Will Gompertz\n\nTime Out Group's chief executive Julio Bruno said Elliott had died with lung cancer.\n\n\"He would not allow that to stop him,\" he wrote in an article on LinkedIn.\n\n\"He kept looking at the world with those inquisitive eyes, with that innate curiosity that very few possess in such measure.\"\n\nBruno said he met Elliott five years ago and he \"was engaged with the company until the end\".\n\n\"I will miss his advice, his passion, his profound understanding of the media world. And I will miss his friendship above all,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Tony was a visionary, a pioneer, a brave man and a great friend. We owe him very much and we will fight to keep his legacy alive.\"\n\nDavid Fear, who previously worked as film editor at Time Out NY, tweeted that Elliott would \"argue [with] half of our suggestions, smile and go 'Keep it up!'\".\n\nThe magazine's global deputy film editor Joshua Rothkopf described him as \"so Swinging London\", adding: \"I'll miss him.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joshua Rothkopf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElliott founded Time Out while he was a student at Keele University.\n\nThe first issue of the listings magazine was produced from his mother's kitchen table, funded by £70 he had received from his aunt for his 21st birthday.\n\nTony Elliott, pictured in 1971, three years after he founded Time Out\n\nThe company has now become a global media and leisure business covering food, drink, culture, travel and entertainment in 328 cities across 58 countries, through websites, magazines and live events.\n\nMarking Time Out's 50th anniversary, Elliott said he started the brand \"because it was hard to find out where to go and decide what to do in London: there was not one single place to find the information\".\n\n\"So I effectively created a publication for myself.\"\n\nIn 2017 he was appointed a CBE for services to publishing. He was honoured at the British Media Awards with an outstanding contribution award that same year.", "Princess Beatrice has married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at a private ceremony in Windsor.\n\nThe wedding took place on Friday morning at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge. It was attended by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, along with other close relatives.\n\nBeatrice was initially due to marry in May but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nThe new date had not been announced in advance and Buckingham Palace said the ceremony was \"small\".\n\nThe wedding took place at 11:00 BST in accordance with all relevant government guidelines, the palace said in a statement.\n\nWhen the coronavirus lockdown began on 23 March, weddings in England were banned under almost all circumstances. However, since 4 July, ceremonies of up to 30 people have been allowed to take place.\n\nThe investiture took place in the quadrangle at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Philip, 99, have been isolating at Windsor since March and the ceremony is believed to be the first time the pair have attended a family gathering since lockdown began.\n\nLater on Friday, she was pictured knighting Captain Sir Tom Moore, the 100-year-old who raised more than £32m for NHS charities - her first official engagement in person since lockdown.\n\nAfter the investiture, the Queen told the veteran fundraiser: \"My granddaughter got married this morning. Both Philip and I managed to get there - very nice.\"\n\nThe couple have only been seen in public together on a few occasions - including here at St James's Palace at a Pitch@Palace event last June\n\nThe princess, 31, and Mr Mapelli Mozzi, 35, had originally planned to marry on 29 May at the Chapel Royal, St James Palace, in London.\n\nThe new venue of Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park - a short drive from Windsor Castle - is Beatrice's childhood home. Her parents, Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, still live at the property and also attended the ceremony.\n\nIt was held at the chapel regularly used by the Queen as her place of worship when she is staying at Windsor.\n\nPrincess Beatrice with her mother, the Duchess of York, at the wedding of Princess Eugenie\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi - known as Edo - and Beatrice began dating in autumn 2018. They got engaged during a weekend trip to Italy last September.\n\nTheir families have known one another for many years. The couple are said to have started a relationship after meeting again at Beatrice's sister Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank.\n\nThe wedding at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle in October 2018 was attended by 850 guests, while 1,200 people chosen by ballot followed proceedings from the grounds.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank pictured after their wedding\n\nCrowds lined the streets as the couple travelled by carriage through Windsor following the ceremony in 2018\n\nBeatrice, who is ninth in line to the throne, is not a full-time working royal but works for Afiniti, an artificial intelligence software firm, where she is vice president of partnerships and strategy.\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis and is a count himself.\n\nThe princess has become a stepmother, as he has a young son named Wolfie with ex-fiancee Dara Huang.", "The car crashed into a road barrier in Brighouse, West Yorkshire\n\nTwo men have been killed in a car crash during a police chase.\n\nThe vehicle hit a road barrier on Bradford Road in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, just after 01:00 BST as it fled from officers.\n\nTwo men, thought to be in their 20s, died as a result of their injuries, the police watchdog said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched an investigation after a mandatory referral from the West Yorkshire force.\n\nIn a statement, Miranda Biddle, of the IOPC, said it had taken statements from two officers.\n\n\"Our role is to establish and examine the circumstances of what happened,\" she said.\n\n\"This work is already under way, and West Yorkshire Police is cooperating fully with our inquiries.\"\n\nEarlier, the force said: \"At 01:07 a car containing two male occupants was involved in a collision in Bradford Road, in Brighouse town centre.\n\n\"Due to the involvement of a police vehicle in the circumstances leading up to the collision, the incident has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\"\n\nThe vehicle crashed in the early hours of Friday morning\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The swabs in some batches of one brand of coronavirus home-test kits are \"not up to standard\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nAs a precaution, the government says the kits made by Randox should not be used until further notice.\n\nThere is no evidence of harm being done and no impact on access to testing, Mr Hancock said.\n\nRandox claims to be responsible for up to 17% of the total tests carried out in the UK.\n\nThe company is a healthcare diagnostics group based out of County Antrim in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe swabs are used to collect a sample from the back of the throat and nose, which is then sent to a lab to test for the virus.\n\nMr Hancock told the Commons he was contacted on Wednesday afternoon about the problem.\n\nHe said the certification behind the CE safety mark on the product was \"not forthcoming\".\n\nIn a statement earlier on Thursday, the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"The risk to safety is low and test results from Randox kits are not affected.\"\n\nIt said it would be \"supporting all testing settings to receive replacement kits as soon as possible\".\n\nTests kits produced by Randox Laboratories, which have been used in care homes and sent to people at home, are clearly marked with the company's name.\n\nKits that have already been used can still be collected for processing as normal.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding, head of NHS Test and Trace in England, which has a separate contract with Randox, said it was too early to comment on the impact of the safety issue, but she said test results were \"not affected\".\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Confederate flag can no longer be flown on US military properties after the Pentagon issued a new policy to reject displays of \"divisive symbols\".\n\nDefence Secretary Mark Esper did not name the flag in a memo announcing the rules, but the policy effectively bans the secessionist banner.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the US Civil War.\n\nRecent protests have renewed calls to ban the Confederate flag across the US.\n\nIn his memo to senior defence leaders, Mr Esper said: \"Flags are powerful symbols, particularly in the military community for whom flags embody common mission, common histories, and the special, timeless bond of warriors.\"\n\nHe said that the US 'Stars and Stripes' flag is the principal flag the military is encouraged to display. Other flags \"must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline, treating all our people with dignity and respect, and rejecting divisive symbols\".\n\nThe memo contains a list of acceptable flags, including those belonging to US states and territories, military services, and US allies, partners and member organisations, like Nato.\n\nThe policy applies to all public displays of flags by soldiers and civilians in all areas of the Department.\n\nThe Confederate flag is not listed among these, though no there is no reference of a specific ban.\n\nThe display of unauthorised flags in museums, historical or educational displays, artwork and similar monuments - \"where the nature of the display or depiction cannot reasonably be viewed as endorsement\" is still allowed.\n\n\"With this change in policy, we will further improve the morale, cohesion, and readiness of the force in defence of our great Nation,\" Mr Esper wrote.\n\nOther branches of the military, including the Navy and Marines, recently took steps to ban the flag ahead of the departmental guidance.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has previously defended the use of the Confederate flag as free speech.\n\nIn an interview with CBS News on Saturday, the president said: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech. Whether it's Confederate flags or Black Lives Matter, or anything else you want to talk about, it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nMany Confederate memorials have been covered in graffiti\n\nThe renewed push to ban the Confederate flag follows widespread protests against racism and injustice, prompted by the killing of George Floyd.\n\nA number of statues related to the Confederacy have been removed in recent weeks - in some cases torn down by protesters - though some Americans favour keeping the memorials as historical symbols. Others also say the flag is associated with rebellion rather than racism.\n\nAt the end of last month, the southern state of Mississippi voted to strip Confederate emblems from its state flag.\n\nAmid the nationwide discussion on racism, Mr Trump has rejected calls to rename military bases named after Confederate generals, saying they remain part of the country's heritage.", "Ms Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nShamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship, the Court of Appeal has ruled.\n\nMs Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015.\n\nHer citizenship was revoked by the Home Office on security grounds after she was found in a refugee camp in 2019.\n\nThe Court of Appeal said she had been denied a fair hearing because she could not make her case from the Syrian camp.\n\nThe Home Office said the decision was \"very disappointing\" and it would \"apply for permission to appeal\".\n\nThe ruling means the government must now find a way to allow the 20-year-old, who is currently in Camp Roj in northern Syria, to appear in court in London despite repeatedly saying it would not assist removing her from Syria.\n\nLord Justice Flaux - sitting with Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Singh - said: \"Fairness and justice must, on the facts of this case, outweigh the national security concerns, so that the leave to enter appeals should be allowed.\"\n\nThe judge also said that the national security concerns about her \"could be addressed and managed if she returns to the United Kingdom\".\n\nFormer Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who made the decision to strip Ms Begum of her citizenship in February 2019, tweeted a statement saying he was \"deeply concerned about the judgement\".\n\nHe said that regardless of the outcome of her case, if Ms Begum came to the UK \"it will prove impossible to subsequently remove her\".\n\nDaniel Furner, Ms Begum's solicitor, said: \"Ms Begum has never had a fair opportunity to give her side of the story.\n\n\"She is not afraid of facing British justice, she welcomes it. But the stripping of her citizenship without a chance to clear her name is not justice, it is the opposite.\"\n\nHer father Ahmed Ali told the BBC he was \"delighted\" by the ruling, adding that he hoped his daughter would get \"justice\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said that while the government \"doesn't routinely comment on individual cases\", the decisions it made about Ms Begum had not been \"taken lightly\".\n\nHe said the government would \"always ensure the safety and security of the UK and will not allow anything to jeopardise this\".\n\nShamima Begum is not yet packing her bags to return to the UK - there's no government plane warming up the engines at a military airfield to bring the young Eastender home.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal could not have been clearer in its wording - she needs to be allowed back to make her case in the interests of justice.\n\nThis is an unprecedented ruling - and the government has a matter of weeks to convince the Supreme Court to look at it again.\n\nIf it stands, it could have major implications for the UK's policy of excluding some British-born IS supporters by depriving them of nationality once they're out of the UK.\n\nScores of these people - all deemed a threat to national security - could seek to return to the UK as they fight their case to get back their British citizenship.\n\nOther governments have voluntarily repatriated these fighters and sought to contain their threat through prosecutions, monitoring and intensive deradicalisation. The UK has so far refused to do the same.\n\nMs Begum's legal team challenged the move on three grounds - that it was unlawful because it left her stateless; it exposed her to a real risk of death or inhuman and degrading treatment; and she could not effectively challenge the decision while she was barred from returning to the UK.\n\nUnder international law, it is only legal to revoke someone's citizenship if an individual is entitled to citizenship of another country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum spoke to the BBC from a refugee camp in Syria in February 2019\n\nIn February, a specialist tribunal - the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) - ruled that the decision to remove Ms Begum's citizenship was lawful because she was \"a citizen of Bangladesh by descent\".\n\nShe is understood to have a claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother.\n\nSIAC, a semi-secret court which hears national security cases, also said that although there were concerns about how Ms Begum could take part in the proceedings in London, those difficulties did not mean the home secretary's decision should be overturned.\n\nIn his ruling on Thursday, Lord Justice Flaux said: \"It is difficult to conceive of any case where a court or tribunal has said we cannot hold a fair trial, but we are going to go on anyway.\"\n\nHuman rights organisation Liberty, which intervened in Ms Begum's appeal, welcomed the ruling, saying the right to a fair trial was \"a fundamental part of our justice system and equal access to justice must apply to everyone\".\n\nLiberty lawyer Katie Lines added: \"Banishing someone is the act of a government shirking its responsibilities and it is critical that cruel and irresponsible government decisions can be properly challenged and overturned.\"\n\nMs Begum left Bethnal Green, in east London, aged 15 for Syria in February 2015, with two school friends.\n\nWithin days she had crossed the Turkish border and eventually reached the IS headquarters at Raqqa, where she married a Dutch convert recruit. They had three children - all of whom have since died.", "There was some welcome news for the arts sector in Boris Johnson's announcement earlier: indoor performances with socially distanced audiences can take place in England from the start of August.\n\nIn the same way that sports fans are going to be allowed in stadiums for a small number of matches to see how it goes, there will also be pilots of theatre shows and concerts with socially distanced audiences.\n\nThe findings would feed into final guidance for venues in the run-up to them reopening, the PM said.\n\nHowever, with social distancing in place, many venues warn it's not financially viable to open. Theatre budgets tend to be based on a breakeven of around 70% capacity, and so with much less capacity the producer cannot afford to put the show on.\n\nJon Morgan, the head of Theatres Trust welcomed the news as \"a step in the right direction\" - but said \"for most theatres it will not be economically viable to reopen with 30-40% audience required under social distancing\".\n\nHe said they needed to progress to theatres being allowed to open fully \"with the appropriate safety measures\", adding: \"Without this most theatres cannot reopen viably and we need the go-ahead for Christmas shows, on which the survival of many theatres depends, in the next few weeks at the very latest.\"\n\nThere's more here.", "Ben Thomas reported for BBC Wales Today and the Welsh language news service for young people before joining the church\n\nA former church minister and BBC Wales presenter has pleaded guilty to sexual offences against children and adults.\n\nThe offences happened in north Wales, Shropshire, London, and Romania.\n\nThomas, who worked for BBC Wales as a reporter and a presenter on Ffeil, the Welsh language news programme for young people, and on Wales Today, will be sentenced on 18 August.\n\nHe left the BBC in 2005 to preach on the streets of London, before returning to Wales in 2008 as pastor of the Criccieth Family Church in Gwynedd.\n\nThomas' actions were an \"awful breach of trust\", police say\n\nIn a statement, Criccieth Family Church said Thomas' arrest had come as a \"complete shock\", and that safeguarding checks had been \"satisfactorily completed\".\n\n\"We are now devastated by the revelation of such sin and grieve over the pain caused to the innocent victims, the betrayal and deception,\" the statement added.\n\n\"Foremost in our prayers now are the victims and their families.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police thanked Thomas' victims and families for their \"strength and courage,\" adding they would now be \"spared the harrowing ordeal of a lengthy trial\".\n\nDet Con Lynne Willsher said: \"Ben Thomas' offending involved the serious sexual abuse of vulnerable young children by a religious leader.\n\n\"It is an awful breach of the trust placed in him by the victims and their families, and I cannot begin to imagine what impact the revelation of his offending has had on them.\"\n\nBen Thomas had worked on Wales Today and Ffeil, the Welsh language news programme for young people\n\nThe NSPCC said Thomas' crimes were \"horrendous\" and said it was important his victims had access to \"ongoing support\".\n\n\"Thomas has admitted to committing a wave of sexual offences over a long period of time and it is right that he now faces the consequences of his actions,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"It is crucial that anyone who has been abused feels safe to report what has happened to them, no matter how long ago the offence took place, in the knowledge that they will be listened to.\"", "Fahim Selah was best known for his role in creating popular start-ups in Nigeria and Bangladesh\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of leading tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh who was found dead in New York on Tuesday, police say.\n\nThe body of Saleh, 33, was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment.\n\nHis 21-year-old executive assistant Tyrese Haspil has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.\n\nThe suspect is alleged to have owed Saleh tens of thousands of dollars, police said.\n\nThe entrepreneur was best known for his role in creating popular ride-sharing companies in Nigeria and Bangladesh.\n\nMr Haspil is accused of using a taser on Saleh and then fatally stabbing him on Monday.\n\n\"[The suspect] handled [Saleh's] finances and personal matters,\" NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison told reporters after the arrest on Friday.\n\n\"It is also believed that he owed the victim a significant amount of money.\"\n\nNew York Police Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison announced the arrest on Friday\n\nSaleh's body was discovered by his cousin who checked on him on Tuesday afternoon after he had not been seen for several days, Chief Harrison said.\n\nAccording to US media reports, CCTV footage from the building in which Saleh lived showed him entering a lift with a man wearing a mask on Monday.\n\nHis body was discovered with an electric saw placed nearby, police said.\n\nThe 33-year-old was the son of Bangladeshi immigrants and created his first company while still in high school.\n\nHe went on to co-found the ride company Pathao, which is popular in Bangladesh and Nepal, in 2015.\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 pathaobd 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\nMore recently, he helped found the Nigerian motorbike taxi app Gokada. But the company faced a setback after authorities in Lagos banned motorbike taxis earlier this year.\n\nBoth companies have paid tribute to the entrepreneur.\n\nGokada described Saleh as \"a great leader, inspiration and positive light for all of us\" in its tweet.\n\nHussain M Elius, who co-founded Pathao with Saleh, told Bangladesh's Daily Star newspaper: \"Fahim believed in the potential for technology to transform lives in Bangladesh and beyond.\n\n\"He saw the promise in us when all we had was a common purpose and a shared vision. He was, and will forever remain, an incredible inspiration for Pathao and our entire ecosystem.\"", "The RAF said the gravestone had been replaced \"as part of an ongoing review of its historical assets\"\n\nA gravestone honouring the Dambusters' dog - whose name is a racial slur - has been replaced.\n\nThe 617 Squadron's mascot, a black Labrador, died on the day of its famous \"bouncing bomb\" raid on German dams in 1943.\n\nA memorial at the Dambusters' World War Two base, RAF Scampton, bearing the dog's name was removed.\n\nThe RAF said it did not want to give prominence to an offensive term that went against its ethos.\n\nSir Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, said he was \"very fearful of our ability today to erase or re-write history\".\n\nThe dog's grave is at RAF Scampton, home to an exhibition about the mission, known as Operation Chastise\n\nKris Hendrix, campaigns manager at the RAF Museum, said the dog - which the BBC is not naming - was a \"drinking buddy\" for squadron members and would consume litres of beer before passing out.\n\nHe was hit by a car and killed on 16 May 1943, but his death was kept from the airmen as it was feared they might see it as a bad omen.\n\nMr Hendrix added: \"It was such a famous dog, it was such a famous squadron and that meant the grave has been kept until today.\n\n\"The standards have changed throughout the years, while it may not have been a controversial name during the Second World War, things are very different now.\"\n\nThe Labrador was owned by the squadron's wing commander, Guy Gibson (centre)\n\nSir Edward said he had written to the station commander of RAF Scampton about the change.\n\nIn his letter, shared with the BBC, he said: \"Undoubtedly we are both more sensitive and more sensible today when it comes to the delicateness of racialist and derogatory terminology which had been used with unfortunate informality in the past.\n\n\"I am, however, very fearful of our ability today to erase or re-write history. The past needs to be explained, taught about, and learned from - not re-written.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of his father falling downstairs after being Tasered\n\nNo further action will be taken by the Met Police over the Tasering of rapper Wretch 32's father, the force has said.\n\nThe 35-year-old musician posted a video on Twitter of Millard Scott falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in north London in April.\n\nThe case was referred to the police watchdog at the force's request but it was then passed back to the Met.\n\nThe force said there had been no public complaint or indication of misconduct so no further action would be taken.\n\n\"Should a public complaint be made or information provided about injuries we will re-refer the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC),\" the force added.\n\nOfficers had gone to the address in Bromley Road, Tottenham, on 21 April as part of an operation to tackle a drugs supply linked to serious violence in Haringey.\n\nAs they entered the building, they were confronted by a man who \"started moving towards an officer suddenly\", the force said.\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\nFootage posted online showed Mr Scott tumbling downstairs at his home after an officer was heard to warn: \"Police officer with a Taser. Stay where you are.\"\n\nThe 62-year-old was assessed by paramedics but did not require treatment.\n\nA 22-year-old man inside the address was arrested and later charged with encouraging another to commit an offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007.\n\nA 52-year-old woman was also later charged with obstructing/resisting a police constable in the execution of duties.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Met's Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House told members of the London Assembly that the IOPC had decided that the matter should be handled internally by the force \"in a reasonable and proportionate manner\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the IOPC confirmed it was because they had \"not received a public complaint or confirmation the man involved sustained a serious injury\".\n\nScotland Yard has previously spoken with the family about any concerns they had about the Tasering and said they would now write to Mr Scott to tell him about the decision.\n\nCommander Treena Fleming said the force understood why the use of a Taser \"did look alarming in this case\".\n\n\"Met officers are highly trained to engage, explain and try to resolve situations, using force only when absolutely necessary.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's been 16 weeks since bowling alleys and casinos closed their doors, but on Friday Boris Johnson gave them the go-ahead to reopen from 1 August in England.\n\nCustomers have been itching to get back, businesses say. But the experience will look a little different to what we're used to.\n\nHollywood Bowl is preparing to reopen all 54 of its venues in two weeks' time, but it'll be out with the bowling shoes and in with the plastic gloves.\n\nThe vast majority of the company's 1,900 furloughed staff members will return to work as soon as the doors reopen, says chief financial officer, Laurence Keen - but only after they've had their temperature checked.\n\nLike all firms reopening, they've had to make sure they're abiding by the government's Covid-secure guidelines, which involve grappling with dozens of safety questions specific to each business.\n\nFor instance, coronavirus is known to spread through contact with surfaces, which isn't ideal for a game which involves repeatedly touching bowling balls.\n\nStaff at Hollywood Bowl will be cleaning bowling balls before and after each game, Laurence explains, with sanitiser on-hand for customers.\n\nThe clattering of pins might not as deafening as usual though, as every other lane will be closed to allow for social distancing. Players will also be capped at six per lane - as opposed to eight before the pandemic.\n\nStaff will wear gloves, he says, and customers will be offered them too. So far, they've shelled out for 400,000 pairs of gloves, which Laurence expects will last \"a good 12 to 16 weeks\", depending on how many customers want them.\n\nThey're also hoping bowling shoes will become a thing of the past, as people will be encouraged to wear their own.\n\nLanes will look significantly emptier as every other one will be closed to allow for social distancing\n\nMany changes may have been made, but will customers turn up to see them?\n\nLaurence is feeling positive: \"A lot of the areas that have been allowed to open previously have been more targeted towards the older generation, but actually our kids are desperate to do things outside the four walls of the house.\"\n\nThey may be hoping to welcome back families in droves, but with every other lane closed, the company is having to cut their potential customer numbers in half.\n\nThey aren't too worried though as they would usually only see 35% of lanes filled on weekdays before the pandemic, but they do expect to lose some custom on weekends.\n\nAt 50% revenue, the company will still be profitable, Laurence says, \"albeit just\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jonathon Swaine, the managing director of venues at Grosvenor Casinos, says he's been waiting - \"patiently\" - for the green light from the government for months.\n\nThe company is now getting ready to welcome back 4,500 employees, the vast majority of whom have been furloughed.\n\nMaintaining social distancing has been one of the biggest problems for many firms - but Jonathon says that \"isn't so much of a problem\" for them.\n\n\"We're lucky with our casinos that, even with 50% capacity, generally our casinos are very spacious venues. We don't have the problems that pubs have.\"\n\nFloor markers will help players make their way round the building\n\nAnd he's confident that their longer opening hours will help mitigate against the customer cap they're introducing in their 43 venues.\n\nPlayers arriving at busier sites will face temperature checks as well as redesigned routes through the building to help keep people at a safe distance.\n\nAnd inside the casino, plastic screens will separate people playing blackjack and American roulette, with dealers wearing visors.\n\nGaming chips present a similar problem to bowling balls, but Jonathon says all tokens will be sanitised before and after use, and customers will only play with their own chips.\n\nAdapting in this way hasn't come cheap.\n\n\"The screens, the sanitiser, the additional measures that we've put in place have all been significant investments,\" Jonathon says. \"But we clearly think it's the right thing to do to reassure our customers.\"\n\nPlastic screens will become a regular sight at casinos in future\n\nReassurance has been \"right at the top of the customers' needs\" according to their research, so it's important for them to get that right.\n\nBut with some people still cautious, is he confident that reopening will be pay off?\n\n\"If we can bring as many people back as possible, and open as quickly and as safely as possible, we've got the best chance of a sustainable business,\" he says.", "An investigation is being conducted into the cause of the fire\n\nA large fire has damaged parts of Blackpool's historic Central Pier just a week after it reopened.\n\nThe blaze completely destroyed a fairground ride and damaged an engineering shed about halfway along the seaside attraction.\n\nAerial photos from the scene show a charred section of the structure, made from cast iron and wood, where the ride once stood.\n\nMark Marshall, of the Blackpool Pier Company, said he was \"devastated\".\n\nHe said a structural engineer would assess the damage and the company was \"hoping with every fibre of our body\" the pier would be safe to reopen again soon.\n\nIt welcomed its first visitors in months just a week ago after lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nSome 50 firefighters tackled the blaze at its height, with 10 fire engines sent to the scene.\n\nFire crews were called to the blaze on the pier at about 03:00 BST\n\nA ride was destroyed in the blaze\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said crews arrived just after 03:00 BST to find the ride and engineering shed well alight.\n\nIncident commander Mark Winder said it was soon brought under control thanks to \"some fantastic early intervention\" by crews.\n\n\"Fortunately we had some of the conditions in our favour so we did not have a particularly strong wind and the tide was out, so we were able to tackle the fire below from the beach as well,\" he said.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire has begun, he added.\n\nThe Promenade around the pier was closed for a time, but has since reopened.\n\nDamage to the roof of the engineering shed could be seen from the beach\n\nThe Big Wheel was first installed on Central Pier in 1990\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The NHS in England will get an extra £3bn of funding to prepare for a possible second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe funding will also help ease winter pressures on the health service, Downing Street said.\n\nIt follows warnings a second wave this winter could see as many as 120,000 Covid-19 deaths in UK hospitals.\n\nThe prime minister made the funding commitment at a No 10 briefing, where he also pledged a new testing target.\n\nCapacity will be increased to at least 500,000 tests a day by the end of October, Mr Johnson said.\n\nConfirming the extra £3bn in funding for the NHS in England, he said Covid-19 could become \"more virulent\" in winter.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"Demand for testing is not the only challenge that winter will bring. It's possible that the virus will be more virulent in the winter months and it's certain that the NHS will face the usual annual winter pressures.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're making sure we're ready for winter and planning for the worst.\"\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive additional funds, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called for an urgent review into how coronavirus deaths have been recorded in England.\n\nDowning Street said the new NHS funding would be available immediately and would allow the NHS to continue using additional private hospital capacity and maintain the temporary Nightingale hospitals until the end of March 2021.\n\nThis will provide additional capacity for coronavirus patients, as well as allowing the NHS to carry out routine treatments and procedures, No 10 said.\n\nNon-urgent operations were suspended as the UK went into lockdown, to free up hospital beds during the first wave of coronavirus - but in May NHS England told hospitals they should restart procedures.\n\nIn normal times an announcement of £3bn to help the NHS in England cope with winter pressures might look generous.\n\nBut these are not normal times as the government pumps tens of billions into the economy to soften the blows of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe head of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, has been in talks with the Treasury to get guarantees that the Nightingale hospitals can stay open through until next spring in case there is another Covid surge.\n\nHe also wanted secure funding in place to do a deal with private hospitals to help tackle the backlog of cancelled non urgent operations such as hip and knee replacements.\n\nThat money now seems to have been secured, though we await further details.\n\nThe question is, will this be enough to get the health service through what could be one of the most difficult winters in its history?\n\nThere have been predictions that the waiting list for routine surgery will swell to 10 million as fears of a second wave of Covid cases in the depths of winter won't go away.\n\nHighlighting other measures to protect the NHS as it heads into the winter, Mr Johnson said the government would carry out the biggest flu vaccination programme in the history of the health service, while supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators had also increased.\n\nThe announcement was made as the prime minister announced a further easing of lockdown measures.\n\nThe prime minister encouraged people to return to using public transport, while advice for employers will change from 1 August.\n\nFrom the beginning of next month, Mr Johnson said employers would have more discretion to bring staff back to the workplace providing it was safe to do so.\n\nSince late March the government had been advising people to work from home if possible to help curb coronavirus.\n\nLast week Mr Johnson had signalled a change, saying: \"I think we should now say, well, 'Go back to work if you can'.\"\n\nBut the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told MPs on Thursday there was \"absolutely no reason\" to change the government's current guidance on working from home.\n\nSir Patrick wore a mask as he spoke to the Commons Science and Technology Committee on Thursday\n\nEarlier this week a report, requested by Sir Patrick, called for immediate action to reduce the risks posed by a second wave of coronavirus this winter.\n\nAmong its recommendations were increasing the capacity of the test and trace programme and having more people vaccinated against flu.\n\nAsked to model a \"reasonable\" worst-case scenario, scientists suggested a range of between 24,500 and 251,000 virus-related deaths in hospitals alone, peaking in January and February.\n\nThe estimate does not take into account any lockdowns, treatments or vaccines.\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\nResearch suggests the virus can survive longer in colder conditions and is more likely to spread when people spend more time indoors.\n\nExperts are also concerned the NHS will be under extreme pressure, not just from a resurgence of coronavirus but also from seasonal flu and a backlog of regular, non-coronavirus workload.\n\nThe British Medical Association chairman, Chaand Nagpaul, has called for more detail on how the £3bn funding will be used.\n\n\"The government talks of winter planning, but we need transparency on this, including how far this money can stretch in tackling a modelled worst-case forecast - including a second peak, additional non-Covid demand and a possible flu outbreak,\" Dr Nagpaul said.\n\n\"Crucially, the government must make prevention a priority and take every necessary step to try and avoid a national second spike all together.\"\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospitals and other NHS organisations, echoed the call for clarity over what the money will be used for, saying funding is already in place for Nightingale hospitals and private beds.\n\nWhile welcoming the financial support, deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery added: \"Trusts need more than that. They have got to recover the lost ground of the last four or five months and put measures in place to manage the additional activity that always happens in winter.\"", "All Cadbury chocolate bars sold in multipacks will shrink by the end of 2021 to reduce their calorie count, owner Mondelez has announced.\n\nPopular treats including Crunchie, Twirl and Wispa bars will contain no more than 200 calories each when sold in a four-pack.\n\nHowever, the price will stay the same. Bars sold individually will not change.\n\nChocolate fans took to Twitter to denounce the latest example of what has become known as \"shrinkflation\".\n\nThat is when food manufacturers reduce the weight of their products without shrinking the price.\n\n\"We must play our part in tackling obesity and are committed to doing so without compromising on consumer choice,\" said Louise Stigant, UK managing director at Mondelez International.\n\nWhen asked why \"single-serve\" bars were unaffected, a spokesperson for Mondelez said the firm believed in \"offering consumers different portion sizes for different occasions\".\n\nThe spokesperson confirmed that the list price for multipacks would not change and said pricing was up to retailers.\n\nConsumers were sceptical, with one tweeting that Cadbury should change the name of its Double Decker bar to Minibus.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by kev This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Cadbury trying to say that the change is for health reasons when it seems painfully obvious it's for profit margins,\" said another disgruntled customer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ian Guffogg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 is not the first time that Mondelez has run into opposition after altering the size of its chocolate bars.\n\nIn 2016, it reduced the weight of its Toblerone bar from 200g to 150g by spacing out its distinctive triangular chunks, but it reversed the change two years later.\n\n\"This is a sign of the times.\" said Mark Jones, food and drink supply chain expert at law firm Gordons.\n\n\"You may remember in July 2017, the ONS (Office for National Statistics) confirmed that 2,529 products shrank in size between January 2012 and June 2017, but their price remained the same. The vast majority of the affected products were food and drink.\n\n\"Now we are on the brink of another recession, shrinkflation will probably increase again. Only this time, when the producers are caught, they are likely to point to the obesity epidemic as their motivation rather than their margins.\"", "Campaigners are concerned about pedestrian safety standards for US vehicles\n\nSafety experts are urging the UK government to exclude American cars from any post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nThey say imported vehicles should meet British safety standards for accidents with pedestrians, cyclists and children.\n\nUK PM Boris Johnson has indicated he expects cars to be included in any new transatlantic trade agreement.\n\nBut safety campaigners point to a spike of pedestrian injuries and deaths in US road accidents.\n\nThe increase is associated with a boom in large SUVs, which have been engineered to protect passengers but not pedestrians.\n\nThe UK government said safety standards would not be \"diminished\" as a result of talks.\n\nIn the UK and Europe, cars are designed to minimise harm to people on foot or on bikes if they are hit by a vehicle. SUVs sold in the UK must meet the standards.\n\nThe Parliamentary Advisory Committee on Transport Safety has written to Trade Secretary Liz Truss, saying: “We note that in negotiations covering food safety the USA has argued against accepting higher UK standards. It has sought to characterise these as protectionism.\n\n“We are concerned that pressure for lower safety standards will be applied in negotiations regarding the automotive sector.\n\n“US vehicle safety standards are much lower than those permitted for vehicles sold in the UK.”\n\nDavid Ward, president of the Global New Car Assessment Programme, told BBC News: “US crash standards are much lower for pedestrians... we simply can’t let American vehicles into the UK if they don’t meet our standards.”\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman told BBC News the government would decide its own safety regulations after Brexit.\n\n“Road safety or environmental standards will not be diminished as part of a free trade agreement with the USA or any other country,” she said.\n\nBut safety campaigners note that, on the parallel issue of whether to allow imports of chlorinated chicken from the US, ministers are under relentless pressure to give way.\n\nThe head of the UK Transport Research Laboratory, Richard Cuerden, said: “We know the PM and others have said the automotive sector is on the cards for a new trade deal after Brexit. Well, it’s fine to trade – but they have to meet our rules in this regard.”\n\nDonald Trump has spoken of his desire to sign a free trade deal with the UK\n\nUS President Donald Trump has previously derided safety standards for pedestrians - although the White House later said he was joking.\n\nA Ford Europe spokesperson said the firm had no intention of trying to bring vehicles into Europe that did not comply with regulations.\n\nBut Mr Cuerden said, from past experience, US negotiators would typically insist on equivalence of free access between markets. That meant cars could be used as a bargaining chip in the talks.\n\nMr Cuerden also warned that many of the UK’s crash barriers were designed to resist a car of standard weight and height. If British drivers started to buy large US-style SUVs in big numbers, the barriers might have to be replaced.\n\nBig SUVs are the focus of concern among US experts, too. A study from the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) said while the number of people killed in road crashes had fallen overall, the number of pedestrians killed by vehicles had risen by 53% over a decade.\n\nOver the same period, the share of SUVs in the vehicle fleet rose to 29% from 21% - a trend replicated in the UK.\n\nIIHS said design changes meant US SUVs no longer posed a greater threat to the occupants of other vehicles but there had not been a similar effort to address the danger that large SUVs posed to pedestrians.\n\nMatt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council, which represents US carmakers, said cars made there were just as safe as European vehicles.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Cars, SUVs and other light trucks that meet US safety standards achieve equivalent safety performance to the safety standards applied in the European Union.\n\n\"A US-UK trade agreement should address the tariff and technical barriers to open US-UK automotive trade. This would increase competition and provide more consumer choice.\"", "The world's poorest \"will pay the greatest price\" of plans to merge the Department for International Development (Dfid) with the Foreign Office, MPs have said.\n\nAnnouncing the plans, Boris Johnson said the \"long overdue reform\" would ensure \"maximum value\" for taxpayers.\n\nBut the Commons International Development Committee called the move \"impulsive\".\n\nIts report also said the decision could reduce the UK's international standing.\n\nIt also criticised the lack of consultation with the development sector before the decision was taken. Former prime ministers David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair have also criticised the move.\n\nThe timing of the merger, in the middle of the global coronavirus crisis, was \"perplexing\", the report said. \"Now is not the time for a major government restructure,\" it added.\n\nIt recommends the retention of a minister responsible for development, as well as a specific related Commons committee.\n\nThe government's current plans do not include retaining Dfid's current secretary of state, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, in her post.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson has pledged that the department's budget will be protected and will still be ring-fenced for aid projects.\n\nChair Sarah Champion, a Labour MP, said Dfid \"is something we should all be proud of\", adding that it was \"deeply disappointing that the government failed to recognise\" the department's strengths.\n\n\"Now we are on the brink of this expertise being lost and our international reputation being damaged beyond repair.\n\n\"The fact that there was no consultation, seemingly no evidence as to why this is a good idea, really lets down the communities that UK aid is there to support,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will place our world-class development programmes at the heart of our foreign policy.\n\n\"Combining the development expertise of Dfid with the diplomatic reach of the Foreign Office will maximise the impact of our aid budget in helping the very poorest, while making sure we get the very best value for UK taxpayers' money in a world-leading department.\"", "The Beethoven tribute will be shown on BBC Four, featuring brand new choreography\n\nA six-minute \"mash-up\" of Beethoven's nine symphonies will launch the 2020 Proms season on Friday night.\n\nThe new piece will be played by 323 musicians from the BBC's choirs and orchestras, all playing remotely due to restrictions necessitated by Covid-19.\n\nThe lockdown means that most of this year's Proms season will comprise archive performances by some of the world's greatest classical musicians.\n\nBut it is hoped that live performances will take place in the final two weeks.\n\n\"This year it is not going to be the Proms as we know them, but the Proms as we need them,\" said David Pickard, who organises the BBC's annual festival.\n\n\"We will provide a stimulating and enriching musical summer for both loyal Proms audiences and people discovering the riches we have to offer for the first time.\"\n\nThe grand opening is a new composition by Iain Farrington, which celebrates the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth.\n\nTitled Beethoveniana, it features all five BBC orchestras and the BBC singers, all recorded in lockdown.\n\nFarrington has described it as \"taking Beethoven's music and putting it in a musical washing machine to see which colours run\".\n\nThe piece even includes a nod to Saturday Night Fever, which included a disco version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on its 1977 soundtrack.\n\n\"It's something I've enjoyed writing hugely,\" said Farrington, \"and I think it's something that hopefully captures a lot of the celebratory spirit of the Proms\".\n\nThe performance will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 19:00 BST. A specially filmed video, featuring two dancers interpreting the music, will be shown on BBC Four on Sunday.\n\nSakari Oramo will conduct the first live concert of the 2020 season\n\nThe rest of the first night will delve into the Proms archive, with Igor Levit's performance of Beethoven's dramatic Piano Concerto No. 3, originally played at the 2017 First Night; and Sir Harrison Birtwistle's \"fiendishly difficult\" saxophone concerto, Panic, which premiered at the Last Night of the 100th-anniversary Proms season in 1995.\n\nThe programme will finish with a repeat of the great Italian conductor Claudio Abbado's final Proms appearance, in 2007, leading the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in a rapturous performance of Mahler's Third Symphony.\n\nListeners are being encouraged to take part on Twitter, using the hashtag #PromsListeningParty, where BBC Radio 3 will be sharing programme notes, archive photos and behind-the-scenes stories on the performances.\n\nThe archive will continue to be raided for the next six weeks, with highlights including Leonard Bernstein leading the Vienna Philharmonic through Mahler's Fifth Symphony (26 August); the unforgettable debut of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela under Gustavo Dudamel (23 August); and Radio 1's Ibiza Prom, which gave a raft of club classics a fresh lease of life (31 July).\n\nThen, for the final two weeks, starting on 28 August, live music will return to the Royal Albert Hall with 14 concerts featuring mostly British musicians, including pianist Stephen Hough, violinist Nicola Benedetti and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.\n\nThe season will culminate in a pared-back version of the traditional Last Night, with soprano Golda Schultz joining conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.\n\nDetails of the live concerts, which are likely to take place without an audience, are still being decided, as organisers observe the constantly-changing social-distancing guidelines for orchestral musicians.\n\n\"The advice on how many players we can have has all been - to put it mildly - slightly unclear,\" said conductor Sakari Oramo, who told the BBC he was planning \"four different options\" for the first night.\n\n\"There won't be a Proms atmosphere in the same way,\" he added. \"But, of course, once the music gets going, the music will take us where it needs to take us.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Potential changes to travel insurance and passport rules for UK holidaymakers after Brexit are being highlighted in a series of adverts starting this week.\n\nThe government's \"UK's new start: let's get going\" campaign will be run on TV, radio, online, print and billboards.\n\nThere will be advice for Britons in the EU and EU citizens living in the UK, as well as UK and EU businesses, on how to prepare for the end of the transition period on 31 December.\n\nOn Monday the government also published a model setting out how the border with the EU would operate after the transition.\n\nMinisters say most of the actions that citizens and businesses are being asked to take will need to be completed regardless of the ongoing negotiations between the UK and EU on the post-Brexit trade arrangements.\n\nThat is because the UK will no longer be part of the single market and current customs union at the end of the year, no matter what arrangements are put in place.\n\nThe government says the actions people need to take after 1 January 2021 will vary depending on individual circumstances but the adverts will cover advice suggesting that:\n\nThe adverts will advise people to \"Check, Change, Go\" and recommend using a checker tool on the government's website.\n\nWe've already left the EU but we've been in the departure lounge, the transition period, when the status quo is pretty much held.\n\nThat is going to run out at the end of December, when we will leave the single market and the customs union.\n\nThat means big changes for business and a lot of them are frustrated that it isn't clear enough what that new world would look like.\n\nThere are also likely changes for all of us too. Your mobile phone bills might be pretty different next year if you escape somewhere in Europe on holiday, and message your friends from the beach.\n\nThe EU health card that has given people insurance wouldn't apply anymore, so we need to make different arrangements about that.\n\nThere are particular tensions for Northern Ireland, which of course will be part of the UK customs territory, but will still follow some EU customs law and regulation on goods to avoid a hard border.\n\nThere could be real disruption there if laws on the different sides of the channel diverged over the years.\n\nAnd there is an overall concern in government too, as we saw from a leaked letter from the International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, that the government just isn't quite ready for all of this, let alone the population and businesses who will have to grapple with the changes on the ground.\n\nThe adverts will appear on TV, radio and online - as well as billboards\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the end of the transition period will \"bring changes and significant opportunities for which we all need to prepare\".\n\n\"While we have already made great progress in getting ready for this moment, there are actions that businesses and citizens must take now to ensure we are ready to hit the ground running as a fully independent United Kingdom.\"\n\nHowever, the Cabinet Office says some of the UK-wide guidance will not apply to trade between Northern Ireland and the EU until the negotiations have concluded. A special trade arrangement involving Northern Ireland was agreed as part of the Brexit transition deal.\n\nThe campaign comes after the government announced a £705m funding package to help manage Britain's borders after Brexit - measures Labour said were \"too little, too late\" and showed that ministers were unprepared.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove announces a new public information campaign and an “operating model for the border”.\n\nIn a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Gove set out details of a new border operating model that would be phased in between January and July 2021.\n\nFrom January, traders importing standard goods, such as clothes and electronics, will need to prepare for basic customs requirements.\n\nBy July, traders moving any goods will have to make full customs declarations at the point of importation and pay relevant tariffs.\n\nHMRC estimates that the new system will see a 215 million rise in the number of customs declarations.\n\nIt is understood that the government expects to build 10 to 12 inland border posts, in order to check traders are complying with customs rules.\n\nMr Gove told MPs that the model would help the UK on its way to having \"the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nBut Labour's Rachel Reeves accused the government of \"wrapping business in red tape and sending them to a supersize lorry park in Dover\".\n\n\"The best way to help all businesses to prepare is to agree a deal with EU on the terms we were told to expect - that means no fees, charges, tariffs or quantitative restrictions across all sectors.\n\n\"It does not mean customs, physical checks and export declarations.\"", "The Only Way is Essex's Sam Faiers stars in Quiz's adverts\n\nFast-fashion firm Quiz says it has suspended a supplier after claims that a factory in Leicester offered a worker just £3 an hour to make its clothes.\n\nIt follows a report in the Times that an undercover journalist was told by a factory making Quiz clothes she would be paid below the minimum wage.\n\nQuiz said if the claims were accurate, they were \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nLeicester's garment-making industry is already under scrutiny for alleged poor working conditions at some sites.\n\nLast week, Boohoo faced a backlash after a report that workers at a factory supplying goods for its Nasty Gal brand could expect to be paid as little as £3.50 an hour.\n\nThe national minimum wage for people over 25 years-old is £8.72 an hour.\n\nThere were also claims that there were few measures in place to protect workers from the coronavirus. Leicester is currently in a localised lockdown following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nRetailers including Next, Asos and Zalando dropped Boohoo following the allegations.\n\nNext also sells Quiz's clothing through concessions. A spokesman for Next said it \"is now carrying out its own investigation, with full co-operation from the Quiz senior management team\".\n\nLast week, the National Crime Agency said it had visited a number of business premises in the Leicester area \"to assess some of the concerns that have been raised in respect of modern slavery\".\n\n\"These visits are likely to continue,\" it said.\n\nQuiz chief executive Tarak Ramzan, said: \"We are extremely concerned and disappointed to be informed of the alleged breach of national living wage requirements in a factory making Quiz products.\"\n\nThe company, which is based in Glasgow, said that the factory at the centre of the Times story was a sub-contractor of one of its suppliers.\n\nIt said: \"Quiz has immediately suspended activity with the supplier in question pending further investigation.\"\n\nQuiz said it monitored \"its supplier base through audits and site visits\".\n\nIt added that it was \"in the advanced stages of appointing an independent third-party partner to provide more regular audits of suppliers in the Leicester region\".\n\nBoohoo said last week that it was conducting a probe into exploitation claims, and has hired Alison Levitt QC, a barrister specialising in business crime and financial services, to lead an independent investigation.\n\nQuiz's share price fell by 10% to 6p following its statement.\n\nThe company has been facing difficulties. Last month, it hired KPMG to restructure its business, including renegotiating rental agreements on its High Street stores.", "The decision to exclude social care workers from a new UK fast-track health and care visa when freedom of movement with the EU ends in January has been labelled as \"just crazy\"\n\nDonald Macaskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, said he was \"immensely disappointed\" with the decision, which his organisation campaigned strongly against.\n\nScotland has distinctive needs because of its ageing population and despite a recruitment drive, staffing \"depends on inward migration\", he told BBC Radio Scotland.\n\n\"The fact it’s happening in January, just at the point where we could potentially have another wave of the pandemic, and flu at its peak, is just crazy,\" he said.\n\n\"This is policy taking over practical common sense and it’s based on a presumption of carers which is devoid of reality.\"\n\nMr Macaskill said around 6-8% of Scotland's workforce come from Europe, and the UK government's \"toxic and xenophobic approach\" could put off those already here.", "Last updated on .From the section Crystal Palace\n\nA 12-year-old boy has been arrested by police investigating racist messages sent to Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha on social media.\n\nZaha revealed he had received several abusive messages on social media before Sunday's trip to Aston Villa, a game they lost 2-0.\n\nHis manager Roy Hodgson called the abuse \"cowardly and despicable\".\n\nThe Premier League called the abuse of the 27-year-old Ivory Coast winger \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nWest Midlands Police tweeted Zaha to say they would look into the abuse and hours later confirmed an arrest.\n\n\"We were alerted to a series of racist messages sent to a footballer today and after looking into them and conducting checks, we have arrested a boy,\" read a WM Police tweet.\n\n\"The 12-year-old from Solihull has been taken to custody. Thanks to everyone who raised it. Racism won't be tolerated.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky Sports before the arrest, Hodgson added: \"It's been highlighted at the moment anyway with the Black Lives Matter movement and everyone seems to be making such an effort to eradicate this behaviour.\n\n\"It is very sad that, on the day of a game, a player wakes up to this cowardly and despicable abuse. It's right Wilf has made people aware of it and I don't think this is something you should keep quiet about.\n\n\"He wants to put off one of our best players from playing well today, but to do it in the way he has chosen is totally inexcusable.\"\n\nThe Premier League said: \"This behaviour is completely unacceptable and the Premier League stands alongside Wilfried Zaha in opposing this, and discrimination in any form.\n\n\"We will continue to support players, managers, coaches and their family members who receive serious discriminatory online abuse.\"\n\nPlayers in England's top flight have been kneeling in support of the Black Lives Matter movement before every match since the season restarted in June.", "Elvis Presley's only grandson died on Sunday, his mother Lisa Marie Presley's manager has confirmed.\n\nBenjamin Keough was 27, but manager Roger Widynowski gave no further details about his death.\n\nHe said Lisa Marie, 52, was \"heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated\".\n\n\"She adored that boy. He was the love of her life,\" Widynowski said, adding that she was \"trying to stay strong\" for her three daughters.\n\nThe Los Angeles County coroner's office confirmed that the death of a person of his name and age was under investigation, but there was no other immediate information on the circumstances.\n\nHe was the younger of the two children Lisa Marie Presley had with her first husband, musician Danny Keough, before their divorce in 1994. The other is actress Riley Keough, 31.\n\nLisa Marie had previously described Keough's resemblance to her famous father as \"just uncanny.\" Rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley died in 1977 aged 42.\n\nLisa Marie also has twin 11-year-old daughters with her fourth husband, musician and producer Michael Lockwood, who she wed in 2006 after brief marriages to pop star Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage.\n\nHer close relationship with her son, whose middle name was Storm, apparently inspired the title track on her third album, Storm & Grace, released in 2012.\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. Mark Drakeford said face masks would become compulsory on public transport\n\nThree-layer face coverings will be mandatory on public transport in Wales from 27 July, the first minister has said.\n\nAt the daily Welsh Government coronavirus briefing, Mark Drakeford said this would also be the case for taxis and other situations where 2m social distancing was not possible.\n\nLast month, Health Minister Vaughan Gething recommended their use.\n\nBut he stopped short of making them mandatory.\n\nTransport for Wales said it had worked with the Welsh Government throughout the pandemic and Great Western Railway said it encouraged all customers to follow the new rule.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives questioned why the measure was not being introduced immediately and Plaid Cymru called for masks to be made mandatory for all indoor spaces.\n\nThe union Unite said it warmly welcomed the decision.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"For the sake of simplicity and consistency, as well as being part of our plan to help reduce the risk of transmission while on public transport where it is not always possible to maintain a two metre physical distance, it will become mandatory for people to wear a three-layer face covering while travelling - this includes taxis.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers in Cardiff had a mixed view of face masks\n\nFace coverings are currently required on public transport in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, while wearing a face covering in shops and supermarkets in England is to become mandatory from 24 July.\n\nHaving a different rule for wearing masks on public transport in Wales and England was \"not sustainable in the long term\", Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"Our decision to make face coverings mandatory on public transport is a combination of the fact that we know as the economy gets back into operation more people will need to use public transport to go to work and for other purposes, and when more people need to use confined spaces then additional protections need to be introduced in order to overcome the fact that two-metre social distancing will not always be possible,\" he added.\n\nTaxi driver Stephen Clifford is not sure if the plan will work for taxis\n\nTaxi driver Stephen Clifford, from Newport, does not believe it will work for customers\n\nHe said: \"Most of people the customers wouldn't wear them.\n\n\"We'd lose an awful lot of money. If you've got to have it, you have got to have it. And what if we had to provide them? It's hard to say.\"\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\nAsked why coverings were not mandatory in other public spaces, Mr Drakeford said: \"The advice of the Welsh Government is that if places are crowded then face coverings are advisory. Where places are not crowded it is a matter for the individual citizen to make that decision.\"\n\nCoronavirus is now \"at its lowest ebb\" since the pandemic began, he added, saying the Welsh Government's response had to be \"proportionate\".\n\nWhile Mr Drakeford said masks would not be mandatory for shoppers, businesses may ask people to wear them.\n\nThe Welsh Government has recommended face coverings should be three layers thick\n\nHe said the retail sector had made \"huge efforts\" to introduce measures to maintain physical distancing, including putting up one-way systems, limiting the number people who can enter a shop and putting up screens at checkouts.\n\nBut, he added: \"At this point in time, when the prevalence of coronavirus is low, we are not mandating the use of face coverings in other public places, but many people may choose to wear them - and there is nothing to stop that happening in Wales.\n\n\"Our advice may change if cases of coronavirus begin to increase.\"\n\nThe first minister said the Welsh Government had made changes to regulations which recognise there are some occasions when it is not always possible to maintain a distance of 2m.\n\n\"These include maintaining hygiene standards and limiting close face-to-face interaction, wherever reasonable,\" he added.\n\nLondon Underground staff have been handing out face coverings\n\nMr Drakeford also said 300,000 coronavirus tests have been carried out in Wales, with 17,000 of them positive.\n\nHe urged people to carry on following the \"golden rules\" such as washing hands frequently.\n\nHe said there had been a \"real change in working patterns, with more people working from home\", adding: \"We need to see flexible working become a permanent feature of working life in Wales and the Welsh government will lead the way in this.\"\n\nReacting to the announcement, Conservative Covid recovery spokesman Darren Millar said: \"We must still take every precaution to avoid a second wave of cases, and making wearing face masks mandatory from today may go some way to achieving this - but only if brought in now.\"\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) also called for the new rules to be \"implemented without delay\". It said face coverings should be used whenever people could not keep a safe distance.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the move but said: \"In acknowledging that face coverings make a crucial difference on trains, buses and in taxis, the question must be begged of Welsh Government - why not in shops also?\n\n\"The latest guidance, while a step in the right direction, still doesn't go far enough.\"\n\nUnite Wales regional secretary Peter Hughes said: \"This decision will improve safety on our buses, trains and taxis… it will also greatly increase the confidence of the general public to travel on public transport as lockdown measures are eased.\"", "A fast-track health and care visa has been unveiled as part of the UK's plans for a points-based immigration system when freedom of movement with the EU ends in January.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said employers would be encouraged to invest in workers from within the UK.\n\nBut the new system, she added, would also allow them to \"attract the best and brightest from around the world\".\n\nUnions have expressed concerns that the visa will exclude social care workers.\n\nThe health and care visa will be open to workers who have a confirmed job offer in one of a series of \"skilled\" roles within the NHS or care sector - or for NHS service providers, such as doctors, nurses, radiographers, social workers and paramedics.\n\nHowever, the GMB union, representing NHS staff, described the new rules as an \"embarrassing shambles\", criticising the exclusion of frontline care home workers and contractors, and pointing out that a minimum salary threshold meant many cleaners, porters and support staff would also not qualify.\n\nThe new visa system is set to come into force on New Year's Day, immediately ending freedom of movement with the EU.\n\nUnder the government's plans when the Brexit transition period ends, those wishing to live and work in the UK must gain 70 points.\n\nThere is a mandatory requirement for visa applicants to have an offer of a job on a list of eligible occupations and speak English - earning them 50 points.\n\nThere is a minimum salary requirement of £20,480.\n\nFurther Points would be awarded for meeting criteria such as holding a PhD relevant to the job, or earning more than a \"general salary threshold\" of £25,600.\n\nThose with job offers in \"shortage occupations\" such as nursing and civil engineering would also be able to earn extra points.\n\nThe home secretary said it would be simpler for businesses to access talent\n\nIn a written ministerial statement to the House of Commons, Ms Patel said: \"At a time where an increased number of people across the UK are looking for work, the new points-based system will encourage employers to invest in the domestic UK workforce, rather than simply relying on labour from abroad.\n\n\"But we are also making necessary changes, so it is simpler for employers to attract the best and brightest from around the world to come to the UK to complement the skills we already have.\"\n\nLabour said it would scrutinise the proposals \"very carefully\", saying the government had \"rushed through immigration legislation with very little detail in the middle of a global pandemic\".\n\nOne of the biggest arguments for leaving the EU is that it would allow the UK to sets its own immigration policy.\n\nThe government's aim is a system that provides flexibility for employers - so the minimum salary threshold starts at just over £20,000 and there's no need to prove that a job couldn't have been offered to someone already living in the country.\n\nBut there are restrictions too: the vast majority of vacant positions in the social care sector will not be filled from immigration as these workers are not classed as skilled - and they're not eligible for the rebranded NHS and care workers fast track visa.\n\nIn short, care workers won't be able to apply for a visa dedicated to care.\n\nMinisters say immigration can't solve the care sector's problems which, they argue, are down to poor pay and career prospects - making the job unattractive to British workers who could be capable of filling the roles.\n\nThe new health and care visa will have a reduced fee. Those applying for it should expect a reply within three weeks, the government said.\n\nCaroline Abrahams at charity Age UK said it was a \"care visa in name only. Care will scarcely benefit at all since the vast majority of care workforce roles are ineligible\".\n\nThe union Unison said the work of the social care sector was in crisis long before the coronavirus pandemic and failing to include care workers was a \"disastrous mistake that will make existing problems spiral\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"To exclude care workers from the health visa is a clear signal that this government does not appreciate the skill and dedication these roles involve... it is yet another insult from this Tory party to those who have been at the frontline of this crisis.\"\n\nHowever, the prime minister's official spokesman said the government wanted employers in the sector to invest more in training and development for people already in the UK - including EU citizens - to become care workers, and it had provided additional funding to support it.\n\n\"Our independent migration advisers have said that immigration is not the sole answer here,\" he added.\n\nThe home secretary said frontline health workers would not have to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge - the fee of up to £400 a year that most migrants who have not been granted permanent residency in the UK need to pay to receive NHS care.\n\nMs Patel also said the visa process for students was being refined, with a new graduate route being launched next summer to \"help retain the brightest and the best students to contribute to the UK post-study\".\n\nInternational students would be able to stay for a minimum of two years after finishing their studies, she said.\n\nThe paper also confirms that foreign criminals who have been jailed for more than a year could be banned from coming to the UK and foreign nationals already in the UK who have been sentenced to a year or more in prison \"must be considered for deportation\".", "Residents and carers at a north London care home have been recreating classic album covers to keep themselves occupied during the lockdown.\n\nSydmar Lodge Care Home, in Edgware, was closed to visitors on 12 March so staff have been organising activities to keep those living there entertained.\n\nAlbums by Adele, Taylor Swift and Queen are among those to have been redone.\n\nRobert Speker, who came up with the idea, said the residents had \"absolutely loved\" the creations.\n\nClassic records by The Clash, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen have also been recreated.", "This is the second ban on alcohol sales since South Africa's outbreak began\n\nSouth Africa has introduced new restrictions, including another ban on alcohol sales, to help contain the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA night-time curfew has been imposed, and the wearing of masks outdoors is now compulsory.\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa said the alcohol ban - South Africa's second this year - would take pressure off the national healthcare system.\n\nIt comes as total infections exceed a quarter of a million.\n\nDeaths resulting from coronavirus have also risen to more than 4,000, and government projections estimate this could rise to 50,000 by the end of the year.\n\nSouth Africa remains the hardest-hit country on the continent, and earlier this week recorded its highest-ever single-day increase in cases. Nearly half of them were in Gauteng, a province that's become the outbreak epicentre.\n\nIn a public address, Mr Ramaphosa acknowledged \"most\" people had taken action to help prevent the spread, but he said there were still some who acted \"without any responsibility to respect and protect each other\".\n\n\"There are a number of people who have taken to organising parties, who have drinking sprees, and some who walk around crowded spaces without wearing masks,\" said the president.\n\nMr Ramaphosa said the new measures were being introduced to help the country to weather the storm of coronavirus, and a state of emergency would be extended until 15 August. The night-time ban would be in place from 21:00 to 04:00.\n\nThe government has also made 28,000 hospital beds available for Covid-19 patients. But President Ramaphosa said the country still faced a \"serious\" shortage of more than 12,000 healthcare workers, including nurses, doctors and physiotherapists.\n\nThe alcohol ban comes just weeks after another three-month ban was lifted in an effort to prevent drunken fighting, cut domestic violence and eliminate weekend binge-drinking prevalent across South Africa.\n\nDoctors and police say the previous ban contributed to a sharp drop in emergency admissions to hospital. But the country's brewers and wine makers complained they were being driven out of business.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. South Africa's province Gauteng has become the epicentre of coronavirus cases in the country.\n• None South Africans cheer as alcohol goes back on sale", "Travolta and Preston were married for almost 29 years\n\nKelly Preston, the actress and wife of John Travolta, has died aged 57.\n\nTravolta posted on Instagram: \"My beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer. She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many.\"\n\nThe couple had been married for nearly 29 years. Preston's career included roles in Twins, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jerry Maguire and The Cat in the Hat.\n\nShe also collaborated with her husband on Battlefield Earth and Old Dogs.\n\nIn his post, Travolta thanked the health workers who had looked after his wife \"as well as her many friends and loved ones who have been by her side\".\n\n\"I will be taking some time to be there for my children who have lost their mother, so forgive me in advance if you don't hear from us for a while. But please know that I will feel your outpouring of love in the weeks and months ahead as we heal. All my love, JT\".\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 johntravolta 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 couple's son Jett Travolta died at the age of 16 in January 2009 from a seizure during a family holiday in the Bahamas.\n\nThey have two other children, Ella Bleu and Benjamin.\n\nPreston promoted the film Gotti at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018\n\nElla wrote on Instagram: \"I have never met anyone as courageous, strong, beautiful and loving as you.\"\n\nA family representative told People magazine that she died on Sunday morning and that she had kept her cancer diagnosis private.\n\n\"She had been undergoing medical treatment for some time, supported by her closest family and friends,\" the family representative said.\n\n\"She was a bright, beautiful and loving soul who cared deeply about others and who brought life to everything she touched. Her family asks for your understanding of their need for privacy at this time.\"\n\nBorn Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, she changed her name to Kelly Preston before securing her first film role in the 1985 romcom Mischief, then appeared in another teen comedy, Secret Admirer.\n\nRussell Crowe was among the Hollywood stars paying tribute, remembering Preston as \"a lovely person\" and a \"sparkly eyed gem\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russell Crowe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinger Mariah Carey also responded to Travolta's post, saying she was \"sending so much love to you and your family in this heartbreaking moment\".\n\nOther tributes came from Maria Shriver and Josh Gad, who said he was \"in absolute shock\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Maria Shriver This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Josh Gad This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpencer Breslin, who played Preston's character's son in The Cat in the Hat, remembered his \"screen mom\" as being \"a lovely woman\", adding: \"Such a sad loss.\"\n\nAlec Baldwin, who also appeared in that 2003 film, said Preston was \"one of the loveliest people I've ever worked with\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 HABFoundation This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLost star Daniel Dae Kim, meanwhile, said he had been \"lucky enough to work with her on one of my very first films\", 1999's For Love of The Game.\n\n\"We were shooting on cold days in Colorado, but she couldn't have been warmer or kinder to a young, nervous actor trying to make good,\" he continued.\n\nOne of Preston's last screen roles was in the 2018 crime biopic Gotti, in which she appeared opposite her husband.\n\nWhile promoting the film at the Cannes Film Festival, the actress spoke to reporters about their long relationship.\n\n\"We took the time to get to know each other,\" she said. \"Marriage doesn't just happen on its own, you have to keep creating love.\n\n\"We also keep it light. Neither of us like to fight so we purposely do not push each other's buttons.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Men wearing life vests get ready with their paddle boards as the Bala Adventure and Watersports Centre in Bala, Gwynedd\n\nThe first minister has said Wales is \"absolutely safe\" to visit again after he defended not opening tourism sooner.\n\nFrom Saturday some holiday homes have reopened for the first time since lockdown began.\n\nBut with pubs still unable to open, the Welsh Conservatives have accused the Welsh Government of putting jobs at risk.\n\nMark Drakeford, on a visit to the Vale of Glamorgan, said a \"step by step\" approach was right to lifting lockdown.\n\nIn England, all hotels, B&Bs and campsites have been allowed to reopen since 4 July, with cleaning of shared spaces.\n\nIn Wales, only self contained accommodation, with no shared facilities, such as kitchens and bathrooms, are currently able to open.\n\nFrom Monday, Welsh pubs and restaurants with outdoor spaces, will be able to welcome back customers outdoors for the first time.\n\nBut many businesses have said they will not be opening, saying it will not be viable due to the two-metre (6ft) social distancing rule, which remains in place in Wales.\n\nMark Drakeford visited The Hide in St Donats, in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nShoppers were out in Cardiff as restrictions ease a little further in Wales\n\nMr Drakeford said easing restrictions had to be done \"step by step\" and he thought there would be a \"gradual build-up\" of people wanting to holiday in Wales and go to pubs, restaurants and cafes.\n\nDuring a visit to The Hide in St Donats, Mr Drakeford said the crisis \"has had a profound impact on the visitor economy\" and a phased approach to reopening tourism would give businesses, staff visitors and communities the confidence for a successful reopening.\n\n\"My message to people thinking of making a visit inside Wales or to Wales, is that Wales is open, the tourism industry is beginning again,\" he said.\n\nWalkers enjoy the fine day and the lockdown restrictions being eased with a stroll in the Brecon Beacons\n\nCars parked near the foot of Pen y Fan as people make the most of the lockdown restriction easing\n\n\"The virus hasn't gone away, we still need to do all the things we know. A social distance, hand washing, all those careful things.\n\n\"But the virus in Wales is now at a very low ebb of circulation. It's absolutely safe to be here, but you can play your part as well.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he was \"looking forward\" to going on holiday to Pembrokeshire when he had a chance, and people could help keep others safe by avoiding crowded areas.\n\nSocial distancing in operation on Llandudno pier on Saturday\n\nThe first weekend of the restrictions being eased and people enjoyed a paddle in Porthcawl\n\nBut with many hotels in Wales still closed due to restrictions, Welsh Conservative MP David Jones accused the Welsh Government of being behind the UK government in making decisions.\n\nThe Clwyd West MP wrote on twitter: \"Sadly the tourist season in Wales didn't begin four weeks after England\".\n\nMember of the Senedd, Janet Finch-Saunders, said it was not right that pubs and restaurants in Wales had to wait until 3 August before they could allow customers back inside.\n\nMrs Finch-Saunders said with many not having outdoor spaces, or enough room for customers, the first minister's \"uneven\" proposals would have a \"disastrous impact\" on Welsh jobs.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Drakeford said the \"balance is shifting\" on evidence for the use of face masks.\n\nThe car park at Pen y Pass as Snowdonia National Park is reopened for its first weekend since restrictions were eased\n\nWalkers returned to parts of Snowdonia National Park on Saturday\n\nBut he doesn't yet believe it is \"sensible\" to make use of them mandatory in certain situations.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Drakeford said the view of the Wales's chief medical officer was still that face coverings should be recommended but not required.\n\n\"When the weight of evidence changes, if it does, then we will change our policy.\"\n\nIn Wales, face coverings are recommended in situations where people cannot socially distance, like on public transport.\n\nBut their use is not mandatory - and both the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru are calling for face coverings to be compulsory on public transport and in shops, as is the case in Scotland.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid health spokesman said \"every possible measure to help us leave lockdown safely should be adopted and we have consistently called for the use of face masks in public spaces where social distancing is difficult\".", "Abhishek (L) said his wife and daughter would self-isolate at home\n\nThree generations of a high-profile Bollywood family have tested positive for Covid-19, officials in the Indian state of Maharashtra say.\n\nResults on Sunday showed the actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, a former Miss World, and her daughter Aaradhya, eight, were infected with coronavirus.\n\nHer husband Abhishek and father-in-law Amitabh, both also actors, were taken to hospital on Saturday with the virus.\n\nBoth men were said to have mild symptoms.\n\nAbhishek Bachchan tweeted that they would remain in hospital \"till the doctors decide otherwise\".\n\nAishwarya Bachchan, 46, is one of Bollywood's most famous faces both in India and abroad, featuring in several Bollywood and Hollywood films.\n\nShe won the Miss World pageant in 1994 and is Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS. In 2003 she was the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nAishwarya and her daughter are said to be asymptomatic. Her husband tweeted to say they would be self-isolating at home.\n\nOn Saturday Amitabh Bachchan told his millions of Twitter followers he had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"I have tested Covid positive, shifted to hospital, hospital informing authorities, family and staff undergone tests, results awaited,\" he wrote.\n\nBachchan, 77, has been involved in 200 films over five decades.\n\nBachchan has won multiple awards since rising to prominence in the 1970s\n\nHe and Abhishek, 44, were taken to Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday. Abhishek described them both as having mild symptoms.\n\nAmitabh is currently in the isolation unit of the hospital, news agency ANI reported, quoting a public relations officer for the hospital. He urged anyone who had been close to him in the past 10 days to get tested.\n\nMumbai municipal officials have since put up banners outside the actor's house in the city, classifying it as a \"containment zone\".\n\nThe news has led to an outpouring of support for the family on social media. Among those paying their respects were actress Sonam K Ahuja and former India cricket player Irfan Pathan.\n\nWell-wishers have been praying for Amitabh Bachchan\n\n\"Dear Amitabh ji, I join the whole Nation in wishing you a quick recovery! After all, you are the idol of millions in this country, an iconic superstar! We will all take good care of you. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!\" said India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.\n\nBachchan Snr has enjoyed starring roles in hit movies such as Zanjeer and Sholay. Since rising to fame in the 1970s, he has won numerous accolades including four National Film Awards and 15 Filmfare Awards. France has also bestowed its highest civilian award, the Legion of Honour, for his contribution to cinema.\n\nOutside acting, Bachchan Snr had a brief stint in politics and was elected as a member of India's parliament in 1984 at the behest of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. But he resigned three years later, disillusioned by a corruption scandal under Mr Gandhi's government.\n\nIn recent months, he has been prominent in helping the government get its message across in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nIndia saw a record rise in the number of coronavirus cases by 27,100 on Sunday, with the total climbing to nearly 850,000 - the third highest caseload in the world. There have been complaints about a lack of both testing and frontline medical staff.\n\nIndian megastars don't come bigger than the Bachchans, a family considered acting royalty.\n\nAt the helm of the dynasty is Amitabh Bachchan, one of the most famous people on the planet, with billions of fans spanning continents.\n\nOver five decades, the 77 year old actor has starred in hundreds of Bollywood films, fronted prime time television shows and is revered, even worshipped - by his die-hard followers.\n\nLittle wonder then, that news he has coronavirus is massive news in India and beyond. In 1982, the nation stood still as Amitabh Bachchan spent months in hospital after a film stunt went horribly wrong.\n\nThis time he is said to be stable, with only mild symptoms. The star who has 43 million Twitter followers, has been tweeting thanks to his well wishers from hospital.\n\nHis son Abhishek Bachchan, and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who both tested positive, are big stars in their own right too.\n\nAs attention is focused on this one family, thousands of other Indians are contracting Covid-19 every day. The country is seeing a sharp rise in cases, now the third highest number in the world after the US and Brazil.\n• None Why Amitabh Bachchan is more than a superstar", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cambridge spoke to the BBC about the \"massive gap\" in support for parents\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has said there is \"a massive gap\" in support given to parents after the first few months of a child's life until they start school.\n\nIt was something she felt too as a new mum, the duchess told BBC Breakfast.\n\nCatherine was speaking as part of the launch of the BBC's Tiny Happy People initiative for children aged 0-4.\n\nIt aims to help parents develop their children's language skills with simple activities including free online videos and quizzes.\n\nDuring the interview, the duchess also spoke about the difficulties of life in lockdown for so many, but said one of the \"silver linings\" might be that we revalue how important our relationships are.\n\nThe duchess has long championed the importance of improving early years support for children. Earlier this year, she ran a nationwide survey to \"spark a national conversation\" and help create change for future generations.\n\nAt the heart of the BBC's five-year Tiny Happy People initiative is a simple message - talk to children from as early an age as possible.\n\nIt includes a range of online activities including parenting tips, films, articles and quizzes launched to help parents and carers develop the communication skills of their young children, right from the start of pregnancy.\n\nCatherine herself helped in the character and background development of two Tiny Happy People videos\n\nThe scheme was initially launched in Manchester last October, and Catherine has been involved for several months.\n\nShe recently met families at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, to hear about how they had found the activities. One of the parents she spoke with, Ryan, said they had helped him to identify that his eight-month-old daughter Mia has five different cries.\n\n\"He's learned a huge amount from Tiny Happy People,\" the duchess said, speaking to the BBC in the grounds of Sandringham.\n\n\"It's information like that I wish I had had as a first time mum, it's gold dust really for families to be given those tips and tools to be able to use, particularly in those first five years.\"\n\nShe said parents receive help from midwives and health visitors after a baby is born, but there's a gap before they start school.\n\nCatherine and her husband have three children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis\n\nResearch by the National Literacy Trust shows that once children start behind, they stay behind, affecting performance in school, job prospects and even life expectancy.\n\nAnd other Department for Education research shows more than one in four children (27%) in England does not reach the necessary level of literacy development - meaning language, communication and literacy skills - by the time they start primary school, rising to more than one in three (42%) in deprived areas.\n\nThe free films, articles and quizzes explain the science behind baby brain development.\n\nThey include fun activities to do with both babies and toddlers to support language development and parent wellbeing, along with tips for new and soon-to-be parents.\n\n\"We couldn't be more proud of the part we're playing in this amazing partnership,\" said Tony Hall, the director general of the BBC.\n\n\"Growing up happy and healthy is the greatest gift we can give to any child. This campaign embodies our mission to inform, educate and entertain. The BBC has created hundreds of videos and written content that we hope will make a real difference.\"\n\nKate visited the Tiny Happy People team last November to take part in development sessions\n\nJames Purnell, the director of BBC Radio and Education, added: \"Early years language provides the foundation for all aspects of a child's life - right into adulthood.\n\n\"Tiny Happy People is a major, long-term education commitment from the BBC to help close the under-fives language and communication gap, and help give kids the best chance in life. We're all so proud of it and look forward to seeing parents and carers from across the UK using the materials.\"\n\nThe duchess helped in the character and background development for two animations on parenting, which are now available on the Tiny Happy People website, about making eye contact with babies and singing to babies.\n\nCatherine - pictured last year - previously called children's early years \"the most important years, for life long health and happiness\"\n\nAlso supporting the initiative are a number of celebrities who are using the activities to build their own infants' communication skills, including soap stars Jennie McAlpine and Kieron Richardson, singer and farmer JB Gill, former Love Islanders Jess and Dom Lever, BBC Three presenter Annie Price, and Louise Pentland, who was voted the UK's favourite mum influencer last year.\n\nCatherine and her husband, the Duke of Cambridge, have three children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.\n\nThe Royal Foundation website says the duchess believes \"many of society's greatest social and health challenges\" could be \"mitigated or entirely avoided\" if young children are given \"the right support\".\n\nThe interview with the duchess is being broadcast on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday 14 July. Visit the Tiny Happy People website here.", "Florida has seen protests over shutdown measures\n\nFlorida has registered a state record of 15,299 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours - around a quarter of all of the United States' daily infections.\n\nThe state, with just 7% of the US population, surpassed the previous daily record held by California.\n\nFlorida, which began lifting coronavirus restrictions in May, has proved vulnerable due to tourism and an elderly population.\n\nIts figures eclipse the worst daily rates seen in New York in April.\n\nThe state would rank fourth in the world for new cases if it were a country, according to a Reuters analysis. More than 40 hospitals in Florida say their intensive care facilities are at full capacity.\n\nIntensive care units at many Florida hospitals are reaching capacity\n\nThe latest figures were released a day after Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida reopened, but with safety measures including mask-wearing and widespread use of sanitiser.\n\nThe caseload in Florida has continued to rise despite Republican Governor Ron DeSantis ordering some bars to close again last month.\n\nThe top adviser on the White House coronavirus taskforce, Dr Anthony Fauci, had criticised lockdown easing in the state, saying the data on infections did not support the move. Mr DeSantis has also declined to make mask-wearing obligatory.\n\nThe issue of masks has become highly politicised in the United States, with opponents saying having to wear them encroaches on personal freedom. There have been demonstrations against masks and other coronavirus measures in several states.\n\nBut on Saturday, President Donald Trump appeared wearing a mask in the public for the first time after previously casting doubt on their usefulness. He was visiting the Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington, where he met wounded soldiers and health care workers.\n\n\"I've never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place,\" he said as he left the White House.\n\nThe United States overall has been exceeding new daily totals of 60,000 cases for the past few days. Other states including Arizona, California and Texas continue to see a rising cases.\n\nSince the pandemic hit the US, more than 134,000 people there have died with Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump wears a mask for the first time for a hospital visit\n• None Living in Florida and Texas as virus cases surge", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"It's always better to trust people's common sense\"\n\nSenior minister Michael Gove has said he does not think face coverings should be compulsory in shops in England, saying he trusts people's common sense.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Gove said wearing a mask in a shop was \"basic good manners\".\n\nOn Friday, Boris Johnson said a \"stricter\" approach was needed so people wear masks in confined spaces.\n\nSenior government sources have said the issue is being kept under review, as Labour called for clarity on the issue.\n\nCurrently, face coverings are compulsory on public transport in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland to help stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, they are also mandatory in shops. Wales recommends masks but they are not compulsory.\n\nHowever, there have been calls for the UK government to make its stance on masks clearer, following comments from the prime minister on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson - who was pictured wearing a mask for the first time during a visit to his constituency - said: \"I do think we need to be stricter in insisting people wear face coverings in confined spaces where they are meeting people they don't normally meet.\n\n\"We are looking at ways of making sure that people really do have face coverings in shops, for instance, where there is a risk of transmission.\"\n\nAlso on Friday, senior Whitehall sources said the government was considering making face coverings mandatory in shops.\n\nThey said while no decision has yet been made, it is an issue that is being kept under review.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said on Sunday that 44,819 people have now died in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus, a rise of 21 on the previous day's figures.\n\nBoris Johnson wore a mask for the first time as he visited a shop in Uxbridge on Friday\n\nAsked on the Andrew Marr Show about the issue of face masks, Mr Gove said: \"I don't think mandatory, no, but I would encourage people to wear face masks when they are inside, in an environment where they are likely to be mixing with others and where the ventilation may not be as good as it might.\n\n\"I think that it is basic good manners, courtesy and consideration, to wear a face mask if you are, for example, in a shop.\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister added: \"Now of course the government at all times does look at the emerging evidence about what the best way to control the disease is.\n\n\"If necessary, and if tough measures are required and as we have seen in Leicester, obviously a very different situation, then tough measures will be taken.\n\n\"But on the whole... it's always best to trust people's common sense.\"\n\nGuidance on face coverings has evolved over the last few months.\n\nThe key issue now is whether people will wear them without being forced to.\n\nThe Scottish government is worried they won't - and so has told people they have to wear one in shops.\n\nOn Friday, Boris Johnson appeared for the first time in public in a covering and hinted that stricter rules were coming in England.\n\nBut now Michael Gove seems to be saying something different - that we should trust the common sense of shoppers.\n\nMy sources are keen to point out Mr Gove also said the government would take more action when necessary - so mandatory face coverings in England aren't off the table. His comments are also in line with the policy as it stands just now.\n\nBut at a time when public messaging is crucial, some believe the government view on whether or not stronger action is needed isn't clear.\n\nEarlier, Mr Gove told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday that wearing a face covering \"definitely helps you to help others in an enclosed space\". He also urged people to return to work rather than stay at home.\n\n\"We want to see more people back at work, on the shop floor, in the office, wherever they can be,\" he said.\n\nShadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said Labour would support mandatory face coverings for shops, as it \"would inspire greater confidence and might encourage more people to go out and spend money\".\n\n\"I think people are increasingly wearing them but I think some greater clarity from government about that, I think, would be helpful,\" she said.\n\n\"People want to do the right thing but they want to know what the right thing is. We already have it on public transport.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the early days of the pandemic, the UK government was hesitant about advising people to wear face coverings, arguing the scientific evidence that they reduce transmission was \"weak\".\n\nIn early June, the World Health Organization changed its advice to say people should wear face coverings in public where social distancing is not possible. The WHO originally said there was not enough evidence to say that healthy people should wear masks.\n\nRules compelling people to wear face masks on public transport in England were introduced on 15 June.\n\nEarlier this week, the WHO said there was \"emerging evidence\" of airborne transmission.\n\nProfessor Wendy Barclay, who sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, said coronavirus particles can remain suspended and infectious in the air for more than an hour.\n\nA further 148 deaths were recorded in the UK, according to latest government figures on Saturday, bringing the total number of recorded deaths of people who have tested positive for coronavirus to 44,798.", "It seems after all that the ministers won't just be asking everyone to use their \"common sense\" or even just rely on manners to make people cover up.\n\nAfter weeks of discussion about the relative benefits of covering your face when out and about, ministers are now to confirm on Tuesday that it will be mandatory to cover your face in shops in England - and, like in Scotland seven days ago, expect that change to be brought in in law.\n\nIt is quite the shift. At the start of the crisis, the government's scientists suggested that masks could do more harm than good.\n\nThere were nerves too about creating sudden demand from the public to get hold of medical grade coverings when there was a worldwide spike in demand as the pandemic took hold.\n\nBut more evidence has emerged about how coronavirus can be transmitted through the air.\n\nPoliticians are also keen to find ways to make consumers feel more comfortable going back out into the world, as the economy struggles to come alive again.\n\nBut things have changed a lot since the start of the lockdown when the government's \"stay at home\" message was heard loud and clear.\n\nThe vast majority of the public stuck to the instruction carefully. Millions tuned into the daily press briefings for the latest information, wanting answers, but wanting guidance too.\n\nThe expected decision to go ahead on face coverings comes after a scrappy few days when ministers have given different impressions in different interviews.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak appeared without a mask for the cameras serving food last Wednesday. Eyebrows were raised when he was chatting to customers over their vegan katsu without covering his face.\n\nThe Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, did mask up when observing Picassos in the Royal Academy the next day.\n\nThen the prime minister donned his two-quid mask in a photocall on Friday.\n\nBoris Johnson wore a face mask in public for the first time last week\n\nBut on Sunday, Michael Gove made that call for \"common sense\", and even on Monday morning, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland was saying coverings should be \"mandatory perhaps\" - a contradiction if ever there were.\n\nClarity, for shops in England at least, should come on Tuesday. But you wouldn't be blamed for wondering quite what you are meant to do.\n\nFor the government's critics it's another example of ministers playing catch up after allowing confusion to spread.\n\nDuring the early stages of the Covid crisis the public surprised politicians by being very willing to listen and follow the rules.\n\nIn this more complicated phase, any hint of a messy message could make them less likely to comply.", "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.", "Leicester was placed under local lockdown two weeks ago, following a rise in coronavirus cases\n\n\"Targeted action\" is being taken against more than 100 local outbreaks of coronavirus in England every week, the health secretary has said.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Matt Hancock said increased testing meant officials could now be \"targeted\" in their response.\n\nHis comments came after 73 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed at a farm in Herefordshire.\n\nAbout 200 workers there have been told to self-isolate.\n\nIt is now two weeks since Mr Hancock announced Leicester would be the first city in the UK to be put under a local lockdown. Restrictions are expected to be reviewed this week.\n\nBut he stressed that most measures to contain the coronavirus will not involve a whole city but instead centre on much smaller areas, even just one business or building - and he says these interventions often go unreported by the media and unnoticed by all except those directly involved.\n\nThe government strategy of targeted local responses whenever data suggests a coronavirus flare-up is a key part of its ongoing plan to reopen British businesses in different phases.\n\nIn the latest of these, beauty salons, spas, tattoo parlours and nail bars in the rest of England are welcoming back their first clients for almost four months, as national lockdown restrictions are eased.\n\nAround 200 workers are self-isolating at AS Green and Co following an outbreak there\n\nIn his article, Mr Hancock said more cases were being found through testing.\n\n\"The result is we can lift more of the lockdown and take targeted action,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Each week, there are more than 100 local actions taken across the country - some of these will make the news but many more are swiftly and silently dealt with.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's NHS Test and Trace service was helping the government understand how the virus was spreading \"so we can hunt down coronavirus and keep it contained\".\n\nThe health secretary said there were now more than 250 testing centres and the government was also deploying a dozen walk-in testing centres.\n\n\"Where we find a cluster or outbreak, we send in extra testing, including mobile testing units that can be deployed anywhere in the country,\" he added.\n\nClusters of cases in places such as hospitals, factories or schools can also be dealt with by closing the premises.\n\nThis has already happened in several parts of the UK, including a hospital in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset and meat factories in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, and Wrexham and Anglesey.\n\nThe UK's first full local lockdown was announced in Leicester at the end of June\n\nAsked what counted as an outbreak during an interview on BBC Breakfast, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said each case would differ, adding \"I think we know it when we see it.\"\n\nIt could be when many individuals caught the virus in a particular area - such as a workplace, village or town, he said.\n\nBut pressed on whether the virus spreading outside of a household or social bubble would constitute an outbreak, Mr Buckland said: \"I defer to the experts in this.\n\n\"They know what an outbreak constitutes when they see it, and I think with each one that we see we get more knowledgeable, more sophisticated, and are able to respond in ever more appropriate ways.\"\n\nAccording to Public Health England, an outbreak is when two or more laboratory confirmed cases are linked to a particular setting.\n\nAlso appearing on Breakfast, Leicester's mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby said the lockdown there could have been prevented if local authorities had received testing data earlier.\n\nHe said after having \"finally\" been provided with \"useful data\", they knew around 10% of the city had recorded a higher transmission of the virus.\n\n\"It's very clear when you look at the data that it's a couple of areas of the city that have got a higher than the average transmission of the virus, and certainly the way in which the city has been locked down in its entirety, and indeed beyond our boundary, is not justified,\" he said.\n\n\"We should have been able to know this many, many weeks ago and we should have focused on those areas, preventing the transmission there.\"\n\nLeicester's rate of new Covid-19 cases has fallen from its recent peak, according to figures from NHS England - but it is not a steady decline.\n\nFor example, the rate jumped from 115.1 cases per 100,000 people for the seven days to 4 July to 127.5 for the seven days to 5 July. It fell again to 115.4 in the week to 9 July.\n\nThis fluctuation could be because more testing means more cases are being picked up.\n\nUnder the government's testing strategy, anyone with coronavirus symptoms should self-isolate and get a test. If someone tests positive they will be contacted by NHS Test and Trace, which will then contact any close contacts, who will also be told to self-isolate.\n\nNHS Test and Trace only operates in England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own contact tracing systems.\n\nNHS Scotland has signed a new contract with biotech firm E&O Laboratories to supply a solution that can be placed in test tubes to help make samples of Covid-19 safe - allowing each sample to be tested as soon as it arrives at a lab and improving efficiency.\n\nA further 650 coronavirus cases were reported across the UK on Sunday, according to the Department of Health.\n\nThe total number of people who have died with Covid-19 in the UK is now 44,819, a rise of 21 on the previous day - although figures tend to be lower at weekends because of reporting delays.\n\nAre your working conditions unsafe because of 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.", "Social media star Nicole Thea has died along with her unborn son, her Instagram page has announced.\n\nA statement from her mum said the 24-year-old, who was eight months pregnant, had named her child Reign with her partner Boga.\n\nNo cause of death was revealed in the post.\n\nThe dancer and influencer, who lived in London, had kept fans up-to-date on her pregnancy, regularly posting videos on her YouTube channel and Instagram page.\n\nSeveral videos Nicole had filmed before her death will be published on her YouTube channel, the statement confirmed.\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 nicoletheatv 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\nShortly before the announcement was made, a scheduled behind-the-scenes vlog was posted on YouTube showing her having a milk bath during a maternity photo shoot.\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 Nicole Thea 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\nHer partner Boga, part of the group Ghana Boyz, had recently posted a video of him dancing next to a pram - writing he couldn't wait to take his son to the park and to a playground.\n\nThe couple announced the pregnancy in April, writing \"God gave us the biggest blessing yet\".\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 nicoletheatv 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\nTributes from fans and other influencers were posted online.\n\nMs Banks posted a tribute, Love Island star Alexandra Cane wrote: \"This is heart breaking,\" while choreographer Sherrie Silver said she was \"completely and utterly heartbroken\".\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 3 by chanelambrose 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\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kevin works for the Violent Offender Watch (VOW) team in Edinburgh\n\nThe social and economic devastation caused by Covid-19 could lead to an increase in serious youth violence in the UK, MPs have warned.\n\nA Youth Violence Commission report says incidents of unemployment, homelessness and trauma sparked by pandemic could impact on vulnerable young people.\n\nIt fears 18 Violence Reduction Units in England and Wales could lose funding.\n\nThe Home Office says £70m is being spent on the units modelled on a scheme which helped cut crime in Scotland.\n\nBBC Panorama has been investigating how Scotland's VRU - launched in 2005 and the first in the UK - has succeeded in reducing crime.\n\nKaryn McCluskey, the former head of intelligence for Strathclyde Police and one of the founders of the unit, tells the programme they approached youth violence as a health issue, \"like a disease\".\n\nAccording to the cross-party Youth Violence Commission, long-term investment is needed in youth services and VRUs but the funding is at risk because of the \"economic devastation\" caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts report comes after three years of research into the causes of violence in the UK which concludes that poverty and inequality are \"fundamental drivers\".\n\n\"Given the potential for the impact of Covid-19 to create the types of social conditions in which one might reasonably expect to see increased rates of serious violence, it is imperative that support for these units is not only maintained, but increased,\" the report says.\n\n\"If support and investment is withdrawn from these VRUs - a particular concern given the possibility of austerity measures that may be taken on the back of the economic impact of Covid-19 - the commission fears this would undo much of the hugely important work that has taken place.\"\n\nThe commission says serious youth violence across England and Wales has cost the economy £11bn since 2008 - based on costs to the police, criminal justice system, NHS, victim services, as well as costs from lost economic output and costs associated with physical and emotional harm.\n\nAccording to its report, the cost of running 18 regional VRUs for 10 years is £350m.\n\nTalking about the type of young offenders helped by Scotland's VRU, Karyn McCluskey says: \"You're brought up in an angry, aggressive home, so you almost become infected… So we started to look at it like, what would prevention look like?\"\n\nThis public health approach aimed to treat offenders with compassion and offering them more support, in the hope that they could bring down levels of violence.\n\nIn 2005, there were 39 homicides in Glasgow alone. The police cracked down on Glasgow's gangs, with increased stop and search and tougher sentences, but also decided to look at the causes as well. Over the next 14 years, homicides in Glasgow fell from 39 to 11 in one year.\n\nHowever, in recent years there has been a small increase in violence after a decade of steep falls.\n\nKevin Neary works with the Violent Offenders Watch, a Police Scotland initiative to partner police officers and former convicts in order to reach out to young offenders.\n\nAs a former armed robber and heroin addict himself, Mr Neary helps offenders keep out of prison.\n\nHe says most young offenders had experienced childhood trauma such as separation or loss of parents through bereavement.\n\n\"What we're doing is not a soft justice; it's not a soft approach, it's a caring and compassionate approach.\"\n\nBy Kate Silverton, presenter of Panorama's How Scotland Cut Violent Crime\n\nThe founders of the VRU believe that in order to tackle the root causes of violent crime, it needed to not just be a criminal justice issue but something much broader and tackled collaboratively across education, health and prisons.\n\nDuring my filming for the Panorama documentary, it became clear to me that this \"joined-up\" approach is essential to its effectiveness.\n\nThe people I met believe that we need to understand that children will be much more likely to \"act out\" the violence they themselves experienced or observed and that they need access to counselling, education and training.\n\nYou can watch BBC Panorama's How Scotland Cut Violent Crime on BBC iPlayer", "Jonny McFadden said some customers had struggled with social distancing after a few drinks\n\nA pub landlord has put an electric fence in front of his bar to encourage customers to keep social distancing.\n\nJonny McFadden, who runs the Star Inn in St Just, Cornwall, said there was limited space in his bar which only served drinks and no food.\n\nHe described the barrier as \"just a normal electric fence that you would find in a field\".\n\nAsked if it was switched on, Mr McFadden said: \"Come and find out - there is a fear factor and it works.\"\n\nMr McFadden said he had struggled to get the social distancing message across to some customers in the bar because \"when you serve people a drink they change\".\n\nMr McFadden said the fencing was a normal electric fence such as you would find in a field\n\nHe said the fence worked because \"people keep away from it, people are like sheep\".\n\nHe added: \"They know it is a fence and don't want to touch it to find out whether it is on or not.\"\n\nThe Star Inn in St Just is a small pub which only serves drinks\n\nThe landlord said his customers were happy with the fencing and it had generated a lot of laughs.\n\nOne person who did not see the funny side was Mr McFadden's insurance broker.\n\n\"He was a bit worried but then that is what he is there for,\" he said.\n\n\"He rang a nephew of mine and said 'I hope he is not electrocuting people'.\n\n\"Well come and find out if I am.\"", "Plans to double the maximum jail term for criminals who assault emergency workers to two years are being considered by the government.\n\nJust two years ago, a previous law change doubled the maximum term from six months to 12 in England and Wales.\n\nMinisters have launched a consultation on the issue.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said this sent a \"clear and simple message\" that \"vile thugs\" would not get away with such \"appalling behaviour\".\n\n\"Our police officers, firefighters and other emergency workers go above and beyond every single day - running towards danger to protect us all,\" she said.\n\n\"They are our frontline heroes who put their lives on the line every single day to keep us safe, and yet some despicable individuals still think it's acceptable to attack, cough or spit at these courageous public servants.\"\n\n\"We were working one night shift and got called to a man who'd been assaulted. He just had kind of minor facial cuts,\" paramedic Lizzie Smith told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"So we got him to the back of the ambulance and I was just carrying out some standard checks on him, blood pressure, heart rate, things like that.\n\n\"I sort of noticed him giving me prolonged periods of eye contact which was making me feel quite uncomfortable but didn't think too much of it.\n\n\"I then reached over to pop something in our bin of the ambulance, which was when he grabbed my bum.\n\n\"I would say it's an extremely common occurrence within the ambulance service. My experience personally is relatively minor but it's common, I'd say once or twice a week at least something verbal and then other colleagues have had worse.\"\n\nMore than 11,000 people were prosecuted for assaulting an emergency worker in 2019, according to the Ministry of Justice.\n\nA quarter of those found guilty received a suspended sentence or immediate custody.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland told BBC Breakfast: \"Stories of many front-line workers, particularly during this time of Covid, have really hit home not just with us but with the public as well and the vital importance of doing everything we can to safeguard our frontline emergency workers.\n\n\"Everything that needs to be done should be done, hence today's announcement.\"\n\nThe Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill, which increased maximum sentences to 12 months, came into force in 2018.\n\nFirefighters, police officers, prison officers and NHS staff are among those covered by the law.\n\nAssaults include being pushed, shoved or spat at, but prosecutions can take place under more serious offences when an emergency worker is seriously injured.\n\nThe law change in 2018 also means that when a person is convicted of offences including sexual assault or manslaughter, the judge must consider tougher sentences if the victim is an emergency worker.\n\nLast year, Labour MP Holly Lynch, who campaigned for the change alongside fellow Labour MP Chris Bryant, warned the new law was not proving enough of a deterrent.\n\nMs Lynch said she welcomed the consultation but said it was \"frustrating\" she and Mr Bryant had wanted to increase the maximum sentence to two years in 2018 but the Conservative government instead set the maximum at 12 months.\n\nThe Conservatives pledged in their 2019 election manifesto to consult on doubling the maximum sentence again.", "Beauty salons, spas, tattoo parlours and nail bars are welcoming back their first clients for almost four months, as lockdown restrictions ease further in England.\n\nBut some treatments, such as eyebrow threading, are still banned, leaving many salons unable to reopen.\n\nIn Scotland, indoor shopping centres are allowed to reopen.\n\nIn Wales, pubs, bars and restaurants can start serving customers outdoors, while hairdressers can also reopen.\n\nBusinesses will be required to follow guidelines to reduce the spread of coronavirus - and treatments which involve work directly in front of the face will not be available.\n\nGovernment guidance says services including face waxing, eyebrow threading, eyelash treatments, make-up applications and facials should not be provided because of the greater risk of Covid-19 transmission.\n\nNaresh Bhana, who runs Flamin' Eight tattoo studio in north London, said the business was only taking advance bookings, so \"you can't walk off the street unannounced\".\n\n\"We can accommodate two or three being tattooed but we stagger their start times,\" he said. \"Work areas are four metres apart. Everyone's wearing masks. Clients will wear visors as well.\"\n\nHe has created a commemorative tattoo for his wife to mark the reopening.\n\nThe tattoo design to mark the end of lockdown for tattoo parlours was created for Naresh's wife, Sonia\n\nBeard trims have been allowed since barbers opened last weekend - but should be limited to simple tidy-ups or thinning which can be carried out from the side or by circling the client to avoid the highest risk zone in front of the face, the British Beauty Council has said.\n\nThe co-founder of the home beauty service, Blow Ltd, Fiona McIntosh, said the ban on beauty treatments involving the face was \"hugely frustrating\".\n\n\"We still don't know when we're going to be able to do those services, which is having a huge impact on the freelancers who work for us,\" she said.\n\n\"We have 250 women, freelance beauticians on our platform across London, Manchester and Birmingham who can't work and they have been given no date on when they can work.\"\n\nShe added: \"I found it very difficult to understand how a lash treatment when you actually could have a mask on to have that done is different to a beard treatment.\"\n\nBlow Ltd uses 1,000 self-employed beauticians and about a quarter of them can still not work, says Fiona McIntosh\n\nAngela Burnett, the co-founder of Moreton Place Beauty and Wellbeing in London, added: \"It's half of our business, not being able do facials and facial treatment. For example we can't do any eyebrow waxing, any tinting, any lip waxing. So we're just doing manicures, pedicures and massages.\"\n\nVanita Parti, founder and chief executive of the Blink Brow Bar walk-in beauty bar chain, which has 11 shops in London and specialises in eyebrow treatments, said her salons would not be able to reopen under the guidelines.\n\n\"I'm furious,\" she told the BBC last week. \"This will kill so many businesses. I wish they'd consulted us.\"\n\nMassage studios, tanning salons, physical therapy businesses and piercing services are also now allowed to reopen in England.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Enabling these often small, independent businesses to reopen is yet another step in our plan to kickstart the economy to support jobs and incomes across the country.\"\n\nSome nail bars have installed plastic screens to reduce the spread of coronavirus\n\nAt a salon in Birkenhead, a nail technician wears a PPE face shield and mask\n\nPeople - including a woman in Chirton, North Shields - are also returning to sunbeds for the first time in three months\n\nIn Scotland, hospitals are reopening to visitors and children and young people are now allowed to play contact sports outdoors.\n\nFrom Wednesday, Scottish hairdressers and barbers will be able to reopen and indoor pubs, cafes and restaurants can return to business.\n\nIn Wales, hospitality businesses can open for outdoor service. Only half of venues are predicted to do so, with major chains, including Wetherspoons and Brains, waiting until customers are allowed indoors from 3 August.\n\nThe National Trust is also reopening some of its historic houses, with visitors allowed at seven properties in England and Northern Ireland in a test run of new rules intended to keep the public and staff as safe as possible.\n\n\"We're really grateful to our members and supporters for sticking with us during lockdown,\" said Tarnya Cooper from the National Trust, who spoke to BBC's Breakfast from Petworth House. \"This is the first time in 16 weeks we've been able to contemplate reopening our houses.\"\n\nShe said about one million visitors had already pre-booked trips to National Trust's parks and gardens since they opened in early June.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's approach to face coverings in England continues to be discussed, following calls for clarity over the weekend.\n\nBoris Johnson has said people in England \"should be wearing\" masks or other coverings inside shops to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe said the government would decide in the next few days if \"tools of enforcement\" were needed.\n\nEarlier, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he would \"perhaps\" support making the wearing of masks in public compulsory but his colleague Michael Gove said on Sunday he thought the matter should be left to people's \"common sense\".\n\nMr Buckland told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Wearing them in an enclosed space where you've got lots of people, for example a busy shop, seems to be sensible.\n\n\"It is all about increasing confidence. I think the more of us who do the courteous and responsible thing, the more people you'll see venture out into shops.\"\n\nHe added: \"If it becomes necessary to nudge people further by taking further action then of course we will consider that. I think the matter is under careful and daily review.\"\n\nFace masks are mandatory in shops in Scotland but not in England, although some shoppers do wear them\n\nA further 650 coronavirus cases were reported across the UK on Sunday, according to the Department of Health. That is an increase on the 516 cases reported on the same day a week earlier - but hugely down on the peak in April when there were about 5,000 new cases a day.\n\nThe total number of people who have died with Covid-19 in the UK is now 44,819, a rise of 21 on the previous day - although figures tend to be lower at weekends because of reporting delays.\n\nAre you having your nails done or getting a tattoo today? Or are you a nail technician or tattoo artist who has reopened? 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 plane was taken to a remote part of the airfield before passengers disembarked\n\nA flight from Krakow to Dublin was forced to land after a note was discovered in a toilet claiming there were explosives on board.\n\nThe Ryanair flight was diverted to Stansted Airport to allow Essex Police officers to carry out checks.\n\nTwo RAF jets escorted the plane which landed at about 18:40 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice said nothing suspicious was found and two men have been arrested on suspicion of making threats to endanger an aircraft.\n\nThe men, aged 26 and 47, remain in custody and the plane has been handed back to Stansted Airport and the operator.\n\nA spokeswoman for the airline said: \"The plane landed normally, but was taxied to a remote stand where passengers disembarked safely.\"\n\nFootage of the RAF jets scrambling was shared on Twitter.\n\nAndy Kirby, from Essex, said: \"Looks like two eurofighters? Circling Stansted Airport.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andy Kirby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ryanair spokeswoman previously said the aircraft and passengers were \"being checked by the UK police who will decide when they may travel onwards to Dublin on a spare aircraft\".\n\n\"Passengers in Dublin waiting to depart to Krakow are being transferred to a spare aircraft to minimise any delay to their flight,\" she said.\n\nPolice confirmed all passengers were safely brought off the plane.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The leaders of Houston, Texas, are calling for another statewide lockdown after infections there climbed to more than 27,600 on Sunday.\n\n\"Not only do we need a stay home order now, but we need to stick with it this time until the hospitalisation curve comes down, not just flattens,\" tweeted Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo - who oversees the most populous county in Texas - on Sunday.\n\n\"Many communities that persevered in that way are reopening for the long haul. Let’s learn from that (and) not make the same mistake twice.\"\n\nHouston Mayor Sylvester Turner said over the weekend that he disagrees with the governor’s effort to reopen schools.\n\n“It makes no sense to be having this conversation while this virus is out of control,\" Turner said on Saturday. \"You don't send kids back to school when there's a raging fire and the fires still burning in August.\n\n“Put the doggone fire out in July, so shut down for a couple of weeks.\"\n\nTexas recorded 8,100 new cases on Sunday and 80 Covid-related deaths.", "A pregnant NHS worker whose maternity clothes were stolen from her car has recorded a tearful message after the theft.\n\nBecky Jones, 30, a clinical biochemist for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, left her shopping bags in her car while she went for a meal in Nottingham with her boyfriend on Saturday.\n\nWhen she returned, the passenger side window was smashed and her shopping was gone.\n\nMiss Jones, who is 22 weeks pregnant, recorded a video next to her car, where she called the thieves \"the pride of Britain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He had so much passion for football\"\n\nAlina Joseph remembers sitting with her son Christopher Kapessa in their living room watching the 2018 Fifa World Cup on the telly.\n\nIt was a scorcher of a day but Christopher was glued to the screen watching Cristiano Ronaldo playing for Portugal.\n\nHe knew his mum wasn't really a football fan but he couldn't resist telling her which team was the best, what the rules were and who his favourite player was.\n\nWhen she went upstairs to have a lie-down, it wasn't long before she was woken up by the huge racket coming from downstairs.\n\n\"He had so much passion for football,\" Alina tells me. \"His younger brother misses him so much, especially when it comes to football, because Christopher was teaching him how to play.\"\n\nChristopher was 13 when his body was found in the River Cynon in Rhondda Cynon Taff, south Wales, on 1 July last year.\n\nHe'd been out with a group of other young people on a really hot day when it happened. He was the only black child there.\n\nWithin 24 hours, South Wales Police had told his mum there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death - it was a tragic accident.\n\nBut the family and their lawyer raised concerns about how the investigation was handled and it was taken on by the force's major crime unit.\n\nThen in February this year, Alina got a letter from the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nIt said there was \"clear evidence\" that Christopher - who couldn't swim - had been pushed into the river.\n\nIt said there was \"sufficient evidence to support a charge of unlawful act of manslaughter\" but they weren't going to prosecute the 14-year-old suspect because it wasn't in the \"public interest\".\n\nChristopher's family have accused the police and the CPS of institutional racism.\n\n\"If this had been 14 black youths and a white victim we have no doubt that the approach of the police and outcome would have been different,\" Alina said at the time.\n\nAlina Joseph has questioned why the suspect hasn't been prosecuted over her son's death\n\nI'm chatting to Alina on the phone a day before the first anniversary of her son's death.\n\nThree days earlier, I'd been at a remembrance event where friends and family gathered to share their memories of Christopher.\n\nHis 14-year-old friend Cobi spoke through tears as he described how much Christopher meant to him.\n\n\"Christopher wasn't just a friend, he was more or less family. He was always cheeky - in a good way,\" he told the crowd.\n\nI've reported on many stories about people who've died - and there are some that just really hit you without warning.\n\nI was there writing notes of what Cobi was saying when I just had to stop because I welled up.\n\nThis young lad was so upset but from somewhere he found the strength to speak up for his friend.\n\n\"To see the same joy that he gave me as his mum, he was able to give to somebody else's heart - that was deep,\" Alina tells me.\n\nCobi paid tribute to Christopher wearing a football shirt with his friend's surname on it\n\nAt times, you can hear the pride in Alina's voice when she talks about her son - it feels just like a very normal conversation.\n\nShe tells me how he loved watching YouTube videos about history and how he had this certain way of saying \"Mummy\" which meant he wanted a fiver from her.\n\nThen there were the constant arguments with his six brothers and sisters over sharing the PlayStation - because he wanted to play Minecraft and Fortnite.\n\nOh, and then there were all the times he broke his glasses.\n\n\"He slept with his glasses, we'd have to go in and take them off,\" Alina tells me.\n\n\"Everybody knew we needed to help him with his glasses because we were sure that the opticians had had enough.\n\n\"I remember one time he was in the shower and he was having a shower in the glasses. I said 'Christopher!' and he said 'Mum I can't really see properly'.\n\n\"Christopher was just funny in his own way.\"\n\nFlowers were left near to the place where Christopher died a year on from his death\n\nIt was a sunny morning when Alina woke up on the day Christopher died.\n\n\"I don't like beautiful mornings anymore because it's like you know something bad is just gonna end up happening,\" she tells me.\n\nThe memory of that day must be so strong in her mind - she talks me through it in such detail.\n\nChristopher had come in from school and a few minutes later he told his mum he was going out to play football.\n\nAlina agreed he could go - but never got to say \"see you later\" or \"goodbye\".\n\n\"I hate that word now, or goodnight. What's good about it?\" she says.\n\nLater on, Alina was on the phone to her sister in Africa when there was a knock on the door.\n\n\"We were chatting away, we were laughing - he was there dying,\" she says through tears.\n\nIt was Christopher's sports coach. \"We can't find Christopher, apparently he's jumped off a bridge,\" he told her.\n\nPolice focused on a bridge over the River Cynon a part of their investigation\n\nTime is a bit blur for her after that.\n\nAlina started to go down to the river where he was last seen, but the roads were blocked off and she was told to wait at home as the police were on their way.\n\nBut the officers couldn't tell her anything so she tried to keep busy by washing the dishes. Eventually some news came in.\n\n\"We need to go to the hospital. We've found him,\" an officer told Alina.\n\nAs we continue talking about it over the phone, the emotion of it all just overwhelms her.\n\nHearing a mum wail down the phone for her son is absolutely heartbreaking - and we take a little break from the interview.\n\nBut then she agrees to carry on - she's ready to tell me what happened next.\n\n\"I was blocking it, saying that he's fine, everything's fine. I'm actually gonna tell him off,\" she recalls.\n\n\"I was sweating like mad and every sound of that siren just made the situation even worse.\"\n\nAlina releases a dove in memory of her son at his remembrance event\n\nAlina was taken into a grey room - the atmosphere was so bad. No-one could give her any information about Christopher.\n\nFrustrated and angry, she left and set off down the hospital corridor.\n\n\"I just started walking. I started crying. I just started walking, not knowing I was even actually walking in the right direction.\n\n\"Everybody was just lined up. The more I approached, they had their heads down. He was asleep. The only difference was he didn't have his glasses. And I knew.\n\n\"I tried calling his name. Normally he'd be like 'Yes Mama, I'm OK, Stop fussing, Mama. Mama, I didn't do it, it wasn't me.'\n\n\"Nothing like that was coming out.\"\n\nAlina then goes on to tell me how the family had so many questions that weren't getting answered.\n\nWhere exactly did he jump off the bridge? Why wasn't he wearing the same clothes in the morgue as he had been when he had left the house? How many people were actually there when Christopher fell into the river?\n\nChristopher's friends and family brought balloons with messages to his remembrance event\n\nIt took seven months for Alina to find out exactly what evidence there was about how her son had died.\n\n\"There was clear evidence that the suspect pushed Christopher in the back with both hands causing him to fall into the river,\" the letter from the CPS said.\n\n\"That push was an unlawful act and it was clearly dangerous in that on an objective standard it created a danger of some harm.\"\n\nIt said that the evidence suggested the push was \"not in an effort to harm someone\" but \"ill considered\" and the suspect was \"mature and intelligent for his age\" and had a \"good school record\".\n\nIt said the suspect \"will have learnt the very harshest of lessons from this experience, which will act as a deterrent from further offending\".\n\nIt also explained the decision not to prosecute had considered the best interest of the suspect and the adverse impact on his future prospects.\n\n\"Christopher had so much going for him, so for that to be taken away and then to be told that somebody else's future is of more value than of his, that's very painful,\" Alina told the BBC at the time.\n\nChristopher's family came together for his remembrance event on 27 June\n\nDuring our chat, Alina told me her family had experienced racism since moving from London to south Wales in 2011.\n\nThey'd had \"hate letters\" sent to the house, her children have been \"peed on\" and once Christopher had been left in a \"pool of blood\" after being attacked in a shop.\n\nI've seen the comments some people have posted on Facebook about this case and they're honestly tough to read.\n\n\"Pulling the race card is disgusting, total disrespect for the emergency services, sadly the boy has lost his life. People have donated thousands of pounds for his funeral, a little bit of gratitude is in order,\" one woman wrote.\n\n\"It's more of a worry that mum gave the boy permission to go swimming and he couldn't swim. It wasn't as if it was a swimming pool where lifeguards could have been at hand,\" another wrote.\n\n\"Sad to hear this, but pulling out the race card cheapens and demeans the issue and loses respect,\" said one man.\n\nAnd these are not from anonymous trolls. They're from people from around the community where Christopher lived.\n\nSome of the Facebook comments I've seen about this case have been tough to read\n\nThe lack of compassion and nastiness that comes across in the comments must be so difficult for Alina to get her head around.\n\nShe's a mum who has lost her 13-year-old child. Imagine if it was your son, your brother, your nephew? Would you just accept what had happened?\n\nChristopher's mum has been supported by anti-racism charity The Monitoring Group ever since the tragedy happened.\n\n\"This isn't playing the race card,\" its director Suresh Grover tells me.\n\n\"This is the lived experience of a large number of black people which tells you that when there are a large number of black people or children in the majority, and there are accusations of crimes, inevitably, they're mostly charged.\n\n\"And when black people are in the minority and suffer racial violence with a group of white people, we have cases which show that white people are never charged.\n\n'I think for those people who say it's the 'race card' I just would say stop denying the reality that is so prevalent for black people in this country.\"\n\nSuresh says there are still so many questions the family want answering.\n\n\"I think racism is a factor that can't be taken out and has to be examined by the police.\n\n\"For us, what's important is what exactly was said to Christopher before he was pushed in? What are the circumstances that led to his death? Was he afraid before he was pushed in? Was he being goaded before he was pushed in?\n\n\"What's very clear is that had Christopher been the only white person, I think the investigation wouldn't have come to the conclusion so quickly that it was an accident.\"\n\nSuresh Grover is leading the Justice For Christopher Kapessa campaign\n\nChristopher's family have asked for the CPS's decision not to prosecute the suspect to be reviewed. They're currently waiting for the outcome.\n\nA crowdfunding page has raised nearly £20,000 to help with the family's legal fees and an online petition demanding \"Justice For Christopher Kapessa\" has more than 50,000 signatures.\n\n\"For Alina, justice looks like having confidence in the police to investigate properly and for the CPS to put the evidence in front of the jury, and for her boy's life to be treated on equal terms with any other person, not as somebody who has less worth or less value or less rights,\" Suresh says.\n\nI contacted the CPS but they told me it couldn't comment because its decision not to prosecute the suspect is still under review. They wouldn't tell me when the family might hear the outcome.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it's also waiting for the decision to be made.\n\nIt added: \"South Wales Police has also referred the investigation to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) who will examine our response and subsequent investigation into the tragic circumstances surrounding Christopher's death.\n\n\"We will be absolutely committed to implementing any opportunities for learning by South Wales Police.\"\n\nThe IOPC said its investigation has made \"good progress\" but is partially suspended while the CPS's decision is under review.\n\nFor now, Alina just has to wait.\n\nI think back to Christopher's remembrance event and there's one thing that his friend Coby says that really sticks out in my mind.\n\nIt's something I think is important to remember, whatever happens next.\n\n\"Christopher Kapessa was an amazing person and he didn't deserve this.\"\n\nCherry Wilson is a proud northerner who recently moved back to Stockport, Greater Manchester, where she grew up.\n\nShe studied journalism in Sheffield and was the first in her family to go to university. Her passion is telling the stories of the people and communities behind the headlines, exploring issues that matter to them.", "Rouaa is nine years old, the same age as the devastating war that has ravaged her country, Syria, killing hundreds of thousands of people and creating the world’s largest refugee crisis.\n\nHer family fled a chemical attack near their home town and for the past few years BBC World Affairs Correspondent Caroline Hawley has been visiting her in a Lebanese refugee camp.\n\nMore than 13 million Syrians have had to flee their homes, with more than five million of them now living in neighbouring countries.\n\nThe UN says only a tiny fraction of those who need new homes will ever get the chance to be resettled. But Rouaa and her family have defied the odds and are coming to make a new life in the United Kingdom.\n\nCaroline accompanied her on the journey to the UK.", "Pope Francis is the latest religious leader to speak out over the Turkish president's move\n\nPope Francis has said he's \"pained\" by Turkey's decision to convert Istanbul's Hagia Sophia back into a mosque.\n\nSpeaking at a service in the Vatican, the Roman Catholic leader added that his \"thoughts go to Istanbul\".\n\nHagia Sophia was built as a Christian cathedral nearly 1,500 years ago and turned into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of 1453.\n\nThe Unesco World Heritage Site became a museum in 1934 under Turkish Republic founding father Ataturk.\n\nBut earlier this week a Turkish court annulled the site's museum status, saying its use as anything other than a mosque was \"not possible legally\".\n\nPope Francis confined himself to a few words on the issue: \"My thoughts go to Istanbul. I think of Santa Sophia and I am very pained.\"\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the first Muslim prayers would be held in Hagia Sophia on July 24.\n\nThe Hagia Sophia has huge significance as a religious and political symbol\n\nShortly after the announcement, the first call to prayer was recited at the site and broadcast on all of Turkey's main news channels. Hagia Sophia's social media channels have also been taken down.\n\nIslamists in Turkey have long called for it to become a mosque again but secular opposition members opposed the move.\n\nDefending the decision, President Erdogan stressed that the country had exercised its sovereign right, and he added that the building would remain open to all Muslims, non-Muslims and foreign visitors.\n\nThe Pope is one of several religious and political leaders worldwide who have criticised the move.\n\nThe World Council of Churches has called on President Erdogan to reverse the decision. The Church in Russia, home to the world's largest Orthodox Christian community, immediately expressed regret that the Turkish court had not taken its concerns into account when ruling on Hagia Sophia.\n\nThe site is now one of Turkey's most visited tourist attractions\n\nIt has also drawn condemnation from Greece, and Unesco said its World Heritage Committee would now review the monument's status.\n\nOne of Turkey's most famous authors, Orhan Pamuk, told the BBC that the decision would take away the \"pride\" some Turks had in being a secular Muslim nation.\n\n\"There are millions of secular Turks like me who are crying against this but their voices are not heard,\" said Mr Pamuk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's good to see everybody wearing their mask,\" says one shopper in Braehead\n\nScotland will see \"the most significant easing of lockdown\" this week with shopping centres, pubs and restaurants reopening, the first minister has said.\n\nNon-essential shops inside shopping malls are now allowed to return to business.\n\nChildren and young people are also permitted to play organised outdoor contact sports.\n\nFurther restrictions on the indoor hospitality sector will be lifted from Wednesday.\n\nFamily and friends are also able to visit hospital patients from Monday.\n\nPatients can have a designated visitor, although they will have to follow strict public health guidance and arrange a time to visit in advance.\n\nDentists can offer some routine treatments, such as examinations, hand scaling and extractions.\n\nBut they will not be able to carry out aerosol procedures - those which produce a fine mist - like the use of a high-speed drill.\n\nThat will rule out most fillings, crown preparations and treatments involving a water spray.\n\nIt was a slow start for many shopping centres across Scotland as people were allowed in for the first time since March.\n\nAt Waverley Mall, Edinburgh's only city centre shopping centre, a number of shops were still closed and its food court does not open until Wednesday for sit-in meals.\n\nMark Sleet, 62, a project manager working on the construction of another shopping centre in Edinburgh city centre, described his experience as a \"culture shock\".\n\nHe said: \"I've been travelling to Edinburgh from Morpeth in England every day for work and it's like going back in time.\n\n\"It's really getting back to normal in England and the shopping malls are busy.\n\n\"Waverley Mall was empty today and I had to wear a mask, which felt confusing for me.\"\n\nAlex Weedman, 29, from Edinburgh, said: \"I'm a shopaholic and wanted to see Flying Tiger, which is a shop that is only in Waverley Mall. I'm wearing a mask in case others feel worried but I'm not afraid.\"\n\nIt was also quiet at Ocean Terminal on the first day shopping centres could reopen in Scotland.\n\nShopper Chris Pearson, 61, said: \"It felt empty so I'm sure a lot of the shopkeepers would have felt disappointed.\n\n\"Quite a lot of the shops also weren't open. I can understand why the tourist shops weren't open but other shops must be waiting until they think it's going to get busier.\"\n\nMark Sleet, who lives in England but works in Edinburgh, said the shopping centres are busier south of the border\n\nIt was a quiet start at the Ocean Terminal shopping centre in the Leith area of Edinburgh\n\nElsewhere, some outlets in Aberdeen's Union Square shopping centre had queues of people for opening.\n\nOne shopper, who asked not to be named, said: \"It's a bit of normality, we've been waiting a few months. I've been working from home so not really doing anything else. I usually come into town every weekend.\n\n\"I took a day off, so first in the queue.\"\n\nAnother spoke of the safety measures in place and the relaxed feel in the centre.\n\nShe said: \"It's good and I do feel safe. There's a lot of measures in place, although getting used to this mask is going to be a bit hard.\"\n\nPeople waiting outside a clothes shop in the Union Square centre in Aberdeen\n\nNicola Sturgeon said continued success in suppressing coronavirus allowed the relaxation of lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut she has warned the easing could be revoked at any time if there was a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe first minister said: \"The fundamental, primary responsibility to keep the virus low in Scotland is on the shoulders of all of us to do the right things.\n\n\"That means face coverings, avoiding crowded places, cleaning our hands and keeping two-metres distancing, following the advice to self-isolate and get tested if we have symptoms.\"\n\nPerspex screens have been fitted to protect staff at the intu Braehead shopping centre in Glasgow\n\nRestricting access to people in hospital had been necessary \"to keep patients and staff as safe as possible\", Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said.\n\nShe also said the measures had \"helped us protect the capacity and resilience of NHS Scotland\".\n\nMs Freeman added: \"I want to thank everyone who has followed this guidance as I know how hard it has been for patients, families and carers not to have seen their loved ones in hospital.\n\n\"There is a need to balance the risk of physical and psychological harm that the absence of visitors can cause, with the gradual reduction of Covid-19.\n\n\"The safety of patients, staff and visitors will continue to be our priority.\"\n\nFrom Wednesday, hairdressers and barbers will be able to reopen - with enhanced hygiene measures.\n\nIndoor pubs, cafes and restaurants can also return to business.\n\nThey can seek an exemption from the two-metre distancing rule, but will have to warn customers that they are entering a 1m zone, produce revised seating plans, and improve ventilation.\n\nGuidance on physical distancing will have to be followed, and customers will have to provide their contact details.\n\nAll holiday accommodation can also reopen from 15 July, as can museums, galleries, cinemas, monuments and libraries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says face masks have a “real value in confined spaces”.\n\nBoris Johnson has said people in England \"should be wearing\" face coverings inside shops to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMinisters may confirm on Tuesday that face coverings will be compulsory inside shops in England.\n\nThe comments follow cabinet minister Michael Gove telling the BBC on Sunday that coverings should not become mandatory in such situations.\n\nLabour has demanded \"urgent clarity\" from the government on the issue.\n\nAnd the boss of Waterstones bookstores, James Daunt, said it \"would not be right\" to ask shop workers to \"police\" any new policy.\n\nMasks and other face coverings are worn to help prevent wearers spreading coronavirus, rather than catching it.\n\nCurrently, they are compulsory on public transport in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland - with the Welsh government set to enforce the same measure from 27 July.\n\nIn Scotland, coverings are also mandatory in shops, but not elsewhere in the UK - and critics have complained that the situation in England needs to be made easier for the public to understand.\n\nThe signs seem to point towards the government making face coverings compulsory in more places in England, but ministers appear reluctant to commit just yet.\n\nMichael Gove's preference for trying to encourage people to take action voluntarily - rather than through fear of enforcement - is one we've seen the government repeat throughout the pandemic.\n\nBut the risk that comes with it is of mixed messaging. Earlier, when coronavirus was more widespread, it said the scientific evidence for wearing coverings was not clear enough. Now, it says, the evidence is stronger.\n\nOf course, the scientific understanding of the virus is constantly developing, and so policy is likely to as well.\n\nIf the government does now think coverings are the way forward, though, communicating that message without confusion is going to be key.\n\nThe World Health Organization says masks and homemade cloth face coverings should be worn in public where social distancing is not possible to reduce the spread of coronavirus droplets.\n\nIt changed its advice last month, having previously argued there was not enough scientific evidence to say that healthy people should use them.\n\nVisiting ambulance staff in central London, Mr Johnson, whose government controls health policy in England but not the rest of the UK, said: \"I think people should be wearing [face coverings] in shops.\n\n\"And, in terms of how we do that whether we make it mandatory or not, we'll be looking at the guidance - we'll be seeing a little bit more in the next few days.\"\n\nMr Johnson added: \"Throughout this crisis people have shown amazing sensitivity towards other people and understanding of the needs to get the virus down by doing things cooperatively.\n\n\"Wearing masks is one of them... It's a mutual thing; people do see the value of it. We'll be looking in the next few days about exactly how - with what tools of enforcement - we think we want to make progress.\"\n\nThe statement follows some confusion over the government's intentions in recent days.\n\nThe prime minister said on Friday: \"I do think we need to be stricter in insisting people wear face coverings in confined spaces where they are meeting people they don't normally meet.\"\n\nBut on Sunday, Cabinet Office minister Mr Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he did not think wearing coverings in shops in England should be compulsory, adding that he would \"encourage\" the practice \"where they are likely to be mixing with others and where the ventilation may not be as good as it might\".\n\nHe added that it was \"basic good manners, courtesy and consideration\", to wear a face covering \"if you are, for example, in a shop\".\n\nRecent findings from the polling company YouGov suggest 36% of people in the UK wear face coverings in public places, compared with 86% in Spain, 83% in Italy and 82% in China.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said that \"conflicting advice and conflicting statements from the government only hinder our fight against the virus\".\n\nHe has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, asking him to \"urgently set out the position on face coverings\".\n\n\"As lockdown rules are further relaxed this week, it is vital that updated guidance on this issue is published by the government without delay,\" Mr Ashworth added.\n\nPaddy Lillis, general secretary of the shop workers' union Usdaw, said \"mixed messaging\" on face coverings was \"not helpful\" for staff.", "BBC Children in Need has announced it will be matching Stormzy in pledging £10m to fight racial inequality in the UK.\n\nIt'll donate the money over 10 years and work with Radio 1Xtra to develop young black talent in the media.\n\nStormzy says the money will help \"in supporting and strengthening the young black community\".\n\nThe donation will also be used to help young business owners and offer skills to help boost employability.\n\nStormzy made his donation commitment after the death of George Floyd, saying he recognised what he had been able to achieve in his life but wanted more black people to have the same opportunities.\n\nIn 2018 he committed to paying for two black students to go to Cambridge University and also has a deal with Penguin to help young black authors get published in the UK.\n\nChildren in Need currently funds over 3,000 charities and projects in the UK that help disadvantaged children and young people.\n\nIt says its donations are used to help young Black people but that the additional funding will go even further to create opportunities.\n\nA panel of \"young people and volunteers with direct experience of the Black British experience\" will help decide who gets funding from this new scheme.\n\nBBC Radio 1Xtra will also be involved in the process, helping to develop future radio presenters but also telling the stories of the people and communities who are receiving the Children in Need funding.\n\nKenny Imafidon, trustee of BBC Children in Need, said: \"I can speak for the entire Board of Trustees and all the staff at BBC Children in Need when I say, we were really inspired by Stormzy's pledge.\n\n\"I am excited about this new fund and I truly believe that this is the beginning of greater things to come, as we continue on our mission to support children and young people most in need.\"\n\nStormzy has urged others to join in pledging.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Bonnybridge-based E&O Laboratories is behind the solution\n\nA Scottish biotech firm has landed a deal worth up to £7m with NHS Scotland after creating a chemical solution to aid the Covid-19 testing process.\n\nThe \"breakthrough\" approach is said to help make testing turnaround more efficient and improve safety.\n\nThe VPSS solution (Viral PCR Sample Solution) was developed by Bonnybridge-based E&O Laboratories.\n\nVPSS is placed in each tube, which is said to make test samples that contain Covid-19 safe within the tube itself.\n\nThis means that by the time it is transported to the lab, it is immediately ready for testing.\n\nThis streamlines the testing process and means lab technicians do not need to reopen the tubes to apply any pre-testing solution in the lab environment.\n\nThe result is an approved solution for production with up to 3.5 million of the new 'VPSS added' test tubes.\n\nAn initial quantity of 85,000 units will be distributed across Scotland from this week.\n\nTrade minister Ivan McKee said: \"Since the start of this pandemic the Scottish government has supported many Scottish businesses to innovate and alter their production processes, allowing us to be less reliant on global supply chains.\n\n\"E&O's work in this area secures a Scottish supplier of a crucial testing chemical that not only streamlines the testing process and supports our national test and protect programme, it will also further improve the safety of lab workers carrying out these essential tests.\"\n\nVirginia Lucey, Managing Director of E&O said: \"Our research and development team worked tirelessly with NHS virology experts to design formulations that will aid reliable testing of Covid-19.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amber Heard was the \"abuser\" in her relationship with Johnny Depp, his former personal assistant has claimed.\n\nStephen Deuters told London's High Court that Ms Heard, 34, subjected Mr Depp, 57, to \"years of abuse\".\n\nMr Depp is suing the publisher of the Sun newspaper over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\" - but the Sun maintains it was accurate.\n\nHe denies 14 domestic violence allegations which News Group Newspapers is relying on in its defence.\n\nMr Deuters, now European president of Mr Depp's production company, Infinitum Nihil, said he had worked for the US actor since 2004.\n\nIn his written witness statement, he said he saw Ms Heard \"on many occasions\" during the period Mr Depp is alleged to have been abusive.\n\n\"At no point did Ms Heard ever mention any physical abuse and I never saw evidence of any injury to Ms Heard,\" he claimed.\n\nMr Deuters said he was \"extremely surprised and outraged\" when it became public that Ms Heard had filed for a temporary restraining order in 2016.\n\n\"I knew that Ms Heard was the abuser in the relationship and I was appalled that she would behave in this way,\" he said.\n\nMr Deuters said he was with the couple on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles in May 2014, when an incident is alleged to have taken place.\n\nHe claimed Ms Heard was speaking \"in an increasingly aggressive manner\" to Mr Depp, who \"did not engage with the abuse he was receiving\".\n\nMr Deuters said he \"could not hear the specifics\" because he had headphones on, but \"could see her gesticulating\".\n\nHe said the actor \"made a playful attempt to tap her on the bottom\", adding that he did not believe that Mr Depp made contact with her.\n\n\"Ms Heard took great offence at what was clearly a harmless gesture and increased her abuse of Mr Depp in an extremely unpleasant manner,\" he said.\n\nMr Deuters said that he and Mr Depp's former private security guard decided to intervene and Mr Depp spent the rest of the flight in the bathroom.\n\n\"This was a common theme on the multiple times when Mr Depp was abused by Ms Heard - he would take himself away from the situation, often to a bathroom, and lock himself out of harm's way,\" he said.\n\nMr Deuters said that the day after the flight, Mr Depp asked him to \"mollify\" Ms Heard and \"to say whatever was needed to try and placate her\".\n\n\"Given Ms Heard's extremely volatile nature, I thought it best to try to engage with her on her own terms and simply apologise for what she was alleging had happened; hence my use of the word 'kicked', which is the word which Ms Heard herself had used,\" he said.\n\n\"As I have made clear, Mr Depp had not kicked Ms Heard.\"\n\nMr Deuters also spoke about the couple's trip to Australia in March 2015, during which it is alleged Mr Depp assaulted Ms Heard and \"completely destroyed\" a house in a drink- and drug-fuelled rage, which the actor denies.\n\nMr Depp alleges his finger was severed by Ms Heard throwing a vodka bottle at him, which she denies.\n\nMr Deuters claimed that, the day after the alleged incident, Mr Depp told him and two others \"he had sustained his injury when Ms Heard had thrown a bottle at him which smashed on his hand\".\n\nMr Depp and Ms Heard were married for two years until 2017\n\nAlso on Monday, the fifth day of evidence in the libel action, Mr Depp said Ms Heard's allegations \"mirrored\" what he claims was her abuse towards him.\n\nHe also accused Ms Heard of throwing a \"haymaker\" punch at him during a row after her 30th birthday party, hours after he had learned during a \"bad\" business meeting that he had lost $650m (£514m).\n\nAnd Mr Depp told the High Court he did not intend to headbutt Ms Heard during an alleged heated row at their Los Angeles penthouse.\n\nHe said he grabbed his ex-wife to \"lock her arms\" in an attempt to stop her attacking him and that he had not been violent to her.\n\nThe court also heard from the front desk supervisor at Mr Depp's Los Angeles penthouse home, who said she saw marks on Ms Heard's body after Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, had apparently spent the night there.\n\nTrinity Esperza said she saw \"no visible injuries\" to Ms Heard's face in the three days after Mr Depp was alleged to have hit her on the face with her mobile phone on 21 May, 2016.\n\nShe told the court she had seen a red mark on her face on 27 May, the day Ms Heard appeared in court to obtain a restraining order against Mr Depp. The following week, another resident in the building found a gift card she said fell out of a large plant sent to the building for Ms Heard, reading: \"I had a wonderful weekend with you. E.\"\n\nShe also said she saw a number of marks on Ms Heard's body in June or July of that year, shortly after seeing Mr Musk leave the building one morning.\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "Areas of southern and central China have been hit by heavy flooding, and the country's flood response alert has been raised to the second highest level.\n\nLevels in Poyang lake have reached a record high, with thousands of soldiers dispatched to shore up its banks.", "Key workers Kevin and Melissa Antwhistle are stuck in \"a financial nightmare\" because of their mortgage\n\nMPs are calling on the government to step in and help more than 170,000 \"mortgage prisoners\" who are trapped on high interest rates.\n\nThousands of frontline workers, including nurses and hospital workers, are forced to pay double the interest they would on a competitive mortgage.\n\nStrict affordability rules prevent them from re-mortgaging to a cheaper deal.\n\nMPs now want the government to order regulators to investigate capping the profits firms make from the borrowers.\n\nThey are asking for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to undertake a joint consultation and introduce a cap on standard variable rates.\n\nThe Treasury said it sympathises with the situation of borrowers who cannot switch mortgages if, for example, their loan is too high against the value of their home or because they are now too old to re-mortgage.\n\nLast October, the FCA reformed the affordability rules to allow lenders to help mortgage prisoners with cheaper home loans.\n\nBut so far not a single lender has done so.\n\nSome key workers, who are also mortgage prisoners, say the financial pressure caused by paying far more than other homeowners is worsening the considerable stress of being on the frontline during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMelissa Antwhistle has been dressing in protective equipment every day for round-the-clock shifts on the frontline at Scunthorpe general hospital, including in the intensive care unit.\n\nBut financially, she feels far from supported.\n\nSpeaking between shifts, she said: \"Many mortgage prisoners are key workers like my husband and me. Doing this job with all the stress of Covid and also looking after our children aged one and three, we could do without the extra stress and anxiety of this financial nightmare.\n\n\"While the nation clapped for key workers every Thursday evening in admiration, in fact we have been risking everything not just to fulfil our vocations but also because we were forced to work round the clock just to keep a roof over our heads.\"\n\nHer husband Kevin - also a key worker who runs and maintains a power station on the south Humber bank - bought his £120,000 house with a mortgage from Northern Rock and an unsecured loan on top in 2007.\n\nNorthern Rock's \"Together\" mortgage was approved at the time by regulators under the oversight of the Treasury.\n\nBut it's a decision he has had 13 years to regret.\n\nAfter it was nationalised, the Treasury put his loan along with hundreds of thousands of others into a new entity called Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM).\n\nThe Treasury then allowed NRAM to make bigger profit margins on standard variable rate mortgages, preparing the way for the sale of a portfolio of mortgages to private investors who could make large profits from the repayments Kevin and Melissa were making.\n\nHis loan was then sold in 2014 as part of a £13bn portfolio of loans to private investors whose mortgage interest rates were outside the regulation of the FCA.\n\nNorthern Rock collapsed in September 2007 before being nationalised\n\nIt was the biggest privatisation in UK history, meeting the Treasury's long-cherished goal of re-privatising the mortgage assets nationalised in the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nHowever, the investors purchasing the loans were typically 'inactive' lenders, meaning they were not willing or able to offer competitive new deals to existing borrowers.\n\nIt meant that when their initial fixed-rate interest rate deals expired, Kevin and Melissa could not re-mortgage to a cheaper deal with their existing lender.\n\nInstead they moved on to the high standard variable rate where they paid interest rates of between 6% and 9%, compared to loans of less than 3% had they been able to re-mortgage.\n\nMelissa and Kevin have been paying £780 a month on their Northern Rock loan, compared to £420 or less if they could re-mortgage. But because they borrowed more than the value of the property, the regulators' affordability rules now say they can't re-mortgage.\n\nThe rules, in other words, say they can't afford to pay less.\n\n\"Watching the widespread financial support during the current crisis has been a bitter pill to swallow. For many years we've been blamed for being ill-prepared and told that buying a mortgage is the risk you take,\" Kevin says.\n\n\"Yet whilst we're asked to risk our lives and take risks with our families' health, making huge sacrifices, we continue to be financially exploited without any choice. Our job is vocational but also necessary to pay the crippling interest rates.\"\n\nRachel Neale of the UK Mortgage Prisoners campaign said appeals to the Treasury to help key workers and others trapped on high-interest loans haven't helped a single mortgage prisoner.\n\n\"Families are being crippled by these high interest rates and aren't able to live properly because of it. We need action immediately before things get even worse and drive people into further arrears or cause repossessions.\"\n\nIn a letter to the Competition and Markets Authority, the all-party parliamentary group on mortgage prisoners says even during this period of record-low official rates, mortgage prisoners are typically paying 4.4%, two and half times the most competitive rates of 1.8% or less.\n\nCampaigner Rachel Neale says families are being \"crippled\" by high interest rates\n\n\"Mortgage prisoners are being exploited, by both fully regulated lenders and unregulated vulture funds by being held on high standard variable rates, \"says the letter, signed by LibDem, Conservative and Labour MPs.\n\n\"We believe that the only way mortgage prisoners will see the vital improvements they need within an acceptable timescale will be for the CMA and the FCA to conduct a joint consultation and introduce a cap on standard variable rates.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Treasury said: \"We know that being unable to switch your mortgage can be stressful.\n\n\"That's why we've introduced rules that will make it easier for some customers to change provider, which we now expect to be in place by the end of the year.\n\n\"The Financial Conduct Authority has also reiterated to lenders that customers on variable rate mortgages must be treated fairly, and that lenders should be actively reviewing their rates.\"", "The minister of a Welsh church in London said it was \"very strange\" not being able to sing\n\nChurches and chapels in Wales can gradually start to re-open from Monday - but members say they will miss the companionship of singing together.\n\nScientific evidence suggests singing increases the spread of respiratory droplets, thus increasing the risk of spreading coronavirus among a crowd.\n\nChurches in England opened for the first time since lockdown last Sunday, but singing was not allowed.\n\nThe minister of a Welsh church in London said it was \"very strange\".\n\n\"It was a great experience to be back on Sunday,\" said the Reverend Aneirin Glyn, of the Welsh Church of St Benet, in the City of London.\n\n\"But we didn't get to sing or offer after-service refreshments.\n\n\"We're very fond of singing as Welsh people, and it was very strange not to be able to sing as part of our worship.\"\n\nThe Welsh Church of St Benet in London opened its doors to worshippers last Sunday\n\nFrom 13 July, faith leaders will be able to gradually resume services, once they feel ready to do so safely, and services can be held outside.\n\nThe Church-in-Wales has issued guidance saying a cautious approach to re-opening was \"essential.\"\n\nRev Glyn said some members had recorded hymns to play during the service, but \"we could not sing with the recordings\".\n\nAnother who is missing the singing is Delyth Morgans Phillips, author of Companion to Caneuon Ffydd, a reference book on popular hymns.\n\n\"I understand, of course, that we must be careful but not singing hymns is going to be very strange,\" she said.\n\nMs Phillips is also a conductor in Cymanfa Ganu (singing festivals), and a member of the Corisma choir in Cwm-Ann, near Lampeter, and the Ceredigion National Eisteddfod Choir.\n\n\"When the choir doesn't meet, one loses the companionship,\" she added.\n\n\"We are a very social bunch in Corisma and we meet every fortnight to sing but also to laugh and put the world to rights.\"\n\nDelyth Morgans Phillips says choir members lose out on companionship from being unable to sing together\n\nMs Phillips said the National Eisteddfod Choir had been meeting on Zoom to rehearse, but that it was a \"completely different experience\".\n\nThe social element of worshipping and singing is a big draw for most church members in Wales, including Evie Jones, from Lannerch-y-medd, Anglesey.\n\n\"I miss the choir terribly,\" said Mr Jones, who is a member of the Foel Male voice choir.\n\nEvie Jones said he often wonders \"if we will be allowed to sing again\"\n\nMr Jones said he doubts whether choirs would have enough time to practice for the Eisteddfod next year, if it is able to go ahead at all.\n\n\"It's a rather bleak summer this year - I've sung all my life,\" he added.\n\n\"I often wonder if we will be allowed to sing again.\"\n\nThere was no other option but to postpone this year's Cerdd Dant Festival, said organiser John Jones.\n\nJohn Jones is also the conductor of Cor Meibion y Brythoniaid, a choir which usually meets weekly in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.\n\n\"It's the loss of companionship and banter more than anything else - I just hope that a vaccine comes soon,\" he said.\n\n\"But, like all the choir members, I miss the singing as well as the socialising - singing is good for the soul, but must be safe as well.\"\n• None The strange case of the choir that coughed in January", "Manchester City have successfully overturned their two-year ban from European club competitions.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) announced the club were cleared of \"disguising equity funds as sponsorship contributions\".\n\nUefa issued the ban in February after ruling City had committed \"serious breaches\" of Financial Fair Play regulations between 2012 and 2016.\n\nCity's fine has been cut from 30m euros (£26.9m) to 10m euros.\n\nIn delivering the ruling on Monday, Cas said City did \"fail to cooperate with Uefa authorities\" but overturned the decision by Uefa's club financial control body (CFCB) to ban them.\n\nCity said the decision was \"validation of the club's position and the body of evidence that it was able to present\".\n\n\"The club wishes to thank the panel members for their diligence and the due process that they administered,\" City added.\n\nWhat did the ruling say?\n\nCas' ruling means City, who are guaranteed to finish second in the Premier League this season, will play in the 2020-21 Champions League.\n\nIn this year's competition, Pep Guardiola's side face Real Madrid in their last-16 second leg at Etihad Stadium on 7 August. They lead 2-1 from the first leg and will face Juventus or Lyon if they progress.\n\nCas, who will provide full written reasons for the ruling \"in a few days\" said the decision \"emphasised that most of the alleged breaches reported by the adjudicatory chamber of the CFCB were either not established or time-barred\".\n\nIt added that in clearing City of the more serious charges surrounding \"dishonest concealment\" of sponsorship deals it was \"not appropriate to impose a ban on participating in Uefa's club competitions\" for the lesser charge of \"obstructing the CFCB's investigations\".\n\nOn reducing the fine, Cas said that, while it considered \"the importance of the co-operation of clubs in investigations conducted by the CFCB\" and Manchester City's \"disregard of such principle and its obstruction of the investigations\", the Cas panel \"considered it appropriate to reduce Uefa's initial fine by two-thirds\".\n\nIt added: \"The final award with reasons will be published on the Cas website in a few days.\"\n\nUefa said it noted there was \"insufficient conclusive evidence to uphold all of the CFCB's conclusions in this specific case and that many of the alleged breaches were time-barred\".\n\nThe governing body added: \"Over the last few years, Financial Fair Play has played a significant role in protecting clubs and helping them become financially sustainable and Uefa and the European Club Association remain committed to its principles.\"\n\nPrivately, City are hugely satisfied with today's decision. For, while the verdict is being viewed as a major blow for the whole FFP concept, senior sources at the club insist their argument - and resistance to complying with the initial hearing - was because of opposition to the process they were being judged by, not the regulation itself.\n\nCity could not see how it was fair that the evidence being used against them was obtained illegally particularly as, in their view, it created a distorted picture of the reality. It is also being stressed the non-compliance aspect of this case was with the Uefa process, not case.\n\nAnd, given the vehemence with which they repeatedly argued that the emails used as evidence against them was obtained illegally, it is not hard to work out what the major area of non-compliance might have been.\n\nEven as their two-year ban was being announced in February, the club were confident it would be overturned if they were given what, in their eyes, constituted a fair hearing and they now feel vindicated at how the situation has unfolded.\n\nNo-one from the club is saying so but you get the sense the first line of CAS' statement is the most pleasing from their point of view because it addresses the very crux of the argument City were trying to make, namely, they did not cheat the system by inflating their deals.\n\nWhat were City accused of?\n\nUefa launched an investigation after German newspaper Der Spiegel published leaked documents in November 2018 alleging City had inflated the value of a sponsorship deal, misleading European football's governing body.\n\nReports alleged City - who have always denied wrongdoing - deliberately misled Uefa so they could meet FFP rules requiring clubs to break even.\n\nOn 14 February, the independent adjudicatory chamber of the CFCB said City had broken the rules by \"overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to Uefa between 2012 and 2016\".\n\nIt added that City had \"failed to cooperate in the investigation\".\n\nCity, who have been owned by Sheikh Mansour since 2008, were fined £49m in 2014 for a previous breach of regulations.\n\nCity failed in an initial bid to have Cas halt Uefa's investigation in November last year.\n\nAfter the two-year ban was announced, City said the process that led to it was \"flawed\" and \"prejudicial\" and immediately announced their intention to appeal.\n\nThey alleged they had been the victim of an illegal hack by people who had the express intention of damaging their reputation and that the emails were being used as the basis for reports which were being taken out of context.\n\nCity also believed the CFCB was not independent and ended up being distrustful of it, partly because of the amount of secretive information the club felt was leaked to the media.\n\nCity boss Guardiola had said on Friday that he was \"fully confident about what the club has done\".\n\nUefa could appeal against the decision in the Swiss federal courts. But BBC Sport understands that is not a route Uefa is keen to go down.\n\nIt is unlikely that any such appeal would be heard before the 2020-21 Champions League starts.\n\nThe Premier League could have looked to take action as well if the ban had been upheld because their own FFP rules are similar - but not exactly the same - as Uefa's.\n\nOver the last decade, City have been the dominant force in the English game, but few results have been as important as this one.\n\nAn upheld two-year ban would have been disastrous for the club's finances, their chances of keeping their best players and, above all, their reputation.\n\nInstead, City can breathe a huge sigh of relief, and the uncertainty instead surrounds Uefa and its financial rules.\n\nThe credibility off FFP lies in tatters. After all, how can FFP survive after one of the world's richest clubs, having been found guilty of obstructing a Uefa investigation, a club that was found to have breached the rules in 2014, walk away with just a 10m euros fine?\n\nMany will wonder what kind of deterrent that sets for other clubs, especially clubs with such financial resources. It shows how difficult it has become for governing bodies to enforce the rules.\n\nThe language that Cas uses is important. Uefa noted that Cas found \"insufficient conclusive evidence\" to uphold all of its conclusions, not 'no evidence'. And some allegations were dismissed because they were more than five years old. And, because City were found to have failed to co-operate, this falls short of a full exoneration.\n\nBut City are unlikely to care too much about that and what a story it would be if they can follow this up with a first Champions League success.", "The UK coastguard is coordinating a search-and-rescue operation after several boats of migrants crossing from France were spotted in the Channel.\n\nTwo Border Force vessels, the Dover lifeboat and a Coastguard aircraft are working alongside French authorities.\n\nIt is thought up to 200 migrants tried to cross the Channel on Sunday.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the number of crossings were rising despite the efforts of the UK and France and \"simply cannot be allowed to go on\".\n\nShe announced that the two countries had signed a deal on immigration and border management to establish a joint intelligence unit to \"crack down on the gangs behind this vile people smuggling operation\".\n\nMs Patel was speaking after a visit to Calais to discuss the \"new operational approach\" with the recently appointed French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.\n\nMore than 2,400 people have crossed the English Channel from France in small boats this year.\n\nIt is unclear how many of the 200 who attempted to cross on Sunday made it to England.\n\nThe highest number so far to get to the UK in a single day is 166, at the start of last month.\n\nDuring her meeting with Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin in Calais, Ms Patel was shown how French officials were working to target people smugglers\n\nMs Patel said: \"Despite all of the action taken by law enforcement to date - intercepting the boats, making arrests, returning people to France and putting the criminals responsible behind bars - the numbers continue to increase.\"\n\nOne of Mr Darmanin's first moves in his new role was to order the dismantling of several makeshift camps and move hundreds of migrants out of Calais.\n\nOn Saturday, 21 migrants in three boats were brought back to France - including four in a boat that capsized who were suffering from severe hypothermia.\n\nAnd the Home Office confirmed that six migrants were detained by police in Dover after arriving in a small boat and handed over to immigration officials.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "Opposition parties have criticised the Welsh Government's decision on making masks compulsory on public transport.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives said the rule should come into force from today rather than July 27.\n\nCovid recovery spokesman Darren Millar said: \"The first minister and his cabinet must produce the scientific evidence - if it exists - to justify introducing them two weeks from now, rather than with immediate effect, and why only on public transport.\"\n\nMeanwhile Plaid Cymru wants masks worn in all enclosed spaces.\n\nParty leader Adam Price said: \"In acknowledging that face coverings make a crucial difference on trains, buses and in taxis, the question must be begged of Welsh Government, why not in shops also?\n\nMasks were made compulsory for shoppers in Scotland last Friday Image caption: Masks were made compulsory for shoppers in Scotland last Friday", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ventura County police said there was no indication of foul play\n\nA body found in a lake in the US state of California has been identified as the missing Glee star Naya Rivera, police say.\n\nRivera, 33, went missing on Wednesday after going boating with her four-year-old son at Lake Piru. He was found alone and asleep on the boat.\n\nDivers and teams using sonar equipment found the body earlier on Monday.\n\nRivera is best known for playing the cheerleader Santana Lopez in the hugely popular musical comedy TV series Glee.\n\nAt a news conference on the shore of the lake on Monday, Sheriff Bill Ayub of the Ventura County Sheriff Department said police were \"confident\" the body was that of Rivera.\n\nHe added that there was no indication of foul play or that she took her own life.\n\nRivera's son told police they had gone swimming but she never returned. After a massive search and rescue operation found no trace of Rivera, police moved to a \"search and recovery operation\".\n\nThat included using side-scanning sonar, divers, sniffer dogs, helicopters and remote-operated submarine vehicles equipped with cameras.\n\nSgt Kevin Donoghue, a spokesman for the police department, earlier told the BBC that they were \"putting every available asset and resource\" into the search.\n\nHe added that Rivera's son had seen his mother \"disappear beneath the water\".\n\nHelicopters were used to search the lake in southern California\n\n\"Rest sweet, Naya. What a force you were,\" Rivera's Glee co-star Jane Lynch wrote on Twitter. \"Love and peace to your family.\"\n\nAnother Glee co-star, Josh Sussman, tweeted: \"Naya, you will be missed so much.\"\n\nRivera began her career as a child actress and model, appearing in TV commercials in the US.\n\nAs a four-year-old, she starred in the Royal Family sitcom on CBS and had a number of other TV appearances.\n\nBut it was playing cold-hearted Santana Lopez in Glee, the hugely popular musical comedy TV series, that made her a star.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last footage of Glee star before disappearance\n\nIn 2014, Rivera starred in the horror film At the Devil's Door.\n\nThe same year she married fellow actor Ryan Dorsey - who is the father of her son. When the couple divorced in 2018, they were granted joint custody.", "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus - after previously being criticised for calling the virus a \"little flu\".\n\nMr Bolsonaro says he took the test, his fourth, on Monday after developing symptoms, including a high temperature.\n\nAfter announcing the positive result to the media, Mr Bolsonaro stepped back and removed his mask before continuing to speak.", "Israel has seen a surge in infections since it opened schools and businesses in May Image caption: Israel has seen a surge in infections since it opened schools and businesses in May\n\nIsrael's director of public health has resigned after the country experienced a sharp rise in cases.\n\nSiegal Sadetzki, an epidemiologist, criticised the government's response and said it had lifted lockdown restrictions too quickly.\n\n“The achievements in dealing with the first wave [of infections] were cancelled out by the broad and swift opening of the economy,\" she wrote in a statement.\n\nIsrael imposed a national lockdown in April, and by the following month it had reduced the number of new cases to about 20 a day.\n\nBut it reopened schools and businesses shortly after and the rate of infection rose sharply. The daily number of new cases hit 1,000 last week.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country needed to take “limited actions” to avoid another full lockdown.", "TikTok has said it will quit Hong Kong after China imposed a new security law on the city.\n\n\"In light of recent events, we've decided to stop operations of the TikTok app in Hong Kong,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nThe company's exit from the city will come \"within days,\" according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nFacebook and Twitter said this week they were \"pausing\" co-operation with Hong Kong police over user information.\n\nThe short-form video app was launched by China-based ByteDance for users outside mainland China as part of a strategy to grow its global audience.\n\nTikTok, now run by former Walt Disney executive Kevin Mayer, has said in the past that the app's user data is not stored in China.\n\nThe company has also said previously that it would not comply with any Chinese government requests to censor content or give access to its users' data, nor has it ever been asked to do so.\n\nHowever, the controversial national security law in Hong Kong has given Chinese authorities sweeping new powers, raising concerns about data privacy.\n\nThe legislation punishes what China describes broadly as secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, with up to life in prison.\n\nCritics say it erodes Hong Kong's freedoms as a semi-autonomous region, including freedom of speech.\n\nFacebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google and Telegram have all announced this week that they are also making changes to their operations in Hong Kong after the new security law came into force last week.\n\nThe tech firms have said they are not processing data requests from the Hong Kong police while they assess the ongoing political changes in the city.\n\nTikTok's decision to stop operations in Hong Kong of its popular video app looks unusual - but is strategic.\n\nThe company has struggled to fight off suspicions that it operates under Chinese law, or under the control of Beijing.\n\nWhich is why TikTok has been at pains to try to change its global image - and this move could be one more step towards doing that.\n\nTikTok has also consistently said that if asked, it would never hand over data to Beijing - and that it's never been asked for any user data either.\n\nStaying in Hong Kong, under the new law, may make it difficult for it to keep to that commitment.\n\nIts biggest market is India - where it has recently been banned by the Indian government because of a border conflict with China. Analysts say it could potentially lose up to a billion dollars in lost advertising revenue in India.\n\nWhich is why it is keen to show that it is not simply a Chinese-owned firm - but a global company that is also an international and responsible social media player.\n\nOn Tuesday, Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam defended the national security law imposed by Beijing saying it was not \"doom and gloom\" for the city.\n\nMs Lam said the law would restore Hong Kong's status as one of the safest cities in the world after pro-democracy protests last year often turned violent.\n\n\"Compared with the national security laws of other countries, it is a rather mild law. Its scope is not as broad as that in other countries and even China,\" she said.\n\nThe legislation has been heavily criticised globally for undermining freedoms guaranteed under the \"one country, two systems\" agreed as part of the former British colony's return to Chinese rule in 1997.\n\nAlso on Tuesday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News that the US is \"certainly looking at\" banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok.\n\n\"I don't want to get out in front of the President (Donald Trump), but it's something we're looking at,\" Mr Pompeo said.\n\nIn response to Mr Pompeo's comments, a TikTok spokesperson said: \"TikTok is led by an American CEO, with hundreds of employees and key leaders across safety, security, product, and public policy here in the US.\n\n\"We have no higher priority than promoting a safe and secure app experience for our users. We have never provided user data to the Chinese government, nor would we do so if asked.\"", "Meet the care workers who opted to live at their place of work to protect the residents from Covid-19.\n\nThe 12 carers at the Court House Retirement Home, Cheddar, Somerset, last saw their families on 14 April.", "Hundreds of thousands of homeowners will receive vouchers of up to £5,000 for energy-saving home improvements, with the poorest getting up to £10,000.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is due to set out a £2bn grant scheme in England for projects such as insulation as part of a wider £3bn plan to cut emissions.\n\nThe Treasury said the grants could help to support more than 100,000 jobs.\n\nLabour said renters appeared to be left out and called for a \"broader and bigger\" plan to cut carbon emissions.\n\nIt comes ahead of a summer statement from Mr Sunak on Wednesday, in which he could announce changes to stamp duty and VAT.\n\nBusiness leaders and a former chancellor have called for radical action to bolster the economy, which is still reeling from the impact of coronavirus.\n\nUnder the Green Homes Grant, the government will pay at least two-thirds of the cost of home improvements that save energy, the Treasury said.\n\nFor example, a homeowner of a semi-detached or end-of-terrace house could install cavity wall and floor insulation for about £4,000 - the homeowner would pay £1,320 while the government would contribute £2,680.\n\nThe scheme will launch in September, with online applications for recommended energy efficiency measures, along with details of accredited local suppliers.\n\nOnce one of these suppliers has provided a quote and the work is approved, the voucher is issued.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Business Secretary Alok Sharma added that the poorest households could receive up to £10,000 towards costs, and that double glazing would also be covered by the scheme.\n\nHe continued: \"What [the scheme] ultimately means is lower bills for households, hundreds of pounds off energy bills every year, it's supporting jobs and is very good news for the environment.\"\n\nThe chancellor is rumoured to be planning changes to stamp duty to help the housing market\n\nThe government said about half of the fund - which is due to be spent in one financial year - will go to the poorest homeowners, who will not have to contribute anything to the cost. Better insulation could save some people £600 a year on energy bills, the Treasury said.\n\nMr Sunak said the investment would also help to \"kick-start our economy\" by creating thousands of jobs and providing business for existing skilled workers, as the UK recovers from the economic shock of coronavirus.\n\n\"As Britain recovers from the outbreak, it's vital we do everything in our power to support and protect livelihoods across the nation,\" he said.\n\nThe grants are part of a wider £3bn \"green investment\" package due to be announced in the chancellor's summer statement on Wednesday, to support efforts to rebuild the economy after the pandemic.\n\nThe plan aims to create tens of thousands of new jobs while helping the UK meet its 2050 target of achieving net zero carbon emissions.\n\nIt will involve improving insulation in public buildings such as schools and hospitals and retro-fitting low-carbon heating technology to social housing.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto had pledged £9.2bn for improving the energy efficiency of low income housing and public buildings.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband welcomed the plan but stressed that it was not \"comprehensive\".\n\n\"It appears there is almost nothing for the people who rent the 8.5 million homes in the social rented sector and private rented sector, which has the worst energy efficiency standards. That means one-third of people are left out,\" he said.\n\nThe Treasury says the £3bn investment plan will cut energy bills by an average of £200 for some of the UK's poorest households\n\nMr Miliband said the government needed \"a much broader and bigger-scale strategy\" to meet its target to reduce carbon emissions to net zero, including investing in nature conservation, increasing renewable energy, supporting manufacturers to be greener and improving transport.\n\nMeanwhile, Rosie Rogers, senior political advisor at Greenpeace UK, said the UK still wasn't \"playing in the same league\" as other countries, such as Germany, which is investing €40bn (£36bn) in green jobs and energy efficiency, or France, which pledged €15bn to tackle the climate crisis in June.\n\nThe UK Treasury said the figures are not like-for-like.\n\nAhead of Wednesday's summer statement, former Chancellor Philip Hammond told the BBC's Today programme that Mr Sunak faced an extraordinarily complex challenge in reviving the economy.\n\nHe said Mr Sunak would need to support viable businesses affected by shutdowns, but also help \"a transition\" for businesses that are no longer economically viable.\n\n\"Some businesses will close, some viable businesses will close units,\" he said.\n\nMr Hammond added that \"the other great unknown\" is that \"we don't know what the trajectory of the disease itself is going to be\".\n\nHe said the economy was likely to start to bounce back quickly as restrictions are lifted, but that would tail off, and some parts of the economy such as hospitality, aviation, and entertainment could take years to recover.\n\nMeanwhile Alison Brittain, chief executive of Premier Inn owner Whitbread, said it would be \"enormously helpful\" if Mr Sunak took action to support the hospitality sector on Wednesday.\n\n\"Anything about VAT relief for guests and customers would be great,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Anything on rates relief, still, because the business rates holiday was enormously important for the sector and if we could extend that a bit longer, that would be equally helpful to us.\"", "Joshua Wong became the face of a 2014 protest movement in Hong Kong\n\nHe first rose to prominence as the face of a protest movement that swept Hong Kong in 2014.\n\nBut Joshua Wong wants the world to know he's not gone away. Earlier this month, the pro-democracy activist made a reappearance at the 2019 anti-extradition bill rallies in Hong Kong after an early release from jail.\n\nBut who exactly is this 23-year-old that's become a poster child for political activism?\n\nBorn as a dyslexic child with reading and writing difficulties, Mr Wong overcame these obstacles, with the help of his mother, to enrol in a Political Science and Public Administration degree at an open university.\n\nBut his activism started when he was just 14 - demonstrating against plans to build a high-speed rail link between Hong Kong and the mainland.\n\nTwo years later, he had set up the then pro-democracy student activist group Scholarism, successfully challenged the government and was firmly in the limelight.\n\nIn 2012 he rallied more than 100,000 people to protest against Hong Kong's plans to implement mandatory \"patriotic education\" in schools.\n\nJoshua Wong's political activism started when he was just a young teenager\n\nFaced with the sheer size of the crowds, a few of whom went on hunger strike, then-Chief Executive CY Leung was forced to abandon the idea. It was his first run-in with Mr Wong.\n\nBy 2014 his profile was so high, Joshua Wong held a press conference to announce his university entrance exam results.\n\nMr Wong told reporters the whole event made him \"uncomfortable\".\n\nThough he was only eight months old when Hong Kong's sovereignty was handed to China by the UK, Joshua Wong remains passionate about addressing the strictures Beijing has imposed on his home.\n\nIn late September 2014, Mr Wong led protesters in occupying a forecourt outside government headquarters.\n\nThe next day more than 60 were arrested, among them Mr Wong, who was held for 40 hours. His arrest galvanised the flagging demonstrators and tens of thousands flocked to the area to join the cause.\n\nIt was in 2014 when Joshua Wong really made his name as a pro-democracy activist\n\nIt was these protests - commonly referred to as the Umbrella Movement - that really thrust him into the limelight and cemented his role as a pro-democracy activist.\n\nBut even then Mr Wong questioned his new status as protest leader. In an essay posted on his Facebook page (in Chinese) he wrote: \"Many citizens have said to me that 'Hong Kong relies on you.'\"\n\n\"I feel uncomfortable and even irritated when I hear this praise. When you were suffering pepper spray and tear gas but decided to stay for the protest despite the repression from the government, I was not able to do anything other than stare at a meal box and the blank walls of the detention room and feel powerless.\"\n\nMr Wong was eventually jailed for his role in the Umbrella Movement.\n\nAfter a short stint in prison following a series of appeals, he was released in June this year - in time to join the 2019 protests in Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland China.\n\nJoshua Wong joined the 2019 protests shortly after his release from jail\n\nHe joined thousands of people who hit the streets in protests, saying he was ready to \"join the fight\" against the extradition bill.\n\nBorn into a middle-class family to parents Grace and Roger, Mr Wong has said his family taught him about social injustice but are far from radical.\n\nBut fellow activist Nathan Law, who went on to establish pro-democracy party Demosisto with Mr Wong and others, said there was a rift between Mr Wong and his father.\n\n\"Joshua comes from a very religious family background and is known to be Christian. His father [who is a]... vocal anti LGBT activist... on several occasions he has directly spoken out against his father's position,\" Mr Law told the BBC's Radio 4.\n\n\"But otherwise his father is very supportive of his activism.\"\n\nAccording to Mr Law, who met Mr Wong during the 2014 protests, the latter was mature even from a young age.\n\n\"He was really young [when we met] but I could feel maturity from him and how experienced he [was] in terms of social movements. We always described Joshua as a robot because he [works] from early morning to late [at] night,\" he said.\n\n\"He has unlimited energy and he can always make people feel energetic and hopeful.\"", "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\".", "The owner of the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express is to cut 12% of its workforce as it struggles with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nReach, which also owns the Daily Star, OK! Magazine and a stable of regional newspapers, said about 550 people would lose their jobs.\n\nThe group, whose sales were falling even before the pandemic, saw revenue slip nearly 30% in the quarter to June.\n\n\"To meet these challenges and to accelerate our customer value strategy, we have completed plans to transform the business and are ready to begin the process of implementation,\" he said.\n\n\"Regrettably, these plans involve a reduction in our workforce and we will ensure all impacted colleagues are treated with fairness and respect throughout the forthcoming consultation process.\"\n\nReach, which was created in March 2018 when Trinity Mirror bought the Daily Express and other titles, saw a 13% drop in revenue last year amid a continued decline in print newspaper sales.\n\nHowever, it was also becoming more profitable as it cut costs and attracted more online readers.\n\nThat process now appears to be at risk as advertisers have reined in their spending during the pandemic.\n\nThe firm said adoption of its digital products had increased in the three months to June, with 41 million people visiting its sites during May alone. But digital revenue still fell 14.8%, compounding an almost 30% dive in newspaper sales.\n\nReach said it would now achieve annualised savings of £35m through the job cuts and other means.\n\nBuilding on a plan announced in February, it said it would centralise its editorial operations, bringing together national and regional teams across print and digital to remove duplication.\n\nIt will also bring in a simpler management structure.\n\nReach said it would shortly begin a 45-day consultation regarding the job cuts.\n\nIt is the latest in a long line of companies to have made cuts during the pandemic. Other lay-offs announced include:\n• None Daily Mirror owner changes name to Reach", "Head teachers in England say GCSEs and A-levels will have to be slimmed down for next year's exams, because of the teaching time lost in the lockdown.\n\nA grassroots group of more than 5,000 heads is warning it is \"neither realistic nor workable\" to catch up in full by next summer.\n\nThey are calling for reduced content or to have some \"open book\" exams where students can use text books.\n\nThe exam watchdog Ofqual has suggested removing some practical parts of exams.\n\nWest Sussex head teacher Jules White is the organiser of the Worth Less? campaign group, which originally formed over school funding shortages.\n\nThe network of heads is now raising concerns about trying to run next year's exams with few changes, when many pupils have been out of school for so long and when there is the risk of more disruption from local lockdowns.\n\nThey are also calling for more support for pupils' mental health when they return to school in the autumn.\n\n\"The government must strike a much better balance to maintain standards whilst looking after children's mental health,\" said Mr White, head of Tanbridge House School in Horsham.\n\n\"The idea that pupils will simply 'catch up' on months of lost learning is neither realistic nor workable.\"\n\nHe also said it would be \"highly undesirable\" if the lack of time to complete courses meant \"reducing grade boundaries so low as to become meaningless\".\n\n\"Content for content's sake achieves nothing. Surely it is best that students leave Year 11 with deep knowledge and understanding for the next step in their education,\" said Clive Sentance, head teacher of Alcester Grammar School in Warwickshire.\n\nLast week the Department for Education's guidance for the return to school in the autumn said pupils would be expected to carry on with all the GCSEs and A-levels they had planned.\n\nThe exams regulator Ofqual said there would not be any reduction in the number of exams and suggested only a few changes, such as removing geography field trips or science practicals.\n\nAdditionally, to allow more teaching time, next year's exams are expected to take place later in the summer.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, described the changes as \"little more than tinkering at the edges\".\n\nHe warned that young people had \"lost a huge chunk of face-to-face teaching time\" and said the \"very minor changes\" proposed by Ofqual failed to \"recognise the enormous pressure on schools and their pupils\".\n\nMr White's group of heads, representing schools in 78 local authorities, is calling for a significant reduction in next year's exams, to reduce pressure on schools and stress on students.\n\nAs well as reducing the course content for GCSE and A-level, they also suggest using open-book exams for some subjects, where candidates would have access to text books or other notes during the exam.\n\nOfqual is running a consultation on any changes to next year's exams and says final decisions will be announced in August.", "The UK is imposing sanctions on 49 people and organisations behind the most \"notorious\" human rights abuses of recent years.\n\nIndividuals implicated in the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 will have their UK assets frozen and banned from entering the country.\n\nAnd Saudi Arabian officials involved in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi are also being targeted.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the move sent a \"clear message\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, the foreign secretary said the UK was taking action against the \"thugs of despots and henchmen of dictators\" as well as stopping those trying to launder their \"blood-drenched ill-gotten gains\".\n\nRussia has threatened to retaliate with reciprocal measures and said the sanctions were \"pointless\".\n\n\"Russia reserves the right to respond to today's unfriendly decision by the UK on the basis of reciprocity,\" the Russian embassy in London said in a statement, adding that the move \"will not improve Russian-British relations\".\n\nThe sanctions are the first taken independently by the UK outside the auspices of the UN and EU.\n\nThose individuals and organisations subject to immediate sanctions are:\n\nMr Raab said those targeted had been involved in extra-judicial killings, including political assassinations, torture, degrading treatment, forced labour and servitude.\n\nThose on the list, which includes a former minister in the Russian interior department and the former deputy head of the Saudi intelligence services, will be stopped from entering the UK, channelling money into the country or profiting from the British economy, through property or other assets they own.\n\n\"Today this government and this house sends a very clear message on behalf of the British people that those with blood on their hands, the thugs of despots, the henchman of dictators will not be free to waltz into this country,\" Mr Raab told Parliament.\n\n\"The powers enable us to target a wider network of perpetrators including those who facilitate, incite, promote or support any of these crimes and this extends beyond state officials to non-state actors as well.\"\n\nThe UK's new sanctions' regime is significant. It marks the first time Britain has had its own independent scheme focused entirely on tackling human rights abuses.\n\nUntil now, it has almost always had to act in concert with the EU. The government wants the UK to be seen as a leading defender of international rules and human rights. These sanctions are a central part of that policy.\n\nOne key test will be whether it can get support from other countries. The United States and Canada have similar schemes, the EU is working on its own version. Sanctions are always more powerful if imposed collectively.\n\nWhat was announced today was merely the first wave of UK sanctions. More are to come and MPs are keen to see some Chinese names on the list.\n\nThe sanctions may well come at a cost to trade and investment if countries object to seeing their nationals targeted.\n\nWhat is also unclear is how effective they will be in actually deterring human rights abuses. Many of those 47 individuals and two organisations named in the first listing are already subject to US sanctions.\n\nWe don't know what assets they actually have in London or how often they have come to the UK. But London is a hub of international travel and finance, and officials hope the restrictions will have an impact in the long term.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC the list would be kept under \"constant review\", and the government was \"working already on the on further designations that can be made in due course\".\n\nAsked about if it could damage the UK's trading relationship with Saudi Arabia, the foreign secretary said it was \"a matter of moral duty\", adding: \"We can't turn a blind eye to gross violations of human rights.\n\n\"We will apply these designations in the countries which we've designated today… for countries where we have a relationship, whether it's an ally or other countries that we need to engage with, because that's the world we live in.\"\n\nBut asked if he was avoiding another clash with China by excluding them for the list, Mr Raab said: \"It's pretty clear… that we are willing to stand up for our vital national interests. But the regime that we have set out is evidence based.\n\n\"If we want a positive relationship with China… the real issue here is one of trust and whether China can be trusted to live up to its international obligations, and its international responsibilities.\n\n\"And that's a message that we're telegraphing, along with many of our allies and indeed, many international partners around the world to Beijing, particularly in relation to what we've seen in Hong Kong.\"\n\nMagnitsky's widow and mother took up the human rights case initially filed by him in Strasbourg\n\nMany MPs have long been pushing for a tougher domestic sanctions regime against foreign states accused of human rights abuses, based on the 2013 US Magnitsky Act.\n\nMagnitsky, a Moscow lawyer and auditor, died in police custody after accusing Russian tax officials of defrauding Hermitage Capital Management, a British investment firm he was advising.\n\nMagnitsky spent 11 months in police custody, during which he sustained injuries which human rights campaigners say were consistent with him being beaten and tortured.\n\nHis maltreatment has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights, which found in 2019 that he had been deprived of important medical care and the authorities had not complied with their duty to protect life.\n\nRussian officials subject to sanctions include Aleksey Vasilyevich Anichin, a former interior minister and Oleg Silchenko, a member of the ministry's investigative team who was involved in questioning Magnitsky and who is accused of forced him to retract his allegations of corruption.\n\nMr Raab said he would be meeting Magnitsky's widow Natalia and two children later on Monday to express the UK's \"solidarity\" with them and the nightmare they had been through.\n\nBill Browder, co-founder and chief executive of Hermitage Capital, said the action represented \"a huge milestone in our 10 year campaign for justice\".\n\nSaudi officials involved in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi are among those targeted\n\nMr Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government, was killed by a team of Saudi agents in what the Saudi authorities described as a \"rogue operation\" that went wrong.\n\nIn December 2019, a court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death and jailed three others but the process was condemned by foreign governments and the UN, which said it represented \"the antithesis of justice\".\n\nAmong those targeted by the UK, include Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Al Asiri, a former deputy head of the Saudi intelligence services and Saud Abdullah Al Qahtani, a former advisor to Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud, who is said to have \"planned and directed the killing\".\n\nAlso on the list is Salah Muhammed Al Tubaigy, a government doctor present at the time of the killing and a number of intelligence officers also present in Istanbul said to have concealed evidence about the killing.\n\nLabour, which has been critical of the UK's relationship with Saudi Arabia, particularly in relation to the war in Yemen, said it welcomed action against those responsible for the \"appalling\" murder.\n\nThe UK is also taking action against two senior generals in the Myanmar army, over the state's suppression of the minority Muslim Rohingya population in Rakhine state, a campaign of violence in 2017 and 2019 that campaigners have said amounts to attempted genocide.\n\nThey are Min Aung Hlaing, Commander in Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces and his deputy Soe Win, who the UK says carry ultimate responsibility for unlawful killings, torture, forced labour and systematic rape.\n\nThe North Korea organisations targeted are the Ministry of State Security Bureau 7 and the Ministry of People's Security Correctional Bureau, which have responsibility for running prison camps.\n\nThe Foreign Office said its new sanctions regime, underpinned by legislation passed in 2018, could be extended in future to encompass individuals and governments guilty of corruption.\n\nThe UK is required by law to enforce existing EU sanctions it is a party to until the end of the transition period on 1 January 2021. The government has said it will maintain these after that date and also existing UN sanctions.", "FBI Director Christopher Wray, pictured in February, described a wide-ranging campaign by the Chinese government to disrupt US life\n\nThe director of the FBI has said that acts of espionage and theft by China's government pose the \"greatest long-term threat\" to the future of the US.\n\nSpeaking to the Hudson Institute in Washington, Christopher Wray described a multi-pronged disruption campaign.\n\nHe said China had begun targeting Chinese nationals living abroad, coercing their return, and was working to compromise US coronavirus research.\n\n\"The stakes could not be higher,\" Mr Wray said.\n\n\"China is engaged in a whole-of-state effort to become the world's only superpower by any means necessary,\" he added.\n\nIn a nearly hour-long speech on Tuesday, the FBI director outlined a stark picture of Chinese interference, a far-reaching campaign of economic espionage, data and monetary theft and illegal political activities, using bribery and blackmail to influence US policy.\n\n\"We've now reached a point where the FBI is now opening a new China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours,\" Mr Wray said. \"Of the nearly 5,000 active counterintelligence cases currently under way across the country, almost half are related to China.\"\n\nThe FBI director mentioned a programme called \"Fox Hunt\", which he said President Xi Jinping had \"spearheaded\" and he said was geared at Chinese nationals living abroad seen as threats to the Chinese government.\n\n\"We're talking about political rivals, dissidents, and critics seeking to expose China's extensive human rights violations,\" he said. \"The Chinese government wants to force them to return to China, and China's tactics to accomplish that are shocking.\"\n\nHe continued: \"When it couldn't locate one Fox Hunt target, the Chinese government sent an emissary to visit the target's family here in the United States. The message they said to pass on? The target had two options: return to China promptly, or commit suicide.\"\n\nThe programme was originally begun in 2015 to target people accused of corruption and has reportedly led to the capture of thousands of fugitives.\n\nHowever, reports of extraordinary rendition of political opponents by Beijing have multiplied in recent years, starting with Gui Minhai, one of a group of Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared in 2015 and resurfaced in Chinese custody. Unlike the others, Mr Gui disappeared abroad - in Thailand - rather than from Hong Kong itself.\n\nChina is fast becoming a new kind of threat to the West, not so much because of its growing military capabilities - though that is a factor - but because in economic and technical terms it is already a peer competitor of the United States, and a peer competitor in a very different kind of world.\n\nNineteenth Century great powers competed more or less on equal terms but operated in a far less integrated international system. In the second half of the 20th Century, the Soviet Union was a peer military competitor of the United States, but with a relatively weak economy largely isolated from the wider international system.\n\nChina, however, has huge and growing economic muscle. It shares much of the same economic space with the West and its dominance of crucial supply chains - think medical PPE for example - only enhances its power.\n\nThe level of integration of today's globalised world and the importance of data and information only act as force multipliers for Beijing's overt and covert global reach.\n\nIn the unusual address, Mr Wray asked Chinese-born people living in the US to contact the FBI if Chinese officials target them seeking their return.\n\nThe Chinese government has defended this programme in the past, saying it is part of a legitimate anti-corruption effort.\n\nThe threat posed by China will be further addressed by the US attorney general and secretary of state in coming weeks, Mr Wray said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liu Xiaoming: China is not the enemy of the US\n\nThe address comes amid heightened tensions between the US and China.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been highly critical of China amid the coronavirus outbreak, repeatedly blaming the country for the global pandemic. In another move, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this week that the administration was looking at banning Chinese apps - including the hugely popular TikTok.\n\nThe apps \"serve as appendages of the Chinese Communist Party's surveillance state\", he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: 'It's not going to be easy... but it needs to be done'\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spoken to young leaders about equal rights - with Harry saying the wrongs of the past need to be acknowledged.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan dialled into the Queen's Commonwealth Trust weekly video call, which focused on responding to the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nHarry, president of the QCT, told them: \"There is no turning back now, everything is coming to a head.\"\n\nHis wife Meghan added that equality is a fundamental human right.\n\nThe duchess, vice president of QCT, said on the call: \"We're going to have to be a little uncomfortable right now, because it's only in pushing through that discomfort that we get to the other side of this and find the place where a high tide raises all ships.\n\n\"Equality does not put anyone on the back foot, it puts us all on the same footing - which is a fundamental human right.\"\n\nThe couple, speaking from their Los Angeles home, said they had discussed the issues many times in the past weeks.\n\nThe call took place last week but details about it have just been released\n\nThe duke said on the 1 July call: \"When you look across the Commonwealth, there is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past.\n\n\"So many people have done such an incredible job of acknowledging the past and trying to right those wrongs, but I think we all acknowledge there is so much more still to do.\n\n\"It's not going to be easy and in some cases it's not going to be comfortable, but it needs to be done, because, guess what, everybody benefits.\"\n\nHe added that \"all of us have been educated to see the world differently\" but that it was important to acknowledge unconscious bias exists and then \"do the work to become more aware\".\n\nOn the call, they joined Chrisann Jarrett, co-founder of We Belong, which is led by young people who migrated to the UK; Alicia Wallace, director of Equality Bahamas; Mike Omoniyi, founder of The Common Sense Network, and Abdullahi Alim, who leads the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers.\n\nPrince Harry joked he was \"ageing\", as a 35-year-old - prompting his wife to retort \"that's not ageing!\" - but that he felt optimistic about change when speaking to the young people.\n\n\"This change is needed and it's coming,\" he said. \"The optimism and the hope that we get is from listening and speaking to people like you, because there is no turning back now, everything is coming to a head.\n\n\"Solutions exist and change is happening far quicker than it ever has done before.\"\n\nQCT has been running weekly discussions with young people, looking at different forms of injustice.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan kept their roles with the trust after stepping down as senior working royals earlier this year. As part of that move, he stepped down from his position as Commonwealth Youth Ambassador.", "Tom Meighan's departure from the band was announced on Monday\n\nFormer Kasabian singer Tom Meighan has admitted assaulting his ex-fiancee.\n\nHe pleaded guilty at Leicester Magistrates' Court to attacking Vikki Ager while drunk on 9 April.\n\nMs Ager hit her head on a hamster cage after being thrown across a room. The musician also grabbed her leg and hit her on the head, the court heard.\n\nKasabian said they were \"left with no choice but to ask Tom to leave the band\", adding there is \"no way we can condone his assault conviction\".\n\nA child witnessed the \"sustained assault\", the court was told, and contacted 999 to report that a \"domestic incident was taking place\".\n\nMeighan was given an 18-month community order and told to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nHe will also be required to complete five days of rehabilitation, and was ordered to pay a £90 victim surcharge and £85 in prosecution costs.\n\nOn Monday, the group announced Meighan had stepped down from the band in order to deal with \"personal issues\".\n\nMagistrates heard after Meighan \"threw the victim across the room in a rage\" and Ms Ager was struck on the head, he threatened to hit her with a wooden pallet before he \"thought better of it, thankfully, and threw it down on the hot tub aggressively\".\n\nThe court was told Meighan \"smelt heavily of intoxicants\" as he assaulted her.\n\nProsecutor Naeem Valli said the attack had left Ms Ager with bruises to her knees, elbow, ankle and \"a reddening around her neck\".\n\nMeighan, pictured in 2018 at the Isle of Wight Festival, had been in the band for 23 years\n\nMeighan, of Narborough, originally denied an assault had taken place, but after watching video footage he told police he could not watch it any further because it was \"horrible\".\n\nMr Valli told the court the child \"sounded panicked and afraid\" while making the call and the victim could be heard saying \"get off me, get off me\".\n\nHe added officers described Ms Ager as being \"visibly upset\" while Meighan was said to be acting \"aggressive\" and was unwilling to co-operate.\n\nAs CCTV of the attack was shown in court, Meighan wiped his eyes with a tissue and held his head in his hands.\n\nDefending, Michelle Heeley QC said Meighan felt \"deep remorse\" and a sense of \"personal humiliation - but he has nobody but himself to blame\".\n\nShe added he had faced a \"battle with alcohol\" and that \"to lose the opportunity to perform with the band he loves and people he loves is a huge personal loss\".\n\nSentencing, district judge Nick Watson said: \"I need to take account of the fact that not only did you hurt Ms Ager, you also let down many people - band members and those who love your music.\n\n\"They will be shocked about what you did that night.\n\n\"Ms Ager has not made a statement to police and does not appear to support this prosecution.\n\n\"Of course, that choice does not mean I should treat this offence any less seriously.\"\n\nIn a statement after the court hearing Kasabian said: \"No-one in the band wanted this to happen. We have all worked so hard for the past 23 years and had big plans for our future together. We're completely heartbroken.\n\n\"As soon as we found out about the charges made against Tom, we as a band made the decision that we could no longer work with him.\"\n\nThey added: \"Ultimately, as much as Tom hurt us all, we're not the victims in all of this. Domestic violence is something that can never be excused.\"\n\nKasabian formed in 1997 and reached the UK charts with their third single Club Foot in 2004. Major success came with albums Empire in 2006 and West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 2009, which featured a string of hits including Underdog and Fire.\n\nMeighan's departure leaves guitarist Serge Pizzorno and bassist Chris Edwards as the only remaining founding members.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government faces a post-lockdown choice between green growth or propping up polluting industries\n\nThe UK must avoid lurching from the coronavirus crisis into a deeper climate crisis, the government’s advisers have warned.\n\nThey recommend that ministers ensure funds earmarked for a post-Covid-19 economic recovery go to firms that will reduce carbon emissions.\n\nThey say the public should work from home if possible; and to walk or cycle.\n\nAnd investment should prioritise broadband over road-building, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says.\n\nPeople should also be encouraged to save emissions by continuing to consult GPs online.\n\nThe government will reply later, although the Energy Secretary Alok Sharma has already spoken in favour of a green recovery to the recession.\n\nIn a letter to the Prime Minister, the committee says jobless people should be re-trained for work in geographically-spread labour-intensive “green” industries such as home insulation; tree-planting; and peatland restoration.\n\nRoad building should have a lower priority than broadband, the report says\n\nIt makes a veiled reference to the current discussions over a potential government bailout to save jobs in aviation, which is struggling in the crisis.\n\nThe letter says: “Many sectors of the UK economy do not currently bear the full costs of emitting greenhouse gases. Revenue could be raised by setting or raising carbon prices for these sectors.”\n\nGreen groups say any bailout should include a condition that the industry shrinks until it finds a technological solution to its carbon emissions.\n\nThe letter also tackles broader social themes of fairness and risk.\n\nIt says the Covid-19 crisis has highlighted inequalities, with poorer people more in danger.\n\nThe committee notes: “The response to the pandemic has disproportionately affected the same lower-income groups and younger people - who face the largest long-term impacts of climate change.\n\n“The benefits of acting on climate change must be shared widely, and the costs must not burden those who are least able to pay or whose livelihoods are most at risk as the economy changes.\n\n“It is important that the lost or threatened jobs of today should be replaced by those created by the new, resilient economy.”\n\nThe committee says the government must produce policies that allow the UK to reduce emissions to Net Zero in an orderly way – unlike the chaos of the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nThe CCC Chairman, Lord Deben, said: “The Covid-19 crisis has shown the importance of planning well for the risks the country faces.\n\n“Recovery means investing in new jobs, cleaner air and improved health. The actions needed to tackle climate change are central to rebuilding our economy.\n\n“The government must prioritise actions that reduce climate risks and avoid measures that lock-in higher emissions.”\n\nThe message is not uncontested. Some politicians have argued that jobs must be protected at all cost in the recovery from the Covid-19 recession.\n\nThe UK will chair a vital global climate conference next year. Lord Deben said the UK should set a global example by planning a climate-friendly recovery from Covid-19.\n\nThe committee has copied the letter to the leaders of Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland. It will expand on its advice in June.\n\nThe Green MP Caroline Lucas says the government should harness the lessons from the Covid-19 crisis to create a better society overall.\n\nShe says ministers should force firms to show how they will meet CO2 cuts, and give people a right to locally-produced food; affordable clean energy; and access to green space.\n\nThe environment consultancy EPR says ministers should change the balance of the planning process to ensure that green space is a top priority rather than a nice-to-have.", "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has come under criticism for his response to coronavirus, most recently for attending an anti-lockdown rally where he was seen coughing without covering his mouth.\n\nThe BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus in Brazil.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has been accused of trying to shift the blame for coronavirus deaths onto care homes.\n\nThe prime minister said on Monday that \"too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures\".\n\nHis words sparked fury in the care home sector, with one charity boss calling them \"clumsy and cowardly\".\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock said care homes had done \"amazing work\" during the crisis and rejected Labour calls to apologise for the PM's remark.\n\n\"The PM was explaining that because asymptomatic transmission was not known about, the correct procedures were therefore not known,\" Mr Hancock said in the House of Commons.\n\nHe said the government had been been \"constantly learning about this virus from the start and improving procedures all the way through\".\n\nAppearing in the House of Lords, Communities Minister Lord Greenhalgh admitted that the guidance given to care homes during the early stages of the pandemic was \"not as clear as it could have been\".\n\nAnd a No 10 spokesman said the PM would not be apologising for his remarks, and said the government had \"put in place rigorous testing and additional funding\".\n\nBut Mark Adams, who runs the charity Community Integrated Care, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the prime minister's comments were \"cowardly\" and a \"travesty of leadership\".\n\nHe added: \"If this is genuinely his view, I think we're almost entering a Kafkaesque alternative reality where the government sets the rules, we follow them, they don't like the results, they then deny setting the rules and blame the people that were trying to do their best.\"\n\nNearly 20,000 people are confirmed to have died of coronavirus in care homes in England and Wales since the beginning of the outbreak.\n\nThe National Care Forum said Mr Johnson's remarks were \"frankly hugely insulting\" to care workers.\n\nVic Rayner, executive director of the forum which represents 120 social care charities, told BBC Newsnight that care homes followed the guidance \"to the letter\" but the government's attention was focused on hospitals.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth urged the government to apologise for the prime minister's \"crass remarks\".\n\n\"Care providers were sent conflicting guidance throughout this outbreak, staff could not access testing until mid-April and are still not tested routinely, PPE supplies have been inadequate, thousands of families have lost their loved ones in care homes to this disease, care workers themselves have died on the front line,\" he said during an urgent question to Mr Hancock in the Commons.\n\n\"Can he understand why people are so insulted by the PM's remarks when he said too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures?\"\n\nBehind the scenes in the government, there is a frustration the care sector has escaped largely blame free from the crisis.\n\nCare homes are not government-run. On the whole they are owned and operated by private firms.\n\nAs you would expert in a network of more than 14,000 homes there is a variation in performances and practices.\n\nNot all care homes have seen outbreaks - and that, of course, means questions should be asked. But the sector is right to complain that guidance, certainly at the start, was changing all the time.\n\nThe big national effort on PPE was focused on the NHS, leaving some homes severely lacking in equipment as their supply chains dried up or could not cope.\n\nThe roll-out of testing was slow - it is only now that residents and staff are to get regular testing, vital if those who are infected but don't show symptoms are to be spotted.\n\nThis virus is very tricky to contain and the UK is not alone in struggling to protect care homes.\n\nBut no debate would be complete without mention of funding.\n\nThe overhaul of the system has been talked about for years, but nothing has been done, leaving some services in a precarious position. The virus has certainly exploited that.\n\nIt comes as the Care England, the largest body representing independent care homes, accused the government of dragging its feet over issuing new guidance for visitors to care homes.\n\nChief executive Martin Green said: \"We are at a loss to know why the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is incapable of making swift decisions at a time of crisis.\n\n\"As the country unlocks, care providers are in the dark as to what is permissible in terms of visitors to their residents, or indeed residents leaving their homes on visits.\n\n\"This should have been a priority for the DHSC given that care homes are central to fighting this dreadful pandemic\".\n\nImelda Redmond - the national director of Healthwatch England which champions health and social care users - told BBC Radio 4 that \"the issues that underlie all of this have been there for a long time\".\n\n\"There has been underinvestment in social care for many years - and there needs to be quite significant amounts of reform - all those fault lines have been laid bare in this pandemic.\n\n\"We need to get a grip to this before we enter winter and perhaps a second wave.\"\n\nNHS England head Sir Simon Stevens told the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday that coronavirus had shone a \"very harsh spotlight\" on the \"resilience\" of the care system.\n\nAsked on Monday about Sir Simon's comments, Mr Johnson said: \"One of the things the crisis has shown is we need to think about how we organise our social care package better and how we make sure we look after people better who are in social care.\n\n\"We discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they could have but we're learning lessons the whole time.\"\n\nAhead of December's election, the Conservatives pledged an extra £1bn per year for social care in England over the next five years.\n\nThe government has given an extra £3.2bn in emergency Covid-19 funds to English councils, which can be put towards helping with social care costs.\n\nMinisters have also promised an additional £600m for care homes to help with controlling infections.\n\nHow do you think care homes have handled the coronavirus crisis? 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.", "Dan Williams now tries to book taxis an hour in advance because of the problems he has experienced\n\nDan Williams says he and his guide dog Zodiac have been refused rides by taxi drivers more than 100 times.\n\nThe 28-year-old businessman from Cardiff, who is blind, claims Uber drivers have left him standing when they see his dog.\n\nHe says it is \"horrible discrimination\" and plans to mount a legal challenge against the firm.\n\nUber said: \"It is totally unacceptable for drivers to refuse to take a guide dog and we investigate every report.\"\n\nMr Williams' and other taxi passengers' experiences are due to be highlighted on BBC programme Rip Off Britain on Tuesday.\n\nHe says he has taken to speaking to drivers when booking a cab so they know he has the black Labrador retriever travelling with him.\n\nHowever, he says he often has to try several before he finds a driver who will take him and his dog.\n\nSometimes cabbies drive off when they see his dog, while others tell him they are allergic to dog hair and refuse to carry the pair.\n\nMr Williams has retinitis pigmentosa which causes gradual deterioration in sight.\n\nHe has been able to see when drivers leave him standing and he says he has a copy of the unfulfilled bookings recorded in his Uber account.\n\n\"It makes you feel like a second-class citizen,\" he says.\n\n\"It shouldn't be happening in the 21st Century.\"\n\nMr Williams is planning to take legal action under the Equality Act\n\nHe likes Uber's app because he can book and pay for a taxi in one go when he is travelling around the UK.\n\nHis firm helps companies to be more inclusive and accessible to people with a visual impairment.\n\nMr Williams has now taken to trying to book a taxi about an hour before he needs it due to the problems he encounters.\n\n\"I've been late a number of times,\" he says.\n\nHe believes drivers turn him away because they are concerned about getting dog hair in their vehicles, although some may have a genuine allergy.\n\nThe Royal National Institute of Blind People has published its own guidance about how people can challenge discrimination by taxi drivers via a local authority.\n\nMr Williams and his lawyer Chris Fry told BBC Radio 4 programme In Touch they were taking legal action against Uber under the Equality Act because the issue was happening frequently.\n\nBut they are first awaiting a Supreme Court decision following a separate legal hearing that will decide whether Uber drivers are employees as it will affect how their case will proceed.\n\nThis 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\" for not social distancing\n\nUber told In Touch: \"It is totally unacceptable for drivers to refuse to take a guide dog and we investigate every report.\n\n\"Licensed private hire drivers must carry service animals in their vehicle.\n\n\"We highlight this obligation to all drivers before they start using the Uber app and often send reminders.\n\n\"Any driver who's found to have refused to take a service animal will permanently lose access to the app.\"\n\nRip Off Britain is on BBC One Wales on Tuesday at 10:00 BST and then iPlayer afterwards\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicole Pavier says an eating disorder still \"plagues\" her life. A former England gymnast, she says she was weighed every day during her career.\n\nPavier, 24, told BBC Sport how she developed bulimia when she was 14 and that she retired three years later after becoming \"a shell of a person\".\n\nShe is one of several gymnasts to speak to BBC Sport about what they called a \"culture of fear\" within the \"mentally and emotionally abusive\" sport of gymnastics.\n\nBritish Gymnastics has announced an independent review will take place following allegations of mistreatment from a number of athletes in recent days.\n\n\"It is clear that gymnasts did not feel they could raise their concerns to British Gymnastics and it is vital that an independent review helps us better understand why so we can remove any barriers as quickly as possible,\" said chief executive Jane Allen.\n\nPavier said she became \"terrified\" she would put on weight, and would find \"mechanisms\" to try to prevent her from doing so.\n\n\"Being an adult now, you really realise how much it has affected you, from the eating disorders, the chronic pain, waking up having nightmares every night, never feeling good enough,\" Pavier said.\n\n\"It has such a long-term implication.\"\n\nShe alleges gymnasts were weighed twice a day sometimes, and claims her coach, Claire Barbieri, would \"discuss people's weights in front of the whole group\" and display their weights on a whiteboard.\n\nBarbieri told BBC Sport she has \"never, to date, ever had any formal complaint raised against me by a gymnast\".\n\n\"I acknowledge that the regime for training elite gymnasts can at times be a tough one,\" she said in a statement. \"However, throughout my career I have followed British Gymnastics best practice and I continue to treat the welfare of the gymnasts I coach as my top priority.\"\n\nShe added: \"In line with standard practice at the time, the club had a system of weighing and measuring the elite gymnasts daily. Following advice from the GB medical team this was reduced to twice a week.\n\n\"I am fully aware of the risks of eating disorders amongst gymnasts and ensured that professional advice was obtained and followed where potential issues had been flagged.\n\n\"Although a whiteboard was used initially, I acknowledged some gymnasts' concerns with this and changed the practice - introducing a system where the gymnasts had more privacy and kept their own records.\"\n\nBritish Gymnastics' independent review will be conducted by Jane Mulcahy QC.\n\nAllen said: \"The behaviours we have heard about in recent days are completely contrary to our standards of safe coaching and have no place in our sport. The British Gymnastics integrity unit is set up to investigate all allegations when reported or identified by our national network of club and regional welfare officers.\n\n\"There is nothing more important for British Gymnastics than the welfare of our gymnasts at every level of our sport and we will continually strive to create a culture where people feel they can raise any concerns that they may have.\"\n\nPavier says she was 21 when she gained control of her eating disorder, but admits she is still \"picking up the pieces\".\n\n\"I still hate the way I look, I still feel like I'm overweight, I still wake up and don't want to eat breakfast some days or won't eat anything,\" she says.\n\n\"There is no day where I'll wake up and look in the mirror and be happy with what I see.\"\n\nAthletes 'sat on and made to sit in cupboards'\n\nBBC Sport also heard testimonies from several other gymnasts - at all levels of the sport, who had several different coaches and trained at several different clubs - as well as some parents.\n\nFrom their testimonies, BBC Sport has learned how some gymnasts were allegedly:\n• None Made to sit in store cupboards if they cried or refused to perform a skill in training;\n• None Hit by one coach on the legs with a wooden stick;\n• None Sat on if they were not fully on the ground while performing the splits.\n\nIt was claimed one coach made their gymnasts do three hours of conditioning after seeing some of them eating chips.\n\nAnother coach is said to have made theirs line up and watch as they ordered cleaners to search through bins to find discarded snack wrappers.\n\nOther gymnasts also said they trained through injuries. A parent told BBC Sport her daughter broke her wrist during training. As soon as her daughter was out of a splint, she says she was made to use the wrist in moves, once causing her so much pain she vomited.\n\nOne gymnast says she broke a rib in training but chose not tell her coach, with the injury eventually causing a punctured lung that prevented her competing and training for a year.\n\nMany of the gymnasts BBC Sport spoke to say they still suffer psychological effects, including anxiety and depression, for which some remain on medication and others are receiving therapy.\n\nOne says she continues to have night terrors, years after retiring, while a parent told of young gymnasts she knew of whose hair had fallen out because of the stress they felt.\n\nCoaches would frequently \"scream\" at gymnasts and their parents, with one parent saying they had been \"groomed\" as well as their children, who they knew would be \"punished\" if training methods were not accepted.\n\nMany of the athletes spoken to said they would not want any children they may have in the future to do gymnastics.\n\nBritish Gymnastics declined to comment on any individual cases but told BBC Sport in a statement: \"British Gymnastics condemns any behaviour which is harmful to the wellbeing of our gymnasts. Such behaviours are completely contrary to our standards of safe coaching.\n\n\"Our integrity unit investigates all allegations reported to us or identified by our national network of club welfare officers and takes disciplinary action to prevent recurrence.\n\n\"We have worked particularly hard in recent years to ensure that our athlete and coaching culture is transparent, fair and inclusive.\n\n\"British Gymnastics is reaching out to any gymnast, either current or past, that has concerns around specific incidents or behaviours and encourages them to contact our integrity unit.\"\n\n'We want to show support'\n\nLast week, British former gymnast Jennifer Pinches, who competed at the London 2012 Olympics, reached out to fellow gymnasts on social media.\n\n\"We wanted to come together and just show our support for anyone that has been mistreated,\" the 26-year-old told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's about gymnasts and a support network coming together.\n\n\"Unfortunately, certain types of behaviour have become a bit normalised in gymnastics, unacceptable behaviour - and it's not just Britain, it's across the world.\n\n\"There's a better way, we know that, so we want to take a stand against any kind of damaging behaviour and support those who have experienced mistreatment. We want a safe happy and healthy environment for gymnasts.\"", "Kerem Koseoglu was 2,500 miles away from his daughter Ayla when lockdown was imposed\n\nA Turkish man has had an emotional reunion with his Scottish wife and severely disabled daughter more than three months after they were separated by the lockdown.\n\nKerem Koseoglu was in Turkey when travel restrictions were imposed in March.\n\nHe returned to Scotland two weeks ago but had to spend 14 days quarantined in the family home.\n\nHe has now finally been able to hug his daughter and wife.\n\nKerem normally divides his time between Turkey and Sauchie in Clackmannanshire. But when lockdown struck, he was unable to return to the UK from Turkey.\n\nHis wife Caroline Johnstone spent lockdown looking after their daughter, eight-year-old Ayla, who has health issues which make her exceptionally vulnerable to Covid-19.\n\nAyla has Edwards' Syndrome and a weakened immune system. She also suffers from seizures, skeletal issues, gastrointestinal problems and breathing difficulties.\n\nThe moment father and daughter were reunited after three months and a two-week quarantine period\n\nAfter three months, Kerem managed to fly back to the UK two weeks ago and was one of thousands who had to go straight into quarantine for 14 days, in line with government rules.\n\nOn Saturday, husband, wife and daughter were reunited.\n\nKerem was overjoyed. He said: \"It was a great feeling, so nice to have her after such a long time.\n\n\"I couldn't get close to her and I was distant with a mask on to say hello for two weeks.\n\nKerem Koseoglu had not been with his daughter Ayla for more than three months\n\n\"But she is so happy and I am so happy to see her now and to give her a cuddle.\n\n\"It was very strange but obviously because of the situation I have to look after them and Ayla's life is very important. I was patient and I managed two weeks and eventually I get the cuddles and hugs from them. It is a great feeling.\"\n\nShowing what the living arrangements were for the past two weeks, Kerem's wife Caroline opens the door on one room, with a bed, a makeshift desk and some tea and coffee-making facilities.\n\nShe said: \"We were basically sanitising everything because you don't know. You can't see the virus. I was running about like a headless chicken, doing all the things I do for Ayla then thinking, oh my goodness I've not fed him yet!\"\n\nKerem lived in the spare room for two weeks and stayed away from his wife and vulnerable daughter\n\nKerem was one of thousands of people who have arrived in Scotland since the quarantine was introduced. He flew to Stansted airport, gave his details and told authorities where he was going and travelled north.\n\nBut since then he has not heard from the authorities and no-one checked to see if he was following the rules.\n\nHe said: \"I was expecting a phone call. My phone was not working very well but I didn't hear from anyone.\"\n\nCaroline saw it as a missed opportunity to ensure no-one was bringing the virus back into Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"As a society, I think we have got a responsibility to make sure we follow the rules.\n\n\"However, I don't know that everyone takes it as seriously as we do. We have a child who has life-limiting conditions so we understand very well what the risks are.\"\n\nCaroline Johnstone would like to see checks that people are sticking to the quarantine rules\n\nCaroline is also delighted to have another pair of hands to help with their daughter.\n\nShe said: \"For four months she has been in a bubble in the house. We have played with all the toys, we have watched all the YouTube videos. It is getting more difficult to entertain her.\n\n\"Now the buck stops between us, and that's a good feeling.\"\n\nAnd Kerem wants to make sure he will be able to return to Scotland before he goes back to Turkey.\n\nHe said: \"I am scared to go back now in case there is a lockdown again.\"\n• None 'I won't be able to cuddle my daughter'", "TikTok has deleted a collection of videos found by the BBC to be using a \"sickening\" anti-Semitic song that gained more than 6.5 million views.\n\nThe song surfaced on the app on Sunday and includes the lyrics: \"We're going on a trip to a place called Auschwitz, it's shower time.\"\n\nThe first video to use the song showed a giant robot scorpion with a swastika attacking and killing people.\n\nTikTok's algorithm ensured that video alone got more than six million views.\n\nOther videos that made further use of the song accounted for the additional half a million views.\n\nAuschwitz was a Nazi death camp in a German-annexed part of Poland where more than a million people died during World War Two, many of them in gas chambers after being told they were going to take a communal shower.\n\nNearly 100 users chose the song for their own videos. One showed a character from the computer game Roblox that looks like Hitler.\n\nThe first video that sparked the viral meme gained hundreds of thousands of likes\n\nAnother used a clip of a shooter game where people are killed by green gas canisters.\n\nOther videos used imagery from films or television documentaries about the Holocaust.\n\nOne video used a Hitler lookalike character from the video game Roblox\n\nThe collection of videos attracted the large audience in less than three days before they were removed.\n\n\"It was incredibly distressing to watch this sickening TikTok video aimed at children, showing a swastika-bearing robot grabbing and incinerating Jews, as the music poked fun at Jewish men, women and children being killed with poison gas at Auschwitz,\" said Stephen Silverman, director of investigations and enforcement for the Campaign Against Antisemitism.\n\n\"TikTok has a particular obligation to tackle this content fast because it specialises in delivering viral videos to children and young adults when they are most impressionable, and yet our research has shown that TikTok has become one of the fastest vectors for transmission of memes mocking the Holocaust.\"\n\nSome of the videos used gaming clips with the song\n\nTikTok took about eight hours to remove all the offending videos.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Keeping our users safe is a top priority for TikTok, and our community guidelines make clear what is not acceptable on our platform.\n\n\"We do not tolerate any content that includes hate speech, and the sound in question, along with all associated videos, have now been removed. While we will not catch every instance of inappropriate content, we are continuously improving our technologies and policies to ensure TikTok remains a safe place for positive creative expression.'\"\n\nSome of the videos used clips from Holocaust movies and TV programmes\n\nSome experts believe TikTok needs to do more to check the content of videos before promoting them to a wider audience.\n\nMichael Priem, chief executive of Modern Impact said: \"TikTok is not revealing their algorithms or strategy behind content. But it's widely believed that it's similar to other commonly used models that collect data on our content consumption and peers influenced network.\n\n\"As specific videos gain momentum the algorithm then promotes them more widely across the platform. Hence the users intuitively asking each other to 'help this go viral'. The problems rest then on the content filtering.\"\n\nThe user who posted the original video that started the meme appears to be a young teenager from the UK. He did not respond to requests for comment and his account was still live at the time of writing. He wrote on his profile that he had gained 12,000 new followers after posting the video.\n\nA very similar version of the video was uploaded to YouTube in 2015. It was posted on a small channel and gained 67,000 views in the nearly five years it was live. YouTube removed it after being contacted by the BBC.\n\nIt is not clear where the song originated, but the imagery is from a computer game called Besiege that allows players to create custom siege weapons.", "Jackie Turner is ready to reopen her salon\n\nLong and untidy hair has been a topic of many jokes during lockdown - but the serious business of reopening salons has now begun.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford advised hairdressers and barbers to prepare to restart work on 13 July.\n\nBut when they do reopen, they will be very different places to those you could simply walk into, chat to friends or browse magazines.\n\nFor a start, there will be strict hygiene rules in place, with hairdressers only be able to accept booked appointments.\n\nFor Salon Chiron in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, there will be no waiting area.\n\n\"On arrival, there will be signs up as soon as people come through the door, and there'll be hand sanitizers, \" explains Jackie Turner, who runs it.\n\n\"If people don't arrive with personal protective equipment, we will have some available, but there will be a cost for that. So we are advising people to come with masks and gloves and their own sanitizers.\"\n\nClients will be asked to sign a consultation form declaring whether they have any symptoms.\n\nShe added: \"We'll also be doing a temperature check when they come in. It's not in the guidance, but we've decided to do it as we'll be temperature testing our staff everyday as well.\"\n\nIf people do not bring protective equipment, they will be charged for it\n\nMs Turner said the layout of her salon meant it could be sectioned off fairly easily.\n\nIt will be open for a longer period, in order to serve all their customers and to prepare the area between each appointment.\n\nDuring the lockdown, the team has been keeping in touch with their clients on social media.\n\n\"They've been really loyal to us over the years and we just wanted to make sure that they know that we're doing everything possible to ensure their safety when they come back to the salon.\n\n\"The technology has been brilliant. We've uploaded funny pictures, just to lighten the mood during this difficult time.\"\n\nWendie Williams will be cutting hair from her home\n\nWendie Williams, who runs Gwallt Wendigedig from her home in Carmarthen, has completed an online course on cleanliness and safety.\n\n\"I'll be wearing a visor, and I'll have masks for the customers,\" she said.\n\n\"It will be important to keep the space well ventilated, as you would do in a salon. But of course I've got a family, so I'll lock off the kitchen.\n\nShe has had to buy a contactless payment machine and sterilizers - and there are other increased costs, such a packet of hair colouring now costing £30, up from £25.\n\nAnwen Lewis is ready to start working again\n\nAnwen Lewis, a mobile hairdresser from Llanon, Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, said she could not wait to open.\n\n\"There are some clients who have mentioned that they want me to cut their hair in their garden,\" she said.\n\n\"But that depends on the weather. And if it rains, we would need to cancel the appointment.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Lewis does not believe she has received enough information.\n\n\"Nothing is set in stone, and I would have appreciated specific guidelines for mobile hairdressers,\" she added.\n\nShe is also considering a slight increase in her fees, in order to cover the cost of the protective equipment.", "A ban on killers using the \"rough sex defence\" in England and Wales is set to become law after MPs supported an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe bill now rules out \"consent for sexual gratification\" as a defence for causing serious harm.\n\nThe wide-ranging legislation will also place a duty on councils in England to provide shelter for victims of abuse.\n\nIt has been broadly welcomed by campaigners but some said it failed to protect groups such as migrant women.\n\nThe bill, which covers England and Wales, has passed its final stage in the Commons and will now be debated in the House of Lords.\n\nIt was introduced with cross-party support by Theresa May's government in July last year but its passage was delayed by December's general election.\n\nThe government said the bill would ensure that children who saw, heard or experienced the effects of domestic abuse would be treated as victims under law.\n\nIt would also introduce the first legal government definition of domestic abuse, including economic abuse and coercive or controlling non-physical behaviour.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Home Office minister Victoria Atkins said one of the most \"chilling and anguished\" developments in recent times had been the increased use of the \"so-called rough sex defence\".\n\nMoving a new clause which would ban the defence in England and Wales court proceedings, she said: \"We've been clear that there is no such defence to serious harm which results from rough sex.\n\n\"But there is a perception that such a defence exists and that it is being used by men, and it is mostly men in these types of cases, to avoid convictions for serious offences or to receive a reduction in any sentence where they are convicted.\"\n\nWelcoming the move, Labour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, paid tribute to Natalie Connolly, who died in 2016.\n\nThe 26-year-old's partner left her for dead with 40 separate injuries - he admitted manslaughter but was cleared of murder after claiming she was hurt during consensual sexual activity.\n\n\"Natalie Connolly's name and story has rung out around this chamber, been told in many newspapers and the bravery of her family will see this law changed,\" Ms Phillips said.\n\n\"Today, I don't want to remember her for how she died, or to allow a violent man to get to say what her story was.\n\nMs Phillips paid tribute to Natalie Connolly in the Commons\n\nCampaign group We Can't Consent To This, which wants to make it the expectation that murder charges will be brought against those suspected of killing a person during sex, has hailed the amendment as a \"victory\".\n\nThe current law says that if someone kills another person during sexual activity they could be charged with manslaughter alone, while 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\nHarriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women's Justice, described the bill as \"a landmark piece of legislation\".\n\nHowever, she said there were \"some very important omissions\", including protections for victims of domestic violence who committed crimes in the context of being in an abusive relationship.\n\nOther campaigners have said the legislation needs additions to better protect migrant women.\n\nGisela Valle, director of the Latin American Women's Rights Service, said the bill had no provision for safe reporting mechanisms, meaning migrant women who reported abuse to police could be questioned about their immigration status and even detained.\n\nAdditionally, some immigrants with an insecure status cannot currently access public funds or housing and refuge support.\n\nMs Phillips also raised the issue of victims of domestic abuse who are migrants and have no recourse to public funds.\n\nShe told the Commons \"it cannot be right\" that \"humans, who when they have been raped, beaten, controlled and abused, before we ask them how we can help, first we ask what stamp is in their passport\".\n\nMs Atkins said the government was launching a £1.5m pilot fund to support migrant victims of domestic abuse who are unable to access public funds.", "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\nHundreds of thousands of homeowners in England will be able to apply for vouchers of up to £5,000 to help cover the cost of installing insulation and other energy saving improvements. It's part of a plan from Chancellor Rishi Sunak to kick-start a green economic recovery. BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin says some campaigners are delighted, but plenty think much more money is needed. We'll hear more from the chancellor on Wednesday when he delivers an emergency mini-Budget. In the meantime, here are five things he might do., including a stamp duty holiday to stimulate the housing market.\n\nThe Treasury says the £3bn investment plan will cut energy bills by an average of £200 for some of the UK's poorest households\n\nBoris Johnson has been strongly criticised for suggesting that \"too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures\" during the coronavirus crisis. Downing Street later said he meant to point out that no-one knew what the correct procedures were at that stage, but organisations representing homes and their staff have accused the PM of unfairly blaming them. Many thousands of care home residents have died during the outbreak - BBC Reality Check has looked closely at what steps homes took.\n\nThe president of the UK's national academy of science has said everyone should have a face covering with them whenever they leave home, and use them when in crowded places. There are mixed feelings among the government' scientific advisory group, Sage, around the use of face coverings, but there's a consensus that they may reduce the risk of an infected person passing on the virus. Masks are compulsory in some settings in the UK, of course - here are the rules and some tips on making your own.\n\nA number of pubs in England have closed after some of the first customers to visit after lockdown was eased subsequently tested positive for coronavirus. At least three establishments - in Somerset, West Yorkshire and Hampshire - are known to be affected. See more on the steps pubs are taking to minimise risks. Pubs in Scotland and Wales are not yet allowing customers indoors - Northern Ireland is at the same stage as England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI explains what customers can expect as pubs and restaurants reopen\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall says she \"can't wait to hug her grandchildren\" after only seeing them on internet calls and at a social distance. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett, Camilla also talked about her husband Prince Charles' recovery from Covid-19, and discussed her concerns about another timely issue - the scale of domestic abuse in the UK during lockdown. The duchess is guest-editing Emma's show from 10:00 BST today. And read more on whether coronavirus is changing the royals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cornwall says the “worst bit” of lockdown has been not seeing her family\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via our live page.\n\nPlus, meet some of the Covid-19 \"long-haulers\" - people who've found themselves suffering for far longer than the 14 days officially said to be the average length of the illness.\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.", "Police were stationed at George Square last month ahead of an anti-racism protest\n\nSenior police officers have urged local authorities to help reduce the number of protests and counter-protests held across Scotland.\n\nIn a strongly worded letter, Police Scotland divisional commanders said such events posed public safety risks due to coronavirus.\n\nHowever, they accepted many protests were \"entirely legitimate\".\n\nIn recent weeks, police have handled clashes between anti-racism protesters and opposing groups at demonstrations.\n\nMany protestors wore masks to attend an anti-racism rally in Glasgow\n\nOn one occasion, violent scenes escalated after a far-right group gathered in Glasgow's George Square to \"protect the Cenotaph\".\n\nThey arrived shortly before a planned demonstration against the evictions of asylum seekers.\n\nSome councils have already seen planned demonstrations scrapped in light of the pandemic.\n\nThe Orange Order's annual 12 July celebration has been cancelled for the first time since World War Two.\n\nDivisional commanders are chief superintendents in charge of local policing in divisions.\n\nTheir letter said protests and counter-protests have often required \"significant resource deployment\" from the police, meaning officers are taken out of their local area and are unable to attend to other demands.\n\nIt said the issues and grievances being aired are often rooted in \"wider social and political issues\", and can act as proxies for \"ingrained sectarianism\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Protecting the safety of the public is paramount and all Police Scotland operations are planned and conducted with this in mind,\" it read.\n\n\"We live in a democratic society and police have a duty to protect the rights of both individuals and groups who wish to peacefully protest or counter-protest.\n\n\"But this has to be balanced against the rights of others who might be impacted upon by such activity and will not accept or tolerate violence and thuggery.\"\n\nThe letter cited a range of issues handled by police including the mass stabbing in Glasgow on 26 June.\n\nSix people including PC David Whyte were injured in the knife attack in the Park Inn hotel before the suspect was shot dead by armed police.\n\nDivisional commanders said the incident \"highlights the risks\" that police officers face daily.\n\nThey also pointed to the ongoing duties of the force - such as \"proactive patrols\" of beer gardens - as the country moves from Phase 2 to Phase 3 of the lockdown.", "Summer spending stimulus - what does it mean for Scotland?\n\nThe Treasury’s £1.57 billion of financial backing vocals for the art and culture sector is bringing £97m to Holyrood. The funding is part of this week’s summer stimulus of spending and support, being set out tomorrow by the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak. A further splurge announced this morning is of £3bn of greenery, including £2bn vouchers for English home-owners to make energy efficient improvements. Expect a share of that for devolved administrations, including Holyrood. This brings us back to the question of what gets a share of funding to Holyrood and what is applied directly in Scotland. Pre-briefing includes a report, in The Times, that the property market is to get a stimulus from a cut to stamp duty in England and Northern Ireland. That translates in Scotland to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, wholly controlled from Holyrood. It can also choose to cut those rates as a stimulus, but unlike Westminster, it can’t borrow to fill the gap created in its budget. The Times is also reporting there could be a VAT cut aimed at restaurants and pubs. If that happens, that would cross the border and apply equally to Scotland. The Scottish government wants extended furlough funding, which has been done through the tax system at a UK-level. For the details though, we’ll have to wait until Wednesday, and later find out what the Scottish government intends to do with additional funds.", "\"I hope that the people I've hurt will heal,\" said the star.\n\nSinger-songwriter Ryan Adams has written a lengthy apology for his past behaviour, a year after he faced allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\n\"There are no words to express how bad I feel about the ways I've mistreated people through my life and career,\" the musician said in open letter.\n\n\"All I can say is that I'm sorry.\"\n\nLast year, seven women told the New York Times that Adams had offered to help them with their careers before things became sexual.\n\nOne of them, identified only as \"Ava\", showed reporters more than 3,000 explicit texts she said she exchanged with the star when she was 15 and 16.\n\nThe story also contained accusations of psychological abuse from the musician's former wife, Mandy Moore, who told the paper: \"Music was a point of control for him.\"\n\nAdams' initial response was to threaten legal action, in a tweet that said the newspaper was \"going down\".\n\nHe quickly deleted that message and apologised to anyone he had hurt, \"however unintentionally\"; while his lawyer said Adams \"unequivocally\" denied exchanging inappropriate messages with someone he knew to be underage.\n\nAdams said his new apology was prompted by an extended \"period of isolation and reflection\" during lockdown.\n\n\"I've gotten past the point where I would be apologising just for the sake of being let off the hook and I know full well that any apology from me probably won't be accepted by those I've hurt,\" he wrote, in a letter published by the Daily Mail.\n\n\"I get that and I also understand that there's no going back.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that many people would view his statement as \"the same empty apology\" he'd used in the past but added, \"this time it's different\".\n\n\"Having truly realized the harm that I've caused, it wrecked me, and I'm still reeling from the ripples of devastating effects that my actions triggered.\n\n\"No amount of growth will ever take away the suffering I had caused,\" he continued. \"I will never be off the hook and I am fully accountable for my harmful behaviour, and will be for my actions moving forward.\"\n\nAdams also said he was trying to give up alcohol.\n\n\"In my effort to be a better man, I have fought to get sober, but this time I'm doing it with professional help,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Sobriety is a priority in my life, and so is my mental health. These, as I'm learning, go hand in hand.\"\n\n\"I hope that the people I've hurt will heal,\" he concluded. \"And I hope that they will find a way to forgive me.\"\n\nMandy Moore married Adams in 2009, but the couple separated six years later\n\nHowever, Mandy Moore said she was surprised by Adams' public apology, because she had never received one in person.\n\n\"It's challenging because I feel like in many ways I've said all I want to say about him and that situation, but I find it curious that someone would make a public apology but not do it privately,\" she told NBC's Today programme.\n\n\"I am speaking for myself, but I have not heard from him, and I'm not looking for an apology necessarily, but I do find it curious that someone would do an interview about it without actually making amends privately.\"\n\nHer comments were echoed by Courtney Jaye, who appeared in the New York Times story last year, and model / actress Karen Elson, who subsequently described a \"traumatising experience\" with Adams.\n\nIn a series of tweets, Elson said that while she \"believe[s] in redemption and amends even for him,\" Adams \"has not reached out to me since 2018 to apologise for his terrible behaviour.\"\n\n\"In fact back then he called me a liar which added more pain and made me disillusioned with the entire music industry,\" she added.\n\n\"I would like to hope he would contact women he has hurt via his representatives to apologise privately and give us the opportunity to speak our truth on all the ways his actions caused suffering and for him to listen and try to make amends.\"\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\nA prolific and mercurial musician, Adams received multiple Grammy nominations for his second album Gold, and reached the UK Top 10 with the records Ashes & Fire, Prisoner and the self-titled Ryan Adams.\n\nHe has worked with rock legends including Willie Nelson and Elton John, who dubbed him the \"fabulous one\", and famously covered Taylor Swift's album 1989 in full, putting a country-Americana twist on her big pop statement.\n\nAfter the allegations against him surfaced last year, Blue Note cancelled the release of Adams' 18th album Big Colors. He has not released any new music since.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Care home providers have criticised Boris Johnson after he said \"too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they could have\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt least 20,000 care home residents in England and Wales have died from Covid-19 since the start of the outbreak.\n\nVic Rayner, executive director of the National Care Forum, described the prime minister's comments as \"neither accurate nor welcome\" and said government guidance to the sector had come \"in stops and starts, with organisations grappling with over 100 pieces of additional guidance\".\n\nMost of the estimated 14,000 care homes in England are privately run, but they are regulated by national bodies and would typically act on advice from central as well as local government.\n• What was some of the key guidance from government during the pandemic and did it come early enough?", "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has been criticised both within the country and internationally for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nMore than 53,000 people have died and there are over 1.1m confirmed Covid-19 cases in Brazil.\n\nTwo health ministers have left over his strategy - the first was fired after publicly disagreeing with Mr Bolsonaro’s attitude. The second, Nelson Teich, quit after less than a month.\n\nHe did not see eye-to-eye with the president over his insistence on using the anti-malarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as treatment for the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Bruton says her salon is ready to reopen\n\nPlans to reopen hairdressers without the wider beauty industry in Wales have been described as \"ridiculous\" by some in the business.\n\nThe Welsh Government intends to allow hairdressers to restart a \"very limited range\" of services from 13 July.\n\nBut no date has been set for when others, like beauty salons, can reopen and some owners say there is a lot of confusion.\n\nMinisters said they would be publishing more industry guidance later this week.\n\n\"The picture is going to be really confused for so many people,\" said Sarah Bruton, from Captiva Spa in Caerphilly.\n\n\"Our business is 50% a hair salon and 50% a beauty salon.\n\n\"We are in the situation now where we'll be bringing back half of our staff and telling them that it's safe to work and telling the other half, who are equally qualified and experienced, that they are not safe to operate.\n\n\"That seems incredibly unfair to me.\"\n\nShe said it was still unclear whether barbers would be able to offer services like brow shapes and moustache trims, adding it was \"ridiculous\" if a beautician could then not offer brow shapes and lip waxes.\n\nMs Bruton has invested in a temperature check gun and plastic screens to keep customers safe\n\nHair and beauty salons in Wales generate an estimated annual turnover of £275m, according to the National Hair and Beauty Federation.\n\nMs Bruton said she was concerned plans for different reopening dates could unfairly impact the beauty sector.\n\n\"As an industry, 15,000 people are involved in the hair and beauty sector in Wales and many of those jobs are being put at risk by those kinds of delays,\" she said.\n\n\"We train apprentices, we take on graduates from college and higher education facilities, none of those students will have any workplace to go into at the end of this.\"\n\nThe National Hair and Beauty Federation, which represents both industries, said it had written to the Welsh Government asking it to \"reconsider delaying the reopening of beauty businesses\".\n\nIt said it was also seeking \"urgent clarification\" on whether mobile hair services would be allowed to restart next week.\n\nBBC Wales News found dozens of nail and beauty salons offering appointments from 13 July, having previously believed they were allowed to open alongside hairdressers.\n\nLyn Hancock, who runs Lynz Nails and Beauty in Torfaen, said she \"cried\" when she realised that was not going to be the case.\n\n\"We are not any more of a risk to people's health than a hairdresser,\" she said.\n\n\"I have full PPE ready for opening; masks, visors, gloves, aprons, disposable tools and nail files, disposable couch covers, hospital grade sanitiser and cleaning products, the works.\n\n\"I have already seen businesses closing permanently in both my industries due to Covid-19. I do not want to be simply another statistic.\n\n\"My salon is my safe space, my calm and I was so looking forward to opening it.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Subject to an assessment of the latest health situation in Wales on 9 July, hairdressers and barbers will be permitted to reopen from the 13 July.\n\n\"This would be strictly on an appointment only basis, and only for a very limited range of services.\n\n\"Their reopening would be a first step to easing the lockdown of close contact services in Wales, with a view of reopening other similar services soon.\"", "Melania and Me is due out on 1 September.\n\nA former aide to Melania Trump has written a memoir about her 15-year friendship with the US first lady.\n\nStephanie Winston Wolkoff's book, Melania and Me, is due out on 1 September.\n\nIn 2018, Ms Winston Wolkoff was reportedly forced out of the White House, amid allegations that she had been profiteering from President Trump's inauguration.\n\nBut the former aide has said she was \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nShe denied claims her company received $26 million (£20 million) in payments to help plan the 2017 ceremony and surrounding events, saying her firm \"retained a total of $1.62 million\".\n\n\"In her memoir, Wolkoff chronicles her journey from their friendship that started in New York to her role as the First Lady's trusted advisor to her abrupt and very public departure, to life after Washington,\" according to a description of the book published by Vanity Fair.\n\nThe book, which will be on sale ahead of the November presidential election - when Mr Trump will take on Democrat nominee Joe Biden, is the latest controversial memoir involving the Trumps.\n\nFormer National Security Adviser John Bolton's new book, The Room Where It Happened, portrays a president ignorant of basic geopolitical facts and whose decisions were frequently driven by a desire for re-election.\n\nHe accuses Mr Trump of wanting help from China to win re-election, while offering approval for China's plan to build forced-labour camps for its Muslim Uighur minority. He also backs up Democrat allegations that sparked impeachment efforts against the president.\n\nMeanwhile, the president's niece, Mary Trump, is due to publish Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man later this month.\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\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump voter: 'These people here are genuine Americans'", "Three major online retailers have dropped fast fashion brand Boohoo over allegations of low pay and unsafe conditions at a supplier's factories.\n\nNext dropped Boohoo clothes from its websites last week, while Asos and Zalando followed suit on Tuesday.\n\nThis follows a Sunday Times report claiming workers at a Leicester factory were paid £3.50 an hour, while being offered no protection from coronavirus.\n\nBoohoo said if the reports were true, conditions were \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nThe company, which also owns the Nasty Gal and PrettyLittleThing brands, has denied any responsibility but said it would \"thoroughly investigate\" the claims.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"We will not hesitate to immediately terminate relationships with any supplier who is found not to be acting within both the letter and spirit of our supplier code of conduct.\"\n\nThe fast fashion retailer declined to comment on the moves made by Next, Asos and Zalando.\n\nBoohoo's shares fell a further 12% on Tuesday after a 16% slump the day before, following the publication of the allegations in the Sunday Times.\n\nBoohoo was already under fire after Labour Behind the Label, a workers' rights group, claimed that some employees at factories in Leicester that supply the fast fashion firm were \"being forced to come into work while sick with Covid-19\".\n\nAt the time Boohoo said it would \"not tolerate any incidence of non-compliance especially in relation to the treatment of workers within our supply chain\".\n\n\"Next concluded there is a case for Boohoo Group to answer,\" said a spokesman for the retailer.\n\n\"As a result, last week Next removed the Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing branded items it was selling previously, from all Next websites.\"\n\nThe company said it has set up its own investigation over the claims.\n\n\"Next is not pre-judging the outcome of this process and no final decision has been made, however, while there is a case to answer, these labels will remain suspended from all Next websites,\" the spokesman said.\n\nZalando, the Berlin-based online fashion store which had €6.4bn (£5.8bn) sales last year, said it \"has made the decision to delist all products by Boohoo Group and subsidiaries and pause all new business with Boohoo effective 7 July\".\n\nIt said the health and safety of workers has remained of utmost importance to the company. During the coronavirus crisis Zalando said it had introduced \"strict preventative measures to keep all employees safe while staying open for business\".\n\n\"We expect our partners to apply similar fundamental priorities and will distance ourselves from those who don't,\" the firm added.\n\nZalando said it will take action \"to address endemic human rights issues identified with Boohoo and in their supply chain\".\n\n\"Only once all corrective actions have been satisfactorily addressed by Boohoo, can a conversation be revisited to discuss the commercial relationship between Zalando and the Boohoo group moving forward.\"\n\nAsos, meanwhile, has temporarily suspended its trading relationship with all Boohoo brands.\n\nIt is understood the suspension will remain pending the outcome of Boohoo's investigation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Hanks criticised those who refuse to wear facemasks\n\nTom Hanks, who recovered from Covid-19 earlier this year, has said he \"has no respect\" for people who decline to wear a mask in public during the pandemic.\n\nThe actor and his wife Rita Wilson tested positive for coronavirus while filming in Australia in March.\n\nMany governments now recommend face coverings, but they are not mandatory in most places.\n\nHanks said: \"I don't get it, I simply do not get it, it is literally the least you can do.\"\n\nThe actor was speaking to the Associated Press about face coverings while promoting his latest film.\n\n\"If anybody wants to build up an argument about doing the least they can do, I wouldn't trust them with a driver's licence,\" he said.\n\n\"I mean, when you drive a car, you've got to obey speed limits, you've got to use your turn signals [indicators], you've got to avoid hitting pedestrians. If you can't do those three things, you shouldn't be driving a car.\n\n\"If you can't wear a mask and wash your hands and social distance, I've got no respect for you, man. I don't buy your argument.\"\n\nTom Hanks and Rita Wilson tested positive for coronavirus in March\n\nThe refusal of some members of the public to wear masks is a particular issue in the US, which leads the world in coronavirus deaths and infections.\n\nUS President Donald Trump had previously voiced his opposition to them, but he changed his tone last week, telling Fox News he is \"all for masks\".\n\nHanks is a two-time Oscar winner, taking home the best actor prize for both Philadelphia and Forrest Gump in the 1990s.\n\nHis new film, Greyhound, was originally due to be released in cinemas but will now be screened on Apple TV instead.\n\nMany cinemas around the world remain closed to slow the spread of infections amid the pandemic, but they are now allowed to open in the UK.\n\n\"We are all heartbroken that this movie is not playing in cinemas,\" Hanks told AFP. \"But with that removed as a possibility, we were left with this as a reality.\"\n\nIn another interview with Reuters, Hanks said Greyhound was made for \"a big, massive, immersive experience that can really only come out when you're in a movie theatre with at least 100 other people\".\n\nBut with the coronavirus pandemic, \"we've got to roll with these punches\" and put it online for home viewing, he said.\n\nTom Hanks was named the recipient of the Cecil B DeMille award at the Golden Globes earlier this year\n\nIn the movie, Hanks plays Commander Ernest Krause, a naval officer embarking on his first mission of World War Two.\n\nHanks also wrote the screenplay, adapting it from the 1955 CS Forester novel The Good Shepherd.\n\nIn his three-star review of the film, Empire's Ian Freer said the film was \"a serious, well-intentioned slice of WWII naval history full of compelling detail and good action but lacking the dimensions and dynamics to make you truly feel it\".\n\nDigital Spy's Gabriella Geisinger noted: \"Greyhound really suffers from the small screen. It is meant to be a naval epic, whose high-seas stakes and battles, with gunfire through the dark as sea-spray washes aboard, is made less visceral on a small screen in your relatively-well-lit living room.\"\n\n\"Greyhound is an efficient, satisfying war film,\" wrote Kevin Crust in the Los Angeles Times. \"In that regard, it's a fresh telling of familiar elements, buoyed by the powerfully understated performances.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's understandable that Sony opted to go the digital route in selling Greyhound \"to Apple TV+, but it would have been an especially good film to experience on the big screen in an auditorium.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Workers who have coronavirus tests paid for by their employer will not have to pay tax on them after all.\n\nOn Monday, HMRC said that the tests would be treated as a \"benefit in kind\", and so would be subject to extra income tax for employees.\n\nBut after questions in the House of Commons about the issue, the Treasury granted tax exemption for the tests.\n\nThe exemption will be in effect for any tests that have taken place during the current 2020-21 tax year.\n\n\"Given the importance of widespread testing, we want to ensure that all employers who wish to provide third party testing to their employees can do so without increasing their tax liability,\" a Treasury spokesperson said.\n\n\"So we will introduce a new income tax exemption for Covid-19 antigen tests provided by employers.\n\n\"HMRC will amend their guidance as soon as possible to reflect this change.\"\n\nThe issue had been raised by Treasury Committee chairman Mel Stride.\n\n\"Many employees, especially healthcare and hospitality workers, are required to undergo regular coronavirus testing,\" said Mr Stride.\n\nHe said Monday's guidance from HM Revenue and Customs had been \"unclear\" and would \"worry a large number of workers\".\n\n\"Many of our key workers could be faced with the perverse incentive of avoiding employer-sponsored tests in order to reduce their tax bill,\" he added.\n\nIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr Stride urged the chancellor to investigate the issue.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"I'm delighted with him for raising this with me and of course we will look into it very quickly.\"\n\nThat led to the Treasury granting exemption for the tests late on Tuesday evening.\n\nCommenting on the change, Mr Stride said: \"It would not have been right to increase the tax bill for workers every time that they had a coronavirus test. I'm glad that common sense has prevailed.\n\n\"And I'm grateful that the chancellor has listened to the Treasury Committee and reversed this decision so swiftly.\"\n\nBenefits in kind are benefits which employees receive from their employers that are not included in their salary.\n\nThey are often referred to as \"perks\" or \"fringe benefits\", but usually relate to things such as company cars, private medical insurance paid for by the employer and cheap or free loans.\n\nBut some company benefits can be tax-free, such as childcare and canteen meals.\n\nHMRC's guidance published on Monday but withdrawn late on Tuesday stated: \"Coronavirus (Covid-19) testing kits or tests carried out by a third party which have been purchased by you to provide to your employees are treated as a taxable benefit in kind on the employee.\"\n\nUntil the guidance was withdrawn, that meant a cash value would have been assigned to the coronavirus test by the employer, leaving the employee to pay income tax on the amount through PAYE.\n\nRegular Covid-19 tests are currently available through the government testing programme to a wide range of employees.\n\nIf an individual is tested through the government testing programme, there will be no tax liability.\n\nFor example, care home staff can access weekly testing to see whether or not they exhibit symptoms.\n\nIt means that in the vast majority of cases, those who need to be tested can access testing through the government programme.\n\nAs most workers will already be able to access tests for free through the NHS, the Treasury said it expected the new exemption to only affect a small number of individuals.", "Wales' health minister said he was \"really worried\" by scenes of crowds in England at the weekend.\n\nAn \"important milestone\" has been reached in the coronavirus pandemic, but it's not a time for complacency, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nNo new deaths were recorded in Wales on Monday.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Vaughan Gething said: \"It's a milestone on our progress with coronavirus but it's an unfinished journey.\"\n\nHe said he was \"really worried\" by scenes in England after pubs reopened at the weekend.\n\nCalling for caution, Mr Gething added: \"It's really important that we don't see yesterday's announcement as a sign that we can all go back to normal, to the way things were in February and January.\"\n\nHe told BBC Wales that the relatively low level of transmission meant \"we're able to open more areas of activity in a progressive and step-by-step way\".\n\nBut he added \"flare-ups and outbreaks\", such as the cases in Merthyr Tydfil, Wrexham and Anglesey, were a reminder \"we all need to continue to follow the guidance on social distancing as far as possible\".\n\nOn the scenes of crowds ignoring social distancing guidelines in England at the weekend, Mr Gething said: \"I'm really worried and we don't want scenes like that here in Wales.\n\n\"I enjoy going to the pub and having a drink, I enjoy going out for a meal with my family as well. We haven't been able to do that and I understand how frustrating that is for lots and lots of people.\"\n\nBut he said complacency now could cause another increase in deaths later.\n\n\"The risks in throwing that all away could be seen in more people becoming seriously unwell or an increase in those mortality figures and I don't want to see that happening here in Wales,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ineos says the new Bridgend plant will employ 500 people and produce 25,000 cars a year\n\nIneos Automotive has chosen Bridgend for the production of its new 4x4 vehicle, it has been announced.\n\nIt is expected to initially create around 200 jobs to make the Grenadier, and up to 500 in the long-term.\n\nThe company is building a manufacturing and assembly plant and plans to begin production in 2021.\n\nIt has received support from the Welsh Government, and funding from the UK Government as part of a competition to develop new technologies.\n\nThe new plant is being built at Brocastle, close to Ford Bridgend, which is to close in 2020 with the loss of 1,700 jobs.\n\nSome of the skills Ineos requires will be transferable from Ford, the company said.\n\nIt is not known how much public funding Ineos will receive, but it is planning to invest £600m in the new car, inspired by the original Land Rover Defender which went out of production in 2016.\n\nThe plant will be built on a new site at Brocastle in Bridgend\n\nThe new model is likely to face significant competition.\n\nLast week at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Jaguar Land Rover launched their new version of the Defender, a modern car which has also been inspired by the original machine.\n\nAt peak production, it is hoped 25,000 vehicles a year will roll off the line at the new 250,000 sq ft (23,250 sq m) Bridgend site.\n\nKey parts for the Ineos vehicle - including the body and chassis - will be built at a second factory in Portugal before being brought to Bridgend for assembly.\n\nBMW will supply the engines, and engineering assistance will be provided by another German company, MBTech.\n\nIneos Group chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe said it had seen \"lots of good options to choose from\" for a manufacturing facility.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe says the car aims to be the \"spiritual successor\" to the Land Rover Defender (pictured)\n\n\"The decision to build in the UK is a significant expression of confidence in British manufacturing,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Economy Minister Ken Skates said their work to support Bridgend in the run up to the closure of Ford would \"not stop here\".\n\n\"We will continue to do all we can to attract new business opportunities,\" he said.\n\nFord opened in Bridgend in 1980 but is due to close the plant in 2020\n\nThe Welsh Government also said the company was in talks with two Wales-based component supply companies to support their work.\n\nThe UK government's competition funding was aimed at technologies for the motor industry's transition to zero-emission vehicles.\n\nThe Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns described the Ineos investment as a \"welcome boost\" and said they had been supporting the industry through their industrial strategy.\n\n\"There have been some significant automotive investments to Wales over the last few years, including at Aston Martin in St Athan and together with the Welsh Government we will continue to provide incentives for firms like Ineos to make Wales their home,\" he said.\n\nTom Crotty, a director of Ineos Group, told BBC Wales the Welsh Government's funding and general support was more significant than that received from the UK government - although Mr Cairns had been helpful, he added.\n\nHe would not be drawn on the exact level of Welsh Government funding, but said it was below the rumoured £13m. It was not the deciding factor he added, and the grant was linked to the creation of jobs.\n\n\"It's a great area with an industrial tradition, and... there's some really great skilled people and we're going to need up to 500 really skilled people,\" he said.\n\nOn Brexit, he emphasised the investment did not depend on a withdrawal deal being struck with the EU, but said the company had made no secret of supporting Theresa May's deal and a continued open market across Europe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ken Skates This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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End of twitter post 2 by UK Government in Wales\n\nThe plant is being constructed on a 14-acre (five hectare) plot of land it is buying at market value from the Welsh Government.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the new business area, Brocastle Business Park, next to the established Bridgend Industrial Estate, will be able to accommodate a further 500,000 sq ft (46,500 sq m) of space.\n\nThe closure of Ford Bridgend was one of a series of recent blows to the automotive industry in Wales, which included the closure of Schaeffler in Llanelli and job losses at Calsonic Kansei in the town.\n\nPeter Hughes, Unite Wales regional secretary described the Ineos decision as \"welcome news\" but highlighted it was not enough on its own to mitigate the loss of the 1,700 Ford jobs.\n\n\"The Welsh Government must ensure that Ineos lives up to the standards of what we expect in Wales from socially responsible employers. It is imperative that the jobs being created are of the highest quality, well paid and unionised,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "No 10 has rejected calls for Boris Johnson to apologise after he said \"too many care homes didn't really follow procedures\" over coronavirus.\n\nLabour called the PM's comments \"crass\" and said government advice to care homes had been \"conflicting\".\n\nAnd one union accused the PM of blaming care workers for government \"failings\".\n\nBut Downing Street said Mr Johnson had been pointing out that not enough was known about the virus in the early stages of the outbreak.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added that the care homes had \"done a brilliant job under very difficult circumstances\" and the government had \"put in place rigorous testing and additional funding\".\n\nCare homes were hit particularly badly by the coronavirus with nearly 20,000 people confirmed to have died of coronavirus in care homes in England and Wales since the outbreak.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said people were \"insulted\" by Mr Johnson's \"crass remarks\".\n\n\"Care providers were sent conflicting guidance throughout this outbreak, staff could not access testing until mid-April and are still not tested routinely, PPE supplies have been inadequate, thousands of families have lost their loved ones in care homes to this disease, care workers themselves have died on the front line,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe called on Health Secretary Matt Hancock to apologise for the PM's remarks.\n\nMr Hancock said the prime minister had been \"explaining that because asymptomatic transmission was not known about, the correct procedures were therefore not known\".\n\nRegular tests for care home staff and residents are to be rolled out from next week\n\nHe added: \"We've been constantly learning about this virus from the start and improving procedures all the way through and I pay tribute to the care homes in this country who have done so much to care for the most vulnerable throughout the crisis.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Lords another government minister, Lord Greenhalgh, admitted that guidance given to care homes during the initial stages of the pandemic was \"not as clear as it could have been\".\n\nMark Adams, who runs the charity Community Integrated Care, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the prime minister's comments were \"cowardly\" and a \"travesty of leadership\".\n\nAnd Unison, a trade union which represents workers providing public services, said: \"It's despicable for Boris Johnson to blame incredible, dedicated care workers for his own government's failings.\n\n\"Care staff have kept working throughout to help the vulnerable, putting their own health at risk with little or no protective kit and without testing.\n\n\"The prime minister should be ashamed, take responsibility and commit to proper, lasting reform of social care.\"\n\nBehind the scenes in the government, there is a frustration the care sector has escaped largely blame free from the crisis.\n\nCare homes are not government-run. On the whole they are owned and operated by private firms.\n\nAs you would expert in a network of more than 14,000 homes there is a variation in performances and practices.\n\nNot all care homes have seen outbreaks - and that, of course, means questions should be asked. But the sector is right to complain that guidance, certainly at the start, was changing all the time.\n\nThe big national effort on PPE was focused on the NHS, leaving some homes severely lacking in equipment as their supply chains dried up or could not cope.\n\nThe roll-out of testing was slow - it is only now that residents and staff are to get regular testing, vital if those who are infected but don't show symptoms are to be spotted.\n\nThis virus is very tricky to contain and the UK is not alone in struggling to protect care homes.\n\nBut no debate would be complete without mention of funding.\n\nThe overhaul of the system has been talked about for years, but nothing has been done, leaving some services in a precarious position. The virus has certainly exploited that.\n\nOn Sunday, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens told the BBC that plans to adequately fund the social care sector needed to be in place within a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked on Monday about his remarks, Mr Johnson said: \"One of the things the crisis has shown is we need to think about how we organise our social care package better and how we make sure we look after people better who are in social care.\n\n\"We discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they could have but we're learning lessons the whole time.\"\n\nDuring the 2019 election, the Conservatives promised an extra £1bn per year for social care in England over the next five years.\n\nThe government has given an extra £3.2bn in emergency Covid-19 funds to English councils, which can be put towards helping with social care costs.\n\nIt has also promised an additional £600m for care homes to help with controlling infections.", "The Royal Society says the UK lags behind in setting clear policies on face coverings and on using them\n\nThe Welsh Government is \"continuing to look\" at evidence on whether face coverings should be mandatory in public places, the health minister has said.\n\nThe head of the UK's national academy of science said everyone should wear a face covering in crowded public spaces.\n\nPeople in Wales are advised, but not required, to wear face coverings if social distancing is not possible.\n\nVaughan Gething said the Welsh Government was \"actively considering what is the right thing to do\".\n\nHe said he would look at evidence from the scientific advisory group SAGE and consult Wales' Chief Medical Officer Frank Atherton about whether to change guidance.\n\nRoyal Society President Prof Sir Venki Ramakrishnan said the UK was \"way behind\" many countries in their usage and there was evidence that they protected both the wearer and those around them.\n\nThe Welsh Government has recommended in Wales that people wear three-layer face coverings on public transport and other situations where they cannot avoid being closer than 2m to others.\n\nAnswering journalists' questions at a news conference on Tuesday, Mr Gething said: \"At this point we are continuing to look at the evidence and today's comments are part of what we'll need to consider doing as we help to keep Wales safe now and in the future.\"\n\nMr Gething said he did recognise face coverings gave some people an \"extra element\" of reassurance, but he was also concerned that the wearing of them may encourage some people to take more risks.\n\n\"It's entirely possible we'll need to make a different choice in the near future for the longer term - so I wouldn't want to try and set up a position which says absolutely no, never, we'll never change our position on masks and face coverings, but we'll do so at a time where its the right thing to do to help keep all of us safe,\" he added.\n\nVaughan Gething said he will look at evidence from the scientific advisory group SAGE\n\nFace coverings are compulsory on public transport in England, where they should also be worn in hospitals by staff, outpatients and visitors.\n\nIn Scotland, masks are mandatory on public transport, and will be in shops from 10 July.\n\nPlans to make wearing face masks on public transport compulsory in Northern Ireland have been put on hold, pending legal clarification.\n\nSpeaking as the Royal Society published two reports on face coverings, Prof Ramakrishnan said the public remained \"sceptical\" about their benefits because \"the message has not been clear enough\" and guidelines have been inconsistent.\n\n\"What we would like for the government is to be a bit stronger and clearer about the messaging and require it whenever you are in crowded public spaces where you cannot get more than two metres away from the next person,\" he said\n\n\"If you're in a crowded setting, you ought to wear a mask.\"\n\nEndorsing his call, Plaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"Just as Scotland has now made face masks compulsory in shops and public transport, Welsh Government should provide a clear, unambiguous directive and make the wearing of face coverings a requirement in certain public places.\"\n\n\"The battle to bring down the transmission rate and stamp out the virus continues, and face coverings have a part to play in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Masks should be used on public transport and places like supermarkets, say these people\n\nAngelo Mazzeo, from the south west of England, was at Newport station to pick up a friend before they drove to Leeds in his open top car.\n\nHe said he always tries to wear a mask in public areas like the supermarket or on trains and believes it is an important way to reduce the R rate across the UK.\n\nHe said: \"I think you know in crowded public areas like public transport or supermarkets, I think everyone should wear a mask, it will just keep that R value below one which will eventually kill the virus off.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think there should be a harmonious discussion between England, Wales and Scotland - I think face masks are important and it gives us all a reminder that the virus is still with us.\"\n\nLouise Pirouet: \"I think it's not good that in Wales it's not mandatory to wear them\"\n\nLouise Pirouet, who was catching a train from Newport station, believes it is vitally important to wear a mask on public transport and in public for the safety of others.\n\nShe feels, \"why should I wear a mask and not you?\"\n\nShe said: \"I've noticed on the train when people are going to England they do wear them then on the train, but when you come into Wales they don't.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think it's not good that in Wales it's not mandatory to wear them, I think that everyone should wear them on public transport in Wales, the same as England.\"\n\nCraig Higgins, who lives in Gelli in Rhondda Cynon Taf, was carrying out a site survey for a prospective cycle hire scheme in Newport city centre.\n\nHe believes wearing a mask \"gives a false sense of security\".\n\nHe says governments across the UK have not coordinated as well as they could have.\n\nHe said: \"There has been some communication between them all, I think that's fair to say.\n\n\"They've obviously taken their own stances because of those devolved powers, which is fine.\n\n\"But I think that lack of co-ordination between all of them is a bit confusing, having one rule for one place and one rule for another.\"", "Bianca Williams won European and Commonwealth gold in the 4x100m relay in 2018\n\nMet Police bosses say they want to speak to a Team GB sprinter who is accusing officers of racially profiling her in a stop and search.\n\nBianca Williams and Ricardo dos Santos, a Portuguese 400m runner, were stopped in Maida Vale, west London on Saturday.\n\nMs Williams, whose three-month-old son was in the car at the time, called it an \"awful experience\".\n\nCdr Helen Harper said she was \"really keen\" to speak to the couple \"to discuss... the concerns they have\".\n\nThe Met had said that officers were patrolling the area in which Ms Williams was stopped because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nBut the European and Commonwealth Games gold medallist believes the couple were targeted because they are black and were driving a Mercedes.\n\n\"They [the officers] said there's a lot of youth violence and stabbings in the area and that the car looked very suspicious,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"They see a black male driving a nice car, an all-black car, and they assume that he was involved in some sort of gang, drug, violence problem.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter after being posted by former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who questioned why the vehicle had been targeted\n\nIn a statement on Sunday evening the Met said the Mercedes was stopped after it was seen driving suspiciously, including being on the wrong side of the road, and that the driver had sped off when asked to stop.\n\nBut this was rejected by Ms Williams, who said: \"That is false, we were never on the wrong side of the road. We were driving down through single-width roads.\n\n\"We only found out about us driving on the wrong side of the road once they tweeted.\n\n\"This isn't the first or fourth or fifth time, it must be about the 10th. It's getting ridiculous.\n\n\"We are planning on taking it down the legal route. I feel very hurt by their actions, and to witness my partner being taken away and for me to be taken away from my son, my heart hurts.\"\n\nMr Dos Santos and Ms Williams say police handcuffed them while their son was in the car\n\nThe Met said officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards had reviewed footage from social media and officers' bodycams and were satisfied there was no concern around the officers' conduct during the stop and search of the two athletes.\n\n\"That does not mean there isn't something to be learnt from every interaction we have with the public,\" Cdr Helen Harper said.\n\n\"We want to listen to, and speak with, those who raise concerns, to understand more about the issues raised and what more we can do to explain police actions.\n\n\"Where we could have interacted in a better way, we need to consider what we should have done differently and take on that learning for the future.\"\n\nSocial media clips of police incidents must be treated with great care.\n\nOften what you see is a short segment of an event that has gone on for some time; background information and context are seldom provided.\n\nIn this case, there are conflicting accounts as to what happened and why - which only an investigation is likely to resolve.\n\nNevertheless, the incident has reignited claims stop and search is being targeted at black people, particularly young men, and has given rise to concerns that handcuffs are being deployed unnecessarily, despite police guidance saying they should not be.\n\nIt appears the tactic, which Scotland Yard says has helped to reduce knife violence in London, remains as controversial and divisive as it's always been.\n\nSpeaking at a remote hearing of the House of Commons Human Rights Committee earlier, Baroness Lawrence said it was \"ludicrous\" that black people could not drive around in expensive cars.\n\n\"Stop and search will continue to be an element young people go through on a day-to-day basis,\" said the campaigner, whose murdered son was failed by an \"institutionally racist\" Met Police.\n\n\"And when they are stopped, it is not just one officer or two officers, you have six or seven officers standing around one individual, a young person who is probably frightened to death because he doesn't know what is going to happen to him.\n\n\"So if now people have mobile phones and start recording what is happening to them, we have the issues where police say it is one thing and the individual says it's another, and the authority believes the police over the individual.\n\n\"That is something that continues to happen.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The mother of Stephen Lawrence described being stopped by police while driving home after midnight\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he took allegations of racial profiling \"extremely seriously\" and he had raised the case with the Met.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Complaints said it has not yet received an official complaint.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bianca Williams won European and Commonwealth gold in the 4x100m relay in 2018\n\nThe Met has referred itself to the policing watchdog over the controversial stop-and-search of a British sprinter in west London.\n\nBianca Williams and Ricardo dos Santos, a Portuguese 400m runner, were stopped in Maida Vale on Saturday.\n\nCommonwealth Games gold medallist Williams, 26, accused the Met of racially profiling her partner for driving a black Mercedes.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will investigate.\n\nFootage of the stop and search has been shared widely on social media.\n\nIn a statement the Met said the decision to refer to the IOPC had been taken \"due to the complaint being recorded and the significant public interest\".\n\n\"Two reviews of the circumstances by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards have not identified misconduct for any officer involved,\" the force added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter after being posted by former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who questioned why the vehicle had been targeted\n\nThe Met had said officers were patrolling the area in which Ms Williams was stopped because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nBut Ms Williams believes she and her partner were targeted because they are black and were driving a Mercedes.\n\n\"They [the officers] said there's a lot of youth violence and stabbings in the area and that the car looked very suspicious,\" she said on Monday.\n\n\"They see a black male driving a nice car, an all-black car, and they assume that he was involved in some sort of gang, drug, violence problem.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan told the BBC he was \"pleased\" that the Met had referred the case as \"it's really important that Londoners have trust and confidence in the police and the way the police are policed\".\n\n\"There are concerns about the how the police behaved so it's right and proper that those concerns are looked into,\" he said.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Met Police Federation, said it had been supporting officers involved in the incident and called on the IOPC to \"conclude their work in a fair and timely fashion\".\n\nHe added that \"a short clip of an incident widely shared on social media does not always tell the full operational policing story\".\n\nThe police watchdog is also investigating a video of a white officer from Cambridgeshire Police quizzing a black driver which was shot in Ely in 2015 and was shared on Facebook in June as Black Lives Matter protests took place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bodies of Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were found by police on New Year's Day\n\nA man has admitted murdering his wife and her new partner on New Year's Day.\n\nHelen Hancock, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, were found stabbed to death at a house in Duffield, Derbyshire, in the early hours of 1 January.\n\nDerby Crown Court heard Rhys Hancock called police at about 04:20 GMT to say he was at his former marital home and admitted murdering the couple.\n\nHancock, of Etwall in Derbyshire, pleaded guilty to both murders.\n\nThe 40-year-old former head teacher will be sentenced at a date to be fixed.\n\nPolice officers found the bodies of mother-of-three Ms Hancock and father-of-two Mr Griffiths in the house.\n\nAn inquest heard both had suffered multiple stab wounds and there was a blunt trauma injury to Ms Hancock's right eye.\n\nA previous court hearing was told Hancock had found out about his wife's new relationship on 26 December.\n\nRhys Hancock will be sentenced at a later date\n\nHancock's mother had called police just after 04:00 warning them he had left the house with two knives after earlier telling her he \"felt like killing them\".\n\nA phone operator tried to call Ms Hancock's mobile number but it went to voicemail.\n\nFollowing the husband's call, a police dog handler was the first to arrive at the scene and ordered Hancock to the floor before arresting him.\n\nBoth victims were found in a bedroom with multiple stab wounds.\n\nMr Griffiths had already died but paramedics battled for more than 15 minutes to resuscitate Ms Hancock before she was pronounced dead.\n\nA pathologist's report quoted at her inquest stated: \"A knife was recovered from the abdomen. The whole of the knife being within the body.\"\n\nMs Hancock and Mr Griffiths were found at a house in Duffield\n\nA close friend of Ms Hancock, who worked as a PE teacher in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, said she had been \"loving life\" in the months leading up to the killings and had climbed Snowdon with her new partner just days before they died.\n\nHer family described her as \"a lovely, beautiful, friendly, bubbly and social person\".\n\nThe family of Mr Griffiths said he was \"a lovely dad, husband, son, brother and uncle who had a passion for adventure, running and a love of animals\".\n\nThe case had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) due to contact between Derbyshire Police and Ms Hancock in the period leading up to the murders.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"We are close to finalising our investigation and we will consider releasing our findings when all associated proceedings, including coronial, have been concluded.\"\n\nThey added the police contact related to \"a number of domestic incidents over a period of time\".\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.", "Eric Joyce, seen here in 2015, admitted a child sexual offence\n\nEx-Labour MP and former Army officer Eric Joyce has been told he faces jail after he admitted having an indecent movie of a child.\n\nJoyce, 59, had a film on a device that \"depicts a number of children\" with one said to be 12 months old, Ipswich Crown Court heard.\n\nThe former shadow minister was arrested in November 2018.\n\nHe was granted bail and ordered to sign the sex offenders register. He is due to be sentenced on 7 August.\n\nJoyce, of Worlingworth, Suffolk, pleaded guilty to making an indecent image of a child.\n\nHe was the Labour MP for Falkirk in Stirlingshire between 2000 and 2012 before leaving the party to serve as an independent.\n\nThe court heard the 51-second category A film - the most serious there is - was accessed by Joyce between August 2013 and November 2018.\n\nJudge Emma Peters said Joyce, who appeared at court in person, \"says he accesses it via an email which he says was a spam email\".\n\n\"At the time he was drinking heavily and he has now undergone work with the Lucy Faithfull Foundation and a psychotherapist,\" the judge said.\n\nJoyce in a Metropolitan Police handout after he was convicted of assaulting two teenagers in London in 2014\n\nShe said the court \"takes such incidents very seriously\" as they \"fuel the abuse of children\" and warned Joyce the offence crosses the custody threshold.\n\n\"It's going to be a question of whether it's immediate or suspended,\" she added.\n\nWhile a Labour MP, Joyce held the post of shadow Northern Ireland minister in 2010.\n\nHe stepped down before the 2015 general election.\n\nJoyce originally joined the Army in 1977 before serving for 21 years, during which he rose to the rank of major.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Six men have been arrested in the Netherlands following the discovery of seven shipping containers converted into cells and torture chambers.\n\nThe containers were located in Wouwse Plantage, south of Rotterdam, after French police cracked encrypted phones used by criminals.\n\nDutch police said the containers were found before they were used, and potential victims were now in hiding.\n\nInside the containers was a dentist chair with straps and handcuffs.\n\nPolice also found a building in Rotterdam, which they believe was another criminal base.\n\nThe suspects were arrested on 22 June following a Franco-Dutch operation to infiltrate the EncroChat encrypted phone system.\n\nPolice intercepted millions of messages including that of one of the suspects, a 40-year-old man from The Hague. Investigators were able to access his contacts via an Encrochat phone.\n\nAfter locating the containers in April in Wouwse Plantage, near the Belgian border, police put the area under observation and found that multiple men were working on them almost every day. When the containers were almost finished, investigators decided to intervene.\n\nA video posted online by police shows officers arresting the suspects and also entering the containers.\n\nOfficers found handcuffs attached to the floors and ceilings of the structures, which had also been soundproofed.\n\nIn one container, they also discovered police clothing and bulletproof vests. In another, they located pruning shears, scalpels and balaclavas.\n\nTwo of the suspects have also been detained for possession of weapons.\n\nThe arrests are among 800 made across Europe after EncroChat messages were intercepted and decoded.\n\nEncroChat, which has now been taken down, was based in France and had an estimated 60,000 subscribers.\n\nIt operated on customised Android phones and, according to its website, provided \"worry-free secure communications\".\n\nCustomers were able to access features such as self-destructing messages, which deleted from the recipient's device after a certain amount of time.\n\nThe system also had a panic wipe, which meant all data could be removed from the device by entering a four-digit code from the lock-screen.\n\nGangs are believed to have used the devices to plot attacks on rival groups, plan ways of enforcing drug debts and arrange for money to be laundered. Threats detailed on the site included acid attacks and chopping off limbs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tom Symonds is shown how a customised Android phone with EncroChat installed works", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jess Green from Lighthouse Kitchen: \"We could have opened today but chose not to as I think that's the right thing\"\n\nA number of pubs in England have shut after customers tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAt least three establishments announced they had shut their doors again just days after reopening at the weekend.\n\nThey were among hundreds of venues that welcomed customers after three months as lockdown measures were eased - most apparently with no problem.\n\nBut crowds descending in some towns and cities prompted fears social distancing was being disregarded.\n\nThe Lighthouse Kitchen and Carvery in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, said it was \"slowly\" working through a list of customers who had left details at the weekend and that all staff had tested negative for the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The closures come after large crowds of people visited pubs across England, including London's Soho district\n\nIn Batley, West Yorkshire, the Fox and Hounds said a customer had phoned to say they had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile the landlord of the Village Home Pub in Alverstoke, Hampshire, said his team were awaiting test results after someone in a member of staff's \"family bubble\" tested positive.\n\nJess Green, manager of the Lighthouse Kitchen, told BBC Points West she decided to close to \"put everyone's health and safety first\".\n\n\"I felt I had to keep my customers and my staff safe which is why I chose to shut the pub. I'm gutted, but safety comes first.\n\n\"We could have opened today but chose not to as I think that's the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Fox and Hounds in Batley, West Yorkshire, said a customer phoned to say they had tested positive for coronavirus\n\nSaagar takeaway in Burnham will be closed until Friday\n\nIndian takeaway Saagar, also in Burnham, said it would be closing until Friday to undergo a deep clean after one of its drivers had been to the Lighthouse Kitchen, along with bar the Vape Escape, which has also closed for a full clean after a customer's positive test.\n\nLeanne Underhill, owner of the Vape Escape, told burnham-on-sea.com all staff tests had been negative and customers in the bar on Saturday have been contacted, in accordance with government advice.\n\nSomerset County Council said it was not treating the case as an \"outbreak\" and asked people to keep to social distancing guidelines and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe Fox and Hounds said staff had taken tests and the venue would be deep-cleaned prior to reopening.\n\nThe Batley pub said it had taken a number of measures ahead of Saturday's reopening, including limiting numbers allowed inside, a one-way system around the building and a one-in one-out policy on use of toilets.\n\nGeorgia Gosling visited the Fox and Hounds over the weekend and said it had \"all the right procedures in place\" but called the news a \"wake-up call\".\n\n\"We were told to get a test and luckily everyone I know has come back negative,\" she said.\n\nDespite saying she was \"a bit scared to go out now\", Ms Gosling said she would return to the pub once it reopened.\n\n\"I've been going there for years and once they've done a deep clean it's not like it's contagious forever. I'll definitely will go back.\"\n\nThe Lighthouse Kitchen and Carvery in Burnham said it was contacting customers\n\nCustomers of the Village Home who had visited at the weekend have been told there was \"no need to isolate\" unless they showed symptoms or were contacted by tracers.\n\nLandlord Robby Roberts said: \"A member of staff, one of my barmaids, has someone in her family bubble who has tested positive.\"\n\nHe said she was on shift on Saturday when the pub was open for 11-and-a-half hours and about 150 customers visited.\n\n\"All five staff who were on shift on Saturday have now been tested and we are waiting for the results,\" he said.\n\n\"The pub is being deep cleaned and I have contacted the council. I am awaiting advice from them.\"\n\nA second pub in Alverstoke, The Fighting Cocks, has announced it will also close temporarily despite \"having no suspected or confirmed cases\".\n\nThe pub said on Facebook it \"cannot guarantee that someone who has been in contact with a confirmed case has not been in the pub, nor will they come in over the coming days\".\n\nThe Village Home Pub in Alverstoke hopes to reopen on Saturday but the decision will depend on advice from the council\n\nCrowds were seen across England on \"Super Saturday\", as thousands flocked to enjoy a pint.\n\nThere were reports of arrests and early venue closures around the country, but police said a majority of people had acted responsibly.\n\nUK pub and hospitality trade bodies have published guidance for bars and restaurants on how to operate contact tracing.\n\nContact details only need to be taken from one person in a group and must be kept for 21 days.\n\nOwners are also asked to note the arrival times of customers and how long they stay. People can refuse to give information, but owners can choose not to serve them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paulinho Paiakan was a chief of the Kayapó people\n\nOne of the best-known indigenous defenders of the Amazon rainforest has died with coronavirus in Brazil, where the disease continues its rapid spread.\n\nPaulinho Paiakan, chief of the Kayapó people, came to international attention in the 1980s in the fight against Belo Monte, one of the world's largest dams.\n\nHe was around 65. In 1998, he was convicted of the rape of an 18-year-old, a case that hurt his reputation.\n\nThe country is among the world's worst affected, and the outbreak is believed to be weeks away from its peak. Brazil has the second-highest numbers of infections - over 955,000 - and deaths, more than 46,500, after the US.\n\nPaiakan was one of the most important indigenous voices during Brazil's return to democracy in the 1980s, and helped lead the campaign for the creation of large indigenous reserves in the Amazon.\n\nAlongside Kayapó chief Raoni and musician Sting, he brought attention to the impact of the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu river, in the Amazon. After many hurdles, a modified project was eventually built, and operation started in 2016.\n\nHe also fought to expel illegal miners and loggers from indigenous areas.\n\nBut his image was stained in 1992, after a student accused him of rape, a case that had worldwide repercussions. His allies argued the claim was fabricated to tarnish Paiakan's reputation and to silence him.\n\nAfter a long legal process, he was sentenced to six years in jail in 1998, but served only part of it under house arrest on his indigenous reserve in the northern state of Pará. His wife was found guilty of assisting him in the attack.\n\nReacting to his death on Wednesday at a hospital in Pará, the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples' Association (Apib) described Paiakan as a \"father, leader and warrior\" for indigenous peoples and the environment.\n\nGert-Peter Bruch, founder of environmental group Planet Amazon, told AFP news agency: \"He worked all his life to build worldwide alliances around indigenous peoples to save the Amazon. He was far ahead of his time. We've lost an extremely valuable guide.\"\n\nIndigenous communities have been hit hard by the virus\n\nAcross Brazil's Amazon region, more than 280 indigenous people have died with coronavirus, according to Apib. There are special concerns about the outbreak in the area, where hospitals are underfunded and access to remote areas is difficult.\n\nPará, home to tens of thousands of indigenous people, has become one of the hardest-hit states in the country.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mike Ryan, emergencies programme head at the World Health Organization (WHO), said the outbreak in Brazil was still \"quite severe\", and that the moment was of \"extreme caution\".\n\nFar-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who initially described the virus as a \"little flu\", has been heavily criticised at home and abroad for his handling of the crisis. He has refused to follow WHO advice and two health ministers have left the job over disagreements with the president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ordinary people in Brazil are taking on extraordinary roles to help their cities cope\n\nEarlier this month, his government stopped publishing data about the virus. It was forced to reverse the decision after being accused of trying to manipulate the numbers.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has also repeatedly criticised state and local authorities for imposing restrictions that have shut down large cities across the country. The measures have started to be lifted in some areas.\n• None Amazon under threat: Fires, loggers and now virus", "Students could face deportation if they do not comply with the rules\n\nForeign students will not be allowed to stay in the US this autumn if their universities have moved classes fully online, unless they switch to a course with in-person tuition.\n\nThe US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said people could face deportation if they do not comply with the rules.\n\nMany universities are moving classes online due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not clear how many students will be affected.\n\nLarge numbers of foreign students travel to the US to study every year and are a significant source of revenue for universities as many pay full tuition.\n\nHarvard has announced all course instruction will be delivered online when students return for the new academic year, including those living at the university.\n\nThe Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which is run by ICE, had permitted foreign students to continue with their spring and summer 2020 courses online while remaining in the country.\n\nBut Monday's announcement said foreign students who remain in the US while enrolled in online courses and fail to switch to in-person courses could face \"immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings\".\n\nThe rule applies to holders of F-1 and M-1 visas, which are for academic and vocational students. The State Department issued 388,839 F visas and 9,518 M visas in the fiscal year 2019, according to the agency's data.\n\nAccording to the US Commerce Department, international students contributed $45 billion (£36 billion) to the country's economy in 2018.", "Johnny Depp was pictured arriving at the High Court in London on Tuesday morning\n\nClaims that Johnny Depp was violent towards ex-wife Amber Heard are \"complete lies\", his lawyers have told the High Court.\n\nThe actor is suing the publisher of the Sun - News Group Newspapers (NGN) - and executive editor Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\".\n\nMr Depp has strenuously denied that he was violent towards Ms Heard.\n\nBut NGN lawyers said the \"wife beater\" description was \"entirely accurate\".\n\nBoth Mr Depp and Ms Heard were in court in London on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a written outline of the Hollywood star's case, his barrister, David Sherborne, said the article made \"defamatory allegations of the utmost seriousness\" against Mr Depp, accusing him of committing serious assaults on Ms Heard and \"inflicting such serious injuries that she feared for her life\".\n\nMr Sherborne said: \"The articles amount to a full-scale attack on the claimant as a 'wife beater', guilty of the most horrendous physical abuse.\"\n\nHe added: \"The claimant's position is clear - Ms Heard's allegations are complete lies.\n\n\"The claimant was not violent towards Ms Heard, it was she who was violent to him.\"\n\nAmber Heard wore a face covering as she turned up at the High Court\n\nDuring a day of cross-examination by Sasha Wass QC, barrister for NGN, she argued there was a \"nasty\" side to Mr Depp's character.\n\nShe later suggested Mr Depp \"regularly engaged in destructive and violent behaviour\", which the actor denied.\n\nThe court was shown a video, recorded by Ms Heard without Mr Depp's knowledge, in which he was shown pacing around a room, swearing and kicking a cabinet.\n\nAsked by Ms Wass if he would agree he was violent in the clip, Mr Depp replied: \"I was violent with some cupboards.\"\n\nHe added: \"Clearly, I wasn't in the best state of mind.\"\n\nMr Depp was also questioned about his use of drugs and said there had been \"an internal fight in me in terms of alcohol and drugs and other numbing agents throughout my life, from the age of 11\", when he first took one of his mother's \"nerve pills\".\n\nAs part of its defence, NGN alleges Mr Depp was \"controlling and verbally and physically abusive towards Ms Heard, particularly when he was under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs\".\n\nIn witness statements filed as part of the case, Mr Depp said he has never abused Ms Heard, or any other woman, in his life and alleged Ms Heard was \"calculating\", \"sociopathic\" and \"a narcissist\".\n\n\"I am now convinced that she came into my life to take from me anything worth taking, and then destroy what remained of it,\" he said.\n\nMr Depp said the pair sought the help of a marriage counsellor who he says confirmed to him that Ms Heard had a \"borderline, toxic narcissistic personality disorder and is a sociopath\".\n\nIn his witness statements he also accused Ms Heard of repeatedly punching him in the face and severing his finger by throwing a vodka bottle at him.\n\nNGN previously tried to have the case thrown out, but Mr Justice Nicol ruled last week the case could go ahead.\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\"\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the Pirates of the Caribbean star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.\n\nMr Depp, 57, has been Oscar and Bafta-nominated and won a Golden Globe in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He married the Aquaman and The Danish Girl actress, now 34, in February 2015, but she filed for divorce after 15 months.\n\nA defamation action is a civil law claim and can be brought if someone publishes to other people a statement about you which has either caused your reputation serious harm or is likely to cause it serious harm.\n\nThere are four possible defences to defamation. Firstly, that the statement about you is true. Secondly, that it was not a statement of fact but an honest opinion. Thirdly, that publication was justified because it was on a matter of public interest, and finally that it was protected by \"privilege\".\n\nHowever, defamation actions work differently from many civil actions such as breach of contract, where the burden of proving the \"wrong\" lies with the person bringing the claim. In defamation, that person has to show that the statement about them has a defamatory meaning - ie that it lowers them in the minds of right-thinking members of society.\n\n\"Meaning\" is now decided by a judge at an early, pre-trial stage. Many cases settle after the judge has ruled on meaning, but if a claim does go to trial, the burden then lies with the publisher to prove, for example, that the statement was substantially true. This is when the gloves come off and personal reputations and behaviour come under intense scrutiny.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email us at entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Farzad Saadat, an anaesthetic registrar at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, is among those seeking action\n\nPoor air quality and climate change pose a bigger threat to people's health and the economy than coronavirus, NHS staff have warned.\n\nBBC Wales has seen a letter sent on behalf of hundreds of healthcare workers to the Welsh Government.\n\nIt calls for environmental issues to be prioritised as part of a \"healthy recovery\" following the pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was \"committed\" to a green recovery.\n\nThe letter calls for scientific advisors to be involved in developing economic policy in the aftermath of the pandemic.\n\nEfforts to pedestrianise cities, encourage walking and cycling, and increasing how much energy is supplied by renewable sources should be sped up, it says, as well as businesses getting money to help cut energy consumption and waste.\n\nNHS workers want scientists involved in planning for a post-coronavirus Wales\n\nAnaesthetic registrar at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, Dr Farzad Saadat, said: \"What we're asking is that the government put clean air, clean energy and a cleaner environment at the centre of their policies for the future.\"\n\nThe Welsh Environmental Anaesthesia Network (WEAN), one of the organisations behind the letter, has worked with hospitals across Wales for the past 18 months to cut back on emissions of potent, planet-warming gases involved in treatment.\n\nThis has resulted in a cut of 130,000kg of CO2 per month \"the same as flying to New York 130 times,\" said Dr Saadat, a WEAN member.\n\nHe added: \"There's growing evidence, for instance, that air pollution makes us more susceptible to the disease and makes us more likely to have a bad outcome should we get it.\n\n\"There's convincing evidence too that diseases like Covid-19 are more likely to emerge as we destroy the natural world.\"\n\nYasmina Hamdaoui says people \"can't ignore the impact damage to the environment is having on our health\"\n\nYsbyty Gwynedd Green Group has also signed the letter.\n\nMember Yasmina Hamdaoui, a pharmacist, said pollution could lead to - and exacerbate - cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, with possible links also to dementia and diabetes, as well as weight gain in babies and lung development in children.\n\n\"We've seen during this period that we have the ability to make drastic changes to our way of life when we need to. We want to learn from these changes and not just return to old habits.\"\n\nShe said the letter was inspired by another sent to leaders of the G20 countries by more than 350 groups representing 40 million healthcare workers.\n\n\"This is our attempt to do something at a more local level, join forces as Welsh organisations and call on the Welsh Government to make a commitment too,\" she added.\n\nAir quality in parts of Cardiff ranks among the worst in the UK when population is taken into account, and government data shows Wales has the highest levels of CO2 per capita emissions in the UK.\n\n\"Our record to date hasn't always been the best,\" Dr Saadat said.\n\n\"While I do think the Welsh Government have been active, the reality is we have to do better - we don't have a choice.\"\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\nMathew Norman, of Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation in Wales, backs the plan: \"The cost of air pollution to our NHS is £1bn pounds a year - that's just in Wales.\n\n\"If we improve air quality, we're not just improving the nation's health and our environment we'll also be helping the NHS.\"\n\nThe circumstances surrounding coronavirus could provide an opportunity to \"fast-forward\" some of the changes required, he suggested.\n\n\"More of us are working from home, we've seen in Cardiff and elsewhere measures to transform the city centre, bringing in cycling infrastructure and pedestrianising whole streets. All of this will limit the amount of pollution we emit.\"\n\nTracy Cross hopes air quality in Cardiff does not return to pre-lockdown levels\n\nTracy Cross, of Llanishen, Cardiff, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma and said every breath was like \"breathing through straws\".\n\nShe has noticed a \"huge change\" in air quality during lockdown.\n\n\"It used to make my chest feel really tight and restricted and I had to risk assess every time I wanted to go out. But during lockdown it's been fantastic - I've been able to get out a lot more into the garden with my children.\"\n\nMs Cross said it was important things did not revert to \"normal\" as there would be many people with lung conditions who have lost fitness while shielding at home and deteriorating air quality would lead to \"a lot more people suffering\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said it was \"committed to a green and socially just recovery, leading to a cleaner, healthier and more equal nation\".\n\n\"This recovery will require working with partners across Wales,\" they said.\n\n\"Our Team Wales approach already includes work with Natural Resources Wales who have created a panel to advise on this recovery work, and through the Partnership Council for Wales we have jointly set an ambitious target to achieve a net-zero carbon public sector in Wales by 2030.\n\n\"Air pollution is the largest environmental threat to public health.\n\n\"We will be publishing our Clean Air Plan for Wales this August, which reflects how we will deliver our commitment to reducing emissions and delivering vital improvements for health and well-being, natural environment, ecosystems and biodiversity.\"", "Claire Cross has donated the masks to make the deaf feel \"safe and included\"\n\nA woman has sewn more than 100 protective masks that enable lip-reading to help deaf people feel \"safe and included\".\n\nClaire Cross, 45 and from Devon, said the masks - which feature a clear panel over the mouth - were \"vital\" for those with hearing issues.\n\nThe National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) has called for the masks to be made widely available.\n\nThe government said its policies aimed to be \"as inclusive as possible\".\n\nGail Conway is using clear masks as she relies on lip reading to communicate effectively\n\nThe use of face masks is mandatory on public transport, in hospitals and in some enclosed areas to help prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut the NDCS has warned standard coverings \"could put the deaf at an even higher risk of isolation and loneliness than they already are\".\n\nMs Cross, a furloughed pub worker from Cranbrook, Exeter, who has been shielding because she has rheumatoid arthritis, has also been donating plain masks as she wants coverings to become a \"natural\" thing.\n\nMs Cross said deaf and hard of hearing people should be able to \"go back to normal\" like others\n\nMs Cross said people would \"want to get back to normal\" as lockdown eased.\n\n\"Why should they [deaf and hard of hearing people] suffer? Why should they not be able to get back to normal like everybody else?\"\n\nGail Conway, 59, from Lichfield in Staffordshire, said clear masks should be the new normal as opaque ones were a \"barrier\".\n\n\"When I tell people I lip read it means they have to touch their face to pull it down to communicate with me and then put it back on when the conversation is completed,\" she said.\n\n\"For many deaf people, especially if they live alone, the whole issue that this virus has created certainly has brought more isolation if they weren't [already isolated] before.\"\n\nThe government said there were exemptions in place for those who could not adhere to the mandatory use of a mask.\n\nIn a statement it said it regularly engaged with disabled people's charities so its policies were \"appropriately tailored to be as inclusive as possible\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 60% of civilian deaths have been the result of Saudi-led air strikes, the UN says\n\nThe UK is to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite concerns they could be used against civilians in Yemen, in violation of international humanitarian law.\n\nSales were suspended last year after a legal challenge by campaigners.\n\nA subsequent review found \"isolated incidents\" of possible violations but no pattern of non-compliance and \"no clear risk\" of future serious breaches.\n\nThe Campaign Against the Arms Trade said it was a \"morally bankrupt\" move.\n\nIt accused the government of \"rank hypocrisy\" after, on Monday, it banned 20 senior Saudi officials from entering the UK and frozen their assets in connection with the 2018 killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nLabour said the government's \"mixed messages...undermined the UK's claim to be human rights defenders\".\n\nThe UK's support for the Saudi-led international coalition in Yemen, which is backing the country's government in its battle against a long-running Houthi insurgency, has proved highly controversial.\n\nThousands of people, including many civilians, have been killed in the five-year conflict, while millions have been made homeless or left starving.\n\nThe UN has verified the deaths of at least 7,700 civilians since 2015 and said 60% of these were due to bombing raids by the Saudi-led coalition, whose other members include the United Arab Emirates.\n\nMonitoring groups believe the toll is far higher with the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project identifying 12,000 civilians killed in direct attacks.\n\nAccording to campaigners, the UK has licensed £5.3bn worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since 2015.\n\nBritish officials have provided military advice to the Saudi-led coalition, including on bombing targets and tactics.\n\nUnder UK export policy, military equipment licences should not be granted if there is a \"clear risk\" that weapons might be used in a \"serious violation of international humanitarian law\".\n\nThe UK was forced to review its policy after the Court of Appeal ruled in June 2019 that its decision-making process was unlawful as no attempt had been made to assess whether serious breaches had occurred in Yemen.\n\nIn a statement, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the UK had now analysed individual allegations of abuses, using new methodology, to determine whether there had been a \"historic pattern of breaches\".\n\nWhile some of these incidents were assessed as \"possible\" violations, she said they \"occurred at different times, in different circumstances and for different reasons and the conclusion is that these are isolated incidents\".\n\nA Saudi-led multinational coalition intervened in the conflict in Yemen in March 2015\n\n\"In the light of all that information and analysis, I have concluded that...Saudi Arabia has a genuine intent and the capacity to comply with international humanitarian law,\" she said.\n\n\"On that basis, I have assessed that there is not a clear risk that the export of arms and military equipment to Saudi Arabia might be used in the commission of a serious violation.\"\n\nShe said sales could resume and the \"backlog\" of individual licences which have accumulated since last June would be cleared subject to them meeting UK and EU criteria.\n\nThe Campaign Against The Arms Trade said the government's decision was \"disgraceful\".\n\n\"The Saudi-led bombardment of Yemen has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and the government itself admits that UK-made arms have played a central role on the bombing,\" it said.\n\n\"The evidence shows a clear pattern of heinous and appalling breaches of international humanitarian law by a coalition which has repeatedly targeted civilian gatherings such as weddings, funerals, and market places.\n\n\"The government claims that these are isolated incidents, but how many hundreds of isolated incidents would it take for the government to stop supplying the weaponry?\"\n\nLabour said they would be pressing Ms Truss to explain her decision to Parliament.\n\n\"Even by this government's standards, their decision to resume the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen is morally indefensible,\" said shadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry.\n\n\"At a time when millions of Yemeni children are facing the mortal threat of starvation and disease, Britain should be working flat out to bring this terrible war to an end, not selling the arms that continue to fuel it.\"\n\nThe SNP's foreign affairs spokesman, Alyn Smith, said the government had \"repeatedly and disgracefully put profits before peace\".\n\nThe UK has long sought to broker a political settlement to the conflict in Yemen while backing the government in its effort to defeat the rebels.\n\nBut it has been criticised for not taking tougher line with Saudi Arabia, which is a longstanding defence and intelligence ally of the UK.\n\nGermany banned all arms exports to Saudi Arabia in 2018 following the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government.", "The study estimates that around just 5% of the Spanish population has developed antibodies\n\nA Spanish study has cast doubt on the feasibility of herd immunity as a way of tackling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe study of more than 60,000 people estimates that around just 5% of the Spanish population has developed antibodies, the medical journal the Lancet reported.\n\nHerd immunity is achieved when enough people become immune to a virus to stop its spread.\n\nAround 70% to 90% of a population needs to be immune to protect the uninfected.\n\nThe prevalence of Covid-19 antibodies was below 3% in coastal regions, but higher in areas of Spain with widespread outbreaks, the report said.\n\n\"Despite the high impact of Covid-19 in Spain, prevalence estimates remain low and are clearly insufficient to provide herd immunity,\" the study's authors said in the report.\n\n\"This cannot be achieved without accepting the collateral damage of many deaths in the susceptible population and overburdening of health systems.\n\n\"In this situation, social distance measures and efforts to identify and isolate new cases and their contacts are imperative for future epidemic control.\"\n\nThe study is thought to be the largest of its kind on the coronavirus in Europe.\n\nThere have been studies of a similar kind in China and the US and \"the key finding from these representative cohorts is that most of the population appears to have remained unexposed\" to the coronavirus, \"even in areas with widespread virus circulation,\" the Lancet article said.\n\nProf Danny Altmann, British Society for Immunology spokesperson and Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London, described the study as \"sobering\".\n\n\"Findings such as this reinforce the idea that faced with a lethal infection that induces rather short-lived immunity, the challenge is to identify the best vaccine strategies able to overcome these problems and stimulate a large, sustained, optimal, immune response in the way the virus failed to do,\" Prof Altmann said.\n\nThe country has recorded more than a quarter of a million cases and at least 28,385 deaths. But daily fatalities have been in the single figures for most of the past three weeks.\n\nHowever, officials in the north-western region of Galicia have re-imposed restrictions on an area of 70,000 people following an outbreak.\n\nOfficials linked local outbreaks to bars in the area. Capacity in bars and restaurants have been limited to 50%.\n\nThere are now 258 cases of Covid-19 in Galicia, including 117 in Lugo province, authorities say.\n\nOn Saturday the autonomous government of Catalonia re-imposed controls on an area of 210,000 residents after a sharp rise in infections there.\n\nCatalan President Quim Torra said no-one would be allowed to enter or leave Segrià, a district west of Barcelona that includes the city of Lleida.\n\nHerd immunity can be reached either by widespread vaccination or if enough of the population is exposed to an infection and recovers. If enough people are immune to a disease, it is unlikely to keep spreading from person to person. Letting the coronavirus infection run and risking lots of people getting very sick with it is not an option - it would put too many lives in danger.\n\nAnd currently, there is no vaccine for coronavirus - even though hundreds are in development. The challenge is to make a jab that provides enough protection. It needs to train the body's immune system to learn and remember how to make antibodies that can fight off coronavirus.\n\nScientists are concerned that this \"memory\" might be too short-lived though, given the nature of the disease. While some people who catch coronavirus develop protective antibodies, experts do not yet know how long these last.\n\nCommon colds are caused by similar viruses and the body's immune response fades quickly to those.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Tackling climate change must be woven into the solution to the Covid-19 economic crisis, the UK will tell governments next week.\n\nEnvironment ministers from 30 countries are meeting in a two-day online conference in a bid to make progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe gathering is called the \"Petersberg Climate Dialogue\".\n\nIt will focus on how to organise a \"green\" economic recovery after the acute phase of the pandemic is over.\n\nThe other aim is to forge international agreement on ambitious carbon cuts despite the postponement of the key conference COP26 - previously scheduled for Glasgow in November (now without a date).\n\nAlok Sharma, the UK Climate Secretary and president of COP26, said: \"I am committed to increasing global climate ambition so that we deliver on the Paris Agreement (to stabilise temperature rise well below 2C).\n\n\"The world must work together, as it has to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, to support a green and resilient recovery, which leaves no one behind.\n\n\"At the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, we will come together to discuss how we can turn ambition into real action.\"\n\nThe informal conference is co-hosted by the UK and Germany.\n\nDeveloped and developing countries will attend, along with the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and members of civil society and business. Last week, Mr Guterres warned that climate change was a deeper problem than the virus.\n\nCampaign groups will be sceptical about the meeting. Since the Paris deal to cut emissions, CO2 has actually been rising - although there's currently a blip in the trend thanks to the Covid recession.\n\nThe development charity CARE says it's alarmed that public finance provided from rich countries to developing countries to adapt to inevitable climate change actually decreased in 2018.\n\nSven Harmeling from CARE said: \"If governments fail to make their economic stimulus sustainable and equitable, they will drive our planet much deeper into the existential economic, social and ecological turmoil caused by the climate crisis.\"\n\nThe EU is already set on delivering a green stimulus. The Commission's Green Deal chief, Frans Timmermans, said every euro spent on economic recovery measures after the COVID-19 crisis would be linked to the green and digital transitions.\n\n\"The European Green Deal is a growth strategy and a winning strategy,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"It's not a luxury we drop when we hit another crisis. It is essential for Europe's future.\n\nMeanwhile, China appears set on its current carbon-intensive development path, and President Trump says the US will rescue struggling fossil fuel firms.\n\nEven in Europe there's a degree of push-back against the idea of a green stimulus .\n\nMarkus Pieper, an MEP from the centre-right German CDU party, told the magazine FOCUS that the EU's sweeping plan for investment in clean technologies would no longer be possible.\n\nHe said: \"The Green Deal was a gigantic challenge for an economy in top shape. After the corona bloodletting, it is simply not financially viable.\"\n\nBut the UK climate economist Lord Stern told BBC News: \"The immediate priority is the current Covid crisis – but then we have to build for the future.\n\n\"Timmermans is right and Trump is wrong. We should only be bailing out firms that are going to contribute to tackling climate change.\n\n\"They don’t have be be ostensibly clean tech firms at the moment – but they do have to be committed to cutting their emissions in line with international targets.\"\n\nThe high-level segment on 28 April can be followed live from around 3:10 pm here.", "PC Harper died after his ankles became entangled in a tow strap attached to a car\n\nA teenager accused of murdering PC Andrew Harper has told a court he feels \"disgraceful\" over his death.\n\nHenry Long, 19, was trying to evade arrest after attempting to steal a quad bike from a house in Stanford Dingley, Berkshire, on 15 August.\n\nThe policeman was chasing after a suspect when his ankles became entangled in a tow rope attached to a Seat Toledo driven by Long.\n\nPC Harper, 28, was dragged for more than a mile along country lanes.\n\nGiving evidence at the Old Bailey, Long said he did not know PC Harper was attached to the vehicle.\n\nHe said: \"If I was aware I would have stopped the vehicle, tried to save him.\"\n\nLeft to right: Henry Long, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole deny murder\n\nLong, from Mortimer, Reading, has pleaded guilty to PC Harper's manslaughter but denied \"in any way\" intending to harm or kill him.\n\nHe said: \"I accept that I killed him from what I was doing, the way I was driving.\"\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, asked him: \"Did you care about what happened?\"\n\nLong said: \"The fact he died, yes.\"\n\nHe told jurors he could not sleep and thought about PC Harper's family and how they felt.\n\nLong admitted he had been a passenger in cars chased by police before, but said this was the first time he had been the driver.\n\nHe told the court he was a \"thief\" like his father and grandfather, stealing quad bikes and mechanical equipment.\n\nHis two passengers on the night, Albert Bowers, of Moat Close, Bramley, and Jessie Cole, of Paices Hill near Reading, both 18, have also denied murdering the Thames Valley Police officer.\n\nAll three have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\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 Britain must \"build, build, build\" to bounce back from the coronavirus crisis\n\nBoris Johnson has said now is the time to be \"ambitious\" about the UK's future, as he set out a post-coronavirus recovery plan.\n\nThe PM vowed to \"use this moment\" to fix longstanding economic problems and promised a £5bn \"new deal\" to build homes and infrastructure.\n\nPlans set out in the Tory election manifesto would be speeded up and \"intensified,\" he added.\n\nLabour and the CBI said he was not focusing enough on saving jobs.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said there was \"not much of a deal and not much that's new\".\n\nThe BBC's economic editor, Faisal Islam, said there was \"nothing really new\" in the plans, but was a pledge from the Treasury to \"speed up capital investment that has already been announced and tolerate higher levels of debt\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak later confirmed he would deliver an economic update on 8 July \"setting out the next stage in our plan to secure the recovery\".\n\nThe PM's speech came as new figures showed the UK economy shrank faster than at any time since 1979 between January and March.\n\nIn a wide-ranging speech in Dudley, in the West Midlands, Mr Johnson vowed to \"build, build, build\" to soften the \"economic aftershock\" of coronavirus.\n\nHe said the government wanted to continue with its plans to \"level up\" - one of its main slogans of last December's election - as \"too many parts\" of the country had been \"left behind, neglected, unloved\".\n\nInfrastructure projects in England would be \"accelerated\" and there would be investment in new academy schools, green buses and new broadband, the PM added.\n\nOther projects announced in the government's Spring Budget, which will now be accelerated, include:\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged jobs might be lost because of the economic hit from the pandemic, but said a new \"opportunity guarantee\" would ensure every young person had the chance of an apprenticeship or placement.\n\nAsked whether the plans went far enough for those who end up unemployed, the PM said the strategy was for \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" and there would not be a return to austerity.\n\nBut he could not put a figure on how many roles would be created through his plan, adding: \"We don't yet know what the full economic impact is going to be... [but] we will do everything we can to get this economy moving.\"\n\nHe is a keen student of Winston Churchill - and has even written a book about him.\n\nOver the last few days, the comparisons the government has sought to draw have been with former American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"\n\nAs my colleagues at Reality Check point out, the plan set out today is a tiddler compared to what FDR did, and a fair chunk of it is re-announcing what we already knew the government was planning.\n\nBut Boris Johnson is attempting to set out in a broader context the government's vision - and his pride in saying he wants to spend a lot to revitalise the economy and haul it out of the doldrums.\n\nUnder what Mr Johnson dubbed \"project speed,\" planning laws would also be streamlined to encourage building.\n\nPubs, libraries, village shops will be protected from the changes as they were \"essential to the lifeblood of communities,\" the government said.\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged the planning changes might meet resistance in traditional Tory-voting areas, but said: \"Sometimes you have got to get on with things.\"\n\nThe government believes their existing plans for boosting infrastructure spending are already a significant fillip to the economy, and they want to see what happens as it re-opens.\n\nOne set of figures released today shows household savings increased during lockdown, but will people have the confidence to spend?\n\nThe scale of government support for businesses and employees in recent months probably does justify New Deal-style rhetoric. Extending support at that level may yet be required, and is far from ruled out.\n\nBut for now, they are holding fire as they assess the permanent scars to the UK economy.\n\nMr Johnson also attempted to calm Tory fears that he had shifted to the left, saying: \"I am not a communist\".\n\nInstead, he claimed he had been inspired by US president Franklin D Roosevelt, who led America out of the Great Depression with his New Deal in the 1930s.\n\nIn the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, President Roosevelt launched one of the largest, most expensive US government programmes which included building schools, hospitals and dams.\n\nYouth Worker Lisa Williams is worried young people will be hit hard\n\nIn the former \"red wall\" seat of Rother Valley - which the Conservatives won from Labour for the first time at last year's general election - there has been a mixed reaction to the announcement from employees and business owners.\n\nDavid Shaw, operations manager for a manufacturing company, said the investment announcement was \"positive\" and praised the government's furlough scheme during the crisis for saving businesses.\n\nBut Lisa Williams, manager of a youth and community centre in Dinnington, said of the promised investment that \"we've yet to see that happen\".\n\n\"Year-on-year, successive governments have made promises, and these areas have yet to see that,\" she said, adding she was concerned about the economic impact on young people.\n\nAnd Jayne Maxwell, a shop owner in Maltby, said she was sceptical about how much investment would go into high streets, saying more short-term help was needed.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"We're facing an economic crisis, the biggest we've seen in a generation and the recovery needs to match that. What's been announced amounts to less than £100 per person.\n\n\"And it's the re-announcement of many manifesto pledges and commitments, so it's not enough.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer says more focus is needed on jobs\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"We're not going to argue against a recovery plan, but the focus has to be on jobs.\"\n\nCBI Director General Carolyn Fairbairn said the prime minister had set out the \"first steps on the path to recovery\" but added that \"the focus on rescuing viable firms cannot slip\".", "Historian David Starkey has said using comments denounced as racist during a discussion about slavery were \"a bad mistake\" for which he is \"very sorry\".\n\nHe apologised \"unreservedly\" for the offence his \"deplorably inflammatory\" words had caused, saying he had spoken \"with awful clumsiness\".\n\nThe academic and author told an online show that slavery was not genocide as \"so many damn blacks\" had survived.\n\nHis comments were widely condemned and saw him lose several university posts.\n\nCambridge University's Fitzwilliam College, Canterbury Christ Church University and The Mary Rose Trust were among the organisations to cut ties with him.\n\nStarkey made the offensive remarks in an episode of Darren Grimes's Reasoned, entitled \"Dr David Starkey: Black Lives Matter Aims To Delegitimate British History.\"\n\nGrimes, a conservative commentator, also distanced himself from his guest's remarks, saying he rejected what Starkey said on his YouTube show \"in the strongest possible terms\".\n\nIn a statement released on Monday, Starkey said he had \"paid a heavy price for one offensive word with the loss of every distinction and honour acquired in a long career\".\n\nSpeaking about his use of the phrase \"so many damn blacks\", he said: \"It was intended to emphasise, in hindsight with awful clumsiness, the numbers who survived the horrors of the slave trade. Instead, it came across as a term of racial abuse.\n\n\"This, in the present atmosphere, where passions are high and feelings raw, was deplorably inflammatory. It was a bad mistake.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am very sorry for it and I apologise unreservedly for the offence it caused.\n\n\"Moreover, this misunderstanding of my words in no way reflects my views or practice on race.\n\n\"I have lived and worked happily and without conflict in multicultural London for almost 50 years and I spent much of the podcast discussing bi-culturalism as a key to the success of Britain's multicultural society.\"\n\nStarkey's original interview sparked a backlash, including from former chancellor Sajid Javid, who said Starkey's \"racist\" comments were a \"reminder of the appalling views that still exist\".\n\nPublisher HarperCollins said he had expressed \"abhorrent\" views and added it would no longer publish any of his books.\n\nDuring the original discussion, Starkey said slavery \"was not genocide\" because \"otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.\"\n\nStarkey said he had spoken \"with awful clumsiness\"\n\nHe also claimed that the Black Lives Matter protests, following the death of George Floyd, had been characterised by \"violence\", \"victimhood\" and the \"deranged\" pulling down of statues.\n\nHe continued: \"As for the idea that slavery is this kind of terrible disease that dare not speak its name, it only dare not speak its name, Darren, because we settled it nearly 200 years ago.\n\n\"We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.\"\n\nIn his statement, Starkey said free speech was \"central\" to British history and that he feared his \"blundering use of language\" would \"restrict the opportunities for proper debate\".\n\n\"For it is only open debate that will heal the divisions in our society that the Black Lives Matter movement has both exposed and expressed,\" he concluded.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Grenfell Tower fire inquiry \"must not ignore\" the impact of race and poverty on the disaster, a lawyer representing survivors has said.\n\nLeslie Thomas QC, also representing bereaved families, said the 2017 fire was \"inextricably linked with race\".\n\nAnd he urged the inquiry to be on the \"right side of history\" when considering how the issue contributed towards the deaths of the 72 victims.\n\nThe inquiry returned this week after a four-month break due to coronavirus.\n\n\"The Grenfell fire did not happen in a vacuum,\" said Mr Thomas in his opening statement.\n\n\"A majority of the Grenfell residents who died were people of colour.\n\n\"Grenfell is inextricably linked with race. It is the elephant in the room.\n\n\"This disaster happened in a pocket of one of the smallest yet richest boroughs in London.\n\n\"Yet the community affected was predominantly working-class. That is the stark reality that cannot be ignored.\"\n\nMr Thomas said there were \"parallel themes\" between the Grenfell fire, the killing of George Floyd in the US and the \"disproportionate\" number of coronavirus deaths among people from minority ethnic backgrounds, adding: \"Race and state obligation are at the heart of all three cases.\"\n\nThe Grenfell Next of Kin group has called for the inquiry to \"investigate the extent of institutional racism as a factor\" in the fire in June 2017.\n\nLegal submissions made to the inquiry explain there were four visitors to the tower among the dead and also stillborn Baby Logan Gomes and then adds: \"Of the remaining 67, 57 were from BAME (black, Asian and other ethnic minority) communities.\n\n\"In the English Housing Survey 2017-2018, it was found that 40% of those living in high-rise buildings in the social rented sector are black, Asian or other. This, compared to the per cent of the population (14%), is high.\"\n\nMr Thomas told the inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick: \"This is your time of action to break the cycle of disengagement with the issue of race and inequality.\n\n\"What will this inquiry be remembered for? You will undoubtedly want it to be on the right side of history.\"\n\nOn Monday, the inquiry heard how a senior fire safety engineer did not think putting cladding on Grenfell Tower would pose any \"issues\" for safety.\n\nIn its first phase, the inquiry concluded that cladding fuelled the fire in June 2017. The second phase is examining how it could have happened in the first place.\n• None Grenfell Tower fire: Who were the victims?", "Traffic has been much-reduced on the streets of New York\n\nLevels of air pollutants and warming gases over some cities and regions are showing significant drops as coronavirus impacts work and travel.\n\nResearchers in New York told the BBC their early results showed carbon monoxide mainly from cars had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year.\n\nEmissions of the planet-heating gas CO2 have also fallen sharply.\n\nBut there are warnings levels could rise rapidly after the pandemic.\n\nWith global economic activity ramping down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it is hardly surprising that emissions of a variety of gases related to energy and transport would be reduced.\n\nScientists say that by May, when CO2 emissions are at their peak thanks to the decomposition of leaves, the levels recorded might be the lowest since the financial crisis over a decade ago.\n\nWhile it is early days, data collected in New York this week suggests that instructions to curb unnecessary travel are having a significant impact.\n\nTraffic levels in the city were estimated to be down 35% compared with a year ago. Emissions of carbon monoxide, mainly due to cars and trucks, have fallen by around 50% for a couple of days this week according to researchers at Columbia University.\n\nThey have also found that there was a 5-10% drop in CO2 over New York and a solid drop in methane as well.\n\n\"New York has had exceptionally high carbon monoxide numbers for the last year and a half,\" said Prof Róisín Commane, from Columbia University, who carried out the New York air monitoring work.\n\n\"And this is the cleanest I have ever seen it. It's is less than half of what we normally see in March.\"\n\nAlthough there are a number of caveats to these findings, they echo the environmental impacts connected to the virus outbreaks in China and in Italy.\n\nAn analysis carried out for the climate website Carbon Brief suggested there had been a 25% drop in energy use and emissions in China over a two week period. This is likely to lead to an overall fall of about 1% in China's carbon emissions this year, experts believe.\n\nBoth China and Northern Italy have also recorded significant falls in nitrogen dioxide, which is related to reduced car journeys and industrial activity. The gas is a serious air pollutant and also indirectly contributes to the warming of the planet.\n\nWith aviation grinding to a halt and millions of people working from home, a range of emissions across many countries are likely following the same downward path.\n\nWhile people working from home will likely increase the use of home heating and electricity, the curbing of commuting and the general slowdown in economies will likely have an impact on overall emissions.\n\n\"I expect we will have the smallest increase in May to May peak CO2 that we've had in the northern hemisphere since 2009, or even before,\" said Prof Commane.\n\nThis view is echoed by others in the field, who believe that the shutdown will impact CO2 levels for the whole of this year.\n\n\"It will depend on how long the pandemic lasts, and how widespread the slowdown is in the economy particularly in the US. But most likely I think we will see something in the global emissions this year,\" said Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia.\n\n\"If it lasts another three of four months, certainly we could see some reduction.\"\n\nWhat's likely to make a major difference to the scale of carbon emissions and air pollution is how governments decide to re-stimulate their economies once the pandemic eases.\n\nBack in the 2008-09, after the global financial crash, carbon emissions shot up by 5% as a result of stimulus spending that boosted fossil fuel use.\n\nIn the coming months, governments will have a chance to alter that outcome. They could insist, for instance, that any bailout of airlines would be tied to far more stringent reductions in aviation emissions.\n\n\"Governments now have to be really cautious on how they re-stimulate their economies, mindful of not locking in fossil fuels again,\" said Prof Le Quéré.\n\n\"They should focus those things that are ready to go that would lower emissions, like renovating buildings, putting in heat pumps and electric chargers. These are not complicated and can be done straight away, they are just waiting for financial incentives.\"\n\nHowever, some argue that if the pandemic goes on a long time, any stimulus would more likely focus on promoting any economic growth regardless of the impact on the environment.\n\n\"I certainly think climate could go on the back burner, and in this case, I don't think there is much hope that stimulus goes to clean energy,\" said Prof Glen Peters from the Centre for International Climate Research.\n\n\"Any stimulus will help those with job losses such as tourism and services. I think this is very different to the global financial crisis. The only silver linings could be to learning new practices to work remotely, and buying a few years of lower growth allowing solar and wind to catch up a bit, though, these may be rather small silver linings.\"", "Rebekah Vardy says the row with Coleen Rooney made her a \"scapegoat\"\n\nRebekah Vardy felt \"suicidal\" following her row with Coleen Rooney last year, new court documents reveal.\n\nColeen Rooney, 34, claimed on social media that fake stories she posted on her private Instagram account were then published in the tabloids.\n\nShe said she deliberately made stories only viewable to Vardy - which then made it into The Sun.\n\nRebekah Vardy, 38, denies all allegations against her and is currently suing Rooney for defamation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nOther details included say her husband, Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, was targeted with verbal abuse at games that took place after the post with chants like \"Becky Vardy's a grass\".\n\nRebekah Vardy says she was at some of the games where the chants could be heard and found the situation \"horrific and extremely distressing\" because she was there with her children.\n\nColeen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy were pictured together at Euro 2016\n\nRebekah Vardy's lawyers say she was made to feel like a \"scapegoat\" and they also claim Rooney posted \"in a calculated and deliberate manner that was designed to cause very serious harm and enormous distress.\"\n\nThe original post by Rooney, who is married to former England International Wayne, has nearly 300,000 likes on Twitter and 200,000 on Instagram.\n\nEvidence presented also includes screenshots of some of the comments Rebekah Vardy has received on social media after Coleen Rooney's post and states she \"suffered and continues to suffer severe and extreme hostility and abuse as a result of the post\".\n\nVardy's lawyers say the accusations made against her have caused \"serious harm\" to her reputation, \"personality, integrity and honesty\".\n\n\"She has been targeted by online trolls and attacked on social media platforms including but not limited to Twitter and Instagram; as well as via readers' comments on articles relating to the post,\" they say.\n\n\"The abuse was so extreme that the claimant was forced to use filters on her Instagram account to prevent certain words from being published under her posts.\"\n\nNewsbeat has approached Coleen Rooney's lawyers for comment on Rebekah Vardy's new claims.\n\n\"It is disappointing that Mrs Vardy has chosen to issue court proceedings,\" Coleen's lawyer, Paul Lunt of Brabners, said in June, before the case began.\n\n\"Coleen feels that the time and money involved could be put to better use; her offer to meet face to face still stands.\n\n\"Mrs Vardy's decision to issue court proceedings does at least mean that Coleen's evidence can be made public when the time is right.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police made Hari an honorary child police officer before he left for home\n\nA four-year-old boy has been given a special send off after spending 28 months in hospital.\n\nHari Jones from Caernarfon in Gwynedd has myotubular myopathy, which means the muscles he uses to breathe and swallow do not work.\n\nMerseyside Police gave him a guard of honour as he left on Tuesday.\n\nHis father Michael Jones said he had spent so much time at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool he had developed a Scouse accent.\n\nLater the family were met by a police biker and a roads policing BMW and escorted home with blue lights.\n\nHe has also been made an honorary child police officer.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme Mr Jones said: \"It was a hard and long time.\"\n\nAt one point both Hari and his father were in intensive care in separate hospitals after Mr Jones suffered a clot in his liver.\n\nThe family lost their home as Mr Jones was too unwell to work.\n\nHari needs to continually be on oxygen\n\nMany with Hari's condition do not survive their first year of life.\n\nMr Jones said of his son's condition: \"It's life limiting, he'll never get better.\n\n\"He's on life support 24/seven. A lot needs to be learned about the condition. There are only 17 cases, I think, in Britain.\"\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has meant Hari has had to go home to an unsuitable house as building work had to stop on a new home being built that can accommodate his wheelchair.\n\nHis father said: \"It was important to get him out of the hospital. He was isolated in the hospital in one room.\"\n\nHis parents had to take it in turns to see him.\n\n\"He now has a temporary bedroom in the living room but he can't get in and out of the house. There's no room in the house but we make it work.\"\n\nPC Scott Martin from North Wales Police's roads policing unit said: \"We know that Hari loves the emergency services so we were only too happy to oblige.\n\n\"It was lovely to see his face light up today when we turned up to welcome him back home. We wish him and his family all the best with settling back at home and we hope to see him again very soon.\"", "Jordan Sinnott played for Matlock Town and his previous clubs included Huddersfield Town, Altrincham, Halifax and Chesterfield\n\nA man accused of hitting a footballer with a \"haymaker\" punch before he died told a court he \"could never be any more sorry\".\n\nKai Denovan, 22, denies the manslaughter of Jordan Sinnott during a night out in Retford, Nottinghamshire.\n\nAfter Mr Denovan hit Mr Sinnott, the defendant's friend continued punching him, Nottingham Crown Court heard.\n\nMr Denovan had denied common assault and affray but admitted the charges while giving evidence.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Denovan did not strike the fatal blow on 25 January, but did \"drive\" the attack on the 25-year-old which led to his death.\n\nMr Sinnott was found unconscious by emergency crews at about 02:00 GMT on 25 January\n\nThe court was told there was a \"scuffle\" in The Vine Pub where Mr Denovan, of Collins Walk, Retford, punched Mr Sinnott.\n\nThe Matlock Town footballer and his two friends then left while Mr Denovan and his friends Cameron Matthews and Sean Nicholson followed shortly after.\n\nIn evidence, Mr Denovan, who admitted he was drunk and has a \"blurred\" memory of the night, said: \"As far as I was concerned, what had happened in there was done and it was time to go. I was leaving as it was closing.\"\n\nWhen he saw Mr Sinnott and his friends again he wanted to \"resolve the situation\" and had \"no intention\" of fighting, the court heard.\n\nHowever, the court was told the defendant hit Mr Sinnott with \"haymaker punch\" and was then pulled away, but Matthews punched Mr Sinnott three more times.\n\nMr Denovan said after leaving the pub, he went over to Mr Sinnott to try to \"resolve\" the situation and ask \"what his problem was\"\n\nMr Denovan said when he left the scene he did not know Mr Sinnott was seriously injured.\n\nHe told the court when he learned that Mr Sinnott was in intensive care and later died, he did not realise he \"had owt to do with it\".\n\nHe said: \"I did not see anything that could have caused death from what I remembered.\"\n\nWhen he realised what had happened, he said: \"It was the worse day of my life. I was heartbroken. Heartbroken for everyone involved - for his [Mr Sinnott's] family and for him.\"\n\nMatthews, 21, of Denman Close in Retford, has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Nicholson 22, of Beechways, Retford, has admitted affray.\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.", "Gyms and leisure centres 'will be in financial hole for years'\n\nAs we know, some indoor gyms and leisure centres have been reopening in England on Saturday after coronavirus restrictions were eased. But the leisure sector has warned that it will struggle due to the financial impact of being closed for months during the government lockdown. Mark Sesnan, chief executive of GLL, the UK's largest operator of public leisure facilities, says gyms and leisure centres will be unable to dig themselves out of a \"financial hole\" caused by the closures for around \"two to three years\". He said: \"The reality is, you've got a business that has no income, and still has half the costs. Even though the furlough scheme, which has been very helpful, pays the staff costs - or most of them - the other half of our costs we've had to cover ourselves. \"We've used our reserves to pay for that, but they're running out and running out fast. So getting open is important, but actually running at half capacity, as you can guess, is still not going to solve the problem.\" The District Councils' Network (DCN) is also warning of the \"uncertain future\" faced by gyms and leisure centres, pointing out that the sector is expected to lose about £305m this year", "When a Manchester restaurant advertised for a receptionist on Monday, the owners were shocked to received almost 1,000 applicants in a day.\n\nThey had only expected about 30 people to be interested.\n\nThe UK's hospitality sector has been savaged by the coronavirus crisis, with many bars, restaurants and hotels struggling.\n\n\"It really is quite sad to see the amount of people that are looking for a job,\" the company said.\n\n\"On Monday we placed an advert for a receptionist role for our 20 Stories restaurant in Manchester,\" Carol Cairnes, director of people at the restaurant's owner D&D London, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"The next day, James, our head of talent, went to look at applications and was amazed to find that in less than 24 hours we had 963 people apply.\"\n\nNormally for such a role they'd expect at that stage to receive about 30 applications, she said.\n\n\"Going through the candidates who applied, we could see there were a lot of very talented and highly-qualified people that applied for the role, including some restaurant general managers.\"\n\nHospitality jobs have proved highly-sought-after as thousands of roles have been slashed by restaurant groups.\n\nIn the last two weeks, popular chains such as Pizza Express and Azzurri have kick-started restructures of their businesses that are likely to lead to more than 2,000 job losses and hundreds of restaurant outlets closing.\n\nSocial-distancing rules have also led to businesses reducing staff numbers, as they have re-opened with less space, meaning they can cater for fewer customers at a time now.\n\nOther businesses have reported similar experiences this week.\n\nEmily Pringle of Alnwick-based fragrance company Notes of Northumberland told the BBC that she received 583 applicants when she advertised a 16 hour-a-week retail job.\n\n\"Most of the applicants were massively over-qualified,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a very sad sign of the times. A large number of people have been educated to PhD level and applying for our job, which is telling about the current state of the job market.\"\n\n\"Massively over-qualified\" people are applying for retail, restaurant, cafe and bar jobs\n\nIn Swansea, Sarah John, founder of Boss Brewing, said that her firm had advertised for a bar manager two days before and were surprised by the number and quality of applicants.\n\n\"We would normally only get five or so responses, but have had 35 people apply already and the calibre of applicants is really high,\" she said.\n\nMost of the applicants had worked at reasonably well-known businesses, but have either lost their jobs, or are still furloughed and worried about their future, she added.\n\n\"There have also been quite of a lot of people who said they would be happy to relocate to work,\" she said.\n\n\"We're in Swansea and have had applications from people from as far as Manchester, Leeds and Cornwall.\"\n\nMeanwhile, when a London pub manager posted an advert for a £9-an-hour bar job last week, he was so overwhelmed by the response that he took to Twitter to report it.\n\nMick Dore, general manager of the Alexandra pub in Wimbledon, said: \"I don't want to alarm anyone about the economy or anything, but I advertised two bar jobs at 16:30 on Thursday. We've had well over 400 applicants. Gulp.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by mick dore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 added: \"We'd normally get a dozen or so sensible replies.\"\n\nResearch by the Institute for Employment Studies this week found that the total number of live job vacancies across the country now stands at 433,000.\n\nThat's less than half of the number in February, indicating that there's a long way to go in the recovery for the UK job market.\n\n\"Without doubt, this is now the toughest jobs market in a generation, and there are no signs yet of a significant recovery,\" said Tony Wilson, director of the Institute for Employment Studies.", "Portugal remains off the list of countries that the government has exempted from quarantine restrictions.\n\nIn changes that apply to England, travellers from Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and St Vincent and the Grenadines won't have to isolate.\n\nIt takes the list of countries that do not face travel restrictions into England to 80 nations.\n\nThe government also said it will update guidance weekly, meaning rules could change while people are away.\n\nIt said people should regularly check the advice. Previously, updates were provided every three weeks.\n\nThe Portuguese government expressed \"regret\" at the UK's decision to continue to exclude it from the list of countries that are exempt from quarantine.\n\n\"It is a decision that is neither substantiated nor supported by the facts,\" said Portugal's Ministry of State and Foreign Affairs.\n\nSpain remains on the list of countries that people can return to England from without the need to self-isolate, despite a recent spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nOn Friday, Norway announced that it was imposing a new 10-day quarantine on all travellers arriving from Spain.\n\nAccording to Johns Hopkins University, Spain has recorded270,166 cases of coronavirus and28,429 deaths.\n\nPortugal had recently imposed local lockdowns on the outskirts of its capital Lisbon to stem a rise in new cases.\n\nTourism is a major industry in Portugal and is popular with British holidaymakers, with almost three million UK visitors a year.\n\nAviation data analysts Cirium said there were 2,333 flights due to leave the UK for Portugal before the end of August.\n\nPaul Charles, chief executive of the PC Agency, said it was a badly timed move by the government.\n\n\"The scale of those due to go there before end of August is enormous. The decision today plants huge uncertainty in the minds of those who are booked who will be looking for refunds and changes and most won't have a holiday. It's going to cause uproar for operators and industry.\"\n\nHe added: \"They are not prepared to open Portugal when situation is declining, but cases in Spain are soaring, with rapid rises in their case numbers.\"\n\nJoe Mountain, of villa rental firm Sandy Blue in the Algarve is worried about the continued impact of the pandemic on tourism in Portugal\n\nJoe Mountain of Sandy Blue, a villa rental firm in the Algarve, told the BBC that he is deeply worried about the impact of a sharp drop in tourism on the local industry.\n\n\"The decision is absolutely ridiculous. If you look at the Algarve specifically, we've got exceptionally low rates of coronavirus here. There's only been, as of today's count, 806 [cases],\" he said.\n\n\"The Algarve absolutely depends on tourism - from hotels, to restaurants, to bars, and there will literally be thousands of job losses on the back of this.\"", "Owen Jones was attacked during a night out to celebrate his birthday\n\nA man has been jailed for attacking Guardian journalist Owen Jones outside a north London pub.\n\nJames Healy, 40, admitted assaulting Mr Jones, claiming it was because the 35-year-old had spilled his drink.\n\nHowever, a judge ruled that Healey carried out the attack because of Mr Jones's sexuality and political views.\n\nAppearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, he was sentenced to two years and eight months for affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nTwo other men - Charlie Ambrose, from Brighton, and Liam Tracey, from Camden - were given suspended sentences of eight months each, suspended for two years after pleading guilty to affray.\n\nMr Jones suffered cuts, swelling to his back and head, and bruises down his body in the attack outside the Lexington pub on Pentonville Road in Islington, on 17 August last year.\n\nThe Guardian journalist had been drinking in The Lexington in Islington\n\nHealy, from Portsmouth, has a string of convictions for football-related violence.\n\nThe 40-year-old Chelsea FC fan had argued he \"had the hump\" because the victim had bumped into him and spilled his drink.\n\nFollowing his arrest, a search of his home revealed a photograph of him performing a Nazi salute as well as other items connected to far-right ideology.\n\nIn his evidence, Mr Jones told the court he \"absolutely did not\" knock Healy's drink.\n\nHe said he was \"an unapologetic socialist, I'm an anti-racist, I'm an anti-fascist\" and he was \"the subject of an unrelenting campaign [of abuse] by far-right sympathisers\".\n\nRecorder Anne Studd QC said she would sentence Healy on the basis that the attack had been due to Mr Jones's \"widely published left-wing and LGBTQ beliefs\".\n\nFollowing the sentencing, the journalist tweeted that \"prison is not a solution to far right extremism\" as Healy \"will go to a prison a violent far right extremist, and probably leave prison a violent far right extremist\".\n\n\"There is no judicial solution to the far right: it is a political problem,\" he wrote.\n\nIn another tweet he called the attack \"the worst example of a concerted far right campaign of intimidation centring on the fact I'm left-wing, gay and an anti-racist\".\n\n\"Far right extremists have been responsible for murder, attempted murder, terrorist plots and violence.\n\n\"That threat is not taken seriously because it means having to ask searching questions of who is responsible for radicalising them. That must end,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Unused reality TV footage shows a woman asking Whitney Henriquez, \"did you get in a fight?\"\n\nA video which Johnny Depp's lawyers say shows his ex-wife Amber Heard \"attacked\" her sister has been shown to the High Court.\n\nIn the video, which was given to his legal team on Thursday night, friends of Whitney Henriquez suggest her sister had \"beat\" her and appear to inspect her body for bruises.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an online article that labelled him a \"wife beater\".\n\nThe paper insists it was accurate.\n\nIn the video, which was shown to the court on the 14th day of the hearing in London, Ms Henriquez is talking with friends by a pool.\n\nOne friend is heard saying, \"did you get in a fight?\" and then \"I can't believe Amber beat your ass.\"\n\nOne woman appears to inspect Ms Henriquez's cheek and arm, and Ms Henriquez is heard saying she is not going to talk about it.\n\nAmber Heard arrives at the High Court on Friday, after giving evidence the previous day\n\nMr Depp's barrister, David Sherborne, said his team received the video from \"an anonymous source\", after Ms Henriquez said in court that her sister had never attacked her.\n\nHe said the video was captured during the filming of a reality television show in 2006 or 2007 and was not for broadcast, but was \"the rushes\" - the unedited, raw footage.\n\nHe told the court: \"We were contacted to explain that Ms Amber Heard had a history of violence and attacking people and this video, which was attached, of her sister Whitney was taken shortly after Amber Heard had attacked her, and Ms Whitney was filmed with people commenting on the bruises on her face and body.\"\n\nMr Sherborne said the newly disclosed video material \"demonstrates Ms Whitney was lying yesterday\" and that she had \"tailored\" her evidence \"to meet her sister's evidence\".\n\nReturning to the witness stand, Ms Henriquez told the court she had been referring in the video to a verbal argument she had had with her sister and denied it had been physical.\n\nShe said her friends were \"inferring, trying to make a storyline - albeit a bad one - interesting, nothing more\".\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Henriquez said Ms Heard had never hit her and denied being \"frightened\" of her sister.\n\nShe said she had seen Mr Depp punch Ms Heard \"really hard in the head... multiple times\" in Los Angeles in March 2015. Ms Henriquez acknowledged that Ms Heard had punched Mr Depp on that occasion - but said it was only \"in my defence\" because Ms Heard believed Mr Depp was going to push Ms Henriquez down the stairs.\n\nAddressing the court on Friday, Mr Sherborne said Ms Henriquez's evidence about the so-called \"stairs incident\" was \"the only occasion on which any other human being is supposed to have witnessed\" Mr Depp being violent towards Ms Heard.\n\n\"The reliability of Ms Whitney is critical,\" he added.\n\nMr Depp denies allegations he was violent towards Ms Heard\n\nMr Sherborne said Ms Heard's evidence was that \"she was never violent, she (has not) physically attacked Mr Depp... and the only occasion is said to be when she was acting in self-defence\".\n\n\"Evidence that Ms Heard was violent towards her sister is relevant to that issue,\" he said.\n\nSasha Wass QC, who represents the Sun's publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), said she had not been aware of the video until Mr Sherborne told the court about it and argued it was \"meaningless\".\n\n\"This is an undated piece of film footage in circumstances which appear to be some sort of reality TV programme, which is flippant, certainly not serious,\" she told the court.\n\n\"This is a light-hearted exchange, there is no evidence of any injuries and it will take the matter... no further.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Sherborne, representing Mr Depp, argued: \"We say it is quite clear from that video that not only did Ms Amber Heard assault her sister, but it was quite clear also that the injuries that were suffered by Ms Whitney Heard are being examined by the individual that we see on the tape.\n\n\"There is no denial of the fact that Ms Amber Heard 'beat up' Ms Whitney Heard and that there are injuries.\"\n\nMs Heard's acting coach Kristina Sexton has also been giving evidence by video link from Australia.\n\nIn a written witness statement, Ms Sexton said she had met the actress in 2009 and the pair became friends \"quite quickly\".\n\nShe said Ms Heard became a \"nervous wreck\" about choosing film roles because she was \"so worried\" about Mr Depp's reaction.\n\nMs Sexton alleged Mr Depp \"dictated\" his ex-wife's work and told her not to take certain jobs because he did not want her doing \"whore parts\".\n\nGiving evidence, Ms Sexton confirmed to Mr Depp's lawyer, Eleanor Laws QC, that she had not seen the actor \"hit, kick or throw anything\" at Ms Heard.\n\nUnder questioning from NGN's lawyer, Ms Wass, Ms Sexton said she had previously been aware of \"verbal fights\" between the pair but in April 2016, Ms Heard told her Mr Depp had been hitting her and had tried to strangle her.\n\nThe libel case, which is due to finish next week, centres on an article published on the Sun's website in April 2018 under the headline \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe article related to allegations made by Ms Heard, which Mr Depp denies.", "The body of Lee McKnight was found in the River Caldew\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry after a man's body was found in a river.\n\nThe body of Lee McKnight, 26, was found in the River Caldew in the Blackwell Hall area near Cummersdale, Carlisle, at about 05:30 BST on Friday.\n\nCumbria Police said his family had been informed and were being supported by officers.\n\nOne man, aged 25, and four women aged 25, 40, 46 and 47 have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nDetectives are appealing for information and are \"urgently seeking\" a black Nissan Navara pick-up with the registration DV15 TZD.\n\nPolice are urgently trying to find a black Nissan Navara like the one pictured\n\nMembers of the public are asked not to approach the vehicle if it is sighted but to contact the police immediately.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andrew Slattery said: \"We are requesting the assistance of the public as part of our murder investigation into the death of Lee McKnight.\n\n\"The investigators need to hear from anyone including friends and associates of Lee who might have seen him or have information on his movements on 23 and 24 July, particularly in the Fusehill Street area.\n\n\"Anyone who saw anything suspicious in the Blackwell Hall area during this time should make contact with the incident room.\"\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.", "Donald Trump said he wanted to \"completely restructure the prescription drug market\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump has signed four executive orders aimed at cutting prescription drug prices in the US.\n\n\"The four orders I'm signing today will completely restructure the prescription drug market,\" said Mr Trump, who has long criticised \"astronomical\" prices.\n\nThe measures would allow discounts and import of cheaper drugs from abroad.\n\nMr Trump will meet pharmaceutical bosses on Tuesday, but some industry analysts have criticised the move, saying it would not have much effect.\n\n\"This administration has decided to pursue a radical and dangerous policy to set prices based on rates paid in countries that he [President Trump] has labelled as socialist, which will harm patients today and into the future,\" Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America said in a statement.\n\nIt said Mr Trump's move was \"a reckless distraction that impedes our ability to respond to the current [coronavirus] pandemic - and those we could face in the future\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lost six weeks when the US failed to control the virus\n\nPresident Trump's administration has been criticised for its response for the worsening Covid-19 crises, as the number of confirmed virus-related deaths in America has now topped 145,000.\n\nSince taking office, Mr Trump has made repeated attacks against those who set drug prices and has pledged to take radical steps to reduce them.\n\nBut with the presidential election just several months away, industry experts have voiced doubts that any major decisions could come into force before the 3 November vote.\n\nThey also say that the White House has limited power to implement drug pricing policies.\n\nExecutive orders do not have any automatic legal force and can also be challenged in court.\n\nAccording to a 2019 report by the OECD group of industrialised nations, the US spends roughly twice the average amount spent by other member countries on pharmaceuticals per head.\n\nFor example, where the UK paid £398 ($497) per head in 2015, the USA paid $1,162.\n\nThis is despite having similar levels of prescription drug use.", "The garden shed might normally be home for your lawn mower, but during the coronavirus outbreak they've offered sanctuary for many who have taken on a lockdown project.\n\nSome of these transformations have now been shortlisted for the Shed of the Year award.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have denied contributing to a new book about their life in the Royal Family.\n\nThe book, Finding Freedom - which is being serialised in the Times - has claimed the Sussexes and Cambridges were barely speaking by March.\n\nIt also says friends of Prince Harry and Meghan referred to some Palace officials as \"vipers\".\n\nA spokesman for the Sussexes, who now live in California, said they had not been interviewed for the book.\n\nA statement said: \"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were not interviewed and did not contribute to Finding Freedom.\n\n\"This book is based on the authors' own experiences as members of the royal press corps and their own independent reporting.\"\n\nThe book's authors, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, describe a culture of increasing tension between the Sussexes and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nThey say the Sussexes felt their complaints were not taken seriously and believed other royal households were leaking stories about them to the press.\n\n\"There were just a handful of people working at the palace they could trust,\" the authors write.\n\n\"A friend of the couple's referred to the old guard as 'the vipers'.\n\n\"Meanwhile, a frustrated palace staffer described the Sussexes' team as 'the squeaky third wheel' of the palace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Duchess of Sussex: \"Humanity desperately needs you\"\n\nThe duke and duchess are now based in Los Angeles, California, having stepped back as senior royals earlier this year.\n\nFor their last public appearance as working members of the Royal Family, they joined the Queen and other senior royals at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on 9 March.\n\nThey have since begun their new life of personal independence in the US, pursuing charity projects.\n\nThere are some startling headlines accompanying the serialisation of Finding Freedom but those in search of a smoking gun may be disappointed.\n\nReliable, quotable sources are the hard currency of books about royalty. And Finding Freedom is quite well sourced. The authors have leant heavily on contacts in the different courts - Buckingham Palace for the Queen, Kensington Palace for William and Kate, 'the Sussexes' for Harry and Meghan. And they have spoken to at least one person, maybe more, who feels he or she can speak for, and at times quote, Meghan herself, and at least one friend of Prince Harry who feels he or she can do the same.\n\nSo some flesh is put on the bones of a story that we know quite well but despite the headlines there are no new properly sourced revelations in the book as serialised so far. We knew that William and Harry's relationship was badly damaged; Harry told ITN's Tom Bradby that in the interview he gave in late 2019. We knew that Meghan felt abandoned by the Palace; she went out of her way to make that point to Bradby in the same programme.\n\nWe knew that the Queen was upset by the couple's declaration of independence in January this year - senior Palace sources told the BBC within hours of the couple's statement. And we knew that Harry despises the media and some of its coverage of Meghan; he has spoken openly and very clearly about how he feels.\n\nSo Finding Freedom may be more rewarding for the rounded portrait it paints of a couple at the centre of a terrible whirlwind than in any particular revelation about who did what to whom, and when.\n\nEarlier this month, Meghan delivered a speech to a gender equality summit, while the duke and duchess also spoke to young people about equal rights during the Queen's Commonwealth Trust weekly video call.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sussexes have launched legal action in the US after drones were allegedly used to take pictures of their infant son Archie.\n\nThe move marked the latest example of the Sussexes actions against what they have previously described as \"invasive\" tabloid media.\n\nMeghan is also suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online for breach of privacy and copyright infringement. The publisher denies her claims.", "The rules on face masks vary around the UK\n\nFace masks are not a \"magic bullet\" for preventing coronavirus, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nHe was responding to a call from a Brexit Party Senedd member for face masks to be made mandatory in public in Wales.\n\n\"If the advice changes our position in Wales will change as well,\" Mr Drakeford told the Welsh Parliament.\n\nFace masks are not mandatory in Wales but are recommended in certain places, like on public transport.\n\nHowever they must be used on public transport in England and Scotland, and in shops in Scotland.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged there is emerging evidence that coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air.\n\nIf the evidence is confirmed, it may affect guidelines for indoor spaces.\n\nAppearing to refer to that debate, Caroline Jones claimed the virus could be spread \"not just by coughs and sneezes but carried in micro-droplets\" which were generated by \"breathing and talking\".\n\n\"Why then is Wales one of the only countries in the world that does not mandate the use of face coverings in some settings,\" the MS for South Wales West asked.\n\n\"I would like to see face coverings mandatory in all public settings.\"\n\nBut the first minister responded that \"wearing a face covering is not by itself a magic bullet that prevents people from contracting or spreading coronavirus\".\n\nHe said chief medical officer Frank Atherton was concerned that when people wore a face mask \"they act in ways that they wouldn't if they weren't wearing it, and they act in risky ways as well\".\n\nMr Drakeford said Ms Jones' case was \"persuasive\" but there were \"potential downsides\" as well as upsides.\n\nConservative Laura Jones called for an urgent review of the face mask guidance.\n\nThe new MS for South Wales East said it was \"farcical and confusing\" to have one approach on one side of the border to the other.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said it would have been perfectly possible to have had a conversation where the Welsh and UK governments could have reached a joint position, but said it was \"never offered to us\".\n\nHe said consistency along the border was \"very much in my mind\" on face coverings and other changes.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS Wales chief executive Andrew Goodall said wearing face masks should be \"seriously considered\" by the public, \"particularly in closed settings\".\n\nHe said that although \"the WHO hasn't come out with a definitive position\", if its advice was to change, then the Welsh Government would undertake its own review.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe 2020-21 Premier League and English Football League seasons will start on 12 September.\n\nIn the top flight, the campaign will end on 23 May, while the Championship, League One and League Two seasons will culminate on 8 and 9 May.\n\nNext season's play-off finals will take place on the final weekend in May.\n\nThe current Premier League season will end on Sunday after it was suspended for three months because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe regular Championship season concluded on Wednesday, with the play-offs finishing on 4 August.\n\nMost League One and League Two teams have not played since March.\n• None Eight days without football - the shortest off-season ever?\n\nThe Premier League said it would \"continue to consult\" with the Football Association and EFL \"regarding the scheduling of all domestic competitions\".\n\nHowever, the start date for teams still playing in European competitions is still under discussion.\n\nIt remains possible they will be given a delayed start, given they could be playing well into August.\n\nLast-16 ties in the Europa League - featuring Manchester United and Wolves - resume on 5 August, with the final scheduled to take place on 21 August.\n\nRemaining Champions League last-16 ties resume from 7 August, with Manchester City and Chelsea still in the competition.\n\nThe final will take place on 23 August.", "\"Oh, better put our masks on,\" a woman says to her friend outside a homeware shop in Camberwell, south London, fishing around in her bag. He shrugs and follows her inside, opting to go without.\n\nIt's the first day that face coverings have been compulsory for customers in England's shops, and most people are complying on this high street. But the exchange sums up the dilemma for some shopkeepers.\n\nOn one side of the road, a mum ushers her two daughters into Lidl - the three of them clad in matching face coverings. On the other, a woman hovers outside a shop front, sussing out with the sales assistant whether she can come in without one.\n\n\"Keep distance please!\" reads a sign in the window of Ragini Patel's stationery shop. She says all she can do is ask customers to wear face coverings but some of the older customers, in particular, don't listen. One customer was even aggressive when she reminded him about social distancing.\n\n\"There's no point saying anything to anybody, you don't want to get in trouble,\" she shrugs.\n\nRagini Patel says all she can do is ask that customers wear face coverings in her shop\n\nA hundred miles away, in Birmingham, another shopper, Laura, told BBC Radio 5 Live she had been in a branch of supermarket Aldi this morning where a couple of people weren't wearing face coverings.\n\nShe didn't approve. \"If there's even a remote possibility that wearing a mask can reduce infection rate then it's worth it. It's not a hardship,\" she added.\n\nMeanwhile, listener Paul said he had been on the receiving end of some \"mask outrage\" this morning in Maidenhead, Berkshire, when he went into Tesco without a face covering after a bike ride.\n\nHe said it was an \"honest mistake\" but a fellow shopper berated him. \"She just went to town on me,\" Paul said. \"I've been rightfully scolded.\"\n\nLike many shopping areas across the country, stores in the Liverpool One complex have put up signs telling customers to wear face coverings.\n\nBut Susan Green, 57, in Liverpool, said: \"I think it is a little bit late to have introduced this and lots of people I've seen this morning are not even wearing one.\n\n\"It won't put me off coming to the shops because I'll be out anyway but it does seem a bit unnecessary.\"\n\nLiverpool One also has a new vending machine selling face coverings in a multitude of styles - and they have sprung up on other high streets too.\n\nVending machines selling face coverings have sprung up across the country\n\nBack in Camberwell, at the Scope charity shop, Dawn Suleyman says only one customer has come in today without a face covering - and was grateful when she handed her a spare.\n\nShe agrees that it might not be wise to challenge customers, since there have been instances when staff have been verbally abused for asking shoppers to use the hand sanitiser pump. Leaning over to tap the counter to her left, she adds: \"So far today, touch wood, we've not had any problems.\"\n\nDawn Suleyman says reopening has been difficult because people haven't been able to try clothes on\n\n\"I wouldn't say to someone, 'You can't come in because you haven't got a mask on,'\" says Dawn, who is exempt when she goes shopping because she suffers from asthma. \"I'd explain to them, 'You do realise that you could possibly get a fine? And if you haven't got a mask I'm happy to give you one.'\"\n\nMelanie Wall from Chloe James boutique in St Albans says there's been a \"great reaction\" among her shop's customers.\n\n\"People are very happy to wear face masks - it sparks conversation and banter when they come in... we talk about the different styles - it's been really well accepted,\" she said.\n\n\"We did have a lady who approached the front door and said, 'I haven't got a face mask but I'm here to buy a face mask'. She obviously couldn't come into the shop... but I served her from the doorstep, so it was a lovely funny moment.\"\n\nMelanie Wall said there had been a \"great reaction\" to the rules among her customers\n\nMeanwhile, one shopper in the city told the BBC she was \"really pleased\" the rules have come in, adding: \"It's given us more confidence to come into town. We've been avoiding it up to now.\"\n\nIn Leicester - the first city in England to have a local lockdown imposed - the new rules on face coverings came in on the same day some non-essential stores were allowed to reopen.\n\nCallum Goodson, 22, a buyer with clothes store Pilot in the Lanes shopping area, said levels of compliance from customers had so far been high.\n\nNon-essential shops started to reopen in Leicester on the same day the new rules came in\n\nMr Goodson said: \"Everyone coming into the store have been wearing masks. If anyone does come in without a mask, we can offer them one.\n\n\"If they refuse it's down to us if we accept that - but we haven't had to do that so far.\"\n\nThere were no problems for forgetful shoppers in Bristol either, where city council staff had bought in 80,000 masks to hand out in the city's shopping areas.\n\nFace masks were handed out to shoppers in Bristol\n\nIn Camberwell, not everyone is quite so worried about enforcing the regulations. In a photo-printing shop, the sales assistant says customers have been compliant. They have a stash of reusable masks they can give out in return for a charity donation, but she doesn't know what she'd do if someone refused. \"I'm sure we could politely tell them to put it on,\" she says.\n\nIn the arcade, a security guard with a face covering stands outside Poundland. Two women browse the \"two for £5\" stands in a nearby clothes shop - both wearing masks, though the shop assistant is barefaced, which is acceptable under the rules.\n\nArjan Patel says most customers have complied\n\nAround the corner in a hardware shop, Arjan Patel says some builders have come in without face coverings but most people have been compliant.\n\n\"What can we say? It's their choice, isn't it?\" he says. The shop needs customers, after all.\n\n\"We can't police it anyway, but maybe a bit more diplomacy might help.\"\n• None New face covering rules in force in England", "Many Britons have homes in Spain - and it is also popular with tourists\n\nTravellers returning to the UK from Spain after midnight will have to quarantine for 14 days, the government has said.\n\nThe decision came following a spike in coronavirus cases in Spain, with more than 900 new cases of the virus reported on Friday.\n\nSpanish officials have also warned a second wave could be imminent as major cities have seen cases surge.\n\nThe Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel to mainland Spain.\n\n\"Protecting public health is our absolute priority and we have taken this decision to limit any potential spread to the UK,\" a spokesman from the Department of Transport said.\n\n\"We've always been clear that we would act immediately to remove a country [from quarantine exemptions list] where necessary.\"\n\nThe spokesman said people currently on holiday in Spain should follow the local rules, return home as normal, and check the Foreign Office's travel advice website for further information.\n\nThe quarantine measures will apply to those returning from mainland Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, such as Palma and Ibiza. However, Foreign Office advice against non-essential travel, which has ramifications for travel insurance, only applies to mainland Spain.\n\nAmong those affected is Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who began his holiday in Spain on Saturday. He is expected to continue his trip as planned and isolate in line with guidance on his return.\n\nThe government is urging employers to be \"understanding of those returning from Spain who now will need to self-isolate\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called for the government to explain in detail how it would support those affected, adding that the news would be \"deeply concerning for families who are in caught in Spain or are planning travel\".\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the decision was made after reviewing the latest data earlier on Saturday.\n\n\"This reinforces the point that these matters are subject to change at short notice and so my advice is to be cautious about non-essential foreign travel,\" she said.\n\nSpain has so far seen more than 28,000 coronavirus deaths. On Thursday, it saw the biggest daily increase in infections since its lockdown ended.\n\nCatalonia has become the latest region to crack down on nightlife. The wealthy north-east region, which is home to Barcelona, ordered all nightclubs to close for two weeks and put a midnight curfew on bars in the greater Barcelona area.\n\nThe BBC's Guy Hedgecoe in Madrid says contagion among young people is a particular worry, as they have been gathering in large numbers in cities at night.\n\nFrance has warned its citizens not to travel to Catalonia while Norway has said it will start quarantining people arriving from Spain.\n\nQuarantine measures for UK travellers were introduced in early June. But after pressure from the aviation and travel industries, the government and devolved administrations published lists of countries exempt from the rules.\n\nThe Airport Operators Association said the new measures would \"further damage what is already a fragile restart of the aviation sector which continues to face the biggest challenge in its history\".\n\nBudget airline EasyJet said it was \"disappointed\" and would operate a full schedule in the coming days.\n\n\"Customers who no longer wish to travel can transfer their flights without a change fee or receive a voucher for the value of the booking,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nHowever, the UK's biggest tour operator, Tui, cancelled its flights due to depart to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands on Sunday. Customers currently on holiday will be able to return on their intended flight home.\n\nA spokesman for the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) said the government's quarantine rule change was \"disappointing\".\n\n\"We suggest the government considers lifting the quarantine rules for flights to and from certain regions with lower infection rates, or to places such as the Balearic Islands or the Canaries - which are geographically distinct from mainland Spain - to avoid further damage to the UK inbound and outbound tourism industries,\" he said.\n\nLois Stothard had planned a surprise trip for boyfriend James Allott but has had to cancel\n\nThe new rules for Spain come a day after five other destinations were added to England's quarantine-free list.\n\nAnyone coming to England from Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and St Vincent and the Grenadines will not have to isolate for two weeks on arrival, the government confirmed on Friday.\n\nJohn Blackmore, from Hampshire, was due to fly out to his family in Spain with his wife and two young children. But the new rules mean he has had to cancel, for fears his wife's employer would not be able to accommodate her taking an extra two weeks off to quarantine on their return.\n\nHe said he thought it was unlikely they would get a refund for the flight, as it has not been cancelled.\n\n\"I'm devastated,\" he told the BBC. \"I have family in Spain who haven't seen their only grandkids since Christmas.\"\n\nLois Stothard, from South Yorkshire, told the BBC she had booked a holiday to Seville as a surprise for her boyfriend's 30th birthday - due to fly out on Sunday morning - but now feels that she cannot travel.\n\n\"I'm a keyworker - I'm a teacher - and my boyfriend has work commitments so we cannot quarantine for 14 days when we return,\" she said.\n\n\"We can't get any money back and to change the company want double what I've already paid in fees. I'm very disappointed and upset as we're packed and ready to go.\"", "Most motorways have a 50mph limit through roadworks\n\nSpeed limits through most roadworks on England's motorways will be raised to increase traffic flow and ease driver \"frustrations\".\n\nHighways England says raising the limit to 60mph from the usual 50mph comes after \"extensive research and trials\".\n\nThe AA welcomed the move, saying it would reduce journey times and help reduce tailgating by motorists.\n\nPreviously, unions have said increasing speeds through roadworks will put the safety of workers at risk.\n\nLimits will not necessarily be increased at every set of roadworks.\n\nDepending on the road layout and the work being done, 40mph and 50mph restrictions will continue to be used in places.\n\nThe AA claims 60mph can be safer than 50mph\n\nGovernment-owned Highways England has tested increased speeds, including through roadworks between junctions 13 and 16 of the M1.\n\nIt found the journey time for the 24-mile route was reduced by an average of 68 seconds.\n\nChief executive Jim O'Sullivan said: \"Road users understand that roadworks are necessary, but they are frustrated by them, so testing 60mph has been about challenging the norm while ensuring the safety of our people working out there and those using our roads.\n\n\"We have a huge programme of work planned, so being able to use 60mph where safe will continue to improve everybody's experience of our roads.\"\n\nAA president Edmund King claimed driving at 60mph \"is often safer than driving at 50mph\".\n\nHe said: \"Sticking at 50mph often leads to other drivers tailgating in order to try to force vehicles to pull over.\n\n\"Plus we have very long stretches of roadworks such as the 32 miles being converted to smart motorway on the M4 between junctions 3 and 12, where 60mph would seem much more appropriate.\"\n\nThe 10mph increase was suggested in 2017. At the time, the Unite union said: \"Sadly, in recent years there have been several deaths of motorway workers and these changes will make their work even more dangerous.\n\n\"Already motorists frequently drive into coned-off areas. At increased speeds, it will make such potentially lethal accidents even more common.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown in Wales has been the responsibility of the Welsh Government\n\nUK ministers have announced £1.2bn funding for the Welsh Government.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"like an advance payment\" ahead of announcements to be made in England.\n\nThe Barnett formula is used to decide how much money the other nations receive when the UK government spends in England.\n\nThe Welsh finance minister said it would \"give the NHS the kind of certainty that it needs\" to plan for a potential second wave of the virus.\n\nThe Welsh Government has previously said it was \"not clear how much of this package is wholly new\".\n\nMr Hart told BBC Radio Wales: \"What we're trying to do here as a UK-wide project is make sure all the devolved nations have the money they need during Covid…\n\n\"The sum has gone from 2.3 [billion pounds] to 2.8 last week. With the chancellor's announcement it has now gone up by a further 1.2 so the total the Welsh Government will have received for Covid-related activity will be £4bn since March...\n\n\"It is a consequential of announcements to be made, like an advance payment - still fresh money, still new money...\n\n\"It's like get your money up front, in advance, rather than retrospectively.\"\n\nFinance Minister Rebecca Evans said the additional funding would allow the Welsh Government to announce \"a really significant stabilisation package for the NHS\".\n\nShe added that the money would be used to respond to \"a really wide range of pressures\" such as those faced by local authorities.\n\nBut it would also enable the government to \"give the NHS the kind of certainty that it needs in order to to plan most effectively for a potential second wave of the coronavirus\" and to ensure that it's \"in good shape\" to cope with winter pressures.\n\nThe £4bn figure does not include direct spending by the Conservative UK government in Wales - such as the furlough scheme or VAT cuts for the tourism and hospitality sector.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said the UK government's \"guarantee\" means the Welsh Government can invest to protect jobs\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales ahead of Mr Hart's interview, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"It was reported as being clearly additional money over and above Barnett but we don't think that's the case at all and it's one of the difficult and disappointing things that is just unnecessary...\n\n\"It is difficult and disappointing because I'd like the public to have a straight message where you don't hear Welsh Government politicians disagreeing with UK government politicians about the state of the money being provided.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has called for more freedom to borrow cash\n\nWelsh Government ministers have previously called for their UK counterparts to allow them to borrow more money to help deal with the pandemic.\n\n\"The pressures facing our budget are unrivalled in the post Second World War era,\" a Welsh Government spokesperson said in response to the funding announcement.\n\n\"And while we welcome confirmation of Wales' share of spend in England, it is not clear how much of this package is wholly new.\n\n\"We fully expected to receive funding on major PPE (personal protective equipment) costs and NHS winter funding.\n\n\"We look forward to receiving the full detail on new funding and hope that the UK Treasury will finally lift the restrictions on our ability to access our own savings to address urgent pressures.\"\n\nReacting to the announcement, Plaid Cymru's health and finance spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth told BBC Radio Wales: \"The union can't be sewn together with a bung where you don't even know what's in the brown envelope, where we're expected to trust that somehow it's a lot of money.\n\n\"What we need, and we're in agreement with Welsh Government actually, is we need additional flexibility with the spending powers that we have in Wales.\n\n\"This is the time when we need to be making decisions now on how much money to borrow to get us through this incredibly sticky point in our history... rather than expect to be grateful for somebody filling a begging bowl with money that we don't know how much it is anyway.\"\n\nExpect to hear UK government ministers talk a lot more about the union in months to come.\n\nThe pandemic has led to greater awareness of devolved powers - especially health and education.\n\nWhile Welsh Government ministers have faced scrutiny for their response to the pandemic, like being later to test all care home staff and residents, the UK government equally has faced criticisms for being behind on issues like committing to providing free school meals for eligible children during the summer holidays.\n\nThe prime minister's visit to Scotland, praising the furlough scheme and UK armed forces, and this announcement today send a clear signal: trying to strengthen support for the union is heavily back on the UK government's agenda.\n\nMeanwhile a group of MPs have also set up a new pro-union lobby group to keep it on the agenda in government and Parliament, chaired by Conservative Aberconwy MP Robin Millar.\n\nThe UK government has been in charge of much of the UK's economic response to the virus, including the coronavirus job retention furlough scheme.\n\nBut devolved governments have been responsible for the severe restrictions on day-to-day life, as well as their national health services, and different parts of the UK have come out of lockdown in different ways.\n\nOn a visit to Scotland on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he \"pledged to be a prime minister for every corner of the United Kingdom\", adding that the response to the pandemic had shown his government's commitment to the whole of the UK.", "On 29 January 2020, I went to the London Palladium to see Madonna perform her Madame X show. She made the 2,297-seat theatre feel as intimate as a downtown cabaret club. She came down into the audience, sat next to fans, had a chat, swigged beer from their plastic bottles. It was all very cosy.\n\nOn Thursday, I was back at the Palladium to watch Beverley Knight and her band perform. What a difference six months make.\n\nThe shows were polar opposites. Bev was pitch-perfect, Madonna was not. Bev moved around the stage with dynamism and grace, an injured Madonna hobbled. Bev's banter had everyone cheering, Madonna's left us feeling a bit awkward.\n\nMadonna's show was better. Not because she was better, she wasn't, but because we, the audience, were better. That's nobody's fault. It's down to the wretched virus and the associated social distancing rules.\n\nMore than 70% of the Palladium's seats were empty\n\nMadonna performed to a full house, Beverley Knight had the unenviable task of performing to row upon row of empty seats, consisting of about 1,650 plush pink chairs occupied by black crosses on white paper rather than people. There were 640 of us with tickets, whom Andrew Lloyd Webber in a pre-show welcome cheerfully described as guinea pigs.\n\nHe was making the premise for the show quite clear - it was not so much about entertainment, more about being part of a series of official experiments to see if a major indoor venue such as the Palladium could manage the logistics of putting on a socially distanced show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe wearing of facemasks was obligatory, as a fellow journalist discovered when he surreptitiously let his slip mid-show, only for a (masked) usher to sidle up and insist he pull it back up.\n\nNotwithstanding debates about the effectiveness of masks, I found the compulsory measure reassuring, while accepting it subdues the atmosphere: a gig without atmosphere is like a joke without a punchline - it can fall a bit flat.\n\nTickets were checked at a safe distance at the entrance\n\nThe social distancing worked well, in so much as we were so spread out (unless you'd bought a pair of tickets to sit together) that you'd need the vocal projection of Brian Blessed to communicate with your neighbour. The only snag with that is live entertainment is all about a sense of shared experience, which is pretty much non-existent in a huge auditorium with people scattered about like ships on the ocean.\n\nThe net result was a feeling of watching a rehearsal rather than a show. There wasn't the tension in the air you normally get at a gig, or the union between performer and crowd.\n\nNot that Bev didn't give it her best - she was fantastic. But how weird it must have been for her, staring out at hundreds of pieces of paper, in between which was the occasional mask-wearing punter whose facial expressions were impossible to read or respond to. In the circumstances, she was five-star brilliant.\n\nThe singer stared out at a sparse, mask-wearing crowd\n\nThe way in which she tore into Piece of My Heart would have made Janis Joplin proud, while a full-bloodied cover of the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction was a highlight.\n\nThe stand-out moment, though, was her rendition of Memory from the musical Cats - a number she'd performed many times on the same stage when playing Grizabella in Lloyd Webber's long-running show. She nailed the song, which you'd expect. But what caught her by surprise was the audience reaction.\n\nWe rose as one to give her a spontaneous standing ovation, which caused her to pause, wipe away a tear, and walk away to gather herself. In retrospect it's easy to see why. She was two-thirds of the way through her set, and because we were wearing masks had no clue about how she was doing. We were loving it? Hating it? Bored? Who knew? Not Bev.\n\nWe were as non-communicative as those cardboard cut-outs in today's football stadiums. Until, that is, we did something impulsive to demonstrate our appreciation, acknowledging she was touching us from afar (safety measures dictate that performers must stand several metres away from the front of the stage).\n\nIt was a moment of 'liveness' that makes theatre and concerts so unique and important. You can stream Memory a million times, but it'll never be as good as it was at 3:46pm on 23 July 2020 at the London Palladium.\n\nIt proved to be a cathartic experience for both singer and audience, who found a way to bond as Bev and her well-tuned band powered through I'm Every Woman and Come As You Are. The show stopped with a showstopper: an a capella cover of Ben E King's 60s hit Stand By Me.\n\nDid the experiment work? Can a venue such as the Palladium manage the logistics of a socially distanced show? The answer to that appear to be yes.\n\nWill it be a template for the future? Beverley Knight and Andrew Lloyd Webber hope not, because as far as they are concerned it doesn't work artistically or commercially. So, it's hopeless really.\n\nWas this test better than nothing? Yes. But then what's the point of testing something that is ultimately doomed to fail? The stark choice is simple: for most shows to go on, it will be a case of all or nothing.", "More people in Wales could be offered a free flu jab, Vaughan Gething has suggested\n\nWales' largest ever flu campaign will see more people benefit from free vaccination, the health minister announced on Friday.\n\nIt followed news that this would be the case in England in case of a winter coronavirus spike.\n\nThe vaccination programme will include the shielding group and the eligibility age will be lowered from 65 to 50.\n\nThere will also be extra supplies of the nasal spray flu vaccine for toddlers and primary school children.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"This winter more than ever we need to protect the most vulnerable in our community and continue to protect our NHS.\n\n\"By extending the flu vaccine to more people than ever before, we can help prevent people becoming ill and reduce pressure on the NHS this winter.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who is eligible to have the vaccine.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer for Wales Frank Atherton said: \"Everyone who is eligible for a NHS flu vaccine should be confident about having it to protect themselves and those around them this winter.\n\n\"Those already eligible, which include some of the most vulnerable in our community will receive the vaccination first and via a phased approach our programme will be rolled out further to the over 50s and households of those shielding.\"\n\nMr Gething had previously said he could not make any guarantees as he had not been told of the UK government's plans.\n\nHe said it was \"disappointing\" an agreement on broadening the flu programme had not been reached between the four home nations.\n\n\"When it comes to supply of the flu vaccine, there's a UK-wide system,\" Mr Gething told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"The UK government procures flu vaccine for all four UK nations, so there should be enough flu vaccine available in Wales to match the way that other UK countries undertake that.\"\n\nHe said he \"hadn't been aware\" an announcement was being made about England.\n\nThe jab is being rolled out widely there in case the annual seasonal flu coincides with a coronavirus surge.\n\nVaughan Gething said he was not aware an announcement about the plan for England was going to be made\n\n\"I'd expect there to be a consistent set of advice between the four chief medical officers,\" Mr Gething said.\n\n\"If we have assurances about the amount of flu vaccine available, I'd struggle to see why there'd be any reason to be inconsistent.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"The flu vaccination campaign is a key priority for the coming winter and we are planning the largest ever programme in Wales.\n\n\"Details of the programme will be announced shortly\".", "The Deaf Institute in Manchester, pictured hosting a Girli gig in 2018, was recently saved from closure\n\nUp to 150 small music venues in England will share £2.25m emergency government funding to stop them going to the wall after four months with no gigs.\n\nIt is the first slice of a £1.57bn arts relief fund to be allocated and follows warnings that many venues are at risk.\n\nThe Music Venues Trust welcomed the funding as \"a short-term fix\".\n\nEarlier this month, 1,500 artists from Liam Gallagher and Dua Lipa to Sir Paul McCartney signed an open letter calling for support for the live music scene.\n\nIf 150 venues are helped, they would receive an average of £15,000 each. Some grants could be bigger, up to £80,000.\n\nThe MVT, which represents small venues, said the money was \"very welcome and desperately needed as we wait to hear how the recently announced £1.57bn rescue package for the arts will be administered and distributed\".\n\nChief executive Mark Davyd added: \"This interim solution will provide a short-term fix for those venues identified as being in crisis but we urgently need information and guidance on when and how venues can access the larger fund, which is so vital to safeguarding their longer term futures.\"\n\nIdles playing at Gorilla in Manchester in 2018\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said such clubs and venues were where \"nearly all of our globally successful music stars started out\", and he wanted to \"make sure those organisations weather the Covid storm\".\n\n\"We're working to deliver the rest of the £1.57bn emergency package as quickly as possible, so that we can protect and preserve our precious culture, arts and heritage for future generations,\" he added.\n\nThe amount available for grassroots music, worth 1/700th of the total relief package, will go to venues at \"severe risk of insolvency\" and can be spent on ongoing costs like rent, utilities, maintenance contracts and other bills.\n\nThe money will be dished out by Arts Council England, which does not usually fund regular live music venues, \"within the next few weeks\".\n\nIn the past fortnight, beloved Manchester venues Gorilla and The Deaf Institute have been saved from closure, but the companies behind the Welly and the Polar Bear in Hull have gone into administration.\n\nDetails of how organisations in other areas of the arts can apply for a slice of the £1.57bn will be revealed \"in the coming days\", the government said.\n\nMr Dowden has previously said the fund will protect the nation's cultural \"crown jewels\" and small venues around the country.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "He is fond of looking on the bright side and moving forward. \"Come on! Come on!\" and \"Fantastic, fantastic!\" are the phrases you hear in public most frequently from his mouth.\n\nEven some of his allies agree privately with his detractors that he is a politician for the good times, a spreader of cheer, rather than seeming like a statesman for a crisis.\n\nThat's one reason why the handling of this terrible epidemic has been a profound political challenge for this prime minister, beyond the enormous strain that coronavirus has put on the government machine and his own health.\n\nHe moved into No 10 a year ago today, taking charge of a country politically divided over Brexit, with protestors at the gate.\n\nBut after chucking veteran Tories out of the parliamentary party and suspending Parliament, the first tumultuous phase of his premiership ended with him being clapped back into No 10 for the second time, and with a thumping majority.\n\nA pugilistic Downing Street was almost punch drunk with the opportunities that lay before them.\n\nBut with unbelievable timing, 31 January 2020 - Brexit day - was also the day that the UK confirmed its first cases of coronavirus.\n\nFar from the first day of Boris Johnson's dream of raw power, it was the first day of a nightmare for the country's health and economy too.\n\nIt is the pandemic, therefore, not his hoped-for policies, that have fundamentally shaped Boris Johnson's premiership so far.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLike other world leaders, he had to take a series of enormous decisions, at huge speed, that have had consequences for each and every one of us.\n\nThe worst of the health crisis has faded; however, Boris Johnson has shown a profound reluctance to admit mistakes that were made.\n\nThe government did expand the capacity of the health service at breakneck speed. The Treasury's interventions in the economy have kept millions of people afloat for now.\n\nUK scientists are ahead in the world in terms of treatments and vaccine research. But a debate has raged about whether the lockdown came too late.\n\nWhy was the government slow to ramp up the testing they now say is vital? Why were protections for care homes not introduced much sooner? Why has the death rate here been so much higher than in nearly every other country?\n\nWhy does the government keep promising 'world beating' this, and 'world beating' that, when the UK's record on handling the pandemic has many flaws?\n\nWhen these questions have come, the prime minister's stock response has been to protest that it is not the right time to look at what went wrong.\n\nTime and again, ministers have repeated the mantra that \"we made the right decisions at the right time\".\n\nBut today, as he reflected on his 366 days in power, Boris Johnson inched towards confronting what went wrong.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over their initial decision to abandon mass community testing.\n\nIn his first full TV interview since the lockdown, and his own time in hospital, he told me that ministers had not understood the disease \"for the first few weeks and months\", unaware that the virus was already here and in circulation before the government fully realised.\n\nAnd what of the timing of the lockdown?\n\nAgain, he took a step towards acknowledging that there could have been mistakes, suggesting the lockdown timing was an \"open question\", and that while the government had stuck \"like glue\" to the advice given by its scientists, maybe that advice had been wrong.\n\nDespite that change in tone, the prime minister's reluctance to go into detail yet about the mistakes the government might have made is still striking.\n\nAdvice from his former close adviser Will Walden, who spoke to us on Newscast, is that he should admit mistakes were made, and get on with a proper inquiry into what went wrong, seems to have fallen largely on deaf ears.\n\nWhile the prime minister always says that he takes full responsibility for what the government does, that's perhaps preaching, not practice.\n\nMr Johnson wants to use the government's experience of what happened during the pandemic to speed up his agenda, to \"double down on levelling up\", as he puts it in his peculiar political jargon.\n\nIn other words, to push ahead with more determination, and less fudge in Whitehall, with the changes that he says will actually improve the lives of voters, particularly those who voted Tory for the first time in 2019.\n\nWhile preparing the NHS for a potential second surge, he clearly wants to concentrate on what's next, not what's gone before.\n\nBut perhaps until the government is really ready to acknowledge what has happened, the questions will continue - and the public may still feel anxious about whether they can really trust ministers to handle a second surge next time round.\n\nJust as 366 days ago, optimism is Boris Johnson's trademark.\n\nBut if the last few months have shown anything, it is that the real challenge of life in power, is that events that can surprise.", "More than 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to work as slaves\n\nA major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.\n\nMore than 50,000 people took part in the study, which was able to identify more details of the \"genetic impact\" the trade has had on present-day populations in the Americas.\n\nIt lays bare the consequences of rape, maltreatment, disease and racism.\n\nMore than 12.5m Africans were traded between 1515 and the mid-19th Century.\n\nSome two million of the enslaved men, women and children died en route to the Americas.\n\nThe DNA study was led by consumer genetics company 23andMe and included 30,000 people of African ancestry on both sides of the Atlantic. The findings were published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.\n\nSteven Micheletti, a population geneticist at 23andMe told AFP news agency that the aim was to compare the genetic results with the manifests of slave ships \"to see how they agreed and how they disagree\".\n\nWhile much of their findings agreed with historical documentation about where people were taken from in Africa and where they were enslaved in the Americas, \"in some cases, we see that they disagree, quite strikingly\", he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo creates sculptures of slaves to immerse people in their experience.\n\nThe study found, in line with the major slave route, that most Americans of African descent have roots in territories now located in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nWhat was surprising was the over-representation of Nigerian ancestry in the US and Latin America when compared with the recorded number of enslaved people from that region.\n\nResearchers say this can be explained by the \"intercolonial trade that occurred primarily between 1619 and 1807\".\n\nThey believe enslaved Nigerians were transported from the British Caribbean to other areas, \"presumably to maintain the slave economy as transatlantic slave-trading was increasingly prohibited\".\n\nLikewise, the researchers were surprised to find an underrepresentation from Senegal and The Gambia - one of the first regions from where slaves were deported.\n\nResearchers put this down to two grim factors: many were sent to work in rice plantations where malaria and other dangerous conditions were rampant; and in later years larger numbers of children were sent, many of whom did not survive the crossing.\n\nSome two million people did not survive the horrendous conditions aboard ship\n\nIn another gruesome discovery, the study found that the treatment of enslaved women across the Americas had had an impact on the modern gene pool.\n\nResearchers said a strong bias towards African female contributions in the gene pool - even though the majority of slaves were male - could be attributed to \"the rape of enslaved African women by slave owners and other sexual exploitation\".\n\nIn Latin America, up to 17 African women for every African man contributed to the gene pool. Researchers put this down in part to a policy of \"branqueamento\", racial whitening, in a number of countries, which actively encouraged the immigration of European men \"with the intention to dilute African ancestry through reproduction\".\n\nAlthough the bias in British colonised America was just two African women to one African man, it was no less exploitative.\n\nThe study highlighted the \"practice of coercing enslaved people to having children as a means of maintaining an enslaved workforce nearing the abolition of the transatlantic trade\". In the US, women were often promised freedom in return for reproducing and racist policies opposed the mixing of different races, researchers note.\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 Black Lives Matter movement has shone a light on the damaging legacy of colonialism and slavery on African Americans and other people of African heritage around the world. Statues of colonial-era slave traders have been pulled down as protesters demand an end to the glorifying of symbols of slavery.", "Rapper Wiley has been dropped by his management following anti-Semitic posts on his social media accounts.\n\nWiley's Twitter account has been temporarily locked while Instagram said it had deleted some of his content, after a long series of posts on both platforms on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe social media giants are facing growing pressure to close his accounts.\n\nPolice said they were looking at \"relevant material\" as critics accused Wiley of incitement to racial hatred.\n\nMetropolitan Police officers in Tower Hamlets said in a statement: \"We have received a number of reports relating to alleged anti-Semitic tweets posted on social media. The Met takes all reports of anti-Semitism extremely seriously. The relevant material is being assessed.\"\n\nThere are also calls for Wiley's MBE, appointed for services to music, to be forfeited.\n\nWiley, 41, known as the \"godfather of grime\", shared conspiracy theories and insulted Jewish people on his Instagram and Twitter accounts, which together have more than 940,000 followers.\n\nIn one tweet he said: \"I don't care about Hitler, I care about black people\", and also compared the Jewish community to the Ku Klux Klan.\n\nOn Instagram, videos of himself were interspersed with posts of screenshots - which have since been deleted - including one at about midday on Saturday suggesting Twitter has suspended him from tweeting for a week.\n\nHe had already been given a 12-hour ban on Friday night, but resumed tweeting on Saturday.\n\nThe platform has removed some of his tweets, with a note saying they violated its rules.\n\nWiley's manager, John Woolf, confirmed that the Twitter account, which is not verified, belongs to the London-born rapper, whose real name is Richard Cowie.\n\nIn a tweet on Friday evening that is no longer visible, Mr Woolf initially said he was \"talking to him privately\". He also said that, having known Wiley for 12 years, he knows \"he does not truly feel this way\".\n\nBut on Twitter on Saturday morning he tweeted: \"Following Wiley's antisemitic tweets today we at @A_ListMGMT have cut all ties with him. There is no place in society for antisemitism.\"\n\nThe two men were pictured together in December with boxer Anthony Joshua.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Woolf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a subsequent statement, Mr Woolf said: \"To be very clear here. I do not support or condone what Wiley has said today online in any way shape or form.\n\n\"I am a proud Jewish man and I am deeply shocked and saddened but what he has chosen to say.\n\n\"I am speaking to key figures in my community in light of today's tweets. This behaviour and hateful speech is not acceptable to me.\"\n\nWiley later claimed in a video posted on Instagram that he had \"cut ties\" with Mr Woolf - not the other way around.\n\nBroadcaster and producer DJ Spoony criticised Wiley's \"inflammatory\" comments, tweeting that the artist \"still has a huge role in our community but he must first see the error of his ways/comments and then make himself open to the help that will be offered\".\n\nThe Ivors Academy, an association for music writers which gave Wiley its Inspiration Award in 2019, said \"such appalling views have no place in the music creator community\".\n\nThere has been growing outrage over the social media companies' responses.\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism said it had reported Wiley to the Metropolitan Police and asked Twitter and Facebook, which owns Instagram, to close his accounts to \"prevent further outpouring of anti-Jewish venom\".\n\n\"We consider that Wiley has committed the offence of incitement to racial hatred, which can carry a substantial prison sentence,\" a statement read.\n\nIt added that it would contact the Cabinet Office to ask for his MBE be forfeited.\n\nThe rapper, known as Wiley Kat earlier in his career, was appointed MBE in 2018\n\nLord Mann, an adviser to the government on anti-Semitism, called on Twitter and Instagram to remove him from their platforms.\n\nHe said some of the content glorifies a violent attack on a rabbi in London, adding: \"That breaches all their standards, it's not even marginal.\"\n\nLuciana Berger, a Liberal Democrat politician who left the Labour Party over anti-Semitism last year, said the \"bile... permeates impressionable (often younger) minds\".\n\nActors David Baddiel and Tracy-Ann Oberman, who are both Jewish, also called for more action.\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, said in a statement: \"There is no place for hate speech on Instagram. We have deleted content that violates our policies from this account and are continuing to investigate.\"\n\nTwitter said Wiley's account had been temporarily locked \"for violating our Hateful Conduct policy\".\n\n\"Abuse and harassment have no place on our service and we have policies in place - that apply to everyone, everywhere - that address abuse and harassment, violent threats, and hateful conduct,\" it added.\n\n\"If we identify accounts that violate any of these rules, we'll take enforcement action.\"\n\nWiley first entered the UK singles charts with Wearing My Rolex in 2008. His subsequent hits include Heatwave in 2012 and Boasty in 2019, a collaboration with rappers Stefflon Don and Sean Paul and actor Idris Elba.", "Being obese or overweight puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, experts say after examining existing studies.\n\nThe review of evidence by Public Health England found excess weight put people at greater risk of needing hospital admission or intensive care.\n\nAnd the risk grew substantially as weight increased.\n\nThe release comes ahead of an expected government announcement of new measures to curb obesity.\n\nDr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said the current evidence was clear, that being overweight or obese puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, as well as from many other life-threatening diseases.\n\n\"Losing weight can bring huge benefits for health - and may also help protect against the health risks of Covid-19,\" she said. \"The case for action on obesity has never been stronger.\"\n\nThe UK has one of the highest levels of obesity in Europe. Almost two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese, with similar figures in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe NHS says most adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9 are overweight, while those with a BMI of 30 to 39.9 are classed as obese.\n\nBody mass index is calculated by dividing a person's mass in kilograms by the square of their height in metres.\n\nAnother measure of excess fat is waist size - men with a waist of 94cm or more and women with a waist of 80cm or more are more likely to develop obesity-related problems.\n\nSupporting people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight may reduce the severe effects of Covid-19 on the population, especially among vulnerable groups who are most affected by obesity, the report said.\n\nProf Susan Jebb of the University of Oxford, said we already know that older people, men, those from South Asian and some other ethnic groups, and people living in more deprived areas, are at increased risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"Over and above these things, this review shows that excess weight is another very important risk factor,\" she said.\n\nThere was anecdotal evidence that some people were struggling with their weight during the pandemic, she added, which offered a \"re-set moment\" for everyone to think about their lifestyle.\n\nAccording to the report, while some data suggests that more people have exercised during lockdown, evidence indicates that the nation's exercise levels have not increased overall.\n\nMeanwhile, snack food and alcohol sales from High Street shops have increased.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce new measures soon to combat obesity, including a ban on TV junk food adverts before 21:00.\n\nThe measures are yet to be finalised, but are also likely to include a ban on online ads for unhealthy foods, and limits on in-store promotions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has admitted the government did not understand coronavirus during the \"first few weeks and months\" of the UK outbreak.\n\nThe PM told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg there were \"very open questions\" about whether the lockdown had started too late.\n\nMr Johnson also spoke of \"lessons to be learned\" and said ministers could have done some things \"differently\".\n\nLabour accused the government of \"mishandling\" the crisis.\n\nMore than 45,000 people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus, government figures show, with almost 300,000 cases confirmed.\n\nLast week, Mr Johnson promised an \"independent\" inquiry into the pandemic, but no details have been given of its scope or timing.\n\nPreviously, the prime minister has said he took the \"right decisions at the right time\", based on the advice of scientists.\n\nBut, in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg to mark the first anniversary of his entering Downing Street, he said: \"We didn't understand [the virus] in the way that we would have liked in the first few weeks and months.\n\n\"And I think, probably, the single thing that we didn't see at the beginning was the extent to which it was being transmitted asymptomatically from person to person.\"\n\nMr Johnson wants to use the government's experience of what happened during the pandemic to speed up his agenda, to \"double down on levelling up\", as he puts it in his peculiar political jargon.\n\nIn other words, to push ahead with more determination, and less fudge in Whitehall, with the changes that he says will actually improve the lives of voters, particularly those who voted Tory for the first time in 2019.\n\nWhile preparing the NHS for a potential second surge, he clearly wants to concentrate on what's next, not what's gone before.\n\nBut perhaps until the government is really ready to acknowledge what has happened, the questions will continue - and the public may still feel anxious about whether they can really trust ministers to handle a second surge next time round.\n\nJust as 366 days ago, optimism is Boris Johnson's trademark.\n\nBut if the last few months have shown anything, it is that the real challenge of life in power, is that events that can surprise.\n\nThe prime minister added: \"I think it's fair to say that there are things that we need to learn about how we handled it in the early stages...There will be plenty of opportunities to learn the lessons of what happened.\"\n\nThe UK went into full lockdown in late March, which critics say was too late and cost lives.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Maybe there were things we could have done differently, and of course there will be time to understand what exactly we could have done, or done differently.\"\n\nBoris Johnson was himself diagnosed with coronavirus in March\n\nHe added that these were still \"very open questions as far as [scientists] are concerned, and there will be a time, obviously, to consider all those issues\".\n\nOn Friday, the government announced that 30 million people in England would be offered a flu vaccine this year, to reduce pressure on the NHS in case of a surge in coronavirus infections during the autumn and winter.\n\nMr Johnson said this was in addition to increased testing and tracing and more procurement of personal protective equipment, adding: \"What people really want to focus on now is what are we doing to prepare for the next phase.\"\n\nHe said: \"We mourn every one of those who lost their lives and our thoughts are very much with their families. And I take full responsibility for everything that government did.\"\n\nThe prime minister, who was himself placed in intensive care in April after contracting coronavirus, said he would \"very soon\" set out new measures to deal with obesity, seen as an added risk factor for patients.\n\nIn December, Mr Johnson's Conservative Party pulled off a convincing general election win over Jeremy Corbyn's Labour, after promising to \"level up\" all parts of the UK.\n\nAnd, despite the economic damage caused by coronavirus in the past four months or so, the prime minister promised more nurses, doctors, hospitals and police, saying his government's priorities were \"exactly what they always have been, except more so. We're doubling down.\"\n\n\"The agenda is what it was when I stood on the steps of Downing Street a year ago, but we want to go further and we want to go faster.\"\n\nMr Johnson reminisced about first entering No 10 as prime minister on 24 July 2019, saying it \"was very exciting, and everybody seemed to be in a very good mood\" and \"happy, upbeat\". He added that coronavirus had caused many \"difficulties\" since then.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Psychologically it's been an extraordinary time for the country,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"But I also know that this is a nation with incredible natural resilience, and fortitude and imagination. And I think we will bounce back really much stronger than ever before.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"Boris Johnson has finally admitted the government has mishandled its response to the coronavirus.\n\n\"It was too slow to acknowledge the threat of the virus, too slow to enter lockdown and too slow to take this crisis seriously.\"\n\nThe threat of a second wave of infections was \"still very real\", he added, while it was \"imperative the government learns the lessons of its mistakes so we can help to save lives\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said an \"immediate\" coronavirus inquiry was \"essential\", and that the prime minister had shown \"no remorse\" for his \"catastrophic mistakes\".", "Tributes were paid to the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic and the health workers combating it, in a ceremony on Thursday led by King Felipe VI.\n\nRelatives of those who died with the virus laid white roses on a black pedestal surrounding a bowl of burning coals outside the Royal Palace in Madrid.", "UK passport applications delayed by a backlog caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be expedited if people are due to go on holiday within two weeks, the Home Office has said.\n\nPassport renewals will be delivered within five days for people waiting more than four weeks who produce evidence they are to about to travel.\n\nMore than 400,000 documents are still being processed because of fewer staff.\n\nOfficials say they will also continue to prioritise emergency cases.\n\nThey said more than 6,500 passports had been issued to individuals on compassionate and emergency grounds during the lockdown.\n\nThe Passport Office said it recognised an increasing number of people who did not meet the \"urgent and compassionate criteria\" would want their passport more quickly as international travel restrictions continued to ease, \"particularly those with pre-existing bookings\".\n\nIt comes after the UK government said more than 50 countries - including many popular holiday spots - now posed ''a reduced risk'' from coronavirus.\n\nBut people who want to go on holiday abroad are being warned not to book trips unless they have an up-to-date passport. Those who do not need to renew their passports yet are being urged to wait until after the summer.\n\nEarlier this week the Home Office revealed that passport staff were working through 126,000 applications, with a further 284,000 still to be processed.\n\nMinisters said the backlog had built up because passport offices had fewer workers due to social distancing rules.\n\nThe Passport Office said security checks meant the process would take longer for people applying for a passport for the first time but staff were \"working hard to ensure that anyone with pre-planned travel does not miss out if their passport application has been submitted correctly and in good time\".\n\nIt added that overseas applicants who had experienced delays and had to apply to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for emergency travel documents would be able to claim refunds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 500 cars were parked along the roads in Snowdonia\n\nVisitors to Welsh beauty spots are \"putting lives at risk\" with dangerous parking, officials have warned.\n\nOver the weekend more than 500 cars parked on mountain roads in Snowdonia, with people camping in laybys to hike up Snowdon.\n\nIn Barmouth visitors blocked a potential rescue by parking on the lifeboat forecourt.\n\nThe RNLI warned they were \"putting lives at risk\".\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it was holding \"urgent talks\" to plan and agree a way forward after chaotic scenes near Snowdon.\n\nHelen Pye, of SNPA, said staff and volunteers said the number of visitors to Snowdon at the weekend \"was nothing like they'd ever seen before\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nSnowdonia and the Brecon Beacons national parks were closed at the start of lockdown, after 'unprecedented' crowds flocked to Snowdon and Pen y fan despite advice against non-essential travel.\n\nCar parks and paths reopened in Snowdonia on 6 July to visitors for the first time after the stay local travel restrictions were lifted.\n\nOn Sunday, pictures were shared on social media of cars parked along the side of the mountain road, as people flocked to hike to the highest peak in Wales.\n\nAt Pen y pass 180 parking fines were issued on Sunday, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nAnd by 08:16 BST on Monday, the Pen-y-Pass car park, the closest car park to the summit of Snowdon, in Gwynedd, was again full.\n\nNia Jefferies, who had cycled from nearby Porthmadog on Sunday, said it was \"frightening\" as people had parked on bends, turning it into a \"single track\".\n\n\"There were walkers there, motorbikes there, cyclists and big campervans, and it was down to single file,\" the Gwynedd councillor said.\n\n\"It was the worst I've ever seen it, it was so scary, I was frightened.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMs Jefferies said people were camped in laybys, and the Sherpa bus to bring hikers to the mountain could not get through due to the \"reckless parking\".\n\nHundreds of people were fined by police, but with the fine only being about £30, Ms Jefferies said it was not a deterrent.\n\n\"People just think they want to go up it because it is the highest mountain in Wales, but there are so many other places,\" she added, calling for Visit Wales to actively promote other routes.\n\nMs Jefferies said while business owners were desperate for tourists to return to the area, people needed to respect the national park and think about the consequences of their actions.\n\n\"We are lucky we have the scenery, I know lockdown has been hard for people living in cities, but people are not respecting the environment or other people,\" she said.\n\n\"It was just so haphazard, fancy stopping on a mountain on a bend, and not thinking about the consequences, and just going for a walk, it's so selfish.\"\n\nTickets have been issued to some cars\n\nPlaid Cymru politicians said the scenes were \"truly shocking\" and called for a park and ride scheme to be brought in urgently.\n\n\"Nothing can excuse the behaviour of those who wantonly abandoned their vehicles on an exceptionally busy stretch of the A4086,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"What events over the weekend underscored is that we cannot wait any longer for a lasting solution to this problem.\"\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority, Gwynedd and Conwy councils have been reviewing parking and transport for the area.\n\nMs Jefferies said having a park and ride service could be a solution, to get people to spend in villages and towns, or passes for local residents.\n\nIn Barmouth, Gwynedd, the RNLI said people had parked outside the lifeboat station, blocking spaces for volunteers.\n\nIn a tweet the service said: \"We need this space for crew to park in case of a shout and to get the lifeboats out.\n\n\"You are potentially putting lives at risks parking here.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nConcerns have also been raised about litter left in beauty spots since restrictions were eased, and visitors returned to popular beaches and mountains.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the amount of litter being left on The Great Orme, Llandudno, by people picnicking was \"unacceptable\" at the weekend.\n\nHelen Pye said people were queuing at the top to reach Snowdon's summit\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said they were holding urgent talks with partners, including police and other national parks.\n\nHelen Pye, of SNPA, said: \"We've had things in place to cope with a busy period as lockdown eases, but there's only so much that one mountain can take. \"It's almost as if people are working out their pent up longing for open spaces and the countryside. \"It's lovely that people want to come and visit, but we do need everyone to check the car park situation before they arrive and park sensibly when they do.\n\n\"Once people are on the mountain, everything seems fine. Our wardens at the top of Snowdon itself say that there are queues for the summit, but people are being good natured and are social distancing.\"", "Aziza Aljahwari eventually found her son Ali after searching in the water for about 10 minutes\n\nA mother has told how she frantically waded through a deep river searching for her missing 10-year-old before the pair were rescued by firefighters.\n\nAziza Aljahwari and her son Ali were rescued from the River Rheidol in Aberystwyth on Wednesday.\n\nMrs Aljahwari said the emergency service teams that saved them had \"really touched\" her heart.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service used a rescue sled, throw bags and floating line to retrieve the pair.\n\nAberystwyth Lifeboat launched to help Mrs Aljahwari and Ali\n\nMrs Aljahwari had visited the river on Wednesday with her friend and three of her six children, aged 12, 10 and six.\n\nShe said while she and her friend were looking for somewhere to sit her six-year-old son Mohammad dropped a small toy boat into the water and went in after it.\n\nShe retrieved Mohammad quickly but Ali had gone into the water after her and was trying to get the boat when she lost sight of him.\n\nThe incident started when Aziza Aljahwari's six-year-old dropped a toy boat into the River Rheidol\n\n\"I heard his voice but I couldn't see him,\" she said.\n\nAfter running onto the road to to get a better view of the river she was unable to see him so asked her friend to call 999 while she waded into the water after him.\n\nMrs Aljahwari, who cannot swim, said: \"I didn't have any choice. The water became faster. The water was so cold.\n\n\"I was scared for my son. I asked Allah to save him.\"\n\nEmyr Jones said the pair were \"very fortunate\"\n\nMrs Aljahwari said she was in the water for up to 10 minutes before she eventually saw her son clinging to a tree.\n\n\"Ali was crying and saying 'mummy please don't go'.\n\n\"The water was up to my neck. I was frightened, I said 'Ali don't come to me, just stay there'.\n\n\"I reached Ali and climbed onto the bank of the river. I was trying to call my friend but she couldn't hear us.\"\n\nThe coastguard and police were at the scene while the search was under way\n\nMrs Aljahwari, said once she had located Ali she had faith they would be okay: \"I didn't feel scared,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew the emergency services would come quickly.\n\n\"Later Ali told me he had been terrified until I came.\"\n\nAfter calling 999, Mrs Aljahwari's friend had called her husband and he had made his way to the river and was there to give her a kiss when they were brought out of the water.\n\n\"He was very scared,\" she added.\n\nMrs Aljahwari, her husband Jamal and their children moved from Oman to Aberystwyth five years ago for Jamal to study a PHD at the town's university.\n\nPosting on Facebook after the rescue, Mrs Aljahwari gave a \"warm thank you\" to those who tried to help them, including Dyfed-Powys Police, Aberystwyth Lifeboat, Welsh Ambulance Service, Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service and the coastguard.\n\nShe wrote: \"Thank you for your kindness and hard work that day.\n\n\"I was truly amazed by your incredible work.\n\n\"There were few small unseen moments that really touched my heart that I would like to share.\n\n\"For example when fireman tried to break the branches from trees, until blood came out of his hand but he didn't complain or showed a sign, he did all that just to make sure that I walk safely.\n\n\"When we finally reached safety he kneeled down to speak to Ali and try to comfort him and cheer him.\n\n\"Or the firefighter who took his jacket off and put it in the ground to protect our feet from the cold.\n\n\"Or when a man saw us shivering and quickly asked the helicopter to drop us a blanket and a mat.\"\n\nA fire engine was also at the scene\n\nShe also thanked people who had supported her \"anxious\" husband while they were in the water.\n\nShe added: \"I feel lucky to live in Aber in such a wonderful community where everyone is a family.\n\n\"Thank You God for allowing all those people into my life.\"\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Aberystwyth fire station manager Emyr Jones said due to the terrain on the banks of the river, the pair could not be seen and two of his crew members had to enter the water \"as a last resort\".\n\nHe added the pair were found waist-deep in the water and were \"very fortunate\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 500 cars were parked along the roads in Snowdonia\n\nMotorists are being warned they could be towed away if they park illegally at the foot of Snowdon.\n\nIf follows chaotic scenes at Pen-y-Pass below the mountain last weekend, where vehicles turned the main road into a car park in places.\n\nIt led to 180 vehicles being given penalty fines.\n\nCar parks at Pen-y-Pass will now be closed at the weekend, and only available for buses and taxis to drop-off hikers heading on to the peak.\n\n\"This is a 60mph area, and the irresponsible and dangerous parking we saw last weekend not only risked lives but also would have prevented emergency vehicle access,\" said Supt Neil Thomas, from North Wales Police.\n\n\"Anybody found to be parked on the clearway or causing an obstruction will have their vehicle removed at their own expense. Please heed the warning.\"\n\nPen-y-Pass sits on the main A4086 road between Llanberis and Capel Curig, and is where the Pyg Track path takes walkers to the top of Snowdon, making it one of the most popular destinations in the national park.\n\nHowever, all access to Snowdon and other popular peaks in the national park was closed in March, as part of coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nWalkers and hikers were allowed back on the mountains when the \"stay local\" lockdown restrictions were eased on 6 July, while last weekend marked the start of the official school holidays for many visitors.\n\nTraffic enforcement officers will be out in force again at the weekend\n\nLocal residents accused visitors of treating the region with \"lack of respect\" after an estimated 500 cars lined verges and the roadside all down the pass.\n\nIn addition to closing the pass car parks over the weekend, extra park-and-ride bus services will be put in place, running from nearby Llanberis and Nant Peris.\n\nSnowdon Sherpa buses will be running every 15 minutes between 06:45 in the morning and 18:40 in the evening.\n\nThe buses link all the various Snowdon car parks with summit paths.\n\n\"These urgent measures will help to tackle the immediate challenge and we will continue to monitor and adapt as matters progresses,\" said Emyr Williams, chief executive of the Snowdonia Park Authority.\n\nThe leader of Gwynedd council Dyfrig Siencyn added: \"We want people to be able to enjoy our stunning mountain ranges safely.\n\n\"Those who ignore the message by parking illegally on the highway on Snowdonia's mountain passes will face an on-the-spot fine or even being towed away by police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katrina Collins wanted to lighten the mood and create a talking point in Montgomery\n\nStern signs instructing people to queue two metres apart have become part of life since lockdown.\n\nBut graphic designer Keith Williams and friend Katrina Collins wanted to lighten the mood and create a talking point.\n\nSo they settled on making messages that describe two metres in quirky ways, such as \"7 Chihuahuas\" and \"50 chips\".\n\nMr Williams wanted something a little out of the ordinary, rather than \"awful plastic signs\".\n\n\"I thought we could do something different,\" he said.\n\n\"So every two metres there are random phrases.\"\n\nThese include \"14.3 pairs of scissors\"; \"1.1 piano hinges\"; \"25 - 50 chips\"; \"85.36 pound coins\" and \"153.85 marbles\".\n\nThe signs, in Montgomery, Powys, have got people talking, Mr Williams said.\n\n\"The idea was to get people bemused and then to chat when the penny dropped, because queueing is boring,\" he said.\n\nA woman and her dog stay 16 million coronaviruses from the person in front\n\nThe response had been positive, Mr Williams said, although not everybody initially understood what it was about.\n\n\"One chap said, 'I don't get it',\" Mr Williams said. \"I explained it to him and he said, 'How very Montgomery'.\n\n\"It's nice to see when the penny drops.\"\n\nGraphic designer Keith Williams spent 11 hours over two days painting the signs\n\nThe signs were finished on Monday after Mr Williams spent 11 hours on his hands and knees painting them.\n\nMs Collins, who runs \"zero-waste\" catering business Shed 38, said: \"Each sign has some relevance to the business they are outside.\n\n\"So outside the cafe is '22 scones and 33.7 carrot cakes'.\"\n\nThe hope was they would spark conversations in the town\n\nThe scones and carrots were not laid end-to-end on the pavement to measure, she explained.\n\n\"We measured a scone and measured a carrot cake and did the maths,\" said Ms Collins.\n\n\"We thought that we would stick to (Shed 38's) zero-waste theme - we didn't want to get carrot cakes on the floor.\"", "Holidaymakers are able to use sites with shared facilities from this weekend\n\nHolidaymakers can once again carry on camping in Wales - but it won't be as you remember it.\n\nFrom Saturday sites with shared facilities are allowed to open, with strict rules and regulations, having missed most of the high season.\n\nBusinesses said they had been inundated with inquiries but it would not make up for lost trade during lockdown.\n\nThere had also been the expense of deep cleaning, adding social distancing and reducing pitch numbers, some said.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford warned holidaymakers they \"must get used to some changes\" to protect everyone from coronavirus.\n\n\"It's the responsibility of all of us to follow these new rules so we can keep ourselves and our loved ones safe,\" he said.\n\nThe British Holiday and Home Parks Association said it expected almost all of the 1,322 sites in Wales that offer shared facilities to open.\n\nAnd Philippa George, who chairs the Forum for South East Wales Tourism, estimated 97% would be welcoming visitors.\n\n\"It's been very hard, because all these businesses that have not been open have had no income for the season,\" she said.\n\nThere is less than two months of that left.\n\n\"It pretty well dries up in September, that is one of the quietest months in the season,\" said Ms George.\n\nPhilippa George has reduced numbers at her Monknash campsite and followed Covid-19 social distancing and hygiene advice\n\nThe cost of adding measures to conform to coronavirus regulations was \"quite expensive\", she said.\n\nMs George worried sites would be driven out of business.\n\n\"That is three winters of no income for some people,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been extremely serious and I am hoping the Welsh Government will help.\n\n\"Across tourism we need to look at these businesses otherwise we are going to lose some.\"\n\nMs George, who runs Heritage Coast Camping, in Monknash, Vale of Glamorgan, said: \"I'm only going to be effectively open for August and September, so income is reduced massively.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms George said more people wanted to take holidays in the UK\n\nSince the announcement sites would be allowed to reopen, her phone has been ringing off the hook.\n\n\"It has been ringing from half-seven to half-11 at night,\" Ms George said.\n\n\"The people who ring, I've been discussing with them what we are doing to protect them and their safety.\n\n\"Without exception they have enjoyed that discussion and welcomed it.\"\n\nHeritage Coast Camping is not opening until 31 July as it is not ready yet.\n\n\"With shared facilities it is difficult because you are talking about showers, toilets, washing up rooms,\" Ms George said.\n\nTo maintain social distancing this means no more than two people at a time can use them.\n\nSharon Evans runs Llandow Touring Caravan Park, which also accepts tents and is opening on Saturday.\n\nShe said: \"We have been able to open a fortnight now with the caravans on site, where customers are using their own facilities, which has given us a bit of a trial run.\n\n\"We have screens in reception and hand sanitisers and social distancing and we have spent a great deal of time deep cleaning.\n\n\"The level of interest has been overwhelming.\"\n\nRoger Thomas, of the Three Golden Cups site, said demand was so pent up he expected people \"whatever the weather\"\n\nIt was \"frustrating\" sites were banned from opening in Wales until Saturday, Ms Evans said, adding: \"Our customers have been going to England.\"\n\nSome of her customers have been visiting for years, she said: \"It's been very lonely without them, very quiet.\"\n\nRoger Thomas, who runs the Three Golden Cups campsite a few miles away in Southerndown, said trade was normally weather dependent.\n\n\"If the weather is dreadful people tend not to come,\" he said.\n\n\"But this year the demand is so pent up I expect they will come whatever.\"\n\nThe Camping and Caravanning Club said in Wales sites at Bala, Rhandirmwyn, Cardigan Bay and Wyeside were open.\n\nBut only Wyeside will be open with shared facilities from Saturday.\n\n\"It's great for campsites across Wales to be able to open their shared facilities, such as toilet blocks, as this will mean tent-campers and campervanners can now pitch up alongside caravans and motorhomes, which have self-contained washrooms,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBritish Holiday and Home Parks Association boss Ros Pritchard said: \"We are hoping to see the return of our tent campers on Saturday.\"", "Coronavirus has meant pregnant women around the world have had to face additional challenges – like changing birth plans, social isolation, and financial challenges.\n\nTwo women in Vancouver and London have documented their birth stories for the BBC, to show what it’s like to have a baby in a pandemic.\n\nYou can watch the full story, Lockdown Babies: Pregnancy In A Pandemic on BBC World News this weekend.", "A reporter in Florida has thanked a viewer who spotted a cancerous growth on her neck and sent an email urging her to seek treatment.\n\n\"A viewer emailed me last month,\" WFLA reporter Victoria Price posted online on Thursday. \"She saw a lump on my neck. Said it reminded her of her own.\"\n\n\"Hers was cancer. Turns out, mine is too,\" she said, announcing she would be taking time off from work to fight it.\n\nPrice said she would undergo surgery on Monday to remove the tumour.\n\n\"'8 On Your Side' isn't just a catchphrase at @wfla,\" she wrote on Instagram, referring to the station's call sign number and slogan.\n\n\"It's our cornerstone. But the roles recently reversed when I found a viewer on MY side, and I couldn't be more grateful.\"\n\nPrice said that her work covering the coronavirus outbreak in Tampa had distracted her from caring for her own health.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by victoria price This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"As a journalist, it's been full throttle since the pandemic began. Never-ending shifts in a never-ending news cycle,\" Price wrote, adding: \"We were covering the most important health story in a century, but my own health was the farthest thing from my mind.\"\n\nDoctors told her the tumour was spreading from the centre of her neck and would need to be surgically removed, along with her thyroid and some lymph nodes, she wrote in an article for WFLA.\n\n\"Had I never received that email, I never would have called my doctor. The cancer would have continued to spread. It's a scary and humbling thought,\" she posted.\n\n\"I will forever be thankful to the woman who went out of her way to email me, a total stranger. She had zero obligation to, but she did anyway. Talk about being on your side, huh?\"\n\nThyroid cancer is far more common in women than men, Price reported, adding that roughly 75% of all cases diagnosed in the US this year have been women.\n\n\"So ladies…#CheckYourNeck!\" she wrote, adding that she expects to return to work in a week.\n\nThis is not the first time that a watchful viewer has given helpful medical advice to a broadcaster.\n\nIn 2018, former Liverpool defender and football pundit Mark Lawrenson thanked a doctor who gave him a cancer diagnosis after watching him on BBC One's Football Focus.\n\nFlip or Flop's El Moussa described Nurse Ryan as \"an amazing woman\"\n\nIn 2013, cable news host Tarek El Moussa was alerted to a lump on his neck by a nurse who had seen him on the home makeover show Flip or Flop.\n\n\"I thought it was something that needed to be brought to his attention,\" nurse Ryan Reade told NBC.\n\nEl Moussa has now recovered from stage-2 thyroid cancer.", "Crowds of people were waiting to leave the park after the stabbing\n\nA man has been charged following a knife attack at Thorpe Park.\n\nA 26-year-old man suffered a serious stab wound to his stomach following an altercation at the Surrey theme park on Saturday.\n\nThe attack took place on a bridge near the exit of the attraction during a row between two groups, causing the park to be put in lockdown.\n\nCraig Harakh, 26, from south London, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, police said.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMr Harakh, of Jeffreys Road, Lambeth, is due to appear at Staines Magistrates' Court via video link on Wednesday.\n\nThe victim has since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The home secretary has promised \"sweeping reforms\" to Home Office culture after the Windrush scandal which saw people wrongly deported.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Priti Patel said there would be a \"full evaluation\" of the hostile environment policy.\n\nShe also announced mandatory training for Home Office staff, reconciliation events with the victims of the scandal and diverse shortlists for senior jobs.\n\nLabour said the government was \"falling woefully short\".\n\nMs Patel said her commitment to changing the Home Office was \"fundamentally solid and firm\" adding: \"I have been on the receiving end of certain practices in the Home Office as well, which quite frankly speak to some of the points that came out of Wendy Williams' review.\"\n\nThe Windrush scandal saw people being detained or even removed from the UK despite having lived in the country for years.\n\nThe scandal prompted criticism of the government's \"hostile environment\" measures introduced to tackle illegal immigration such as a 'deport first, appeal later' policy and tougher 'right to work' checks.\n\nA report into the scandal by Wendy Williams, an inspector of constabulary, accused the Home Office of demonstrating \"ignorance and thoughtlessness\".\n\nShe made 30 recommendations and in June Ms Patel said she accepted the report in full.\n\nMaking a statement in the House of Commons, the home secretary told MPs the scandal was \"an ugly stain on the face of our country and our Home Office\" adding that her response had been \"swift, strong and uncompromising\".\n\nShe said she wanted to ensure \"sweeping reforms\" to Home Office culture and would be \"reviewing every aspect of how the department operates, its leadership, the culture, policies, practices and the way it views and treats all parts of the communities it serves\".\n\nShe told MPs that over £1.5m had been offered by the Windrush compensation scheme but added \"this is just the beginning\".\n\nIn her statement she announced:\n\nMs Patel said: \"There are simply not enough individuals from black, Asian or minority ethnic staff working at the top in senior roles and there are far too many times where I am the only non-white face in the room.\n\nThe Empire Windrush, which arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948, brought workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands, as a response to post-war labour shortages in the UK.\n\n\"The injustices of Windrush did not happen because Home Office staff were bad people, but because staff themselves were caught up in a system where they did not feel they had the permission to bring personal judgement to bear,\" she said.\n\nShe also announced that in September 2021, Ms Williams would revisit the Home Office to review its progress.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the Windrush scandal \"must lead to real and lasting change\".\n\n\"Looking at the failure to act on so many previous reviews, the government is falling woefully short on that action and that's why we will be holding them to account for delivering the vital changes outlined in this report and to act with the urgency that is required.\"\n\nPatrick Vernon, a Windrush campaigner, urged the government to speed up the payment of compensation to victims of the Windrush scandal.\n\nHe said Mrs Patel's statement \"paid lip service to this review, but does not respond to the urgency of the matter - several Windrush victims have already died without receiving compensation for the injustice they faced.\"", "Sales of paint, wallpaper, plants and compost have soared during lockdown, the owner of B&Q and Screwfix has said.\n\nKingfisher said people had been doing more DIY than usual, as like-for-like sales jumped by 21.6% in the three months to 18 July.\n\nStore re-openings also boosted revenue, while online sales more than tripled.\n\nKingfisher's UK stores, as well as those in France, were closed in mid-March due to lockdown measures to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAlthough B&Q's UK stores only started reopening in late April, online sales continued to see a huge increase, it said.\n\nThe retailer made click-and-collect and home delivery options available and the group saw online sales surge more than 200% in both May and June.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, retail sales across the UK partly recovered in May driven by DIY stores and garden centres reopening.\n\nSales were boosted by a 42% rise at household goods stores, such as hardware, furniture and paint shops, it said.\n\nKingfisher said that good weather had also helped demand - in addition to people having more time to spend on DIY improvements while they spent more time at home.\n\nIn June, the group said it would recruit 3,000 to 4,000 more workers to meet the rising demand, about half of them in the UK.\n\nKingfisher boss Thierry Garnier said the firm's new recruits would be \"temporary\" during the summer, depending on what happened to demand after coronavirus measures were eased.\n\nThe DIY group is one of the few large retailers to add to its workforce instead of cutting jobs amid the pandemic.\n\nDIY is one area that has done well during lockdown. Other businesses that have seen buoyant sales include supermarkets and online-only fashion stores.\n\nSainsbury's, for example, saw grocery sales up 10.5% during the lockdown, fuelled by online orders. Online fashion firm Asos also reported an increase in group sales of 10% to £1bn in the four months to 30 June.\n\nDespite Kingfisher's strong performance, the group said in a statement on Wednesday that it would not give guidance for the second half of the year due to \"uncertainty around Covid-19 and the wider economic outlook\".\n\nIt also said its sales over the six months to 18 July were down 3.7% compared with the same period last year.\n• None Five firms booming despite the lockdown", "At the moment, Rick Cressman says his hotel Nailcote Hall, near Coventry, is losing £40,000 a month, with bank borrowing his only financial lifeline.\n\nThe hotel had been turning over just short of £3m a year.\n\n\"Fixed costs mean we must operate at scale,\" he told the BBC. \"We would need to operate at 50% capacity just to turn a small profit.\"\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) says almost half of UK firms have been unable to fully restart operations despite restrictions being eased.\n\nIts coronavirus impact tracker - billed as the largest business survey of its type - found that weak consumer demand and possible local lockdowns were seen as obstacles.\n\nNailcote Hall, which employed 80 staff before lockdown, was a popular venue for weddings, party nights and visitors to the nearby National Exhibition Centre (NEC).\n\nIt plans to re-open on 24 August, but since Mr Cressman took the decision another big NEC event he was hoping would bring in business has been cancelled.\n\n\"We are taking a little bit of a punt,\" he says.\n\nMr Cressman is hopeful his customers will return relatively quickly, saying many bookings \"haven't been cancelled, just pushed back\".\n\nEven so, the hospitality sector has strict distancing rules, so getting back to the days when the hotel had average wedding parties of 100 guests could be a long way off.\n\nHis staff are gradually being brought back from furlough, with training underway and the re-arrangement of the hotel to make it Covid-19 compliant in progress.\n\nMr Cressman said: \"We need to get up to 50% capacity within about two months. I've been in this business 40 years. I'm sure many people with less experience would find it overwhelming.\"\n\nThe BCC's survey of firms between 6 July and 10 July found that while demand is up since the depths of the lockdown, most firms are only operating at about half of their pre-virus capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, almost half said they had seen a slight or significant decrease in revenue from UK customers compared to June.\n\nAnd some 43% saw an increase in late payments from customers when compared with the last six months of 2019.\n\nAdam Marshall, BCC director general, said: \"Businesses are grappling with reduced customer demand, an on-going cash crunch, and the potential for further lockdowns during an uncertain autumn and winter ahead,\" Mr Marshall said.\n\n\"The prime minister's encouragement to return to workplaces and further updates to business guidance will not be enough on their own.\"\n\nThe survey was carried out before Boris Johnson's announcement last week that coronavirus restrictions will ease further in England under plans for what he called a \"significant return to normality\" by Christmas.\n\nUnder the new guidelines, people may use public transport for journeys immediately and companies will have more discretion to bring staff back to work from 1 August.\n\nHowever, economists say that despite the easing of lockdown and hopes that the pace of staff being brought back from furlough will be pick up, the outlook for jobs was gloomy.\n\nJack Kennedy, economist at Indeed, an employment website which helped produce the BCC's report, said: \"The slowdown in consumer activity mirrors hiring activity in the UK.\n\n\"Today, there are 60% fewer job postings than there were before the outbreak of Covid-19, and so far there are few signs of a V-shaped recovery in vacancies.\n\n\"The furlough scheme has been an important lifeline to millions of people but the fear is there will be a sudden rise in unemployment after that umbilical cord has been severed,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We want to support businesses'\n\nOn the very day that the name RBS was consigned to the annals of financial history, the boss of the UK's biggest business lender warned that while the painful memories of the last great financial crisis had faded, the true extent of a new and graver threat to thousands of businesses was emerging.\n\nAlison Rose, the chief executive of the renamed Natwest Group said: \"There are clearly tough times ahead. Not all businesses will survive and there are going to be losses\".\n\nWe got a glimpse of the potential scale of the losses earlier this year when RBS (as was) reported a nine-fold (833%) increase in the amount of money it set aside for bad loans compared to the same period a year ago.\n\nNew accounting standards require companies to make their best guess of future bad loans - so RBS's best guess in the first quarter of this year was that bad loans would explode. We will get an update on their view next week.\n\nSince that time, RBS has gone on to lend £10bn under various government schemes to businesses that they would not normally have done were it not for government guarantees, the vast majority of which were at 100%.\n\nHowever, as Alison Rose was keen to stress - those guarantees are to the lender not the borrower.\n\nIf RBS predicts the default rate on loans rose by nine times on loans the bank was comfortable making without guarantees, how much higher will it be when that government backing meant the normal lending checks were accelerated or even effectively discarded?\n\nGiven these loans are guaranteed, the financial problem is primarily the government's (and therefore the taxpayer) but these are loans not grants and Alison Rose accepted that the high street banks will be the ones to be knocking on the door for repayment.\n\n\"It's a very important point that we have made to businesses that they are 100% liable for repayment. We will be involved in collecting that money because they will need to pay it back but we will do that in a very considered and thoughtful way.\" She added that a lot of businesses had secured the funds but many had not yet spent them.\n\nThe decade or so since the last crisis was the most painful in the nearly 300-year history of a bank that went from solid and dependable and trusted Royal Bank of Scotland (a brand its branches will retain in Scotland) to a by word for reckless expansion, hubristic leadership and, in some cases, the brutal and unethical treatment of its small business customers after the crash.\n\nMs Rose is determined to complete a transformation from that to a \"purpose driven, financially sustainable bank that works for all its stakeholders\".\n\nThe name change may help to close the door on a horrible decade for a bank whose losses over ten years amounted to £60bn - wiping out am injection of £46bn in taxpayer money and then some.\n\nThe shares in TBFKARBS (The bank formerly known as RBS), or Natwest Group, are trading at one quarter of the value at which the taxpayer bought its shares.\n\nWe will probably never get that money back. That doesn't mean it was the wrong thing to do. A failure of a bank whose assets were worth more than the entire UK economy would have taken that economy down the plughole with it.\n\nMs Rose insists that the bank will not airbrush events since 2009 out of its corporate memory: \"We don't want to forget the past, it's important we remember those lessons\"", "The funeral cortege was warmly welcomed as it arrived in Ashington\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of football great Jack Charlton's hometown to pay their respects ahead of his funeral.\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland boss Charlton, who won the World Cup playing for England, died on 10 July aged 85.\n\nHe was born in Ashington, Northumberland, and often returned to the former mining town.\n\nWell-wishers applauded and cheered as the cortege passed through the streets, with many waving flags and banners.\n\nHis family said they had been \"overwhelmed\" by the support shown and added \"he would have been thrilled by the outpouring of kindness\".\n\nPeople threw flowers on the hearse as it passed slowly through the town where he and his younger brother Sir Bobby honed their football skills.\n\nThe procession slowed as it passed close to the terraced house on Beatrice Street where the Charltons once lived and played in the back lane.\n\nOne floral tribute marked Charlton's wearing of the number 5 shirt in the 1966 World Cup final\n\nFloral tributes in the hearse included a football and a red England shirt with \"Jackie 5\" on it.\n\nThe cortege then made its way to a private service at a crematorium in Newcastle, where just a small number of relatives attended due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe family said Sir Bobby had not been well enough to be there.\n\nJack Charlton was \"incredibly proud\" of Ashington, his son said\n\nNewcastle United, Leeds United, Ireland and England scarves were draped over the coffin as it was carried into the crematorium\n\nIn a eulogy at the service, his grandchildren, Emma, Kate and Tom Wilkinson, paid tribute to \"a proud Englishman, a proud northerner and a proud honorary Irishman\".\n\n\"The footballer, the friend, the family man we all knew was forged in Ashington - during a happy childhood with the parents and three brothers he always loved dearly.\n\n\"As they whiled away hours kicking a ball around Hirst Park, Grandad could never have imagined how remarkable his life would go on to be.\"\n\nReferencing him dropping to his knees at the end of the World Cup final in 1966, they added: \"Many have often wondered what he was thinking - was it pure elation? Was it the gravity of the achievement?\n\n\"Was it relief that the hopes of a nation had been realised? Well he always told us he was just bloody knackered.\"\n\nA message from brother Sir Bobby was among the many tributes\n\nThe former Leeds United defender had been diagnosed with lymphoma in recent years and was suffering from dementia.\n\nIn more than 20 seasons with the club, he made 773 appearances and won the 1969 league title and the 1972 FA Cup.\n\nHe later found success managing the Republic of Ireland, but his family said while his achievements brought him recognition \"he always had his feet firmly on the ground\".\n\n\"It's clear that the many fleeting moments of kindness he showed to strangers had a lasting impact, and we're extremely proud to be able to say that the man everyone met is the man we knew.\n\n\"A man who struck the balance so perfectly between football icon, fan favourite and loving family man.\"\n\nSpeaking before the funeral, his son John said: \"Many will know now that, as a family, we wanted to give local people the opportunity to say goodbye to Jack, and pay their respects before he's laid to rest.\n\n\"Jack was incredibly proud of his hometown, which is why we made the decision to take the funeral cortege around Ashington.\"\n\nFlags and banners celebrating his involvement with the World Cup win have been placed around the town\n\nAs soon as the funeral car appeared, the hundreds of people on Alexandra Road started to applaud and cheer. One of the town's most famous sons was home.\n\nA Northumberland piper accompanied the cortege part of the way. It was a tribute that brought his family to tears.\n\nThese are strange times. The family requested that people kept their distance from each other and wore a mask. Despite the pandemic, everybody here left their home or took the morning off work to pay their respects. That's how much he is loved in this part of the world.\n\nThey all have a story about Jack Charlton too - a time he turned up at the local pub, or when he shared his packed lunch when he was out fishing.\n\nFootball defined him, but his personality also made him a local hero.\n\nMessages of love for Charlton were evident on flags around the town\n\nOne youngster paid tribute by having \"Wor Jackie\" painted on his back\n\nPeter Mather, a 68-year-old semi-retired bricklayer, stood on the route of the funeral with a sign saying \"Howay Wor Jack\".\n\nHe said: \"I lived over the road from here and I vividly remember watching the World Cup final.\n\n\"At the final whistle, he went to his knees, a big hard man like that showing such emotion. I'll never forget it.\"\n\nCharlton (centre) and his team-mates cemented their place in English football history in 1966\n\nBobby and Jack Charlton leave their mother's house in Ashington for a civic reception after the World Cup win in 1966\n\nHe spent his entire playing career at Leeds United and is seen here challenging his brother Bobby in action for Manchester United\n\nThe funeral procession left the Charlton family home in Dalton, Northumberland, and was met by a police escort in Ashington before going along Newbiggin Road into the town centre.\n\nIt stopped outside Hirst Welfare Centre, where Charlton and Sir Bobby played football as children, before travelling to the crematorium.", "The PAC said the Treasury did not announce plans for \"significant\" support for businesses and individuals until 11 March\n\nThe government's failure to plan for the economic impact of a pandemic is \"astonishing\", a committee of MPs says.\n\nThe Commons Public Accounts Committee said the economic reaction to Covid-19 had been rushed and the impact could be \"long-term\".\n\nIt added the Treasury had waited until mid-March before deciding on economic support schemes to put in place.\n\nBut the government said it regularly tested its pandemic plans, which enabled a \"rapid\" response.\n\nLabour accused ministers of being \"incompetent\" in dealing with coronavirus.\n\nLast month, official figures showed that the UK economy shrank more than first thought between January and March, contracting 2.2% in the joint largest fall since 1979.\n\nIn its report, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said the government needed to \"learn lessons\" and \"ensure it doesn't repeat its mistakes again in the event of a second spike in infections - or another novel disease outbreak\".\n\n\"We are astonished by the government's failure to consider in advance how it might deal with the economic impacts of a pandemic,\" it said.\n\nThe report noted the government undertook at three-day pandemic simulation in 2016 known as Exercise Cygnus.\n\nBut the committee said the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy \"was not even aware of the exercise\", saying: \"It is astounding that the government did not think about the potential impact on the economy.\"\n\nAnd it said the Treasury did not announce plans for \"significant funding\" to support businesses and individuals until the Budget on 11 March \"and it did not become clear to the Treasury until the following week that a furlough scheme would be needed\".\n\nThe first reported cases of coronavirus confirmed by the chief medical officer in England was on 31 January.\n\nThe committee said a \"lack of prior thinking on the types of schemes that may be required led to a delay in implementation... particularly in relation to the self-employed scheme where it lacked sufficient, reliable information\" on recipients.\n\nThe report called for more transparency in government decision making and that the Cabinet Office should review crisis command structures to \"ensure longer-term decision making\".\n\nLast month, official figures showed that the UK economy shrank more than first thought between January and March\n\nThe committee was also critical of how the issue of personal protective equipment (PPE) was handled, saying there were \"fundamental flaws in the government's central procurement and local distribution of vital goods and equipment\".\n\nThe report also warned of the pandemic's impact on children, saying: \"It will be a huge task to ensure lengthy school closures do not have long-term or irreversible effects on children and young people's future health and education.\"\n\nThe committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Meg Hillier, said: \"Pandemic planning is the bread and butter of government risk planning, but we learn it was treated solely as a health issue, with no planning for the economic impacts.\n\n\"This meant that the economic strategy was of necessity rushed and reactive, initially a one-size-fits-all response that's leaving people - and whole sectors of the economy - behind.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"As the public would expect, we regularly test our pandemic plans, allowing us to rapidly respond to this unprecedented crisis and protect the NHS.\n\n\"It was clear that coronavirus would affect all areas of the country, that's why we immediately put in place an unprecedented initial economic support package for jobs and business worth £160bn.\"\n\nThe spokesman said the next stage of the economic response will make a further £30bn available, including more than £100m \"to support children to learn at home\".\n\nThe government has committed almost £28bn to support councils, businesses and communities in local areas, he said.\n\nFor Labour, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Bridget Phillipson said: \"It is a sorry catalogue of government failure. Their planning was incompetent and their response has been slow.\n\n\"We urgently need the prime minister to get a proper grip on tackling the pandemic.\"", "Kim Kardashian West has publicly addressed her husband Kanye's mental health issues following a series of erratic statements in recent days.\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"As many of you know, Kanye has bipolar disorder.\n\n\"Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand.\"\n\nHe is a \"brilliant but complicated person\" whose \"words sometimes do not align with his intentions\", she said.\n\nThe rapper is one of America's biggest music stars, and is currently attempting to run for US president. But his first campaign rally and a number of recent Twitter messages have sparked confusion and concern.\n\nKim and Kanye married in 2014 and have four children together.\n\nIn her message on Wednesday, the TV personality and model said she had not previously spoken publicly about how his mental health had affected the family \"because I am very protective of our children and Kanye's right to privacy when it comes to his health\".\n\nShe wrote: \"But today, I feel like I should comment on it because of the stigma and misconceptions about mental health.\n\n\"Those that understand mental illness or even compulsive behaviour know that the family is powerless unless the member is a minor.\n\n\"People who are unaware or far removed from this experience can be judgemental and not understand that the individual themselves have to engage in the process of getting help no matter how hard family and friends try.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kanye West cried as he told the rally his father had wanted to abort him - and he \"almost killed\" his own daughter\n\nKardashian West went on to say her husband was \"subject to criticism because he is a public figure and his actions at times can cause strong opinions and emotions\", but asked for greater empathy and understanding.\n\n\"He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, and has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bipolar disorder,\" she added.\n\n\"Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words sometimes do not align with his intentions.\n\n\"Living with bipolar disorder does not diminish or invalidate his dreams and his creative ideas, no matter how big or unobtainable they may feel to some.\n\n\"That is part of his genius and as we have all witnessed, many of his big dreams have come true.\n\n\"We as a society talk about giving grace to the issue of mental health as a whole, however we should also give it to the individuals who are living with it in times when they need it the most.\n\n\"I kindly ask that the media and public give us the compassion and empathy that is needed so that we can get through this.\"\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. Trump pivots on masks: 'I'm getting used to the mask'\n\nPresident Donald Trump has warned the US pandemic may \"get worse before it gets better\", as he revived his virus briefings with a more scripted tone.\n\nMr Trump also asked all Americans to wear face coverings, saying \"they'll have an effect\" and show \"patriotism\".\n\nThe president, who was not wearing a mask at the briefing, has previously disparaged them as unsanitary.\n\nHis aides have reportedly pressed him to adopt a more measured approach as virus caseloads spike across the US.\n\nThe daily White House news conferences ended soon after Mr Trump suggested in April during freewheeling remarks from the podium that the virus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into people.\n\nIn his first White House coronavirus briefing for months on Tuesday, a less off-the-cuff president echoed what public health officials on his pandemic task force have been saying as he warned: \"It will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better.\n\n\"Something I don't like saying about things, but that's the way it is.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask.\n\n\"Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they'll have an effect and we need everything we can get.\"\n\nMr Trump - who more than once referred to Covid-19 as the \"China virus\" - took a mask from his pocket in the briefing room, but did not put it on.\n\nThe president is facing an uphill climb to re-election in November against Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, according to opinion polls.\n\nMr Biden on Tuesday accused Mr Trump of having failed Americans in his handling of the pandemic. \"He's quit on you, he's quit on this country,\" the former US vice-president said.\n\nDonald Trump's afternoon coronavirus press briefings are back. Regardless of what the president said during his brief appearance on Tuesday, the simple fact of their return speaks volumes about the dismal course the pandemic has taken in the US in the past three months.\n\nCases are rising, particularly in the south and west, perhaps most directly as a result of the administration's support for states to end mitigation measures before public-health benchmarks were met.\n\nAnd so the president, sticking closely to his prepared remarks, sombrely noted that things \"will probably get worse before they get better\". After previously dismissing a mask-wearing reporter as being \"politically correct\", he now encouraged people to wear face coverings.\n\nA number of recent polls have indicated that sinking public support for the president's handling of the virus has been dragging down his re-election prospects. The White House reportedly hopes getting the president back in front of the American people will help rebuild their confidence in his leadership.\n\nA real solution to the president's dilemma, however, won't come until coronavirus cases once again go down, the hospitals empty, Americans go back to work, schools reopen and life returns to some semblance of normal. That day still seems a long way off, while election day is drawing close.\n\nMr Trump appeared without the medical experts who used to address the briefings. He kept his remarks brief and focused, avoiding sparring with reporters who asked a few questions.\n\nHe continued: \"We're asking Americans to use masks, socially distance and employ vigorous hygiene - wash your hands every chance you get, while sheltering high risk populations.\n\n\"We are imploring young Americans to avoid packed bars and other crowded indoor gatherings. Be safe and be smart.\"\n\nMr Trump has been reluctant to wear a mask himself in front of the media, claiming that some people only wore such face coverings as a political statement against him. The press pictured him recently wearing a mask for the first time as he visited a military hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why the US struggled with its reopening\n\nWhen asked on Tuesday about his shifting support for masks, the president pointed out that even health experts had changed their minds.\n\nBack in March, both Dr Anthony Fauci, one of the leading members of the president's coronavirus task force, and US Surgeon General Jerome Adams said there was no reason people in the US should wear a mask.\n\nSince at least April, the US Centers for Disease Control has recommended Americans wear face coverings in public.\n\nDr Fauci now argues US authorities should be more \"forceful\" in compelling mask wearing, though Mr Trump has rejected calls for the White House to issue a national order on the issue.\n\nDuring the briefing, the president continued to assert the virus would one day \"disappear\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lost six weeks when the US failed to control the virus\n\nHe also wrongly claimed the US has a lower coronavirus death rate than \"almost everywhere else in the world\".\n\nAccording to Johns Hopkins University, the US mortality rate is ranked 10th out of the 20 worst-hit countries.\n\nThe United States has recorded nearly 3.9 million Covid-19 cases and over 141,000 deaths - the highest by volume in the world.\n\nMr Trump was also asked by a reporter about the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who was charged this month by US authorities with sex-trafficking children for her ex-boyfriend, the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe president said: \"I haven't really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach [Florida], and I guess they lived in Palm Beach.\"\n\n\"I don't know the situation with Prince Andrew,\" added Mr Trump, mentioning the British royal who denies claims he had sex with a teenage girl who says she was trafficked by Epstein.", "Actress Amber Heard has accused her ex-husband Johnny Depp of throwing around 30 bottles at her \"like grenades\", the High Court in London has heard.\n\nShe said the incident happened during what she previously called a \"three-day hostage situation\" in 2015.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that labelled him a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper insists it was accurate.\n\nMs Heard, 34, was giving evidence in court for a third day.\n\nIt is the 12th day of the libel action by her ex-husband.\n\nMs Heard said in court on Wednesday that she was not to blame for the tip of Mr Depp's finger being severed while the couple were in Australia in March 2015. He has previously claimed that his ex-wife caused the injury by throwing a vodka bottle at him.\n\nMs Heard, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017, has accused Mr Depp of repeatedly assaulting her during the Australia trip, fuelled by drink and drugs, which he denies.\n\nShe told the court on Wednesday: \"I got angry at times but not into a rage that would cause me to throw anything at him.\"\n\nShe said she had taken a bottle from him on the night of the alleged incident as she did not want him to drink any more and smashed it on the floor.\n\n\"He started picking [bottles] up one by one and throwing them like grenades. One after the other after the other, in my direction, and I felt glass breaking behind me, I retreated more into the bar and he didn't stop.\"\n\n\"I was too scared to look behind me. He threw all the bottles that were in reach.\"\n\nMs Heard said she remembered that only \"a celebratory magnum-sized bottle\" was not smashed by Mr Depp \"out of 30 or so\" bottles.\n\nMr Depp's lawyer, Eleanor Laws QC, put it to Ms Heard that Mr Depp's fingertip was severed as a result of the actress throwing a bottle in his direction. Ms Heard replied: \"No.\"\n\nMs Laws said: \"According to you, Mr Depp sliced his finger off all on his own ... and then carried on attacking you.\"\n\nMs Heard said: \"Yes, he did. I don't think he meant to sever the finger but yes he did continue the attack.\"\n\nThe lawyer also asked about a photograph showing a mark on Mr Depp's face and accused Ms Heard of stubbing a cigarette out on his cheek.\n\nMs Heard denied the claim, saying: \"No, Johnny did it right in front of me, he often did things like that.\"\n\nThe lawyer then turned to an alleged incident of domestic violence in Los Angeles in December 2015, which Ms Heard has described in her first witness statement as \"one of the worst and most violent nights of our relationship\".\n\nMs Heard alleges that Johnny Depp slapped her, dragged her by the hair through their apartment - pulling clumps of her hair out - and then repeatedly punched her in the head.\n\nShe told the court: \"I had bruised ribs, bruises all over my body, bruises on my forearms from trying to defend the blows. I had two black eyes, I had a broken nose, I had a broken lip... the really bad ones (bruises) were in my hairline, on my scalp.\"\n\nThe actress, who appeared on James Corden's The Late Late Show the following night, described the moment when she says Mr Depp headbutted her.\n\n\"He clenched his fists, leaned back and slammed his head directly into mine.\"\n\nQuestioning Ms Heard about her injuries, Ms Laws referred to medical notes made by a nurse, Erin Boerum, who saw Ms Heard shortly after the alleged incident and recorded that the actress was \"actively bleeding on her lip\".\n\nMs Laws suggested that Ms Heard's list of injuries were \"nonsense\", adding: \"She (Ms Boerum) didn't see any bruising... you had just bitten your lip because there was fresh blood on it. Had you just done that for her benefit?\"\n\nMs Heard replied: \"Of course not.\"\n\nMs Laws put it to Ms Heard that a photograph of her with bruises on her face taken after the alleged December 2015 incident was \"completely set up\", which Ms Heard denied.\n\nA short clip of Ms Heard's appearance on The Late Late Show was then played to the court, following which Ms Laws said: \"That is what you looked like on the show, there is no injury, is there?\"\n\nMs Heard replied: \"I had tonnes of injuries.\" She then said she had makeup on covering the injuries and added: \"You can tell by the size of my lip alone.\"\n\nMs Heard's friend, make-up artist Melanie Inglessis, told the court that the pair had \"many conversations\" about Mr Depp and Ms Heard's relationship.\n\nShe said she had planned to go bowling with Ms Heard the night before The Late Late Show appearance, but that Ms Heard did not turn up and later texted Ms Inglessis to say Mr Depp \"beat on me\".\n\nMs Inglessis said Ms Heard told her that Mr Depp \"tried to suffocate her with a pillow ... those were her words\". She added Ms Heard was \"erratic, upset, you know, in between being sad and upset and furious\".\n\nThe court also heard that Mr Depp \"was jealous\" of other actors with whom Ms Heard filmed intimate scenes, and that Mr Depp wanted her to do fewer nude scenes.\n\nJoshua Drew, the ex-husband of Ms Heard's friend Raquel \"Rocky\" Pennington, said in a written witness statement: \"Rocky told me, based on her conversations with Amber, that Johnny had a particular issue with James Franco because he and Amber had some intimate scenes in a project they were filming, which Johnny did not want her doing.\"\n\n\"His name came up often and it would cause fights between them. They were arguing about it very regularly.\"\n\nThe hearing also covered the events surrounding the actress facing criminal proceedings in Australia for taking the couple's two Yorkshire Terriers, Pistol and Boo, into the country in 2015 without the proper paperwork.\n\nShe told the court she \"took the blame\" for illegally bringing the couple's dogs into Australia because his lawyers had said it would make her ex-husband 's job \"less threatened than it already was\".\n\nShe said it wasn't her decision to take the dogs, adding: \"Johnny's the boss.\"\n\nMr Depp's lawyer suggested Ms Heard \"was the boss\" and she had tried to get members of her staff to \"take the blame\". This was denied by Ms Heard, who said: \"I had already pleaded guilty.\"\n\nThe libel case centres on an article published on the Sun's website in April 2018 headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe article related to allegations made by Ms Heard, which Mr Depp denies. Her evidence was initially due to conclude on Wednesday but will now continue until Thursday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Charles said \"It's been nearly a year, please don't let this roll into a second year\"\n\nThe mother of Harry Dunn has appealed to the government to make her son \"top priority\" during the US Secretary of State visit.\n\nCharlotte Charles asked Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Mike Pompeo to \"please, please, discuss Harry\" at the visit on Monday.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash outside RAF Croughton, following which the suspect - Anne Sacoolas - fled the UK.\n\nMr Raab said there are \"no measures\" to force the United States to comply.\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nIn a video message, Mrs Charles, said: \"Mr Raab, Mr Pompeo, Mr Johnson, when you get together next week with all of your families fully intact whilst mine is in complete tatters and my family has been ripped apart, can you please, please discuss Harry?\n\n\"We've been assured he's high on your list of priorities to discuss amongst all of the other important global issues that you have surrounding you but please, please make him top priority.\"\n\nMotorcyclist Mr Dunn died in a crash with a car at the Northamptonshire US military base on 27 August.\n\nShe said the past 11 months have been \"horrific\" and she would not wish what she has gone through \"on your worst enemy\".\n\n\"We've got his anniversary coming up which is going to be beyond painful for us\", she said.\n\n\"It's just about doing the right thing. It always has been, it always will be.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMrs Sacoolas - the wife of a US intelligence official based at RAF Croughton - sparked an international row when she claimed diplomatic immunity after the crash.\n\nThe 42-year-old was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December.\n\nA Home Office extradition request was refused by US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in January.\n\nA state department's spokeswoman said that decision was final.\n\n\"We've always agreed immunity does need to be in place for certain circumstances. This isn't one of them\", Mr Dunn's mother said.\n\n\"Bring Anne Sacoolas back to the UK, face the justice system.\"\n\n\"My concern is to make sure justice is served and to make sure Harry's life is actually thought of and considered\", she added.\n\nMr Raab told Sky News, \"there's a denial of justice here\".\n\n\"There's no measures that we could I think credibly, realistically take which is somehow going to force the US or indeed Anne Sacoolas to comply with this [the extradition].\n\n\"I want to be realistic because I don't want to raise expectations which are then going to be dashed.\"\n\nHe said it has been \"raised\" in Washington, with the prime minister and President Trump.\n\n\"We will continue to make clear we're on the side of the family here, we think that she should return, she must return home, so that justice can be done.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The M4 Relief Road was designed to replace the stretch of motorway in Newport\n\nA million pounds of taxpayers' cash was spent on two properties affected by the M4 relief road route just weeks before the scheme was axed.\n\nSince 1995 more than £15m has been spent on the compulsory purchase of 29 properties affected by the scheme to relieve congestion around Newport.\n\nFourteen remain vacant. One house was bought 13 days before Welsh ministers decided the scheme was too costly.\n\nThe Welsh Government said many will be sold when market conditions are right.\n\nIt said it is require by law to purchase properties that meet certain criteria - which both properties did.\n\nTwo houses in the Coedkernew district of south west Newport were bought by the Welsh Government in April 2019.\n\nThe first purchase, for £575,000, was made on 9 April, while the second, for £462,162, was bought on 16 April, according to the Land Registry.\n\nOn 29 April, the Welsh Government cabinet decided in a meeting that the cost of the road project was not acceptable.\n\nNo announcement was made until 4 June - about two months after the purchase - when First Minister Mark Drakeford revealed that the scheme would be axed on cost and environmental grounds.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives said it suggested a \"shambolic decision-making process within the heart of the Welsh Government\".\n\nRussell George, the party's economy spokesman, said: \"The Welsh Labour-run Government has, once again, expected the taxpayer to pick up the tab for the vast sums of money spent on a project it later sank.\"\n\nThe M4 Relief Road was designed to reduce congestion around the Brynglas tunnels\n\nIn response to a Welsh Conservative Freedom of Information request, the Welsh Government said: \"We are unable to tenant some properties due to their current condition, however where possible, these properties will be brought up to standard and advertised for rent this financial year.\"\n\nSeven of the 29 properties bought over the last 25 years have been sold for around £2.1m and eight have been rented out so far.\n\nSix of the 29 properties were purchased prior to devolution in 1999.\n\nMr George said millions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been \"frittered away, and worse still there is nothing to show for it\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Many of these are assets with value that will be disposed of when market conditions are right.\n\n\"Land and buildings purchased before devolution would have been under the authority of the Wales Office as part of the UK government.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government later added: \"The purchase of properties is guided by legislation. We are bound to acquire properties that meet the relevant criteria and at both the point of application and point of purchase, the two properties referred to fulfilled the criteria.\"", "Spanish Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto has said a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Catalonia was coming under control, and that she hoped there would be no need for neighbouring France to close its border.\n\n“With the latest data we have in Aragon and Catalonia we are a bit more optimistic. Catalonia has already reduced the number of infections over the last three days,” said Ms Maroto.\n\n“Let’s hope that with these better data we don’t have to close a border that for us is very important for mobility with our European partners.”\n\nThe northeastern Spanish region has logged more than 7,000 new cases of Covid-19 over the last weeks - nearly half of the national total - although its infection rate has dropped in the recent days.\n\nCatalan leader Quim Torra has ruled out a return to lockdown, telling the regional parliament that \"Catalonia can't be closed.\"\n\nBut elsewhere, in Madrid the regional government said it might make face masks compulsory - even in situations where social distancing can be guaranteed - unless the national government imposed safety controls on people flying in to the capita's Barajas airport. Madrid and the Canary Islands are the only regions of Spain without such strict face mask rules in place.", "SNP's Ronnie Cowan highlights that the ISC report found that it has been difficult to establish which government department had responsibility for what, in dealing with Russian activity in the UK.\n\nThe government's response to the report alludes to the responsibilities of various government departments, he says.\n\nBut he says, \"At 1000am this morning we still did not know who would come to the House to defend the indefensible.\n\n\"Is the report, the government's delay in publishing it and its reaction, an example of the incompetence and arrogance we have come to expect of this government?\"\n\n\"I am very comfortable underlining the commitment this government has to our defence and nation security.\n\n\"It is about a whole government approach,\" he says, with each part of government engaged, and accountable through the National Security Council.", "Hundreds of fans applauded the team's arrival at Anfield\n\nLiverpool fans are celebrating as the squad prepares to be crowned Premier League champions - their first triumph in the top flight for 30 years.\n\nThe team bus's arrival was met with fans letting off flares around the Anfield ground.\n\nReds legend Sir Kenny Dalglish will present the silverware later after the team's clash with Chelsea.\n\nHundreds of fans applauded the team's arrival despite warnings from the club and police to celebrate at home.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, captain Jordan Henderson and Dalglish as well as Merseyside Police had called on fans to celebrate at home because of the risk of coronavirus.\n\nLiverpool fans had been asked to celebrate their club's victory in their homes\n\n\"I know how difficult it must be as they've waited for so long for this club to win the league and it's huge,\" said Henderson.\n\n\"Unfortunately, they can't gather outside the stadium for the health and safety of the country, and we need to protect the NHS staff who have been working tirelessly over the past few months.\"\n\nFans celebrate a Liverpool goal against Chelsea in the match, which is being played behind closed doors\n\nPolice earlier dispelled rumours on social media that the players would celebrate outside the ground.\n\nMerseyside Police posted a tweet which said: \"This 100% will NOT happen. The only place to watch tonight's celebrations is on TV. Please listen to the advice of your manager and players. It's what they want.\"\n\nFans lined the streets and cheered the players as it made its way to the ground\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLiverpool FC previously condemned the behaviour of some fans, after the club secured the title last month.\n\nThirty-four people were injured - three seriously - as thousands of people turned up on the city's waterfront despite restrictions remaining in force, while other celebrations were held outside Anfield and in the city centre.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson lifted the Premier League trophy on the Kop at a near-empty Anfield to mark the club's first top-flight triumph for 30 years.\n\nHenderson received the trophy from Reds legend Sir Kenny Dalglish, who was manager when Liverpool last won it in 1990, during a spectacular ceremony after the champions beat Chelsea 5-3.\n\nLiverpool were confirmed as champions on 25 June with seven games to spare, when nearest rivals Manchester City lost at Chelsea, but they had to wait until their final home game of the season to be presented with the trophy.\n\nThey did so in front of their families, who were given special permission to attend the trophy presentation.\n\n\"We've been waiting a long time,\" said Henderson, who is recovering from a knee injury. \"Walking up there was amazing, the lads deserved the moment and thankfully the families were watching.\n\n\"To crown it off like that was really special.\"\n\nThere were no supporters in their 53,000-capacity Anfield home after the Premier League season resumed on 17 June behind closed doors following a three-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMerseyside Police had warned fans not to repeat the widespread gatherings that took place on the city's waterfront after the club's title win last month - amid fears of a spike in infections - and Reds boss Jurgen Klopp urged them to celebrate at home.\n\nA small group of fans, some with red flares, greeted the team coach when it arrived at the ground before kick-off, and fireworks were set off outside Anfield throughout the match.\n\nDuring the game, Merseyside Police announced they had put in place a dispersal order between 21:30 BST on Wednesday and 21:30 BST on Friday as they anticipated large crowds gathering.\n\nDalglish, who scored 172 goals in 515 appearances as a Liverpool player between 1977 and 1990, handed out medals during a ceremony which involved a light show and pyrotechnics.\n\nKlopp and his players sang the club's famous anthem You'll Never Walk Alone on the pitch after lifting the trophy.\n\nAsked if he had a message for fans, Klopp said: \"If you don't see that we do it for you, I can't help you.\n\n\"You made us happy, we all should celebrate at home. Prepare for a party and when this virus has gone we will have a party.\"\n\nAfter 30 years of near misses, some dark days and even mid-table finishes, Liverpool finally ended the club's long wait to be champions of England for the 19th time.\n\nIt started on 9 August 2019 when they beat newly promoted Norwich 4-1 in the opening match of the 2019-20 Premier League season.\n\nThat result set the tone for what was to come.\n\nHaving finished one point behind champions Manchester City in 2018-19, the Reds were relentless, winning their first eight league games.\n\nDespite travelling to Qatar for the Fifa Club World Cup in December, they finished 2019 with a 13-point lead.\n\nThat had grown to 25 points when the Premier League was suspended in March because of Covid-19.\n\nKlopp later admitted he was \"worried\" about the season being declared null and void during the enforced shutdown. As it turned out, Liverpool's tally of 82 points from 29 games when football was stopped was enough to win the title. Manchester City, who are guaranteed to finish second, can only reach 81.\n\nWednesday's victory over Chelsea means Liverpool are on 96 points - 18 ahead of City - with one game, at Newcastle on Sunday (16:00 BST), to go.\n\nOn 1 May 1990, Liverpool's players paraded the league trophy around a packed and joyous Anfield.\n\nIt was the last time they would celebrate such a success for three decades.\n\nWednesday's celebrations come after Klopp's side have spent the season rewriting the history books.\n\nAt one stage the Reds had a 25-point lead, the biggest ever in English top-flight history.\n\nBy claiming the title with seven matches to spare, Liverpool beat the mark set by Manchester United in 2000-01 and Manchester City in 2017-18, who both became champions with five matches remaining.\n\nWhen Liverpool reached 61 points from their opening 21 matches, it was the most a team had ever accumulated at that stage in any of Europe's top five leagues.\n\nHowever, there is one record Klopp's side have missed out on.\n\nManchester City's record of 100 points in a single season set in 2017-18 remains as the most the Reds can reach is 99.\n• None The black experience in the UK", "Christian B has been named as the suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance\n\nPortuguese police are investigating whether a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case may also be linked to a rape in the Algarve three years prior.\n\nChild sex offender Christian B is being investigated over possible links to an attack on an Irish woman.\n\nHazel Behan, 37, waived her right to anonymity to speak about the assault near Praia da Luz in 2004.\n\nOfficers say they will pass on any evidence to their German counterparts probing the disappearance of Madeleine.\n\nA police source told BBC Europe correspondent Gavin Lee they have \"credible information\" that 43-year-old German man Christian B may be linked to the rape of Ms Behan, who was working in the region as a holiday rep in 2004.\n\nNo suspect was ever identified in her case and forensic evidence is understood to have been destroyed.\n\nHowever, it has since come to light that a year after her alleged attack, Christian B was convicted of a similar rape in Praia da Luz.\n\nMs Behan said she felt physically sick when she learned about Christian B, following a police appeal for information.\n\nThe Guardian reported that detectives in Portugal collected the archived case file on her assault last week, quoting a source in the public prosecutor's office.\n\nRape cases that took place more than 15 years ago cannot be tried in Portugal.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nChristian B, who is currently in prison in Germany, was revealed as the main suspect in Madeleine's disappearance, as German and UK police made a fresh appeal for help in the case in June.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Praia da Luz with her parents and siblings.\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. But German prosecutors have said she is \"assumed\" to be dead.", "Elon Musk runs both Tesla and the space exploration firm SpaceX\n\nTesla chief Elon Musk briefly became the fifth richest person at the start of the week, thanks to the electric car-maker's soaring share price.\n\nTesla’s share price has since fallen slightly, however, putting Mr Musk in eighth place, according to the Forbes World's Billionaires List.\n\nIn a related development, his wealth could be further buoyed as he has just gained the option of buying and selling $2.1bn worth of Tesla shares.\n\nIn a pay deal approved by shareholders in 2018, Mr Musk obtained the right to buy 1.69 million shares once Tesla’s stock had reached an average market capitalisation of $150bn over a period of six months.\n\nHowever, the electric-car company’s board still has to certify the option and Mr Musk has not yet bought the shares in question.\n\nHe would also have to wait several years before being allowed to sell them.\n\nTesla’s share price has nearly quadrupled since the start of the year, from $430 to about $1,550.\n\nBut the company has yet to turn a full-year net profit, leading some analysts to argue its stock is currently overvalued.\n\nOn 1 May, Mr Musk himself tweeted Tesla’s share price was too high.\n\nThe entrepreneur has said the reason he seeks to acquire personal wealth is to fund his efforts to send people to Mars.", "The coastguard and police were at the scene while the search was under way\n\nA 10-year-old boy and woman have been rescued after falling into a river.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said they had been seen in the River Rheidol in Aberystwyth and fire crews helped to get them were out of the water.\n\nEarlier, Aberystwyth Lifeboat tweeted it had launched to assist police in a search for the missing child.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called to the scene at 11:45 BST on Wednesday, adding: \"Two patients are currently being assessed by our crews.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said they used a rescue sled, throw bags and a floating line.\n\nEmyr Jones said the pair were \"very fortunate\"\n\nAberystwyth fire station manager Emyr Jones said due to the terrain on the banks of the river, the pair could not be seen and two of his crew members had to enter the water \"as a last resort\".\n\nHe added the pair were found waist-deep in the water and were \"very fortunate\".\n\nA child and parent have been rescued from the River Rheidol\n\nThe coastguard said a search and rescue helicopter was called from Caernarfon\n\nPolice vehicles could be seen near Llanbadarn in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, and the air ambulance also landed nearby.\n\nThe coastguard said an RNLI lifeboat was sent as well as a search and rescue helicopter from Caernarfon.\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.", "Cavity wall insulation has been installed in more than 13 million UK homes (file photo)\n\nThe government must ensure homeowners receive high quality improvements under its new energy efficiency scheme, campaigners and MPs have said.\n\nUnder the plan, the government will pay at least two-thirds of the cost of home improvements that save energy in homes.\n\nThe Green Homes Grant will be launched in England in September.\n\nBut the chair of Parliament's business select committee, Darren Jones MP, has expressed concern about how people will be protected from poor quality work.\n\nMr Jones warned that under previous government programmes, a number of consumers had work done on their homes by suppliers who failed to meet required standards, with many unable to get the redress they deserve.\n\nHe has written to ministers asking what consumer protections will be available.\n\nMeanwhile, campaigner Pauline Saunders, from the Cavity Insulation Victims' Alliance, CIVALLI, has accused some in the industry of bullying people, saying: ''They treat people like idiots''.\n\nThe grant will fund improvements such as home insulation and new boilers, with homeowners applying for a voucher of between £5,000 and £10,000 to help with the cost of the work.\n\nMore than 13 million homes in the UK have had cavity wall insulation but industry insiders have told the BBC that insulation will have failed in at least 800,000 homes.\n\nCavity wall insulation is meant to make homes warmer and cut energy bills. The insulation, which can be wool, foam or beads, is injected into the cavity between the exterior brick wall and interior wall by drilling holes in the brick.\n\nBadly installed insulation can lead to damp and mould which can have a detrimental effect on people's health.\n\nGavin Ward had to move out of his home in Bridgend two and a half years ago after the council said it was uninhabitable because of damp, mould and unsafe electrics.\n\nHe became emotional as he inspected the mould in his young son's bedroom. \"What can be worse than feeling you have failed your child?\" he asks.\n\nThe problems started after cavity wall insulation was fitted.\n\nMr Ward went through a claims firm to approach the company that did the work - Miller Pattison - for damages to fix his house in 2017.\n\nMiller Pattison insulated 800,000 homes and it admitted in court that it was receiving between 40 and 50 complaints a month.\n\nGavin was still in dispute with Miller Pattison when the company went into administration last year. He says he's angry: \"These companies know the problems the insulation is causing and yet they are allowing families to live in conditions like this.\"\n\nGavin's insulation failed because the installer didn't remove debris from inside the cavity before inserting the mineral wool insulation.\n\nAs his surveyor, Kevin Chellew, explains, the debris would have acted as a cold bridge carrying damp into the house. This, he says, is a very common problem. Mr Chellew says it'll cost £60,000 to extract the insulation and repair Gavin's house.\n\nThe work was guaranteed by the Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency (CIGA), which admitted the insulation should never have been installed and has offered to remove it. But because CIGA only became involved late last year it says it cannot assess the damage caused by the faulty insulation rather than damage that's occurred in the meantime and for which it cannot be held responsible. As a result it cannot consider any claim for internal works.\n\nCIGA says Gavin can challenge its decision by taking his case to arbitration.\n\nThe Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency (CIGA) is an industry-funded body and not a regulator. It describes itself as an independent body that provides 25-year guarantees for cavity wall insulation fitted by registered installers in the UK.\n\nBut campaigners and some MPs have said it is not fit for purpose.\n\nMs Saunders from CIVALLI asks how it can claim to be standing up for consumers when its management team is almost entirely made up of people who manufacture or install the insulation, or have done until recently.\n\nShe said because much of the work completed under previous programmes was done for homeowners living in fuel poverty, some of the most vulnerable people in society have suffered.\n\nCIGA said it has appointed independent non-executive advisers to its board, including a consumer champion.\n\nIt said it's now dealing with 3,000 claims a year and will be carrying out physical inspections on 5% of all future installations.\n\nThe government has not yet announced the details of the Green Homes Grant scheme, but has said only accredited installers working to specified standards with robust consumer protection practices will be able to carry out work.\n\nClarification 25 August 2020: This article has been updated to give more details regarding the background in Gavin Ward's case and his dealings with the Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency (CIGA)", "Two photographs of Prince George have been released to mark his seventh birthday on Wednesday.\n\nIn both the photos, taken by his mother the Duchess of Cambridge, the future king flashes a gap-toothed smile at the camera.\n\nShe photographed her son earlier this month and the pictures are likely to have been taken at their Norfolk home.\n\nKensington Palace said Prince William and Catherine were \"delighted\" to share the photos.\n\nIn one of the pictures, George is dressed in a dark green polo shirt and in the other he stands side-on, dressed more casually in a T-shirt with a camouflage design.\n\nThe prince is the great-grandchild of the Queen. He will be the 43rd monarch since William the Conqueror obtained the crown of England in 1066 if, as is expected, he follows on as king from his grandfather, the Prince of Wales, and then his father, the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nPrince George was pictured several times during the coronavirus lockdown with his younger siblings, five-year-old Princess Charlotte and two-year-old Prince Louis, as they applauded heath and care workers during the weekly Clap for Carers.\n\nPrince George Alexander Louis - known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge - was born on 22 July 2013.\n\nHe was born in the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in central London and appeared in front of the world's media one day later, when Prince William and Catherine stood cradling him on the hospital steps.\n\nEarlier this year, the duke and duchess spoke about home-schooling George and his brother and sister while schools closed to most pupils during lockdown.\n\n\"The children have got such stamina I don't know how,\" Catherine told the BBC.\n\n\"You pitch a tent, take the tent down again, cook, bake. You get to the end of the day and they have had a lovely time - but it is amazing how much you can cram into one day, that's for sure.\"", "If you do not seek, you do not find.\n\nWhether deliberate or deficient, the Intelligence and Security Committee's very long-awaited report outlines gaping holes in the UK's handling of the threat from Russia.\n\nFor years, it seems a lack of priority, and a lack of curiosity, allowed the risks to go unmonitored, if not unchecked.\n\nThe UK government has now stiffened its attitude to Vladimir Putin's Russia.\n\nBut it's been an uncomfortable evolution for Tory politicians. It's not just that party money men needed finance - receiving breath-taking donations from Russians who moved here, and became UK citizens over the years.\n\nBut for a long time in Westminster there was also an optimism that despite Russia's many problems, Mr Putin was a reformer, that there was scope and desire to reset the relationship, despite the many tensions.\n\nBack in 2000, not long after Mr Putin's election, Tony Blair invited him to the UK, hailing him at a press conference as a leader who \"talks our language of reform\".\n\nDavid Cameron flew to Moscow in 2011 to try to call for cooperation. Boris Johnson, when foreign secretary, repeated the trip: trying, and then failing, to reset the relationship - something that he now describes as a mistake.\n\nWe can't yet know what kind of change this report will prompt.\n\nThe government has no desire to unpick what Russia might have tried to do during the EU referendum.\n\nBut its political opponents are unlikely to rapidly give up their demand for the intelligence services to find out what did happen.\n\nGiven their activities in other campaigns, it seems highly unlikely that there was no attempt at meddling. As we talked about last week, there is evidence that some Kremlin-friendly media circulated anti-EU sentiment.\n\nAnd calls to get to the bottom of what happened are likely to intensify, even though the government shows no intention whatsoever of doing so.\n\nIf attempts at meddling were proven, the precise consequence of those efforts could then be hard to prove.\n\nMore broadly, however, the report is an important punctuation in political attitudes to Russia here.\n\nIn an echo of the UK's evolving attitude to China, the ambition of successive governments was to be disappointed by a continued, more brazen hostility.\n\nPerhaps the UK's political aspiration for a better relationship dulled the radar for malign behaviour.\n\nNeither Russia, and certainly not China, can be ignored.\n\nBut many UK politicians held what seem now terribly misplaced hopes that old enemies could become new friends.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe UK and the US have agreed to amend an \"anomaly\" that allowed Harry Dunn death suspect Anne Sacoolas to claim diplomatic immunity.\n\nMrs Sacoolas - the wife of a diplomat at RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire - was able to leave the UK thanks to the \"secret agreement\".\n\nShe has been accused of killing the 19-year-old in a crash near the base.\n\nMr Dunn's mother said the change, which is not thought to be retroactive, was a \"huge step in the right direction\".\n\nCharlotte Charles told the BBC: \"We now need Dominic Raab to work with us to make sure that we get her back to the UK to face justice at some point soon.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I hope as a mum she will do the right thing'\n\nThe foreign secretary has said relatives of US staff at the air base can face prosecution under the amended rules where they may have previously been immune.\n\nMr Raab said the new arrangements had \"closed the anomaly that led to the denial of justice in the heartbreaking case of Harry Dunn\".\n\nHe said he appreciated the changes \"won't bring Harry back\" but hoped they may \"bring some small measure of comfort\" to his family.\n\nUnder the amended rules, relatives of US staff at RAF Croughton can face prosecution\n\nMs Charles vowed to continue the family's campaign to bring Mrs Sacoolas before a UK court.\n\n\"We always live with hope that one day she might just decide of her own accord to put herself on a plane and come back over here,\" she said.\n\n\"We definitely will keep the pressure up.\"\n\nMs Charles said she wanted Mrs Sacoolas to \"see what her own country has agreed to with the anomaly they've now amended\".\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it understood the changes would not be retrospective but welcomed the move.\n\nDowning Street said the change meant \"in relation to the level of offence Anne Sacoolas is accused of, she could have been arrested by the police once they had obtained a warrant from the court\".\n\nAnne Sacoolas, the alleged killer of Harry Dunn, is never going to be extradited from the US because Washington is standing firm that she is entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nThis claim of immunity was the product of a legal loophole that needed to be fixed - a loophole that nobody spotted until tragedy struck.\n\nOfficials of foreign governments who are officially operating in another country have immunity from prosecution under long-standing international law. This legal principle of immunity has long been accepted by states as necessary to help foster good relations between them.\n\nBut limits can be imposed by agreement. In the case of RAF Croughton, a deal between the two states allowed the potential prosecution of US staff for crimes committed beyond their duties - but their families had greater protections.\n\nIn short, had a US official, rather than his or her spouse, been behind the wheel of the car that was involved in a crash, they may have had to face police questioning and potential criminal charge. This sad and bizarre legal mistake has now been corrected - and officials appear confident there are no other similar anomalies elsewhere that could stand in the way of justice.\n\nThe US State Department said the amendment was a \"reflection of our especially close relationship\" with the UK.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it would continue working with British prosecutors to ensure Mrs Sacoolas was returned from the US to face court proceedings.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said that Labour would \"push for a full inquiry\" into the case.\n\nShe said: \"The foreign secretary has still not come to Parliament to explain how failings in his department allowed a US citizen to leave the country while their immunity was still in question.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nA Home Office extradition request was refused by US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in January, and American officials said the decision was final.\n\nIt is believed Mrs Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road when Mr Dunn was killed.\n\nThere have been reports of other vehicles spotted driving on the wrong side of the road near the base, including one which was shown in a YouTube video in February.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe UK and the US have agreed to amend an \"anomaly\" that allowed Harry Dunn death suspect Anne Sacoolas to claim diplomatic immunity.\n\nMrs Sacoolas - the wife of a diplomat at RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire - was able to leave the UK thanks to the \"secret agreement\".\n\nShe has been accused of killing the 19-year-old in a crash near the base.\n\nBelow are the key events following Mr Dunn's death last year.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe response to the coronavirus pandemic has shown the \"sheer might\" of the UK union, Boris Johnson has said during a visit to Scotland.\n\nMr Johnson was in Orkney and the north of Scotland one year on from the day he took office as prime minister.\n\nHe said the work of the military and Treasury job retention schemes had proved the \"merits of the union\".\n\nBut the SNP said the visit showed Mr Johnson was \"in a panic\" about rising support for Scottish independence.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon did not meet Mr Johnson during the trip but said she would continue to work with his government on the \"immediate priority\" of tackling coronavirus.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she did not think anyone should be \"championing and celebrating a pandemic that has taken thousands of lives\" to make a constitutional argument.\n\nMr Johnson said he \"pledged to be a prime minister for every corner of the United Kingdom\" when he entered Downing Street one year ago, adding that the response to the pandemic had shown his government's commitment to the whole of the UK.\n\nThe UK government has coordinated much of the country's economic response to the virus, including the coronavirus job retention furlough scheme.\n\nBut devolved governments have had control over most public health measures and have been able to set more local timetables and messaging.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"always happy to meet the prime minister\"\n\nAlthough the whole of the UK entered lockdown in the same week, each constituent part has eased restrictions at a different rate.\n\nPhase 3 of Scotland's \"route map\" out of lockdown began last week, as pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and barbers were allowed to reopen.\n\nThey were allowed to reopen in England slightly earlier on 4 July, along with holiday accommodation - including hotels, B&Bs, cottages, campsites and caravan parks.\n\nBoris Johnson must have found recent opinion polls conducted in Scotland to be awkward reading.\n\nSurveys suggesting rising support for Scottish independence and a significant gap between his approval ratings and those of Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, appear to have prompted him to make his first visit to Scotland since last year's general election.\n\nThe prime minister wants to use the trip to remind people in Scotland just how much cash the UK treasury has spent in response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHe is stressing that it is the Westminster government that has supported 900,000 people who might have otherwise lost their jobs and produced billions of pounds in extra spending for the NHS.\n\nThe SNP don't look too worried about a prime ministerial trip denting support for their cause.\n\nOn her 50th birthday, on Sunday, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that a visit for Boris was the best birthday pressie she could hope for.\n\nEvery time the PM tells voters that it is only as part of the UK that Scottish businesses and public services could afford to cope with the pandemic, the SNP will reply that they are sick of being told that Scotland is \"too wee, too poor and too stupid\" to be independent.\n\nSpeaking in Orkney, where he met local fishermen, Mr Johnson said the \"merits of the union\" had been \"proved throughout this crisis\", citing the work of the military and the Treasury's support for workers and firms.\n\nThe UK government says the furlough and self-employment schemes have supported 900,000 jobs in Scotland, and that £4.6bn of additional funding was being provided to the Scottish government.\n\nThe prime minister also said not enough time had passed for another independence referendum to be held, saying the 2014 vote was a \"once in a generation\" event.\n\nHe said: \"What I'm saying is that the union is a fantastically strong institution. It's helped our country through thick and thin.\n\n\"It's very, very valuable in terms of the support we've been able to give to everybody throughout all corners of the UK, and we had a referendum on breaking up the union a few years ago - I think only six years ago. That is not a generation by any computation and I think what people really want to do is see our whole country coming back strongly together, and that's what we're going to do.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted that the prime minister's visit to Scotland \"highlighted the argument for Scottish independence\".\n\nHowever she said politicians should remain focused on tackling the coronavirus pandemic and \"not use it as a political weapon\".\n\nAt her coronavirus briefing on Thursday, Ms Sturgeon said she had \"worked very hard to have a collaborative approach to the other governments of the UK\".\n\nShe said financial support from the Treasury was \"very welcome\", but said it should be clear that \"this is borrowed money\" which would have to be repaid by Scottish taxpayers too - \"it's not some kind of favour that has been done\".\n\nThe first minister said UK-wide actions by Mr Johnson's administration were a reflection of where powers lie, saying that \"if we held the powers we would be doing these things ourselves\".\n\nShe added: \"I just don't think any of us should be championing and celebrating a pandemic that has taken thousands of lives as some example of the pre-existing political cases we want to make.\n\n\"This has been a heart-breaking crisis that we are not out of yet. Too many people people have died and all of us have a really solemn responsibility to focus on and get our countries through, and that's what I'm going to continue to do.\n\n\"Campaigning right now is not my priority. Boris Johnson has every right to be on a campaign visit but in his shoes it's not what I would do.\"\n\nMr Johnson was greeted by a small group of protestors during his visit to Orkney\n\nMr Johnson also announced £50m of funding from the UK government for Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles - the latest in a series of \"city and region deals\" which see Scottish and UK ministers each pledge cash to various areas for spending on new infrastructure and local development schemes.\n\nThe Scottish government has also committed £50m to the \"Islands growth deal\", which will target sectors including tourism, energy and skills.\n\nThe timing of Mr Johnson's visit comes amid a \"perfect storm\" over Scottish independence, according to Sir Tom Devine, an emeritus professor of Scottish history at Edinburgh University.\n\nSir Tom told BBC Two's Newsnight the union is in its most fragile condition since 1745, and that opinion polling suggesting increasing support for independence in Scotland has been consistent for some time.\n\nNewsnight's political editor Nick Watt added that a senior SNP source had told him they believed the party's moment \"is at last arriving\".\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mr Johnson was visiting due to recent polls suggesting support for independence was on the rise.\n\nMr Blackford told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the prime minister's message would go down \"particularly badly\" in Scotland.\n\n\"I think what we've demonstrated over the course of the last few months [is] that in the areas of devolved responsibility, in the areas of public health, the leadership that's been shown by our first minister is in sharp contrast to the bluster that we've seen from Boris Johnson,\" he said.", "Some 8 million children in England were sent home from school in March\n\nA majority of British children struggled to continue learning at home during the lockdown, a report says.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics research found that of the 52% who struggled, three-quarters of parents gave a lack of motivation as a reason.\n\nThe research, based on weekly household surveys between April and June, also found women's well-being was being more adversely affected than that of men.\n\nIt also showed wide disparities in what families were able to do.\n\nThe ONS researchers carried out nationally representative surveys of more than 12,000 people in Great Britain between 3 April and 7 June about their experiences of home-schooling during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSchools closed for most pupils at the end of March in England, Wales and Scotland, as the pandemic took hold. Some schools re-opened in England on or around 1 June for some year groups.\n\nPerhaps surprisingly, the research found under one in 10 parents complained about lack of devices to work on, although this rate doubled for single-parent households.\n\nProviding laptops for disadvantaged children has been a focus of England's government.\n\nBut Layla Moran, Liberal Democrat education spokesman said the figures still suggested 450,000 young people were struggling to learn due to a lack of technology at home.\n\nShe said: \"These damning figures show thousands of children have struggled to learn from home during lockdown due to a lack of devices.\n\n\"The government has failed these children and their parents by failing to get a lap top to every pupil who needed one.\"\n\nHowever, lack of motivation was by far the biggest reason for parents to say their children had found it difficult to carry on with school work.\n\nOne-in-three women said the situation was negatively affecting their own well-being, compared with one in five men.\n\nSome 43% of home-schooling parents said their children's well-being was being negatively impacted by the experience.\n\nParents who had not been working in the previous seven days were significantly more likely to have been helping children with their school work (86%), compared with those who had worked (74%).\n\nAnd parents with a university education were more likely to have attempted home schooling than those without.\n\nNotably, just under half (49%) of parents were confident to some degree in their ability to help their children's learning.\n\nWhile nearly a third of working parents said the requirement to home school had been negatively affecting their job.\n\nThe majority of children have been out of school since March\n\nA separate report by the ONS, found women were bearing the brunt of the home schooling experience, with women tending to carry out more educational and caring tasks during lockdown.\n\nThe findings will be particularly worrying for parents of children facing exams in the near future.\n\nAlthough exam boards have said they will be taking account of some of the lost learning by delaying next summer's exams slightly, there have been calls fro head teachers for many more changes to ensure pupils are treated fairly.\n\nGovernments in England, Wales and Scotland are aiming for a full return of pupils when the new term begins, but there are concerns that local lockdowns could see some children sent back home.", "Deaths linked to coronavirus in Scotland have fallen to the lowest level since the start of the pandemic, with just six registered last week.\n\nNew figures from the National Records of Scotland showed the number of deaths falling for the twelfth week in a row.\n\nIn the week to Sunday 19 July, the virus was mentioned on six death certificates.\n\nAt the peak of the outbreak in April, more than 600 deaths were being logged each week with links to Covid-19.\n\nThe NRS said there had been a \"significant decline\" in the number of deaths, which were now at \"the lowest weekly total since the pandemic began\".\n\nThe latest report said the virus had been registered as a confirmed or suspected cause on 4,193 death certificates.\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the weekly total of deaths was \"the lowest we have seen since we started to record them\".\n\nShe said: \"Today's report shows once again that Covid-19 has been driven, as of now, to very low levels in Scotland.\n\n\"But the figures also remind us that more than 4,000 people have lost their lives to this virus, and we must always remember that each of those deaths was of a unique and irreplaceable individual.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also warned that an outbreak in North Lanarkshire was \"a clear reminder that Covid has not gone away\", and that \"it does not take much for a small number of cases to become a much bigger number\".\n\nShe added: \"While public health teams are working incredibly hard to contain outbreaks, it is not just their job - each and every one of us has a part to play in keeping this virus at bay.\"\n\nDeaths linked to Covid-19 accounted for less than 1% of deaths recorded by NRS last week, down from a peak of 36% in late April.\n\nHowever the total number of deaths registered has risen back above the five-year average, by 32 \"excess\" deaths, after several weeks of below-average figures.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government would be \"looking to see if there are any particular causes of concern\", but said \"it's worth remembering that the total number of deaths is always likely to fluctuate a bit\".\n\nAcross the period of the pandemic, the number of deaths in care homes has been 54% above the five-year average, and the number of deaths at home or in non-institutional settings 53% above average. However after an early peak, hospital deaths fell back to average in May and are now below average levels overall.\n\nThe first minister also said only 0.3% of coronavirus tests were coming back with positive results, well below the 5% threshold at which the World Health Organisation considers outbreaks to be \"under control\".\n\nHowever she sounded a \"note of caution\" about virus restrictions being eased further, saying the current phase of lockdown could last \"considerably longer\" than previous ones.", "The RAF has continued to target IS fighters in 2020, the defence secretary told MPs\n\nThe Islamic State group (IS) remains the \"most significant\" threat to the UK, the defence secretary has warned.\n\nBen Wallace said the militant group's \"poisonous ideology\" endures despite it having lost territory it once held in Syria and Iraq - and a possible resurgence \"should concern us all\".\n\nBritish aircraft have struck 40 targets as part of the fight against IS in the past year, Mr Wallace told MPs.\n\nThe \"hard fight\" to beat IS, or Daesh, was \"by no means done\", he said.\n\nMaking a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Wallace said RAF strikes had hit 40 targets since July 2019. Targets ranged from caves in remote parts of northern Iraq, to weapons bunkers and training camps, he said.\n\n\"RAF aircraft have continued to patrol the skies on an almost daily basis,\" he said.\n\nMembers of the group have \"nowhere to hide\", he said, but added that the group's \"poisonous ideology\" still endures.\n\n\"Daesh retains its intent to carry out and inspire attacks against us, and remains the most significant terrorist threat to the United Kingdom and our interests,\" he said.\n\n\"Conflict, economic collapse and inequality is creating new opportunities that they will continue to exploit, to grow and recruit.\"\n\nAbout 900 people who joined the group as fighters during the conflict came from the UK, MPs were told.\n\nMr Wallace said of those, about 20% had been killed and around 40% remain in the area, either at large or in detention.\n\nThe remaining 40% - an estimated 360 people - have returned to the UK, \"where they have been investigated and the majority assessed now to pose no risk or a low security risk\", he said.\n\nThe UK continues to provide training, mentoring, and air support to Iraqi security forces, Mr Wallace said.\n• None RAF carries out four air strikes on IS in May", "GCSE and A-level results in England will be higher this summer, with exam boards set to be more lenient.\n\nWritten exams were cancelled because of the pandemic - with pupils' results to be based on predicted outcomes.\n\nThe watchdog Ofqual says the numbers getting good grades will be 2% higher at A-level and 1% at GCSE.\n\nBut they will be much lower than the \"optimistic\" predictions from teachers, which at A-level would have pushed up results 12% higher than last year.\n\nThe exam regulator says it is also confident, from preliminary results, that there has been no \"unconscious bias\" in predicted grades that would have disadvantaged ethnic minorities or poorer students.\n\nA report from the education select committee this month warned of the risk that some pupils could be discriminated against.\n\nBut Ofqual says there is no evidence of any widening gaps in this summer's results, in terms of ethnicity, gender or deprivation, compared with years when pupils have taken exams.\n\nWhile individual pupils will not find out their GCSEs and A-levels until next month, the process of standardising these predicted grades means that the overall national picture is already emerging.\n\nThe exam regulator says this will be a more generous year, with candidates more likely to be given the benefit of the doubt.\n\nSo for instance, last summer 25.5% of candidates achieved an A grade or above at A-level - and this year it will be more like 27.5%.\n\nThere have been no GCSEs or A-levels this year - with results to be based on estimated grades\n\nOfqual says to expect variations in terms of subject and grades - but overall results will be \"slightly better\" than the previous year.\n\nBut teachers, who had to submit predicted grades, would have been much more generous and the exam boards have had to bump down the grades much closer to last year's.\n\nAt A-level, the predictions for A grades would have pushed up results by 12.3 percentage points - if they had not been knocked back down by the exam boards.\n\nFor GCSE, results would have jumped upwards by 9 percentage points, based on teachers' predictions.\n\nThe grades to be given to pupils will be based on a range of evidence - including their previous exam results, the distribution of grades in the school in recent years, how schools ranked their pupils in expected outcomes, as well as their teachers' predictions.\n\nBut because grades will be linked to schools' performance in previous years, schools that have been rapidly improving will not necessarily see that in this year's results.\n\nIf pupils are not happy with their results based on predictions, they will be able to take written exams in the autumn.\n\nNansi Ellis of the National Education Union welcomed the \"commitment to equalities\" in the results so far, in terms of the risk of bias - and that \"there appear to be no obvious differences between the grades of different groups of students\".\n\nPaul Whiteman of the National Association of Head Teachers backed the replacement grades, saying \"while not a perfect solution, this is the fairest and most pragmatic alternative to sitting exams\".", "UK government \"badly underestimated\" the Russian threat and the response it required, according to an inquiry.\n\nThe Intelligence and Security Committee's long-awaited report into Russian activity in the UK said the government was \"playing catch-up\" and needed to take \"immediate action\".\n\nThe report also claimed the government made no effort to investigate Russian interference in the EU referendum.\n\nNo 10 said the government was \"fully aware of the significant and enduring threat\" Russia posed.\n\nThe ISC's inquiry covers a number of topics, including disinformation campaigns, cyber tactics and Russian expatriates in the UK.\n\nMuch of the \"highly sensitive\" detail was not published due to fears Russia could use the evidence to threaten the UK.\n\nThe committee said Russian influence in the UK was now \"the new normal\", and the UK was a \"top Western intelligence target\" for the state, only behind Nato and US.\n\nISC member, Stewart Hosie, told reporters the government \"took its eye off the ball, because of its focus on counterterrorism\", adding: \"The government had badly underestimated the response required to the Russian threat, and is still playing catch up.\"\n\nIn its report, the group said UK was \"clearly a target\" for disinformation campaigns around its elections, but that the issue was described as a \"hot potato\", with no one organisation taking a lead to tackle it.\n\nThe report criticised intelligence agencies for not taking action during the EU referendum, despite there being \"credible open source commentary\" suggesting \"influence campaigns\" from the Russians during the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.\n\nAnd it said the government only \"belatedly realised the level of threat which Russia could pose\" after the so-called \"hack and leak\" operation against the Democrats in the 2016 US election, calling it a \"game changer\".\n\nThe committee said: \"Had the relevant parts of the intelligence community conducted a similar threat assessment prior to the [EU] referendum, it is inconceivable that they would not have reached the same conclusion as to Russian intent, which might then have led them to take action to protect the process.\"\n\nThe report also said that social media companies \"hold the key and yet are failing to play their part\", adding that the government should \"name and shame those which fail to act.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stewart Hosie MP says the government \"didn't take action to protect the UK\"\n\nMr Hosie also said no-one in Government wanted to touch the issue of Russian interference when it came to elections with a \"10-foot pole\".\n\nHe told reporters: \"The report reveals that no one in government knew if Russia interfered in or sought to influence the referendum, because they did not want to know.\n\n\"The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfere.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab later told a press conference the government 'categorically rejected' the claim, saying it was \"the comment of one MP\" on the committee.\n\nThe government also rejected the committee's call for a full assessment by intelligence agencies of potential Russian meddling in the 2016 referendum, saying it had \"seen no evidence of successful interference\".\n\nThis report may not be what some expected, but it is still damning.\n\nMany expected the committee to have answered the question of whether there was interference in political events like Brexit.\n\nInstead, it says the problem was the government and the spy agencies failed to even look at this question.\n\nBritish intelligence has, at least in recent years, been reluctant to get involved in anything that looks \"political\" and treated the issue of trying to protect democracy like a \"hot potato\".\n\nBut ultimately it's the government that the committee blames.\n\nMore broadly, there are serious questions about the failure of the UK to confront the spread of Russian money and influence over a long period.\n\nAnd there is an urgent call for new legislation to deal with an ongoing challenge.\n\nThe report also accused successive governments of welcoming Russian oligarchs \"with open arms\" due to the investments they brought with them.\n\nThe committee said \"few questions if any were asked about the provenance of this considerable wealth\", with particular issues around the UK's investment visa scheme, the housing market, the judicial system and PR firms.\n\nThey said: \"A lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene, are accepted because of their wealth.\"\n\nThe report said it had concerns about links between these wealthy Russians and the House of Lords.\n\n\"It is notable that a number of members of the House of Lords have business interests linked to Russia, or work directly for major Russian companies linked to the Russian state,\" it read.\n\n\"These relationships should be carefully scrutinised, given the potential for the Russian state to exploit them.\"\n\nThe reaction to the ISC's report from Russia has been a big collective shrug.\n\nThe Russian foreign minister dismissed it out of hand and called it \"Russophobia\".\n\nAnd a Kremlin spokesman said Russia doesn't meddle in other countries elections.\n\nWhat this report has done is to present a broad picture of Russia as a powerful foe.\n\nAnd I don't think in the Kremlin they will be too unhappy at that.\n\nCommittee members also criticised No 10 for the delay in the report's publication - seven months after it was submitted to No 10 to sign off.\n\nDowning Street was accused of holding back the report ahead of December's UK election and for delaying its nominations to set up the new committee - both claims it has denied.\n\nBut speaking at a press conference to launch the report, one of the ISC's committee members, Kevan Jones, criticised Boris Johnson for not signing it off sooner, saying there was \"no reason for delay\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab tweeted: \"We've been clear that Russia must desist from its attacks on the UK and our allies.\n\n\"We will be resolute in defending our country, our democracy and our values from such Hostile State.\"\n\nThe ISC's former chair, Dominic Grieve - who pushed for the report to be published before the election - told BBC News his pleasure at seeing it come to light was \"mitigated by a sense of frustration and bluntly anger at the way the government behaved\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Grieve says there were “no valid reason” and no explanation for delaying its publication\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy accused the PM of taking a \"political decision\" to block the report.\n\nShe added: \"The government has underestimated the response required to Russia and it is imperative we learn the lessons from the mistakes that have been made.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"Reasonable confidence\" Russia tried to interfere in 2019 election\n\nRussians almost certainly sought to interfere in the 2019 UK general election through illicitly acquired documents, the government has said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said any attempt to meddle in UK democracy was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe documents - on UK-US trade discussions - emerged online and were used by Labour in the 2019 campaign.\n\nA much-delayed report into allegations of wider Russian interference into UK democracy is due next week.\n\nLabour said it condemned \"any attempt by Russia, or any foreign power, to interfere in our country's democratic processes\" and pledged to work to protect the nation's security.\n\nThis is the first time the government has acknowledged with such certainty that Russians interfered in the UK's democratic processes.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman dismissed as \"nonsense\" suggestions that the timing of Mr Raab's statement was aimed at pre-empting the publication of the Russia report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.\n\nAt the 2019 election, then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the documents proved the Conservatives were planning to include the NHS in a future trade agreement with the US - something denied by the government.\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, Mr Corbyn accused the Conservatives of wanting \"to distract from the damage a Trump trade deal would do to our NHS by continuing to push the bogus claim Labour received Russian support\".\n\nHe added that the government's claim \"is an attempt to divert attention from the threat to the NHS and the Tory party links to Russian oligarchs expected to be revealed in the long-buried parliamentary Russia report.\"\n\nThe government launched an inquiry into how the papers got into the public domain, with help from the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nThe announcement comes as a group of national security services warn that Russian hackers are targeting organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nDespite many suspicions of Russian attempts at meddling in the referendum and other campaigns, significant concrete evidence is in short supply.\n\nSo, it matters that this is the first time a UK minister has made an explicit link to Russia, in one way or another, trying to meddle in elections in the UK.\n\nBut the timing of that statement creates its own intrigue too.\n\nNext week, at long last, the powerful group of MPs who monitor UK intelligence will publish a report on the Russian threat to the UK - a report that has been anticipated for a very long time and may perhaps set the record straight on all of this.\n\nIs it politically convenient for ministers to acknowledge the threat themselves just before others may make embarrassing claims about it?\n\nLabour politicians have frequently accused the Conservatives of ignoring Russian interference because of their relationship with Tory Party donors.\n\nDid it suit the government to publicise the claims that material used by Labour was also manipulated by Russia?\n\nIt seems, as one former UK ambassador to Moscow said, a \"remarkable coincidence\" that the government decided at this moment to admit explicitly, for the first time, that Russia has tried to stick its nose into our politics - especially when there is a running criminal investigation into who obtained the documents to start with.\n\nBut Downing Street denies that there is any link in the timing at all.\n\nIn a written ministerial statement, Mr Raab said \"the government has concluded that it is almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 general election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked government documents.\n\nHe said the documents were disseminated online via the social media platform Reddit.\n\n\"When these gained no traction, further attempts were made to promote the illicitly acquired material online in the run up to the general election,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign secretary goes on to say that there is \"no evidence of a broad spectrum Russian campaign against the general election\" but that \"any attempt to interfere in our democratic processes is completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe forum website Reddit said the unredacted papers had been uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nIt suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".\n\nMr Raab's statement is not connected to the Intelligence and Security Committee's report into Russian interference, which is due to be published next week.\n\nJeremy Corbyn holds up the leaked documents at a press conference on 27 November\n\nThe committee launched its inquiry in November 2017 following concern Russia sought to influence the US 2016 election and the 2016 Brexit vote.\n\nAfter the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March 2018 the investigation became the \"primary focus\" of the committee.\n\nThe committee heard evidence from independent experts as well as the secret intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.\n\nBBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the committee's report has looked into Russian activity from traditional espionage to subversion - with a particular focus on possible interference in the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nIn addition to cyber-espionage and social media campaigns, the report also examines Russian influence through money.\n\nThe delay in publication has led to speculation the report contains details embarrassing for the Conservatives - specifically in relation to the party's Russian donors.\n\nHowever, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted the hold-up was due to a number of committee members leaving Parliament and the need \"to make sure that the right people with the right level of experience and responsibility could be appointed\".\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Mr Raab's statement was \"ambiguous\" and \"confusing\".\n\nShe said Mr Raab had said there was \"no evidence of full-scale interference\" by Russia in his statement but had also claimed \"any attempts of such interference are unacceptable\".", "Cory Hewer's parents said he was a \"cheeky, funny, loving boy\"\n\nA 13-year-old boy has died after coming off a motorbike on an off-road circuit.\n\nGwent Police said the incident happened at about 15:30 BST on Sunday at Aberbeeg Motorcross track in Cwm, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nCory Hewer, from Ebbw Vale, was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales with serious head injuries but died on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, his parents thanked people for their \"kind support and generosity\".\n\nThey added: \"Cory was a very happy little lad who loved his rugby and motocrossing.\n\n\"He was a cheeky, funny, loving boy and will be missed very much. He passed away doing a sport that he loved the most and was so brave donating his organs.\n\n\"Our lives will never be the same without him,\" they said.", "One of the stone artefacts found at the cave\n\nHumans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.\n\nThey suggest people were living there 33,000 years ago, twice the widely accepted age for the earliest settlement of the Americas.\n\nThe results are based on work at Chiquihuite Cave, a high-altitude rock shelter in central Mexico.\n\nArchaeologists found nearly 2,000 stone tools, suggesting the cave was used by people for at least 20,000 years.\n\nDuring the second half of the 20th Century, a consensus emerged among North American archaeologists that the Clovis people had been the first to reach the Americas, about 11,500 years ago.\n\nThe ancestors of the Clovis were thought to have crossed a land bridge linking Siberia to Alaska during the last ice age.\n\nThis land bridge - known as Beringia - subsequently disappeared underwater as the ice melted.\n\nAnd these big-game hunters were thought to have contributed to the extinction of the megafauna - large mammals such as mammoth, mastodon and various species of bear that roamed the region until the end of the last ice age.\n\nAs the \"Clovis First\" idea took hold, reports of earlier human settlement were dismissed as unreliable and archaeologists stopped looking for signs of earlier occupation.\n\nBut in the 1970s, this orthodoxy started to be challenged.\n\nIn the 1980s, solid evidence for a 14,500-year-old human presence at Monte Verde, Chile, emerged.\n\nAnd since the 2000s, other pre-Clovis sites have become widely accepted - including the 15,500-year-old Buttermilk Creek Complex in central Texas.\n\nThe entrance to the rock shelter in Zacatecas, Mexico\n\nNow, Ciprian Ardelean, from the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, Tom Higham, from the University of Oxford, and colleagues have found evidence of human occupation stretching back far beyond that date, at the Chiquihuite site in the central-northern Mexican Highlands.\n\nThe results have been published in the journal Nature.\n\n\"This is a unique site, we've never seen anything like it before,\" Prof Higham, the director of Oxford's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, told BBC News.\n\n\"The stone-tool evidence is very, very compelling.\n\n\"Anyone can see that these are deliberately manufactured stone tools and there are lots of them.\n\n\"The dating - which is my job - is robust.\n\n\"And so, it's a very exciting site to have been involved in.\"\n\nThe team excavated a 3m-deep (10ft) stratigraphic section - a sequence of soil layers arranged in the order they were deposited - and found some 1,900 stone artefacts made over thousands of years.\n\nResearchers were able to date bone, charcoal and sediment associated with the stone tools, using two scientific dating techniques.\n\nThe first, radiocarbon dating, relies on the way a radioactive form of the element carbon (carbon-14) is known to decay over time.\n\nThe second, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), works by measuring the last time sediments were exposed to light.\n\nUsing two different techniques \"added a lot of credibility and strength, particularly to the older part of the chronology\", Prof Higham said.\n\n\"The optical dates and [radiocarbon] dates are in good agreement,\" he said.\n\nAnd the findings could lead scientists to take a fresh look at controversial early occupation sites elsewhere in the Americas.\n\n\"In Brazil, there are several sites where you have stone tools that look robust to me and are dated 26-30,000, similar dates to the Chiquihuite site,\" Prof Higham said.\n\n\"This could be an important discovery that could stimulate new work to find other sites in the Americas that date to this period.\"\n\nProf David Meltzer, from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, who was not involved in the research, said the findings were \"interesting\". But he explained: \"It is not enough to argue that the stone specimens could be cultural (artefacts), one has to show that they are not natural.\" Natural processes could mimic some types of stone tool, Prof Meltzer said.\n\nSecond, he explained: \"With a stone tool tradition that long-lasting, one expects it would have been far more widespread in the region, raising the question of why that technology hasn't been spotted elsewhere,\" adding: \"Perhaps more important, with modern humans one expects to see evidence of technological and cultural change over such a long span of time.\"\n\nFinally, he said, \"the cave is 1,000 metres above the valley floor, but leaving aside the issue of why not camp closer to the valley floor, why keep coming back to that same place on 'a relatively constant basis' over such a long period of time? I find that curious. Not many sites have that kind of long term repeated occupation, unless there is something quite useful / available at the spot\".\n\nBetween 26,000-19,000 years ago, sea levels were low enough for people to cross easily from Siberia to America via the Beringian land bridge. But what about during earlier times?\n\n\"Before 26,000 years ago, the latest data suggest that Beringia might have been a rather unattractive place for humans to be. It might well have been boggy and very difficult to traverse,\" said Prof Higham.\n\n\"We still think the most likely scenario is for people to have come on a coastal route - hugging a coast - perhaps with some kind of maritime technology.\"\n\nWhile people seem to have been in the Americas before 26,000 years ago, they were probably thin on the ground. It's only much later, between 14,000 and 15,000 years ago, that populations increase substantially.\n\nIt coincides with the temperature spike at the end of the last Ice Age, when jumps of around 7C are seen in just a short space of time.\n\nThe scientists also used \"environmental DNA\" techniques to look for human genetic material in the cave sediments.\n\nBut they could not find a strong enough signal.\n\nPrevious DNA evidence has shown the Clovis people shared many similarities with modern Native Americans.\n\nAnd scientists will now want to understand how these older populations relate to later human groups who inhabited the continent.\n\nIn the same issue of Nature, Prof Higham and Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, also from Oxford, describe how they used ages from 42 archaeological sites in North America and Beringia to explore how humans expanded.\n\nThe results reveal the signal of a human presence stretching back thousands of years before the Clovis people.", "More than a quarter of people in the UK are estimated to have experienced mental distress in the first month of lockdown.\n\nA study of more than 17,000 people, published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, found mental health had shown a marked decline by the end of April, although the longer term impact of the pandemic remains to be seen.\n\nMike Staley is a radio DJ for the Stafford Centre, a community resource for people experiencing mental ill health in the Edinburgh area run by Support in Mind Scotland.\n\nHe says he started \"becoming very anxious and very isolated\" himself, although is \"beginning to come out of it” as more things reopen.\n\nQuote Message: It’s the fear of when is this going to end? How is it going to end? Are we going to have a second lockdown? When you’re in lockdown, you can’t keep moving, you almost come to a halt.” from Mike Staley It’s the fear of when is this going to end? How is it going to end? Are we going to have a second lockdown? When you’re in lockdown, you can’t keep moving, you almost come to a halt.”\n\nMr Staley says Zoom chats three times week with fellow members helps keep people in contact, and are \"a stairway to bringing out things that are troubling them\".\n\n\"The key is to keep moving, and keep thinking positive,\" he adds.", "Workers at Whole Foods are suing the US supermarket for punishing them for wearing Black Lives Matter masks.\n\nThe federal lawsuit says the firm discriminated against black staff by selectively enforcing its dress code.\n\nWhole Foods, owned by tech giant Amazon, forbids staff from wearing clothes with messages that are not company-related.\n\nIt denied firing a worker over the issue, but would not comment on the legal action.\n\n\"While we cannot comment on pending litigation, it is critical to clarify that no Team Members have been terminated for wearing Black Lives Matter face masks or apparel,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nThe lawsuit says more than 40 Whole Foods employees at locations across the country have been punished for wearing the Black Lives Matter masks, which became popular amid the outcry over George Floyd's death at the hands of police.\n\nStaff wearing clothing with other messages, such as LGBTQ pins or sports team apparel, had not faced such discipline in the past, the lawsuit says.\n\n\"Whole Foods' selective enforcement of its dress code in disciplining employees who wear apparel expressing support for the Black Lives Matter movement constitutes unlawful discrimination,\" the lawsuit says.\n\nThe complaint asks the court to strike down Whole Foods' policy and bar the company from taking further action or retaliating against the workers. It also seeks back-pay for workers sent home for wearing the masks,\n\nThe lawsuit was filed by 14 employees as a class action suit on behalf of all Whole Foods staff. One of the workers claims she was fired for organising mask wearing and leading protests against the company's response.\n\nIn a statement, Whole Foods denied that claim, saying the employee, Savannah Kinzer, had been dismissed for \"repeatedly violating our time and attendance policy by not working her assigned shifts, reporting late for work multiple times in the past nine days and choosing to leave during her scheduled shifts.\n\n\"It is simply untrue that she was separated from the company for wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask. As an employer we must uphold our policies in an equitable and consistent manner. Savannah had full understanding of our policies and was given a number of opportunities to comply,\" the firm said.\n\nShannon Liss-Riordan, the lawyer representing the workers, said the firm was \"falsely attacking\" Ms Kinzer.\n\n\"Their decision to retaliate against employees expressing support for this racial justice movement was bad enough, but their efforts to disparage an amazing activist and leader are beyond the pale,\" she said. \"We look forward to making our argument in federal court.\"\n\nShe told the BBC the workers who filed the suit were angry in part over apparent hypocrisy, after Amazon and Whole Foods expressed public support for the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\n\"So many companies today are doing everything they can to profess how progressive they are... but when it actually comes to letting their employees express these same sentiments they get muzzled,\" she said.\n\nThe lawsuit is the latest clash involving Amazon and its workers.\n\nThe firm has faced repeated calls to do more to protect its supermarket and warehouse workers during the pandemic and been accused of retaliating against staff speaking out over the firm's environmental policies and coronavirus protections.\n\nEarlier this year, an engineer quit, citing firings as evidence of a \"vein of toxicity running through the company's culture\".", "A manager at the main contractor for Grenfell Tower's refurbishment ignored email concerns that the cladding could be combustible, the inquiry has heard.\n\nRydon's Simon Lawrence received an email from the Tenant Management Organisation (TMO) which ran the tower seeking clarity on whether the new cladding would resist a fire.\n\nThere is no evidence that he or anyone from Rydon replied to that email.\n\nThe inquiry's first phase found that cladding fuelled the June 2017 fire.\n\nHearings in the second phase of the inquiry returned last week after a four-month break due to coronavirus.\n\nThis second phase is examining the refurbishment of the 24-storey residential block in North Kensington, west London, in which 72 people died.\n\nThe inquiry heard on Tuesday that Mr Lawrence, a contracts manager at Rydon, received an email from Claire Williams from the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO) responsible for the running of the tower, on 12 November 2014, seeking clarification on whether the new cladding would resist a fire.\n\nShe told Mr Lawrence, who was involved in the project between June 2014 and October 2015, that she was having a 'Lakanal moment' - referring to the 2009 fire in a high-rise residential block in London with cladding, which killed six people.\n\nThere is no evidence that Mr Lawrence or anyone else from Rydon responded to the email.\n\nInquiry lawyer Richard Millett QC asked him what he thought Ms Williams meant by a 'Lakanal moment'.\n\nMr Lawrence said he knew there had been a fire at Lakanal some years ago, but did not know \"the specific details\" or that it was relating to fire in the context of the fire retardance of the new cladding.\n\nHe added that he believed Ms Williams' concerns related \"specifically\" to the fire retardance of the cladding on the lower floors of the residential block, \"but not cladding overall\".\n\nDavid Gibson, another member of the TMO, said in a witness statement that he asked Mr Lawrence if there would be a 'Lakanal type problem', due to the danger of flames getting trapped in the gap between the external insulation and rainscreen cladding on the outside of the building.\n\nMr Lawrence said he did not recall Mr Gibson raising this matter with him in a meeting, when asked by Mr Millett.\n\nMr Gibson said Mr Lawrence assured him that the materials being used were 'inert' and would not burn - which Mr Lawrence denies saying.\n\nAsked again by Mr Millet if ever he assured Mr Gibson that the materials being used were \"inert\", Mr Lawrence said he would \"not give technical assurances\" unless he had that information from \"designers or specialists\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has agreed to pay \"substantial\" damages to seven former employees who sued the party in an anti-Semitism row.\n\nThe party has issued an unreserved apology in the High Court for making \"false and defamatory\" comments about seven whistleblowers who spoke out in a BBC Panorama programme last year.\n\nThe individuals had criticised the then leadership's handling of complaints.\n\nLabour said they were wrongly accused of \"bad faith\" and caused \"distress, embarrassment and hurt\" by the party.\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said the payout was an \"extraordinary moment\" and underlined leader Sir Keir Starmer's determination to get to grips with the shadow of anti-Semitism hanging over the party.\n\nIn the July 2019 programme, entitled 'Is Labour Anti-Semitic?', a number of former party officials alleged that senior figures close to the leadership at the time had interfered in the process of dealing with anti-Semitism complaints.\n\nThey also claimed they had faced a huge increase in complaints since Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015.\n\nIn its response at the time, a party spokesman denounced them as \"disaffected former staff\" who had \"personal and political axes\" to grind. They were also accused of trying to undermine Mr Corbyn.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Corbyn said the decision to settle the claims with an apology and \"substantial payments\" was \"disappointing\", adding the party's legal advice was that it \"had a strong defence\".\n\nSeven of the whistleblowers - Kat Buckingham, Michael Creighton, Samuel Matthews, Dan Hogan, Louise Withers Green, Benjamin Westerman and Martha Robinson - took legal action and asked the Labour Party formally to apologise in court.\n\nIn a statement read out in the High Court, Labour said it unreservedly apologised and was determined to root out anti-Semitism in the party and the wider Labour movement.\n\n\"Before the broadcast of the programme, the Labour Party issued a press release that contained defamatory and false allegations about these whistleblowers,\" the party said.\n\n\"We acknowledge the many years of dedicated and committed service that the whistleblowers have given to the Labour Party as members and as staff. We appreciate their valuable contribution at all levels of the party.\n\n\"We unreservedly withdraw all allegations of bad faith, malice and lying. We would like to apologise unreservedly for the distress, embarrassment and hurt caused by their publication. We have agreed to pay them damages.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Matthews said he welcomed the \"important\" decision and said that being accused of acting against Labour had been like \"being rejected by our own family\".\n\nLabour has also agreed to pay damages to the presenter of the programme, BBC journalist John Ware.\n\nIt said Mr Ware, an award-winning investigative reporter who has worked for the BBC for more than 30 years, was subject to \"false and defamatory\" comments before the programme was aired which had now been withdrawn.\n\nShadow Attorney General Lord Falconer, who was attending court on the behalf of the Labour Party, told the BBC the settlement had brought a \"disastrous chapter\" to an end.\n\nLabour has also apologised to the BBC journalist John Ware\n\nThe BBC welcomed what it said was the party's \"long-overdue\" apology for what were \"painful and damaging personal attacks\" on the integrity and character of those involved in the programme.\n\nIt said Mr Ware was a \"reporter with an extraordinary record of excellence at Panorama for investigative journalism in the public interest\" and it \"applauded the strength\" of the whistleblowers.\n\nMr Ware said he accepted Labour's apology, adding: \"It was an unwritten code amongst we journalists that we don't sue because free speech is sacrosanct, but the world has changed thanks to social media.\n\n\"You either accept and shrug your shoulders when people call you a liar and say you fabricated evidence and deliberately promoted falsehoods - as the Labour Party did - or you decide to do something about it. So I decided to do something about it.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said it was a \"prudent move\" by the party and was \"part of that healing process\" that was needed.\n\n\"It's important that the whole of the Labour Party acknowledges what's happened in the past and acknowledges that we did have a problem with anti-Semitism within the Labour Party,\" she said.\n\nThe legal settlement was welcomed by current and former Jewish Labour MPs, including Margaret Hodge and Ruth Smeeth, the latter describing the whistleblowers are \"heroes\".\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\nThe Jewish Labour Movement said the Panorama programme had \"shone a light on the party's failure to act\" against anti-Jewish racism and the \"growing culture of denial\" within its ranks.\n\n\"Under new leadership, our hope is the party will continue to demonstrate this willingness to change,\" it said.\n\nThe former employees who went public with their concerns were accused of undermining Jeremy Corbyn's leadership\n\nBut former Labour leader Mr Corbyn said the legal settlement \"risks giving credibility to misleading and inaccurate allegations about action taken to tackle anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in recent years\".\n\nHe said it was a \"political decision, not a legal one\".\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey described the settlement as a \"misuse\" of party's funds, suggesting Labour had been advised that it would win the case.\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\nFor Labour, this is an expensive and embarrassing outcome.\n\nThe leadership may hope that is a price well worth paying if it signals the beginning of the end of the anti-Semitism row that has caused real division in the party over the last few years.\n\nFor those unhappy with the party's previous handling of the issue, the apology sets down a marker that it really is \"under new management\".\n\nFor some of those who were quite happy with the old leadership, though, this is going to rankle and some are already making their unhappiness clear.\n\nThis is certainly a big moment for Labour but there a likely to be many more before this issue is put to bed.\n\nMr McCluskey and other allies of Mr Corbyn, who stood down in the Spring after four years leading the party, had urged Sir Keir Starmer to contest the lawsuit.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg tweeted that \"last minute legal wrangling by lawyers for some of former Labour leadership team didn't stop the apology and settlements going ahead\".\n\nSince being elected in April, Sir Keir has been anxious to emphasise his commitment to root out anti-Semitism, committing to implement in full the recommendations of an inquiry by the equality watchdog into Labour's culture and internal procedures due out in September.\n\nHe recently sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey from the shadow cabinet for re-tweeting an article containing what he regarded as a conspiracy theory.\n• None Labour's agony over anti-Semitism far from over", "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\nBusinesses are only operating at about half of their pre-virus capacity, with the economy still \"in first gear\". That's according to the British Chambers of Commerce's coronavirus impact tracker. Reduced customer demand and concern about future local lockdowns were highlighted as the top two obstacles to normal operations. We've looked closely at some of the UK firms left in limbo by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReduced staffing to allow social distancing is also slowing down operations for many businesses and organisations. That's demonstrated by the news this morning that a backlog of 400,000 passport applications has built up during the pandemic. Home Office minister Baroness Williams said steps were being taken to increase capacity now travel restrictions have eased.\n\nBeauty salons, tattoo parlours and tailors can now welcome customers as Scotland continues its phased lifting of lockdown. Universities and colleges can also begin to resume some on-campus learning, and a limited number of driving lessons are allowed. Read a fuller explanation of all Scotland's rules.\n\nCarrie Nicol says she is excited to get back to work despite the changes in how things operate\n\nThe number of job vacancies in the UK has plummeted and competition for those that are advertised is fierce given the redundancies caused by the pandemic. Some sectors appear to be in a much stronger position than others, though, so which are actually hiring staff? And which face a more uncertain future? We break it down.\n\nJoe Wicks' first began his daily live workouts in March, just hours before Boris Johnson went on to tell the UK it was entering lockdown. Today the trainer is bringing \"PE with Joe\" to an end, so we've spoken to people who say the experience of joining in every day has changed their lives.\n\nVanessa Taylor says both her physical and mental health have improved\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via our live page.\n\nPlus, we answer the latest batch of questions from readers on all things pandemic, including whether any coronavirus vaccine might have side effects.\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.", "Staff at Exeter Airport face losing jobs because of the effect of coronavirus on the aviation industry, managers have said.\n\nThe airport said it was changing \"operational requirements\" but it would \"fight to protect every job we can\".\n\nIt did not confirm numbers, but it was reported locally 96 posts could be under threat .\n\nAs well as Covid-19, the airport has been affected by the collapse of regional airline Flybe in March, its main carrier, which accounted for about 60% of its passengers.\n\nThe airline also had its headquarters and training facilities nearby.\n\nThe airport - which has about 250 staff and is one of the main air hubs in the South West - said consultation was under way.", "Care home residents in England can begin to be reunited with one of their loved ones, the government has said, as it publishes new guidance.\n\nVisits will resume in care homes once local authorities and local public health directors say it is safe.\n\nResidents will be limited to seeing the same one visitor, where possible, the guidance says.\n\nSome providers began allowing outdoor, socially-distanced visits in June, in the absence of government guidelines.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was now possible to \"carefully and safely\" allow visits to care homes, while taking into account \"local knowledge and circumstances for each care home\".\n\nPeople in registered residential care and those in nursing homes for people with learning disabilities, mental health or other disabilities in England will also be able to welcome visitors under the same guidance.\n\nThe government said visits could resume after the rate of community transmission of coronavirus had fallen, but staff, residents and visitors should observe its guidance to minimise the risk of spreading the virus.\n\nIt says care providers should consider whether visits could take place outside, without people having to go through a shared building, and visitors should stick to social distancing guidance and avoid hugs or handshakes.\n\nAd hoc visits should be discouraged and providers should collect contact details of visitors to support NHS Test and Trace, the guidance says.\n\nVisitors should also be encouraged to wear a face covering and risk assessments must be carried out before homes reopen.\n\nGifts for residents should be easy to clean by care home staff. \"It is unlikely that they will be able to bring flowers but a box of chocolates that could be sanitised with wipes would be allowed,\" the guidance says.\n\nCare England, the country's largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, said it was \"disappointed\" the guidance had come so late.\n\nChief executive Professor Martin Green said: \"This guidance should have been with care providers last month.\n\n\"We are at a loss to understand why the Department of Health and Social Care cannot act quickly in a crisis or why it is deaf to the comments and input from the sector.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded the deaths of another 79 people who tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths to 45,501.\n\nLesley Lightfoot says not being able to be with her mum Blumah, who has Parkinson's dementia, during lockdown has been \"the most painful thing I've ever been through\".\n\nFor months, she stood outside her mum's north London care home, talking to her through a ground floor window. In recent weeks, the home has allowed some outdoor visits.\n\nBut Ms Lightfoot wants clarity on whether the latest guidelines mean she'll be able to see her mum indoors.\n\n\"To be able to see her outside doesn't solve my problem. I need to get in and be with her in her room,\" she says, adding that her mum's mental state has deteriorated with the isolation of lockdown. \"She needs the reassurance, the love, the affection, the looking at things with her, the going through things with her.\"\n\nThe government said it will be down to individual care homes, working with public health officials, to decide whether visits can take place inside people's rooms.\n\nIn Scotland, visits to virus-free homes resumed earlier this month. In Wales, outdoor visits are allowed and in Northern Ireland, one person can visit a resident, with a second person accommodated \"where possible\".\n\nSue Parker from Ovingham, Northumberland, who has a 29-year-old son with autism and OCD, welcomed the guidance but said it would not help in her case as it isn't an option to visit her son in his residential care home.\n\nShe explained he would not tolerate relatives visiting his care home and would only accept leaving to his family home - something he did most weekends before the pandemic.\n\n\"It seems throughout that it has been a blanket one-size-fits-all policy [for social care], with a focus on the elderly and frail,\" she said, adding that the new guidance seemed to be \"disproportionate\" for her son, given that he is young and physically fit.\n• None How are the care home visiting rules changing?", "New social distancing regulations to make restaurants Covid-secure mean there are fewer tables for customers, which in turn means less income.\n\nHowever restaurateurs say many people who make reservations are simply not showing up, which is having a major impact on the company's bottom line, and ultimately their survival in the industry.", "Mr Harrison was arrested at Dublin Port after returning from France and Belgium on 26 October\n\nAn Irish lorry driver, wanted over his alleged role in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a lorry in October, has been extradited to the UK.\n\nEight women and 31 men were found in the container in Essex on 23 October.\n\nPolice said they died of lack of oxygen and overheating in an enclosed space.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 23, from Mayobridge, County Down, is alleged to have driven the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before it sailed to Purfleet in England.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nEssex Police confirmed on Wednesday night that Mr Harrison was in their custody.\n\nHe faces 39 charges of manslaughter as well as conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nHe was arrested at Dublin Port on 26 October after returning from France and Belgium.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer questions Boris Johnson on the Russia report in parliament\n\nMinisters are considering strengthening security laws after a report by MPs accused them of underestimating the threat of Russian interference.\n\nHome Office Minister James Brokenshire said foreign agents could be required to register in the UK in future.\n\nHe told MPs that this and other \"new offences and powers\" for dealing with foreign spies were being looked at.\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer accused the government of complacency and leaving a \"serious gap in our defences\".\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said the government had \"delayed\" legislation to help counter Russian interference, despite acknowledging 18 months ago that existing powers were insufficient.\n\n\"The PM sat on this report for 10 months and failed to plug a gap in our law in national security,\" he said.\n\n\"How is the PM going to address that gap and meet the threat with the joined-up, robust response it deserves?\"\n\nBoris Johnson said there was no other country in the Western world that was more \"vigilant\" about Russian interference, pointing to recent sanctions against Russian officials involved in human rights abuses and proposed laws to protect critical infrastructure and intellectual property.\n\n\"Let us be in no doubt about what this is all about,\" he said.\n\n\"It is about pressure from the Islingtonian remainers who have seized on this report to try and give the impression that Russian interference was somehow responsible for Brexit.\n\n\"The people of this country did not vote to leave the EU because of pressure from Russia.\"\n\nThe Intelligence and Security Committee report claimed the government made no effort to investigate claims of Russian interference in the EU referendum and criticised intelligence agencies for not prioritising the issue.\n\nThe government has said an inquiry is not necessary as it has \"seen no evidence of successful interference\".\n\nBut ministers are listening to calls from all parties to do more to counter Russian espionage and subversion after the UK was described the main target after the US and Nato.\n\nPlans to make foreign agents register were mentioned in the government's legislative agenda last December, and were previously announced by former home secretary Sajid Javid in May last year.\n\nIn response to an urgent question from Labour in the House of Commons, Mr Brokenshire said the UK would consider strengthening the Official Secrets Act and tightening rules on investment visas.\n\n\"Let there be no doubt, we are unafraid to act where necessary to protect the UK and our allies.\"\n\nIf you do not seek, you do not find.\n\nWhether deliberate or deficient, the Intelligence and Security Committee's very long-awaited report outlines gaping holes in the UK's handling of the threat from Russia.\n\nFor years, it seems a lack of priority, and a lack of curiosity, allowed the risks to go unmonitored, if not to go unchecked.\n\nThe UK government has now stiffened its attitude to Putin's Russia.\n\nBut shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the \"conscious\" decision not to consider whether they was any attempt to manipulate the Brexit vote spoke volumes.\n\nUrging ministers to treat the issue with the \"seriousness it deserves\", he added: \"I thank the security services for the work they do but they need help. This report makes clear they have not received the strategic support, legislative tools or resources necessary to defend our interests.\"\n\nIn its 50-page report, the ISC said the UK was \"clearly a target\" for disinformation campaigns around its elections, but that the issue was described as a \"hot potato\", with no one organisation taking a lead to tackle it.\n\nRussia has dismissed the report as Russophobia\n\nThe committee suggested a new Espionage Act could help prevent individuals acting on behalf of a foreign power from concealing their links with that country.\n\nIt said an obligation similar to that in the US - where agents are required to register with the Justice department - would \"clearly be valuable in countering Russian influence in the UK\".\n\nISC member Kevan Jones said he was concerned that the Law Commission, which was asked last year to look at the legal issues regarding such a move, had yet to release its findings.\n\n\"Can I urge the minister to make sure we actually gets this legislation in place because it is needed,\" he said. \"Let's hope it is not just some spin to get the headlines.\"\n\nDowning Street was accused of holding back the ISC report ahead of December's UK election and for delaying its nominations to set up the new committee - both claims it has denied.\n\nIts chair Julian Lewis, who was stripped of the Conservative whip after defying No 10 by standing for its leadership, sought reassurances that Downing Street special advisers would not be able to interfere with its work", "Officers will only attend incidents where people not wearing a mask refuse to leave a shop or become \"aggressive,\"\n\nPolice in London will only enforce the wearing of masks in shops \"as a last resort\", the Met Commissioner has said.\n\nDame Cressida Dick said she hoped shoppers who refused to wear masks would be \"shamed\" into compliance.\n\nOfficers will attend if people not wearing a mask refuse to leave a shop or become \"aggressive,\" Dame Cressida said.\n\nThames Valley and Devon and Cornwall police forces say officers will attend incidents only if they turn violent.\n\nBut Dame Cressida said if shop keepers were concerned and had \"tried everything else\", her officers would try to assist.\n\nShe told LBC Radio: \"Calling the police should be a last resort for dealing with a mask issue. But of course the law is the law.\n\n\"My hope is that the vast majority of people will comply and that people who are not complying will be shamed into complying or shamed to leave the store by the store keepers or by other members of the public.\n\n\"If somebody is concerned about what is going on in their store, yes, of course they should call the police and we will try to assist.\"\n\nWearing a face covering in shops and supermarkets in England is to become mandatory this week\n\nWearing a face covering in shops and supermarkets in England is to become mandatory from 24 July.\n\nThose who fail to comply with the new rules will face a fine of up to £100, the government has announced.\n\nDame Cressida said supermarkets had managed to maintain social distancing and queuing themselves and had only rarely needed to call the police.\n\nThe move will bring England into line with Scotland and nations such as Spain, Italy and Germany.\n\nSince mid-May, members of the public have been advised to wear coverings in enclosed public spaces, where they may encounter people they would not usually meet.\n\nMask-wearing has been compulsory on public transport in England and at NHS facilities across the UK since 15 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe US has said its decision to refuse an extradition request for Harry Dunn's alleged killer was final.\n\nIt comes after an Interpol Red Notice was issued for US national Anne Sacoolas who is now \"wanted internationally\".\n\nA US official said she had diplomatic immunity, but Downing Street branded the refusal \"a denial of justice\".\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire, with Mrs Sacoolas accused of death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary has accused the Foreign Office of \"clear and repeated failings\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence official based at RAF Croughton, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash and was able to return to her home country, sparking an international outcry.\n\nThe Interpol Red notice means she can be arrested if she leaves the US.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles was notified by Northamptonshire Police about the Interpol notice.\n\nShe said it was \"a huge step in the right direction\".\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMotorcyclist Mr Dunn died in a crash with a car near US military base RAF Croughton on 27 August.\n\nA Home Office extradition request was refused by US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in January.\n\nOn Tuesday, the state department's spokeswoman said that decision was final.\n\nShe said that granting the extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas would have rendered the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would have set an \"extraordinarily troubling precedent\".\n\nShe added that the US has a history of close law enforcement co-operation with the UK, and values that relationship.\n\nBut the Prime Minister's official spokesman said Boris Johnson \"has been clear that he wants to see justice served for Harry and his family\".\n\nMr Johnson had raised the case with Donald Trump \"on a number of occasions\", the spokesman said.\n\n\"The US refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas amounts to a denial of justice and she should return to the UK,\" the spokesman added.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has called for a parliamentary inquiry, in which the Foreign Secretary would have to explain \"failings\" with Mr Dunn's case.\n\nBut the Dunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"The White House may feel that secretary Pompeo's refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas was final but that does not reflect the real position.\n\n\"In fact quite the contrary, as the US Embassy in London said in a recent letter to Andrea Leadsom, both countries recognise that the final decision will rest with the court following a judicial review.\"\n\nAn Interpol Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.\n\nOn its website, Interpol states a red notice \"is an international wanted persons notice, but it is not an arrest warrant\".\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 campaign to see Harry Dunn get justice will return to the High Court later this year\n\nAn application by Harry Dunn's parents for the Foreign Office to disclose evidence relating to a \"secret agreement\" between the UK and US governments has been rejected.\n\nThe Dunns said the agreement had given diplomatic immunity to their son's alleged killer, Anne Sacoolas.\n\nThe 19-year-old was killed in a crash in Northamptonshire.\n\nAt the High Court, Lord Justice Flaux said disclosure was not necessary for the \"just determination\" of the case.\n\nMr Dunn died when his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton in August last year.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, claimed diplomatic immunity afterwards and returned to the US.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn are bringing legal action against Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Northamptonshire Police, claiming they acted unlawfully over Mrs Sacoolas' departure.\n\nAt a preliminary hearing on Thursday, conducted by video call, the Dunns argued the Foreign Office \"acted unlawfully by proceeding as if Anne Sacoolas conclusively had immunity\".\n\nThey said that action prevented Northamptonshire Police \"from reaching an informed view\" on immunity.\n\nGeoffrey Robertson QC, representing the Dunns, told the court the Foreign Office had \"obstructed a criminal investigation, under pressure from the United States\".\n\nMr Robertson said the case \"turns on the interpretation of a secret agreement made in 1995 between America and the UK, as a result of a US request to add up to 200 technical officers as diplomatic agents at RAF Croughton\".\n\nHe said at the time the UK had been \"deeply concerned\" about the request and the danger of media interest if crimes - particularly road traffic-related crimes - were committed.\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nSir James Eadie QC, for the Foreign Office, said Mr Raab \"has acted lawfully at all times\".\n\nHe argued the Foreign Office had \"given extensive disclosure, well in excess of what is strictly required\".\n\nMr Robertson asked the court to order the Foreign Office to disclose documents about the 1995 agreement, as well as notes of phone calls and messages about Mr Dunn's death involving Foreign Office officials.\n\nThe application was rejected by Lord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini.\n\nA full hearing will take place in October or November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Co-stars reflected on Rivera's sense of humour and moral support\n\nTributes have been paid to actress Naya Rivera, whose death has been confirmed by US police.\n\nThe 33-year-old, best known for playing Santana Lopez on Glee, had gone missing during a boat trip in California.\n\nAfter a long search, divers found her body on Monday, prompting an outpouring of love and sympathy from her co-stars.\n\n\"She was so independent and strong and the idea of her not being here is something I cannot comprehend,\" wrote Glee actor Kevin McHale on Twitter.\n\n\"She was the single most quick-witted person I've ever met, with a steel-trap memory that could recall the most forgettable conversations from a decade ago.\n\n\"She was the most talented person I've ever known and I'm furious we won't get to see more.\"\n\n\"Rest sweet, Naya. What a force you were. Love and peace to your family,\" added Jane Lynch, who played coach Sue Sylvester on the show.\n\nMany of her former cast-mates gathered at the bank of Lake Piru, near Los Angeles, to pay their respects.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dave Quinn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Jane Lynch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChris Colfer, who played Kurt Hummel in the teen comedy, shared a photo of himself with Rivera on Instagram.\n\n\"How can you convey all your love and respect for someone in one post?\" he wrote in the caption.\n\n\"How can you summarise a decade of friendship and laughter with words alone?\n\n\"If you were friends with Naya Rivera, you simply can't. Her brilliance and humour were unmatched. Her beauty and talent were otherworldly.\"\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 chriscolfer This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I was constantly moved by the degree to which she took care of her family, and how she looked out for her friends,\" he wrote.\n\n\"She showed up for me on numerous occasions where she didn't have to, and I was always so grateful for her friendship then, as I certainly am now.\"\n\nRivera was first reported missing last week, after she rented a pontoon boat with her four-year-old son.\n\nHe was found alone and asleep in the boat and later told police his mother had never returned after swimming in the lake.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Monday, Ventura County Sheriff William Ayub said a body had been found near the surface of the water in the north eastern section of the lake.\n\nPolice were \"confident\" they had found Rivera, based on location, clothing and physical characteristics. An autopsy and dental records will be used to confirm her identity. There were no signs of foul play.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ventura County police said there was no indication of foul play\n\nThe discovery came exactly seven years after Rivera's Glee co-star, Cory Monteith, was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room of an overdose of heroin and alcohol.\n\nLea Michele, who was the show's lead actress, posted black-and-white photos of both actors on her Instagram story in tribute.\n\nMany cast members also re-posted a video of Rivera and Monteith signing autographs for fans outside Paramount studios in Hollywood.\n\nThe original poster had highlighted how \"Naya and Cory always took the time to meet fans and talk with them\".\n\n\"They were so kind-hearted and they loved and appreciated us so much,\" she 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\nFans also posted videos of Rivera's most memorable performances on the show - especially the song If I Die Young, which she sang in an episode commemorating Monteith's death.\n\nOthers shared how important it had been to see Rivera portray a character who was both Latin and LGBT.\n\n\"Naya was a powerhouse not just on Glee, but in life,\" wrote Twitter user @IssyFields.\n\n\"Her portrayal of Santana gave me the confidence to be unapologetically myself and made millions of voices heard. Glee has memorialised her beautiful talents forever because she is, and always will be, a hero.\"\n\nRivera attended the 2012 Golden Globes with her co-stars (L-R) Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele and Amber Riley\n\nSinger Bryana Salaz said she \"didn't realize the impact\" Rivera had on her life growing up as \"the first POC, LGBTQ character I saw on screen.\n\n\"I grew up listening to you sing, being inspired by the girl on Glee who looks like me and is unapologetically herself. You changed so many lives. Rest easy angel,\" she added.\n\n\"Glee gave me the strength I needed to come to terms with my sexuality,\" added YouTuber Luke Birch.\n\n\"Seeing characters like Santana gave me so much hope and courage. You helped an entire generation of LGBTQ+ people, Naya. A talent like no other. 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 6 by Luke Birch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Duchess of Sussex: \"Humanity desperately needs you\"\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has urged young women to \"push\" humanity in a \"more inclusive\" direction.\n\nSpeaking to a gender equality summit, Meghan called on delegates to challenge \"lawmakers, leaders and executives\" and make them \"uncomfortable\".\n\nShe said this discomfort would \"create the conditions to re-imagine our standards\".\n\nIt comes after she and husband Prince Harry spoke to young people about equal rights.\n\nIn a pre-recorded video, Meghan, 38, told the 2020 Girl Up leadership summit that the duke, 35, and their son Archie, will be \"cheering\" on young activists as they \"continue marching, advocating, and leading the way forward\".\n\nThe duke and duchess are now living in Los Angeles with their son after stepping back as senior working royals earlier this year.\n\nLast week, the pair spoke to young leaders during the Queen's Commonwealth Trust (QCT) weekly video call, which focused on responding to the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nIn the keynote speech to the female empowerment summit, which took place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic, Meghan told delegates humanity \"desperately\" needed them to \"push\" it in \"a more inclusive, more just, and more empathetic direction\".\n\nShe said as well as framing debate, they needed to \"be in charge\" of the conversation on issues including racial justice, gender, climate change, mental health and \"so much more\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: 'It's not going to be easy... but it needs to be done'\n\nThe duchess praised the work delegates have already been doing. She highlighted those involved in efforts like organising global Black Lives Matter protests, reforming the criminal justice system and campaigns to end gun violence.\n\nShe said: \"You are standing up and demanding to be heard, yes, but you're also demanding to own the conversation.\"\n\nShe went on to say women regularly get a verbal brush-off from those in power, something experienced \"in the moments we challenge the norms\".\n\nMeghan added: \"So if that's the case, I say to you, keep challenging, keep pushing, make them a little uncomfortable.\n\n\"Because it's only in that discomfort that we actually create the conditions to re-imagine our standards, our policies, our leadership; to move towards real representation and meaningful influence over the structures of decision-making and power.\"\n\nThis 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\nThis \"reimagining\" of standards is not \"a zero-sum game\", she explained, but rather it is \"mutually beneficial and better for everyone\".\n\nShe said the path to get there will take \"girls and women, men and boys, it will take those that are black and those that are white collectively tackling the inequities and structural problems that we know exist\".\n\nFormer US First Ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton also made appearances during the conference organised by Girl Up, an initiative created by the UN Foundation in 2010 to help support UN agencies that focus on adolescent girls.\n\nMeghan has actively campaigned on a number of humanitarian issues, especially the topics of gender equality and women's empowerment.\n\nShe has spoken previously about how a soap manufacturer altered its advert after, at the age of 11, she wrote a letter to then first lady Mrs Clinton, and other high-profile figures, complaining that it implied women belonged in the kitchen.", "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\nThe University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff was a very different place to the one I'm used to visiting.\n\nFootsteps echo around the normally crowded corridors of Wales' largest hospital as I make my first stop, the rehabilitation ward - one of three on the same floor - all repurposed to help patients recover from the ravages of coronavirus.\n\nHere, staff are tasked with gently easing them back to full strength.\n\nGeoff Bodman has spent more than two months in intensive care\n\nIt was sobering to watch previously healthy patients, such as 56-year-old Geoff Bodman, from Tremorfa in Cardiff, who spent two months in intensive care, struggle with basic tasks such as walking, talking or writing their own name.\n\nThe sheer level of rehabilitation support they need gives a hint of what to expect from the intensive care unit itself.\n\nWe joined hospital staff queuing outside its entrance, waiting to don the mandatory personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt is here they cover up their hair and put on gowns, hospital-grade masks, visors or goggles and two pairs of gloves.\n\nThe wait offers a few moments to steel themselves for whatever lies ahead.\n\nHaving gone through the final meticulous checks, we followed them in.\n\nProtective personal equipment is double checked before anyone gets on the intensive care wards\n\nThe constant low hum and whir of the ventilators keeping patients alive was punctuated by the urgent beep of monitors.\n\nStaff have to raise their voices to be heard here through the face masks and visors. They spend many long, hot hours in full PPE and leave with the marks of the shift on their faces.\n\nWithin minutes, I quickly realised why most staff here opted for visors rather than goggles.\n\nMy BBC-issued eyewear steamed up and I could hardly see a thing, viewing the room through a hazy fog.\n\nHealth correspondent Owain Clarke wore PPE provided by the BBC during the filming\n\nIt was a constant battle to stop myself touching my face to adjust my eye protection, while acutely aware of the presence of the virus all around us.\n\nThe painful sensation of the mask digging into my nose at least reassured me it had formed the necessary seal.\n\nIt was both a profound and surreal experience.\n\nAfter 10 minutes, I was left exhausted, uncomfortable and claustrophobic by the restrictions of the PPE.\n\nIt was obvious why staff who endure this intense environment for hours on end can leave dehydrated and suffering splitting headaches.\n\nHelping some of the hospital's most gravely-ill patients has left most nurses in tears, Emma Thomas tells us. She's one of the unit's research nurses.\n\nWorking in critical care has been an emotional experience, says nurse Emma Thomas\n\nIt's hard, she says, replacing a family member at a patient's bedside as they take their last breath.\n\nCoronavirus has claimed the lives of at least 228 people at this hospital alone.\n\nThere is also a determination to convey to families their loved-ones are well cared for in those moments.\n\nThe hospital has so far narrowly avoided exceeding its critical care capacity but there was frustration among staff that many people appear to be taking themselves out of lockdown.\n\n\"We'll be seeing some of those who were out last weekend [for VE day] in about five days, I suspect,\" one member of staff told me.\n\nThey seemed almost resigned to a second peak of infection, but hoped the public would continue to listen to government advice, however tough and tiring they are finding the restrictions of protecting themselves at home.\n\nOwain Clarke and cameraman Dyfed Davies were given unprecedented access to the University Hospital of Wales ITU department and Covid rehabilitation wards. They used PPE provided by the BBC to document the hospital's response to the coronavirus epidemic", "The UK could see about 120,000 new coronavirus deaths in a second wave of infections this winter, scientists say.\n\nAsked to model a \"reasonable\" worst-case scenario, they suggest a range between 24,500 and 251,000 of virus-related deaths in hospitals alone, peaking in January and February.\n\nTo date, there have been 44,830 official deaths in the UK, but this has slowed with 1,100 in July.\n\nThe estimate does not take into account any lockdowns, treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd the scientists say: \"The risk... could be reduced if we take action immediately\".\n\nThe report, requested by the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, stresses there is still a high degree of uncertainty over how the coronavirus pandemic will play out this winter.\n\nBut research suggests the virus can survive longer in colder conditions and is more likely to spread when people spend more time indoors.\n\nAnd experts are concerned the NHS will be under extreme pressure, not just from a resurgence of coronavirus but also from seasonal flu and a backlog of regular, non-coronavirus workload.\n\nThe health service is already severely disrupted in the aftermath of the first pandemic wave, with a waiting list that could stand at 10 million by the end of this year, the report says.\n\nProf Stephen Holgate, a respiratory specialist from University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, who chaired the report, said: \"This is not a prediction - but it is a possibility.\n\n\"The modelling suggests that deaths could be higher with a new wave of Covid-19 this winter.\n\n\"But the risk of this happening could be reduced if we take action immediately.\"\n\nWith relatively low numbers of coronavirus cases at the moment, \"this is a critical window of opportunity to help us prepare for the worst that winter can throw at us\", he added.\n\nLess pessimistic winter scenarios are also possible, with coronavirus deaths in the thousands.\n\nThe report makes it clear there is a high degree of uncertainty in the projected death figures.\n\nIt is not a prediction of what will happen, rather what might.\n\nResearchers can model likely scenarios. But simulations rest on assumptions that do not always play out in real life.\n\nChange any of the parameters slightly, and you get very different projections.\n\nThe overall message, however, is clear - prepare for the worst and hope for the best.\n\nCurrently, coronavirus deaths and cases in the UK are down, which gives the nation a chance to reflect and plan for a second wave.\n\nKeeping infection rates low as Britain emerges from lockdown will be critical in controlling the disease.\n\nThe virus has not gone away. And we do not have a vaccine for it yet.\n\nBut there are things we can all do, including isolating and getting tested if we develop symptoms.\n\nCo-author Prof Dame Anne Johnson, from the Academy of Medical Sciences, said: \"Faced with these potential challenges, and after an already tough year, it would be easy to feel hopeless and powerless.\n\n\"But this report shows that we can act now to change things for the better.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said planning was already under way for dealing with the expected surge in demand on the NHS this winter.\n\nThe government had procured enough flu vaccine to roll out the \"biggest flu vaccine programme in history\" and was working on setting up a coronavirus vaccination programme should a successful vaccine be found, he added.\n\nA government statement said: \"We remain vigilant and the government will ensure the necessary resources are in place to avoid a second peak that would overwhelm our NHS.\"\n• None Could there be a second wave- - BBC News\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deaths involving the virus fell in all parts of England and Wales, apart from Wales, east of England and London\n\nThe number of deaths involving coronavirus in Wales has risen slightly, in the latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nFor deaths registered in the week ending 3 July, the figure had increased by 35, compared to 30 the week before.\n\nThe number of so-called \"excess\" deaths is also above what we would normally expect to see at this time of year.\n\nThere were 29 more deaths than the five-year average.\n\nIn Wales, the number of all registered deaths increased by 32 to 584 deaths. Six per cent of these involved coronavirus.\n\nThe ONS, unlike Public Health Wales' daily figures, includes all deaths in care homes and people's homes, as well as people suspected by doctors of having coronavirus, not just confirmed cases.\n\nWe have to wait a little longer for the figures but they are regarded as being more comprehensive and reliable.\n\nThe total number of deaths in Wales up to 3 July was 2,470 - for deaths to be included in these figures, they must have been registered by 11 July.\n\nCardiff has the largest number of deaths with 373, followed by Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT) with 295 up to 3 July, but the rate of increase has dramatically slowed down.\n\nAround half the deaths in the latest week were in north Wales.\n\nBut there were no new coronavirus deaths registered in nine council areas; Blaenau Gwent, Ceredigion, Gwynedd, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Powys, Swansea and Torfaen.\n\nThere were fewer care home deaths - six - in the latest week, with a total of 686 Covid-19 deaths in care homes up to 3 July, making up 27.8% of all coronavirus deaths in Wales.", "A fast-track health and care visa has been unveiled as part of the UK's plans for a points-based immigration system when freedom of movement with the EU ends in January.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said employers would be encouraged to invest in workers from within the UK.\n\nBut the new system, she added, would also allow them to \"attract the best and brightest from around the world\".\n\nUnions have expressed concerns that the visa will exclude social care workers.\n\nThe health and care visa will be open to workers who have a confirmed job offer in one of a series of \"skilled\" roles within the NHS or care sector - or for NHS service providers, such as doctors, nurses, radiographers, social workers and paramedics.\n\nHowever, the GMB union, representing NHS staff, described the new rules as an \"embarrassing shambles\", criticising the exclusion of frontline care home workers and contractors, and pointing out that a minimum salary threshold meant many cleaners, porters and support staff would also not qualify.\n\nThe new visa system is set to come into force on New Year's Day, immediately ending freedom of movement with the EU.\n\nUnder the government's plans when the Brexit transition period ends, those wishing to live and work in the UK must gain 70 points.\n\nThere is a mandatory requirement for visa applicants to have an offer of a job on a list of eligible occupations and speak English - earning them 50 points.\n\nThere is a minimum salary requirement of £20,480.\n\nFurther Points would be awarded for meeting criteria such as holding a PhD relevant to the job, or earning more than a \"general salary threshold\" of £25,600.\n\nThose with job offers in \"shortage occupations\" such as nursing and civil engineering would also be able to earn extra points.\n\nThe home secretary said it would be simpler for businesses to access talent\n\nIn a written ministerial statement to the House of Commons, Ms Patel said: \"At a time where an increased number of people across the UK are looking for work, the new points-based system will encourage employers to invest in the domestic UK workforce, rather than simply relying on labour from abroad.\n\n\"But we are also making necessary changes, so it is simpler for employers to attract the best and brightest from around the world to come to the UK to complement the skills we already have.\"\n\nLabour said it would scrutinise the proposals \"very carefully\", saying the government had \"rushed through immigration legislation with very little detail in the middle of a global pandemic\".\n\nOne of the biggest arguments for leaving the EU is that it would allow the UK to sets its own immigration policy.\n\nThe government's aim is a system that provides flexibility for employers - so the minimum salary threshold starts at just over £20,000 and there's no need to prove that a job couldn't have been offered to someone already living in the country.\n\nBut there are restrictions too: the vast majority of vacant positions in the social care sector will not be filled from immigration as these workers are not classed as skilled - and they're not eligible for the rebranded NHS and care workers fast track visa.\n\nIn short, care workers won't be able to apply for a visa dedicated to care.\n\nMinisters say immigration can't solve the care sector's problems which, they argue, are down to poor pay and career prospects - making the job unattractive to British workers who could be capable of filling the roles.\n\nThe new health and care visa will have a reduced fee. Those applying for it should expect a reply within three weeks, the government said.\n\nCaroline Abrahams at charity Age UK said it was a \"care visa in name only. Care will scarcely benefit at all since the vast majority of care workforce roles are ineligible\".\n\nThe union Unison said the work of the social care sector was in crisis long before the coronavirus pandemic and failing to include care workers was a \"disastrous mistake that will make existing problems spiral\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"To exclude care workers from the health visa is a clear signal that this government does not appreciate the skill and dedication these roles involve... it is yet another insult from this Tory party to those who have been at the frontline of this crisis.\"\n\nHowever, the prime minister's official spokesman said the government wanted employers in the sector to invest more in training and development for people already in the UK - including EU citizens - to become care workers, and it had provided additional funding to support it.\n\n\"Our independent migration advisers have said that immigration is not the sole answer here,\" he added.\n\nThe home secretary said frontline health workers would not have to pay the Immigration Health Surcharge - the fee of up to £400 a year that most migrants who have not been granted permanent residency in the UK need to pay to receive NHS care.\n\nMs Patel also said the visa process for students was being refined, with a new graduate route being launched next summer to \"help retain the brightest and the best students to contribute to the UK post-study\".\n\nInternational students would be able to stay for a minimum of two years after finishing their studies, she said.\n\nThe paper also confirms that foreign criminals who have been jailed for more than a year could be banned from coming to the UK and foreign nationals already in the UK who have been sentenced to a year or more in prison \"must be considered for deportation\".", "The UK government is preparing to change course over the role of Huawei in its 5G telecoms network.\n\nSix months after agreeing it could have a limited role, ministers look set to exclude the Chinese company, with no new equipment installed from next year.\n\nThe move is in part a result of pressure from Washington.\n\nHowever, the precise time frame and details of the phase-out will be crucial in determining how the decision is received.\n\nIn January, after a lengthy delays and hard-fought battles, the government announced that Huawei would be kept out of the sensitive core of the 5G network and limited to 35% market share of its other parts.\n\nBut now it finds itself revisiting that decision.\n\nA key reason is the Trump administration has continued what one UK official calls a campaign of \"unrelenting pressure\" on the company.\n\nUS officials have claimed China could use the firm as a gateway to \"spy, steal or attack\" the UK - Huawei denies this and its founder has said he would rather shut the company down than do anything to damage its clients.\n\nNew sanctions in May limited Huawei's access to US chip technology.\n\nThat forced the UK's National Cyber Security Centre to launch a review to understand whether using alternative chips would reduce the level of assurance it could offer about Huawei's presence in the UK.\n\nBut the decision will be as much about geopolitics and domestic politics as it is about technicalities.\n\nReplacing Huawei's 5G equipment will often involve simultaneously swapping out its 4G base stations and antennas\n\nAttitudes to China have hardened in the last six months.\n\nThe Coronavirus crisis - and Beijing's handling of it - have increased concerns about dependencies on China. And the growing tension over Hong Kong has heightened concerns about whether China is becoming more authoritarian.\n\nA significant Conservative backbench rebellion in March suggested there were already many wanting a tougher policy, and their confidence and numbers have been fuelled by events in the intervening months.\n\nBut amid heavy lobbying from telecoms companies, which have warned of mobile coverage blackouts if they are forced to remove Huawei equipment fast, the government has been debating how quickly to move.\n\nA long lead time for Huawei kit to be removed of seven to 10 years would leave critics unhappy but cause less disruption.\n\nThree to five years would placate them, but impose many more costs because of the need to rip out existing Huawei equipment, which is sometimes integrated with 4G and older equipment.\n\nIf the telecom networks fall behind with their 5G rollout as a result, it would make it harder for the government to deliver on its promises of increasing connectivity for the country in the coming years.\n\nChina may also seek some way of punishing the UK, partly to discourage others from following its course.\n\nBut equally, if the new policy is seen as not tough enough, then critics on the backbenches may continue their rebellion to push for a tighter time-frame when legislation is brought to parliament in the autumn.\n\nWhatever the case, a decision which has already been overturned once may still be fought over in the months ahead.", "Penelope Dudley is behind on her council tax payments. Already stressed about losing her job after being furloughed, she's worried things may soon get a whole lot worse.\n\nBailiffs employed to chase late payers will soon have the right to resume visits to homes following an enforced break during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"The thought of bailiff charges, the thought of prison, has of course been a source of stress,\" said Penelope. \"But I have to trust that won't happen. Things are slightly getting better, but they're not getting better for everybody and it could easily go downhill again if I was unlucky.\"\n\nSome 800,000 UK households are behind on council tax, and from 23 August debt collectors can re-start work chasing payment.\n\nAccording to the Local Government Association, £700m is owed in council tax since the start of lockdown - a figure that's expected to grow.\n\nEmergency legislation was introduced in April banning bailiffs from visiting homes to enforce debts during the Covid-19 restrictions. But next month, Penelope fears debt enforcement agents may come knocking to demand payment.\n\n\"I've had some help from charities and my local church, but I'm not sure how it will all be in a few months' time. The thought of bailiffs is stressful. I had a dark moment on the phone when I was speaking to an advisor who said it [a bailiff visit] could be a prospect.\"\n\nPenelope is on furlough from her job as an usherette at a London theatre. But when the scheme comes to an end, she won't be returning to work, as the theatre can't afford to keep her. She is hoping to pick up acting work on the side to help pay off some debt.\n\nThe UK's largest debt charity StepChange has told the BBC it wants the government to reconsider lifting the ban.\n\n\"Enforcement action like bailiffs can very quickly compound the financial problems of particularly vulnerable households\", said Richard Lane, the organisation's director of external affairs. \"We're worried that in the middle of a global pandemic when households are financially struggling, that's going to make things worse.\"\n\nRichard Lane says councils should be more flexible\n\nThe charity wants to see councils assess personal finances before sending in debt collectors.\n\n\"If they're financially vulnerable, sending in bailiffs is probably not going to be the right thing to do to the get back on their feet. We also want the government to give councils more flexibility about how they enforce council tax arrears collections. There are more compassionate approaches that can work.\"\n\nPaul, who asked that his surname wasn't used, was a bartender in a Manchester nightclub until lockdown closed the venue. Concerned about being able to pay for living expenses, he applied for universal credit. But because he had to wait six weeks for the first payment to come through, he's behind on his regular household bills.\n\n\"I'm behind on my council tax and rent. It's been helpful that bailiff charges have not been added on and that I don't have to worry about them knocking on my door. But I know it's only temporary,\" he said.\n\n\"The wait for furlough and universal credit was too long. If those payments had come sooner, I wouldn't be in the situation I'm in now. It would be great if the government could pay some of the relief directly to the landlords and councils, so that I can have more money to pay off this debt I've accumulated.\n\n\"I start teacher training later this year and that will involve moving home. At the moment I don't have the cash for a deposit, let alone rent. I don't know what to do,\" Paul said.\n\nThe government has said it expects councils to be sympathetic to those in genuine hardship and this should be taken into consideration before enforcement action is put in place.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, said: \"Many councils have put in place alternative payment arrangements to help people who are struggling to pay, for example by deferring payments to later in the year. Our £500m hardship fund builds on local support schemes by further reducing the council tax bills of some of the most vulnerable households by up to £150.\"\n\nFor the likes of Penelope and Paul, however, this does not ease the stress. All they can do is hope they don't receive a knock on the door and they are able to repay what they owe.\n\n\"I have relied on prayer a lot,\" says Penelope. \"I just have to trust that I'm going to be okay.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kevin works for the Violent Offender Watch (VOW) team in Edinburgh\n\nThe social and economic devastation caused by Covid-19 could lead to an increase in serious youth violence in the UK, MPs have warned.\n\nA Youth Violence Commission report says incidents of unemployment, homelessness and trauma sparked by pandemic could impact on vulnerable young people.\n\nIt fears 18 Violence Reduction Units in England and Wales could lose funding.\n\nThe Home Office says £70m is being spent on the units modelled on a scheme which helped cut crime in Scotland.\n\nBBC Panorama has been investigating how Scotland's VRU - launched in 2005 and the first in the UK - has succeeded in reducing crime.\n\nKaryn McCluskey, the former head of intelligence for Strathclyde Police and one of the founders of the unit, tells the programme they approached youth violence as a health issue, \"like a disease\".\n\nAccording to the cross-party Youth Violence Commission, long-term investment is needed in youth services and VRUs but the funding is at risk because of the \"economic devastation\" caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts report comes after three years of research into the causes of violence in the UK which concludes that poverty and inequality are \"fundamental drivers\".\n\n\"Given the potential for the impact of Covid-19 to create the types of social conditions in which one might reasonably expect to see increased rates of serious violence, it is imperative that support for these units is not only maintained, but increased,\" the report says.\n\n\"If support and investment is withdrawn from these VRUs - a particular concern given the possibility of austerity measures that may be taken on the back of the economic impact of Covid-19 - the commission fears this would undo much of the hugely important work that has taken place.\"\n\nThe commission says serious youth violence across England and Wales has cost the economy £11bn since 2008 - based on costs to the police, criminal justice system, NHS, victim services, as well as costs from lost economic output and costs associated with physical and emotional harm.\n\nAccording to its report, the cost of running 18 regional VRUs for 10 years is £350m.\n\nTalking about the type of young offenders helped by Scotland's VRU, Karyn McCluskey says: \"You're brought up in an angry, aggressive home, so you almost become infected… So we started to look at it like, what would prevention look like?\"\n\nThis public health approach aimed to treat offenders with compassion and offering them more support, in the hope that they could bring down levels of violence.\n\nIn 2005, there were 39 homicides in Glasgow alone. The police cracked down on Glasgow's gangs, with increased stop and search and tougher sentences, but also decided to look at the causes as well. Over the next 14 years, homicides in Glasgow fell from 39 to 11 in one year.\n\nHowever, in recent years there has been a small increase in violence after a decade of steep falls.\n\nKevin Neary works with the Violent Offenders Watch, a Police Scotland initiative to partner police officers and former convicts in order to reach out to young offenders.\n\nAs a former armed robber and heroin addict himself, Mr Neary helps offenders keep out of prison.\n\nHe says most young offenders had experienced childhood trauma such as separation or loss of parents through bereavement.\n\n\"What we're doing is not a soft justice; it's not a soft approach, it's a caring and compassionate approach.\"\n\nBy Kate Silverton, presenter of Panorama's How Scotland Cut Violent Crime\n\nThe founders of the VRU believe that in order to tackle the root causes of violent crime, it needed to not just be a criminal justice issue but something much broader and tackled collaboratively across education, health and prisons.\n\nDuring my filming for the Panorama documentary, it became clear to me that this \"joined-up\" approach is essential to its effectiveness.\n\nThe people I met believe that we need to understand that children will be much more likely to \"act out\" the violence they themselves experienced or observed and that they need access to counselling, education and training.\n\nYou can watch BBC Panorama's How Scotland Cut Violent Crime on BBC iPlayer", "Jonny McFadden said some customers had struggled with social distancing after a few drinks\n\nA pub landlord has put an electric fence in front of his bar to encourage customers to keep social distancing.\n\nJonny McFadden, who runs the Star Inn in St Just, Cornwall, said there was limited space in his bar which only served drinks and no food.\n\nHe described the barrier as \"just a normal electric fence that you would find in a field\".\n\nAsked if it was switched on, Mr McFadden said: \"Come and find out - there is a fear factor and it works.\"\n\nMr McFadden said he had struggled to get the social distancing message across to some customers in the bar because \"when you serve people a drink they change\".\n\nMr McFadden said the fencing was a normal electric fence such as you would find in a field\n\nHe said the fence worked because \"people keep away from it, people are like sheep\".\n\nHe added: \"They know it is a fence and don't want to touch it to find out whether it is on or not.\"\n\nThe Star Inn in St Just is a small pub which only serves drinks\n\nThe landlord said his customers were happy with the fencing and it had generated a lot of laughs.\n\nOne person who did not see the funny side was Mr McFadden's insurance broker.\n\n\"He was a bit worried but then that is what he is there for,\" he said.\n\n\"He rang a nephew of mine and said 'I hope he is not electrocuting people'.\n\n\"Well come and find out if I am.\"", "A pregnant NHS worker whose maternity clothes were stolen from her car has recorded a tearful message after the theft.\n\nBecky Jones, 30, a clinical biochemist for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, left her shopping bags in her car while she went for a meal in Nottingham with her boyfriend on Saturday.\n\nWhen she returned, the passenger side window was smashed and her shopping was gone.\n\nMiss Jones, who is 22 weeks pregnant, recorded a video next to her car, where she called the thieves \"the pride of Britain\".", "Rouaa is nine years old, the same age as the devastating war that has ravaged her country, Syria, killing hundreds of thousands of people and creating the world’s largest refugee crisis.\n\nHer family fled a chemical attack near their home town and for the past few years BBC World Affairs Correspondent Caroline Hawley has been visiting her in a Lebanese refugee camp.\n\nMore than 13 million Syrians have had to flee their homes, with more than five million of them now living in neighbouring countries.\n\nThe UN says only a tiny fraction of those who need new homes will ever get the chance to be resettled. But Rouaa and her family have defied the odds and are coming to make a new life in the United Kingdom.\n\nCaroline accompanied her on the journey to the UK.", "A rare version of the classic 1985 Super Mario Bros has sold at auction for $114,000 (£90,000), the most ever paid for a video game.\n\nThe cartridge, still in its original packaging, sold to an anonymous bidder.\n\nAnd the US auctioneer said demand \"was extremely high\", partly because this particular packaging had been used for a short while only.\n\nThe previous record for an auctioned game was $100,000 - for a different copy of Super Mario.\n\n\"If any lot in the sale could hit a number like that, it was going to be that one,\" Heritage Auctions video games director Valarie McLeckie said.\n\n\"We knew this would be a strong live session.\n\n\"But I don't think anybody could have anticipated how much bidding there was on Heritage Live and the phones.\"\n\nSuper Mario follows the adventures of the eponymous plumber hero, often joined by his brother, Luigi.\n\nAppetite for the game has never waned.\n\nAnd it is often cited as the most successful video games franchise so far.\n\nPiers Harding-Rolls, a gaming expert at research company Amper Analysis, said: \"Brand new 'old stock' packaged games connected to much loved gaming brands and companies, especially if they are rare versions, have risen hugely in value over the last 20 years.\"\n\n\"This is because these items are now firmly entrenched in the nostalgia of childhood gaming for many collectors in their 30s and 40s.\n\n\"As prices have risen, so more collectors have come into the market.\n\n\"These auction pieces now sit alongside other toys and collectibles that command large amounts at auction, including boxed Dinky cars, sealed, vintage Star Wars figures and pristine Marvel comics.\"", "Four people have been charged with murdering the rapper Pop Smoke at a Los Angeles mansion.\n\nProsecutors say the 20-year-old was shot during a robbery at the Hollywood Hills home where he was staying in February.\n\nCorey Walker, 19, and Keandre Rodgers, 18, are charged with robbery and murder.\n\nTwo males, aged 15 and 17, who can't be named because of their age, face the same charges.\n\nThe two adults could face life in jail without the chance of being released if they are convicted.\n\nProsecutors said a decision about whether to seek the death penalty on conviction \"would be made at a later date\".\n\nLast week, Los Angeles Police Department arrested three adults and two teenagers in connection with the shooting, which happened in the middle of the night.\n\nThe third adult has not been charged.\n\nPop Smoke, whose real name was Bashar Barakah Jackson, got his first US top 10 album in the week of his death.\n\nHe was a guest on DJ Target's show on BBC Radio 1Xtra just days earlier.\n\nThe rapper had had a breakout hit with Welcome to the Party in 2019, which led to him being singled out as an artist to watch by 1Xtra on the station's Hot For 2020 list.\n\nThe station said he \"possessed the air and cadence of a rapper who has been in the game for a decade or two longer than his actual age\".\n\nThe track ended up being remixed by both Nicki Minaj and Skepta.\n\nHe had been co-signed by 50 Cent, who executive-produced his posthumous album Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon - which features a sample of the classic 50 Cent song Many Men, from 50's debut album.\n\nIn the days before he died, Pop Smoke cancelled a concert, attributing it to New York Police concerns.\n\nThere have been multiple reports of homes rented by musicians targeted by burglaries in recent years in Los Angeles.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mass testing in Blackburn began at the weekend following a spike in infections\n\nNew measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Blackburn with Darwen have been introduced after a spike in cases.\n\nFor the next month, people living within the Lancashire authority must observe the rules in a bid to avoid a Leicester-style local lockdown.\n\nThe new measures include tighter limits on visitors from another household, and officials have called on people to bump elbows in place of handshakes and hugs.\n\nMass testing began at the weekend after 61 new cases sprang up within a week.\n\nResidents are being told to wear cloth face coverings in all enclosed public spaces, including workplaces, libraries, museums, health centres and hair and beauty salons.\n\nBlackburn with Darwen's public health director, Prof Dominic Harrison, also called for people only to bump elbows with anyone outside their immediate family.\n\nHe said public protection advice for small shops was being stepped up to ensure social distancing was being observed.\n\nTargeted testing is taking place in the borough, and residents have been told they do not need to have symptoms to be tested.\n\nProf Harrison said: \"These steps will help and we are appealing to everyone in Blackburn with Darwen to follow them to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"If we don't, a local lockdown, like in Leicester, becomes a very real possibility.\"\n\nProtective equipment is being used by shop workers around the borough\n\nHe said increased testing would mean a \"rise in the number of cases\" in the next seven to 10 days.\n\nIf rates were continuing to rise after two weeks, he said, the authority would \"have to consider reversing some of the national lockdown lifting measures locally\".\n\nThis would be done \"one by one until we see a reversal in the current rising trend,\" he said.\n\n\"It's up to everyone to make sure we don't have to do that.\"\n\nHe said there would also be \"targeted work\" after a rise in infections within the South Asian community - in particular \"cluster infections\" among families living in small terraced houses.\n\nWhen \"one person gets infected in a multi-generational household, all the household members are getting infected\", Prof Harrison said.\n\nFigures show Blackburn with Darwen recorded 47 new cases per 100,000 in the week ending Saturday, up from 31.6 the previous week.\n\nIn Leicester, where a local lockdown has been imposed, the rate has risen from 115 per 100,000 to 118 over the same period.\n\nBut this is still down from 152.2 in the seven days to 27 June.\n\nBased on figures released on Tuesday, Pendle in Lancashire currently has England's second-highest rate of new cases for the week, rising from 14.2 per 100,000 to 76.6 in the week to 11 July.\n\nInformation videos are being produced in English, Urdu and Gujurati to spread the message in the former mill town.\n\nCouncil leader Mohammed Khan said the authority was working to spread the message that \"life cannot go back to normal just yet, and we must all make sacrifices to avoid a local lockdown\".\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to get a grip on the virus, and we need everyone in Blackburn with Darwen to pull together to help us,\" he said.\n\n\"Please continue to do your bit to stick to the rules to protect yourself and your family.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA pregnant NHS worker who recorded a tearful message after thieves broke into her car said her faith in people has been restored by a stranger who offered to cover the cost.\n\nBecky Jones, a clinical biochemist who is 23 weeks pregnant, found her car damaged in Nottingham on Saturday.\n\nMiss Jones recorded an emotional video, calling those responsible \"the pride of Britain\".\n\nOver the weekend, Miss Jones parked at Nottingham Arena car park on Brook Street to go shopping.\n\nShe later returned to put her bags in the car and meet her boyfriend.\n\nThe couple went for dinner, but when they returned to the car park they found the passenger side window was smashed and the shopping was gone.\n\nMiss Jones, who works for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"I felt absolutely devastated, and angry.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old said she had doubted her faith in people but the stranger's offer made her \"cry with happiness\".\n\nMiss Jones said the stranger's offer made her \"cry with happiness\"\n\nIn his Facebook message, the man said: \"My family are all hard-working and dedicated members of the NHS similar to yourself.\n\n\"I personally think you are all utterly amazing unsung heroes for everything you do, not just during this Covid crisis.\n\n\"I would like to cover the price of the replacement window and the maternity clothes so hopefully it restores your feelings that there are some good people out here in the world.\n\n\"I just think heroes like you might need a helping hand from time to time.\"\n\nMiss Jones said what happened to her car made her doubt her faith in people\n\nMiss Jones said: \"I'm not even bothered about replacing the window or the clothes, just the fact that he said what I was doing was really brave and that he was willing to pay for it.\n\n\"That's made all the difference.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Police confirmed it was investigating the break-in.\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.", "Hong Kong Disneyland is closing its gates again less than one month after it reopened, following a new coronavirus outbreak in the city.\n\nThe theme park was originally closed at the end of January as the pandemic spread across Asia.\n\nDisney decided to reopen the park on 18 June as Hong Kong kept coronavirus cases low.\n\nBut gates will close again on Wednesday as social distancing measures are reimposed.\n\n\"As required by the government and health authorities in line with prevention efforts taking place across Hong Kong, Hong Kong Disneyland park will temporarily close from 15 July,\" Disney said in a statement.\n\nHong Kong Disneyland was the second Disney park to reopen, following Shanghai Disneyland in May.\n\nBut a surge in infections has forced authorities in the city to bring back measures to contain the new outbreak.\n\nHong Kong officials said activities including large social gatherings, dining-in at restaurants and going to the gym would be temporarily suspended.\n\nBoth Disney's Hong Kong and Shanghai theme parks limited daily visitor numbers and increased health and safety measures after they reopened to the public.\n\nIts Shanghai theme park remains open with numbers limited to less than half of its normal capacity.\n\nDisney said the Hong Kong park closure won't impact Walt Disney World in the US.\n\nWalt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom reopened in Florida last week with enhanced sanitisation measures and limited capacity.\n\nIts Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios are due to reopen on Wednesday.\n\nThe entertainment company owns a 47% stake in the Hong Kong theme park, with a government entity holding the remaining portion.", "A judge has ruled that blanket bans on renting properties to people on housing benefit are unlawful and discriminatory.\n\nThe \"momentous\" court ruling found a single mother-of-two had experienced indirect discrimination when a letting agent refused to rent to her.\n\nShe ended up homeless with her two children, when her case was taken on by housing charity Shelter.\n\nThe judge ruled \"No DSS\" rental bans are against equality laws.\n\nPreviously, cases backed by Shelter - and first reported by BBC News - have established that \"No DSS\" landlords and agents are guilty of indirect discrimination, but the cases were settled before any court heard them in full.\n\nIn February 2018, single mother Rosie Keogh won compensation for sex discrimination from a lettings agency that refused to consider her as a tenant because she was on state benefit, but the case was settled out of court.\n\nDistrict Judge Victoria Mark heard this latest case in York County Court on 1 July, and ruled: \"Rejecting tenancy applications because the applicant is in receipt of housing benefit was unlawfully discriminating on the grounds of sex and disability\".\n\nAnd this was, therefore, contrary to the Equality Act 2010, she said.\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: \"This momentous ruling should be the nail in the coffin for 'No DSS' discrimination.\n\n\"It will help give security and stability to people who unfairly struggle to find a place to live just because they receive housing benefit.\"\n\nSingle mother, Jane (not her real name) had been looking for a new home in October 2018 after being subject to a \"no fault\" eviction by her previous landlord.\n\nShe said: \"I was shocked and found it very unfair that they wouldn't even give me a chance.\n\n\"I had excellent references from both my landlords of the last nine years as I've always paid my rent on time and I had a professional guarantor.\n\n\"I could have paid up to six months' rent in advance because my parents lent me the amount.\n\n\"When the letting agent wouldn't take me because of a company policy, I felt offended that after all those years when I have prided myself on paying my rent, paying my bills, being a good tenant, it just meant nothing.\n\n\"When I realised I was going to be homeless because I couldn't find anywhere, I felt sick to my stomach.\"\n\nThe letting agent in the case cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe ruling of indirect discrimination is due to the fact that women and those with disabilities are disproportionately more likely to be in receipt of housing benefit, and therefore disproportionately affected by blanket \"No DSS\" bans.\n\nThe successful case is the latest step in the charity's End DSS Discrimination campaign to stop the practice, which excludes thousands of people from renting homes each year - and the charity hopes the ruling will send a clear message that landlords or agents who continue to refuse to rent to housing benefit claimants risk legal action.\n\nIt was Rosie's case in 2018 that established the principle of indirect discrimination\n\nThe legal action was also supported by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Nationwide Foundation and barrister Tessa Buchanan at Garden Court Chambers.\n\nA survey for the charity conducted by YouGov in December 2019 and January 2020 found nearly two-thirds of private landlords either do not, or prefer not to, let to people on housing benefits.\n\nRose Arnall, the Shelter solicitor who has led the charity's legal challenges on the issue, said: \"This is the first time a court has fully considered a case like this.\n\n\"It finally clarifies that discriminating against people in need of housing benefits is not just morally wrong, it is against the law.\n\n\"This sends a huge signal to letting agents and landlords that they must end these practices and do so immediately.\"\n\nResponding to the ruling, Chris Norris, policy director at the National Residential Landlords Association, said: \"No landlord should discriminate against tenants because they are in receipt of benefits.\n\n\"Every tenant's circumstance is different and so they should be treated on a case by case basis, based on their ability to sustain the tenancy.\"\n\nBut he added that the government could support tenants by ensuring benefits covered rents entirely.\n\nMinister for rough sleeping and housing Luke Hall said the government had been working with landlords and letting agents to ensure tenants are treated on an individual basis and that benefits are not a barrier.\n\nHe added: \"Everyone should have the same opportunity when looking for a home and discriminating against someone simply because they receive benefits has no place in a modern hosing market.\"", "Last winter saw extensive flooding across the country\n\nA new approach to combating floods in England, backing natural solutions with government cash, has been unveiled.\n\nIt includes funding for schemes such as creating sustainable drainage systems - and building hollows in the ground to catch flood water in heavy rain, before storing it to tackle summer droughts.\n\nInsurers have also been asked to pay to improve flood-hit homes so they are more resilient.\n\nThe policy allowing building on plains liable to flood will be reviewed.\n\nAnd £200 million of the floods budget will be earmarked for measures including natural flood prevention to capture water on farmers' fields during heavy rainfall.\n\nCritics say the schemes do not go far enough at a time of climate change.\n\nFlooding was forced up the priority list after Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused by flood victims of failing to take their plight seriously.\n\nThe government says the measures in the new plan are the most comprehensive in a decade, including the £5.2bn for flooding announced in the Budget four months ago.\n\nIt says the cash will help protect a third of a million properties in England up to 2027.\n\nThere will be money for innovative projects such as sustainable drainage systems to provide porous surfaces in new developments to prevent water run-off.\n\nAnd cash will be provided to create hollows in the ground to catch flood waters in heavy rain.\n\nThese hollows in 25 test areas will benefit wildlife and provide water storage to tackle droughts in the summer.\n\nIt is likely that incentives for farmers to capture water on their land will be included in the government’s coming reform of farm subsidies.\n\nA previous study for the Environment Agency suggested that these hollows and other nature-friendly solutions such as planting woodlands in river catchments would help with minor flooding events, but would be overwhelmed by major floods.\n\nGuy Shrubsole from Friends of the Earth told BBC News: “It’s great that nature-based solutions are being adopted, but the government needs to move beyond trialling and testing – it’s clear that they work.\n\n“What’s needed is hundreds of small interventions in river catchment areas – but that’s not so interesting to a government that likes to unveil concrete-pouring on a large scale.”\n\nHe welcomed the inquiry into flood plain construction, and said developers must be stopped from allowing new properties to increase flood risk for others.\n\nBut Professor Hannah Cloke, from the University of Reading, said: \"A commitment to review policies on developments on flood plains does not sound in tune with cutting red tape to build houses more quickly.\n\n\"A fortnight ago, Boris was attacking 'newt counting', and bemoaning the pace of progress in the UK.\n\n\"Dealing with flooding shows precisely the difficulties behind his promise to build better, faster and greener.\n\n\"Sometimes being better and greener requires building more slowly and carefully, or we risk long-term economic and social costs that we cannot afford.\"\n\nThe new measures follow last winter’s widespread flood misery when the insurers Flood Re incurred claims of £160m – that’s 10 times higher than the previous year.\n\nAfter three relatively dry years, the UK saw thousands of homes flooded in northern and central England, as well as in South Wales and the Scottish Borders.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said: “The devastating impacts of last winter’s flooding were an important reminder of the need to continue to invest and accelerate action to reduce the impact of flooding.\n\n“But we also recognise that we cannot prevent flooding entirely, which is why we will ensure that communities at high risk are more resilient.”\n\nThis will be partly achieved by a change in support to householders from Flood Re, which offers cut-price insurance to people in flood-risk areas, subsidised by a levy on all insurance bills.\n\nPreviously, the scheme would only pay to restore a flood-hit house to its pre-flood state.\n\nUnder the new rules agreed by the government, flood victims will in future get insurance money to restore their homes to resist future flood damage by, for example, moving electric points higher up a wall. It’s called “building back better”.\n\nDiscounted premiums also will come for households that have fitted property flood resilience measures, such as airbrick covers or non-return valves.\n\nHeather Shepherd from the National Flood Forum, which campaigns on behalf of families at risk of flooding, said: “Obviously we welcome provision for building back better – we’ve got to learn to live with floods.”\n\nBut she called on the government to expand its investment criteria for flood defences so that sparsely-populated rural areas could also benefit.\n\nA related Environment Agency strategy says 62,000 more families will be added to the flood risk alert service, in which residents receive an electronic warning if their home is likely to be flooded.\n\nIt means that, by the end of 2022, all of England's at-risk households will receive alerts.\n\nThe agency said it must plan for more extreme weather, including summer temperatures up to 7.4C hotter and 59% more rainfall by 2050.\n\nIts chair, Emma Howard Boyd, said: \"This year we had major flooding and the sunniest spring on record in rapid succession. We know climate change is going to bounce us between these extremes more and more in the coming years.\"\n\nShe said the agency would embrace nature-based solutions: \"The clean, green recovery of the economy from coronavirus must have nature at its heart. This is a blueprint for using the natural world to build back better so that homes, businesses and infrastructure are more resilient.\"", "A curator checks the distancing between two exhibits at the Natural History Museum\n\nSome of London's biggest museums have announced their plans to reopen next month, but are expecting visitor numbers to drop by 80% when they do.\n\nThe Natural History Museum, V&A and Science Museum will all open their doors again during August.\n\nVisitors will be \"strongly\" recommended to wear face masks, but it will not be compulsory, as it will in shops.\n\nFree tickets must be booked in advance. The venues ruled out charging, despite their \"very precarious\" finances.\n\nThe museums all have their main bases in South Kensington and will reopen before the end of the school summer holidays:\n\nNatural History Museum director Sir Michael Dixon said its visitor numbers would initially be capped at 2,800 per day.\n\n\"But that's about a fifth of our normal average attendance,\" he said. \"We're expecting something like an 80% reduction until social distancing rules change, and the public attitudes to visiting change.\n\n\"We think that demand will outstrip supply, but that's a guess because we're in a period of mass uncertainty at the moment.\"\n\nMuseums including the V&A have been closed since March\n\nThe V&A is expecting a reduction \"in the same ballpark\", director Tristram Hunt said, explaining that it would open for fewer days than normal at first.\n\n\"Our finances have been bolstered by the government but are still very precarious, so there's little point having very extended opening hours if no-one's coming through the door,\" he said.\n\nThe museum bosses praised the government for its £1.5bn emergency funding package, but said they would need more money next year to make up for fewer people buying from their cafes and shops.\n\nHunt said there would need to be \"a new partnership with government which recognises this new reality, which understands that in the absence of the commercial income that comes from those visitors we will need more government support going into the future\".\n\nThe funding announced by the government earlier this month was \"resoundingly good\", according to Sir Ian Blatchford, director of the Science Museum Group and chair of the National Museum Directors' Council.\n\n\"It's the type of thing you'd expect the German or the French government to spend,\" he said.\n\n\"The big issue for us is next year - the [next] full financial year - there'll be a discussion with the government this autumn.\"\n\nBut he said charging for entry to make up the financial shortfall was \"definitely not on the agenda\", beyond special exhibitions.\n\n\"It seems to me absolutely the worst possible policy. There's no support for entrance fees from any major political party.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, that debate is dead, buried and covered in concrete because at a time when we're trying to increase the diversity of our audiences, I think charging people to go to museums would be a retrograde step of absolutely the worst sort.\n\n\"If the government introduced it, I would resign.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Welsh Government says no tax will be paid on main residential property purchases for less than £250,000.\n\nFinance Minister Rebecca Evans announced the Land Transaction Tax \"holiday\" at the daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nThe minister said the move would take effect on 27 July to coincide with the full reopening of the housing market in Wales as the coronavirus lockdown eases.\n\nShe said the \"tax holiday\" would last until 31 March 2021.\n\n\"Unlike in England, this new threshold will not apply to the purchase of additional properties such as buy-to-lets or second homes,\" she added.\n\n\"It will support people looking to purchase their first home or those seeking to move up the property ladder.\n\n\"So it will offer more targeted help to those who may be affected by the economic challenges resulting from the pandemic.\"\n\nThe minister said the new threshold meant that no tax will be paid on around 80% of transactions in Wales where the main residential rates apply.\n\nShe said it would help \"growing families needing to move on in the housing ladder as well as first time buyers\".\n\nMs Evans added that £30m would be invested in \"the construction of modern social homes, supporting jobs and securing a decent place to call home for those who need it\".\n\nThe Welsh Government's \"tax holiday\" follows UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak's announcement of a stamp duty holiday on the first £500,000 of property sale values in England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Scottish government says it will introduce a temporary cut to the transaction tax on house sales in Scotland next week.", "Amit, who is British with Indian heritage, kept his relationship with Michelle, who’s British with Ghanaian heritage, secret for years - because he feared his family’s reaction. He says that racist attitudes about black people in his community can be influenced by colourism and the caste system in some south Asian countries.\n\nRapper Raj Forever’s music draws on his Jamaican and Sri Lankan heritage. But growing up he was made to feel like an outsider in the Asian community and has heard offensive slurs used to describe black people.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cambridge spoke to the BBC about the \"massive gap\" in support for parents\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has said there is \"a massive gap\" in support given to parents after the first few months of a child's life until they start school.\n\nIt was something she felt too as a new mum, the duchess told BBC Breakfast.\n\nCatherine was speaking as part of the launch of the BBC's Tiny Happy People initiative for children aged 0-4.\n\nIt aims to help parents develop their children's language skills with simple activities including free online videos and quizzes.\n\nDuring the interview, the duchess also spoke about the difficulties of life in lockdown for so many, but said one of the \"silver linings\" might be that we revalue how important our relationships are.\n\nThe duchess has long championed the importance of improving early years support for children. Earlier this year, she ran a nationwide survey to \"spark a national conversation\" and help create change for future generations.\n\nAt the heart of the BBC's five-year Tiny Happy People initiative is a simple message - talk to children from as early an age as possible.\n\nIt includes a range of online activities including parenting tips, films, articles and quizzes launched to help parents and carers develop the communication skills of their young children, right from the start of pregnancy.\n\nCatherine herself helped in the character and background development of two Tiny Happy People videos\n\nThe scheme was initially launched in Manchester last October, and Catherine has been involved for several months.\n\nShe recently met families at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, to hear about how they had found the activities. One of the parents she spoke with, Ryan, said they had helped him to identify that his eight-month-old daughter Mia has five different cries.\n\n\"He's learned a huge amount from Tiny Happy People,\" the duchess said, speaking to the BBC in the grounds of Sandringham.\n\n\"It's information like that I wish I had had as a first time mum, it's gold dust really for families to be given those tips and tools to be able to use, particularly in those first five years.\"\n\nShe said parents receive help from midwives and health visitors after a baby is born, but there's a gap before they start school.\n\nCatherine and her husband have three children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis\n\nResearch by the National Literacy Trust shows that once children start behind, they stay behind, affecting performance in school, job prospects and even life expectancy.\n\nAnd other Department for Education research shows more than one in four children (27%) in England does not reach the necessary level of literacy development - meaning language, communication and literacy skills - by the time they start primary school, rising to more than one in three (42%) in deprived areas.\n\nThe free films, articles and quizzes explain the science behind baby brain development.\n\nThey include fun activities to do with both babies and toddlers to support language development and parent wellbeing, along with tips for new and soon-to-be parents.\n\n\"We couldn't be more proud of the part we're playing in this amazing partnership,\" said Tony Hall, the director general of the BBC.\n\n\"Growing up happy and healthy is the greatest gift we can give to any child. This campaign embodies our mission to inform, educate and entertain. The BBC has created hundreds of videos and written content that we hope will make a real difference.\"\n\nKate visited the Tiny Happy People team last November to take part in development sessions\n\nJames Purnell, the director of BBC Radio and Education, added: \"Early years language provides the foundation for all aspects of a child's life - right into adulthood.\n\n\"Tiny Happy People is a major, long-term education commitment from the BBC to help close the under-fives language and communication gap, and help give kids the best chance in life. We're all so proud of it and look forward to seeing parents and carers from across the UK using the materials.\"\n\nThe duchess helped in the character and background development for two animations on parenting, which are now available on the Tiny Happy People website, about making eye contact with babies and singing to babies.\n\nCatherine - pictured last year - previously called children's early years \"the most important years, for life long health and happiness\"\n\nAlso supporting the initiative are a number of celebrities who are using the activities to build their own infants' communication skills, including soap stars Jennie McAlpine and Kieron Richardson, singer and farmer JB Gill, former Love Islanders Jess and Dom Lever, BBC Three presenter Annie Price, and Louise Pentland, who was voted the UK's favourite mum influencer last year.\n\nCatherine and her husband, the Duke of Cambridge, have three children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.\n\nThe Royal Foundation website says the duchess believes \"many of society's greatest social and health challenges\" could be \"mitigated or entirely avoided\" if young children are given \"the right support\".\n\nThe interview with the duchess is being broadcast on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday 14 July. Visit the Tiny Happy People website here.", "Banksy spray painted his tag in the colours of a medical face mask\n\nBanksy has returned to the London Underground with a piece encouraging people to wear a face mask.\n\nA video posted on his Instagram page shows a man, believed to be the enigmatic artist, disguised as a professional cleaner.\n\nHe can be seen ordering passengers away as he gets to work, stencilling rats around the inside of a carriage.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said the art was removed \"some days ago\" in line with its \"strict anti-graffiti policy\".\n\nThe work, called If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, features a number of rats in pandemic-inspired poses and wearing face masks.\n\nOne rodent stencilled on the Circle Line train appears to be sneezing, while another is shown spraying anti-bacterial gel.\n\nThe artist's name is also daubed across the driver's door of a train.\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\nAt the end of the video, the words \"I get lockdown\" appear on the side of a station wall before a train's doors close to reveal the phrase \"but I get up again\", and Chumbawamba's 1997 song Tubthumping kicks in.\n\nAll users of public transport in London must wear a face mask.\n\nThe statement from TfL said it appreciated \"the sentiment of encouraging people to wear face coverings\".\n\n\"We'd like to offer Banksy the chance to do a new version of his message for our customers in a suitable location,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC has asked if the travel authority worked with Banksy on this artwork and, if not, whether his actions posed a security risk.\n\nEarly on in his career Banksy, who is originally from Bristol, often spray-painted rats and monkeys on to Tube trains.\n\nA man purporting to be Banksy asks onlookers to move away\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. Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says he wants to be 'open and honest' with the public\n\nPlaid Cymru's leader says his party is currently considering which taxes to raise to pay for some of the policies in their 2021 election manifesto.\n\nAdam Price told BBC Wales: \"It's important that we're open and honest with the people of Wales\".\n\nPlaid fleshed out plans to end poverty among the oldest and youngest in Wales.\n\n\"We certainly will need to raise additional revenue to enable us to do things that we've talked about for so long,\" said Mr Price.\n\nThe party wants to introduce free childcare and a weekly £35 support payment for children, as well as a national health and care service.\n\nMr Price believes it would allow parents to go back to work, create \"up to 3,000\" jobs and boost thousands of incomes.\n\nHe estimated the cost of the policies to be £1bn and said that extra money would need to be raised to pay for it.\n\nIncome tax has been partially devolved to the Welsh Government and the 2021 Senedd election will be the first where parties can campaign to change rates.\n\nWhile admitting Plaid would need to raise revenue to implement its policies, Mr Price refused to be drawn on whether that would mean a rise in income tax.\n\n\"We are thinking carefully about that but we need to look at the range of tax powers that we have,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\n\"In the long term we need to have a better balance between taxing income through employment for example, and taxing wealth.\"\n\nHe said that to be truly progressive, the party had to ensure it was also taxing wealth \"in a fair and proportionate way.\"\n\nThe Senedd election - Mr Price's first as leader - is due to happen on 6 May.\n\nPlaid Cymru managed to retain the four Westminster seats it won in last year's UK general election and increased its share of the vote in all but one of those seats.\n\nOverall, however, in an election overshadowed by Brexit, the party's share of the vote across Wales was down 0.5%.\n\nNext year Plaid Cymru faces a Senedd election which again risks being overshadowed, this time by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn the last election to Cardiff Bay in 2016, Plaid Cymru won 12 seats under the previous leader Leanne Wood.\n\nThat number later fell to 10 after another former leader, Lord Elis-Thomas, left to become an independent AM then subsequently a deputy minister in the Labour-led government, before Neil McEvoy was expelled from the party.\n\nIt meant Plaid Cymru lost its status as the largest opposition party to the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nMr Price, who became leader in 2018, said the party's \"guiding mission\" if it formed the next government would be to make Wales an \"equal nation and a nation of equals\".\n\nWhile the Welsh Government has had partial income tax varying powers since April 2019, the forthcoming election will be the first in which political parties will be able to make an offer to you that could impact directly on your pay packet.\n\nThe Welsh Government has some other tax powers too, so how to balance the overall tax package is obviously something Plaid, and no doubt the other parties, are thinking about.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has the potential to change the context too. In recent months the NHS and social care has been the focus of attention, but now concerns about jobs and the economy are starting to take centre stage.\n\nWho knows where we'll be in May 2021, but the politicians have to start planning now and gamble on whether you'd rather see a tax cut or pay more for policies they hope will appeal to you.\n\nMr Price says the policies would be paid for by \"prioritising\" the budget, and hinted at tax rises\n\nMr Price said the policies were \"designed to offer opportunity in youth and dignity in old age\".\n\nHe added: \"After 20 years of a Labour-led government, there are still 200,000 children living in poverty in Wales.\n\n\"That is a blight on our communities and something I am determined to change with £35 a week child payment targeted at families, many who have to decide between heating the home and feeding the children.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru's childcare offer would boost the incomes of thousands of households, allowing non-working parents back into the workplace and creating up to 3,000 new jobs.\"\n\n\"Similarly, the national care service will make Wales the 'caring nation' - valuing our carers and the cared for with salaries comparable with the NHS and making social care free at the point of delivery.\n\n\"I want to lead a government for all generations - a government delivering radical change, not for change's sake but for the sake of the thousands of families whose futures rest on it.\n\n\"I want my son to grow up in a country where poverty is a distant memory thanks to a belief that there is no challenge too big to overcome.\"\n\nMr Price said the 2021 election was a \"time for change\" of government.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The average cost of a home in Wales is £161,719, already under the tax payment threshold\n\nLand transaction tax will be changed in Wales, meaning about 80% of house sales will be exempt from paying tax.\n\nFinance Minister Rebecca Evans made the announcement at the Welsh Government daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nIt will bring the rate payable for properties valued at between £180,000 and £250,000 to zero from 27 July until the end of March 2021.\n\nProperties selling for less than £180,000 are already exempt from paying the tax.\n\nThe change will not apply to second homes or buy-to-let properties, which have to pay an additional 3% in tax on top of the existing rate for their value.\n\nThe tax, known as stamp duty in England and Northern Ireland, has already been waived for properties there up to the value of £500,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Evans says the change will \"help those moving up the housing ladder and first-time buyers\"\n\nMs Evans said: \"Unlike in England, this new threshold will not apply to the purchase of additional properties such as buy-to-lets or second homes.\n\n\"It will support people looking to purchase their first home or those seeking to move up the property ladder. So it will offer more targeted help to those who may be affected by the economic challenges resulting from the pandemic.\"\n\nThe minister said the new threshold meant no tax would be paid on around 80% of transactions in Wales where the main residential rates apply.\n\nMs Evans said the decision to cut the tax house buyers pay was \"very much a response\" to the chancellor's change to the system in England last week, saying the \"porous\" nature of the Wales-England border was a motivating factor.\n\nThe UK government changes meant Wales had received some additional funding, she explained, some of which was being redirected towards social housing.\n\n\"This decision will not only provide support to homebuyers, it will also free up some £30m to invest in a different, even more direct stimulus to the housebuilding industry,\" Ms Evans said.\n\n\"I am pleased to confirm that this funding will be committed to the construction of modern social homes, supporting jobs and securing a decent place to call home for those who need it\".\n\nCurrently, properties sold for between £180,000 and £250,000 pay 3.5% of the value in tax.\n\nAs an example, an average selling price of £212,063 in Cardiff means the buyer would pay £1,262.21 in land transaction tax (LTT).\n\nThe maximum tax payable at present on a £250,000 property is £2,450.\n\nForecasts from February by the Office for Budget Responsibility showed the Welsh Government was expected to raise £250m from the tax, although this was before the coronavirus pandemic, so it is now likely to be lower.\n\nNathan Hardee and his girlfriend will save nearly £2,500\n\nNathan Hardee and his girlfriend have been renting in Cardiff for three years while saving up to buy a house.\n\nThey found a house for around £300,000 in the new Plasdwr development to the city's north-west.\n\nIf coronavirus had not come along, they would have moved in by now after finding the house in December.\n\nHowever, the Welsh Government's announcement on the land transaction tax holiday has seen a silver lining to the cloud of delay.\n\nIt means the couple will now save nearly £2,500 on what they would have had to pay, as they will only be taxed on the portion of the payment which is more than £250,000, rather than everything above £180,000.\n\nMr Hardee told BBC Wales: \"If you haven't got to save up for stamp duty as well, that could be quite a big, significant difference to people who want to buy.\n\n\"We're due to complete early September at the moment, so today's announcement has made a massive difference to us. We'll get an extra £2,450 now.\n\n\"When we come to complete on the day, we end up paying less money.\n\n\"It was the sort of thing that was needed.\"\n\nHe thought the tax holiday could help keep buyers in his situation in Wales, saying if there had been a tax break only in England they might have looked at Bristol instead.\n\nThe tax holiday will only apply to main residence purchases, not second homes\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland, anyone completing on a main residence costing up to £500,000 between 8 July and 31 March will not pay any stamp duty, and more expensive properties will only be taxed on their value above that amount.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the average stamp duty bill in the two countries would fall by £4,500, with nine out of ten people paying no duty at all.\n\nScotland has also announced a rise in the threshold for its version of stamp duty, the land and buildings transaction tax, from £145,000 to £250,000.\n\nAlthough welcoming Ms Evans announcement, Conservative finance spokesman in the Senedd Nick Ramsay said capping the tax holiday at sales of £250,000 would \"do very little to kick-start the housing market in Wales or to tempt buyers near the border to buy a property here rather than in England\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he was pleased Welsh ministers did not \"cut and paste England's changes to stamp duty\" saying the move \"shows the value of being able to tailor taxation policy to Wales' needs and being able to set different priorities\".", "The plane was taken to a remote part of the airfield before passengers disembarked\n\nA flight from Krakow to Dublin was forced to land after a note was discovered in a toilet claiming there were explosives on board.\n\nThe Ryanair flight was diverted to Stansted Airport to allow Essex Police officers to carry out checks.\n\nTwo RAF jets escorted the plane which landed at about 18:40 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice said nothing suspicious was found and two men have been arrested on suspicion of making threats to endanger an aircraft.\n\nThe men, aged 26 and 47, remain in custody and the plane has been handed back to Stansted Airport and the operator.\n\nA spokeswoman for the airline said: \"The plane landed normally, but was taxied to a remote stand where passengers disembarked safely.\"\n\nFootage of the RAF jets scrambling was shared on Twitter.\n\nAndy Kirby, from Essex, said: \"Looks like two eurofighters? Circling Stansted Airport.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andy Kirby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ryanair spokeswoman previously said the aircraft and passengers were \"being checked by the UK police who will decide when they may travel onwards to Dublin on a spare aircraft\".\n\n\"Passengers in Dublin waiting to depart to Krakow are being transferred to a spare aircraft to minimise any delay to their flight,\" she said.\n\nPolice confirmed all passengers were safely brought off the plane.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Twelfth: 'It's different but it's still the Twelfth of July'\n\nBands have been marching in their own Twelfth of July parades across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Orange Order called off large demonstrations because of Covid-19 and asked people to celebrate the event in their own homes and gardens.\n\nBut the Parades Commission was notified of 248 parades from individual bands.\n\nThe Order said it did not want people to follow the bands or congregate in groups of more than 30 people due to coronavirus regulations.\n\nIts advice was followed in some areas but social distancing was ignored in some areas of Belfast.\n\nA crowd of more than 100 people gathered on the Shankill Road, where people thronged the footpaths and stood outside bars to watch one of the bands which had been playing.\n\nA crowd gathered on the Shankill Road on Monday afternoon\n\nIn the south of the city people lined Egmont Gardens, off the Donegall Road, to watch a parade.\n\nHowever, in many other areas in Belfast, people stayed in their homes and watched bands as they passed.\n\nAfter viewing pictures of the Shankill Road, the Order's grand secretary, the Rev Mervyn Gibson, said what happened must be \"put into perspective\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Normally we have up to half a million people on the streets of Northern Ireland on the Twelfth day.\n\n\"If you are talking about one or two pubs with more than 30 gathered outside them, it's no different to what happened in Ballyholme (beach) etc.\n\n\"It doesn't make it right but I hope the police will encourage those people to go home.\"\n\nHe added: \"The vast majority of people on the Shankill obeyed the regulations and stayed at home and I would applaud everyone for doing that.\"\n\nHowever, Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly said social distancing rules were broken at a number of parades.\n\n\"Clearly that was a nonsense to say that [social distancing] was going to happen,\" he said.\n\nA \"No surrender to Covid-19\" sign was erected in Belfast\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said he was pleased that the day passed off without major incident.\n\nHe said: \"I would like to thank and acknowledge the hard work of the organisers of many of today's events and those within local communities who contributed to this largely successful day.\n\n\"I would also like to thank my officers and staff who have worked tirelessly and will continue to do so throughout the night to keep our communities safe.\"\n\nACC Todd urged everyone to work with the PSNI to ensure that the rest of the holiday period remained peaceful.\n\nEach year, the Orange Order marks the anniversary of the victory of Protestant William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690.\n\nCommemorations are usually held on 12 July but due to the Twelfth falling on a Sunday this year, it is being marked on Monday, 13 July.\n\nOn Monday morning, the Orange Order held a religious service and wreath-laying ceremony at the cenotaph in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.\n\nThe Orange Order held a wreath-laying ceremony at the cenotaph in Belfast\n\nIn Armagh, a short wreath-laying ceremony was held on the Mall, in memory of lodge members killed during the Troubles.\n\nIt's been an evolving situation on the Shankill Road today - I first drove up it at 10 o'clock this morning, not a problem, a few people on the streets, you could hear a few bands in local housing estates.\n\nI went back at three o'clock and you could see that social distancing was starting to crumble on parts of the road, mainly outside bars.\n\nBy four o'clock a very loud, noisy crowd had developed, you couldn't get down the road, people either had to turn around and go elsewhere or wait.\n\nA crowd - and this is a conservative estimate - of 100 people, if not more, gathered on the road dancing along with a stationary band.\n\nAny other year it wouldn't be all that remarkable, but there was virtually no social distancing.\n\nBut I've been all round Belfast today and this is very much the exception to the rule.\n\nIn Londonderry, Victor Wray of City of Londonderry Grand Orange Lodge laid a wreath with fellow members in the Fountain estate.\n\n\"It's a different type of Twelfth, but one in which we must follow government guidelines and save lives,\" he said.\n\nElsewhere in the county, Twelfth commemorations were brought to the doorstep of local residents in the village of Newbuildings.\n\nFamilies celebrate in their gardens in Newbuildings, County Londonderry\n\nThe Pride of Orange and Blue flute band played a number of hymns before parading around the area.\n\nIn County Fermanagh, the Enniskillen Fusiliers Flute Band paraded through the town with small groups of people lining part of the route, while other parts of the town were deserted.\n\nIn Florencecourt, County Fermanagh, a new arch had been put up this year\n\nOutside the Old Gate Orange Hall in Florencecourt, County Fermanagh, a new arch had been put up this year.\n\nAlthough unable to march, lodge members gathered outside to display their old banners, including two from the 1930s.\n\nIn the Clogher Valley, Orange Order members took to their tractors to parade around local halls.\n\nAround 60 tractors took part and many were decorated with union flags, balloons and orange banners, while others paid tribute to the NHS.\n\n\"We didn't want the occasion to pass unmarked so being a rural and agricultural community, what better way to mark it than with a tractor run?\" said Ian McClung, district secretary of Fivemiletown District.\n\n\"Rather than people coming together in one place for the Twelfth, we brought the Twelfth to the people.\n\nPeople gathered in their front gardens this year to hear the bands\n\n\"We asked people to decorate their tractors appropriately. We have the normal decorations that you see around the Twelfth, but also a number of flags and banners in support of the NHS.\n\n\"We are very conscious of the role the NHS and health workers have played in the current crisis and we have many members associated with that ourselves, so we want to just say thank you to them.\"\n\nTwelfth of July celebrations took place in Portadown with six local bands parading through streets.\n\nHealth minister Robin Swann, who attended a drive-in service organised by the Ballymena district lodge on Sunday, had urged people to follow the regulations set by the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nThe latest Covid-19 guidance from the Northern Ireland Executive allows for up to 30 people to meet outdoors while social distancing, so many smaller parades were given the go-ahead.\n\nThe Parades Commission said it considered it necessary to impose restrictions on three parades based upon \"pre-existing parading tensions in those specific locations\".\n\nIt added there had been a \"high level of positive engagement with the vast majority of organisers\".", "President Rajoelina takes a swig of the Covid-Organics tonic, the efficacy of which is unproven Image caption: President Rajoelina takes a swig of the Covid-Organics tonic, the efficacy of which is unproven\n\nMadagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina, who made headlines in May touting a plant-based tonic cure for Covid-19, has announced the deaths of several high-profile figures from coronavirus, including two MPs, a Unicef representative and a WHO doctor. Soldiers have been deployed in the capital, Antananarivo, to enforce a 15-day lockdown, following a spike in cases.\n\nKenya’s largest maternity hospital tested 290 members of staff for coronavirus and found 41 of them had Covid-19. The authorities at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in the capital, Nairobi, have sought to calm fears and say those infected are isolating and receiving treatment at home. Meanwhile, churches and mosques in the deeply religious country will also be able to reopen from today, four months after their closure - though some are opting not to do so.\n\nThe reinstatement of a ban on alcohol in South Africa prompted some thieves to target an off-licence in Cape Town. But they reportedly left the wine untouched - opting only for hard stuff. “They basically emptied the whiskies out,” Mark Kallend, shop owner of Liquor Bothasig, told the News24 site. It is hoped the ban will take pressure off the health system, which deals with many trauma cases caused by alcohol-fueled violence.\n\nA girls’ high school in Ghana’s capital, Accra, has been hit by an outbreak, with 55 confirmed cases. The girls have been transferred to treatment and isolation centres. The West African country allowed final-year students back into classrooms last month to allow them to sit exams. Meanwhile, President Nana Akufo-Addo is still in quarantine as a precaution after a member of his close circle tested positive for the virus last week.", "Amber Heard was the \"abuser\" in her relationship with Johnny Depp, his former personal assistant has claimed.\n\nStephen Deuters told London's High Court that Ms Heard, 34, subjected Mr Depp, 57, to \"years of abuse\".\n\nMr Depp is suing the publisher of the Sun newspaper over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\" - but the Sun maintains it was accurate.\n\nHe denies 14 domestic violence allegations which News Group Newspapers is relying on in its defence.\n\nMr Deuters, now European president of Mr Depp's production company, Infinitum Nihil, said he had worked for the US actor since 2004.\n\nIn his written witness statement, he said he saw Ms Heard \"on many occasions\" during the period Mr Depp is alleged to have been abusive.\n\n\"At no point did Ms Heard ever mention any physical abuse and I never saw evidence of any injury to Ms Heard,\" he claimed.\n\nMr Deuters said he was \"extremely surprised and outraged\" when it became public that Ms Heard had filed for a temporary restraining order in 2016.\n\n\"I knew that Ms Heard was the abuser in the relationship and I was appalled that she would behave in this way,\" he said.\n\nMr Deuters said he was with the couple on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles in May 2014, when an incident is alleged to have taken place.\n\nHe claimed Ms Heard was speaking \"in an increasingly aggressive manner\" to Mr Depp, who \"did not engage with the abuse he was receiving\".\n\nMr Deuters said he \"could not hear the specifics\" because he had headphones on, but \"could see her gesticulating\".\n\nHe said the actor \"made a playful attempt to tap her on the bottom\", adding that he did not believe that Mr Depp made contact with her.\n\n\"Ms Heard took great offence at what was clearly a harmless gesture and increased her abuse of Mr Depp in an extremely unpleasant manner,\" he said.\n\nMr Deuters said that he and Mr Depp's former private security guard decided to intervene and Mr Depp spent the rest of the flight in the bathroom.\n\n\"This was a common theme on the multiple times when Mr Depp was abused by Ms Heard - he would take himself away from the situation, often to a bathroom, and lock himself out of harm's way,\" he said.\n\nMr Deuters said that the day after the flight, Mr Depp asked him to \"mollify\" Ms Heard and \"to say whatever was needed to try and placate her\".\n\n\"Given Ms Heard's extremely volatile nature, I thought it best to try to engage with her on her own terms and simply apologise for what she was alleging had happened; hence my use of the word 'kicked', which is the word which Ms Heard herself had used,\" he said.\n\n\"As I have made clear, Mr Depp had not kicked Ms Heard.\"\n\nMr Deuters also spoke about the couple's trip to Australia in March 2015, during which it is alleged Mr Depp assaulted Ms Heard and \"completely destroyed\" a house in a drink- and drug-fuelled rage, which the actor denies.\n\nMr Depp alleges his finger was severed by Ms Heard throwing a vodka bottle at him, which she denies.\n\nMr Deuters claimed that, the day after the alleged incident, Mr Depp told him and two others \"he had sustained his injury when Ms Heard had thrown a bottle at him which smashed on his hand\".\n\nMr Depp and Ms Heard were married for two years until 2017\n\nAlso on Monday, the fifth day of evidence in the libel action, Mr Depp said Ms Heard's allegations \"mirrored\" what he claims was her abuse towards him.\n\nHe also accused Ms Heard of throwing a \"haymaker\" punch at him during a row after her 30th birthday party, hours after he had learned during a \"bad\" business meeting that he had lost $650m (£514m).\n\nAnd Mr Depp told the High Court he did not intend to headbutt Ms Heard during an alleged heated row at their Los Angeles penthouse.\n\nHe said he grabbed his ex-wife to \"lock her arms\" in an attempt to stop her attacking him and that he had not been violent to her.\n\nThe court also heard from the front desk supervisor at Mr Depp's Los Angeles penthouse home, who said she saw marks on Ms Heard's body after Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, had apparently spent the night there.\n\nTrinity Esperza said she saw \"no visible injuries\" to Ms Heard's face in the three days after Mr Depp was alleged to have hit her on the face with her mobile phone on 21 May, 2016.\n\nShe told the court she had seen a red mark on her face on 27 May, the day Ms Heard appeared in court to obtain a restraining order against Mr Depp. The following week, another resident in the building found a gift card she said fell out of a large plant sent to the building for Ms Heard, reading: \"I had a wonderful weekend with you. E.\"\n\nShe also said she saw a number of marks on Ms Heard's body in June or July of that year, shortly after seeing Mr Musk leave the building one morning.\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "That's all from us here on the BBC Scotland live page, on the eve of what the first minister has called \"the biggest step so far\" out of lockdown.\n\nHere are the changes coming tomorrow as Scotland continues with Phase 3 of the route map out of lockdown :\n• Indoor hospitality in pubs and restaurants will return on \"a limited basis\" and subject to several conditions\n• Places of worship can re-open for congregational services,communal prayer and contemplation\n• Easing of restrictions on attendance at funerals, marriage ceremonies and civil partnership registrations\n\nFor many a trip to the hairdressers has been high on their wish list Image caption: For many a trip to the hairdressers has been high on their wish list\n• Museums, galleries, cinemas, monuments, libraries can reopen - with physical distancing and other measures\n• All childcare providers can open subject to individual provider arrangements\n• Hairdressers and barbers will be able to reopen - with enhanced hygiene measures - guidance will be published later this week", "A courtroom sketch of Ghislaine Maxwell, who appeared in court via video link\n\nGhislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and ex-girlfriend of the late US convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been denied bail in a high-profile sex case.\n\nAt a hearing via video link, a New York judge said she would remain in custody while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking minors for Epstein.\n\nMs Maxwell, who pleaded not guilty, will go on trial in July 2021.\n\nHer lawyers had said she was at risk of contracting coronavirus in prison.\n\nEpstein died in prison on 10 August 2019 as he awaited his trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was determined to be suicide.\n\nMs Maxwell, seen here in 2016, is accused of helping Epstein groom girls as young as 14\n\nMs Maxwell, who was arrested on 2 July, faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted.\n\nDuring Tuesday's hearing, federal prosecutors said she was an \"extreme\" flight risk and should remain in custody.\n\nIn a filing, they said that when FBI agents visited her property on 2 July, they identified themselves and asked her to open the front door.\n\n\"Through a window, the agents saw the defendant ignore the direction to open the door and, instead, try to flee to another room in the house, quickly shutting a door behind her,\" they said.\n\nThey added: \"Agents were ultimately forced to breach the door in order to enter the house to arrest the defendant.\"\n\nBut her lawyers denied that she was a flight risk and asked for her release on bail of $5m (£4m). The requested bail was secured by a $3.75m property in the UK.\n\nMs Maxwell's lawyers also said her detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, put her at \"serious risk\" of contracting coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins has taken a look at the many remaining questions for Ghislaine Maxwell\n\nProsecutors allege that between 1994 and 1997, Ms Maxwell helped Epstein groom girls as young as 14. They have said that they expect \"one or more victims\" to testify.\n\nFour of the charges Ms Maxwell faces relate to the years 1994-97 when she was, according to the indictment, among Epstein's closest associates and also in an \"intimate relationship\" with him. The other two charges are allegations of perjury in 2016.\n\nThe indictment says Ms Maxwell \"assisted, facilitated, and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom and ultimately abuse victims known to Maxwell and Epstein to be under the age of 18\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York in 2005\n\nMs Maxwell is the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell.\n\nA well-connected figure, she is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York (who was accused in the 2015 court papers of touching a woman at Jeffrey Epstein's US home, although the court subsequently struck out allegations against the duke).\n\nBuckingham Palace has said that \"any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors\" by the duke was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nMs Maxwell, who has mostly been out of public view since 2016, was arrested at her remote estate in Bradford, New Hampshire, on 2 July.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nWigan Athletic scored seven first-half goals to stun relegation-threatened Hull City before equalling the biggest victory in Championship history.\n\nThe result matched Bournemouth's 8-0 thrashing of Birmingham City in 2014 and set a new record league win for the Latics.\n\nIn an extraordinary first 45 minutes at the DW Stadium, Kal Naismith, Jamal Lowe and Joe Williams all got on the scoresheet for the hosts, while Kieffer Moore and Kieran Dowell netted twice.\n\nDowell completed his hat-trick after the break but that was where the scoring ended as Wigan also kept a 10th clean sheet in 11 games.\n\nWhile the final scoreline was staggering, the result was crucial for both sides.\n\nThe Latics, who have a 12-point deduction for going into administration looming, are now 12 points above the relegation zone with two games to play.\n\nHull's woeful run of form in 2020 continues, however, with this low point leaving them in the bottom three by one point. Grant McCann's side have won just once in their past 18 games, losing 14 of them.\n\nThe Tigers face fellow strugglers Luton and play-off chasing Cardiff in their final two games, but there was little from this performance to inspire confidence in their survival.\n• None Wigan's biggest ever league win - surpassing their 7-0 victory against Oxford United in 2017\n• None Hull conceded eight goals in a league match for the first time since November 1911 (0-8 against Wolves)\n• None Wigan were the first team to score eight goals at home in the English second tier since Manchester City beat Huddersfield 10-1 in 1987\n• None Equalled the biggest victory in the second tier since it was rebranded as the Championship in 2004 (Birmingham 0-8 Bournemouth in 2014)\n\n'I'm so, so sorry'\n\nFormer Northern Ireland midfielder McCann apologised to the supporters but indicated that he expected to be in charge for Hull's final two games.\n\n\"It has hurt us, and all I can do is apologise to the fans on behalf of everyone in that dressing room because it's nowhere good enough, and I'm so, so sorry for that,\" the 40-year-old said.\n\n\"We didn't get going at all. We concede in the first-odd minute, giving ourselves a mountain to climb, and then we seemed to concede every time Wigan went forward. We're stood there at the sideline thinking 'Is this ever going to stop?'\n\n\"We just didn't get to grips with it at all. We just didn't turn up. We all felt embarrassed. We're all hurting. We have worked so hard this season, and to get done like we did today is unacceptable, from everyone.\"\n\nPaul Cook's Wigan had been the second-lowest scorers in the league prior to Tuesday's game, but the huge victory has taken their goal difference into positive territory which could be a key factor in their survival quest.\n\nNaismith opened the scoring for the Latics inside the opening minute after he nodded home Dowell's short corner, while Moore finished well in the box after some good work from Lowe to gift him the ball.\n\nLowe registered another assist for Dowell to score Wigan's third before getting on the scoresheet himself soon after with a cool finish.\n\nMoore headed home from a Nathan Byrne cross to pile on the misery for Hull while Dowell added a second moments before Williams scored Wigan's seventh of the half just before the half-time whistle.\n\nWhat does this victory mean for Wigan?\n\nDespite their fine form either side of football's suspension amid the coronavirus crisis, Wigan's hopes of survival hang on them maintaining their impressive run after they entered administration.\n\nShould they finish outside the bottom three this season, their 12-point deduction will be implemented straight away, meaning they need to stay at least 12 points clear of the relegation zone.\n\nThe Latics began the game with a better goal difference of 11 compared to Hull, which was already a slight advantage should their deduction come into play this season, but their seven-goal haul in the first half alone extended that to 25 goals.\n\nWith the shadow of staff redundancies, wage cuts and fans funding transport for players to get to games, this remarkable victory could be the tonic the club need to maintain their Championship status.\n\n\"The players deserve so much credit but there is two big games to go,\" manager Cook said. \"We're climbing a mountain but we're not at the top.\n\n\"We're very proud of our supporters and the town, to raise the money and give us the support they have, and I think tonight we've gone a long way towards repaying that.\n\n\"Can we go the extra yard to give them that full satisfaction of overturning possibly a 12-point deduction? We have to keep believing we can.\"\n\nThis was a performance to forget for Hull and their dismal form this year means their chances of survival look even slimmer as a result of their 23rd defeat of the campaign.\n\nHull have not played in English football's third tier since 2005, enjoying promotions to the Premier League in the intervening years.\n\nThose glory days look like a distant memory, as they slipped to their biggest defeat since an 8-0 thrashing by Wolves in 1911.\n\nThere had looked to be a consolation in Hull's fortunes as the game drew to a close after Keane Lewis-Potter looked to have been brought down by Nathan Byrne.\n\nHowever referee Tony Harrington changed his mind after initially pointing to the spot, in a moment that was symbolic of a nightmare evening for Hull.\n• None Attempt missed. George Honeyman (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Callum Elder.\n• None Offside, Hull City. George Long tries a through ball, but Tom Eaves is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Tom Eaves (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Elder with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Kevin Stewart (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tom Eaves. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Lawyers acting for Dawn Sturgess' daughter are arguing the coroner's decision was wrong\n\nThe daughter of a woman killed by a nerve agent wants her mother's inquest to consider whether senior members of the Russian state were responsible.\n\nDawn Sturgess died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018.\n\nLawyers for her daughter are arguing that coroner David Ridley's decision to limit the inquest's scope was wrong.\n\nTwo High Court judges are expected to reserve their judgement until a later date after the hearing, which is due to end on Wednesday.\n\nMs Sturgess, 44, was poisoned after inadvertently spraying herself with Novichok contained in a perfume bottle, which had been given to her by her partner Charlie Rowley.\n\nShe died after collapsing at Mr Rowley's flat in Amesbury, which is near Salisbury.\n\nMr Ridley, the senior coroner for Wiltshire, ruled that while the inquest can examine the actions of two Russian agents thought to have been responsible for bringing Novichok to the county, it should not look at the actions of other Russians or the Russian state, nor should it consider where the nerve agent came from.\n\nHe decided these were outside the scope of the inquest, the evidence is overseas, and Ms Sturgess was not the target of the attempted assassination.\n\nBut lawyers acting for Ms Sturgess' daughter, referred to in the case as GS because of her age, are arguing the decision was wrong.\n\nIn his submissions, Michael Mansfield QC said: \"The use of Novichok in Salisbury was the first aggressive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War.\n\n\"It put hundreds of members of the British public at risk and killed Ms Sturgess.\n\n\"The issue of who was responsible for it is a matter of almost unparalleled public concern.\"\n\n\"There is a compelling public interest in this inquest investigating what responsibility the Russian state had for Ms Sturgess' death.\"\n\nSergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the poisoning attempt\n\nPolice believe two Russian men, using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, brought the Novichok to Wiltshire in an attempt to assassinate the former agent Sergei Skripal.\n\nHe and his daughter Yulia Skripal both ended up in intensive care after they were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury, in March 2018, but both survived.\n\nThe decontamination of Salisbury and nearby Amesbury took nearly a year to complete.\n\nLawyers for the Home Secretary are arguing that the coroner's decision to limit the scope of the inquest was correct.\n\nThe hearing is due to end on Wednesday and is being conducted virtually, with all participants, including the two judges Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Lewis appearing on a video call.", "Michigan State Police released security footage showing the confrontation between the officer and the suspect\n\nA police officer in the US state of Michigan has shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a customer in a shop, in an altercation over face masks.\n\nPolice say the incident began in a convenience store near Lansing, where the suspect - named as Sean Ruis - attacked a 77-year-old man who had challenged him for not wearing a mask.\n\nThey say Ruis fled the scene in a car.\n\nHe was later pulled over by a female deputy sheriff, who opened fire when Ruis lunged towards her.\n\nMichigan State Police released footage of the confrontation in a residential area in the Lansing suburb of Delta early on Tuesday.\n\nIt shows the police car stopping a vehicle and the driver, identified as Ruis, advancing on the deputy who shoots him after a brief tussle.\n\nPolice say Ruis, 43, was carrying a weapon. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.\n\nThe incident happened 30 minutes after Ruis allegedly stabbed a customer at the Quality Dairy store in Dimondale, about six miles (10km) to the south.\n\nThe row is said to have begun when the 77-year-old - who was wearing a face mask - chided Ruis for not doing so. The elderly man is in hospital and said to be in a stable condition.\n\nIt is not the first dispute over face masks to end in tragedy in the US.\n\nLast week a security guard in Gardena, south of Los Angeles, was charged with murder over the shooting of a customer who had entered a shop without a face mask.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Amber Heard insulted Johnny Depp during a Christmas trip to the Bahamas, his estate manager has claimed.\n\nTara Roberts told London's High Court that Ms Heard, 34, called Mr Depp, 57, \"washed up\" and \"fat\".\n\nMr Depp is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that labelled him a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper insists it was accurate.\n\nHe denies 14 domestic violence allegations which News Group Newspapers is relying on in its defence.\n\nIn her witness statement at the High Court, Ms Roberts, who is the estate manager of Mr Depp's Caribbean home, claimed she had seen Ms Heard screaming at and berating the actor as he yelled at her to \"go away\".\n\nMs Roberts, who has worked for Mr Depp since December 2008, added that she saw a \"red, swelling gash\" on his nose, and that he had told her Ms Heard had thrown a can of lacquer thinner into his face.\n\nShe went on to describe Mr Depp as an \"unusually kind man\", saying she had never seen him be \"violent or aggressive\" with Ms Heard, or anyone else.\n\nMs Roberts alleged that she saw Ms Heard \"lunge violently at Johnny, pull his hair, and commit other aggressive physical acts against him\".\n\nMs Roberts said that on 29 December 2015, when the couple were staying on the island with his two children and a friend, the pair had an argument.\n\nIn her statement, she said: \"While I could not hear what caused the fight, Amber repeatedly berated him with increasing ferocity.\n\n\"She was insulting him, calling him names, and in the middle of this onslaught I heard her say specifically 'your career is over', 'no one is going to hire you', 'you're washed up', 'fat', 'you will die a lonely man', and also screaming things that were incomprehensible.\"\n\nMs Roberts claimed Mr Depp tried to leave, repeatedly asking for the key to a vehicle, which Ms Heard refused to give back, adding it was later found in the couple's house.\n\nShe said during the entire incident, she \"never saw\" Mr Depp hit or push Ms Heard, and \"nor did he physically react to the attacks\".\n\nShe said on walking Mr Depp to a café later on, she saw he had \"a red, swelling gash on the bridge of his nose\".\n\n\"Amber, Johnny then told me, had thrown a quart sized can of lacquer thinner into Johnny's face, causing a gash,\" her witness statement said.\n\nMs Roberts claimed she did not see any signs of injury on Ms Heard's face or body during the trip.\n\nMr Depp and Ms Heard were married for two years until 2017\n\nSasha Wass QC, representing Sun publisher News Group Newspapers, asked her about the former couple's Bahamas stay, and Ms Roberts said she was not aware their relationship was very difficult at that time.\n\nMs Wass said: \"As far as you were concerned, you have suggested that it was Ms Heard who was the most violent, is that right?\"\n\nShe was shown a photograph from around that time of Ms Heard with bruising on her face but said she had not seen this bruising when she saw the pair after the row.\n\nDuring an exchange with Mr Depp's barrister David Sherborne, Ms Roberts said that she \"never saw\" the actor being violent or aggressive towards Ms Heard on the island.\n\nMr Sherborne asked the estate manager whether she was \"lying\" to protect Mr Depp because she was \"worried\" about losing her job. She replied that she was not.\n\nHollywood stylist Samantha McMillen told the court Ms Heard had \"no visible\" injuries the day after the actress alleges Mr Depp was violent towards her in a separate incident in late 2015.\n\nMs McMillen said she spent \"much of the afternoon and early evening\" with Ms Heard on 16 December 2015 as she prepared to appear on a US late-night talk show.\n\nIn a witness statement, Ms McMillen said she saw Ms Heard \"in good light, at close range, wearing no make-up\", adding: \"I could see clearly that Ms Heard did not have any visible marks, bruises, cuts, or injuries to her face or any other part of her body.\"\n\nThe stylist said after the programme Ms Heard said to her: \"Can you believe I just did that show with two black eyes?\"\n\nMs McMillen said: \"Ms Heard did not have any black eyes, and had been visibly uninjured throughout the day and at that moment.\"\n\nThe libel case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017.", "The rules on face masks vary around the UK\n\nThe Welsh Government needs to \"go further and faster\" on face coverings and make them mandatory in shops, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has said.\n\nMr Price told BBC Radio Wales \"there is no reason for any further delay\" and said they should be freely available.\n\nBut Wales' chief medical officer said \"very little had changed\" in the science, which pointed to them having little benefit.\n\nThey are currently required on public transport in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, while wearing a face covering in shops and supermarkets in England is to become mandatory from 24 July.\n\nAdam Price called for more urgency from the Welsh Government\n\nMr Price called for more urgency from the Welsh Government, adding that the scientific evidence had changed in terms of the \"airborne nature\" of the virus.\n\n\"I think sometimes, slow can be good - in terms of the slow, cautious approach to easing restrictions, I think the Welsh Government has got it right,\" Mr Price told BBC Radio Wales' Claire Summers programme.\n\n\"But slow sometimes can be our enemy - if we need to move with agility, if we need to move fast.\n\n\"If the science changes as it has done around face coverings, then we need the Welsh Government to move fast.\"\n\nChief medical officer Frank Atherton said the evidence on face masks was \"quite weak\"\n\nAlso speaking to Claire Summers on Tuesday, Wales' chief medical officer Dr Frank Atherton said the evidence for making face coverings mandatory was \"quite weak\", although there might be a \"small benefit\".\n\nWhether they would be introduced, Dr Atherton said \"never say never\" but believed they were inappropriate and social distancing and personal hygiene, like hand-washing, were more important.\n\nAsked on Monday why coverings were not mandatory in other public spaces, First Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"The advice of the Welsh Government is that if places are crowded then face coverings are advisory. Where places are not crowded it is a matter for the individual citizen to make that decision.\"\n\nCoronavirus is now \"at its lowest ebb\" since the pandemic began, he added, saying the Welsh Government's response had to be \"proportionate\".\n\nWhile Mr Drakeford said masks would not be mandatory for shoppers, businesses may ask people to wear them.\n\nLater, he said Wales had taken longer than other governments in the UK to make the wearing of face coverings compulsory because it was \"an intrusion on people's civil liberties\".\n\nHe told Times Radio: \"It's not straightforward because there are people who cannot wear them - people with breathing difficulties, people who rely on lip reading, children - and you don't do it, I think, without being very certain that it will make a material difference.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have also been calling for the mandatory wearing of face masks in shops, saying it was a key element of its 10-point plan published last week.\n\nBMA Cymru Wales council chairman Dr David Bailey said on Monday: \"We also continue our calls for face coverings to be worn by the public in all areas where they cannot socially distance, not just on public transport, and for the continued practice of good hand hygiene.\"\n\nProf Sian Griffiths, co-chairwoman of the SARS expert committee in Hong Kong, said it was \"common sense\" to wear face masks.\n\n\"In a way, it's great that the various governments are setting timelines and instituting more mandatory regulations, but at the same time we ourselves could take action and could be wearing face coverings at the current time, because we know they contribute towards cutting the spread of the disease,\" she said.\n\n\"Given that up to 30% of cases of coronavirus are asymptomatic but infectious at that time, it just makes common sense to protect other people from possibly passing disease onto them.\"", "Deaths of cleaners who worked at the Ministry of Justice during the Covid-19 pandemic must be examined as part of an independent investigation, Labour has said.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, shadow justice secretary David Lammy said leaked emails, interviews and messages show cleaners were \"forced\" into the department during the lockdown period and \"denied\" personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nSeven outsourced staff have had \"consistent symptoms\" for coronavirus and two are now dead, Mr Lammy told MPs.\n\nJustice minister Lucy Frazer said the matters have been \"looked at\" but she would be happy to consider any further points.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice later said it was complying with official guidance and there was \"no evidence\" to suggest there had ever been a coronavirus outbreak at its premises.", "Virgin Atlantic saw passenger numbers slump as countries closed borders and brought in travel bans\n\nTroubled airline Virgin Atlantic has finalised a rescue deal worth £1.2bn that should protect thousands of jobs.\n\nSir Richard Branson's Virgin Group will inject £200m, with additional funds provided by investors and creditors.\n\nThe billionaire Virgin boss had a request for government money rejected, leaving the airline in a race against time to secure new investment.\n\nVirgin Atlantic is cutting 3,500 staff, but the airline said the remaining 6,500 jobs should be secure.\n\nThe deal includes funding from US hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management, and the postponement of about £450m in payments to creditors. Virgin Group owns 51% of the airline, with the rest held by US carrier Delta Air Lines.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said the refinancing covered the next five years and paved the way for it to rebuild its balance sheet and return to profitability in 2022.\n\n\"We have taken painful measures, but we have accomplished what many thought impossible,\" said chief executive Shai Weiss. \"The last six months have been the toughest we have faced in our 36-year history.\"\n\nAs with other airlines, the Covid-19 outbreak plunged Virgin Atlantic into a crisis as air travel dried up. Virgin grounded most of its fleet for months, but is due to resume some services next week.\n\nThe company had initially hoped the government would step in with up to £500m in bailout loans, but ministers made it clear taxpayers' money could only be considered once all other options had been exhausted.\n\nSir Richard even offered to mortgage his Caribbean holiday island, Necker, in return for new investment, although this was no longer necessary. Virgin Group raised money for the investment from the sale of some shares in the Virgin Galactic space tourism company.\n\nThe investment plan still needs formal approval from Virgin Atlantic's creditors under a court-sanctioned process.\n\nIn May, the airline announced 3,500 job cuts and the closure of its base at Gatwick airport. Although the restructuring and investment plans protect the remaining jobs, it does not change the need to re-shape the size of the business, Virgin Atlantic said.\n\nVirgin Atlantic calls this a \"solvent recapitalisation\". But the question is, will it be enough to secure the company's long-term future?\n\nThere is some new money here - an extra £200m in cash from the Virgin Group and loans worth £170m from Davidson Kempner. But a large part of the package is made up of deferring or waiving existing liabilities.\n\nThis was probably the best the company could do in the circumstances, after the government made it clear targeted state aid would only be considered as a last resort, after private-sector options had been exhausted.\n\nBut it doesn't seem to give the company much of a war chest to absorb future shocks. It is due to resume flights next week - and managers will be desperate for demand to pick up, and quickly.\n\nVirgin Atlantic has already taken drastic action to cut costs, shedding more than 3,500 staff and closing its base at London Gatwick. There's no doubt it will be a much leaner operation in future.\n\nThis deal does at least keep the airline flying, but navigating its way through the stormy skies facing the industry for the foreseeable future will still be a huge challenge.\n\nVirgin insiders say the company has wargamed the worst-case scenario, which is a failure of transatlantic flights to recover, and it still reckons this deal will be enough to keep Virgin in the air.\n\nOn Tuesday, Delta Air Lines wrote down the value of its stake in Virgin Atlantic, taking a $200m (£160m) charge. The giant US airline also reported an adjusted pre-tax loss of $3.9bn, saying it was burning through cash at a rate of $27m per day.\n\nEd Bastian, Delta's chief executive officer said. \"Given the combined effects of the pandemic and associated financial impact on the global economy, we continue to believe that it will be more than two years before we see a sustainable recovery.\"\n\nLast month, Mr Bastian told the BBC: \"We're not planning on injecting additional capital into Virgin. We're supporting them in doing everything we can, helping them through a restructuring, hopefully to avoid an in-court process, and I'm still optimistic, cautiously optimistic that we'll be able to get there.\"\n\nAviation firms have been battered by the coronavirus crisis. On Tuesday, Ryanair said it would cut 1,000 flights between Ireland and the UK in August and September because of Irish quarantine restrictions which had \"suppressed demand\".\n\n\"Air travel between Ireland and the UK is being badly damaged by this ineffective 14-day quarantine,\" a spokesperson said. \"This means 100,000 fewer visitors from the UK travelling to regional airports in Cork, Shannon, Knock and Kerry during the peak months of the tourism season.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ventura County police said there was no indication of foul play\n\nA body found in a lake in the US state of California has been identified as the missing Glee star Naya Rivera, police say.\n\nRivera, 33, went missing on Wednesday after going boating with her four-year-old son at Lake Piru. He was found alone and asleep on the boat.\n\nDivers and teams using sonar equipment found the body earlier on Monday.\n\nRivera is best known for playing the cheerleader Santana Lopez in the hugely popular musical comedy TV series Glee.\n\nAt a news conference on the shore of the lake on Monday, Sheriff Bill Ayub of the Ventura County Sheriff Department said police were \"confident\" the body was that of Rivera.\n\nHe added that there was no indication of foul play or that she took her own life.\n\nRivera's son told police they had gone swimming but she never returned. After a massive search and rescue operation found no trace of Rivera, police moved to a \"search and recovery operation\".\n\nThat included using side-scanning sonar, divers, sniffer dogs, helicopters and remote-operated submarine vehicles equipped with cameras.\n\nSgt Kevin Donoghue, a spokesman for the police department, earlier told the BBC that they were \"putting every available asset and resource\" into the search.\n\nHe added that Rivera's son had seen his mother \"disappear beneath the water\".\n\nHelicopters were used to search the lake in southern California\n\n\"Rest sweet, Naya. What a force you were,\" Rivera's Glee co-star Jane Lynch wrote on Twitter. \"Love and peace to your family.\"\n\nAnother Glee co-star, Josh Sussman, tweeted: \"Naya, you will be missed so much.\"\n\nRivera began her career as a child actress and model, appearing in TV commercials in the US.\n\nAs a four-year-old, she starred in the Royal Family sitcom on CBS and had a number of other TV appearances.\n\nBut it was playing cold-hearted Santana Lopez in Glee, the hugely popular musical comedy TV series, that made her a star.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last footage of Glee star before disappearance\n\nIn 2014, Rivera starred in the horror film At the Devil's Door.\n\nThe same year she married fellow actor Ryan Dorsey - who is the father of her son. When the couple divorced in 2018, they were granted joint custody.", "Online grocer Ocado says the switch to internet shopping amid the coronavirus lockdown has led to a \"permanent redrawing\" of the retail landscape.\n\nIts comments came as it said sales during the first half of 2020 jumped 27% to more than £1bn.\n\n\"The world as we know it has changed,\" said chief executive Tim Steiner.\n\n\"As a result of Covid-19, we have seen years of growth in the online grocery market condensed into a matter of months; and we won't be going back.\"\n\n\"We are confident that accelerated growth in the online channel will continue, leading to a permanent redrawing of the landscape of the grocery industry worldwide.\"\n\nHe said Ocado was now the fastest growing grocer in the UK, thanks to a 50/50 partnership with Marks and Spencer announced last year.\n\nAs part of the deal, which saw M&S take a half-share in Ocado's retail business, Ocado will start delivering M&S grocery products from September, when its current deal with Waitrose expires.\n\nThe group reported a loss before tax of £40.6m in the six months to the end of May, blaming an increase in investment to handle the higher demand generated as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDuring the period the company opened its first two customer fulfilment centres abroad, for Casino in France and Sobeys in Canada, while increasing capacity in the UK.\n\nThe loss was smaller than the £147.4m posted in the same period last year, although that figure included £99m of costs incurred as a result of a major fire at its warehouse in Andover.\n\nBut after raising £1bn through an equity and bond issue last month, Ocado said it had £2.3bn in cash on its balance sheet.\n\n\"There is evidence to suggest many shoppers will likely continue buying their groceries online once lockdown measures have been lifted completely, but it will be difficult for Ocado to maintain the sales registered at the peak of the crisis,\" said John Moore, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin.\n\n\"Nevertheless, Ocado has a strong balance sheet and the Covid-19 pandemic has super-accelerated many of the trends that have led to its exceptional share price growth over the last few years, placing the company in a good position for the future.\"\n\nSeparately, discount grocer Lidl has revealed plans to open a shop a week until Christmas, creating 1,000 jobs.\n\nThe 25 new stores will be opened across England, Scotland and Wales with sites in Selhurst, Harrow Weald, Coleford and Llandudno Junction opening in the coming weeks.\n\nBy the end of 2023 it plans another 100 stores across Britain, creating 4,000 more jobs, and bringing its total number of shops to 1,000.\n\n\"It is testament to the continued hard work of our colleagues that we are able to continue forging ahead with our expansion plans, despite the challenging circumstances that have been faced over the past months,\" said Lidl GB boss Christian Härtnagel.\n\nLidl - which opened its first shops in the UK in 1994 - has opened new stores throughout the pandemic in locations such as Birmingham, Torquay and across London.", "It seems after all that the ministers won't just be asking everyone to use their \"common sense\" or even just rely on manners to make people cover up.\n\nAfter weeks of discussion about the relative benefits of covering your face when out and about, ministers are now to confirm on Tuesday that it will be mandatory to cover your face in shops in England - and, like in Scotland seven days ago, expect that change to be brought in in law.\n\nIt is quite the shift. At the start of the crisis, the government's scientists suggested that masks could do more harm than good.\n\nThere were nerves too about creating sudden demand from the public to get hold of medical grade coverings when there was a worldwide spike in demand as the pandemic took hold.\n\nBut more evidence has emerged about how coronavirus can be transmitted through the air.\n\nPoliticians are also keen to find ways to make consumers feel more comfortable going back out into the world, as the economy struggles to come alive again.\n\nBut things have changed a lot since the start of the lockdown when the government's \"stay at home\" message was heard loud and clear.\n\nThe vast majority of the public stuck to the instruction carefully. Millions tuned into the daily press briefings for the latest information, wanting answers, but wanting guidance too.\n\nThe expected decision to go ahead on face coverings comes after a scrappy few days when ministers have given different impressions in different interviews.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak appeared without a mask for the cameras serving food last Wednesday. Eyebrows were raised when he was chatting to customers over their vegan katsu without covering his face.\n\nThe Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, did mask up when observing Picassos in the Royal Academy the next day.\n\nThen the prime minister donned his two-quid mask in a photocall on Friday.\n\nBoris Johnson wore a face mask in public for the first time last week\n\nBut on Sunday, Michael Gove made that call for \"common sense\", and even on Monday morning, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland was saying coverings should be \"mandatory perhaps\" - a contradiction if ever there were.\n\nClarity, for shops in England at least, should come on Tuesday. But you wouldn't be blamed for wondering quite what you are meant to do.\n\nFor the government's critics it's another example of ministers playing catch up after allowing confusion to spread.\n\nDuring the early stages of the Covid crisis the public surprised politicians by being very willing to listen and follow the rules.\n\nIn this more complicated phase, any hint of a messy message could make them less likely to comply.", "Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape in February\n\nA US judge rejected a proposed $18.9m (£15.3m) settlement of misconduct cases against abusive Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein on Tuesday.\n\nThe fund would have been distributed between dozens of female claimants.\n\nHowever various other accusers had called it unfair, saying it \"absolved\" Weinstein, his producer brother and the company board of liability.\n\nWeinstein was given a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault in March.\n\nThe settlement would have marked an end to nearly all of the civil claims against him, The Weinstein Company and several of its directors.\n\nDistrict Judge Alvin Hellerstein dismissed it for putting women who had merely met Weinstein on an almost equal footing with women who he had raped or sexually abused.\n\nIt also would have typically awarded $10-15,000 to each claimant, whereas $15m would have gone towards Weinstein's defence costs.\n\nIn a 20-minute phone hearing, Judge Hellerstein said: \"The idea that Harvey Weinstein can get a defence fund ahead of the claimants is obnoxious.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, lawyers for six of Weinstein's accusers filed an objection to the proposed payout, calling it a \"cruel hoax\".\n\nThey complained that Weinstein would not have to accept responsibility for his actions and would not make the payments personally.\n\nWhat was in the settlement?\n\nThe settlement, announced on 30 June, would have resolved a lawsuit filed in 2018 against Weinstein, his production company and his brother by the New York Attorney General's office.\n\nIt would have also settled a separate class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of women who accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault.\n\n\"After all the harassment, threats and discrimination, these survivors are finally receiving some semblance of justice,\" Attorney General Letitia James said at the time.\n\n\"Women who were forced to sign confidentiality agreements will also be freed from those clauses and finally be able to speak.\"\n\nThe settlement needed approval from both a federal judge and bankruptcy court.\n\nWhat was the response from accusers?\n\nAhead of the hearing, lawyers Douglas H Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer, who represent six accusers, said: \"While we do not begrudge any survivor who truly wants to participate in this deal, as we understand the proposed agreement, it is deeply unfair for many reasons.\"\n\nHowever, another of Weinstein's accusers, Louisette Geiss, said: \"This important act of solidarity allowed us to use our collective voice to help those who had been silenced and to give back to the many, many survivors who lost their careers and more.\"\n\nIn February, Weinstein was convicted in New York City of committing third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act, and later sentenced to 23 years in jail.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government should remove Chinese firm Huawei from the UK's 5G network by 2025 instead of 2027, as planned, ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe telecoms company is to be banned from setting up 5G, but will remain involved in 3G and 4G.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said allowing Huawei to work on these also posed a continued \"risk\" to national security.\n\nBut the government said it would \"ensure\" the UK's communications system was as \"secure as it possibly can be\".\n\nHuawei, which has repeatedly said it would not cause harm to any country, predicted the UK would now be pushed \"into the digital slow lane\", with higher bills for consumers.\n\nIn January, ministers announced the company would be kept out of the sensitive core of the 5G network - including national intelligence - but be allowed involvement in up to 35% of other parts.\n\nThis prompted criticism from backbench Conservative MPs, marshalled by Mr Duncan Smith, who called Huawei an arm of the Chinese Communist Party and a risk to the UK.\n\nThe US, with which the UK shares much of its intelligence, also applied diplomatic pressure for a rethink.\n\nUnder its revised plans, the government says Huawei will not be allowed to install any equipment for the 5G network from next year - and its existing equipment will be removed by 2027.\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith told the House of Commons that the head of BT thought the removal could happen two years earlier.\n\nHe said: \"I do think he [Mr Dowden] can do it quicker than this... There's no reason why it can't [happen].\"\n\nThe government thought it had made its decision on Huawei earlier this year. It wanted to get on with delivering faster internet and thought Huawei was best placed to ensure speedy upgrades.\n\nBut since then the US has continued to apply pressure - with its decision to impose new sanctions on China a crucial factor.\n\nMeanwhile, dozens of Tory backbenchers continued their opposition - and refused to fall in line. They have cautiously welcomed the announcement that the UK is moving away from Huawei - but they want things to move faster. Some are also uneasy that the company's technology will stay in the 3G and 4G network.\n\nThis decision wasn't without cost though. Ministers admit it will delay the rollout of 5G across the UK and will cost significant amounts of money - into the billions. They've also had to consider warnings from telecoms providers about service provision.\n\nUltimately though, the combination of political pressure - international and domestic - has won the debate in government.\n\nMr Duncan Smith added that there were \"contradictions\" in banning Huawei from 5G but not 3G and 4G, which would undergo \"software upgrades\"by Huawei \"for the next decade\".\n\n\"So, if they're a risk to us in 5G, why are they not a risk to us generally?\" he asked.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden replied: \"The reality of the 5G network is that it is fundamentally different and it's a recognition of that fundamental difference that we are imposing these rules for 5G.\n\n\"Of course, over time... 5G will be replaced by 6G, and in all of that Huawei will be absent.\"\n\nHe also said: \"There is of course no such thing as a perfectly secure network, but the responsibility of the government is to ensure that it is as secure as it possibly can be.\"\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described the announcement as a \"welcome, long-overdue step\" but accused the government of having \"no consistent approach\" to China.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said said that, while one department is \"seeking to ban them from the 5G network\", another is \"considering handing over technology involved in our nuclear industry to the Chinese government.\"\n\nSNP culture spokesman John Nicolson said it had been wrong in the first place to allow Huawei near the \"nervous system\" of the UK's telecoms network.\n\nAnd Labour MP Chris Bryant told the Commons there was \"unity\" among MPs in opposition to the company's further involvement in 5G, saying: \"I wish the government would listen to its own backbenchers.\"\n\nThe US has claimed China could use Huawei to \"spy, steal or attack\" the UK - but the company denies this and its founder has said he would rather shut the company down than do anything to damage its clients.\n\nSanctions imposed in May by Washington have limited China's access to US chip technology, which prompted the UK's National Cyber Security Centre to launch a review of the use of Huawei.", "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.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 19.1% in the three months to May, revealing the full impact of the lockdown. GDP - a key measure of the health of the economy - actually grew 1.8% in May as the country took its first steps towards reopening, but that's less than the 5% growth economists had hoped for. It's also 24.5% below the level before the virus really hit. The Office for National Statistics said manufacturing and house-building showed signs of recovery, as did some areas of the retail sector.\n\nScientists advising the government are warning a second wave of coronavirus infections in the UK this winter could be more severe than the first. In a worst-case scenario they say there could be nearly 120,000 hospital deaths, but stress that effective preparations and responses - lockdowns, treatments or vaccines - could reduce the risk. We examine what the UK could learn from Asia about a second wave.\n\nThe UK's Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an appeal to help the world's most vulnerable cope with the pandemic. Fourteen charities - including Oxfam, Christian Aid and Islamic Relief - are coming together and the government has promised to double the first £5m of donations from the public. Much of the money raised will go to refugee camps.\n\nNail bars reopened in England on Monday - along with salons, tattooists and spas. We spent the day inside one, NUKA Nails in west London, to see how things worked and why getting a manicure after so long really matters to people.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from our live page.\n\nPlus, several US states are re-imposing lockdown restrictions to combat a surge in cases. We look closely at why Florida, in particular, is a hotspot.\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.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you in the morning.\n\nBanksy spray-painted his tag in the colour of a medical face mask\n\nIn France, the annual military parade for Bastille Day was called off for the first time since the end of World War Two in 1945. Instead, there was a tribute to the health workers who have helped tackle coronavirus, attended by family members of those who have died. President Emmanuel Macron gave a rare televised interview, answering questions about the coronavirus pandemic and the economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScotland has made solid progress in tackling the pandemic - with no new Covid-19-related deaths for the sixth day in a row and only two patients currently being treated in intensive care. As the country looks towards the opening of tourism-related business on Wednesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon again refused to rule out the option of quarantining people travelling from England to Scotland, but said she hoped it wouldn't be necessary. We hear from people who live their lives on both sides of the line and are worried about how the situation might play out.\n\nVicky Muirhead's business is split across the Scottish border\n\nJimmy Flores dismissed coronavirus as \"fake news\" until he got it and was in hospital for more than a week. He thinks he contracted it on a night out, after US state Arizona's governor lifted lockdown in May. He tells how he is using his experience as a young adult who caught it to warn friends amid a surge in cases around the world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n...At Bristol Zoo, which reopened today after 110 days of lockdown, quelling fears for its future for now. It's running at a quarter of visitor capacity and tickets have to be pre-booked, but the zoo's chief executive says they are \"cautiously optimistic\" it can survive.\n\nThe zoo had warned earlier in the summer about its finances\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from our live page.\n\nPlus, there was glum news for the UK economy today, with growth slower than expected. So what is a recession and how might it affect you?\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.", "Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has announced a temporary cut to the transaction tax on house sales and extra support for first-time buyers.\n\nThe starting point for land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) is to rise from £145,000 to £250,000.\n\nMs Forbes said this meant eight out of 10 house sales in Scotland would be exempt from the tax.\n\nThe move follows in the footsteps of a stamp duty holiday on transactions in England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe change will not come into force immediately for \"administrative reasons\", although Ms Forbes said it would be implemented \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe government is also to spend an extra £50m on the \"first home fund\" scheme which helps first-time buyers with their purchases.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced a stamp duty holiday on transactions in England and Northern Ireland of up to £500,000 as part of his summer statement of measures to respond to the coronavirus crisis on Wednesday.\n\nSeveral of the major reforms announced - such as a VAT cut for the hospitality industry and funding to encourage firms to keep furloughed staff on - apply UK-wide.\n\nHowever, housing and residential taxes are devolved to Holyrood, meaning there were calls for Ms Forbes to mirror the stamp duty cut in its Scottish equivalent, LBTT.\n\nKate Forbes said extra cash would be spent supporting first-time buyers\n\nThe finance secretary said she had listened to calls to \"raise the starting threshold for LBTT to help stimulate the housing market and the economy\", and said she would be taking \"a distinctive approach\" targeting first-time buyers.\n\nThe threshold where the tax kicks in will be raised from £145,000 to £250,000 - although this will not apply to second homes.\n\nMs Forbes said: \"That means eight out of 10 people purchasing a home in Scotland will be taken out of LBTT, and all home movers purchasing a home above £250,000 will be £2,100 better off.\n\n\"This is a blanket measure and one which may not help first-time buyers, so I am announcing further targeted support for those who may be most concerned about making such an investment at this time.\"\n\nMs Forbes committed an extra £50m to the first home fund, a \"shared equity\" scheme which allows first-time buyers to effectively borrow money from the government interest-free.\n\nAnd she said another £100m would be spent on \"targeted employment support and training to keep people in work or help them retrain\".\n\nIt is not yet clear when the change will come into force, with Ms Forbes saying time is needed to draw up legislation and for Revenue Scotland to be ready to manage the tax.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said there \"remains a significant disparity\" between the scale of the cuts announced by Mr Sunak and Ms Forbes, saying the delay in implementing the LBTT changes would be an incentive for people to delay purchases.\n\nThe Scottish Greens, meanwhile, said \"this tax cut is likely to immediately push house prices up, wiping out any savings\".", "The UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.\n\nDigital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons of the decision.\n\nIt follows sanctions imposed by Washington, which claims the firm poses a national security threat - something Huawei denies.\n\nMr Dowden said the supply ban would delay the UK's 5G rollout by a year.\n\nThe technology promises faster internet speeds and the capacity to support more wireless devices, which should be a boon to everything from mobile gaming to higher-quality video streams, and even in time driverless cars that talk to each other. 5G connections are already available in dozens of UK cities and towns, but coverage can be sparse.\n\nMr Dowden added that the cumulative cost of the moves when coupled with earlier restrictions announced against Huawei would be up to £2bn, and a total delay to 5G rollout of \"two to three years\".\n\n\"This has not been an easy decision, but it is the right one for the UK telecoms networks, for our national security and our economy, both now and indeed in the long run,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The digital secretary says providers must remove all of Huawei's 5G kit from their networks by 2027\n\nBecause the US sanctions only affect future equipment, the government has been advised there is no security justification for removing 2G, 3G and 4G equipment supplied by Huawei.\n\nHowever, when swapping out the company's masts, networks are likely to switch to a different vendor to provide the earlier-generation services.\n\nHuawei said the move was \"bad news for anyone in the UK with a mobile phone\" and threatened to \"move Britain into the digital slow lane, push up bills and deepen the digital divide.\"\n\nThe action, however, does not affect Huawei's ability to sell its smartphones to consumers or how they will run.\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK said the decision was \"disappointing and wrong\".\n\n\"It has become questionable whether the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for companies from other countries,\" tweeted Liu Xiaoming.\n\nBut US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed the news, saying: \"The UK joins a growing list of countries from around the world that are standing up for their national security by prohibiting the use of untrusted, high-risk vendors.\"\n\nNew restrictions will also apply to use of the company's broadband kit.\n\nOperators are being told they should \"transition away\" from purchasing new Huawei equipment for use in full-fibre networks, ideally within the next two years.\n\nMany of Huawei's products are developed at its labs near Shenzhen, China\n\nMr Dowden said the government would \"embark on a short technical consultation\" with industry leaders about this.\n\nHe explained that the UK needed to avoid becoming dependent on Nokia - which is currently the only other supplier used for some equipment - and he wanted to avoid \"unnecessary delays\" to the government's gigabit-for-all by 2025 pledge.\n\nBT's Openreach division told the BBC it had in fact recently struck a deal to buy full-fibre network kit from a new supplier - the US firm Adtran - but first deliveries would only start in 2021.\n\nThe UK last reviewed Huawei's role in its telecoms infrastructure in January, when it was decided to let the firm remain a supplier but introduced a cap on its market share.\n\nBut in May the US introduced new sanctions designed to disrupt Huawei's ability to get its own chips manufactured. The Trump administration claims that Huawei provides a gateway for China to spy on and potentially attack countries that use its equipment, suggestions the company strongly rejects.\n\nThe sanctions led security officials to conclude they could no longer assure the security of its products if the company had to start sourcing chips from third-parties for use in its equipment.\n\nThe minister cited a review carried out by GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre as being the motivation for the changes.\n\nTSMC - one of the world's biggest chip manufacturers - has stopped taking orders from Huawei as a consequence of the US sanctions\n\nNCSC has said Huawei products adapted to use third-party chips would be \"likely to suffer more security and reliability problems\".\n\nBut other political considerations are also likely to have also come into play, including the UK's desire to strike a trade deal with the US, and growing tensions with China over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak and its treatment of Hong Kong.\n\nSome backbench Tory MPs had pressed for a shorter time-span for its removal, in particular there had been calls for the 5G ban to come into effect before the next election in May 2024.\n\nHowever, Mr Dowden said that \"the shorter we make the timetable for removal, the greater the risk of actual disruption to mobile phone networks\".\n\nBT and Vodafone had warned that customers could face mobile blackouts if they were forced to remove all of Huawei's 5G kit in less time.\n\nLabour's shadow technology minister Chi Onwurah said the government was incapable of sorting \"this mess out on their own\".\n\nIt had \"refused to face reality\" and been \"incomprehensively negligent\" in allowing matters to get to this point, she added, and a taskforce of experts now needed to be created.\n\nHopes on the part of government that this decision may put the Huawei issue to bed may be optimistic.\n\nThe reason that we are here again despite a decision in January is because one of the key players - the US - played a new card in the form of sanctions.\n\nAnd there is still time between now and legislation coming to parliament in Autumn for others to do the same - whether Conservative backbenchers or Beijing.\n\nIn the long run, many countries will be watching carefully how China reacts.\n\nWill it feel it needs to punish the UK in order to discourage others from following its lead on 5G? Or will it want to avoid being seen as a bully and prefer to try and influence the decision more subtly? Whatever the case, the Huawei story in the UK is not over yet.\n\nHuawei says it employs about 1,600 people in the UK and claims to be one of Britain's largest sources of investment from China.\n\nThe firm - whose shares are not publicly traded - does not provide a regional breakdown of its earnings. But on Monday, it announced a 13% rise in sales for the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, totalling 454bn yuan ($64.8bn; £51.3bn).\n\nThe UK will have accounted for a fraction of that. The firm's UK chief recently noted that Huawei had only deployed a total of 20,000 5G base stations - the radio receiver/transmitter equipment fitted to a mast - in the UK so far. By contrast it expects to deliver a total of 500,000 globally this year.\n\nEven so, what the firm fears and Washington hopes is that other countries will now follow Westminster's lead with bans of their own.\n\nDespite there seeming little chance of a U-turn, Huawei said it was still urging UK ministers to reconsider.\n\n\"We will conduct a detailed review of what today's announcement means for our business here and will work with the UK government to explain how we can continue to contribute to a better connected Britain,\" spokesman Ed Brewster said.\n\nShortly before the announcement Sky News revealed that Lord Browne, Huawei's UK chairman and the ex-chief executive of BP, would be leaving the Chinese company before his term had expired. It said he had given his notice a few days ago and would formally step down in September.\n\nLord Browne is stepping down six months before his time at Huawei was due to end\n\nLord Browne had led efforts to improve the company's image in the UK and had tried to prevent a ban.\n\n\"He has been central to our commitment here dating back 20 years, and we thank him for his valuable contribution,\" said Huawei, confirming the report.\n\nBT is set to be the telecoms operator most affected by the decision given it runs both the EE mobile network and Openreach, which provides fixed-line infrastructure to individual internet providers.\n\n\"We need to further analyse the details and implications of this decision before taking a view of potential costs and impacts,\" it said.\n\nThe move should, however, benefit Nokia and Ericsson, which are the two other main 5G kit vendors.\n\n\"We have the capacity and expertise to replace all of the Huawei equipment in the UK's networks at scale and speed... with minimal impact on the people using our customers' networks,\" said Nokia.\n\nHuawei still supplies masts and other 5G equipment to Germany, Switzerland and China among other countries\n\nEricsson added: \"Today's decision removes the uncertainty that was slowing down investment decisions around the deployment of 5G in the UK... and we stand ready to work with the UK operators to meet their timetable.\"\n\nHowever, both firms manufacture some of their 5G equipment in China, which has also caused concern in Washington.\n\nIn June, the US Department of Defense published a list of 20 companies it claimed had close ties to the Chinese military.\n\nIt included Panda Electronics - the firm with which Ericsson jointly runs a manufacturing facility in the Chinese city of Nanjing.\n\n\"A lot of companies assemble equipment or have some type of manufacturing in China,\" Ericsson's head of corporate communications Peter Olofsson told the BBC, when asked about this.\n\n\"Our trade compliance people have looked at this [list] and they concluded that it's not something that has an impact on Ericsson or our operations.\"\n\nUltimately Huawei believes that this was a political decision and not a business one.\n\nAnd if the political winds change, then Huawei's fortunes may too.\n\nMy understanding is that a longer time frame for the removal of its 5G kit from UK networks was a relatively desirable outcome for Huawei.\n\nSo even though no new Huawei UK equipment can be bought by UK mobile carriers after the end of this year, the fact that the UK has until 2027 to remove Huawei's 5G kit from all of its network could be seen as a potential positive.\n\nA new US administration in November could markedly change Washington's position on Huawei.\n\nSo for Huawei, playing the long game makes sense.\n\nAnd one thing that was crystal clear to me from meeting Ren Zhengfei, the company's founder is that he's a fighter.\n\nRen Zhengfei told the BBC: 'If the lights go out in the West, the East will still shine. And if the North is dark, then there is still the South.'\n\nNothing he has said indicates he is willing to give up.\n\nFor now though, the immediate impact of the UK decision will be seen as a signal that Washington's campaign on Huawei has worked.\n\nAnd the Chinese firm will not want that replicated in other countries around the world.", "Five people, including a child, were taken to hospital after the blaze at Knightswood Court in Liverpool\n\nA child left trapped in a fire in the second floor of a block of flats was rescued by neighbours using ladders.\n\nThe fire broke out in the three-storey Knightswood Court block in Allerton, Liverpool, at about 17:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe neighbours helped bring eight people down to safety before firefighters arrived, the fire service said.\n\nFive people including the child were taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThey were suffering the effects of smoke inhalation but nobody was seriously injured.\n\nMerseyside Fire and Rescue Service area manager Gary Oakford, said the fire had spread through communal stairways, causing \"significant damage\".\n\nHe said firefighters were \"extremely grateful\" for the rescue efforts of the neighbours.\n\nThe fire was put out by 17:45 and crews remained at the scene for a few hours afterwards.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the blaze will be carried out, a fire spokesman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The anonymous whistleblower said some factories had stayed open and taken on extra staff during the lockdown\n\nA whistleblower from Leicester's textile industry says some factories almost doubled their staffing to cope with online orders during the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThe worker, who cannot be identified, said firms that \"maybe used to have 50 people working comfortably, now had 80 or 90 people in the same area\".\n\nInvestigations are ongoing into employment practices at several firms.\n\nA lockdown was enforced in Leicester after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe worker told the BBC some factories had stayed open and taken on extra staff during the lockdown.\n\n\"If somebody did have Covid or wasn't well, they were still there passing it on to whoever's next to them,\" he said.\n\n\"During Covid we've had no social distancing whatsoever in the factories.\n\n\"They [factory bosses] were getting a lot of pressure from customers to produce garments as quickly as possible, in as much volume as possible, because people were shopping from home and they needed the goods to be in.\n\n\"So the pressure was on these suppliers to hire anybody that was walking around and just get somebody on a machine to make a garment.\n\n\"Garments go through, six, seven pairs of hands before they get packed and sealed, so a lot of people are touching the same things.\"\n\nHe said the situation had made already poor conditions worse.\n\n\"Very few factories, if any, have cleaners coming in and out,\" he said.\n\n\"I've seen people eating at their tables, then going straight back to work. There's no kitchens in a lot of these places, there's barely toilets, and it's all logged because it's all about productivity rather than humanity.\"\n\nConcerns about working conditions have prompted investigations by several agencies, including the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, Leicester City Council, the police and fire service, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and immigration enforcement.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday he was \"very worried about the employment practices in some factories\".\n\nThe whistleblower said the falling price paid for products had led to a \"substantial\" decline in pay rates and working conditions over the past 10 years.\n\n\"The way the market is at the minute, it's the person who produces the good cheapest who gets the order,\" he said.\n\nLeicester was put on a local lockdown after Matt Hancock said it accounted for 10% of all positive Covid-19 cases in the country\n\nLukasz Bemka, from the Bakers and Allied Workers Union, said they shared concerns about pay practices and safety at the factories.\n\n\"Some people are not getting their wage slips - just cash in hand,\" he said.\n\n\"There have been issues around providing the appropriate PPE during the pandemic and not carrying out the proper risk assessments.\"\n\nHe said some factories used CCTV cameras to alert factory bosses if the authorities paid a visit.\n\n\"In the case of a police raid or agency visit they can quickly get rid of uncomfortable people from the shop floor.\n\n\"They can even get rid of the whole workforce within minutes before the authorities hit the shop floor.\"\n\nAn HSE spokeswoman said it was investigating 10 textile businesses in Leicester. The whistleblower is not understood to have been referring to any of the businesses under investigation.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"Since the start of the pandemic in March, we've made 80 workplace interventions with more than 45 site visits. Ten investigations are on-going. Enforcement action has been taken against 10 businesses.\n\n\"Following this particular outbreak in Leicester, HSE has engaged with 32 textile businesses and undertaken 30 site visits to assess compliance with health and safety legislation.\n\n\"Enforcement action of some kind is being taken at half of these businesses where non-compliance with health and safety requirements, including COVID-19 risk controls, was found.\"\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.", "Johnny Depp has claimed \"all hell would break loose\" if he failed to follow ex-wife Amber Heard's \"rules\".\n\nThe actor, 57, told London's High Court during a libel hearing Ms Heard, 34, would often force him to give her attention.\n\nMs Heard claimed he once threw a magnum of champagne at her, which he denied.\n\nMr Depp is suing for libel over an article that called him a \"wife beater\" - but the Sun newspaper maintains the story was accurate.\n\nThe April 2018 piece by journalist Dan Wootton was about the casting of Mr Depp in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film franchise.\n\nMr Depp's lawyers say the article made \"defamatory allegations of the utmost seriousness\", by accusing him of committing serious assaults on Ms Heard.\n\nBut the Sun is defending the article as true - and is seeking to prove so at the High Court.\n\nSpeaking about his relationship with Ms Heard, Mr Depp told the court it was \"normal\" for the couple to have dinner in front of the television, and to lie or sit on the couch together.\n\nHe said: \"But on occasion, out of nowhere, if my hand wasn't holding Ms Heard's hand or I didn't have my arm around her or whatever, she would reach over and grab my hand and put it on her thigh, so that I was then feeding the attention that she wanted.\n\n\"It was almost as if there were rules, she has a routine and if that routine isn't met to her standards then there was going to be a problem.\"\n\nDuring the fourth day of proceedings, the High Court was also told:\n\nEarlier in the day, Sasha Wass QC, representing Sun publisher News Group Newspapers, suggested Mr Depp got out of bed to argue with Ms Heard after her 30th birthday party, which the actor denied.\n\nThe barrister said Mr Depp was \"very distressed\" about the news he had received earlier that night about his finances \"and the last thing you wanted to be told was that you were a disappointment to your wife\".\n\nMr Depp replied: \"I believe that's the last thing any husband would want to hear.\"\n\nMs Wass went on to accuse Mr Depp of picking up a magnum bottle of champagne and throwing it at Ms Heard, which missed, with the glass smashing, which he denied.\n\nShe also alleged he grabbed Ms Heard by her hair and pushed her onto the bed adding \"when she tried to leave, you blocked the bedroom door and you tried to grab her hair\".\n\nThe barrister suggested Mr Depp then \"pushed her to the ground\" and \"bumped her chest\" before leaving a birthday message which contained an expletive and exiting the penthouse apartment.\n\nAmber Heard's 30th birthday was held at the iconic Eastern Columbia Building in LA\n\nMs Wass then told the court further details of events which followed, described as the \"defecation incident\".\n\nThe barrister said to Mr Depp that \"it came to your attention the following, that was the day of Amber's actual birthday, that the cleaner had found faeces in the bed\".\n\nShe suggested Mr Depp was later sent photographs of the faeces, which the actor found \"hilarious\" and that \"there were jokes like... 'Amber in the dumps' going on.\"\n\nMr Depp replied: \"It was one of the most absurd, unexpected statements that I have ever witnessed in my life so, yes, initially I did laugh because it was so strange.\"\n\nHe told the court it was \"a mystery\" who defecated in the bed \"and it was not left by a three or four-pound dog\", in reference to the couple's pets, one of which was said to have \"problems with her toilet habits\".\n\n\"I was convinced that it was either Ms Heard herself or one of her cohort involved in leaving human faeces on the bed,\" Mr Depp added.\n\nHe told the court he thought the incident was \"a fitting end to the relationship\".\n\nDetails of Ms Heard's allegations of sexual violence against the Pirates of the Caribbean star were heard in private on Friday and not disclosed to the press or public.\n\nThe court was also told an LAPD officer saw \"no injuries\" on Ms Heard's face after she alleged Mr Depp had thrown her own mobile phone at her.\n\nShe claimed he had come to the penthouse \"drunk and high\", became enraged and then threw the phone \"like someone throwing a baseball\", which hit her in the eye.\n\nBut domestic violence specialist Melissa Saenz said she saw no marks on Ms Heard's face after the alleged incident in May 2016.\n\nMs Heard also claimed Mr Depp had smashed things in the apartment with a wine bottle before leaving but Ms Saenz told the court via videolink from Los Angeles she had found no damage after searching the entire flat.\n\nMs Wass suggested the police \"didn't give the care to this case that you say you did\".\n\nMr Depp and Ms Heard were married for two years until 2017\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\"\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "Royal Mail has been fined £1.5m by the regulator for being late with first class deliveries and overcharging customers for second class stamps.\n\nOfcom said Royal Mail missed its target of delivering 93% of first class post within a day of collection.\n\nIt also overcharged people £60,000 after raising the cost of a second class stamp before a price cap was officially lifted.\n\nRoyal Mail admitted it was \"disappointed\" with its performance.\n\nIn the 2019 financial year, Ofcom found that only 91.5% of first class post was on time.\n\n\"Royal Mail let its customers down, and these fines should serve as a reminder that we'll take action when companies fall short,\" said Gaucho Rasmussen, Ofcom's director of investigations and enforcement.\n\nThe watchdog also found that the company increased its price for second class stamps by 1p to 61p seven days ahead of the official cap being lifted.\n\nRoyal Mail estimates it overcharged people by £60,000 \"which it is unable to refund\".\n\nRoyal Mail admitted it had made a mistake and donated the sum to the charity Action for Children.\n\n\"We worked with Ofcom throughout this investigation and lessons have been learned by us during this process,\" it said.\n\nEarlier this year, Royal Mail lifted the price of a first class stamp which now costs 11p more than second class postage.\n\nThe price of a first class stamp for regular letters rose 6p to 76p and second-class went up by 4p to 65p.\n\nThe 65p second-class stamp is the maximum under an Ofcom price cap.\n\nCommenting in the current financial year, Royal Mail said it would be on course to hit the 93% first class delivery target if it hadn't been for the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"Despite our best endeavours, some areas of the UK experienced a reduction in service levels during March,\" it said.\n\n\"Relevant factors included high levels of coronavirus-related absences and necessary social distancing measures.\"\n\nLast month Royal Mail said it will cut 2,000 management jobs as it struggles to deal with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe cuts, equal to around a fifth of the company's management roles, aim to save about £130m in costs from next year.\n\nRoyal Mail said the pandemic accelerated the trend of more parcels and fewer letters being sent, and it had not adapted quickly enough to that.", "Darrell and Darren Roberts were taken into care aged 13 when their mother died\n\nTwin brothers born in London and brought up in state care could face deportation to two different Caribbean countries they have never visited.\n\nSiblings of Darrell and Darren Roberts, 24, said they had been issued with deportation notifications and could be put on planes when released from jail for grievous bodily harm.\n\nDarrell's lawyer said his client was British and had served his sentence.\n\nThe Home Office denied it had issued a deportation order.\n\n\"Neither Darrell or Darren Roberts are currently detained under immigration powers nor are they subject to deportation orders,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"The Home Office considers carefully all cases where an offender is suspected of being potentially liable for deportation and it has a particular responsibility where the offending is prolific or high harm.\"\n\nBut the BBC has seen a notice sent to one of the men that indicates the Home Office does intend to pursue deportation.\n\n\"They could pick and deport any one of us,\" says their sister Freya Valie Roberts\n\nThe twins were born in west London to parents from the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Grenada, with neither parent having UK citizenship.\n\nThey were taken into care by Ealing Council's social services at the age of 13 when their mother died and their father returned to Dominica.\n\nDarrell was sentenced to a six-year prison sentence for grievous bodily harm at the age of 17.\n\nHis family said on his release he was served with the deportation notice to the Dominican Republic, a country he has no connection to.\n\nDarrell believes officials named it in error because his father was born on the island of Dominica.\n\nHis twin Darren remains in prison on a separate sentence for grievous bodily harm.\n\nAccording to his family Darren has been warned he faces deportation to Grenada - the country where his mother was born - when he finishes the jail sentence.\n\nThe twins were born in England, but neither their parents nor their carers applied for citizenship\n\nThe Home Office automatically issues a deportation notice to anyone without citizenship who has been convicted of a reasonably serious offence with a sentence of more than 12 months.\n\nChildren born in the UK to parents who are foreign nationals can be eligible for British citizenship but are not automatically citizens.\n\nNeither their parents nor social services applied, leaving Darrell and Darren technically stateless.\n\nFreya Valie Roberts, one of the twins' sisters, said she was \"disgusted, upset and insulted\" when she heard they were being threatened with deportation.\n\n\"If they're going to deport my brothers, I mean there are 11 of us in total, they could pick and deport any one of us,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was scared of what would happen to them in a country they had never visited and said they were being \"just sent to a place and you're not allowed to come back\".\n\nDarrell's lawyer, Andrew Sperling, compared what was happening to the twins to the 18th and 19th Century practice of penal transportation, where convicts were shipped to countries such as Australia.\n\nHe said Darrell was British and had served his sentence in \"a society which apparently believes in rehabilitation and supporting people to reintegrate into the community\".\n\n\"This is what should be happening with this man. But instead, he's having to fight a complex, terrifying legal procedure,\" he said.\n\nAndrew Sperling says Darrell Roberts should be supported \"to reintegrate into the community\"\n\nFamily members have launched a petition to gather support for the twins, who they say should be able to remain in the UK indefinitely.\n\nA spokesman for Ealing Council said its children's services team had \"repeatedly engaged with both Darren and Darrell\" to allow them to apply for immigration status.\n\nBut he said \"neither of the young men signed the documentation to allow it to be progressed\".\n\n\"We always work with young people to secure their status as part of the pathway planning process,\" he said.\n\n\"Care leavers in Ealing are supported practically and financially to get the advice and support to progress their applications and any subsequent appeals they may make.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has spent £15bn on protective equipment for medical and care workers\n\nThe government is under pressure to review its personal protective equipment (PPE) deals after a Tory councillor received major contracts.\n\nThe councillor's company, P14 Medical, was given contracts to supply face shields worth £120m in total.\n\nLabour said the government had \"serious questions\" to answer about the PPE procurement process.\n\nNo 10 said the Department of Health and Social Care \"works closely with the Treasury to ensure value for money\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said demand for PPE had been going up but the DHSC \"will have worked with the Treasury on spending conditions\".\n\nAsked what safeguards were in place where companies were run by Conservative Party members, he said: \"All contracts will be published by DHSC and their value.\"\n\nThe government has spent £15bn on PPE since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to a Treasury statement earlier this week.\n\nOf this, the details of PPE contracts worth £1.5bn have been published on the government's website.\n\nIn responding to the coronavirus crisis, the government has forgone the tendering process under which contracts are usually handed out.\n\nInstead, it has tended to use an emergency procedure, in which contracts are handed directly to companies without competition.\n\nP14 Medical, based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, was awarded two contracts worth a total of £120m to supply PPE to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).\n\nThe deal was the third largest PPE contract awarded by the DHSC that has been published so far.\n\nSteve Dechan, the director of P14 Medical, is a Conservative councillor on Stroud Town Council and campaigned for the local MP Siobhan Baillie at the 2019 election.\n\nThe company, a specialist in pain management technologies, was handed the contracts despite recording significant losses in 2019.\n\nP14 told the Financial Times the losses were owing to heavy investment in new chronic pain technology that it plans to market in Europe and the Middle East this summer.\n\nIt said it had saved the government £55m on its face shield contracts, which had been completed \"ahead of time and on budget\".\n\nThe contracts were awarded directly to the company without a competitive tendering process.\n\nIn an email, Mr Dechan told the BBC: \"We are an expert company that has been in medical supplies for eight years including PPE that has managed to deliver on a big contract that the 'big companies' could not.\n\n\"I only know a couple MPs through local campaigning on issues, only met ministers (no current ones) on [general election] campaign trails. Never discussed PPE.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are so proud that we stood up and unlike many got it done and protected our customers.\"\n\nLabour shadow health minister Justin Madders said the contracts awarded to P14 Medical raised questions about transparency.\n\n\"On the face of it this company's connections to the Conservative Party appear to be stronger than their experience in delivering PPE.\n\n\"Serious questions need to be asked about how they managed to obtain such a lucrative contract without any track record to speak of.\n\n\"Ministers need to adopt total transparency and release all details of how these contracts were awarded.\n\n\"There is more than a sniff of contracts being awarded on the basis of who you know, which can only be answered by the government coming clean on the process they followed.\"\n\nQuestions have also been raised about large contracts awarded to other small firms with limited experience of supplying PPE.\n\nCampaigners are seeking a judicial review into the award of a £32m contract to PestFix Ltd, a pest control company in Sussex.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Health and Social Care said: \"We have been working around the clock to deliver PPE to protect people on the frontline during this global pandemic.\n\n\"Almost 28 billion items of PPE have been ordered from UK-based manufacturers and international partners to provide a continuous supply over the coming months.\n\n\"We have a robust process to ensure orders are of high-quality standard and meet commercial due diligence.\"", "A cow that got stranded at the bottom of a steep bank on the Northumberland/Cumbria border has been finally freed.\n\nThe 15-year-old Galloway got stuck at the Crammel Linn waterfall near Gilsland on Monday night.\n\nIt is thought a visitor left a gate open and the cow found its way down from its field to the water's edge.\n\nThe area has been hit by heavy rain for days, and the frightened animal was unable to make its way back up the hill due to the soft ground.\n\nThe fire and rescue service from nearby RAF Spadeadam joined other rescuers in a bid to try and guide the animal to safety, but in the end it had to be sedated and airlifted out by an RAF helicopter.", "Johnny Depp told a court his ex-wife Amber Heard told \"porkie pies\" about him\n\nJohnny Depp has accused his ex-wife Amber Heard of severing the tip of his finger, as his libel claim against the Sun newspaper continues.\n\nThe actor told the High Court Ms Heard, 34, threw a vodka bottle at him which cut the top of his finger and \"crushed the bones\".\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing for libel over a Sun article that called him a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper maintains the story was accurate.\n\nThe April 2018 piece by journalist Dan Wootton was about the casting of Mr Depp in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film franchise.\n\nMr Depp's lawyers say the article made \"defamatory allegations of the utmost seriousness\", by accusing him of committing serious assaults on Ms Heard.\n\nOn the third day of proceedings at London's High Court, Sasha Wass QC, representing Sun publisher News Group Newspapers, said Ms Heard had been subjected to a \"three-day ordeal\" during which Mr Depp had \"completely destroyed\" the house they were staying in during a drug-fuelled rage.\n\nMs Wass said Mr Depp had accused the actress of having affairs with her \"leading man\" while the couple were in Australia where he was filming one of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in March 2015. He then threw Ms Heard against a ping-pong table and pushed her up against a fridge, Ms Wass said.\n\nMr Depp denied the accusation, adding: \"After the incident where Ms Heard threw the vodka bottle, the second vodka bottle at me, which severed the top of my finger and crushed the bones, that's when I began what I feel was probably some species of a breakdown, a nervous breakdown or something.\"\n\nMr Depp said he then began to write on mirrors and walls using the injured finger, saying he \"didn't want to live at that time\".\n\nJohnny Depp said his finger was injured when Amber Heard threw a bottle of vodka at him\n\nMs Wass said to Mr Depp: \"At one stage when you were in the kitchen, screaming at Ms Heard, you picked up the wall-mounted telephone.\"\n\nShe said Mr Depp had the phone in his right hand and was \"repeatedly smashing it against the wall\".\n\nHe added: \"I remember ripping the phone off the wall.\"\n\nMs Wass asked: \"By this stage, you were really, really angry, weren't you?\"\n\nMr Depp said: \"I had just lost the top of my finger and as a musician - as a human being and as a musician - it is upsetting.\"\n\nMs Wass asked Mr Depp about previously saying that he had been responsible for losing the top of his finger.\n\nHe said he had said that to \"protect Ms Heard\" when he had to tell the production company he could not work.\n\nMs Heard has previously denied injuring Mr Depp's finger saying he injured it while pulling the phone off the wall.\n\nMs Wass said Ms Heard had come down to a \"state of complete carnage\" in the house with Mr Depp holding up his injured hand and saying \"Look what you made me do.\" He said that was \"incorrect\".\n\nMr Depp admitted he had said their relationship as \"a crime scene waiting to happen\" on several occasions.\n\nThe hearing also focussed on a detox trip Mr Depp and Ms Heard took to his private island in the Bahamas in August 2014.\n\nThe trip is one of 14 occasions on which incidents of domestic violence, all denied by Mr Depp, are alleged to have taken place - and which NGN are using in their defence against the actor's libel claim.\n\nMr Depp was asked during cross-examination if he had \"hit and pushed\" Ms Heard, to which he said: \"I didn't push Ms Heard or attack her in any way, as certainly I was not in any condition to do so.\"\n\nThe court heard medical notes suggesting Ms Heard believed Mr Depp was jealous of her professional work with another actor, James Franco.\n\nShe said one doctor wrote: \"Her movie with JF [James Franco] precipitated a binge that put JD in the hospital. Everyone around J [Johnny Depp] seems to be intimidated by his power and money. No-one stands up to him.\"\n\nMr Depp said: \"I think she was telling porky pies with her psychiatrist.\"\n\nAmber Heard has attended every day of the court case so far\n\nEarlier, Ms Wass read out medical notes by Mr Depp's own doctor, David Kipper, which said the actor \"romanticises the entire drug culture and has no accountability for his behaviour\".\n\nThe doctor also wrote that Mr Depp paid \"lip service\" to people like Sir Elton John \"more for their celebrity than their struggle with sobriety\".\n\nDuring another argument at their Los Angeles penthouse Mr Depp admitted \"accidentally\" headbutting Ms Heard but claimed she was \"flailing and punching\" him.\n\nIn a recorded conversation shortly after the incident, which was played to the the High Court, Mr Depp appeared to say he had headbutted his ex-wife in the forehead and added: \"That doesn't break a nose.\"\n\nHe told the court he had tried to get hold of her \"to stop her flailing and punching me\" and as he did so \"it seems there was a collision\".\n\nMs Heard and Mr Depp were married in 2015 and separated two years later\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\"\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the Pirates of the Caribbean star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.\n\nMr Depp, has been Oscar and Bafta-nominated and won a Golden Globe in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.", "The UK government is expected to confirm later whether it will opt out of an EU scheme to secure potential Covid-19 vaccine supplies.\n\nThe EU has launched other schemes, during the pandemic, to secure things like testing kits and personal protective equipment (PPE) - negotiating with suppliers on behalf of EU member states.\n\nThe UK was allowed to join these (because it is still in a transition period with the EU) but chose not to .\n\nSo, how are the schemes getting on?\n\nThe European Commission says its PPE procurement plan can potentially provide up to 20 million goggles, 12 million face shields and over 350 million masks of different types. It says the ventilator scheme can deliver 110,000 units.\n\nIt says orders so far include: Belgium placing one for 2.6 million FFP2 masks and Austria for 500,000.\n\nLatvia’s order for 25,000 goggles and 100,000 surgical masks was delivered in June. Bulgaria’s order for 55 ventilators is expected to be delivered by the end of July.\n\nLuxembourg has received its order for 1,000,000 gloves.", "There is \"no longer anxiety about widespread community transmission of coronavirus around two north Wales food plants, the first minister has said.\n\nThere have been 634 confirmed Covid-19 cases at meat plants in Wales - 283 at Rowan Foods in Wrexham, 134 at Kepak in Merthyr Tydfil and the 217 cases at 2 Sisters at Llangefni on Anglesey.\n\nMark Drakeford said the latest advice \"does indeed suggest that we are probably past the most concerning time\" at Rowan Foods and 2 Sisters.\n\nOn Rowan Foods, he said ministers were hopeful that an update from the outbreak control team later today would \"confirm that the measures that we were looking to the company to put in place have been put in place, and that it can continue to operate in that new way\".\n\nMr Drakeford said the experience had shown the importance of accurate record-keeping for tracing \"when you are working with a population which is often drawn from countries outside the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"Some of the people who we have struggled the most to contact are people where names and addresses have not been properly recorded, where the spelling of people's names is many and various, where telephone numbers are not been properly transcribed,\" he told the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus news conference.\n\n\"I think we've learned something about being prepared to communicate in languages other than Welsh and English.\n\n\"For some of the workers at Rowan Foods being able to see information in their own language, their native language, is important and we will be better prepared to do that more quickly if we face a similar outbreak in the future.\"\n\nRowan Foods in Wrexham has seen 283 cases of coronavirus confirmed Image caption: Rowan Foods in Wrexham has seen 283 cases of coronavirus confirmed", "Emma Pratt's first appointment to register Skye's birth was cancelled due to lockdown\n\n\"It's been a weird feeling to know she technically doesn't exist,\" says Emma Pratt.\n\nHer newborn daughter, Skye, was born the week before lockdown began. She is now almost four months old, but her birth still hasn't been registered.\n\nNormally, babies have to be registered with the local council within 42 days of being born, or 21 days in Scotland. But during the coronavirus lockdown, many councils paused all birth registrations - and are only now starting up again. It means they're faced with backlogs of thousands of babies to register. And for the parents, it can cause practical problems.\n\n\"It's just annoying,\" says Ms Pratt, 35, from Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross. \"It's something that should have been done within weeks of her being born and we are now four months.\n\n\"We can't open a bank account and my auntie had brought her premium bonds and we had to provide her identity, which we haven't been able to do. So that's been all cancelled.\n\n\"People have really kindly sent us cheques and we haven't been able to deposit them. It's really frustrating.\"\n\nMs Pratt finally managed to book an appointment to register the birth, face to face, for next Friday.\n\n\"It's funny because people have been saying she doesn't officially belong, and she doesn't,\" she adds. \"We could even change her name now if we wanted to, and that's crazy.\"\n\nFor new mum Olivia McDermott, 24, registering her son Elijah's birth meant the difference between continuing with her training to become a nurse.\n\nMs McDermott would have had to drop out of her nurse training course if her baby wasn't registered\n\nWithout a birth certificate, she could not apply for a childcare grant, and without the grant she said she would not be able to continue her course.\n\n\"Goodbye, dream job,\" says Ms McDermott, from Leeds. \"I'm meant to be going into my final year of training to be a nurse. I was just like, I won't be able to come in.\n\n\"There's a massive shortage of nurses, and the birth certificate is stopping me.\"\n\nShe and her partner checked the council website every morning to see when registrations would resume. She eventually got an appointment and registered her son on Wednesday. \"Now I'm able to register him I'm feeling a lot better,\" she says.\n\nMs McDermott adds that it has been \"really hard\" having your first baby in lockdown. \"Normally, you have an idea in your head of what it will be like when you first have a baby, with all your friends and your family. But there wasn't any of that. Luckily I have a partner.\"\n\nDespite the added hassle, Ms McDermott says she is now optimistic about the future.\n\n\"Although it caused me anxiety about the funding and not having his birth certificate, I'm just happy that they have managed to open safely as that is so important for this time that we are in.\"\n\nMs McDermott said she wouldn't have enough money to live on without the childcare grant\n\nOne of the most common problems with the delay has been getting passports. Parents whose families live abroad are desperate to get a passport so they can introduce their babies.\n\nAgi, who did not want her second name used, wants to take her newborn son to Poland to meet her parents and elderly grandmother.\n\n\"It didn't occur to me, I almost booked flights for August,\" says Agi, who lives in south-east London.\n\nBecause her son was born two weeks ago, he will be \"at the back of the queue\" compared to the babies born at the beginning of lockdown, she adds. Many councils have resumed registrations but are prioritising babies by the dates they were born. Her council is currently only registering babies born before the end of March.\n\n\"This is the most frustrating aspect, the lack of communication and not knowing how big the delay I'm looking at,\" she says.\n\n\"Are we looking at weeks, a month, six months? I have an elderly grandmother who would ideally like to see her great grandson.\n\n\"There's talk of swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms opening but you can't register the birth of your child.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils, has urged the government to allow birth registrations to be done over the phone, to help clear the backlog.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"With birth registrations having to be suspended for three months due to the pandemic, councils are experiencing a considerable backlog in registrations. Now that registrations have resumed, councils are offering appointments in some registration offices where they have been able to put in place safety measures to protect families as they work through this backlog, and are planning to open further offices soon.\n\n\"The registrations have to be done face to face, which is why we are urging government to consider allowing them to be done over the phone or online in the future, and as part of any further local or national lockdowns in response to the pandemic.\n\n\"Greater flexibility in the birth registration process would help councils reduce delays and families enjoy a smoother experience.\"\n\nThe government has warned parents they still may not be able to register a birth at the moment because of the virus, but \"you'll be able to register at a later date\". Despite this, councils say parents can still apply for child benefit and Universal Credit.\n\nAnd as lockdown is eased further, parents of newborn babies can begin introducing them to the wider world and their social circles. But for some parents, they will just have to wait a little longer before their baby becomes \"official\".", "There were more than 160 cases of sports coaches engaging in sexual activity with a 16- or 17-year-old in their care since 2016, a BBC investigation has found - prompting campaigners to say the law must be changed \"urgently\".\n\nVictims, MPs and the NSPCC have renewed calls for a legal \"loophole\" to be closed to ban anyone holding a position of responsibility over a child from having a sexual relationship with them.\n\nIt is illegal for certain professions, including teachers and doctors, to engage in sexual activity with children, even if they are over the age of consent.\n\nHowever, the Sexual Offences Act does not extend to sports coaches.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is carrying out a review of the legislation, and says it will outline its plans \"in due course\", but Sarah Champion MP said the figures obtained by the BBC were \"irrefutable\" evidence that the law needs to be changed \"immediately\".\n\nA Freedom of Information request by BBC Sport asked all councils in England and Wales for complaints made to them about cases involving sexual activity with a 16- or 17-year-old by a person potentially in a position of trust.\n\nThe complaints are referred to the local authorities because they do not constitute a potential crime under the Sexual Offences Act.\n\nIn the last four years 164 cases involved sports coaches or adults working in sport, out of a total of 1,481 cases recorded.\n\nMs Champion, MP for Rotherham, told BBC Sport: \"There is a gaping legal loophole that perpetrators of child abuse are walking straight into.\n\n\"I've been raising this with government for six years now and my frustration is that we keep on having reviews.\n\n\"In the intervening years while the government hasn't acted and has just had consultation after consultation, more children have had their lives wrecked.\"\n\nShe said the BBC's figures for the number of cases \"makes it irrefutable to the government that they have to act on this\", but warned the numbers are the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\n\"The vast, vast majority of these cases will never be reported,\" she said.\n\n\"And part of the reason for that is these sports coaches are grooming these children into believing they are in a legitimate relationship. It's not. It's an abuse of their power position.\n\n\"It will take sometimes decades for the young people to realise exactly what was going on and speak out about it. So 160 people that we know about will be a tiny minority of the actual people that are abusing their position.\"\n\nAlthough abuse of positions of trust by sports coaches is not a criminal offence, unless they work in an educational setting such as schools, some councils referred the cases onto the police for consideration of further action.\n\nIt is also possible the relevant sports governing bodies and other safeguarding authorities were alerted to these cases, and may have followed their own disciplinary proceedings.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Abuse of power is abhorrent and these crimes rightly carry tough sentences. We have reviewed the law in this area and will set out our plans in due course.\"\n\nThis area of the law has been the subject of scrutiny for several years.\n\nIn 2017, in the wake of the football child sex abuse scandal, then Sports Minister Tracey Crouch announced that a change to the law had been agreed by the Ministry of Justice and Home Office.\n\nHowever, it has been subject to a lengthy judicial review, and the Sexual Offences Act remains unchanged.", "Five people have been arrested in connection to the death of rapper Pop Smoke.\n\nThe 20-year-old was killed in a suspected robbery in February. Three men and two under the age of 18 are in custody, say the Los Angeles Police Department.\n\n\"The suspects robbed and shot Jackson inside the residence, killing him,\" police say in a statement.\n\nThe arrests come a week after Pop Smoke's debut album was released.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LAPD HQ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 19 February police received a call about a robbery in West Hollywood just before 5am.\n\nIt was from one of the Brooklyn rapper's friends in New York, who told police they had been contacted by a friend within the residence about a break-in, and that one of the intruders had a handgun.\n\nPolice say several people entered the rental property.\n\nThe LAPD have identified the three adults arrested on Thursday 9 July 2020 as Corey Walker, 19, and Keandre Rodgers, 18, who are charged with murder, and 21-year-old Jaquan Murphy, charged with attempted murder.\n\nPop Smoke performed with Skepta at shows in London, Glasgow and Birmingham at the end of last year\n\nThe LAPD statement also mentioned the killing of another man, Kamryn Stone - an 18-year-old who was killed in September 2019.\n\n\"During the course of the investigation, it was revealed that members of a Los Angeles street gang were involved in the murder of Jackson; as well as the murder of 18-year-old Kamryn Stone.\"\n\nWhether the five people arrested in connection to Pop Smoke's death are also believed to have been involved with the death of Kamryn Stone was not clear from the statement.\n\nPop Smoke's posthumous debut album was released last week, and fans told Radio 1 Newsbeat the rapper had left them \"something special\".\n\n\"He was definitely destined for great things,\" fan Malluchi Boateng said on the day Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon was released.\n\n\"If you look at what he did in about 14 months of his career, most artists do that in five or six years.\"\n\nThe New York rapper found fans in the UK, in part, because he used drill beats produced from this side of the Atlantic.\n\nHe had relationships with artists like AJ Tracey, Fredo and Dave - and his previous mixtape featured a freestyle on the same beat as Headie One's iconic tune Know Better.\n\n\"The UK has a thing where we can see who the up-and-coming US rap stars are, it's a weird one. Pop Smoke was the front runner in that,\" music journalist Abubakar Finiin told Newsbeat.\n\n\"It's a shame we didn't see it proper come into fruition.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here", "A number of clinics around the world say they are seeing a rise in people getting surgery\n\nA number of cosmetic surgery clinics around the world are reporting a rise in people getting treatment during the coronavirus outbreak as they can hide their treatment behind a mask or work from home.\n\nDespite the virus shutting businesses across the globe, a number of plastic surgery clinics have remained open, adopting stricter measures such as Covid-19 tests and more frequent cleaning.\n\nClinics in the US, Japan, South Korea and Australia have all seen a rise in patients coming in for treatment including lip fillers, botox, face lifts and nose jobs.\n\n\"I decided to get procedures done during quarantine because it allowed me to heal at my own pace,\" Aaron Hernandez, who had lip fillers and buccal (cheek) fat removal in Los Angeles, told the BBC.\n\n\"Getting my lips done is not something that all men tend to do, so some people might find it different. Therefore I preferred to stay home and recover fully and people not know what work I had done once I'm out.\"\n\nThe last time he had the procedure done before quarantine, he said, he had to go out in public for work and his lips were \"extremely swollen and bruised\".\n\nDr Rod J Rohrich, a cosmetic surgeon based in Texas, said he was seeing a lot more patients. \"Even more than I would say is normal. We could probably operate six days a week if we wanted to. It's pretty amazing,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said usually people would have to factor in recovery at home when considering surgery but now that many people are working from home, this doesn't need to be considered.\n\n\"They can actually recover at home and also they can have a mask that they wear when they go outside after a rhinoplasty or facelift. People want to resume their normal lives and part of that is looking as good as they feel.\"\n\nIt's not just the US that is seeing a rise in patients during the outbreak.\n\nSouth Korea, well-known for its cosmetic surgery, was one of the first countries to see cases of the virus. Instead of enforcing a nationwide lockdown, it had a social distancing plan with people encouraged to work from home.\n\nCosmetic clinics have seen a decline in foreign visitors however locals have been coming to clinics for treatments. A number of clinics chose to offer a discount to locals.\n\nCosmetic surgery is incredibly popular in South Korea and locals have flocked to clinics\n\nA 54-year-old middle school teacher who had eyelid surgery in February told Joongang Daily that \"every plastic surgery clinic I visited was packed\".\n\nBK Hospital in Seoul told the BBC that at the beginning of the pandemic, people were nervous but more locals had begun to come to the clinic.\n\n\"Patients started to feel safe and comfortable to have surgery, despite Covid-19. The number of patients is increasing continuously,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Despite coronavirus, the number is estimated to increase by half compared to the same season last year.\"\n\nInquiries from foreign patients have also increased, the spokesperson said.\n\n\"The number of online enquiries has increased significantly since there has been an opportunity to have online consultations and get prepared in advance for a trip once travelling restrictions will be lifted.\"\n\nPeople in Japan were told to stay at home during the outbreak\n\nJapan has not had an official lockdown, however Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a state of emergency which lasted until the end of May. People were asked to stay at home.\n\nDespite this, clinics also saw a rise in patients wishing to get treatment.\n\nThe surge prompted Japan's Association of Aesthetic Medicine to warn that cosmetic treatments were \"not essential for many people\". It asked people to stay away from surgeries to \"prevent further spread of the virus\".\n\n\"As an outpatient plastic surgery clinic equipped to provide same-day procedures, we have definitely seen an influx of patients who desire to have treatments done during this period,\" said Michelle Tajiri, clinic co-ordinator at Bliss Clinic in Fukuoka.\n\n\"The main reasons are that they are off work and downtime isn't an issue, as well as the fact that everyone is wearing masks and thus any facial procedures can be easily disguised.\"\n\nFor Mr Hernandez, surgery during the outbreak was perfect timing. \"It definitely allowed me more time to heal. I was able to take medication I probably would not have been able to take if I was driving and I was able to ice my lips and face area more.\"", "When libraries went into lockdown, the buildings and books were off-limits but their kindness, connection and sense of community continued.\n\nWe went to Ipswich Library to hear how people have been finding solace in more than just the pages of a favourite book.\n\nAs the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace, book lovers were just as quick to act.\n\nLibraries found their shelves being cleared as novels, children's picture stories and recipes were borrowed in their thousands.", "The vast majority of emissions cuts from electric cars will be wiped out by new road-building, a report says.\n\nThe government says vehicle emissions per mile will fall as zero-emissions cars take over Britain’s roads.\n\nBut the report says the 80% of the CO2 savings from clean cars will be negated by the £27bn planned roads programme.\n\nIt adds that if ministers want a “green recovery” the cash would be better spent on public transport, walking, cycling, and remote-working hubs.\n\nAnd they point out that the electric cars will continue to increase local air pollution through particles eroding from brakes and tyres.\n\nThe calculations have been made by an environmental consultancy, Transport for Quality of Life, using data collected by Highways England.\n\nThe paper estimates that a third of the predicted increase in emissions would come from construction - including energy for making steel, concrete and asphalt.\n\nA third would be created by increased vehicle speeds on faster roads.\n\nAnd a further third would be caused by extra traffic generated by new roads stimulating more car-dependent housing, retail parks and business parks.\n\nIts authors say history shows that building roads almost always generates more traffic.\n\nThe report says even with the government’s most optimistic estimate of the adoption rate for electric vehicles, emissions from trunk roads and motorways in England are not on track to meet “net zero“ by 2050.\n\nA government spokesperson told BBC News the report is based on old data.\n\n“This assessment is wholly incorrect and doesn’t take into account the benefits from the massive surge in electric vehicles,\" he said.\n\n\"The Road Investment Strategy is consistent with our ambition to improve air quality and decarbonise transport.\"\n\nThe report’s lead author, Lynn Sloman, said the electric car revolution would happen too slowly for transport to achieve the UK's carbon-cutting goals.\n\n“If we are to meet the legally-binding carbon budgets, we need to make big cuts in carbon emissions over the next decade,\" she said.\n\n\"That will require faster adoption of electric cars - but it will also require us to reduce vehicle mileage by existing cars.\n\n“Unfortunately, the Government’s £27 billion road programme will make things worse, not better.”\n\nThe government accepts that overall mileage should be cut.\n\nBut it says the impact of the new roads programme on emissions will be a fraction of the report’s predicted figure.\n\nThe AA president, Edmund King, supports some road-building. He told BBC News said: “We believe post-lockdown that more people will continue to work from home, drive less and cycle and walk more.\n\n“But even with investment in broadband and active travel, we will still need road investment - particularly to overcome the congestion hotspots to help get our goods to market.”\n\nMs Sloman, who works regularly as a consultant for the Department for Transport, responded: “More roads just mean more cars. Decades of road investment have not solved congestion.\n\n“Sustained lobbying for more money for roads, leaving less for public transport, cycling and walking, is one of the reasons we now face a climate emergency. We can’t afford any more to indulge this Toad of Toad Hall model of mindless road-building.”\n\nShe also says the government can't ignore the continuing air pollution that will be caused by particles from the brakes and tyres of electric cars.\n\nThis pollution could actually be increased if the fashion for heavy battery-powered SUVs continues.\n\nMs Sloman said: \"This is an institutional problem. There are people in the Department for Transport and Highways England who have built their careers on big road building budgets, and they won't easily give them up.\n\n“But there are also some officials - and perhaps some politicians - who are starting to recognise that the climate emergency means we need a radically different approach to transport.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport is currently consulting on a decarbonisation strategy, and will publish its plan later in the year.", "Glee star Naya Rivera has been missing since Wednesday after going on a boat trip in California with her young son.\n\nCCTV footage, released by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, shows Rivera arriving at the dock with her son and leaving on the hire boat.\n\nShe is believed to have drowned in a \"tragic accident\", police say.", "Leisure facilities and beauty services in England will be allowed to reopen, the government has announced.\n\nPools, gyms, nail bars and tattooists will be able to open their doors again, and team sports - starting with cricket - will be allowed to resume.\n\nAnnouncing the changes at a briefing at No 10, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden urged people to \"work out to help out\".\n\nOutdoor performances will also be able to resume with limited audiences.\n\nIt came as the UK reported the deaths of a further 85 people who tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths to 44,602.\n\nMr Dowden said \"all the data\" was continuing to \"move in the right direction\" despite the reopening of pubs and restaurants last weekend.\n\nHe said normal life was \"slowly returning\" and that this was an important milestone for the country's performers and artists, who had been \"waiting in the wings since March\".\n\n\"I'm really urging people to get out there and to play their part,\" he said. \"Buy the tickets for outdoor plays and musical recitals, get to your local gallery and support your local businesses.\"\n\nBut the culture secretary warned the measures were conditional and reversible, adding that the government would impose local lockdowns if cases started to spike.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dowden: 'We need to get the nation match fit to defeat this disease'\n\nNot all forms of beauty treatment will be able to go ahead, as some are deemed too high-risk. These include face waxing, sugaring or threading services, facial treatments, make-up application and eyebrow treatments.\n\nVanita Parti, chief executive of walk-in beauty chain Blink Brow Bar, said that at first she had welcomed the news but then she received an email from the British Beauty Council telling her no treatments to the face would be allowed.\n\n\"I'm furious. We can't reopen,\" she said. \"This will kill so many businesses.\"\n\nGuidance for the reopening of sports facilities has been published, including on cleaning regimes, social distancing and protection for staff.\n\nMeasures include limiting the number of people using a facility at one time, reducing class sizes and spacing out equipment. Face coverings will not be mandatory in gyms.\n\nSmall numbers of supporters will be able to watch outdoor sports, provided social distancing measures and group size rules are followed.\n\nEach sport will have to submit an action plan to the government of how it will operate safely, with sports where a single ball is used having to show how they can reduce the risk of it transmitting the virus.\n\nThe government said a team led by England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam had been visiting sports sites to see the sector's preparations to reopen safely.\n\nWhen put to him that the restrictions would make exercise \"less fun\", Mr Dowden said people would get used to the new measures.\n\nHe said: \"The judgment we've taken with this [pubs] and swimming pools and elsewhere is it is better to reopen with those restrictions than not reopen at all.\"\n\nActors' union Equity welcomed the reopening of outdoor productions but called for further protection for venues, while Julian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, said more clarity was needed regarding indoor performances.\n\nThe announcements follow the government's pledge of £1.57bn to support the arts industry.", "Glee star Naya Rivera went missing on Wednesday after going out boating with her son.\n\nThe boy was found asleep on the boat alone. He told police he and his mother had gone swimming but she didn't return to the boat.\n\nOn Monday, police said a body found in Lake Piru in California had been identified as Rivera.\n\nSheriff Bill Ayub of the Ventura County Sheriff Department said there was no indication of foul play or that she took her own life.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The culture secretary promised to act to protect theatres and other venues from demolition\n\nOpen-air gigs, festivals and theatre shows can resume in England from this weekend, as long as they have \"a limited and socially distanced audience\", the government has said.\n\nOutdoor performances can go ahead from Saturday, 11 July.\n\nA number of small indoor test events will also take place to help plan how and when venues can begin to reopen.\n\nThose pilot performances will also be socially distanced, and guidelines for indoor venues have been published.\n\nThe test events will feature the London Symphony Orchestra at St Luke's Church, as well as performances at the London Palladium and Butlin's holiday parks.\n\n\"This is an important milestone for our performing artists, who have been waiting patiently in the wings since March,\" Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said.\n\nThe Minack Theatre in Cornwall was cited as one venue that can reopen\n\n\"Of course we won't see crowds flooding into their venues, but from 11 July our theatres, operas, dance and music shows can start putting on outdoor performances to socially distant audiences.\n\n\"That means theatregoers can experience a live play for the first time in months at places like the stunning Minack Theatre in Cornwall, and music lovers can attend Glyndebourne this summer.\"\n\nCapacities will be reduced and the venues will be asked to use electronic ticketing in order to keep a record of visitor details in case they are needed by the test and trace system, he said.\n\nThe announcement means 11 July will mark the start of stage three of the government's roadmap for reopening the live entertainment industry.\n\nThere are no dates for stages four and five - indoor performances with a limited audience, and indoor performances with a fuller audience. However the government has said dance studios can reopen from 25 July.\n\nNew guidelines for future performances in England have also been published, with recommendations including:\n\nJulian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, said the guidance was \"welcome\", but urged the government to provide more clarity regarding indoor performances.\n\nThe government has also commissioned a scientific study on the risks associated with singing and brass instruments.\n\nAnd Mr Dowden said planning rules would be changed to prevent empty venues from being demolished or redeveloped.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Amazon has said an email sent to employees asking them to remove the video-sharing app TikTok from any mobile device that can access their company email was sent in error.\n\nAn internal memo sent to staff earlier on Friday had said employees should delete the app over \"security risks\".\n\nThe app, owned by a Chinese company, has come under scrutiny because of fears it could share data with China.\n\nTikTok said it did not understand Amazon's concerns.\n\n\"This morning's email to some of our employees was sent in error. There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok\", a company spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nBut earlier on Friday, a memo sent to staff seen by multiple news outlets stated that the app must be removed from mobile devices.\n\n\"Due to security risk, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email.\n\n\"If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by July 10 to retain mobile access to Amazon email\", it read.\n\nTikTok said the company had not received any communication from Amazon before the email went out.\n\nArtificial intelligence-powered short video app TikTok is one of the most downloaded mobile apps in the world, and its popularity has only grown during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThis has drawn the attention of the Trump administration - on Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News that it was considering a ban on Chinese social media apps.\n\nMr Pompeo went so far as to say that TikTok users risk their private information ending up \"in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party\".\n\nTikTok is owned by Chinese start-up ByteDance, which has taken pains to point out that its chief executive is American.\n\nIt has also said publicly several times that it has never, and will never, share TikTok users' data with the Chinese authorities.\n\nAnd on Friday, the firm decided to halt its operations in Hong Kong - a move designed to show its distance from the Chinese government.\n\nBut many people use their smartphones for both recreation and to access their work email accounts.\n\nTikTok is on many personal smartphones, and with rising numbers of cyber-security vulnerabilities regularly being discovered in both the Android and iOS mobile operating systems, perhaps Amazon is now starting to worry whether the app could perhaps be used to infiltrate devices.\n\n\"We still do not understand their concerns, we welcome a dialogue so we can address any issues they may have and enable their team to continue participating in our community,\" TikTok said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Fans are accusing TikTok creators of exploiting them for cash\n\nTikTok was launched outside mainland China by Beijing-based ByteDance to reach a global audience. It increased its popularity during the global coronavirus lockdowns with about 315 million people downloading the app in the first three months of this year, according to research firm Sensor Tower.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and an Australian member of parliament have recently suggested the app needs more scrutiny over its data and privacy policies because its headquarters are in China.\n\nMr Pompeo has banned Department of State employees from downloading the app and suggested it could also be banned in the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Majella O'Hare, 12, was fatally wounded going to church in Whitecross\n\nThe family of a young girl shot dead by a soldier in County Armagh in 1976 is calling for a fresh investigation.\n\nMajella O'Hare, 12, was fatally wounded going to church in Whitecross.\n\nSolicitors have written to the PSNI asking it to appoint an outside team to examine the case, stating previous investigations lacked independence.\n\nIt comes at a time when there is controversy surrounding proposals to deal with the past, with the government committed to protecting veterans.\n\nMichael O'Hare, the victim's brother, said: \"I am fighting for justice for Majella and if it weren't for the actions of the soldier, she would still be with us.\"\n\nIn 1977, a Parachute Regiment soldier, Michael Williams, was acquitted of her manslaughter, claiming he had opened fire in response to an IRA sniper attack.\n\nIn 2011, following a review of the case by the PSNI's Historical Enquiries Team, the Ministry of Defence said it was \"profoundly sorry\" for her death.\n\nIt added the explanation given for the soldier opening fire was \"unlikely\".\n\nMajella's father was a caretaker in the local school, close to where his daughter was shot, and was one of the first to arrive on the scene.\n\nMichael O'Hare says his father never recovered from the trauma.\n\n\"When my father arrived he knew that one of the children had been injured and hurt, but he didn't know it was Majella,\" he said.\n\n\"He ran to provide assistance and found it was his own daughter. The trauma began there and then and it didn't stop.\"\n\nAmnesty International is supporting the family's call for an independent investigation.\n\nIts Northern Ireland campaign manager, Grainne Teggart, said: \"The apology from the Ministry of Defence should have been swiftly followed by action and accountability.\n\n\"It is utterly appalling that the family have been left without justice for 44 years.\"\n\nThe PSNI said the \"tragic death\" of Majella O'Hare would be subject to \"future review\"\n\nMr O'Hare's solicitor, Darragh Mackin, added: \"The apology does not negate the need for an investigation - it in fact exacerbates the need for an investigation.\n\n\"The apology is tantamount to accepting that mistruths have been told to previous investigations.\"\n\nThe PSNI has previously referred some Troubles cases for investigation to Operation Kenova, the team headed by the former chief constable of Bedfordshire, Jon Boutcher.\n\nIn a statement the PSNI said the \"tragic death\" of Majella O'Hare would be subject to \"future review\" by its own Legacy Investigation Branch (LIB).\n\n\"Regrettably, due to the LIB caseload, which extends to more than 1,100 incidents touching on over 1,400 deaths, we are unable to give any undertaking as to when this review will commence,\" a statement added.\n\nThe PSNI wants Troubles cases taken off its hands.\n\nMajella pictured at home with her mother and father\n\nSix years ago the Stormont House Agreement put forward the creation of an independent Historical Investigations Unit, but it has not been implemented.\n\nRecently the government suggested alternative proposals which aim to limit new investigations.\n\nPart of its objective is to \"end the cycle of reinvestigations\" of Army veterans.\n\nNationalist parties have expressed strong opposition and the Irish government remains supportive of the original Stormont House plan.", "One of Boohoo's largest shareholders is dumping stock in the fashion firm after it said the company had failed to address concerns about working conditions at a supplier in Leicester.\n\nStandard Life Aberdeen (SLA) criticised Boohoo's response to exploitation claims as \"inadequate in scope, timeliness and gravity\".\n\nAllegations of poor pay and conditions at a factory emerged last weekend.\n\nBoohoo has since announced an independent review of its supply chain.\n\nThe fast fashion retailer's share price fell 2% to 279.7p each.\n\nA Sunday Times report claimed workers at a factory in Leicester - currently in local lockdown following a spike in Covid-19 cases - were paid just £3.50 an hour, while being offered no protection from coronavirus. It was making clothes for Boohoo's Nasty Gal brand.\n\nLesley Duncan, deputy head of UK equities at Aberdeen Standard Investments, SLA's fund management arm, said it had invested in Boohoo since its flotation in 2014.\n\nSLA holds a 3.3% stake in Boohoo, according to data provider Morningstar.\n\nMs Duncan said it had lobbied the company over a number of years on issues such as supply chain transparency.\n\n\"While we would have liked progress to have been quicker we did feel that progress was being made,\" Ms Duncan said.\n\nBoohoo also owns PrettyLittleThing, which has collaborated with celebrities like Little Mix\n\nBut she said that concerns had been growing in recent weeks \"which even before recent developments, had negatively impacted our conviction levels in the company\".\n\n\"Having spoken to Boohoo's management team a number of times this week in light of recent concerning allegations, we view their response as inadequate in scope, timeliness and gravity.\"\n\nThe company, which also owns the PrettyLittleThing brand, said it was \"appalled\" by the allegations and that it had asked a senior barrister to lead a review.\n\nHowever, other retailers have distanced themselves from Boohoo.\n\nNext, Asos and Zalando all announced on Tuesday that they had stopped selling Boohoo clothes on their websites.\n\nThe retailers said they were pausing relationships with Boohoo's brands, pending the outcome of the company's investigation.", "Holiday airline Jet2 has suspended all flights to Spain from Scotland as a result of the 14-day quarantine rule.\n\nPassengers travelling into Scotland from Spain have to go into isolation for 14 days after Nicola Sturgeon confirmed she would not yet allow an \"air bridge\" with the country.\n\nSpain and Serbia were left off the quarantine exemption list announced by the first minister earlier this week.\n\nThey were omitted due to concerns about the prevalence of Covid-19.\n\nFlights from Glasgow and Edinburgh Airports will not resume until 25 July, according to the airline.\n\nA spokeswoman for Jet2 said: \"Our customers have been eagerly awaiting clarity about where they can travel to from Scotland for some time, and based on the demand we are experiencing it is clear that they are ready for their much-needed and well-deserved holidays.\n\n\"Because of the travel restrictions that are still in place to Spain as a result of this week's announcement by the Scottish government, we have taken the decision to recommence our flights and holidays programmes from Edinburgh and Glasgow Airports to Mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands on 25 July 2020.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said cases entering Scotland from abroad was \"one of our biggest risk factors\"\n\nThe company said that customers would offered a refund or the chance to rebook.\n\nMost of the company's flights from Scotland to holiday destinations are due to resume on 15 July.\n\nFrom today, Scots are able to travel to 57 other countries without having to self-isolate on returning.\n\nThe first minister said it was a \"very difficult decision\" to make, but that it was needed to \"protect Scotland as far as possible from a resurgence of this virus in the weeks ahead\".\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Airport has warned that about a third of its 7,000 jobs are under threat.\n\nDirector of communications Gordon Robertson said the airport will not return to 2019 levels of business for another few years, and \"certainly not back to any kind of normality until 2021\".\n\nRedundancies are currently being negotiated, in consultation with unions.\n\n\"We employ 750 people there, and the airport employs around 7.000 people as a whole, and we think there will be up to a third of job losses across that, so it is a very challenging time,\" Mr Robertson told BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nHe said Spain was \"one of our biggest markets\" and a big chunk of the summer schedules for airports like Edinburgh, Glasgow and Prestwick.\n\n\"More importantly, decisions made now means aircraft might move to England and not come back for next year's summer schedule,\" he added.\n\n\"It has long-lasting impacts and we hope the Scottish government can make decisions quickly so we can get back to flying to Spain soon.\"", "Hundreds more cases are to be reviewed by an independent inquiry into maternity care at an NHS trust, BBC News has learned.\n\nAs many as 300 cases were discovered following an examination of records at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS trust.\n\nIt is understood the inquiry is now looking at about 1,500 cases of death or harm, most between 1998 and 2017.\n\nThe Shrewsbury and Telford trust said it was co-operating with the inquiry and its maternity care was improving.\n\nLast week, West Mercia Police announced it had opened an investigation into whether criminal charges could be brought in relation to the maternity problems.\n\nThe independent review, chaired by Donna Ockenden, was ordered by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt in 2017 after two sets of parents who had both lost children through avoidable medical errors raised concerns about care.\n\nThat initial investigation into 23 deaths has continually expanded as more families have raised questions about the care they have received.\n\nBut the problems at the trust extend far beyond its maternity services. No other trust in England has as many conditions on its licence as Shrewsbury and Telford.\n\nInspectors, the Care Quality Commission, revealed last week that they had \"new and ongoing concerns around patient safety\" following an inspection in June.\n\nUrgent discussions were said to be taking place with NHS England.\n\nJanette O'Maoldhomhaigh has long wondered why her son Declan was still born at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.\n\nOn arriving there in October 2000, 33 weeks pregnant, she says she was placed on a monitor but after being left alone for about an hour, a doctor came and told her the baby had died.\n\nShe had to give birth to her son the following day, and needed the support of a charity to bury him.\n\n\"I didn't save money for a funeral as I didn't expect my son to die,\" she said.\n\nFollowing media reports, she has contacted the Ockenden inquiry to find out why her son died, why she was left alone for close to an hour and whether the wrong dosage of steroids was given to her for a long-standing chest complaint shortly before she gave birth.\n\nShrewsbury and Telford NHS trust has been in special measures since November 2018.\n\nWhen that downgrading was announced, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said external support would be offered to the trust by NHS England. But since then, care has deteriorated.\n\nIts accident and emergency department is regularly either the worst, or among the worst, in England. The number of patients seen within four hours of arrival has sometimes been as low as 65%.\n\nIn some months, hundreds of patients have spent more than 12 hours on trolleys waiting to be seen, while hundreds more are trapped in ambulances waiting for more than one hour to actually be admitted to hospital.\n\nThere is a widespread belief across Shropshire that while frontline staff are providing the best care they can, they've been let down for years by the trust's senior leadership.\n\nThe last CQC inspection was published in April.\n\nNinety-two breaches of legal requirements were found, and inspectors detailed 94 separate actions the trust must take.\n\nThe CQC found staff \"did not feel respected, valued, supported or appreciated\", and demonstrated high levels of bullying, harassment, discrimination, stress and work overload.\n\nDirectors of the trust described themselves as \"shocked\" that inspectors had downgraded their rating for providing a caring service - from good, to requires improvement.\n\nGill George, a long-time campaigner for better healthcare in Shropshire, said the biggest issue facing the trust was cultural, suggesting the senior team do not have a clear indication of what is happening at the trust.\n\nInspectors said \"leaders recognised the quality of data was poor however they were relying on and taking assurance from this data\".\n\nAccording to Ms George, \"because of quite a weak leadership over many, many years...what you have is a messy, complex, unhappy organisation with problems at virtually every level\".\n\nMaggie Bayley, interim chief nurse at the trust, said the potential new cases were found after the inquiry asked it to carry further checks, following an initial search of records held electronically.\n\nOn the latest CQC report, Ms Bayley said: \"We recognise that a significant amount of work needs to be undertaken to address the issues...\n\n\"There is a dedicated programme of improvement at the trust to address all the concerns raised with us. Some progress has been made, for example in our emergency departments.\"\n\nShe added: \"Services in maternity are now graded as being 'good' for caring, effectiveness and responsiveness....\n\n\"We are already receiving some positive feedback about the care we provide.\"", "EasyJet has been accused of intending to use pilots' sickness records when drawing up plans for over 700 job cuts.\n\nThe Balpa pilots' union said it was \"unnecessary and wrong\", claiming the airline was risking safety because unwell staff would report for work.\n\nEasyJet said general absenteeism could form part of its assessment, but denied sickness might be a key component.\n\nThe airline said it had put forward initial proposals for talks with Balpa which were at a very early stage.\n\nEasyJet is planning 727 pilot redundancies as part of up to 4,500 job cuts and a restructuring that includes closing bases at Stansted, Southend and Newcastle airports.\n\nThe airline has blamed the collapse in air travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAhead of the start of formal talks, Balpa said the airline has told pilot representatives it will use sickness as a component in choosing who loses their job.\n\nBrian Strutton, Balpa's general secretary, called it outrageous. \"Flight safety is built on a culture of openness and not fear of repercussions. This is a well understood and fundamental tenet for everyone involved in ensuring our skies are safe.\n\n\"It is unnecessary and wrong that easyJet is intending to use sickness as a stick to beat its safety-critical staff. EasyJet has in the past rightly encouraged pilots to report in sick or fatigued if they are unfit to fly - that is in everyone's best interest.\"\n\nHe said EasyJet was planning to use the start of the coronavirus period as part of its sickness timeframe, when staff may have been sick or shielding themselves.\n\nBut the airline rejected Balpa's claims: \"We would never put forward proposals which would compromise safety as we have an industry-leading safety culture, as Balpa acknowledges.\n\n\"Safety is our number one priority and we are focused on doing what is right for the long term health of the company and our people so we can protect jobs going forward,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\nThe airline said it is still setting out formal proposals for talks with Balpa, and while sickness might be one of the criteria, the focus would be on attendance and conduct.\n\n\"It is not true to say that sickness is a key component of the proposals. We have put forward a full range of criteria, including absence, for discussion with the union,\" the airline.\n\nEasyJet added that any general absentee assessment would be based on data from before coronavirus hit.\n\nThe airline said: \"We are focused on doing what is right for the long term health of the company and our people so we can protect jobs going forward.\"\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet said it had begun re-building its summer schedule and would be flying to and from all its UK bases across July and August, but at reduced capacity.\n\nThe airline said it planned to fly 50% of its 1,022 routes in July and 75% in August.\n\n\"We continue to monitor the flight volumes every two weeks and adjust capacity accordingly to latest booking trends,\" the EasyJet said.", "Not a single person was fined by police in England and Wales for breaching quarantine rules in the first two weeks after they were introduced, data shows.\n\nUnder the rules, people arriving in the UK must self-isolate for 14 days or face a fine of between £100 and £1,000.\n\nFrom Friday, those coming from certain countries will not have to quarantine.\n\nThe figures released also show police issued 10 fines to passengers for not wearing face coverings on public transport up to 22 June.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council, which published the data, said that up to 22 June, no fines were issued by forces in England and Wales for breaches of the quarantine rules after arriving in the UK from abroad.\n\nThe figures do not include fines given by the Border Force, which has issued three tickets.\n\nTwo British nationals were fined at Coquelles, near Calais, in northern France, on 28 June, while a European was fined in Hull the following day.\n\nThe government's quarantine policy, introduced on 8 June, was met with fierce criticism over the impact on the UK's travel, tourism and hospitality industries.\n\nFrom Friday morning, people arriving in the UK from France, Italy, Belgium, Germany and dozens of other countries will no longer have to spend 14 days in quarantine.\n\nHowever, Scotland still requires people travelling from Spain to quarantine - unlike England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the system was \"informed by science\" and designed to \"keep us all safe\".\n\nThere had been a \"high level of compliance\" with the rules, he said, which the government expects to continue.\n\nHe added that full data on the enforcement of the rules at the border would be published in \"due course\".\n\nFace coverings became mandatory on public transport on 15 June in England and passengers found breaking the rules can be being fined £100 and removed from services.\n\nThe British Transport Police was the only force to hand out fines in England and Wales, issuing 10 tickets up to 22 June.\n\nThe NPCC cautioned that the data did not include instances where someone had been refused travel, as police only intervene if \"significant issues\" are reported.\n\nA total of 18,656 fixed-penalty notices (FPNs), comprising 16,019 in England and 2,637 in Wales, have been recorded by forces up to 6 July, according to the provisional data.\n\nPolice were first given powers to disband gatherings and fine people for breaching restriction of movement rules under the Health Protection Regulations 2020 on 27 March.\n\nPolice broke up events at Clapham Common at the end of last month\n\nJust 97 fines were issued in England and 57 handed out in Wales during the two weeks to 6 July.\n\nThe figures do not include fines issued during the local lockdown in Leicester, which was announced on 30 June, although the laws enforcing it only came in on 3 July. People or businesses that repeatedly flout these new laws can be fined up to £3,200.\n\nMartin Hewitt, the NPCC chairman, stressed the need for everyone to be \"personally responsible\" in their daily lives by wearing face coverings \"where necessary\" and avoiding crowded public places.", "Playgrounds in Wales will open in just over a week's time\n\nWales' campsites, hairdressers, beauty salons, cinemas and playgrounds are to reopen in the next three weeks.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said playgrounds and community centres would reopen from 20 July.\n\nHe said campsites would reopen on 25 July \"provided we make a success of self-contained accommodation\" which opens on Saturday.\n\nCinemas, museums and galleries as well as beauty and tattoo parlours will be able to open on 27 July.\n\nHe said house viewings with owners present would also be possible from 27 July.\n\nChurches in Wales can reopen for public worship from 19 July, if they can meet safety regulations.\n\nBaptisms and holy communion will be able to be given for the first time since lockdown.\n\nSafety measures will include social distancing, following hygiene and cleaning rules and undergoing a safety assessment. This means not all will be able to open.\n\nConfirmation that pubs, restaurants and cafes can resume trading outdoors from Monday, as well as hairdressers, was given at the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nOutdoor sports, including team sports, can also resume - allowing up to 30 people to take part.\n\nIt is understood ministers are still in discussions with gym and leisure companies about the reopening of indoor gyms and swimming pools.\n\nMr Drakeford said there would be \"some limitations\" on the services beauticians can offer, calling some procedures \"particularly risky\".\n\nHe told Sky News the government would discuss with the industry which measures will need to be in place.\n\nSarah Bruton, from Captiva Spa in Caerphilly, said: \"What we don't know is which services we can offer, so while it's lovely to have a date, as a first step that's great, but we need some guidance.\"\n\nMs Bruton raised concerns that services on the face such as make-up and eyebrow shaping, may not be allowed - meaning some of her staff will still not be able to return to work.\n\n\"For us it's good because we can start bringing people back, we're already prepared because we expected this a few weeks ago, so that's brilliant.\"\n\nMs Bruton has half of her workers - the hairstylists - returning from Monday, with the other half still staying at home.\n\n\"It would be good to know we can bring the whole team back together, and we've had so many lovely messages from people saying how excited they are to come back for treatments and the social elements that come with it.\"\n\nSarah Bruton has invested in a temperature check gun and plastic screens to keep customers safe\n\nOn driving lessons, Mr Drakeford said ministers were in discussions with the agency responsible and trade unions, adding: \"Those discussions will continue next week and I'm optimistic we will be able to say something pretty rapidly about that.\"\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said while outdoor gyms can reopen from Monday, indoor gyms are places where coronavirus is \"particularly likely to spread\".\n\n\"We'll use the next three weeks to talk to indoor gym operators about how they could safely reopen,\" he told LBC radio.\n\n\"In a gym the nature of what you do me means that you breathe out heavily, and we've seen it in other parts of the world [that coronavirus can spread there].\n\n\"That's why noisy environments are dangerous for coronavirus, because when people start shouting then the breath goes further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Vera's cortege halted as it passed through her home town of Ditchling\n\nTwo Spitfires flew over the funeral procession of Dame Vera Lynn as family, friends and fans said goodbye to the Forces' Sweetheart.\n\nHer cortege was accompanied by the Battle of Britain flypast as it travelled through Ditchling in East Sussex at midday.\n\nDame Vera died last month at the age of 103 and her funeral was held at Woodvale Crematorium in Brighton.\n\nThe World War Two fighter planes made three passes over the village.\n\nHundreds of people had gathered to await the arrival of the cortege and the crowd applauded as the aircraft flew over.\n\nRepresentatives from the Royal British Legion stood with flags as they waited to honour Dame Vera.\n\nShops in the village displayed portraits of Dame Vera\n\nThe funeral procession stopped at the crossroads in the centre of Ditchling, where the singer lived for 50 years, to allow people to pay their respects.\n\nLater, as the procession made its way out of the village, there were shouts of \"hip hip hooray\" from the crowd.\n\nThe cheers were followed by a spontaneous rendition of We'll Meet Again, one of the songs Dame Vera was well-known for.\n\nA private service at the crematorium chapel included music from a bugler from the Royal Marines.\n\nThe family said a full memorial service would be held at a later date.\n\nPeople applauded as the Battle of Britain flypast took place\n\nDame Vera's daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, said Ditchling had always been special to her mother.\n\n\"That is why we know she would be touched that so many people want to pay their respects,\" she said.\n\nShe also urged people to continue to back the causes that were important to her mother, adding: \"We are sure her music will endure forever but most importantly, we hope that people will continue to support those charities that she cared about so much.\n\n\"It means so much to us to see my mother's legacy living on.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted footage of the flypast, saying it has been \"a farewell befitting a truly great Briton\".\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\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said Dame Vera's work would never be forgotten.\n\n\"Her support helped to sustain the fortitude of British personnel deployed around the world and those waiting for them to return,\" he said.\n\nChief of Defence Staff Sir Nick Carter said the Armed Forces would be \"forever grateful\" to Dame Vera, adding: \"Her lasting legacy of lifting spirits will remain.\"\n\nThe Spitfires made three passes over Ditchling as hundreds of people lined the streets\n\nEvery lamppost in the narrow streets of Ditchling bears a large poppy.\n\nUnion flags flutter in the breeze and shop windows display portraits of the woman who became known as the Forces' Sweetheart.\n\nCamera crews and photographers have descended on the village along with servicemen and women who have come to pay their respects.\n\nIt is a fond farewell for Dame Vera.\n\nA picture of Dame Vera and a video were projected on to Dover's white cliffs ahead of her funeral.\n\nThe lyrics of We'll Meet Again appeared as the music was played across the English Channel.\n\nThe projection on the 350ft cliffs was visible to ships and planes and could also be seen from the main road and some back gardens.\n\nThe singer was best known for performing hits such as We'll Meet Again to troops on the front line.\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\nDame Vera's face and the lyrics to We'll Meet Again were projected on to the cliffs at Dover\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The funeral of wartime singer Dame Vera Lynn has taken place.\n\nShe died in June at the age of 103.\n\nPeople lined the streets of her home town of Ditchling, East Sussex, to pay their respects to the woman who came to be known as the Forces' Sweetheart.", "The spire of Notre Dame cathedral, which was destroyed in a fire last April, will be restored according to the original Gothic design.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron announced the decision, putting an end to speculation that the spire would be rebuilt in a modern style.\n\nMr Macron had previously hinted he was in favour of a \"contemporary gesture\".\n\nHowever he has said he wants the restoration to be completed by 2024, when Paris is hosting the Olympics.\n\nThe Elysée said Mr Macron's main concern was \"not delaying the reconstruction and making it complicated - things had to be cleared up quickly\".\n\nIt added that the process of designing a modern spire, with an international competition for architects, could have caused unnecessary delays.\n\n\"The president trusts the experts and approved the main outlines of the project presented by the chief architect which plans to reconstruct the spire identically,\" the Elysée said.\n\nThe announcement followed a meeting of France's national heritage and architecture commission (CNPA).\n\nWhen the 13th century roof of the Paris cathedral caught fire during restoration works in April 2019 it sparked a vast outpouring of emotion, as well as donations from across the world.\n\nWithin two days about €900m ($1bn; £805m) had been raised for the cathedral's restoration.\n\nThe cathedral's first spire was built in the 13th Century, but due to extensive damage it was removed in the late 18th Century. Its replacement, designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, was built in the mid-19th Century.\n\nOne architects' firm drew up plans for a rooftop pool on the cathedral\n\nSince last year's fire, discussion over how to restore the spire has been tense.\n\nJean-Louis Georgelin, the army general put in charge of the reconstruction effort, wanted a modern alternative. This idea appeared briefly to have President Macron's backing, when he said he would be in favour of a \"contemporary gesture\".\n\nThis sparked a wave of unconventional proposals from architects around the world - including one design with a rooftop pool, and another with a giant park and greenhouse on the roof.\n\nBut the cathedral's chief architect Philippe Villeneuve spoke out strongly in favour of a faithful restoration to the previous, 19th Century design.\n\nIn one particularly heated exchange last November, Gen Georgelin told Mr Villeneuve to \"shut his mouth\" - causing audible gasps in a meeting of the National Assembly's cultural affairs committee.", "British Olympians Becky and Ellie Downie say abusive behaviour in gymnastics training became \"ingrained\" and \"completely normalised\".\n\nIt comes after several gymnasts told BBC Sport about what they called a \"culture of fear\" within the \"mentally and emotionally abusive\" sport.\n\nThe Downies said they had previously been afraid to speak out.\n\n\"We certainly didn't realise how wrong it was at the time,\" they said.\n\nThe World Championship medallists, both current members of the GB squad, added in a statement on Twitter : \"It's taken years and years to understand and come to terms with it.\n\n\"While exact experiences obviously vary, we both recognise the environment of fear and mental abuse those before us have described so bravely.\n\n\"For too long, the health and wellbeing of young girls has been of secondary importance to a dated, cruel, and - we'd argue - often ineffective culture within women's gymnastics training.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, British Gymnastics announced an independent review will take place following allegations of mistreatment from a number of athletes in recent days.\n\nThe governing body told BBC Sport on Thursday: \"The behaviours we have heard about in recent days are completely contrary to our standards of safe coaching and have no place in our sport.\n\n\"It is clear that gymnasts did not feel they could raise their concerns to British Gymnastics and it is vital that an Independent Review helps us better understand why so we can remove any barriers as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This review will ensure that all those with concerns about safeguarding and abuse have the correct and proper channel to raise any issues.\"\n\n'Deep scars which will never be healed'\n\nEllie Downie, 20, says she has been made to feel \"ashamed\" of her weight for almost all of her career, and to this day \"still hides food\".\n\n\"This never-ending focus on my weight has left deep scars which will never be healed, I suspect,\" she said.\n\n\"After a deep emotional battle, I've finally found a place to be happy with my body outside of the gym, but I'll always feel overweight whenever I'm in a gymnastics setting.\n\n\"We've seen too many girls descend into eating disorders and mental health problems because of this, and while this is changing, there is still a culture of less is best.\"\n\nHer older sister Becky, 28, said it is only over the last few years that she has felt strong enough to \"stand up for herself\", adding that they are \"no longer routinely weighed\".\n\nThey say they have raised their concerns and shared their experiences with British Gymnastics.\n\n\"We're speaking out now, just a year before the peak of our sport, the Olympic Games, because we have a duty to the wellbeing of the young children coming into gymnastics, and their safety is more important than any Olympic medal.\"\n\nThey added: \"We hope by speaking up today, we'll not only support those who have already done so, but also encourage others who may want to, but have so far felt unable to do so.\n\n\"We'll do everything in our power to see the sport showcase itself for what it should be: a place for boys and girls to have fun, be healthy and take it as far as they want to on their own terms.\"\n\nThe BBC has learned that UK Sport knew of allegations of abuse in gymnastics as recently as summer 2019.\n\nAfter several gymnasts spoke out earlier this week, UK Sport, which funds Olympic sports in the UK, responded saying the allegations were \"shocking and upsetting\".\n\nBut the BBC has seen emails from last year in which two different parents separately emailed UK Sport's Head of Integrity in June and July 2019 regarding different allegations around safeguarding and alleged abuse.\n\nA face-to-face meeting was due to take place between the head of integrity and one parent - but was later cancelled by UK Sport.\n\nThat parent said in an email: \"I still hope that one day someone will finally listen and prioritise the welfare of children over medals. Perhaps you will be that person?\"\n\nA spokesperson for UK Sport told the BBC: \"There is absolutely no place in sport for abuse or bullying of any description.\n\n\"It is important to note that UK Sport doesn't have the authority to intervene in employment matters within a sport, but we are absolutely committed to draw on all available measures to ensure that the high performance system is a safe environment for all athletes.\"", "The wife of Philippe Monguillot, Veronique Monguillot (centre), holds a portrait of her husband during a protest march\n\nA bus driver has died in France, five days after he was attacked by passengers who reportedly refused to wear face masks, his family says.\n\nPhilippe Monguillot, aged 59, had been left brain dead after the assault in the south-western city of Bayonne.\n\n\"We decided to let him go,\" his daughter Marie told AFP news agency, saying doctors had agreed.\n\nTwo men in their 20s were arrested and charged with attempted murder after the assault late on Sunday.\n\nTwo other men were charged with failing to help a person in danger while a fifth man was charged with attempting to hide a suspect.\n\nMr Monguillot was set upon after he reportedly asked three of the men to put on face masks and also tried to check another man's ticket.\n\nFace masks are mandatory on public transport in France.\n\nThe mayor of Bayonne condemned the \"barbaric act\", local media report.\n\nOn Wednesday, thousands of people took part in a protest march in the city.\n\nRegional bus services were severely disrupted as drivers refused to work following the incident.", "Dr Akhtar connects via video link from his home in Essex\n\nFrom his laptop at his home just outside London, Dr Tahir Akhtar is helping treat a coronavirus patient in Lahore, Pakistan. Via a video link, a doctor there shows Dr Akhtar around the intensive care unit at the city's Jinnah Hospital.\n\nDr Akhtar is an intensive care unit consultant in Britain's National Health Service, and has helped lead the response to Covid-19 in Essex, where he lives.\n\nNow, in his free time, he is using telemedicine software to share his experiences with counterparts in his country of birth, Pakistan - advising doctors on the best way to treat their patients.\n\n\"We are very proud of the NHS service we are giving here,\" Dr Akhtar said. \"And because of our relationships both in medicine and otherwise, it was very important for us to help our colleagues and to help the people of Pakistan.\"\n\nDr Akhtar told the BBC the huge number of coronavirus cases meant that even in the UK it was not possible for intensive care doctors alone to treat seriously ill patients - doctors from different specialties also had to be drafted in. In Pakistan, the difficulties would be amplified, he said, making it useful for those doctors to have \"someone they can talk to, someone they can take advice from\".\n\nDr Muhammad Ashraf Zia, who heads the Covid-19 ICU in Jinnah Hospital, told the BBC it was \"very useful\" to exchange ideas with Dr Akhtar - even though he is a senior doctor himself, as coronavirus is such a new disease. He said his team had begun using certain medicines to treat patients that they previously had not, and they were now producing \"very good results\".\n\nThere have been about 250,000 coronavirus cases and 5,000 deaths recorded in Pakistan. That's substantially lower than in Britain, where more than 44,000 people have died, even though it is likely fatalities in Pakistan have been undercounted.\n\nHowever, Pakistan has far fewer doctors per capita than the UK, and at times hospitals there have been stretched. According to the World Health Organization, there are under 10 medical doctors per 10,000 of the population in Pakistan, about three times fewer than in the UK.\n\nDr Suhail Chughtai, another UK-based doctor of Pakistani origin, built the telemedicine software used to connect to the intensive care unit in Lahore. The software allows doctors to talk via video link and exchange copies of case notes as they speak. His aim was \"to plug the gap\" in Pakistan caused by a relative lack of intensive care specialists, by \"importing\" those doctors from the UK via telemedicine, he said.\n\nCustom made software allows doctors to video chat and exchange files\n\nDr Chughtai has also created a number of other similar projects. One, run in conjunction with the government in Punjab province, allows doctors in the UK, Ireland, US and Pakistan to hold free virtual consultations with coronavirus patients - meaning they don't need to risk travelling to a hospital or clinic and infecting others along the way. Doctors in the four countries have carried out 35,000 consultations since March, with members of the Association of Pakistani Physicians in the UK among those offering their services.\n\nAnd another recently launched project aims to connect patients visiting rural health clinics in Punjab with centralised teams of doctors in more urban centres.\n\nDr Chughtai sees such schemes as the future of medicine. \"Where a doctor and patient can speak the same language, we can create a bridge no matter where they are, through telemedicine,\" he said.\n\nThere are other groups of British-Pakistani doctors also spending their free time trying to boost healthcare capacity in Pakistan. The \"Midland Doctors\" charity was set up in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Pakistani-administered Kashmir in 2005, and established a hospital in the city of Muzaffarabad.\n\nNow, the charity's members in Britain have been using their expertise to offer online training to doctors in Pakistan, as well as holding \"virtual ward rounds\" of critical care units, said one member, Dr Farhan Rashid. He said that because the UK's coronavirus peak was well ahead of Pakistan's, the doctors were able to offer valuable lessons to their counterparts in Pakistan.\n\nDr Chughtai, who founded a number of the telemedicine portals, said that many British-Pakistani doctors were keen to engage. \"They love the UK, but they also want to give back to the country they came from,\" he said.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will spend an estimated £500m subsidising meals in August\n\nA majority of Britons feel uncomfortable at the prospect of eating at a restaurant, an Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey suggests.\n\nJust over two-in-10 of the 1,788 adults in England, Scotland and Wales asked said they would be happy to have a sit-down meal as restrictions ease.\n\nSome 60% said they would be uncomfortable or very uncomfortable eating indoors during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as the government prepares a £500m \"eat out to help out\" scheme.\n\nMeals eaten at participating restaurants on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in August will be subsidised up to £10 a head.\n\nThe weekly ONS survey - the first since lockdown measures eased further in England on 4 July - found men were slightly more confident about eating out than women.\n\nAnd fewer people aged 69 and under said they would be uncomfortable at a restaurant when compared with those over 70.\n\nThe chancellor has also reduced hospitality VAT from 20% to 5% to encourage spending\n\nIt suggests opinions are more evenly split on eating outdoors at a restaurant, with nearly four-in-10 (37%) saying they would be comfortable or very comfortable and a similar number saying they would not be.\n\nThose surveyed also expressed their reluctance to visit the cinema - with just over 13% saying they would be comfortable or very comfortable watching a blockbuster film indoors.\n\nEarlier this week, the World Health Organization revised its warning over indoor transmission of the coronavirus as it acknowledged it can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air.\n\nFewer than one-in-10 of those surveyed said they would holiday abroad in the near future, despite the lifting of quarantine conditions for popular summer destinations on Friday.\n\nBut a quarter said they were likely or very likely to go on holiday in the UK this summer.\n\nThe ONS survey also reported a rise in the number of adults wearing a face covering outdoors since the previous week.\n\nMore than half of adults (52%) who have left their home have worn a face covering - an increase from last week when 43% reported doing so.\n\nAdults with an underlying health condition saw the greatest increase in the proportion wearing a face covering this week, up to 67% compared with 46% last week.\n\nRules requiring the use of face coverings on public transport were introduced in Wales on 9 June, England on 15 June and in Scotland on 22 June.\n\nThey are also now mandatory when visiting NHS facilities across the UK and while shopping in Scotland.", "Probationary officer Benjamin Hannam has been charged with being a member of far-right group National Action\n\nA probationary Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with being a member of a banned neo-Nazi group.\n\nBenjamin Hannam, 21, has been charged with five offences following an investigation by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nScotland Yard says he has been suspended from duty.\n\nMr Hannam, from North London, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court next month.\n\nCharges include possession of an indecent photograph of a child in 2018 and possession of a prohibited image of a child in 2016.\n\nIn relation to far-right activity, it is alleged that between December 2016 and January 2018 Mr Hannam belonged or professed to belong to a proscribed organisation, namely National Action, contrary to section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nHe is also accused of falsely representing in his application to join the Met Police that he had not been a member of an organisation similar to the BNP, namely National Action, intending to make a gain for himself.\n\nHe is further charged with falsely representing in his vetting form to join the Met that he had not been a member of National Action.\n\nDet Supt Ella Marriott said: \"These are extremely serious charges for anyone to face, and I fully understand and appreciate how deeply concerning it might be for the public, and particularly local communities here in north London, that the charges are against a serving police officer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two of the UK's biggest High Street retailers, John Lewis and Boots, have announced 5,300 job cuts.\n\nBoots has said 4,000 jobs will go, while John Lewis is shutting down eight stores, putting 1,300 jobs at risk.\n\nThe moves come amid warnings that new economic support from Chancellor Rishi Sunak will not be enough to stop millions of workers losing their jobs.\n\nMr Sunak admitted that he would not be able to protect \"every single job\" as the UK enters a \"severe recession\".\n\nBoots is consulting on plans to cut head office and store teams and shut 48 of its more than 600 Boots Opticians practices.\n\nIt has not yet said which outlets will close, but about 7% of its workforce will lose their jobs.\n\nJohn Lewis said department stores in Birmingham and Watford will not reopen as the coronavirus lockdown eases. It also plans to shut down its At Home stores in Croydon, Newbury, Swindon and Tamworth and travel sites at Heathrow airport and London St Pancras.\n\nMr Sunak unveiled a series of measures on Wednesday aimed at saving jobs, including a one-off £1,000 payment to employers for every furloughed employee retained to the end of January 2021.\n\nHe also announced measures to benefit the hospitality sector, including giving diners 50% off eating out from Monday to Wednesday in August.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the moves to support restaurants, pubs and cafes could also help retail.\n\n\"We very much hope that when people go to their local pub or their restaurant to eat out, those are often in the centre of towns, hopefully that will encourage the footfall to those areas so we get more people going to our shops as well,\" Mr Dowden said, speaking after announcing the reopening of gyms, indoor pools and outdoor theatres.\n\nJohn Lewis says some of its stores were in trouble before the virus struck, while Boots already had plans for a shake-up.\n\nThe crisis has forced them to speed up efforts to deal with the rise of internet shopping.\n\nAnd just now they face the phasing out of the government-supported furlough scheme, starting next month.\n\nOne by one, retailers are revealing how many staff they will bring back into stores as the job subsidy is withdrawn.\n\nMost Boots outlets remained open throughout the lockdown to provide pharmacy and healthcare services, but the firm said footfall had \"dramatically reduced\".\n\nThe firm said sales across all Boots UK outlets were down 50% in the third quarter, and some 70% at Boots Opticians.\n\n\"Restrictions are beginning to lift, but with an uncertain economic outlook, it is anticipated that the High Street will take considerable time to recover,\" it said.\n\nBoots said last year that it was reviewing the size of its UK operations with the possibility that up to 200 stores could be closed.\n\nThe managing director of Boots UK, Sebastian James, described the latest cuts as \"decisive actions to accelerate our transformation plan\".\n\nJohn Lewis said the eight stores affected were already \"financially challenged\" even before the pandemic struck.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 had caused customers to move more quickly towards online shopping and away from stores.\n\nJohn Lewis Partnership chairwoman Sharon White said: \"Closing a shop is always incredibly difficult and today's announcement will come as very sad news to customers and partners.\n\n\"However, we believe closures are necessary to help us secure the sustainability of the partnership - and continue to meet the needs of our customers, however and wherever they want to shop.\"\n\nMs White said John Lewis would do everything it could to keep on as many people as possible.\n\nJohn Lewis had warned in March it could close shops as a plunge in profits forced it to cut staff bonuses to their lowest level in almost 70 years.\n\nFormer John Lewis boss Andy Street, now mayor of the West Midlands, said the closure of the chain's flagship Birmingham store was \"deeply disappointing\".\n\n\"At this stage the closure is only a proposal, and one which I believe risks being a dreadful mistake,\" he tweeted.\n\nHe added that his belief in its potential was \"unwavering\" and that he would be making the case for it to stay open.\n\nThe planned closure of John Lewis's Watford store has prompted a petition to save it, which has been signed by 4,400 people so far.\n\nOther John Lewis customers took to Twitter to vent their frustrations.\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\nJohn Lewis and Boots are the latest in a long line of companies to have made cuts during the pandemic. Other lay-offs announced include:\n\nUnions and analysts have warned that the virus could mean millions of people end up out of work, warning that government incentives to save jobs were not large enough to persuade bosses to keep workers.\n\nLen McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union, said: \"With no modification to the jobs retention scheme, that dreaded October cliff-edge for businesses and workers has now been set in stone.\n\n\"Our fear is the summer jobs loss tsunami we have been pleading with the government to avoid will now surely only gather pace.\"\n\nVivienne King, chief executive at Revo, which represents the retail property sector, warned that three million retail jobs remained in jeopardy unless the government undertook \"a fundamental review of business rates and direct financial support to underwrite rents\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak himself told BBC Breakfast: \"Is unemployment going to rise, are people going to lose their jobs? Yes, and the scale of this is significant.\n\n\"We are entering one of the most severe recessions this country has ever seen. That is of course going to have a significant impact on unemployment and on job losses.\"\n\nLucy Powell, shadow minister for business and consumers, said the job cuts were \"deeply worrying news for staff at John Lewis and Boots\" and described Mr Sunak's statement as \"a missed opportunity to protect jobs with properly targeted support for the businesses and people that need it\".", "Park Won-soon speaks during an event at Seoul City Hall on Wednesday\n\nPolice in the South Korean capital Seoul have found the body of the city's mayor after he went missing on Thursday.\n\nPark Won-soon's daughter reportedly told police he had left a message before leaving the house, leading her to raise the alarm.\n\nHis body was found at Mount Bugak in northern Seoul, near where his phone signal was last detected.\n\nNo cause of death has been officially recorded.\n\nBut police said they were investigating the case as a suicide.\n\nA note was released that was left by Mr Park in his office. It read: \"I apologise to everyone. I thank everyone who was with me in my lifetime. I am so sorry to my family, to whom I have only caused pain. Please cremate my body and scatter the ashes at my parents' grave. Goodbye everyone.\"\n\nIt is reported that a female employee had filed a sexual harassment claim against the 64-year-old on Wednesday, the day before he went missing, thought there has been no official confirmation of the complaint.\n\nMr Park did not show up for work on Thursday, cancelling a meeting with a presidential official at his Seoul City Hall office. A message reportedly left for his daughter led to her raising the alarm, and police began to search a wooded area in the north of the city where his phone signal was last detected.\n\nHe was seen by a security camera at 10:53 near the entrance to the woods. About 600 police and fire officers using drones and dogs searched the area for hours on Thursday.\n\nHis body was found in the woods on Mount Bugak at 00:01 (16:01 BST) on Friday. His body was moved to the Seoul National University hospital, where crowds gathered and politicians visited throughout the day on Friday.\n\nMourners have been paying tribute in Seoul\n\nMr Park was first elected mayor of Seoul in 2011 and elected to an unprecedented third and final term in June of last year.\n\nHe clashed with President Park Geun-hye, openly supporting millions of people who protested against her in 2017 before she was eventually charged and imprisoned on bribery and other charges.\n\nAs a member of President Moon Jae-in's liberal Democratic Party, Mr Park was reportedly under consideration as a potential presidential hopeful in the 2022 elections.\n\nMayor Park Won-soon was well liked for a reason.\n\nAs a lawyer, he had fought to further the cause of women - winning the country's first sexual harassment case. He highlighted this country's many economic inequalities, once even spending a month in a cramped home in a poor part of the city.\n\nHe fought against authoritarian rule in South Korea and was put in prison in the 1970's as a college student, and went on to win an unprecedented third term as mayor of Seoul.\n\nBut his death is now mired in controversy.\n\nWe may now never get to the truth behind the claims of sexual harassment filed against him just hours before his death.\n\nThe investigation has been dropped which means there will be no further inquiry into potentially serious issues within one of the highest political offices in the country. There will also be no justice - either for his alleged victim or for him.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, BBC Action Line has more information.\n\nIn the UK you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information 0800 066 066.In addition, you can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline- 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm). Links for help in South Korea can be found here.", "The case for routinely testing NHS staff is \"overwhelming\", leading cancer scientist at the Crick Institute Dr Charles Swanton has said.\n\nHis team identified NHS staff testing positive at the peak of the pandemic who were \"completely asymptomatic\".\n\nBut the study was not able to show whether these staff without symptoms passed their infections on to others.\n\nThe Department of Health said it was being \"guided by the evidence\" on routine testing.\n\nDr Swanton said while the prevalence of infection in healthcare staff was now low, routine screening would be necessary \"ahead of a second wave\".\n\nHealthcare workers in the study, lead by Dr Catherine Houlihan, were swabbed between 26 March and 8 April, at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nThey were then followed up for a month.\n\nOf 200 University College London Hospital staff tested, 36 were positive initially, of whom 16 (38%) did not report any noticeable symptoms at the time of the test or at any point afterwards.\n\nFor the 20 people who did develop symptoms, on average these developed four days after the positive test, the study.\n\nThe same people were also tested for antibodies in their blood, suggesting a past Covid infection.\n\nBy the end of the study period, 45% (87 staff members) had developed antibodies.\n\nThis level of exposure to the virus among healthcare staff was much higher than they had expected and than previous studies had suggested, Dr Swanton said. \"The case for asymptomatic healthcare worker testing seems to be overwhelming.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have engaged with SAGE on the appropriate frequency of repeat testing, with NHS Trusts continuing to routinely and strategically test asymptomatic frontline staff.\"\n\nPeople working in patient-facing and resident-facing roles in health and social care were six times more likely than the general population to test positive for coronavirus, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday.\n\nThe evidence suggests people without symptoms are capable of passing on the virus, but establishing how big a role they play is still challenging.\n\nOn 11 June the government's Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies stated infectiousness did \"correlate with the duration of disease/severity\" - in other words, it does seem that people with symptoms transmit the disease more.\n\nThat doesn't mean symptomless people don't transmit the disease at all.\n\nBut equally, the fact that a significant proportion of positive tests are in people without symptoms, doesn't mean that a significant number of infections are spread by those people.\n\nIt's believed that just 10-15% of people are responsible for about 80% of infections.\n\nA number of NHS leaders have called for routine testing of staff at least once - if not twice - a week, to assure them they are not carrying the virus without knowing it.\n\nAsymptomatic testing is currently available to care home staff and residents.\n\nA pilot launched on Thursday will look into the testing of other \"high-contact\" occupations, like taxi drivers and sales assistants without symptoms.", "The Beatles photographed by Fiona Adams in April 1963\n\nPhotographer Fiona Adams, whose famous shot of The Beatles jumping in the air was used on the sleeve of the Twist and Shout EP, has died at the age of 84.\n\nAdams captured the iconic image of the Fab Four on a London bomb site for Boyfriend magazine in April 1963.\n\nThe photo was then used on the record sleeve and has been described by the National Portrait Gallery as \"the one that defined their early look\".\n\nAdams also snapped many other pop acts, from Bob Dylan to the Rolling Stones.\n\nAccording to the late photographer's website, The Beatles \"readily agreed\" when Adams asked them to pose for Boyfriend magazine.\n\nHaving previously spotted an undeveloped bombsite near Euston station, she hailed a taxi and took them to the abandoned area.\n\n\"I climbed down the rubble into a bombed-out cellar, open to the sky, and had a wonderful session with the Beatles lined up on the wall above,\" she wrote.\n\nAdams went on to take many more shots of John, Paul, George and Ringo, the last of whom celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this week.\n\nAdams took this shot of Bob Dylan at London's Savoy Hotel in 1966\n\nCilla Black, Adam Faith, Sandy Shaw and Dusty Springfield were among other icons of the 1960s who were photographed by Adams for Boyfriend, Fabulous and other publications.\n\nShe later moved into travel photography before marrying and having two children.\n\nIn 2009, some of her images featured in Beatles to Bowie, an exhibition of 1960s photography at the National Portrait Gallery.\n\nHer death at a hospice on Guernsey on 26 June was confirmed by her son Karl, who said she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February.\n\nAdams' death comes two months after that of Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer famous for her early shots of The Beatles.\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 Premier League\n\nBruno Fernandes inspired Manchester United to another impressive Premier League victory and deepened Aston Villa's relegation worries.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side continued their impressive recent run, extending their unbeaten streak to 17 games in all competitions, and closed to within a point of fourth-placed Leicester.\n\nThey had to repel a sharp start from the hosts at Villa Park as Mahmoud Trezeguet's low strike cannoned off the foot of the post.\n\nThe miss proved vital as the excellent Fernandes converted from the penalty spot after being tripped by Ezri Konsa, although it appeared to be a foul by the Portuguese international on the Villa defender.\n\nUnited controlled the possession and tempo of the contest and doubled their advantage through teenager Mason Greenwood, who further highlighted his ruthless finishing ability by firing in his 16th of the campaign.\n\nPaul Pogba stroked in a delightful third and Anthony Martial smashed against the crossbar, with the heavy defeat leaving Villa second bottom, four points adrift of safety with four games remaining.\n\nUnited continue to move in the right direction and have not suffered defeat since a feeble home defeat at the hands of Burnley in January. They have not lost in 10 Premier League games - currently the longest unbeaten run in the top flight.\n\nMidfielder Fernandes was brought in from Sporting Lisbon at the end of that month and he has completely revitalised the side from being a slow, ponderous team to one full of attacking intent and dynamism.\n\nA clever operator in the final third, Fernandes drives the team forward with his incisive passing and it was his crafty spin on the ball which earned the penalty, although Villa will be aggrieved by the decision made by Jon Moss and supported by VAR.\n\nFernandes, who has contributed seven league goals, took his assist tally to six by setting up Pogba's side-footed finish, with the Frenchman continuing to improving and looking settled in the side after a long injury lay-off.\n\nGreenwood's smashing 20-yard strike leaves him one short of George Best, Brian Kidd and Wayne Rooney's joint-record of most goals in a season by a United teenager, one which will surely be beaten by the end of the campaign.\n\nWith better finishing they could have had more but Greenwood and Martial had low shots kept out by Pepe Reina, while Fernandes and Aaron Wan-Bissaka both wasted headed opportunity.\n\nFree-scoring United's victory means they become the first team in Premier League history to win four consecutive games by at least a three-goal margin.\n\nIf United are on the up, Villa are going in the opposite direction and are running out of time to avoid an immediate return to the Championship.\n\nDean Smith's side have collected just two points from their past 10 games, a run that includes eight defeats, and they concede just too many goals.\n\nThe three shipped against United means they have let in 65 from 34 games, the most in the division, and have conceded two or more goals in 21 Premier League games this term.\n\nRelegation will leave them with a big task of holding on to Jack Grealish, who has been linked with a move to United, but the captain could not conjure up any sort of threat to worry the opposition.\n\nHad his early volley, which sailed over the crossbar, found the net or Trezeguet's strike sneaked in, it may have been a different story but Villa have now won just one of their past 43 meetings against the Red Devils.\n\nUnited goalkeeper David de Gea became United's leading appearance maker from overseas with 399 games, surpassing the legendary Peter Schmeichel, but the Spaniard was called into action just once, a comfortable save from John McGinn's long range drive.\n• None Manchester United are the first side in Premier League history to win four consecutive games by a margin of 3+ goals, with the last team to do so in the English top-flight being Liverpool in October 1987.\n• None United are the first team to beat an opponent on every day of the week in the Premier League, with this match against Aston Villa making it the sixth fixture to be played on all seven days of the week in the competition.\n• None Aston Villa have conceded 65 goals in the Premier League this season; the same number they had after 34 games when they were last relegated in 2015-16 and finished 20th.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 21 Premier League away games against Aston Villa (W14 D7) - the longest unbeaten away run one team has had against another in English top-flight history.\n• None Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in 13 goals in his first 10 Premier League games for Manchester United (seven goals, six assists); the joint-most of any player in their first 10 appearances in the competition, along with Mick Quinn (13).\n• None Mason Greenwood is only the second teenager to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances for Manchester United (18y 282d), following on from Wayne Rooney back in February 2005 (19y 125d).\n• None Greenwood is the fourth player aged 18 or younger to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances, after Danny Cadamarteri (1997), Michael Owen (1997 & 1998) and Francis Jeffers (1999).\n• None Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side have won 13 penalties in the Premier League this season; no team have ever won more in a single campaign in the competition (also Leicester in 2015-16 and Crystal Palace in 2004-05).\n• None United named the same starting XI in four consecutive Premier League games for the first time since November 2006.\n\nAston Villa host Crystal Palace on Sunday (kick-off 14:15 BST), while Manchester United are at home to Southampton on Monday (20:00).\n• None Easy exercises to do from home\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a through ball.\n• None Fred (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Douglas Luiz.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Marvelous Nakamba (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel James (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Paul Pogba. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Pubs are reopening in England from 4 July and is being dubbed \"Super Saturday\"\n\nPolice are urging the public to heed the \"stay local\" message in Wales as pubs begin opening in England.\n\nIt follows concerns some people will travel by train or car to towns and cities across the border to enjoy a pint.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he did not want to see hard work to control coronavirus abandoned.\n\nTrain operator Transport for Wales also stressed public transport should only be used for essential journeys.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford announced the lifting of travel restrictions in Wales but this does not come into effect until Monday.\n\nAnd while pubs in England can open from 06:00 BST on Saturday, those in Wales will not begin welcoming punters to outdoor spaces until 13 July.\n\nNorth Wales Police urged people to \"stay local\" and Gwent Police said it would be engaging with communities to reinforce the \"stay safe, stay local\" message over the weekend.\n\n\"Our force area sits on one of the main gateways into Wales,\" said a force spokesman.\n\n\"We would like to remind our communities that there are still differences in the guidance in Wales and in England, and any changes to the government guidelines have not yet come into effect in Wales.\"\n\nBeer gardens in pubs will be able to open in Wales from 13 July\n\nThe Gwent force said it would be continuing regular patrols to drive home its message this weekend, ahead of travel restrictions being lifted in Wales from Monday.\n\nIt warned \"people ignoring government advice\" or \"repeatedly disregarding guidance\" would face enforcement measures, which include fixed penalty fines, which can rise to £1,920 for repeat offenders.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it wanted to remind the public that travelling in large groups or with people outside of your own household \"is still not permitted\".\n\nThey added: \"It is also vital that anyone planning on consuming alcohol away from their home ensures they are fit to drive before doing so, or arranges an alternative method of transport.\n\n\"Drink-driving can have tragic consequences, and after three months of the country pulling together for the NHS we hope everyone continues to act responsibly and stays safe this weekend.\"\n\nPubs, cafes and restaurants have been closed in Wales since March\n\nAddressing the same issues ahead of the weekend, the first minister repeated the stay local message: \"So while there are populations very close to the border who may chose to travel, for most of us that will not be a possibility.\n\n\"So please, wherever you are in Wales, this weekend is not a reason or an excuse to abandon all the things that you have worked so hard to achieve, please continue to do those things that help to keep Wales safe.\"\n\nTransport for Wales chief executive James Price said: \"Covid-19 is an evolving situation and over the next week there are important changes in advice from UK and Welsh governments.\n\n\"However, we need to reinforce our travel safer campaign highlighting that public transport is for essential travel and where there are no other travel alternatives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Activists have long campaigned for an end to the sale of dog meat\n\nThe Indian state of Nagaland has banned the import, trading and sale of dog meat, in a move celebrated by animal rights activists.\n\nThe north-east state's government announced the ban following a sustained campaign by animal welfare groups.\n\nThey hailed the decision as a \"major turning point\" in ending cruelty to dogs in India.\n\nBut some civil society groups criticised the ban, calling it an attack on food customs in the state.\n\nEating dog meat is illegal in parts of India, but some communities in north-eastern areas consider it a delicacy.\n\n\"The State Government has decided to ban commercial import and trading of dogs and dog markets and also the sale of dog meat, both cooked and uncooked. Appreciate the wise decision taken by the State's Cabinet,\" Nagaland's Chief Secretary Temjen Toy tweeted on Friday.\n\nThe government shared no further details about how it planned to enforce the ban.\n\nIndian media said the ban came after a picture of dogs bound in sacks at a wet market was circulated widely on social media, provoking outrage.\n\nOn Thursday, the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisation (FIAPO) said it was \"hit by shock and horror at recent images\" of dogs in \"terrifying conditions, tied up in sacks, waiting at a wet market, for their illegal slaughter, trade, and consumption as meat\".\n\nThe group urged Nagaland's government to enforce an immediate ban on selling dog meat.\n\nThe FIAPO was among several animal rights organisations, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), to spearhead campaigns against the sale of dog meat in Nagaland.\n\nThe Humane Society International (HSI), which has campaigned for years to end India's dog-meat trade, welcomed the decision by Nagaland's government.\n\n\"The suffering of dogs in Nagaland has long cast a dark shadow over India, and so this news marks a major turning point in ending the cruelty of India's hidden dog meat trade,\" managing director of HSI, Alokparna Sengupta said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. South Korea dog meat: The dogs saved from being eaten\n\nAn estimated 30,000 dogs a year are smuggled into Nagaland, where they are sold in live markets and \"beaten to death with wooden clubs\", according to the HSI.\n\nEarlier this year, the state of Mizoram took the first step towards ending the sale of dogs, by amending legislation to remove them from the list of animals suitable for slaughter.\n\nWhile not widespread, the eating of dogs does take place in other countries, including China, South Korea and Thailand.", "NHS England is launching a new service for people with ongoing health problems after having coronavirus.\n\nThe government says \"tens of thousands\" of people have long-term symptoms after catching Covid-19.\n\n\"Your Covid Recovery\" will be an online portal for people in England to access tutorials, contact healthcare workers and track their progress.\n\nThe project will be rolled out in two phases, with the web portal launching later this month.\n\nIt will only be accessible via a personal log-in and will be available to virus patients who had to be treated in hospital, as well as to those who managed their illness at home.\n\nLater in the summer, tailored rehabilitation will also be offered to those who qualify, following an assessment.\n\nEach programme will last a maximum of 12 weeks, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nThe online portal pilot site is called Space for COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)\n\nThe service, which was developed and piloted in Leicester, will include access to mental health services, community support groups and exercise tutorials, either online or over the phone.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the portal would \"give people who have survived the virus on-demand access to online clinical support\" for problems with breathing, mental health or other complications.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that long-term effects for some were like \"post-viral fatigue syndrome\".\n\nHe added that the government was spending £8m for research in this area and was developing a support package for those who have experienced such symptoms.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said: \"Rolling out Your Covid Recovery alongside expanding and strengthening community health and care services is another example of how the NHS must bring the old and the new together to create better and more convenient services for patients.\"\n\nThe new service was announced on the day of the 72nd birthday of the NHS, which was founded on 5 July 1948.\n• None Calls for 'post-Covid syndrome' to be recognised", "Landlady Ann Perkins said neighbours, who delivered flowers, had been \"incredible\"\n\nA car smashed through the front of a pub hours before it was due to open for the first time in nearly four months.\n\nThe owners of the Swan Inn near Ashford in Kent were woken by a \"terrible bang\" at about 02:00 BST as a Land Rover crashed into the Grade-II building.\n\nLandlord Ray Perkins said he was \"distraught,\" adding: \"We just don't know why we had such bad luck.\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and taking a vehicle without consent.\n\nThe teenager and two other 17-year-olds were treated at hospital for minor injuries before being discharged, Kent Police said.\n\nMr Perkins said: \"We spent weeks getting the pub ready to open today and eight hours before we are due to open, this happens. How much bad luck can we have?\"\n\nLandlady Ann Perkins said she heard an \"horrendous noise and the actual floor in our bedroom dropped\".\n\nThe couple went downstairs to find \"the car parked in the pub, with three youths in it\" and the air thick with \"smoke and dust from rubble,\" she said.\n\nMrs Perkins fears the interior of the pub will be out of action for many months\n\nThree people inside the vehicle needed treatment in hospital for minor injuries\n\nWhile the interior of the pub is likely to remain closed for many months, Mr Perkins said the \"show must go on\" and they have opened to customers using marquees in the pub garden.\n\nMrs Perkins said neighbours in the village of Little Chart had provided \"incredible\" support, delivering flowers and helping to clean the bar and glassware.\n\nKent Police said: \"Three 17-year-old boys, who were inside the vehicle, were taken to a local hospital to be treated for minor injuries before being discharged.\n\n\"One of these teenagers has been arrested on suspicion of taking a vehicle without consent and drink driving.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is a \"serious risk\" schools will not be ready to reopen in September if the Welsh Government does not publish plans by Monday, according to a teaching union.\n\nThe National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) Cymru said its members were frustrated they do not yet have details of what ministers expect.\n\nThe Welsh Government said an update will be given in the \"coming days\".\n\nSchools reopened this week for a short return before the summer holidays.\n\nThe NAHT said school staff cannot be expected to work through that summer break as many have \"worked continually since February\", and if plans for September were not published by Monday there would not be enough time to implement them.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has said she expects \"blended learning\" - a mix of school time and online work at home - to continue for some time, but has not ruled out a full return to school in September.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Williams, NAHT Cymru director Laura Doel said it was \"unacceptable\" that schools, parents and pupils did not know \"at this late stage\" what to plan for in the autumn term.\n\n\"Without immediate publication of your expectations of schools and your detailed advice in support of those expectations, it will be impossible for leaders to plan and implement effectively,\" Ms Doel wrote.\n\n\"Up until now, the clarity provided by the Welsh Government regarding schools has enabled school leaders to plan and deliver effectively.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Pupils back in Welsh schools after three months\n\n\"But a lack of clarity now, at this most sensitive moment, risks putting children in Wales at a serious and unnecessary disadvantage when they return in September.\"\n\nIn the absence of fresh guidance, the NAHT wants the education minister to confirm:\n\nThe letter adds that head teachers fear a \"failed September return\" would do \"more harm to education than continuing with the current arrangement\".\n\nDylan Saer, head teacher at Crwys Primary School, Gower, said: \"I don't think people realise how hard schools have had to work even though they aren't open, and school staff are shattered.\n\n\"I think it's slightly unfair to expect staff to go back to school over the summer holidays to prepare for September,\" he told BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme.\n\n\"It's only fair on school staff, and also for parents, to have time to prepare for September if we are to see changes.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Wales is the only UK nation where all pupils have been given the opportunity to attend school before the summer holidays, to see their teachers and classmates and to 'check in, catch up and prepare' for summer and September.\n\n\"Good practice and evidence from this current period is helping inform school operations for the future.\n\n\"Wales is in a unique position in having this opportunity, and that is thanks to the efforts of heads, teachers and wider school staff.\n\n\"Health and scientific advice is evolving, and having to look ahead a further two months is an added challenge.\n\n\"The education minister is looking at that advice and evidence and will provide a further update in the coming days.\"", "Tesco has reportedly asked suppliers to agree price cuts as it steps up its battle with budget supermarkets.\n\nThe move is part of its shift to an \"everyday low pricing strategy\", which will see it use fewer promotions.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson said: \"We are committed to open, fair and transparent partnerships with all of our suppliers.\"\n\nTesco has given suppliers a deadline of 10 July to agree, according to the Grocer.\n\nSeveral suppliers told the trade publication that they faced pressure from the supermarket to lower their prices.\n\nSome raised concerns over the timescale of the demands, as well as a lack of clarity over how the change in promotions would work in practice.\n\nTesco launched its \"Aldi price match\" promise in March, where products including fresh and freezer food are matched against those offered at the budget supermarket.\n\nThe supermarket announced in June that it has extended the scheme to nearly 500 Tesco and branded products in response to increasing competition.\n\n\"We have also reduced the number of short-term promotions, as we focus our investment on everyday low prices instead,\" it said.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson told BBC News: \"We have been speaking to suppliers about how we can work together to continue giving our customers great value.\n\n\"We don't believe that our customers should pay more for a brand in Tesco than anywhere else.\"\n\nThey added: \"We are committed to open, fair and transparent partnerships with all of our suppliers, and that collaborative approach will continue as we look for new and innovative ways to bring our customers great value.\"\n\nTesco reported strong first quarter sales last week. The 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 that coronavirus-related costs were set to hit £840m this year.\n\nNeil Shah, director of research at Edison Group, said that 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.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nRecreational cricket is set to resume in England from Saturday, 11 July, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nJohnson had previously said on Friday that it was not yet safe to play the game at grassroots level because of issues with \"teas and dressing rooms\".\n\nHowever, in a later briefing, he said the government would publish guidelines to help clubs and players prepare for the sport's return.\n\nChief medical officer Chris Whitty said it was \"very safe\" to resume playing.\n\nEngland's men will play West Indies in a three-Test series in a bio-secure environment from 8 July.\n\nWhitty said it should be possible to make the game \"safe at a distance\", adding that players should not hug one another or apply saliva to a ball.\n• None How to follow England v West Indies on BBC\n\nThe use of saliva will not be allowed during England's Test series and during warm-up matches players have celebrated by bumping elbows.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said it was \"delighted\" at the government's decision.\n\n\"We believe we have a role to play in getting people active across the country, especially young people,\" chief executive Tom Harrison said.\n\n\"It is heartening to know that club cricket - albeit with social distancing in place and some other adaptations - will soon be back across England.\"\n\nJohnson had been criticised by a number of players - both at domestic and grassroots level - for not allowing recreational cricket to resume.\n\nThe head of Badminton England criticised Johnson for allowing cricket to return, but not badminton.\n\n\"Why can a badminton club not play in a local community centre? If we all follow the same rules, what's the problem?\" Adrian Christy tweeted.\n\nIn an interview with LBC on Friday morning, Johnson said the debate about the sport's return had \"gone round and round\".\n\n\"The longer answer which I think probably Whitty would give, if he were here, about cricket - the risk is not so much the ball, although that may be a factor,\" Johnson said.\n\n\"It's the teas, it's the changing rooms and so on and so forth. There are other factors involved that generate proximity which you might not get in a game of tennis.\"\n\nHe said later in the day that he had been \"stumped\" by the question and \"the third umpire has been invoked\".\n\nA statement from the ECB said the risks of exposure to coronavirus were \"very low\" while playing cricket.\n\n\"The ECB believes that cricket is a non-contact sport, with very low risks of exposure, and that it can be played as safely as many other activities being currently permitted,\" it said.\n\nOther recreational sports such as golf, tennis and basketball have all resumed following the coronavirus lockdown, and pubs are set to reopen in England from Saturday.", "The acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, has written to Kent Police asking them to investigate whether Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has broken coronavirus quarantine rules.\n\nMr Farage tweeted a picture of himself at lunchtime on Saturday having a pint in a pub, as many businesses in England reopened.\n\nExactly a fortnight ago, Mr Farage tweeted from a trip to the United States - where he was a guest at a rally for President Trump.\n\nPeople travelling to the UK from the US are required to quarantine for a period of 14 days from the moment they arrive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nigel Farage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"There are clearly serious questions to answer for Nigel Farage,\" Sir Ed said.\n\n\"It is clear from his social media posts that he was in America on 20 June, and he was pictured at a Trump rally that evening. Given the current requirements for visitors returning to the UK to isolate for 14 full days on their return, Nigel Farage appears to be in violation of the quarantine,\" he added.\n\n\"By choosing to go to the pub when it appears he should have been staying at home, Mr Farage is showing a flagrant disregard for the safety of people in his community.\"\n\nIn his letter to Kent's chief constable, Alan Pughsley - which has also been sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel - the former cabinet minister said:\n\n\"I write to ask you to immediately investigate this issue, establish the timeline of events for Mr Farage's return to the UK and establish whether Mr Farage was in breach of his quarantine. It is vital that lives are not put at risk by breaches of quarantine.\n\n\"I am copying this letter to the home secretary as I believe this case illustrates the difficulties that the police and Home Office will have in enforcing the quarantine rules as they are currently set out.\"\n\nSo how has Mr Farage managed to quarantine back in the UK for 14 days, if he was in the States two weeks ago?\n\nHe insists he has \"been back from the USA for two weeks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nigel Farage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 spokesman told me he flew straight back to Britain on the same day - and claimed that a negative coronavirus test after he got back meant he could head back out and about again.\n\nBut the Department of Health has told me getting a test does not get you out of quarantining - self isolating at home - because a test could amount to a false negative; you could be harbouring the virus but not yet symptomatic.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Alexandra Phillips, a former Brexit Party MEP who once worked as Nigel Farage's media adviser, said:\n\n\"Dear Ed Davey, The police have better things to do, you sad little man. Getting an officer to go to Nigel's house to tell him he shouldn't have gone to the pub is a total waste of resources and makes you look like a pathetic, attention-seeking twerp.\"", "A father who initially paid £4.99 for his 11-year-old daughter to use a smartphone app was shocked to discover a bill for thousands of pounds a month later.\n\nSteve Cumming, 72, said he let her make what he thought was a one-off payment on his debit card to a firm called Roblox.\n\nAfter looking at his balance a month later, he saw thousands had been charged.\n\nRoblox says it will refund him.\n\nRoblox is an online multiplayer game with about 100 million users worldwide.\n\nIt is especially popular with children. Its business model relies on in-app purchases. Roblox is free to download, but users can then spend money during play.\n\nRoblox is a multiplayer platform where players can create their own games and join in with others\n\nMr Cumming wrote to BBC Radio 2's The Jeremy Vine Show to explain that his 11-year-old daughter had unwittingly run up the enormous bill while playing the game during lockdown.\n\n\"My daughter told me all her friends were playing this game and she wanted to spend £4.99,\" he said. \"She made that purchase using my debit card on 16 April and I thought nothing more of it.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic lockdown he decided to sign up to online banking.\n\n\"I'm not very tech-savvy. Due to coronavirus I couldn't visit the bank and I didn't want to use cash machines, so I decided to sign up to online banking,\" he said.\n\nWhen he first logged in, almost a month after that initial payment to Roblox, he was shocked to discover that £4,642 had gone and he was in his overdraft.\n\n\"When I first logged in nearly a month later I was astonished to see hundreds and hundreds of separate transactions, all between £0.99 and £9.99. I couldn't understand it. I thought I'd been scammed.\"\n\nHe realised he had lost about £3,500 so he phoned his bank, HSBC, to cancel his card. Despite doing that a further £1,000 or so left his account and was paid to Roblox via Google Play, he says.\n\nMr Cumming didn't realise his bank account was being charged with purchases from within the game\n\n\"My daughter was really upset when we told her about the financial consequences. She thought she was playing with monopoly money - it didn't seem real to her. How can these companies be allowed to trap minors in these games? To trap people who are vulnerable?\" he said.\n\nHe said he also thinks the government should step in and change the law.\n\n\"I get by on my pension. But this is a lot of money to me. I had earmarked it for a holiday when this pandemic is all over. I wanted to pay for my daughter to have a break. We can't now and I'm in my overdraft.\n\nSteve admits that he didn't read the terms and conditions of the sale when he allowed his daughter to initially spend £4.99 on his debit card.\n\nBut he says he's amazed that in a game designed to be played by children it would even be possible to spend thousands of pounds across a thousand transactions over the course of just a few weeks.\n\nAfter being approached for comment by the BBC, the company said it would issue a refund.\n\n\"We strive to prevent unauthorized purchases, by taking measures such as not storing billing information, and work directly with parents to provide appropriate refunds whenever possible, which is the case in this instance,\" Roblox told the BBC.\n\n\"We encourage parents to review their payment settings on third-party services, such as Google Play, as they typically have an option to require a password for each purchase made and/or to prevent any information from being saved in browser settings that could allow them to be reused.\"\n\nHis bank HSBC said: \"We sympathise with Mr Cumming and appreciate these payments have come as a surprise to him. We have received a claim for a dispute for these payments and we will be taking a closer look at the circumstances surrounding this matter in accordance with Visa dispute regulations.\"\n\nYou can hear an interview with Mr Cumming on Friday's Jeremy Vine Show.", "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\nWork is \"ongoing\" on when pubs can reopen but no date has been set, a Welsh Government minister has said.\n\nWales is the only one of the UK nations without a planned reopening date for the pub trade.\n\nPlaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives have called for a timetable.\n\nFinance Minister Rebecca Evans said discussions were taking place with the industry. \"I want to reassure you that the work is actively ongoing,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has promised a \"rapid review\" to consider a phased reopening.\n\nOn Wednesday the Scottish Government announced beer gardens could reopen there from 6 July, and pubs and restaurants can fully reopen from 15 July.\n\nThe hospitality sector is due to reopen in England from 4 July, while in Northern Ireland pubs and hotels can open on 3 July.\n\nMs Evans said timings could not be provided in Wales \"because it's very, very difficult to know where the coronavirus will be in the weeks and months ahead\".\n\nPubs have been closed in Wales since the start of lockdown in March\n\nHelen Mary Jones, Plaid Cymru's economy spokeswoman, said she would welcome a similar approach to Scotland.\n\n\"If Welsh Government does not believe this is a possible step, I would look for an alternative timetable to be confirmed as soon as possible,\" she said.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru has been consistent in our assertion that public health should come first, but our economy sits on a cliff edge and we've never had a clearer signal that it may be safe to act to save it.\"\n\nDarren Millar, Welsh Tory Covid recovery spokesman, said: \"The lack of an indicative timetable for the reopening of pubs and restaurants in Wales is now a major concern.\n\n\"If Scotland, England, and Northern Ireland have managed to set out a timetable for these businesses to reopen safely then Wales can too; I urge the first minister to give those whose employment is at risk some hope by setting out a timetable today.\"\n\nMs Evans, speaking at the daily Welsh Government press conference, said discussions were taking place with the industry.\n\n\"I can't give you a timetable or a date but I want to reassure you that the work is actively ongoing with the hospitality sector.\"\n\nDates for pub reopening have been set in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland\n\nEach stage of the reopening after lockdown had been co-ordinated, she said, adding that talks were happening to see if more outdoor seating could be provided in town and city centres to help the hospitality industry.\n\nShe said each UK nation was taking a different approach, citing building work and non-essential retail being open in Wales but closed in Scotland.\n\nShops in Scotland are opening on the 29 June.\n\nLast week Brains brewery warned many Welsh pubs would go bust - putting thousands of jobs at risk - unless social distancing measures are relaxed.\n\nAlistair Darby, the chief executive officer of Wales' largest brewery, said: \"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\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"The first minister has asked for a rapid review of the hospitality sector to consider a potential phased reopening of pubs, cafes and restaurants. Those discussions are taking place with a wide range of interests across the hospitality sector in Wales and have been constructive. We will announce our intentions when further headroom for change allows.\"\n\n\"We have adopted a careful and gradual approach to easing the restrictions. We will be guided by the latest scientific and medical advice and will carefully monitor the impact of each change,\" she added.", "Street pastors: No hugs, but we are happy to listen\n\nAs venues like pubs and bars reopen, it's not just police who will be patrolling the streets. In Cheltenham, street pastor Maria Perry will also be on hand to help pub-goers get home safely. She said: \"You don't know how people will react, whether they will be over-keen to get back and celebrate because the pubs are open or if other people wouldn't think it was the right time. \"As a street pastor, myself and the rest of the team will be only too happy to meet anyone who would want to talk to us - we are happy to listen. \"We are non-judgemental, because who am I to judge people? We would love to see people to come up and greet us.\" She added that normally people would often come up for a hug on their night out, but due to social distancing this was one thing they would be unable to do. Ms Perry and her team will be in the town centre for two hours, from 20:00 BST.", "Air France-KLM plans to cut more than 7,500 jobs at its French arm as the airline industry reels from the coronavirus crisis.\n\nEurope's second-biggest airline will cut 6,560 staff at Air France, with its regional French carrier Hop! losing 1,020 jobs, the company said on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, the firm said: \"Recovery looks set to be very slow\" due to uncertainties around Covid-19.\n\nThe cuts will take place over the next three years.\n\nThe group also cited the lifting of travel restrictions and changing customer demand as potential cause for concern in the future.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, revenues fell by 95% and the Air France airline was losing €15m (£13.5m) per day.\n\nAir France does not expect that activity will return to its pre-pandemic level before 2024.\n\nThe group's flagship airline expects to have cut more than 6,000 jobs by the end of 2022, out of a current total of 41,000 staff.\n\n\"Natural departures\", such as retirements and employees who leave of their own accord, are expected to make up about half of the reductions at Air France.\n\nIts sister airline Hop! will see 1,020 jobs cut over the next three years. It currently employs more than 2,000 people.\n\nProtestors at the entrance of an airport in Morlaix, western France\n\nThe company said: \"Air France and Hop! are working together with the unions to implement plans that give priority to voluntary departures, early retirement arrangements and professional and geographical mobility.\"\n\nAir France also said that a wider \"reconstruction plan\" would be presented at the end of July, along with one for the wider Air France-KLM group.\n\nUnion members and staff staged protests at several sites across France on Friday, including outside the company's offices near Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.\n\nThe French government has pledged billions of Euros to support Air France-KLM and the wider aviation industry as demand for travel has crashed as a result of coronavirus-related lockdown measures.\n\nLoans to Air France were contingent on the carrier scrapping some domestic flights in a bid to cut its carbon emissions.\n\nOther airlines have also been forced to adopt similar measures in anticipation of a long, slow return to former levels of demand.\n\nEasyJet previously said that it may need to reduce staff numbers by up to a third because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn June, Lufthansa said it planned to cut 22,000 jobs, and British Airways said in April that it could cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could e-scooters be about to hit the roads in Wales, as the government promotes their use?\n\nPeople in some Welsh communities could soon be riding electric scooters to work or to visit friends.\n\nBicycles have been seen as an effective way of getting cars off roads in Wales' towns and cities, but they could be joined by another mode of transport.\n\nWhile privately owned e-scooters remain banned from the streets, rented ones will be allowed from Saturday as part of a UK government scheme.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was exploring their use in the country.\n\n\"Electric scooters offer the potential for low-carbon transport, offering an alternative to car use for many urban journeys in particular,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We have engaged with the UK government to discuss the potential for trials in Wales and publicised the opportunity to Welsh local authorities.\n\n\"The scope of trials depends on interest at local authority level.\"\n\nE-scooter firms say the vehicles are an \"ideal\" way to travel outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nUnder new rules announced by the UK government's Department for Transport, rental e-scooters will be allowed on roads in Great Britain to ease pressure on public transport amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nLocal authorities and devolved administrations in Wales, England and Scotland can allow or run sharing schemes in their areas as part of a 12-month trial.\n\nRiders will need a full or provisional car, motorcycle or moped licence to use the vehicles, and they must be aged 16 or over.\n\nThey will be banned on pavements and limited to 15.5mph.\n\nIn Wales, if a local authority decides to take part, changes to the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 will be needed for the scooters to travel on cycle lanes, the Welsh Government added.\n\nScooter-sharing schemes have previously faced criticism over dumped scooters, which have been a problem in Paris, so local authorities will need to establish rules to avoid vehicles being abandoned on pavements.\n\nIt is hoped the first UK scheme will be up and running in Middlesbrough next week.\n\nElectric scooters for hire have already become a familiar sight in European and US cities", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarl Cameron, one of the first black actors to forge a successful career in British film and television, has died aged 102, his family has confirmed.\n\nBermuda-born Cameron, who lived with his wife in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, died in his sleep on Friday.\n\nCameron first appeared on screen in the 1951 film Pool of London, in a rare starring role for a black actor.\n\nHis family said he \"was an inspirational man who stood by his moral principles\".\n\nCameron was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.\n\nHis other screen credits include 1965 Bond movie Thunderball and Doctor Who.\n\nHis family said they \"have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and respect they have received\".\n\n\"As an artist and actor he refused to accept roles that demeaned or stereotyped the character of people of colour,\" they added. \"He will be very sadly missed.\"\n\nEarl Cameron outside Buckingham Palace with his CBE, which he received in 2009\n\nBermuda Premier David Burt tweeted: \"I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of iconic Bermudian actor Earl Cameron.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Premier David Burt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPaterson Joseph, who recently starred as Kamal Hadley in the BBC's Noughts and Crosses series, said Cameron was a \"giant man\", whose \"pioneering shoulders are what my generation of actors stand on\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFamily friend Martin Beckett said: \"He's a great character, very spiritual, very modest, we're going to miss him.\n\n\"He would never take on roles that demeaned people of colour.\"\n\nCameron also starred alongside Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn in the 2005 film The Interpreter.\n\nOne of his final acting credits was for a small part in the 2010 film Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC as he turned 100, Cameron said he wanted to see more black actors in roles.\n\nAlan White as Schultz and Earl Cameron as Williams in a scene from \"Dr Who and The Tenth Planet\"\n\nHe said: \"There's a lot of talent out there and I think the British film industry would prosper by using more black talent.\"\n\nCameron joined the British merchant navy and arrived in the UK in 1939.\n\nHe told the Royal Gazette he made his debut in the chorus of Chu Chin Chow, a West End show, when he was working as a dishwasher at a restaurant and they needed someone quickly.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Black Doctor Who actor ahead of his time. Video, 00:00:49Black Doctor Who actor ahead of his time", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do eased travel restrictions mean for me?\n\nTravel restrictions in Wales will end on Monday, First Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed.\n\n\"Stay local\" guidance, asking people to stay within five miles of home will end with no limits on travel, and outdoor attractions will be able to open.\n\nTwo households will also be able to stay together indoors from Monday. It comes as the number of coronavirus cases continues to fall.\n\nMr Drakeford called for people to think \"carefully about where we go and why\".\n\nTravel restrictions were introduced across the UK at the start of lockdown in March, although Wales kept its travel restrictions longer than the UK government did in England.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson abandoned the rule in May - the difference in policy led to warnings not to drive to Wales.\n\n\"I want to do more to restore freedoms we have had to give up to us all,\" Mr Drakeford told the daily Welsh Government press conference.\n\n\"I want to see more of the Welsh economy in recovery. But that will depend, not on the actions of the Welsh Government, but on the actions of us all as Welsh citizens.\"\n\nMr Drakeford set out a list of \"golden rules\" people in Wales would need to follow if further restrictions were to be lifted, including:\n\nMeanwhile he confirmed the Welsh Government could allow the resumption of cricket as part of next week's review of lockdown restrictions.\n\nWales' beauty spots have been effectively closed to tourists since March\n\nDespite the request to avoid unnecessary travel, from Monday there is no longer a limit to the distance people can travel.\n\nIt follows an announcement on Thursday that restaurants and pubs can open outdoors from 13 July.\n\nVenues will be able to open in spaces they own and have licences for - as long as Covid-19 cases continue to fall.\n\nThe Welsh Government said two weeks ago travel restrictions could end, but it was dependent on cases of coronavirus continuing to fall.\n\nSome bars and restaurants with outdoor terraces are preparing to open from Monday week\n\nOn Friday, Mr Drakeford said there were only 19 patients receiving critical care in Wales - down 88% from a peak in April - and the lowest level since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe so-called \"R-number\" - the average number infected by each case - has stayed below 1, meaning cases are declining rather than increasing.\n\nThe Welsh Government has stuck to the 2m social-distancing rule but Mr Drakeford said in \"some contexts it may be important\" to reduce it.\n\nBut where it is, \"we will expect to see other important safeguards in place\", he said. Further guidance could be issued next week.\n\nTwo metres remains safer than one metre, he added. England is relaxing the rule in certain situations from Saturday.\n\nWales' busiest roads have been quieter during lockdown, like the M4 motorway through south Wales\n\nDarren Millar, Welsh Tory spokesman on Covid-19 recovery, said: \"I welcome news that the Welsh Labour-led Government's arbitrary and cruel five-mile rule is finally being scrapped in Wales but I urge the first minister to bring this forward to today to avoid another lost weekend for those wanting to see their loved ones.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said he would \"still like to hear a firming up of face covering rules in enclosed areas\".\n\n\"Let's also have clarity on the steps to be taken and the support that will be made available if there is a need to reintroduce some of restrictions in response to local outbreaks. And I'm also reiterating my calls to make maximum use of testing capacity so that the Test, Trace, Protect system can identify outbreaks urgently.\"\n\nTenby is among the places expecting visitors once the restrictions end\n\nTourist hotspots in Wales - such as Tenby in Pembrokeshire - are preparing for an influx once the restrictions are lifted.\n\nMayor Sam Skyrme-Blackhall admitted there had been a dilemma between balancing the need to kick-start the local economy while also maintaining the safety of both locals and visitors.\n\nPeople who live in Wales' seaside resorts \"want to be safe but also support businesses\"\n\n\"It's very daunting at the moment - obviously people are very worried, but there are two sides to that - people want to be safe, but also we need to support our businesses.\n\n\"Tenby relies heavily on tourism, which in turn provides jobs for the local community. If we're not allowed to open, there will be no jobs and a lot of businesses will close by the winter.\"\n\nKaren Evans, owner of the Bay Tree restaurant, added: \"I need to open. I need the tourists. Three winters back-to-back isn't funny.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to them coming back - we are nervous but life goes on and we've got to get on with it. I've been closed since 19 March and not earned a penny since.\"\n\nWith self-contained accommodation able to take bookings from 13 July, Tim Rees, chief executive of Quality Cottages based near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, said he had his highest-grossing weekend in terms of bookings in its history, last week.\n\n\"We're anticipating around 95% capacity for August this year and a record autumn is on the cards,\" he said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri - Snowdonia National Park 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\nSnowdonia, which usually attracts about four million visitors a year, will also reopen on Monday but the authority that maintains it wants visitors to \"protect\" and \"respect\" the national park.\n\nAs well as maintaining a 2m distance, especially at gates and stiles, national park wardens want walkers to tread lightly, take litter and food waste home and sanitise hands after touching hard surfaces.\n\n\"Wildlife, birds and farm animals may be closer than before - protect them by keeping to the paths,\" says advice from Snowdonia's wardens.\n\n\"Be kind and considerate of other users and the people who live and work here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path celebrated its 50th birthday earlier this year while it was shut due to lockdown\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, which attracts about four million visitors annually, is also reopening - but its chief executive said there were mixed views locally.\n\n\"The tourism industry is extremely important in our area, therefore we're very supportive of businesses that need to reopen,\" said Tegryn Jones.\n\n\"On the other side, there are some people in local communities that are tremendously concerned that we are going to have an influx of visitors and the possibility that the virus comes with that.\"", "People across England have had their first night out in three months, after coronavirus restrictions eased.\n\nHospitality venues such as pubs and restaurants as well as hairdressers, cinemas and theme parks reopened with strict social distancing rules.\n\nBut ministers urged caution and England's chief medical officer said the latest step was not \"risk-free\".\n\nIt comes as buildings and landmarks across the country were lit up to celebrate the NHS.\n\nPeople were also encouraged to place lights in their window on Saturday to remember those who have died from the virus.\n\nBuildings were lit up blue in honour of the tens of thousands of people who have died during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK\n\nDowning Street was lit up blue while other public buildings including Royal Albert Hall, Blackpool Tower, the Shard and the Wembley Arch were also illuminated.\n\nRestrictions on the hospitality sector remain in place in Scotland and Wales, while pubs have been able to open in Northern Ireland since Friday.\n\nIn England, people are being allowed to stay the night away from home for the first time since lockdown started, with campsites and holiday accommodation also reopening.\n\nPolice in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall reported gridlock on the roads on Saturday - including a high volume of caravan owners heading to the coast.\n\nDespite the relaxation of restrictions, some 30% of bars, pubs and restaurants have stayed shut, according to the Night-Time Industries Association, amid fears for safety and concerns over how to implement social distancing guidance.\n\nCampaign for Real Ale national chairman Nik Antona said: \"The government have not really been helpful with their guidance, leaving it to the last minute in a lot of cases.\" Some pubs \"want to see what's going to happen\" before opening their doors, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's good to have a proper pint\" : The BBC's Fiona Trott talks to drinkers in a pub in Newcastle\n\nAt a pub in Newcastle, punters enjoyed their first \"proper pint\" in more than three months. \"The atmosphere is a bit different... that was expected. But everyone's having a good time,\" one customer told the BBC's Fiona Trott.\n\n\"The regulations are good and everyone is sticking with them, by the looks of things,\" said his companion.\n\nBut it is a very different sort of Saturday evening from pre-lockdown expectations. Customers are expected to book a table in advance, to register their details on arrival and to stay no more than three hours.\n\nWhile pubs in Scotland remain closed one publican in Berwick-upon-Tweed claimed 70% of his pub's bookings were from over the border.\n\nPublican Marc McDonald told BBC Scotland people had travelled from as far afield as Glasgow and Edinburgh to drink at The Meadow House.\n\nIt is a different story in Leicester where the streets were largely deserted as pubs and other venues remain closed after the city became the first to be subject to a local lockdown on Monday, following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nOther rule changes that came into effect on Saturday include allowing two households to meet indoors or outside, including for overnight stays - although they have to maintain social distancing.\n\nPeople in England are still urged to stay 2m apart, but the new \"one metre plus\" guidance means they can get closer if they use \"mitigation\" measures, such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak welcomed the reopening of businesses, saying it was \"good news\" people were working again.\n\nOn a visit to The Bell and Crown in Chiswick, west London, Mr Sunak said the almost half a million people who worked in Britain's pubs and bars were \"helping us all to enjoy summer safely\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government's messaging as \"all over the place\", telling TimesRadio: \"You have had some government messaging saying go out and have a drink, other messaging saying be responsible, be cautious - the messaging, I think, has been very poor over the last few weeks.\"\n\nDespite the easing of restrictions, public health experts are continuing to warn people to be cautious to avoid a second UK wave of the epidemic.\n\nProf Robert West, an epidemiologist from University College London, told the BBC: \"We are looking at around 20,000 new infections a week and around 1,000 deaths a week and the rates aren't coming down very fast.\"\n\nThe latest figures, released on Saturday, showed a further 67 people had died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 44,198.\n\nHow are you planning to deal with lockdown easing? Are you going to meet loved ones for the first time since it began? Are you working? Are you happy or concerned about lifted restrictions? Please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The couple said their vows under the Peace Garden Pergola at Runcorn Town Hall Register Office\n\nA couple are believed to be the first to say \"I do\" in England after the easing of virus restrictions.\n\nNewlyweds Louise Arnold and Jennifer Wilson, both 22, tied the knot at 00:01 BST in the grounds of Runcorn Town Hall in Cheshire in front of 16 guests.\n\nThose unable to attend the ceremony including family and friends in Australia and New Zealand still put on their wedding outfits to watch online\n\n\"It's hard to put into words how much this means to us,\" said Ms Wilson.\n\nThe couple, who have been engaged for three years, had cancelled their previous plans as travel restrictions meant Ms Wilson's family in Australia would not be able to attend.\n\n\"Last week the registry office rang and asked if we wanted to be the first couple in the UK to marry after lockdown and we just said yes,\" said Ms Wilson, who has been working as a senior dementia care assistant throughout the pandemic.\n\n\"We both work nights normally so the time suited us.\"\n\nPlans for a reception with 120 guests have been postponed until next year\n\nMs Arnold, who works for lorry firm Eddie Stobart, added: \"With it having just been Pride month, this felt like something we couldn't really pass up.\n\n\"Not just for us but for other LGBT people who haven't been able to get together to celebrate Pride.\"\n\nThe couple from Widnes had just over a week to prepare for the rearranged nuptials under the Peace Garden Pergola at Runcorn Town Hall Register Office.\n\nThe childhood sweethearts met eight years ago while Ms Arnold was on holiday in New Zealand, where Ms Wilson was living.\n\nShe added: \"I think everyone has been excited to be able to celebrate something positive after the past few months.\"\n\nRegistration service manager Andrew Lucas said he was \"delighted to help Louise and Jennifer say \"I do\" on what we think was the first wedding after the lockdown period\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None No singing part of new wedding rules for England", "As the day wore on crowds gathered outside pubs and bars in London's Soho\n\nPubs, cinemas and hairdressers have reopened as lockdown restrictions are eased across England - but how have people adjusted to the latest \"new normal\"?\n\nThe Rush Hair salon on Deansgate in Manchester city centre opened its doors at 09:00 BST to welcome customers for the first time in more than three months.\n\nWhile staff were wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and shields divided each hair-cutting station, it was much like business as usual, according to the BBC's Lauren Hirst.\n\nSalon manager Abbie Denton told her: \"It feels like you're starting a new job with all the new changes but it's just great to be back.\"\n\nAbbie Denton said Rush Hair's staff were \"raring to go\"\n\nThe salon was fully booked and Ms Denton, who has worked at Rush Hair for eight years, said she was happy to be back doing what she loves.\n\n\"We had a full training day yesterday where we went through everything about the PPE and health and safety and we had a Zoom call with the CEO this morning, which was all about team building and got everything raring to go,\" she said.\n\nBBC presenter Ben Tavener joined the first customers entering Pall Mall Barbers for a haircut near London's Trafalgar Square.\n\nHe said: \"The experience ultimately wasn't that bad - a little fiddly when cutting around my ears as I had to hold the mask in place for a few seconds without the elastic bands.\n\n\"But a small price to pay to end three months of 'lockdown hair'.\n\n\"One of the barbers - Michael Barby - has had to shave off his prized beard, as it won't fit under his face mask. Four years of growth gone in a snip.\n\n\"But he's glad to be back at the grindstone. And his 'beard off' raised over £2,000 for charity.\"\n\nBarber Michael Barby had to shave off his prized beard, as it won't fit under his protective face mask\n\nLipstick & Locks, in Sudbury, Suffolk, opened for 24 hours from midnight - and was expecting 43 clients through the door in that time.\n\nManager Megan Tuck said: said: \"It's been such an exciting day for us… so lovely to be back and work.\"\n\nLipstick & Locks manager Megan Tuck said its reopening was \"exciting\"\n\nIn the afternoon, punters outside Dukes 92 - a bar and restaurant in the centre of Castlefield, Manchester - were in good spirits\n\nOperations director Lucy McCarthy said: \"It's been pretty stressful trying to open with all the changes but so far so good.\n\n\"We are just really excited to be open.\"\n\nA group of friends enjoying drinks outside Dukes in Castlefield\n\nSome parts of central London \"seemed as if things had never been different\", according to BBC journalist Winnie Agbonlahor.\n\nJill and Sean Connel, from Twickenham, had travelled into the capital to show their six-month-old son Charlie that \"even though it's all very scary, it's OK and people are friendly\".\n\nTheir train was \"almost completely empty\" with everyone wearing masks and being very respectful, Mrs Connel said.\n\n\"We expected it to be more crowded but everywhere we've been so far, including Buckingham Palace, has been quite quiet,\" she added.\n\nJill and Sean Connel travelled into central London with their six-month-old son Charlie\n\nAs the wedding ban was lifted, a trainee doctor who contracted Covid-19 became one of the first brides in England to say \"I do\".\n\nShe was working in A&E at Ipswich Hospital when she became unwell in March.\n\nThe ceremony was restricted to 30 people, but it was live-streamed for others to enjoy the celebrations.\n\nThe happy couple said they were looking forward to having a \"massive party\" next year\n\nIn Upware, Cambridgeshire, 38-year-old Tom Jones moored up on his river cruiser boat at the Five Miles From Anywhere pub.\n\nIt's the first time boat owners have been allowed to stay overnight on their boats, because they are classed as a second home.\n\nMr Jones said: \"It's great to be able to support this fantastic local business, and the beer is a definitely a bonus.\n\n\"We are taking things slowly and trying to stay outside as much as possible.\"\n\nIn the Lake District, visitors said they were keen to get their fill of stunning views and fresh air as lockdown eased.\n\nPeople arrived as early as 06:00 at Waterside House Campsite on the shores of Ullswater with some having travelled from London, Gloucestershire, Merseyside, Manchester and the North East.\n\nFamilies pitched tents, hooked up their campervans and set up gazebos to protect them from the showers.\n\nNearby Pooley Bridge was busy and queues formed for the farm shop while other visitors enjoyed the sunshine in the beer gardens.\n\nBBC Look North's Hannah Gray said things were \"starting to get busy\" in Leeds as the afternoon progressed.\n\n\"Some people were very dressed up and clearly intending to have a night of partying,\" she added.\n\nCampers pitched up on the shores of Ullswater in the Lake District\n\nBBC News Online picture editor Phil Coombes put together some before and after photos of clients at The Men's Grooming Company in Coventry.\n\nDom Nelson, 30, said: \"I'm really pleased. He has done a great job and I'm off to a barbecue tonight if the weather holds off.\n\n\"I've been desperate for a cut and have been pre-booked since June - they just moved it back to the opening day. I've no worries coming along as there is lots of information about keeping safe.\"\n\nDom Nelson said he had been \"desperate\" for a haircut\n\nMeanwhile in Leicester, the streets were deserted as the city remained at a standstill in the first localised lockdown after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe only sign of activity in the streets was around the city's open-air market, which remained open.\n\nDhansukh Rana, 79, was shopping for some fruit and vegetables at a stall with his wife.\n\nHe said: \"I have to keep moving but it is sad they have left out Leicester when the rest of the UK is moving on.\"\n\nDhansukh Rana said many people in the city were suffering", "Drawings of rainbows became a symbol of hope and gratitude towards the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nDozens of landmarks across the country will be lit up blue later to mark 72 years since the founding of the NHS.\n\nAhead of the health service's anniversary on Sunday, people are being encouraged to take part in a weekend of celebration and remembrance.\n\nPeople will be asked to put a light in their window to remember those who have died in the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOn Sunday evening, households across the UK will take to their doorsteps for a nationwide clap for NHS workers.\n\nA moment's applause will also be observed before the kick-off of this weekend's Premier League and Championship football matches in England.\n\nOn Saturday, major public buildings will be illuminated with blue light, including the Houses of Parliament, Blackpool Tower, the SEC Armadillo, the Shard and the Wembley Arch.\n\nDowning Street will also be lit up, with a candle placed on the doorstep of No 10.\n\nAt 20:00 BST, the dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London will light a candle of remembrance of the lives which have been lost during the pandemic.\n\nOn Sunday, a flypast by a World War Two Spitfire fighter plane is due to take place over hospitals in the east of England and a nationwide applause, inspired by the Clap for Carers initiative, will take place at 17:00 BST.\n\nA special programme will be broadcast on BBC One to mark the occasion.\n\nThe Clap for Carers initiative saw households across the country showing appreciation for healthcare workers for 10 Thursday evenings in a row during the height of the pandemic.\n\nDutch-born Londoner Annemarie Plas, who started the Clap for Carers campaign, said she hoped Sunday's applause would mark the start of a yearly tradition to thank the health service.\n\nMeanwhile, a new NHS cadet programme being launched to coincide with the anniversary hopes to encourage thousands of teenagers into careers in healthcare.\n\nTeenagers aged between 14 and 18 will be able to train in first aid, develop leadership skills, and find volunteer opportunities within the health service.\n\nThe £6m programme, funded equally by the NHS and St John Ambulance, aims to offer a route into employment for up to 10,000 young people by 2023.\n\nThe scheme's organisers are looking for people who may not have previously considered working in the NHS, including those not in employment, education or training.\n\nThe NHS's chief nurse for England, Ruth May, said the scheme would give people \"a genuine opportunity to get a taste of what it's like to work in the best health service in the world\".\n\nIt is being piloted in Colchester, Hull and London and will be rolled out to Liverpool, Bradford, Hertfordshire and the Wirral in the coming months.\n• None In pictures: The history of the NHS", "Ginny Butcher is not surprised by the ONS findings.\n\nAs a disabled woman, Ginny Butcher is roughly 11 times more likely to die from coronavirus than her peers. New figures also suggest almost two-thirds of Covid-19 deaths in the UK have been disabled people. There are now calls for an inquiry.\n\nGinny is a 22-year-old wheelchair user who needs two personal assistants with her at all times. She is at high-risk of coronavirus and is still shielding at home.\n\nShe has a ventilated tracheotomy and says she's been \"extremely anxious\" during lockdown because there has been \"zero guidance\" on what to do if any of her assistants became ill or had to isolate.\n\nShe points to the impact of the Coronavirus Act - the emergency legislation the government passed at the beginning of lockdown - which took away significant parts of councils' duty to provide care for disabled people.\n\nCritics said it gave councils - who previously had an obligation to provide certain care - the power to \"downgrade\" provisions for disabled and elderly people.\n\n\"Disabled women were left wondering how they were going to get out of bed in the morning,\" Ginny says. \"With much less care, women were forced to venture outside to get groceries and other essentials, putting themselves at risk.\"\n\nThose who do have care support have \"struggled immensely\" to get vital personal protective equipment (PPE), she adds, saying this puts both carers and disabled people at risk.\n\nGinny couldn't get any PPE for the first eight weeks of the crisis, despite being on the government's list of people who are clinically vulnerable to the virus.\n\n\"It has been my biggest concern throughout this crisis,\" she says.\n\nIt comes as the latest ONS figures, first reported by Disability News Service, showed more than 22,000 disabled people died from coronavirus, from 2 March to 15 May, making up two-thirds of all deaths.\n\nThe statistics suggest working-age disabled women like Ginny are more than 11 times more likely to die from coronavirus than their peers. For disabled men, the death rate was 6.5 times higher than non-disabled men.\n\n\"I'm not surprised at all\", says Ginny. \"Hardly anything has been done to protect disabled women. In fact, the opposite is true. Disabled women are being abandoned and left to die.\"\n\nThe ONS analysis suggests that much of the disparity is caused by social and economic factors, such as \"region, population density, area deprivation, household composition... and occupation\".\n\nInequalities have been shown to disproportionately affect disabled people. But Chris Hatton, professor of public health and disability at Lancaster University, highlighted two key factors.\n\nHe says disabled women, and disabled people in general, are also more likely to have other health conditions that can increase their risk of dying from coronavirus. People with learning disabilities are disproportionately likely to be obese, have diabetes, or have kidney disease, he adds.\n\nCrucially, he says people with learning disabilities often develop those conditions at a relatively young age, which could explain why the difference in death rates is particularly pronounced when it comes to young disabled women.\n\nThe second factor, Prof Hatton says, is that disabled people often have their health concerns overlooked and diagnoses are often delayed because new issues are assumed to relate to existing disabilities, rather than a new condition.\n\nThose same issues have spilled over into discrimination in coronavirus treatment.\n\nAt the end of March, the National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) published guidance which appeared to recommend prioritising coronavirus patients based on a \"dependency\" scale .\n\nPeople who were highly dependent on others in their daily lives would be the first to be denied intensive care in the event that units became overwhelmed, regardless of whether they were clinically less likely to survive.\n\nWhile hospital ICUs never exceeded capacity and the guidance was partially rescinded, Prof Hatton says it badly damaged confidence among disabled people.\n\n\"Medical professionals do not listen to disabled women, and often gaslight disabled women into thinking that they are not sick, unwell or in pain,\" Ginny adds.\n\n\"I'm not surprised that disabled women are failing to receive the medical treatment that they need.\"\n\nGinny says more needs to be done and disabled people's organisations agree.\n\n\"It feels like there has been a systemic failure to understand and address the needs of disabled people\", says Mike Smith, a former commissioner of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, who is now chief executive of disability charity Real.\n\nHe says an inquiry needs to look at all the \"structural inequalities\" disabled people face.\n\n\"All the way through this pandemic there has been a narrative to the wider population: don't worry, it only affects older people, and those with pre-existing conditions - as if, somehow, the value of those people's lives was less.\"\n\n\"We would want to know whether there are things that could have been done differently, such as earlier provision of PPE, earlier provision of testing, speedier diagnosis, access to critical care - as well as tackling increased isolation,\" says the charity's policy manager Fazilet Hadi.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government was \"determined to take the right steps to protect\" those who are most vulnerable to the disease and \"minimise their risk\".\n\n\"More than two million people have been identified as clinically extremely vulnerable and we have provided guidance to GPs and clinicians so they can add people to the shielded patient list, as they are best placed to advise on the needs of their individual patients.\"\n\nThe department said the care provisions implemented in the Coronavirus Act are only intended to be used when absolutely necessary and should be temporary.\n\nThere are no plans to extend shielding for extremely vulnerable people beyond the end of July but Public Health England continues to monitor the effects of the virus on different minority groups, the department said.", "Portugal's foreign affairs minister has said his country's exclusion from a list of countries for which quarantine will not apply for people returning to England is \"absurd\".\n\nAugusto Santos Silva told the BBC not including Portugal was \"senseless and unfair\".\n\nThe list of countries exempt from quarantine was published on Friday.\n\nBoris Johnson said 14-day quarantines would remain for countries where the virus was not under control.\n\nOther countries excluded from the list, which comes into effect on 10 July, include the US, China, the Maldives and Sweden.\n\nMr Santos Silva told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"We are very disappointed with the decision of the British authorities. We think it is senseless and unfair.\n\n\"It is quite absurd the UK has seven times more cases of Covid-19 than Portugal so we think this is not the way in which allies and friends are treated.\"\n\nThe Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, tweeted comparing the UK's number of coronavirus cases with that of the Algarve, saying: \"You are welcome to spend a safe holiday in the Algarve.\"\n\nLabour shadow transport minister Jim McMahon said people up and down the country were keen for the quarantine measures to be lessened but said \"this is a mess\".\n\n\"First we had the quarantine that they were slow to implement, then they said they'd do air bridges,\" he said.\n\n\"Now we see a plan to let residents of 60 or more countries into England without any reciprocal arrangements.\"\n\nScotland and Wales are yet to decide whether to ease travel restrictions and described the changes as \"shambolic\".\n\nThe quarantine rules will also remain in place in Northern Ireland for visitors arriving from outside of the UK and Republic of Ireland.\n\nSome of those on the list include popular short-haul destinations such as Turkey and Cyprus, as well as long-haul locations including Australia, Barbados, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Vietnam.\n\nHowever, some countries will require visitors to isolate on arrival or will bar them from entering at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nA list of countries which will be exempt from the Foreign Office's advice against \"all but essential travel\" from Saturday has also been published.\n\nThe introduction of the quarantine on 8 June was met with criticism from the travel, tourism and hospitality industries and the easing of restrictions on arrivals from some countries has been welcomed.", "Spain is among the countries which can be visited without having to quarantine for 14 days on your return\n\nA full list of countries for which quarantine will not apply to people arriving back in England has been published.\n\nCountries including Greece, Spain, France and Belgium are on the list, which comes into effect from 10 July.\n\nBut countries such as China, US, Sweden and Portugal are not, meaning arrivals from those have to isolate for 14 days.\n\nScotland and Wales are yet to decide whether to ease travel restrictions and described the changes as \"shambolic\".\n\nThe quarantine rules will also remain in place in Northern Ireland for visitors arriving from outside of the UK and Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe restrictions came into place in early June in a bid to stop coronavirus entering the country as the number of cases was falling.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Instead of quarantining arrivals from the whole world, we will only quarantine arrivals from those countries where the virus is sadly not under control.\"\n\nPeople travelling from the 59 places and 14 British overseas territories on the list will not have to quarantine on arrival in England unless they have travelled through a place which is not exempt.\n\nPassengers will still be required to provide contact information on arrival in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nSome of those on the list include popular short-haul destinations such as Turkey and Cyprus, as well as long-haul locations including Australia, Barbados, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Vietnam.\n\nHowever, some countries will require visitors to isolate on arrival or will bar them from entering at all, such as New Zealand.\n\nThe Foreign Office is expected to update its travel guidance on Saturday, including naming which countries will have a reciprocal arrangement with the UK and not require British visitors to quarantine on arrival.\n\nA list of countries which will be exempt from the Foreign Office's advice against \"all but essential travel\" from Saturday has also been published.\n\nThe advice has been lifted for Portugal but only for the Azores and Madeira.\n\nPortugal's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"We are very disappointed with the decision of the British authorities. We think it is senseless and unfair.\n\n\"It is quite absurd the UK has seven times more cases of Covid-19 than Portugal so we think this is not the way in which allies and friends are treated.\"\n\nHis prime minister, António Costa, tweeted comparing the UK's number of coronavirus cases with that of the Algarve, a popular holiday destination, saying: \"You are welcome to spend a safe holiday in the Algarve.\"\n\nThe government said information for travel into Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be published in due course by the devolved administrations.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said finalising the list of countries had been delayed - after scrapping the quarantine was announced last week - in the hope that the four UK nations could reach a joint decision.\n\nHe said there was \"still an opportunity\" for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to co-ordinate and therefore make the changes more simple.\n\nBut the first ministers of both Scotland and Wales have criticised the government, with Nicola Sturgeon saying Scotland could not be dragged along by the UK government's \"shambolic decision making\".\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said the approach had been \"utterly shambolic\".\n\nHowever, he added it was likely the Welsh government would impose the same measures as in England, provided the chief medical officer for Wales gave approval.\n\nMr Johnson said in a televised coronavirus briefing from Downing Street that the nations of the UK were following \"very similar paths but at different speeds\".\n\nAsked if a family from Scotland could drive to England and fly out and back from an overseas country to get around different quarantine rules the prime minister said that while he knew the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales had a \"slightly different take\" on it the \"convoy is very much going in the same direction\".\n\n\"I'm sure we'll get there together and common sense will apply.\"\n\nThe introduction of the quarantine on 8 June was met with criticism from the travel, tourism and hospitality industries and the easing of restrictions on arrivals from some countries has been welcomed.\n\nA statement on behalf of airlines Ryanair, easyJet and British Airways said the move to quarantine people had been \"irrational\" and had seriously damaged the economy and industry.\n\nIt added the carriers wanted clarification on how countries included on the lists were selected.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of industry body Airline UK, said the lists gave \"a clear path to opening further predominantly long-haul destinations in the weeks ahead\".\n\nTUI UK and Ireland managing director Andrew Flintham said the company was pleased the government had confirmed \"summer holidays are saved\" and said it was a \"significant step forward\" for the industry.\n\nThe chief executive of Booking Holdings, which owns the brands Booking.com and Kayak.com, called for a coordinated effort from governments around the world to set out principles as to why someone can travel from one country to another.\n\nGlenn Fogel told BBC World News current measures were \"totally chaotic\" but he welcomed England's announcement saying the UK is \"an important part of the global tourism industry\".\n\nVisitBritain director Patricia Yates said the lifting of travel restrictions for some of the \"largest and most valuable visitor markets\" was a \"timely boost\" for the industry.\n\nPilots union, the British Airline Pilots Association, said it was an important first step and said it was working with authorities to make sure the return to operations would be safe for pilots, passengers and crew.\n\nAn Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokeswoman said there was likely to be a strong demand for holidays and it was important people considered how this might affect their plans.\n\n\"It is especially important that customers also check the latest Foreign Office travel advice before booking, to establish if there are entry restrictions or self-isolation procedures on arrival, or any other measures they need to comply with, in the destination they are planning to visit,\" she said.\n\nA High Court challenge by British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair against the government's 14-day quarantine is set to be withdrawn, their barrister Tom Hickman QC said.", "Ghislaine Maxwell is expected to appear in court in New York on charges of helping Jeffrey Epstein's sexual exploitation of girls and young women, and also perjury. She has previously denied any wrongdoing.\n\nWhen she moved to New York, she became friends with Laura Goldman.\n\nLaura Goldman spoke to the BBC's Today programme and was asked whether she thought Ms Maxwell would speak about Prince Andrew, a former friend of Epstein, as part of a potential plea deal.\n\nHe has also strenuously denied any wrong doing.\n\nThis video has been removed while the BBC investigates claims about the veracity of the contributor.", "Police were seen entering the estate but were seen retreating when revellers started chasing them\n\nSeven officers have been injured after police tried to break up an unlicensed music event in west London.\n\nPolice were called to White City on Friday evening following reports of a number of people gathered at an estate.\n\nBricks and other missiles were thrown at police when they tried to speak to the group, forcing them to back away before more officers arrived.\n\nNone of the injuries are said to be life-threatening. The violence was \"totally unacceptable\", the Met said.\n\nMayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: \"It's disgraceful that police officers came under attack with some suffering injuries at an illegal gathering in White City last night.\n\n\"Violence against the police will not be tolerated and perpetrators will be caught and prosecuted.\"\n\nHe added that extra police would be out on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dave Kayani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocal resident Dave Kayani, who filmed what happened, said when the police initially arrived, they looked like \"traffic wardens\".\n\n\"They stopped people going into the block and after a while people were getting agitated.\"\n\n\"The police started to march in, with no riot gear and shouting.\n\n\"Some of the people were riled up and started to run towards the police, who started retreating,\" he said.\n\nMr Kayani said riot police arrived about 20 minutes later.\n\n\"A bottle hit my leg, not glass. I was okay. It was quite terrifying,\" he said, adding that a neighbour had his car window smashed with stones thrown by people.\n\nHe said a few illegal parties have been held recently, but this was the biggest.\n\nPolice were called by residents complaining about a large gathering, noise, anti-social behaviour and violence.\n\nOfficers trained to deal with public disorder were met with hostility and violence, police said.\n\nA Dispersal Zone has been authorised in the area while a section 60 order is also now in place.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said seven officers had suffered injuries as a result of the clashes.\n\n\"These gatherings are illegal and also pose a risk to public health.\n\n\"The violence shown towards officers this evening was totally unacceptable and we will not tolerate it in any form. Officers encountered bricks and other missiles being thrown at them.\"\n\nPolice in the capital have been called in to break up a number of illegal gatherings in the past fortnight, with more than 20 officers hurt at a gathering in Brixton, south London, on 24 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 21 April 2020: The BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus in Brazil\n\nBrazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro, has sanctioned a law making the use of masks in public obligatory during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, he has vetoed their use in shops, churches and schools.\n\nIn a social media broadcast, Mr Bolsonaro said people could have been fined for not wearing a mask at home.\n\nHe has refused to acknowledge the gravity of Brazil's Covid-19 outbreak, despite it having the world's second-highest numbers of cases and deaths.\n\nThe virus has infected almost 1.5 million people and killed 61,884 there since late February, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThere have been almost 1.5 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Brazil\n\nBBC South America correspondent Katy Watson says Jair Bolsonaro has never cared much for masks - a health recommendation that has become highly politicised, as has much of the handling of the coronavirus crisis in Brazil.\n\nEven where mask use has been made obligatory not everyone has observed the rules, and enforcement is often pretty lax, our correspondent adds.\n\nThe bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies included an article saying that masks had to be worn by people in \"commercial and industrial establishments, religious temples, teaching premises and also closed places where people are gathering\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Bolsonaro vetoed the article, arguing that it could lead to the violation of property rights.\n\nHe also vetoed another requiring the distribution of masks to the poor.\n\nCongress has 30 days to overrule the vetoes by absolute majority vote.\n\nLast month, a judge ordered the president to wear a mask in public - something he has often refused to do. However, the order was later rescinded by another court.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has insisted that quarantine and social distancing are not necessary to combat the coronavirus and will only damage the fragile Brazilian economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nelson Teich resigned as Brazil's health minister as the pandemic worsened\n\nOn Thursday night, bars were allowed to open in Rio de Janeiro, where more than 6,600 people have died of Covid-19.\n\nFederal Congressman David Miranda posted a photograph showing dozens of people drinking on a street in the city's Leblon district without appearing to wear masks or 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 David Miranda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"A tragedy foretold,\" he tweeted. \"[Rio de Janeiro Mayor Marcelo] Crivella's decision to throw open the doors of business will come with a high cost.\"\n\nMr Crivella's office told Reuters news agency that law enforcement personnel had asked several establishments to close on Thursday for allowing crowds to gather.", "The images showed the officers grinning as they re-enacted the chokehold\n\nThree US police officers in Colorado have been sacked after they shared photos re-enacting a chokehold used on a black man who later died.\n\nElijah McClain, 23, died in August last year after being stopped by police.\n\nAnother officer resigned over the matter. A local police chief called the images \"beyond comprehension\".\n\nMr McClain's case attracted renewed focus in the wake of the death of George Floyd, another unarmed African-American who died in police custody.\n\nThe officers who were fired were named as Jason Rosenblatt, Erica Marrero and Kyle Dittrich. The fourth, Jaron Jones, resigned on Tuesday.\n\nVanessa Wilson, the acting police chief in Aurora, where the incident took place, called the images a crime against humanity and decency.\n\n\"We are ashamed, we are sickened, and we are angry about what I have to share,\" she told a news conference.\n\n\"While the allegations of this internal affairs case are not criminal, they are a crime against humanity and decency. To even think about doing such a thing is beyond comprehension and it is reprehensible.\"\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\nOne of the pictures shows former officers Dittrich and Jones imitating a neck hold, while Marrero smiles to their left.\n\nJason Rosenblatt was sent the photos by text and responded \"ha ha\".\n\nChief Wilson said she held off releasing the photos until she could share them with Mr McClain's family. Their lawyer called the images \"appalling\".\n\nMr McClain was walking in Aurora on 24 August last year when he was stopped by three police officers.\n\nA district attorney report later said there had been an emergency call about a \"suspicious person\" matching his description.\n\nThere was a struggle after Mr McClain resisted contact with the officers, who wanted to search him to see if he was armed, the report says. On body cam footage Mr McClain can be heard saying, \"I'm an introvert, please respect my boundaries that I am speaking.\"\n\nOne of the officers then says \"he is going for your gun\", and they wrestle him to the ground and put him in a chokehold.\n\nThe report says Mr McClain lost consciousness, was released from the chokehold, and began to struggle again.\n\nThe officers called for assistance, with fire fighters and an ambulance responding. A medic injected Mr McClain with ketamine to sedate him.\n\nMr McClain was then put in \"soft restraints\" on a stretcher and put inside the ambulance. The medic who had administered the drug then noticed that Mr McClain's chest \"was not rising on its own, and he did not have a pulse\". He was declared brain dead on 27 August.\n\nDemonstrators have marched in Denver to protest against the death of Mr McClain\n\nMr McClain's family allege that the officers used excessive force for about 15 minutes as Mr McClain vomited, begged for them to stop and repeatedly told them he could not breathe. The officers also threatened to set a police dog on him, the family said.\n\nAn coroner's autopsy found the cause of death to be undetermined.\n\nColorado Governor Jared Polis has appointed a special prosecutor to review the case. Earlier this month, Aurora police banned the chokehold used on Mr McClain. New rules also say officers must intervene if they see a colleague using excessive force.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "An historic hotel has been hit by floods.\n\nThe Ty'n y Cornel Hotel, by Tal-y-llyn lake in Gwynedd, has suffered regular flooding in recent years.\n\nThis time it has \"flooded all the garages but not the main building,\" according to a hotel spokesman.\n\n\"The flood water is up to my knees in the road,\" he said.\n\nNatural Resources Wales has issued half a dozen flood alerts in north Wales on Saturday.", "The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency teams\n\nA man in his 20s has been shot dead in north London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Roman Way in Islington at 15:20 BST and found the man with gunshot wounds.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene, close to Pentonville Prison, shortly afterwards, the Met Police said.\n\nThe man's next of kin have been informed but no-one has been arrested. Officers have cordoned off the Westbourne Estate area as they investigate.\n\nThe force said it was too early to say whether the shooting was linked to the prison, which is one of the country's oldest and busiest jails and houses a men's prison and a young offender institution.\n\nA witness said he heard a number of shots, ran to his window and saw \"a guy on a bike or moped rode off\".\n\nThe man was shot dead close to a children's playground\n\n\"When I looked to the park, I could see a guy stagger then fall,\" he added.\n\n\"That was it, then police came.\"\n\nThe witness, who wanted to remain anonymous, added: \"There's always crime around here, the shooting is shocking, but not much of a surprise.\n\n\"It's not nice though, especially near the local park.\"\n\nIslington South and Finsbury MP Emily Thornberry said: \"My thoughts are with the victim's family and friends and local residents in whose midst this terrible event occurred.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "St Albans for Black Lives Matter said the cathedral's use of the print had \"brought about a countywide conversation\".\n\nA picture of the Last Supper showing a black Jesus has been installed in a cathedral in what campaigners described as a \"bold statement\".\n\nThe print, by Lorna May Wadsworth, has been placed at the Altar of the Persecuted in the North Transept of St Albans Cathedral.\n\nThe church said it was in \"support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement\".\n\nThe original artwork, painted in 2010, had previously been shot while on display at a church in Gloucestershire.\n\nSt Albans for BLM said the cathedral's move had \"brought about a countywide conversation\".\n\nThe artist used a Jamaican-born model for the basis of her interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's 15th Century work, and said she wanted \"to make people question the Western myth that [Jesus Christ] had fair hair and blue eyes\".\n\nThe Very Reverend Dr Jeffrey John, dean of the cathedral, said: \"Our faith teaches that we are all made equally in the image of God, and that God is a God of justice.\"\n\nThe cathedral said the 8ft 8in-high (2.6m) picture was part of a prayer installation to mark its reopening, and called on people to \"look with fresh eyes at something you think you know\".\n\nIn a statement, the cathedral said: \"We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement to be allies for change, building a strong, just and fair community where the dignity of every human being is honoured and celebrated, where black voices are heard, and where black lives matter.\"\n\nA spokeswoman added it was \"the sentiment [of the movement] that we support, and we don't uncritically support any political organisation\".\n\nDa Vinci's mural painting shows the scene of The Last Supper as narrated in the Gospel of John\n\nThe St Albans for BLM group, which is not affiliated to UKBLM and is a separate group created to support the city's response to the movement, said the picture \"was not about accurate portrayal of Jesus' appearance\" but about \"promoting conversation about how history is often whitewashed\".\n\nShelley Hayles, from the group, said: \"Much of our society has had no problem accepting the inaccurate portrayal of a 'white' Jesus, but are quick to take issue with a 'black' Jesus and this is just another example of the systemic racism in the UK.\n\n\"The bold statement by St Albans Cathedral has brought about a countywide conversation which would have been unlikely to happen before Black Lives Matter gained momentum.\"\n\nThe installation has provoked debate on the cathedral's Facebook page, with one poster saying: \"Why do we have to be all about colour? If Jesus was from Jerusalem he would've probably looked darker, but he taught us to love everyone, that's my belief anyway.\"\n\nOthers had a different view, with another poster saying: \"I think this is a very welcome initiative. Thank you for it - it is needed.\"\n\nThe print has been placed at the Altar of the Persecuted in the North Transept of St Albans Cathedral\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.", "Valtteri Bottas beat Lewis Hamilton to pole position as Mercedes dominated qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix, while Ferrari had a shocking day.\n\nMercedes seemed unbeatable as the season re-started after a four-month delay as a result of the coronavirus.\n\nThe cars, painted black this year to reflect Mercedes' support for anti-racism, were half a second clear.\n\nThe fastest Ferrari of Charles Leclerc was in seventh as the sheer scale of their lack of performance became clear.\n\nTeam-mate Sebastian Vettel did not even make it into the final part of qualifying and the four-time world champion will start 11th.\n\nIt was a toss-up as to which was the biggest shock - the size of Mercedes' advantage over everyone else, or how badly wrong Ferrari have got it with this year's car.\n\nAs attention turns to the race on Sunday, there will be a question as to whether anyone can challenge Mercedes, and also a focus on F1's stance against racism, in the wake of the focus on the issue created by protests around the world.\n\nThe drivers are to make a collective statement before the race by wearing \"end racism\" T-shirts, although there remains a question as to whether all of them will take a knee.\n• None Drivers' reluctance to take a knee shows 'lack of understanding' - Hamilton\n\nMercedes have dominated the weekend, the cars quickest by a significant margin in every single session.\n\nThe Finn was quicker than Hamilton on the first runs by 0.122 seconds and then, running ahead of the Briton, went off at Turn Five on his final run.\n\nHamilton was ahead of Bottas on split times at that point. The world champion improved his time over the rest of the lap but lost out on pole position by 0.012secs.\n\nBottas said: \"It feels really good. I have missed this feeling after qualifying, the shakes. It is something special when you push the car to the limit. It feels so good. Our team, amazing job - we seem to be in our own league.\"\n\nHamilton said that the incident with Bottas \"didn't really affect the lap\", adding: \"Great job by Valtteri. This is a great job by the team and I am happy to be here.\"\n\nVerstappen in third was 0.538secs off pole. The Dutchman will start the race on a different tyre than Mercedes, having chosen to run the medium in second qualifying, while Mercedes were on the soft, but on the face of it the world champions look to be unbeatable.\n\nVerstappen said: \"It is going to be quite a bit warmer tomorrow and that could play to our advantage, Mercedes were on a different level today but let's see what we can do tomorrow.\n\n\"I suspect we are a little bit better off in the race. We have nothing to lose so I will try to make it as difficult as possible for them.\"\n\nHamilton was investigated after qualifying for ignoring yellow flags waved for the Bottas incident and for going off track on his first lap.\n\nNo further action was taken with regard to flags because there were conflicting green light signals showing at the same time. His first lap time was deleted for going off track at Turn 10, but it made no difference to his grid position because his second lap was his fastest anyway.\n\nAs attention turns to the race on Sunday, there will be a question as to whether anyone can challenge Mercedes, and also a focus on F1's stance against racism, in the wake of the focus on the issue created by protests around the world.\n\nThe drivers are to make a collective statement before the race by wearing \"end racism\" t-shirts, although there remains a question as to whether all of them will take a knee.\n\nEven before arriving in Austria, Ferrari were downplaying expectations, saying that they had had to redesign their car after discovering problems following pre-season testing and that the first parts of that change would not appear until the Hungarian Grand Prix in two weeks' time.\n\nBut few expected them to be as far off the pace as they were.\n\nBoth drivers were in danger of being knocked out at the end of second qualifying but Leclerc managed to scrape through in 10th place.\n\nEven he seemed surprised to be so slow.\n\n\"Are we safe?\" the 22-year-old asked his engineer at the end of the second session.\n\n\"Yes,\" he was told. \"You are P10.\"\n\nIn the end, Leclerc managed to make it into seventh on the grid by pulling out all the stops in the final session but the inquiry will be long and questing.\n\nRival teams pointed out that whereas at last year's Austrian Grand Prix there were five cars with Ferrari engines in the top 10, while this year only one made it through - and that all those teams had lost more than 0.5secs a lap in performance compared to 2019.\n\nThere was a controversial settlement between governing body the FIA and Ferrari over the winter, with the FIA saying that they had doubts about the legality of the Ferrari engine in 2019 but could not prove them.\n\nRivals were angered that the details of the settlement were kept confidential.\n\nThe Racing Point - or 'Pink Mercedes' as it has become known for its likeness to last year's Silver Arrow - had looked best of the rest behind Mercedes and Red Bull on Friday but McLaren pipped them thanks to a stellar performance from Lando Norris.\n\nThe Briton qualified a brilliant fourth, less than 0.2secs behind Verstappen and ahead of the second Red Bull of Alex Albon.\n\nAlbon set the same time as Racing Point's Sergio Perez, but as the Anglo-Thai set it first, he will start ahead of the Mexican.\n\nBehind Leclerc, the second McLaren of Carlos Sainz was eighth, ahead of Perez's team-mate Lance Stroll and the lead Renault of Daniel Ricciardo.\n• None Comedian and actor Chris O'Dowd joins from LA to chat to Louis", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Natural Resources Wales has issued half a dozen flood alerts in north Wales on Saturday\n\nAn historic hotel has been hit by floods as heavy rain falls in Wales.\n\nThe Ty'n y Cornel Hotel, by Tal-y-llyn lake in Gwynedd, has suffered regular flooding in recent years.\n\nA hotel spokesman said: \"The flood water is up to my knees in the road. It's flooded all the garages but not the main building.\"\n\nThe gardens of Gwydir Castle in Conwy were also hit as Natural Resources Wales issued 10 flood alerts, all but one in north Wales.\n\nThat was later reduced to six, with three alerts in north Wales and one in south west Wales lifted.\n\nThe hotel building dates back to the early 1800s and is thought to have offered lodgings since the early 1900s.\n\n\"The lake does flood a few times but we didn't expect it today,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"It's the people who sometimes try to drive through that's the problem and the aftermath of the drivers going through.\"\n\nHe claimed lorries were the worst, saying: \"They just think it's fine to drive through - the bow wave goes halfway up the building.\"\n\nThe green at Llanrwst Bowling Club was left under water\n\nAt Gwydir Castle, in Conwy, the gardens were flooded.\n\nIt was also hit in February and in 2018 and 2019.\n\nA 400m sandbag wall has been constructed in an effort to protect the building.\n\nBut water still affected the gardens last night and there are \"feet of water\" in the cellars.\n\nShe said the water \"came from nowhere\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gwydir Castle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"It's very disheartening,\" she said\n\n\"This shouldn't be happening in July. It's very unusual. I can't think of when we last had a flood in July.\"\n\n\"What on earth are Natural Resources Wales doing?\" she said.\n\n\"I don't buy that it's just climate change. We need a coherent water management policy.\n\n\"Water is drained from further up the catchment area and we on the valley floor are paying for it.\"\n\n\"It's completely heart-breaking for us.\"\n\nIn Llanrwst, Conwy, North Wales Police warned of flooding on Friday night.\n\nLlanrwst councillor Aaron Wynne said on Twitter: \"After just a day of rain, Llanrwst is on a flood alert.\n\nTraffic lights are in operation due to flooding on the A487 at Maentwrog\n\n\"This should not be happening after only one day of 'typical Welsh weather'.\n\nMr Wynne said he would call a meeting with Natural Resources Wales and other organisations \"to hear their plans to resolve this long-standing issue\".\n\n\"Don't forget about Llanrwst again,\" he said.\n\nElsewhere, fire crews pumped water from two properties after being called to Pant Llwyd, Llan Ffestiniog, at 10:35 BST.\n\nAt Dolgellau, Gwynedd, they removed water from a house at Tan-y-Bwlch at 08:10 BST.\n\nNatural Resources Wales operational manager, Keith Ivens, said: \"We sympathise with anyone affected by the unusually high rain fall for the summer months.\n\n\"Flooding can happen anytime of year which is why our flood forecasting and warning systems are in place at all times.\"", "The yellow weather warning is between 16:00 BST on Wednesday and 09:00 on Thursday\n\nHeavy rain is expected across parts of Wales, prompting a Met Office alert for possible floods and travel disruption.\n\nThe yellow weather warning for rain covers Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Swansea from 16:00 BST until 09:00 on Thursday.\n\nUp to 30mm (1in) of rain is expected \"quite widely\", with up to 70mm (2.7in) in a \"few places\".\n\nThe Met Office said there was a \"small chance\" properties and roads could be flooded, affecting travel.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Storms 'a taste of things to come' for Wales\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gareth Cooper played for Bath, Celtic Warriors, Newport Gwent Dragons, Gloucester and Cardiff Blues in his club career\n\nRugby star Gareth Cooper's ex-wife has been ordered to pay back just £1 after swindling him out of £1m.\n\nEx-British and Irish Lions player Mr Cooper, 41, set up two gyms and freight businesses to be run by Debra Leyshon.\n\nBut Leyshon, 41, fraudulently obtained mortgages and loans in her husband's name while telling Mr Cooper the struggling business was \"thriving\".\n\nShe also re-mortgaged the family home and four other properties, and Mr Cooper was bankrupted by the con.\n\nThe former Wales international previously said his trust in others had been \"destroyed\".\n\nLeyshon was given a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to 13 counts of fraud - totalling more than £1m.\n\nHer business partner Simon Thomas, 47, and associate Mark Lee also received suspended sentences after admitting fraud.\n\nOn Friday, a Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) hearing at Cardiff Crown Court was told Leyshon, from Bridgend, had benefitted to the tune of £371,271 and Thomas, from Cowbridge, £161,081.\n\nBut Judge David Wynn Morgan ordered both to pay back just a £1 nominal sum within the next 28 days.\n\nDebra Leyshon was ordered to pay back just £1 after a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing\n\nRoger Griffiths, prosecuting, said: \"Leyshon and Thomas have both been made bankrupt and their assets are being dealt with by a trustee in bankruptcy.\n\n\"As a result, the Crown will only be able to recover a nominal sum due to their status.\"\n\nLee, 43, from Exeter, was not subject to the hearing as the prosecution did not go ahead with POCA proceedings against him.\n\nIn a statement read out at sentencing in December, Mr Cooper said: \"I was deceived and manipulated by the person I trusted the most - my wife and the mother of my children.\n\n\"I do not think I will ever be the same again.\"\n\nMr Cooper said previously his trust in others had been \"destroyed\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ann \"felt so well\" after being given plasma from patients who recovered from Covid-19\n\nBlood plasma from patients who have recovered from Covid-19 is being tested as a potential treatment for those still suffering from the disease.\n\nIt is hoped transfusing seriously ill patients with the plasma - which contains coronavirus antibodies - can give struggling immune systems a helping hand.\n\nMother-of-seven Ann Kitchen was the first person to get the treatment.\n\nShe says her attitude to life is that \"you've got to give things a try\".\n\nAnn was being treated for coronavirus in intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital in London, when researchers asked her to take part in the blood plasma trial.\n\n\"I just felt it was the right thing. Someone has to start doing it. And if it's going to help other people. I just felt it was right.\"\n\nShe was conscious throughout, so saw the pouch of liquid and thought that it looked like \"liquid gold\".\n\nAnn was the first patient to take part, but since then about 200 more have agreed to join the trials. About half have received the plasma.\n\nIt's not new for plasma to be used in hospitals. It is often given when people have lost a lot of blood.\n\nBefore the pandemic, there was no specific national plasma donation programme.\n\nNow, more than 90,000 people have volunteered to donate their plasma in England. It can be frozen for three years.\n\nSo far, there's already enough in the system to treat 1,000 people.\n\nResearchers are keen to collect as much as possible now, especially in case of a possible second wave.\n\nThe idea behind this treatment is simple.\n\nOne way the immune system fights off infections is by producing antibodies.\n\nSo, in theory, giving these antibodies to someone who is ill now, should give them an instant shot of immunity.\n\nTwo separate UK trials are testing to see if this is true.\n\nDr Gail Miflin, chief medical officer for NHS Blood and Transplant, says we could know later this year whether or not plasma is effective.\n\n\"At the moment, we don't know. We hope it could make a huge difference and it could help people recover quicker and come out of hospital faster.\"\n\n\"All I know is that it was within a couple of days of having that plasma, I started to feel a lot better,\" she says.\n\n\"So hopefully it'll be proven that it works.\"\n\nShe has been recovering at home for several weeks now, and thinks she's beginning to understand how sick she was.\n\nHer sons and daughters told her they had been frightened because she had been in a \"really bad way\".\n\nNow, she has days when she is very tired, but mostly she says she feels \"fantastic\".\n\nAnd she says she is incredibly grateful to the donors who have given their plasma.\n\n\"I'm just pleased that there are people out there who are willing to give people a chance.\"", "People seen repeatedly breaking the Leicester lockdown could be fined up to £3,200\n\nLegislation ensuring Leicester's local lockdown can be enforced by law has been rushed through Parliament.\n\nThe new regulations come into force on Saturday, as the rest of the country begins to see an easing of lockdown.\n\nPeople or businesses that repeatedly flout the new law could receive fines of up to £3,200.\n\nLimits on social gatherings and a ban on the reopening of hotels, pubs and restaurants are all included in the new legislation.\n\nLeicester became subject to the UK's first local lockdown on Monday following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPolice have said they are bracing themselves for a busy weekend as pubs stay closed in Leicester but reopen across the country, with more officers on duty than during a typical New Year's Eve.\n\nOfficers would be policing the stricter lockdown measures as well as overseeing the relaxation of rules outside of the restricted zone.\n\nHospital bosses in the city also said they were preparing for \"typical behaviours of New Year's Eve\".\n\nPeople in Leicester have been told to stay at home since Monday\n\nThe regulations for the city were passed as a new statutory instrument easing lockdown for the rest of the country came into force on Friday.\n\nPeople in Leicester who live on their own, or single parents, can still form a social bubble with one other household, the legislation says.\n\nPublic gatherings of more than six people are now banned and there are restrictions on meeting people indoors.\n\nFixed penalty notices can be issued to people who are seen breaking the lockdown rules.\n\nFines begin at £100, and increase on a sliding scale so a person found breaking the lockdown for a sixth time could be fined £3,200.\n\nThe same fines could be issued by police across England before the easing of lockdown.\n\nLeicestershire Police said: \"We will be directing people to follow the regulations and encouraging to them to follow the guidelines.\n\n\"We want people to stay at home in the protected area and if you are outside of this to be responsible and socialise safely.\"\n\nLeicester City Council confirmed it had been informed of the legislation \"shortly before its publication\".\n\nThe regulations are due to be reviewed from 18 July.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live, work or run a business in the area? How will this affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\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. Heavy rain in Kumamoto prefecture in Kyushu, southern Japan, has led to severe flooding\n\nAt least 16 people have died and a dozen are missing on Japan's southern island of Kyushu as unprecedented rains cause flooding and landslides.\n\nFourteen victims were found in one nursing home which was inundated after a nearby river broke its banks.\n\nThe authorities have ordered more than 200,000 to evacuate and 10,000 soldiers are being sent to help rescuers.\n\nRainfall eased during the day on Sunday, but more is forecast to hit in the region on Sunday night.\n\nThe number of fatalities is expected to rise, with national broadcaster NHK reporting another 20 people in a state of \"cardio-respiratory arrest\" - a term used in Japan before a doctor officially certifies death.\n\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe urged residents to be on \"maximum alert\".\n\nThe prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima have been worst hit.\n\nFootage shows a bridge over the Kuma river washed away, with other pictures of submerged cars and houses.\n\nJapan's Meteorological Agency said such rainfall had never been seen before in the region.\n\nOne woman who sought refuge at an evacuation centre said she had never imagined rain could be so powerful, while another said she could feel the vibrations of the churning water from a nearby river\n\nHaruka Yamada, who lives in Ashikita in Kumamoto prefecture, told Kyodo: \"I saw large trees and parts of houses being washed away and heard them crashing into something. The air is filled with the smell of leaking gas and sewage.\"\n\nNHK says there are reports that eight homes in the town's Takinoue district were washed away.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChelsea manager Frank Lampard says his team will have to get used to added pressure during a nervy Premier League run-in after they beat Watford on Saturday.\n\nManchester United had leapfrogged the Blues - who lost 3-2 at West Ham on Wednesday - into fourth place by thrashing Bournemouth earlier in the day.\n\nHowever, Lampard's side responded with a comfortable win over the struggling Hornets to reclaim the final automatic qualification spot for next season's Champions League.\n\nOlivier Giroud opened the scoring for the Blues, latching on to Ross Barkley's clever pass and steering a left-foot shot into the bottom-right corner.\n\nWhile Watford worked hard to contain the hosts, they offered little to suggest they were capable of a first win at Stamford Bridge since 1986.\n\nAnd they fell further behind before the break, with Etienne Capoue's rash challenge on Christian Pulisic resulting in a Chelsea penalty that Willian converted.\n\nThereafter it was relatively plain sailing for Lampard's side, who rounded off the scoring when Barkley found the top left corner from Cesar Azpilicueta's cross.\n\nThe Blues have now won three of their four games since the top flight resumed in June.\n\n\"Pre-West Ham, we could have gone third and we let ourselves down,\" Lampard told Sky Sports.\n\n\"Today, there was a bit of pressure to get back to fourth and we produced - so get used to that pressure, whatever way it looks, because it's going to be tough all the way through.\"\n\nNigel Pearson's Watford remain a point above the relegation zone but have played a game more than 18th-placed Aston Villa, who travel to champions Liverpool on Sunday (16:30 BST).\n• None Reaction to Chelsea's win over Watford plus all the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nManchester United's thumping victory against Bournemouth had seen Chelsea drop out of the top four places for the first time since 26 October.\n\nBut this was the perfect response from Lampard's side who were brimming with energy throughout and appeared galvanised by Wednesday's lacklustre defeat at West Ham.\n\nThe Blues made four changes to their starting XI and looked considerably more assured defensively while Willian - who scored a penalty in his third consecutive game - Barkley and Pulisic provided the thrust going forward.\n\nEngland midfielder Barkley was particularly impressive, demanding the ball in tight areas and then restricting his number of touches to get out of trouble and maintain Chelsea's attacking momentum.\n\nChelsea's opener was the perfect example as he controlled and swivelled away from a defender in one movement and then sliced open the Watford defence with his third touch.\n\nBarkley, who played more attacking passes (47) than any of Chelsea's other front six players, also capped a fine individual performance with his first Premier League goal of the campaign late on.\n\nAfter meekly losing to Southampton last Sunday, manager Pearson had called for his side to produce a performance that \"better represented\" them.\n\nAnd his players initially responded with a committed and gritty show, albeit one that lacked the quality to suggest they were ever going to trouble their hosts.\n\nThere was no lack of application - Pearson's side collectively ran almost 5km more than their higher-placed opponents - it was simply a gulf in class.\n\nBut they were also guilty of moments of carelessness in possession, such as when Capoue presented Chelsea with an easy opportunity to double their advantage.\n\n\"To concede in the first half was painful because we showed the qualities that were missing last week,\" Pearson told Sky Sports.\n\n\"We are having to play our way back into nick. Time is not on our side but we have to be brave enough and want the ball. The second half performance was one we can build on.\"\n\nDanny Welbeck's introduction after the interval did provide them with some pace and quality in the final third but it was too little too late.\n\nWelbeck wriggled into several promising positions and forced Kepa Arrizabalaga into a superb save late on, but it was one of very few moments that would have excited any Watford supporters watching at home.\n\nAnd it was a performance indicative of a side, if you discount Jan Bednarek's own goal, that has failed to score in three consecutive defeats and is now anxiously looking over its shoulder at their relegation rivals.\n• None Chelsea have won four successive Premier League games at Stamford Bridge for the first time since winning seven in a row at home under Antonio Conte between October and December 2017.\n• None Watford have lost four consecutive Premier League away games in a row for the first time since the final six on the road in the 2017-18 season under Javi Gracia.\n• None Watford haven't won away at Chelsea in any competition since May 1986 (5-1), drawing four and losing nine at Stamford Bridge since then.\n• None Chelsea have scored two or more goals in nine of their past 10 Premier League games, only failing to do so in a 2-0 loss to Man Utd at Stamford Bridge in February.\n• None Only seven defenders have recorded more Premier League assists than Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta (31), with the Spaniard equalling his record for assists in a single campaign in the competition (6 - also 2017-18).\n• None After failing to score with his last 63 shots in the Premier League, Ross Barkley has scored his first goal since netting against Burnley in October 2018.\n• None Chelsea midfielder Barkley has been directly involved in eight goals in his last 10 starts in all competitions (three goals, five assists).\n• None Olivier Giroud has scored four goals in his last seven Premier League games for Chelsea, more than he had netted in his previous 38 appearances (3).\n• None Willian is the first ever Chelsea player to score a penalty in three consecutive Premier League games and the sixth different player to do it in the competition.\n\nChelsea travel to Crystal Palace in their next Premier League outing on Tuesday, 7 July (18:00 BST). Watford host bottom club Norwich on the same date at the same time.\n• None Comedian and actor Chris O'Dowd joins from LA to chat to Louis\n• None Offside, Watford. Adam Masina tries a through ball, but Danny Welbeck is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 3, Watford 0. Ross Barkley (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Reece James with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Danny Welbeck (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathaniel Chalobah.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Masina (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. Billy Gilmour replaces N'Golo Kanté because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Police patrol the streets next to the city's clock tower\n\nRestaurants, shops and pubs remain closed in Leicester's deserted centre, as the city stays in lockdown despite a relaxation of the rules elsewhere in England.\n\nPolice patrolled the streets and the city's railway station, leading to an atmosphere described as \"very eerie\".\n\nThe only shoppers were found in the city's market, which remains open.\n\nLeicester became subject to the UK's first local lockdown on Monday following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe city is the subject of the UK's first local lockdown\n\nAnthony Worley, who lives in the city centre, said the city had felt as if it was \"coming back to life\" following the relaxing of the initial legislation but now felt \"empty again\".\n\n\"It's very eerie,\" he said. He had booked the week off to go and visit his mother in Plymouth, whom he has not seen since Christmas.\n\n\"It was hard to tell her I wasn't coming. It's just not fair,\" he said.\n\nAnthony Worley said the streets felt \"very eerie\"\n\nThe only sign of activity in the streets was around the city's open-air market, which remained open.\n\nDhansukh Rana, 79, was shopping for some fruit and vegetables at a stall with his wife.\n\n\"It's really sad this is happening to Leicester,\" he said. \"A lot of people are suffering.\n\n\"We have to get out for our walk and exercise because, at my age, I have to keep moving but it is sad they have left out Leicester when the rest of the UK is moving on.\"\n\nDhansukh Rana said many people in the city were suffering\n\nJessica Stone, 35, who lives in the city, said she was heading to the bank before returning home.\n\n\"Normally on a Saturday, the city would be heaving by now,\" she said.\n\nJessica Stone wondered if other cities would follow Leicester into lockdown\n\nShe added she wondered if it was \"too soon\" for the government to be relaxing lockdown across the rest of England.\n\n\"It was too soon for us in Leicester and I wonder if other areas will have similar problems after the weekend and will be shutting back down,\" she said.\n\n\"We definitely opened up too quickly so these local lockdowns could happen elsewhere.\"\n\nOne officer at Leicester railway station said hardly anyone was attempting an unnecessary journey.\n\n\"Most people are adhering to [the lockdown],\" he said.\n\nI'm standing on the high street which, on a normal Saturday, would have been bustling. There are no restaurants or cafes open - except for takeaways - and even the newsagents is shut.\n\nIt almost seems like a ghost town, which is what one lady called it when I spoke to her. People within the city centre seem to be observing the lockdown.\n\nOutside the city, things are slowly returning to normal but Leicester remains at a standstill.\n\nA week ago (left) the city centre was bustling but now (right) it is quiet again\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live, work or run a business in the area? How will this affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None 'More police than New Year's Eve' in lockdown city", "The body of the late US civil rights icon John Lewis has been carried over Selma's historic Edmund Pettus Bridge for a final time.\n\nOn 7 March 1965, known as \"Bloody Sunday\", Lewis and other peaceful protesters were attacked by Alabama police officers as they marched over the bridge.\n\nThey had planned to walk to state capital Montgomery to demand equal voting rights.\n\nLewis, who died aged 80 on 17 July, will be laid to rest in a private ceremony in Atlanta on Thursday.\n\nRead more: 'A man who fought for equality until his last breath'", "An early line-up of Fleetwood Mac (L-R): Peter Green, John McVie, Jeremy Spencer, Mick Fleetwood and Danny Kirwan\n\nMick Fleetwood has led tributes to his \"dearest friend\" and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green.\n\nFleetwood said they had \"trail blazed one hell of a musical road for so many to enjoy\".\n\nAnd Stevie Nicks, who joined the band five years after Green quit amid struggles with his mental health, said her biggest regret was not having shared a stage with him.\n\nGreen, 73, died peacefully in his sleep, his family said on Saturday.\n\nFleetwood said: \"For me, and every past and present member of Fleetwood Mac, losing Peter Green is monumental.\n\n\"No-one has ever stepped into the ranks of Fleetwood Mac without a reverence for Peter Green and his talent, and to the fact that music should shine bright and always be delivered with uncompromising passion.\"\n\nThe 73-year-old added: \"Peter, I will miss you, but rest easy your music lives on. I thank you for asking me to be your drummer all those years ago. We did good, and trail blazed one hell of a musical road for so many to enjoy.\n\n\"God speed to you, my dearest friend.\"\n\nPeter Green performed at a charity event at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2004\n\nBlues rock guitarist Green, from Bethnal Green in east London, formed Fleetwood Mac with drummer Fleetwood, bass guitarist John McVie and guitarist Jeremy Spencer in 1967.\n\nHe wrote the instantly recognisable instrumental track Albatross, which remains the band's only number one hit, plus two other early hits, Black Magic Woman and Oh Well. And it was under Green's direction that they produced their first three albums.\n\nGreen left the band after a last performance in 1970 as he struggled with his mental health. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent time in hospital in the mid-70s.\n\nSinger Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham in 1975 and the band became one of the most successful in the world.\n\n\"I am sorry to hear about the passing of Peter Green. My biggest regret is that I never got to share the stage with him. I always hoped in my heart of hearts that that would happen,\" she said.\n\n\"When I first listened to all the Fleetwood Mac records, I was very taken with his guitar playing. It was one of the reasons I was excited to join the band.\n\n\"His legacy will live on forever in the history books of Rock n Roll. It was in the beginning, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and I thank you, Peter Green, for that. You changed our lives.\"\n\nDavid Coverdale, the lead singer of Whitesnake, is among other musicians to pay tribute to a \"truly loved and admired\" artist.\n\nIn a tweet, he said: \"I supported the original Fleetwood Mac at Redcar Jazz Club when I was in a local band... he was a breathtaking singer, guitarist and composer. I know who I will be listening to today. RIP\"\n\nMumford and Sons guitarist Winston Marshall tweeted: \"RIP Peter Green. #GOAT. Man of the world, oh well, albatross, need your love so bad. Some of my favourites songs and performances of all time. Thank you for the music.\"\n\nActor David Morrissey praised Green's \"fantastic soulful voice\" while Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler described Green as \"one of the greats\". And Scottish musician Midge Ure tweeted: \"One of the great ones gone. You taught me well.\"\n\nThe singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, tweeted: \"God bless the ineffable Peter Green, one of the unsung heroes of musical integrity, innovation and spirit. When I heard he left Fleetwood Mac in 1970 to get a real life and donate his wealth to charity, he became something of a model for me.\"\n\nPeter Green was one of the greatest Blues guitarists Britain ever produced. His shape-shifting riffs and long, improvisational excursions made Fleetwood Mac one of the most exciting live bands of the 1960s Blues explosion.\n\nHe first picked up a hand-me-down guitar at the age of 10 and, like many of his peers, began to devour the import vinyl that trickled into the UK from the US. He studied the greats - Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and BB King - combining their tensely coiled playing style with the shimmering vibrato of The Shadows' Hank Marvin.\n\nBut he actually started his professional career as a bassist, until an encounter with Eric Clapton persuaded him to ditch the instrument.\n\n\"I decided to go back on lead guitar after seeing him with the Bluesbreakers. He had a Les Paul, his fingers were marvellous. The guy knew how to do a bit of evil, I guess.\"\n\nHe later had the seemingly impossible task of taking over from Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Fans were unconvinced at first, but after a handful of incendiary performances, he won them over, earning the nickname \"The Green God\".\n\nRolling Stone magazine ranked Green at number 58 in its all-time list of the 100 greatest guitarists, describing him as \"Britain's most progressive blues guitarist\" in his heyday.\n\nHe was among the eight members of the band - along with Fleetwood, Nicks, Buckingham, Spencer, McVie, Christine McVie and Danny Kirwan - who were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.\n\nThe news of his death comes days after Fleetwood Mac announced they would release a retrospective box set documenting the band's early years between 1969 and 1974.\n\nGreen married Jane Samuels in January 1978. They divorced in 1979 and have a daughter.", "Grant Shapps travelled to Spain with his family on Saturday morning - hours before the rule change came into force\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has been caught up in his own department's rule change while on holiday in Spain.\n\nThe cabinet minister travelled to the country with his family on Saturday morning for a summer break.\n\nBut just hours later, the Department for Transport confirmed all travellers returning to the UK from Spain would have to quarantine for 14 days, due to a spike in cases in the country.\n\nA DfT spokesman said Mr Shapps would continue with his holiday as planned.\n\nHe will then isolate upon his return, in line with the new rules.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon, Mr Shapps tweeted that he had held a video call with UK airlines and the British Ambassador to Spain about the rule change.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said he spoke to Mr Shapps after he had arrived in Spain on Saturday, and that his colleague \"recognised we had to take the measures\".\n\nMr Raab told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday the transport secretary \"empathised with the many other people\" who were experiencing the same thing, adding: \"I think it shows you the risk for everyone... and shows you we have got to take swift measures.\"\n\nMore than 900 cases of coronavirus were reported in Spain on Friday, and the country's officials are warning of fears of a second spike.\n\nAnother Tory MP, Minister for London Paul Scully, has been affected by the changes.\n\nMr Scully - who is also the small business minister for the government - posted pictures on Instagram from a holiday in Lanzarote on Saturday, saying he was due to come back to the UK in August.\n\nOn Sunday, he posted it was \"worth it\", saying he would \"still be able to work\" on his return, \"just no shopping or running\".\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy confirmed Mr Scully was in Lanzarote and would be isolating on his return to the UK.\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\nIt is not known where Mr Shapps is staying, but quarantine measures apply to all those returning from mainland Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, such as Majorca and Ibiza.\n\nTravellers have been advised by the government to follow the local rules, return home as normal, and check the Foreign Office's travel advice website for further information.\n\nThe Foreign Office is now advising against all but essential travel to mainland Spain.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said \"you couldn't make it up\" that Mr Shapps was on holiday in the country while being in charge of the department announcing the rule change.\n\nHe told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme the government's re-imposition of the quarantine rules was \"shambolic\", adding: \"I think that tells you everything about the government's approach to this.\"\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A section of the Sayh al Uhaymir 008 meteorite which was found in Oman in 1999\n\nA small chunk of Mars will be heading home when the US space agency launches its latest rover mission on Thursday.\n\nNasa's Perseverance robot will carry with it a meteorite that originated on the Red Planet and which, until now, has been lodged in the collection of London's Natural History Museum (NHM).\n\nThe rock's known properties will act as a calibration target to benchmark the workings of a rover instrument.\n\nIt will give added confidence to any discoveries the robot might make.\n\nThis will be particularly important if Perseverance stumbles across something that hints at the presence of past life on the planet - one of the mission's great quests.\n\n\"This little rock's got quite a life story,\" explained Prof Caroline Smith, head of Earth sciences collections at the NHM and a member of the Perseverance science team.\n\n\"It formed about 450 million years ago, got blasted off Mars by an asteroid or comet roughly 600,000-700,000 years ago, and then landed on Earth; we don't know precisely when but perhaps 1,000 years ago. And now it's going back to Mars,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Caroline Smith: \"It gives me a tingling feeling to hold something that came from Mars\"\n\nDiscovered in the deserts of Oman in 1999, the meteorite, known as Sayh al Uhaymir 008, or SaU 008, is a classic piece of basalt - very similar to the type of igneous rock you will find, for example, at Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt contains lots of pyroxene, olivine and feldspar minerals. And it's this well-studied chemistry, together with the meteorite's textures, that make it so useful for Perseverance.\n\nThe rock has been put in a housing, along with nine other types of material, on the front of the rover where it will be scanned from time to time by the Sherloc instrument.\n\nThis is a tool that contains two imagers and two laser spectroscopes, which together will investigate the geology of the rover's landing site - a 40km-wide crater called Jezero.\n\nSatellite images suggest the bowl once held a lake, and scientists consider it to be one of the best places on Mars to try to find evidence of past microbial activity - if ever that took place.\n\nGiant's causeway: The World Heritage site is made from columns of basalt rock\n\nSherloc will study the local rocks and soil, looking for signatures of ancient biology.\n\nWhat scientists don't want, however, is to have what they think is a \"eureka moment\" only to then realise Sherloc had developed some systematic error in its observations.\n\n\"We'll look at the calibration target in the first 60-90 days and perhaps not again for six months because we think the instrument is really very stable,\" said Dr Luther Beegle, Sherloc's principal investigator from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.\n\n\"But if we start seeing interesting things on the surface of Mars that we can't explain in the spectra, then we'll look back to the calibration target to make sure that the instrument's working correctly.\n\n\"I think the best we're going to be able to do from a scientific perspective is identify what we would call a 'potential bio-signature'.\n\n\"I don't think we'll ever be necessarily 100% sure because that's a hard measurement to make, which is why the sample-return aspect of Perseverance is so important.\"\n\nArtwork: The Sherloc instrument is in the turret on the end of the robotic arm\n\nThe rover will package its most interesting rock samples into small tubes that will be left on the surface of Mars for retrieval and return to Earth by later missions.\n\nProf Smith is hopeful she'll get to work on this material, which could come back in the next 10-15 years.\n\nThe NHM expert is on an international panel that will determine how best to handle the extra-terrestrial rocks.\n\n\"I'm actually leading the curation focus group,\" she told BBC News. \"By this time next year, we should have a really good plan for the sort of building we will need, the types of processes that will be happening in that building, and how we'll actually start curating the samples and making them available to scientists for study.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How long does it take to get to Mars and why is it so difficult?\n\nResearchers will have a much better chance of confirming life on Mars if they can assess the evidence using all the analytical tools available in Earth laboratories, as opposed to just the small suite of instruments carried by a robot rover.\n\nNasa's Perseverance rover is scheduled to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, during a two-hour window on Thursday that begins at 07:50 local time (11:50 GMT; 12:50 BST).\n\nThe slice of SaU 008 won't be the only Martian meteorite on board. The rover's SuperCam instrument will have its own piece of Mars rock, again to act as a calibration target.\n\nThe meteorite is one of several calibration items to be employed by Sherloc. Others include materials that could be used in the spacesuits worn by future human explorers of Mars\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures (BAME) are set to feature on British notes and coins for the first time.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is considering proposals from a campaign group for legal tender to be more inclusive, according to the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nMr Sunak has asked the Royal Mint to come up with new designs honouring BAME figures.\n\nMilitary nurse Mary Seacole and spy Noor Inayat Khan are being considered.\n\nThe former Conservative parliamentary candidate Zehra Zaidi is leading the Banknotes of Colour campaign.\n\nShe says no non-white person has ever been featured on British currency.\n\n\"Who we have on our legal tender, our notes and our coins, builds into a narrative of who we think we are as a nation,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe former Conservative parliamentary candidate Zehra Zaidi is leading the Banknotes of Colour campaign\n\nBAME people who have served the nation - such as military figures and nurses - have been put forward for the proposed set of coins.\n\nTwo years ago Ms Zaidi started a petition for the British World War Two secret agent Noor Inayat Khan, who was also a descendant of Indian royalty, to be featured on a coin, but the campaign fell on deaf ears.\n\n\"She was the first female radio operator to be sent to enemy-occupied France,\" said Ms Zaidi.\n\n\"She was one of only four women in history to receive the George Cross.\"\n\nThe Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole is also being considered. She was born in the Caribbean to a Scottish father and a Jamaican mother.\n\nAt the outbreak of the Crimean War she travelled to England hoping to join Florence Nightingale's team of nurses.\n\nWhen she was turned down, she travelled to the Crimea herself and established the \"British Hotel\" - somewhere the soldiers could rest and enjoy a good meal.\n\nIn May, a community hospital was named after the pioneering nurse.\n\nBAME figures such as Walter Tull, the British Army's first black officer, have been featured on commemorative coins in the past.\n\n\"But commemorative coins are not the same as legal tender because legal tender acts as a passport, an ambassador,\" says Ms Zaidi.\n\n\"We must tell the story of inclusive representation as it matters for cohesion and it matters in the narrative of who we are as a nation.\"", "The three initial cases were linked to an outbreak in Wales, health officials said\n\nTwenty-one people have tested positive for coronavirus at a caravan park site in Shropshire, with health experts warning the number will rise.\n\nTesting started when two positive cases were confirmed at Craven Arms last week, linked to an outbreak in Welshpool and a recent local event.\n\nA testing site has now been set up at a nearby business park, Shropshire Council and Public Health England said.\n\nAll residents have been told to self-isolate with their families.\n\nTo date 41 people at the residential site have been tested.\n\nContact tracing is being undertaken, and the number of positive cases is expected to increase before infection control measures and social distancing start to take effect, the council said.\n\nThose who tested positive were asked to isolate for a minimum of seven days from the time they started showing symptoms, or from when they took their test.\n\nPeople who were in contact with a positive case were told to isolate for 14 days, the council said.\n\nA playground and outdoor gym on nearby Newington Way has been temporarily closed to help stop transmission, and the council said it had been arranging the delivery of food, prescriptions and essential supplies for residents.\n\nDavid Evans, councillor for Church Stretton and Craven Arms, said teams were working with the NHS, Public Health England, police and other key agencies to provide advice and support to the local community.\n\n\"I would like to thank members of the community for their own ongoing support and co-operation,\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to rely on everyone at the site playing their part, and want to encourage the residents to continue to self-isolate and take all the necessary precautions.\n\n\"This is the only way we can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nOfficials will monitor people's symptoms on a daily basis, and PPE, hand sanitisers and cleaning products have also been distributed on site.\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 UK's biggest tour operator, Tui, has cancelled all mainland Spanish holidays until 9 August.\n\nThe move comes after the government imposed a 14-day quarantine on people arriving in the UK from Spain.\n\nThe firm said all those going to the Balearic and Canary Islands could still travel as planned from Monday.\n\nThe airline industry has reacted with dismay to the decision to impose the quarantine, calling it a big blow.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is advising against all but essential travel to mainland Spain. Quarantine measures apply to those returning from mainland Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, such as Majorca and Ibiza.\n\nBritish Airways is still operating flights, but said the move was \"throwing thousands of Britons' travel plans into chaos\".\n\nBudget airline easyJet is also maintaining a full schedule, as is Jet2.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nWizz Air said it would continue to operate flights to Spain \"as scheduled for the time being\", but added that it is \"re-evaluating this schedule in light of potential diminished demand\".\n\nRob Griggs of Airlines UK said the move was a \"big blow\" to the aviation sector.\n\nHe told the BBC that individuals should be tested for coronavirus instead of having to self-isolate automatically.\n\n\"We back the idea of voluntary testing on arrival or before you leave,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We think testing would... enable individuals to come back without the need for quarantine if they test.\"\n\nMr Griggs also called on the government to be \"a little more specific\" in its advice, since the latest spike in coronavirus cases in Spain did not affect the whole country in the same way.\n\nTui said it would contact customers affected and offer them the right to cancel or amend their holidays.\n\n\"All customers currently on holiday can continue to enjoy their holiday and will return on their intended flight home,\" it added.\n\nTui said health and safety was its highest priority, but urged the government to \"work closely\" with the travel industry.\n\n\"This level of uncertainty and confusion is damaging for business and disappointing for those looking forward to a well-deserved break,\" it added.\n\nQuarantine measures for UK travellers were first introduced in early June. But after pressure from the aviation and travel industries, the government and devolved administrations published lists of countries exempt from the rules.\n\nThe decision to remove Spain from those lists was announced on Saturday following a spike in Spanish coronavirus cases, with more than 900 new cases reported on Friday.\n\nSpanish officials have also warned a second wave could be imminent as major cities have seen cases surge.\n\nBA is among the airlines disappointed by the government's move\n\nThe Airport Operators Association said the new measures would \"further damage what is already a fragile restart of the aviation sector, which continues to face the biggest challenge in its history\".\n\nHowever, easyJet said it was \"disappointed\" and would operate a full schedule in the coming days.\n\n\"Customers who no longer wish to travel can transfer their flights without a change fee or receive a voucher for the value of the booking,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nA spokesman for the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) said the government's quarantine rule change was \"disappointing\".\n\n\"We suggest the government considers lifting the quarantine rules for flights to and from certain regions with lower infection rates, or to places such as the Balearic Islands or the Canaries - which are geographically distinct from mainland Spain - to avoid further damage to the UK inbound and outbound tourism industries,\" he said.\n\nPeople currently on holiday in Spain have been advised by the Department of Transport to follow the local rules, return home as normal, and check the Foreign Office's travel advice website for further information.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers advised holidaymakers that if they were already in Spain when the government's advice changed, their insurance was likely to cover them until they returned home.\n\nBut it added: \"Travelling to countries against FCO advice is likely to invalidate your travel insurance and this would apply to those yet to travel to mainland Spain.\n\n\"Customers looking to change or cancel their travel plans should speak with the airline provider, tour operator or travel agent in the first instance.\n\n\"If you booked your trip or took out your travel insurance after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, you may not be covered for travel disruption or cancellation. In either circumstance, we'd advise checking with your insurer.\"", "More reaction now from UK holidaymakers in Spain who will now have to quarantine for 14 days on their return.\n\nDan Chadderton, 49, from Sale, Cheshire, flew from Manchester to Spain on Saturday morning with his wife Gabby, 51, and daughters Anna, 16, and Eliza, 11.\n\nHe and his family have been \"looking at the news all the time\" from their holiday spot south of Alicante, after colleagues told him about the rule change on Saturday evening.\n\nHe adds it's a stress he could have done without.\n\n\"I'm particularly upset as I work for a travel company - March, April and May were hell - was never furloughed, and really needed this break.\"\n\nBut Rachael Gillespie, 48, of Llandough, Penarth, still intends to travel to Quesada, Murcia, on Monday morning with her partner and two daughters.\n\n\"I'm not ignoring the potential risk but we're staying in a family villa, have a family car and both my partner and I are fortunate to be able to work from home when we return,\" she says.\n\n\"I know there's a question over insurance and some people think I'm mad, but when you see the crowds in UK destinations like north Wales or the Lake District, where exactly is the safest place to holiday right now?\"\n\nRead more from other holidaymakers affected by the move - including one who found out about the rule changes three minutes after landing in Spain.", "Olivia de Havilland in 1940, a year after one of her career-defining roles in Gone with the Wind\n\nOlivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died at the age of 104.\n\nDe Havilland's career spanned more than 50 years and almost 50 feature films, and she was the last surviving star from Gone with the Wind (1939).\n\nThe film earned her one of her five Oscar nominations.\n\nDe Havilland, who had lived in Paris since 1960, was central in taking down Hollywood's studio system, giving actors better contracts.\n\nShe also had a tempestuous relationship with her sister, fellow Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine.\n\nAt the time of her death, De Havilland was the oldest living performer to have won an Oscar. She died of natural causes at her home in the French capital, her publicist said.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hosts the Oscars, labelled her as \"an immeasurable talent\"\n\n\"Here's to a true legend of our industry,\" the Academy said.\n\nIn a statement, the estate of fellow Hollywood star Humphrey Bogart, called Dame Olivia a \"true Classic Hollywood icon\".\n\nDe Havilland with Errol Flynn in Dodge City (1939). The pair had a strong on-screen chemistry\n\nOlivia Mary de Havilland was born in Tokyo in 1916 and soon moved to California with her family.\n\nShe made her breakthrough in Captain Blood, opposite Errol Flynn, and the pair developed an immediate chemistry.\n\nDe Havilland was then cast in the role of Melanie in David O Selznick's epic adaptation of the Margaret Mitchell novel, Gone with the Wind.\n\nShe lost the best supporting actress Oscar to Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in the film.\n\nBut she did win a Best Actress Oscar in 1946 for her role in To Each His Own, and then a second for The Heiress in 1949.\n\nDe Havilland also famously turned down the role of Blanche DuBois in the 1951 adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire. Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for the role.\n\nDe Havilland continued to act until the late 1980s, winning a Golden Globe in 1986 for Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.\n\nOff screen, she took on the studios at a time when they had complete control over their stars.\n\nBacked by the Screen Actors Guild, she took Warner Brothers to court in 1943 when it added time to her original contract as a penalty for turning down roles.\n\nThe California Supreme Court ruled in her favour in what became known as the De Havilland Law, which loosened the grip studios had on their actors.\n\nMuch has been made of her feud with her sister. The pair reportedly had a difficult relationship from childhood. It was exacerbated by them both being nominated for Best Actress in 1942, with Fontaine winning out.\n\nDe Havilland was also reportedly angered by Fontaine's comments about her new husband, Marcus Goodrich, whom de Havilland married in 1946. And there was also disagreement over medical treatment for their mother in 1975. Fontaine died in 2013.\n\nDe Havilland was created a Dame in the 2017 Birthday Honours list, within weeks of her 101st birthday.\n\nOlivia de Havilland was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire\n\nAfter her death, actor and musician Jared Leto paid tribute to the actress, describing her as \"a class act\".\n\n\"I still have the kind and thoughtful letters she wrote me in longhand on beautiful blue stationery,\" he tweeted. \"They were of another era.\"\n\nLeto also credited Dame Olivia with helping to bring about a law that enabled him to get out of a lengthy and exploitative music contract.\n\n\"I got to thank her for fighting the system back then so I could battle it now,\" Leto added. \"It was amazing to meet her - she's a legend.\"\n\nActress Jane Seymour said she would \"cherish\" the memories of appearing alongside the \"larger than life\" Dame Olivia in 1988 film, The Woman He Loved.\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 janeseymour This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ\n\nA church volunteer has admitted starting a fire that devastated the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last week, his lawyer has said.\n\nThe Rwandan refugee, who worked as a warden at the cathedral, was rearrested on Saturday night.\n\nNo motive for the fire, which destroyed the cathedral's 17th Century organ as well as historic stained-glass windows, has been given.\n\nHis lawyer told reporters his client felt \"relief\" after confessing.\n\n\"It's someone who is scared, who is somehow overwhelmed,\" his lawyer, Quentin Chabert, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\nThe 39-year-old volunteer, who has not been named, was initially detained for questioning after the blaze but then released without charge.\n\nHe had been in charge of locking up the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral the day before the blaze on 18 July.\n\nOfficials had previously said that the fire was believed to have been arson and had been started in three different places.\n\nNantes prosecutor Pierre Sennes said on Saturday that the man had been charged with \"destruction and damage by fire\" and could face up to 10 years in prison and €150,000 ($175,000; £135,000) in fines, according to the AFP news agency.\n\nAround 100 firefighters managed to stop the flames from destroying the main structure at the cathedral. French Prime Minister Jean Castex praised their \"professionalism, courage and self-control\".\n\nThe fire comes about 15 months after a blaze nearly destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.", "The body of Lee McKnight was found in the River Caldew\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry after a man's body was found in a river.\n\nThe body of Lee McKnight, 26, was found in the River Caldew in the Blackwell Hall area near Cummersdale, Carlisle, at about 05:30 BST on Friday.\n\nCumbria Police said his family had been informed and were being supported by officers.\n\nOne man, aged 25, and four women aged 25, 40, 46 and 47 have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nDetectives are appealing for information and are \"urgently seeking\" a black Nissan Navara pick-up with the registration DV15 TZD.\n\nPolice are urgently trying to find a black Nissan Navara like the one pictured\n\nMembers of the public are asked not to approach the vehicle if it is sighted but to contact the police immediately.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andrew Slattery said: \"We are requesting the assistance of the public as part of our murder investigation into the death of Lee McKnight.\n\n\"The investigators need to hear from anyone including friends and associates of Lee who might have seen him or have information on his movements on 23 and 24 July, particularly in the Fusehill Street area.\n\n\"Anyone who saw anything suspicious in the Blackwell Hall area during this time should make contact with the incident room.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The garden shed might normally be home for your lawn mower, but during the coronavirus outbreak they've offered sanctuary for many who have taken on a lockdown project.\n\nSome of these transformations have now been shortlisted for the Shed of the Year award.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle also warned social distancing will remain in force in the Commons for some time\n\nPlans for daily televised press briefings from No 10 risk sidelining Parliament, the Commons Speaker warns.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle told the BBC he was worried the idea was \"not the way forward\" and major announcements should always be made in Parliament first.\n\nIf MPs always learned of policy changes through the media, it would make it harder for them to do their jobs, he told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour.\n\nHe also suggested it would be some time before Parliament returned to normal.\n\nWhile he longed to see the Commons benches \"packed\" and MPs \"jostling\" for room again, he said social distancing would only be relaxed when it was safe to do so, due to the threat of coronavirus.\n\n\"I can't see that happening tomorrow, let's put it that way,\" he told the programme. \"I think we're a little bit further away from normality as we knew it.\"\n\nIn the UK, lobby reporters currently receive twice daily briefings from No 10, but they are not broadcast.\n\nInstead, Downing Street is planning to pilot daily televised press briefings from October, modelled on US briefings from the White House.\n\nThe daily coronavirus briefings - which took place for three months up until the end of June - attracted large TV audiences.\n\nNo 10 hopes a more permanent arrangement would help the government get its message across, while increasing engagement with the public.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Carolyn Quinn, Sir Lindsay said Parliament should be the place in which MPs and the public found out what was happening.\n\n\"You know the worry I've had - that statements should be made to the House first,\" he said. \"Once you've made that statement, by all means go and have a press conference. But do it after, not before.\n\n\"If there's something new to come out and you want to tell the world, tell Parliament and let the world watch it from Parliament's eyes.\"\n\nDaily televised press briefings are a feature of life in the US\n\nIn recent months, Sir Lindsay has rebuked a number of ministers after details of policies appeared in the press before being unveiled in Parliament.\n\nHe said he did not want this to become a habit under the new arrangements.\n\n\"Members are elected to hold the government to account and we've got to allow them to do so,\" he said. \"And if you're briefing the press first, that's not the way forward.\n\n\"It's not good for Downing Street, it's not good for relations and it doesn't endear your own backbenchers.\n\n\"They want to know that they count and that they matter. And I think that's the way forward for all of us.\"\n\nSir Lindsay, who was elected Speaker in November, said he had been right to insist on the 2m social distancing rule remaining in force in the Commons, even when it was relaxed in society at large.\n\nThe guidelines restrict the number of MPs able to be physically present in the chamber at any one time.\n\nWhile the Commons is at its most lively when it is full, the Speaker said he had a duty of care to MPs and staff.\n\n\"It would be nice to be able to turn the clock back and know that you could have a full chamber without risk,\" said Sir Lindsay.\n\n\"But while there's risk, I cannot see it.\"\n\nSir Lindsay also told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour that he enjoyed presiding over Prime Minister's Questions\n\nReflecting on his duties, the Speaker said he was enjoying the \"clash of styles\" between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nBut he revealed he had been getting advice from one of his predecessors, Baroness Boothroyd, on ensuring the set piece of the parliamentary week did not drag on beyond its allotted 30 minutes.\n\nThe Chorley MP also spoke about living with type-one diabetes, which he was diagnosed with shortly before last year's election campaign.\n\nHe said he had been given a \"big tip\" on managing his blood sugar levels by ex-Prime Minister Theresa May, who also has the condition.\n\n\"When it significantly drops, I have to take a jelly baby,\" he said. \"So when I go very low, I rely on the jelly baby to put me back in the right place.\"\n\nSir Lindsay added: \"I always say to people with diabetes, it doesn't end your life - far from it. You've just got to work with it. And that's what I want to prove.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United secured a place in the Champions League at the expense of Leicester City with victory at King Power Stadium.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side needed a point from this decisive final-day meeting to confirm a place in the top four - and break the hearts of the Foxes, who were in a Champions League spot for so much of the season.\n\nLeicester needed victory once Chelsea took command at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers but their dreams were dashed as Bruno Fernandes scored a 71st-minute penalty after Anthony Martial tumbled under challenge from Wes Morgan and Jonny Evans.\n\nBoth sides had their chances, with Leicester City keeper Kasper Schmeichel saving well from Marcus Rashford in the first half and Jamie Vardy seeing a header glance off the frame of the goal after the break.\n\nLeicester pressed but could not break Manchester United down and their misery was compounded when Evans was sent off against his former club for a wild, late lunge on Scott McTominay.\n\nManchester United confirmed the formalities seconds from time when substitute Jesse Lingard robbed Schmeichel and rolled the ball into an empty net.\n\nIt is a result that fulfils the usual minimum requirement of Champions League qualification for Manchester United.\n\nBut while Leicester City's fifth-placed finish is highly creditable and earns a place in the Europa League, this will undoubtedly be a huge disappointment and anti-climax after being in a position to reach the Champions League for so long.\n\nIt will be scant consolation for them that striker Vardy will claim the Golden Boot, as the Premier League's top scorer with 23 goals.\n\nAfter Fernandes had made an impressive debut in a goalless draw at home to Wolves on 1 February, Manchester United stood 14 points adrift of Leicester City, who were third.\n\nFast forward to his decisive role in this victory that sees United qualify for next season's Champions League by taking that third place, and you can see the extent of his impact.\n\nThe Portuguese attacker - a mid-season signing from Sporting Lisbon in a deal that could eventually be worth around £68m - has provided the missing link for this Manchester United side.\n\nHe has built a bridge between midfield and a talented attacking array of strikers with his talent and his positive style, looking forward every time he receives possession.\n\nFernandes was not at his best here but he was the man who unlocked Leicester's defence as Martial won the crucial penalty, then performed his usual hop, skip and jump to send Schmeichel the wrong way and ease any lingering United nerves.\n\nIt capped a remarkable recovery for Manchester United - with credit also due to manager Solskjaer for guiding his side into the top four.\n\nThe scenes at the final whistle here showed the extent of Leicester City's bitter disappointment at being denied the footballing and financial prize that seemed theirs for the taking for so long.\n\nBrendan Rodgers' side had started to lose their early-season sparkle even before the campaign was halted in March by the coronavirus pandemic - yet they were still in a powerful position as the finish line approached.\n\nThey have still had a fine season but there is no point glossing over this huge missed opportunity.\n\nRodgers is left to rue moments such as the inexplicable meltdown at Bournemouth, where they led at half-time only to lose 4-1.\n\nThe manager faces a big job to pick his players up and remind them of what they have achieved in returning to European football.\n\nWhen they go into next season's Europa League, will they be without players such as Ben Chilwell, a target for Chelsea and reduced here to exhorting his team-mates from the directors' box as he was absent through injury?\n\nFoxes fail to hang on to top four - the stats\n• None Leicester finished fifth despite ending 325 days inside the top four places during the season.\n• None Manchester United recorded a top-four finish in the Premier League for just the second time in five seasons - and the third time in seven seasons since Sir Alex Ferguson retired.\n• None Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has lost 10 of his 12 meetings with Manchester United across all competitions, suffering defeats in each of the past five.\n• None Manchester United extended their unbeaten run to 14 games in the Premier League, their longest run without defeat in the competition since April 2017.\n• None Bruno Fernandes' penalty was the 14th Manchester United have been awarded in the Premier League this season, which is the most for a team in a single campaign in the competition's history.\n• None Since making his debut in the competition in February, Fernandes has been directly involved in more goals in the competition than any other player (15).\n• None Jesse Lingard scored his first Premier League goal for Manchester United since December 2018, when he hit two in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first game in charge against Cardiff.\n• None Harry Maguire became the first outfield player since Gary Pallister in 1994-95 to start every game in a Premier League campaign for Manchester United.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 0, Manchester United 2. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Brandon Williams (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Demarai Gray (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. George Hirst (Leicester City) header from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kasper Schmeichel. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The home secretary has demanded a \"full explanation\" from Twitter and Instagram on why anti-Semitic posts by rapper Wiley were not removed more quickly.\n\nPolice are investigating a series of posts on the grime artist's social media accounts. He has been temporarily banned from both Twitter and Instagram.\n\nPriti Patel said the posts were anti-Semitic and \"abhorrent\".\n\n\"Social media companies must act much faster to remove such appalling hatred from their platforms,\" she said.\n\nWiley, 41, known as the \"godfather of grime\", shared conspiracy theories and insulted Jewish people on his Instagram and Twitter accounts, which together have more than 940,000 followers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Priti Patel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter removed some of Wiley's tweets with a note saying they violated its rules - but other tweets were still visible 12 hours after being posted. It later said Wiley's account had been locked for seven days.\n\nFacebook - which owns Instagram - said on Sunday that the platform had also blocked the rapper from his account for seven days, and that there was \"no place for hate speech on Instagram\".\n\nBut Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the steps taken by Twitter and Instagram were not enough.\n\nIn a letter to bosses of the two social media firms, he said that when the material was published on their platforms, \"the response - its removal and the banning of those responsible - should be immediate.\n\n\"It takes minutes for content shared on your platform to reach an audience of millions. When someone influential shares hate speech, in that time it may have an impact on the views of many who look up to them.\"\n\nMr Khan said it was \"particularly disheartening\" when social media had played a \"positive role in amplifying the vital voices\" of the Black Lives Matter movement recently.\n\nWiley's series of posts began on Friday night and his manager John Woolf's initial response was that, having known the artist for 12 years, \"he does not truly feel this way\".\n\nBut on Saturday, Mr Woolf said he had \"cut all ties\" with the London-born rapper and that there was \"no place in society for anti-Semitism\".\n\nWiley first entered the UK singles charts with Wearing My Rolex in 2008. His subsequent hits include Heatwave in 2012 and Boasty in 2019, a collaboration with rappers Stefflon Don and Sean Paul and actor Idris Elba.", "Most motorways have a 50mph limit through roadworks\n\nSpeed limits through most roadworks on England's motorways will be raised to increase traffic flow and ease driver \"frustrations\".\n\nHighways England says raising the limit to 60mph from the usual 50mph comes after \"extensive research and trials\".\n\nThe AA welcomed the move, saying it would reduce journey times and help reduce tailgating by motorists.\n\nPreviously, unions have said increasing speeds through roadworks will put the safety of workers at risk.\n\nLimits will not necessarily be increased at every set of roadworks.\n\nDepending on the road layout and the work being done, 40mph and 50mph restrictions will continue to be used in places.\n\nThe AA claims 60mph can be safer than 50mph\n\nGovernment-owned Highways England has tested increased speeds, including through roadworks between junctions 13 and 16 of the M1.\n\nIt found the journey time for the 24-mile route was reduced by an average of 68 seconds.\n\nChief executive Jim O'Sullivan said: \"Road users understand that roadworks are necessary, but they are frustrated by them, so testing 60mph has been about challenging the norm while ensuring the safety of our people working out there and those using our roads.\n\n\"We have a huge programme of work planned, so being able to use 60mph where safe will continue to improve everybody's experience of our roads.\"\n\nAA president Edmund King claimed driving at 60mph \"is often safer than driving at 50mph\".\n\nHe said: \"Sticking at 50mph often leads to other drivers tailgating in order to try to force vehicles to pull over.\n\n\"Plus we have very long stretches of roadworks such as the 32 miles being converted to smart motorway on the M4 between junctions 3 and 12, where 60mph would seem much more appropriate.\"\n\nThe 10mph increase was suggested in 2017. At the time, the Unite union said: \"Sadly, in recent years there have been several deaths of motorway workers and these changes will make their work even more dangerous.\n\n\"Already motorists frequently drive into coned-off areas. At increased speeds, it will make such potentially lethal accidents even more common.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "GBT groups in Thailand say they \"do not yet have equal rights in society\"\n\nHundreds of Thai gay activists have raised rainbow flags in Bangkok during a pro-democracy rally in the capital.\n\nThey danced and sang in the city centre, where police were deployed. There were no reports of any violence.\n\nSaturday's rally was the latest in a series of youth-led protests calling for the government to resign.\n\nGeneral Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power in a coup in 2014, and was later named as prime minister by the military-appointed parliament.\n\nPolice officers were deployed for what was a peaceful gathering\n\n\"We're here today mainly to call for democracy. Once we achieve democracy, equal rights will follow,\" a young protester told Reuters.\n\nHe said that LGBT groups in Thailand \"do not yet have equal rights in society, so we're calling for both democracy and equality\".\n\nIn recent days Thai pro-democracy activists have been defying a government ban on public gatherings amid an ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the country in south-east Asia.", "The operation took five hours, with rescuers carrying Daisy on a stretcher\n\nA St Bernard has been rescued after collapsing while walking down England's highest mountain.\n\nMembers of the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) went to four-year-old Daisy's aid on Scafell Pike.\n\nA team spokesman said Daisy had been showing signs of pain in her legs and was refusing to move.\n\nSt Bernards are traditionally on the other side of such mercy missions - they were originally bred to rescue people in the Italian and Swiss Alps.\n\nFriday's operation, which involved 16 members of the MRT, took five hours as rescuers carried Daisy on a stretcher over obstacles including a waterfall.\n\nDaisy was taken down the mountain to Wasdale\n\nThe spokesman said: \"The team rescues canine casualties around a dozen times every year but this was the first time a St Bernard breed has been rescued by the team.\n\n\"Daisy was a four-year-old female but still a massive dog.\n\nObstacles that had to be negotiated included a waterfall\n\n\"Daisy was in fact a rescue dog and extremely placid and compliant, which was a bonus for the stretcher-carry off the mountain.\n\n\"It was important to get Daisy off the mountain quickly as the weather was due to deteriorate later that evening.\"\n\nNo details have been released about Daisy's owner.\n\nThe rescue involved 16 team members and took five hours\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "The trainee vets say they're relieved to be back with their friends again after the long lockdown\n\nThe first students are beginning to return for face-to-face teaching on UK university campuses - with a new term of compulsory masks and closed bars.\n\nMost students won't begin until the autumn, but veterinary students are now back at the University of Nottingham.\n\nThey are the pioneers for how campuses across the UK could look as they reopen after the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\n\"The social experience will be more limited, but these are unprecedented times,\" says registrar Paul Greatrix.\n\nThe first cohort going back in Nottingham are 150 trainee vets, some of whom will see a great deal of each other - as the university adopts the \"bubble\" system in which small groups will live as well as study together.\n\nThe university is calling it \"households\" rather than \"bubbles\", but it is the same principle of restricting the spread of infection by keeping people in small groups which are kept separate from each other.\n\nWithin these households of three to 10 students there will be no need for social distancing or wearing masks, but where different households meet the students will have to stay apart.\n\n\"Safety has to be the priority,\" says Dr Greatrix.\n\nThe buildings are mapped out with one-way systems and hand sanitising stations and masks have to be worn, including in lessons, by staff and students.\n\nLectures will be online and there will be in-person teaching for small groups, which is essential for a practical subject such as veterinary science.\n\nSarah Cripps says it was impossible to teach such a practical subject online\n\nThe student bars are closed and there are posters up for a pizza night that's going to be an online event.\n\n\"We can't emulate an all-night club experience through a Zoom chat,\" says Dr Greatrix.\n\nBut he says the university is doing everything it can to create a sense of involvement.\n\nThe students at Nottingham just seem very glad to be back and seeing friends, after months of being cooped up at home and having to study online.\n\nRegistrar Paul Greatrix says it is a huge logistical operation to get ready for 40,000 students and staff in the autumn\n\nThey don't seem particularly daunted by the safety restrictions or that much of the socialising will be online.\n\n\"We were desperate to come back,\" says Amy Thornton. \"It will be different, but it was time to come back.\"\n\nShe will be living in a bubble with five other trainee vets - and isn't worried about the new arrangements or seeing too much of a small number of people.\n\n\"It's just nice to see people again,\" says Emily Howell. \"We're going to have to get on with it.\"\n\nTom handles a milk snake as part of the training in looking after reptiles\n\nThe online lectures are useful, she says, because you can rewind them. \"But I can't wait to do practicals.\"\n\nHer flatmate, Lewis Ashman, says he has no concerns about any risks from going on to the campus. \"It's safe,\" he says.\n\nTom, getting his first chance to hold a snake and a bearded dragon called Barbie, says it's \"great to be back\".\n\nThe students don't mind the masks, but they're finding that dogs used in training don't like them - and it can set them off barking.\n\nIt's also a relief to be back teaching in person rather than online, says clinical assistant professor, Sarah Cripps.\n\nNottingham has a one-way system operating across its buildings\n\nUniversities didn't close, but went online - and the pandemic has shown the limitations of remote teaching, and how much is missed when students and teachers are not there together in person.\n\nAnd in the case of a practical subject such as learning to be a vet, which is all about handling, it's impossible to switch completely online.\n\nDr Greatrix says reopening for the rest of Nottingham's 40,000 students and staff will be one of the biggest projects the university has ever faced.\n\nThere will be staggered arrival times in September to reduce contacts between students, in what is like a small town turning up.\n\nEmily Howell and Lewis Ashman do not have any worries about the safety of being on campus\n\nAnd there are plans if there are further Covid-19 outbreaks, either in halls of residence or in parts of the city where students are living.\n\nThere is a strong message of reassurance about safety - not least to overseas students, particularly from China, who have been doubtful of how well the pandemic has been handled in the UK.\n\nDr Greatrix says he will be pleased if more than 50% of overseas students turn up as planned - with many universities fearing a financial hit from cancellations.\n\nUniversities can introduce safety rules, but students are adults and he recognises there is no way of preventing people in separate bubbles from meeting away from the university - such as going to a local pub.\n\nAnd it's not possible to put the same safety controls on students living in private accommodation.\n\n\"We'll try to regularly remind students about a sense of responsibility,\" said Dr Greatrix.", "Ambulances, the coastguard and the RNLI were at the scene of beach rescue in Gwynedd\n\nSix people have been taken to hospital after being caught in a rip current off the north Wales coast, the coastguard has said.\n\nOn Sunday the RNLI said eight people had been caught in currents in the waters off Aberdyfi, Gwynedd, and \"were being resuscitated\".\n\nHM Coastguard confirmed six people had been taken to hospital, while two others were treated at the scene.\n\nNo details on their injuries have yet been released.\n\nThe coastguard said a number of 999 calls had been made at about 14:15 BST reporting a number of people \"in difficulty\" in the water at Aberdyfi.\n\nIt said three people were taken to hospital by the coastguard helicopter, one by an air ambulance and two by road ambulance.\n\nAt 16:40 the coastguard confirmed all people were now \"accounted for\" and emergency services were leaving the scene.\n\nA number of people called emergency services to report the incident\n\nKay Richards was out walking her dog on the beach when she saw police cars and the air ambulance arrive.\n\n\"By the time we got to the beach all had been pulled from the water,\" she said.\n\n\"We could see someone was surrounded by paramedics and they were eventually put on a stretcher and went on the air ambulance.\"\n\nMs Richards said she saw people being taken to the coastguard helicopter, and one person sat on the beach being \"checked over\".\n\nShe praised rescuers from the RNLI and air ambulance, for their actions getting the people from the water, saying without them it could have been \"very different\".\n\n\"From what I heard it was people out kite surfing who saw the people in trouble and raised the alarm,\" she said.\n\n\"The red flag was up so I'm not sure why they were in the water swimming, we have very strong tides here.\"\n\nThe beach is popular with tourists but it has strong currents\n\nThe ambulance service said they were called at 14:24 BST, following a \"beach incident\" near Aberdyfi.\n\nIt said casualties were flown to Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth and Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.\n\nEarlier the RNLI confirmed it had launched its lifeboat from Aberdyfi after reports of three casualties in difficulty off the coast, but when they arrived they found eight in the water.\n\nThe coastal village, off the Dyfi Estuary and set within Snowdonia National Park, is popular with tourists due to its long sandy beach and water sports.\n\nVisit Snowdonia's website warns that while the water looks inviting, \"swimmers must take care while venturing out, due to the strong currents around the estuary mouth\".", "Heavy rain is likely to lead to \"life-threatening\" flash flooding in southern Texas and north-eastern Mexico even as Hurricane Hanna weakens, US officials have warned.\n\nThe hurricane made landfall on Saturday but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm.\n\nBut the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) says that rains and strong winds \"remain a threat\".\n\nHe said coronavirus would complicate the work of emergency services, although a storm surge warning on the Texan coast was later cancelled by the NHC.\n\nHanna was initially classified as a Category One hurricane, the lowest level on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, before being downgraded.\n\nIt made landfall on Padre Island on Saturday, and on Sunday moved into Mexico.\n\nWith wind gusts of up to 90mph (145km/h), the storm was earlier tearing roofs off homes.\n\nHanna hit Texas as the southern state struggled to contain the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMore than 380,000 cases have so far been confirmed, with nearly 5,000 deaths.\n\n\"Any hurricane is an enormous challenge,\" Gov Abbott said on Saturday. \"This challenge is complicated and made even more severe, seeing that it is sweeping through an area that is the most challenged area in the state for Covid-19.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tomasz Schafernaker takes a look at the formation of Cape Verde-type hurricanes and where their energy comes from.\n\nAT 22:00 local time on Saturday (03:00 GMT Sunday), maximum sustained winds were near 75mph, the NHC said.\n\nIt added that \"rapid weakening is expected as Hanna moves farther inland\" over Texas and into north-eastern Mexico on Sunday.\n\nSeparately, Hurricane Douglas - with maximum winds of up to 90mph - was approaching Hawaii in the Pacific, the NHC said, warning of damaging winds, flooding rainfall and dangerously high surf.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted that his administration was closely monitoring the storms. \"We continue to closely co-ordinate closely with both states,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why coronavirus cases are surging in Texas", "Rapper Wiley has been dropped by his management following anti-Semitic posts on his social media accounts.\n\nWiley's Twitter account has been temporarily locked while Instagram said it had deleted some of his content, after a long series of posts on both platforms on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe social media giants are facing growing pressure to close his accounts.\n\nPolice said they were looking at \"relevant material\" as critics accused Wiley of incitement to racial hatred.\n\nMetropolitan Police officers in Tower Hamlets said in a statement: \"We have received a number of reports relating to alleged anti-Semitic tweets posted on social media. The Met takes all reports of anti-Semitism extremely seriously. The relevant material is being assessed.\"\n\nThere are also calls for Wiley's MBE, appointed for services to music, to be forfeited.\n\nWiley, 41, known as the \"godfather of grime\", shared conspiracy theories and insulted Jewish people on his Instagram and Twitter accounts, which together have more than 940,000 followers.\n\nIn one tweet he said: \"I don't care about Hitler, I care about black people\", and also compared the Jewish community to the Ku Klux Klan.\n\nOn Instagram, videos of himself were interspersed with posts of screenshots - which have since been deleted - including one at about midday on Saturday suggesting Twitter has suspended him from tweeting for a week.\n\nHe had already been given a 12-hour ban on Friday night, but resumed tweeting on Saturday.\n\nThe platform has removed some of his tweets, with a note saying they violated its rules.\n\nWiley's manager, John Woolf, confirmed that the Twitter account, which is not verified, belongs to the London-born rapper, whose real name is Richard Cowie.\n\nIn a tweet on Friday evening that is no longer visible, Mr Woolf initially said he was \"talking to him privately\". He also said that, having known Wiley for 12 years, he knows \"he does not truly feel this way\".\n\nBut on Twitter on Saturday morning he tweeted: \"Following Wiley's antisemitic tweets today we at @A_ListMGMT have cut all ties with him. There is no place in society for antisemitism.\"\n\nThe two men were pictured together in December with boxer Anthony Joshua.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Woolf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a subsequent statement, Mr Woolf said: \"To be very clear here. I do not support or condone what Wiley has said today online in any way shape or form.\n\n\"I am a proud Jewish man and I am deeply shocked and saddened but what he has chosen to say.\n\n\"I am speaking to key figures in my community in light of today's tweets. This behaviour and hateful speech is not acceptable to me.\"\n\nWiley later claimed in a video posted on Instagram that he had \"cut ties\" with Mr Woolf - not the other way around.\n\nBroadcaster and producer DJ Spoony criticised Wiley's \"inflammatory\" comments, tweeting that the artist \"still has a huge role in our community but he must first see the error of his ways/comments and then make himself open to the help that will be offered\".\n\nThe Ivors Academy, an association for music writers which gave Wiley its Inspiration Award in 2019, said \"such appalling views have no place in the music creator community\".\n\nThere has been growing outrage over the social media companies' responses.\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism said it had reported Wiley to the Metropolitan Police and asked Twitter and Facebook, which owns Instagram, to close his accounts to \"prevent further outpouring of anti-Jewish venom\".\n\n\"We consider that Wiley has committed the offence of incitement to racial hatred, which can carry a substantial prison sentence,\" a statement read.\n\nIt added that it would contact the Cabinet Office to ask for his MBE be forfeited.\n\nThe rapper, known as Wiley Kat earlier in his career, was appointed MBE in 2018\n\nLord Mann, an adviser to the government on anti-Semitism, called on Twitter and Instagram to remove him from their platforms.\n\nHe said some of the content glorifies a violent attack on a rabbi in London, adding: \"That breaches all their standards, it's not even marginal.\"\n\nLuciana Berger, a Liberal Democrat politician who left the Labour Party over anti-Semitism last year, said the \"bile... permeates impressionable (often younger) minds\".\n\nActors David Baddiel and Tracy-Ann Oberman, who are both Jewish, also called for more action.\n\nFacebook, which owns Instagram, said in a statement: \"There is no place for hate speech on Instagram. We have deleted content that violates our policies from this account and are continuing to investigate.\"\n\nTwitter said Wiley's account had been temporarily locked \"for violating our Hateful Conduct policy\".\n\n\"Abuse and harassment have no place on our service and we have policies in place - that apply to everyone, everywhere - that address abuse and harassment, violent threats, and hateful conduct,\" it added.\n\n\"If we identify accounts that violate any of these rules, we'll take enforcement action.\"\n\nWiley first entered the UK singles charts with Wearing My Rolex in 2008. His subsequent hits include Heatwave in 2012 and Boasty in 2019, a collaboration with rappers Stefflon Don and Sean Paul and actor Idris Elba.", "The dean of Westminster Abbey, the Very Rev Dr David Hoyle, told the BBC: \"We are vulnerable and we are getting more vulnerable\"\n\nWestminster Abbey is down more than £12m in revenue this year and is set to make about 20% of its staff redundant as a result of the lockdown.\n\nMore than 90% of its income comes from visitors paying an entrance fee.\n\nIt closed its doors on 20 March and only began to reopen for limited tourist visits on 11 July.\n\nThe dean of Westminster Abbey, the Very Rev Dr David Hoyle, told the BBC the coronavirus had dealt a \"shattering blow\" to the Abbey's finances.\n\nSeparately, the Church of England's 42 cathedrals are projected to be down more than £28.4m on what they thought their budgets would be this year.\n\nThey are projected to lose another £15.5m next year.\n\nThe Association of English Cathedrals, which represents Westminster Abbey and the Church of England's 42 cathedrals, warned job cuts would hit churches around the country when the government's job retention scheme ended in October.\n\nThe Abbey's financial reserves would be depleted by a third from September, Dr Hoyle said, and would continue to fall as visitor numbers were not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels for up to five years.\n\n\"There is a real need here,\" he said, warning Westminster Abbey expected a similar \"breathtaking\" loss of between £9m and £12m next year as well.\n\nThe Abbey is open for services and visits, but numbers are limited as social distancing is enforced.\n\nDr Hoyle said it was \"inconceivable\" that the Abbey would be so quiet, as in a \"normal\" month of July, it would be admitting 1,000 people an hour.\n\n\"We are vulnerable and we are getting more vulnerable,\" he said.\n\n\"We're negotiating one of the greatest challenges to hit the Abbey in recent times.\"\n\nCoronavirus saw the Abbey closed for the longest time since the Queen's coronation\n\nThe Abbey has already announced plans to scrap regular Sunday services at St Margaret's, a medieval church in Parliament Square. The professional choir at St Margaret's will be disbanded and worshippers will be told to merge with the congregation in the Abbey.\n\nDue to its status as a Royal Peculiar, Westminster Abbey does not count as one of the Church of England's 42 cathedrals. Instead it is owned directly by the monarch, meaning it is not eligible for funding by the Church Commissioners.\n\nWhile the Abbey makes most of its income from tourism, many places of worship across the UK rely on cash donations from congregations to survive. Having been forced to close their doors due to the lockdown, many are struggling financially.\n\nOne Sikh temple, Singh Sabha London East, typically received about £80,000 a month in donations from attendees. During lockdown, despite losing 90% of its monthly income, the gurdwara provided more than 4,000 meals to NHS staff and other key workers.\n\nBut Sukhbir Bassi, one of the senior figures at the gurdwara, said that could not continue without government support.\n\n\"We are having serious, serious problems,\" he said.\n\nThe government has pledged £750m in support for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.\n\nA spokesperson from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"We understand the difficulty lockdown has caused people of faith, which is why we have worked in partnership with faith leaders to enable a phased and safe reopening of places of worship.\"\n\nIt said faith organisations had access to government support including the Coronavirus Community Support Fund.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Being obese or overweight puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, experts say after examining existing studies.\n\nThe review of evidence by Public Health England found excess weight put people at greater risk of needing hospital admission or intensive care.\n\nAnd the risk grew substantially as weight increased.\n\nThe release comes ahead of an expected government announcement of new measures to curb obesity.\n\nDr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said the current evidence was clear, that being overweight or obese puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, as well as from many other life-threatening diseases.\n\n\"Losing weight can bring huge benefits for health - and may also help protect against the health risks of Covid-19,\" she said. \"The case for action on obesity has never been stronger.\"\n\nThe UK has one of the highest levels of obesity in Europe. Almost two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese, with similar figures in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe NHS says most adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9 are overweight, while those with a BMI of 30 to 39.9 are classed as obese.\n\nBody mass index is calculated by dividing a person's mass in kilograms by the square of their height in metres.\n\nAnother measure of excess fat is waist size - men with a waist of 94cm or more and women with a waist of 80cm or more are more likely to develop obesity-related problems.\n\nSupporting people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight may reduce the severe effects of Covid-19 on the population, especially among vulnerable groups who are most affected by obesity, the report said.\n\nProf Susan Jebb of the University of Oxford, said we already know that older people, men, those from South Asian and some other ethnic groups, and people living in more deprived areas, are at increased risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"Over and above these things, this review shows that excess weight is another very important risk factor,\" she said.\n\nThere was anecdotal evidence that some people were struggling with their weight during the pandemic, she added, which offered a \"re-set moment\" for everyone to think about their lifestyle.\n\nAccording to the report, while some data suggests that more people have exercised during lockdown, evidence indicates that the nation's exercise levels have not increased overall.\n\nMeanwhile, snack food and alcohol sales from High Street shops have increased.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce new measures soon to combat obesity, including a ban on TV junk food adverts before 21:00.\n\nThe measures are yet to be finalised, but are also likely to include a ban on online ads for unhealthy foods, and limits on in-store promotions.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe parents of a young man whose death in a crash sparked an international diplomatic row have dropped their legal action against Northamptonshire Police.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, was fatally injured outside RAF Croughton in August.\n\nHis family began legal action against the force and the Foreign Office after US suspect Anne Sacoolas left the UK, citing diplomatic immunity.\n\nAfter seeing documents disclosed in the case the family said the \"police are absolved of any blame\".\n\nThe information provided for the court proceedings showed the force \"could have done no more last August and September to ensure that Mrs Sacoolas was brought to justice\", said family spokesman Radd Seiger.\n\nPolice had been \"kept in the dark\" by the FCO (Foreign & Commonwealth Office) about uncertainty relating to Mrs Sacoolas' immunity status, he said.\n\nMr Seiger said: \"Our case remains that the documents clearly show how the police investigation was effectively stopped in its tracks abruptly when the Foreign Office told the police shortly after Harry died that Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity.\"\n\nNorthamptonshire Police previously said it was \"not informed\" by the FCO of the arrangements that allowed Mrs Sacoolas to claim diplomatic immunity.\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles have taken legal action against the FCO\n\nA two-day judicial review hearing at the High Court in November is scheduled, with Mr Dunn's parents, Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles, claiming the foreign secretary \"obstructed justice\" by allowing Mrs Sacoolas to leave the UK.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police were brought into the legal claim in January.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after a crash involving her car and Mr Dunn's motorbike outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe force will continue to be involved in the claim as an \"interested party\", said Mr Seiger.\n\nIn December last year, Mrs Sacoolas was charged with causing death by dangerous driving but an extradition request was rejected by the US.\n\nEarlier this month the UK and US agreed to amend the \"anomaly\" which allowed Mrs Sacoolas to claim diplomatic immunity.\n\nA Northamptonshire Police spokesman said: \"This is an ongoing legal matter and it would therefore be inappropriate to comment further at this time.\"\n\nThe FCO has been approached for comment.", "Almost 200 sex offenders were released from prison in England and Wales in one year without having anywhere to live, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures show.\n\nMore than 100 of them were classed as posing a \"high\" or \"very high\" risk to the public.\n\nProbation inspectors have warned that freed prisoners who sleep rough are more likely to commit further crimes.\n\nThe Probation Service said it worked closely with local councils to help those leaving prison.\n\nThe figures, for England and Wales in 2018-19, were supplied by the MoJ under the Freedom of Information Act.\n\nThey show that on 68 occasions \"high and very high risk\" sex offenders, who were on licence for more than six months, had no accommodation on release.\n\nA further 53 homelessness cases involved \"high risk\" sex offenders with a licence period of more than 12 months, and 70 involved \"medium risk\" sex offenders with more than six months on licence.\n\nEarlier this month, the chief inspector of probation, Justin Russell, criticised the lack of a \"cross-government\" approach to housing offenders, pointing out that prisoners with no settled accommodation were almost twice as likely to be sent back to jail within 12 months of release.\n\nIn an inspection report, he blamed the problem on:\n\nMr Russell said: \"We were particularly disturbed by the high numbers of higher-risk prisoners being released into homelessness or unsettled accommodation.\"\n\nThe report found that in 2018-19 at least 22% of prisoners presenting the highest risk to the public were homeless or had nowhere stable to stay, amounting to 6,515 individuals.\n\nIn total, there were 11,435 occasions when prisoners were homeless when they were let out - 16% of released male offenders and 18% of female inmates.\n\nThe Probation Service, which is part of the MoJ, said the figures for sex offenders showed accommodation on the day of release and did not necessarily mean they \"remained homeless afterwards\".\n\nIt says it has introduced new teams dedicated to finding housing, and is increasing places in \"approved premises\", also known as \"bail hostels\" or \"probation hostels\".\n\nIt adds that it has helped \"hundreds of offenders\" stay off the streets as part of the Government's Rough Sleeping Strategy.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Public protection is our number one priority. Sex offenders on licence must report regularly to their probation officer and abide by strict conditions which if breached can see them go back to prison.\"\n\nDuring the coronavirus lockdown, BBC News discovered that 142 prisoners were put up in hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation to limit the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 17-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA 17-year-old has been stabbed to death and four other boys were injured as two groups clashed in Manchester.\n\nPolice were called to a disturbance in Henbury Street, Moss Side, at about 19:30 BST on Sunday. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nTwo 15-year-olds and a 17-year old were also hurt, as well as a 16-year old who is in hospital with \"potentially life-changing injuries.\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy arrested at the scene remains in custody, police said.\n\nThe 15-year-olds and the 17-year-old were also arrested on discharge from hospital.\n\nHe is being held on suspicion of murder and the injured boys are also in custody awaiting questioning in connection with the killing, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nSupt Mark Dexter said: \"No parent should ever have to bury their child and my heart goes out to the mother and father who lost their son yesterday evening.\"\n\nHe added: \"Despite us having made four arrests, we are still actively piecing together the circumstances around this incident and I would urge anyone who has any information to please get in touch with us as a matter of absolute urgency.\n\n\"Violence of this kind is unacceptable and it is difficult to digest that another young life has been lost.\n\n\"We and the community have been working so hard to reduce knife crime, we obviously all need to do more and we will.\"\n\nPolice were called to a disturbance in Henbury Street, Rusholme\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katrina Collins wanted to lighten the mood and create a talking point in Montgomery\n\nStern signs instructing people to queue two metres apart have become part of life since lockdown.\n\nBut graphic designer Keith Williams and friend Katrina Collins wanted to lighten the mood and create a talking point.\n\nSo they settled on making messages that describe two metres in quirky ways, such as \"7 Chihuahuas\" and \"50 chips\".\n\nMr Williams wanted something a little out of the ordinary, rather than \"awful plastic signs\".\n\n\"I thought we could do something different,\" he said.\n\n\"So every two metres there are random phrases.\"\n\nThese include \"14.3 pairs of scissors\"; \"1.1 piano hinges\"; \"25 - 50 chips\"; \"85.36 pound coins\" and \"153.85 marbles\".\n\nThe signs, in Montgomery, Powys, have got people talking, Mr Williams said.\n\n\"The idea was to get people bemused and then to chat when the penny dropped, because queueing is boring,\" he said.\n\nA woman and her dog stay 16 million coronaviruses from the person in front\n\nThe response had been positive, Mr Williams said, although not everybody initially understood what it was about.\n\n\"One chap said, 'I don't get it',\" Mr Williams said. \"I explained it to him and he said, 'How very Montgomery'.\n\n\"It's nice to see when the penny drops.\"\n\nGraphic designer Keith Williams spent 11 hours over two days painting the signs\n\nThe signs were finished on Monday after Mr Williams spent 11 hours on his hands and knees painting them.\n\nMs Collins, who runs \"zero-waste\" catering business Shed 38, said: \"Each sign has some relevance to the business they are outside.\n\n\"So outside the cafe is '22 scones and 33.7 carrot cakes'.\"\n\nThe hope was they would spark conversations in the town\n\nThe scones and carrots were not laid end-to-end on the pavement to measure, she explained.\n\n\"We measured a scone and measured a carrot cake and did the maths,\" said Ms Collins.\n\n\"We thought that we would stick to (Shed 38's) zero-waste theme - we didn't want to get carrot cakes on the floor.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChampions League qualification and the battle to avoid relegation are the major issues at stake as the Premier League season concludes on Sunday.\n\nCoronavirus prompted fears the campaign might not be completed but after 92 games in 40 days the top flight is set for a dramatic finale.\n\nLeicester City host Manchester United with both teams and Chelsea competing for the two remaining top-four spots.\n\nTwo of Aston Villa, Watford and Bournemouth will be relegated.\n\nEuropa League qualification is also up for grabs, with Wolves and Tottenham battling for sixth place, which guarantees a European place next season.\n\nJamie Vardy is favourite to win the Golden Boot, while the Golden Glove is also up for grabs.\n\nManchester City's Kevin de Bruyne will be hoping to match - or break - an assists landmark only previously achieved by Thierry Henry, plus the Premier League will bid farewell to a legend as De Bruyne's City team-mate David Silva plays his final match in the competition.\n• None How to watch, listen and follow the final day\n• None Who needs what to survive?\n• None Race for Europe - which clubs are likely to qualify?\n\nHeartbreak and tears - who will go down?\n\nRemember in normal times when the television cameras loved zooming in on sobbing fans after their club had been relegated?\n\nWith supporters unable to attend games because of the coronavirus pandemic, that is not going to happen this season.\n\nBut fans of Bournemouth, Watford and Aston Villa are preparing for a nerve-shredding day as their clubs look to avoid joining Norwich in the Championship.\n\nAfter a long slog of a season, three teams separated by three points and with almost identical goal differences, are left to battle for one Premier League place.\n\nVilla, who start the day outside of the bottom three on goal difference, visit a West Ham side who are now safe, 18th-placed Watford go to FA Cup finalists Arsenal, while 19th-placed Bournemouth are at mid-table Everton.\n\n\"We can control our own destiny and that was looking unlikely,\" said Villa boss Dean Smith, whose side moved out of the bottom three with one game to go.\n\n\"We are above the dotted line but the most important thing is to be there after the game on Sunday.\"\n\nSports data analysts Gracenote have used their Euro Club Index to work out the chances of relegation for those teams trying to stay up.\n\nBournemouth's chances of going down are rated at 95%, Watford are 77.5% while the figure is 28.5% for Villa.\n\nThe Cherries may be favourites for the drop as they are reliant on both their relegation rivals losing - but manager Eddie Howe believes keeping a cool head is crucial.\n\n\"It's controlling our emotions that is going to be key because you have to play the game and you have to play the moment, be very much in the present,\" he said.\n\n\"Thinking too much, or getting too emotional, can be very counter productive so we need the players to enjoy the game, play the game as they have always done.\n\n\"I'm sure at some stage I will hear what's happening elsewhere. But we have to win regardless, so that's what I'll be working on.\"\n\nHayden Mullins, in charge of Watford following Nigel Pearson's surprise sacking, knows his side must better Villa's result.\n\n\"If we need to get messages onto the pitch we will but they just need to concentrate on their jobs,\" he said.\n\nWith all of Sunday's games kicking off at 16:00 BST, expect tears to be flowing around 17:50 - just not from fans in stadiums, as we have become used to on the last day of the league season.\n\nFor a detailed explanation of the permutations at the bottom, click here.\n\nPassports at the ready - who will make Europe?\n\nWith champions Liverpool and runners-up Manchester City having booked their places in next season's Champions League, Chelsea, Leicester and Manchester United are battling it out for the final two group-stage spots.\n\nUnited, who are third, will guarantee a top-four finish if they avoid defeat at fifth-placed Leicester. FA Cup finalists Chelsea, who are one point clear of Leicester, just need a point against sixth-placed Wolves to secure a place. Leicester will guarantee a spot in the top four by beating Manchester United.\n\n\"We'll approach the game to win it - I don't think there's any other way,\" said Chelsea boss Frank Lampard.\n\nMeanwhile, Wolves will qualify for the Europa League for a second successive season if they win at Chelsea.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's United were six points off the top four after a 2-0 home defeat by Burnley on 22 January. They go into the final day with an 88% chance of making the Champions League, according to Gracenote, as do Chelsea. Leicester's chances are rated at 70%.\n\n\"We want the players to learn about the traditions and history of the club and what the players before them have done,\" Solskjaer told Sky Sports.\n\n\"The club's former players have played so many vital games at the end of the season - a cup final, a game to win the league, a game to get into the Champions League.\n\n\"The players now are learning what the other players through history have been through.\"\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers said: \"This is virtually like a barrier-breaking goal, a goal that will get us into the Champions League.\n\n\"It wasn't really something we spoke about at the beginning of the season because naturally, where the club had been these last few seasons, we wanted to try step-by-step to arrive there.\"\n\nClick here for a more detailed explanation of the race for the Europe.\n\nEight years ago, Jamie Vardy was playing non-league football for Fleetwood Town. On Sunday, the Leicester striker could win the Golden Boot awarded to the leading Premier League scorer.\n\nVardy, 33, is top of the scoring charts with 23 goals, two ahead of Southampton's Danny Ings, his nearest rival for the award.\n\nWhile Vardy goes into the Foxes' final game at home to Manchester United without a goal in his past two appearances, Ings has scored six times in eight matches since the restart for Southampton, who entertain Sheffield United.\n\nShould Vardy and Ings seal the top two places, it will be the first time two English forwards have finished top of the scoring charts outright since 1999-2000, when Sunderland's Kevin Phillips scored 30 and Newcastle's Alan Shearer got 23.\n\nIn 2015-16, Vardy shared runners-up spot with Manchester City's Argentina forward Sergio Aguero - the pair ending the season on 24 goals, one behind Tottenham's Harry Kane.\n\nWith Manchester City's Raheem Sterling on 19 goals, there is a chance English forwards could fill the top three places, although Arsenal's Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (20) and Liverpool's Egypt forward Mohamed Salah (19) might have something to say about that.\n\nBurnley against Brighton is one of the few games on the final day with little riding on it.\n\nThe Clarets start ninth after another solid season while the Seagulls have secured their safety.\n\nBut it is a huge game for Nick Pope as he chases the prestigious Golden Glove - the award for the goalkeeper who keeps the most clean sheets in a Premier League season.\n\nThe Clarets stopper has managed an impressive 15 shutouts - the same number as Manchester City's Brazil keeper Ederson.\n\nPope will become the first English winner of the award since City's Joe Hart in 2014-15 if Burnley do not concede against Brighton - and relegated Norwich score at Pep Guardiola's runners-up.\n\nIf Pope and Ederson finish on the same number of clean sheets, the award will be shared for the first time since 2013-14 when Chelsea's Petr Cech and Arsenal's Wojciech Szczesny were tied on 16 shutouts.\n\nThanks for the memories\n\nAlthough there will be no supporters present, Silva will be fighting back the tears when he makes his 309th and final Premier League appearance for Manchester City.\n\nThe former Spain playmaker, 34, is regarded as one of the club's greatest-ever players, a key figure in transforming City into the dominant domestic force over the past few years.\n\nSilva, who has helped the club win 11 major trophies in 10 years, announced in June he would leave at the end of the 2019-20 season, adding: \"Ten years for me is enough. It's the perfect time for me.\"\n\nSince arriving from Valencia for £24m in July 2010, he has provided 93 assists in the Premier League and scored 60 goals.\n\nWith relegated Norwich providing the opposition for City's final league game of the season, Silva might well be confident of adding to that tally.\n\n\"I know he's loved by City fans and appreciated far beyond Etihad Stadium, but I'm still not sure he quite gets all the wider accolades he deserves for what he's brought to English football since he arrived in 2010,\" said former City defender Micah Richards.\n\nOther things to look out for\n\nWill Liverpool finish the season with another record? Jurgen Klopp's runaway champions are in the hunt for the biggest title-winning points margin.\n\nThe record currently stands at 19, set by Manchester City in 2017-18 when they finished on 100 points and runners-up Manchester United got 81. Liverpool, who are at Newcastle, are 18 points clear with one match to go.\n\nMeanwhile, Henry's record of 20 Premier League assists in one season is under threat.\n\nHenry achieved the record in 2002-03 at Arsenal but Manchester City's De Bruyne needs just one more to go level with the Gunners legend.\n• None Greg, Felix and Jimmy on the second Test and the genius of Ben Stokes", "Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the court's most senior liberal justice, and her health is closely watched\n\nUS Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said she is undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but will not be retiring.\n\nIn a statement, the 87-year-old judge said the treatment was having \"positive results\" and she was \"fully able\" to continue in her post.\n\nMs Ginsburg said a scan had revealed lesions on her liver, but the chemotherapy had helped to reduce them.\n\nAs the court's most senior liberal justice, her health is closely watched.\n\nShe has received hospital treatment a number of times in recent years but has returned swiftly to work on each occasion.\n\n\"On May 19, I began a course of chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of cancer,\" Ms Ginsburg said in her statement.\n\n\"The chemotherapy course... is yielding positive results,\" she added. \"My most recent scan on 7 July indicated [a] significant reduction of the liver lesions and no new disease.\n\n\"I am tolerating chemotherapy well and am encouraged by the success of my current treatment,\" she said. \"I will continue bi-weekly chemotherapy to keep my cancer at bay.\"\n\nSupreme Court justices serve for life or until they choose to retire, and supporters have expressed concern that if anything were to happen to Ms Ginsburg a more conservative judge might replace her while President Donald Trump, a Republican, remains in office.\n\n\"I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam,\" Ms Ginsburg said in the statement. \"I remain fully able to do that.\"\n\nThe Supreme Court justices pose for their official portrait in 2018\n\nMr Trump has appointed two judges since taking office, leaving the current bench with a 5-4 conservative leaning.\n\nIn May, Ms Ginsburg underwent non-surgical treatment for a benign gallbladder condition, and participated in the Supreme Court's oral arguments from hospital. She has been treated for cancer four times in 20 years, including two separate bouts last year.\n\nEarlier this week, she was released from Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital after a day of treatment for a possible infection. Ms Ginsburg is now \"home and doing well\", the court said on Tuesday.\n\nDespite her several health setbacks, Ms Ginsburg had not missed a single day of oral arguments in her 25 years on the court until last January, when she worked from home while recovering from surgery.\n\nJoan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933 to Jewish immigrant parents. At 17 years old, she lost her mother to cancer.\n\nShe attended Cornell University, where she met her husband, Marty Ginsburg. The pair had two children and remained together for 56 years, until Marty's death in 2010.\n\nThe progressive hero has grown into a pop icon in recent years\n\nBoth attended Harvard Law School. When Justice Ginsburg attended in 1956, one year behind her husband, she was one of nine women to enrol. While there, she and her female cohort were famously asked by the dean to justify taking the spot of a man in his school.\n\nMs Ginsburg later transferred to Columbia Law School in New York, becoming the first woman to work at both school's law reviews.\n\nDespite her academic success, she struggled to find work.\n\n\"Not a law firm in the entire city of New York would employ me,\" she once said. \"I struck out on three grounds: I was Jewish, a woman and a mother.\"\n\nShe went on to become a professor at Rutgers Law School in 1963, and co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As the ACLU's general counsel, Ms Ginsburg took up a series of gender discrimination cases, six of which saw her arguing before the Supreme Court.\n\nIn part due to her husband's enthusiastic lobbying, Ms Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993 by then President Bill Clinton. She became the second woman in US history nominated to the august body.\n\nJustice Ginsburg was the second woman in US history to be nominated to the Supreme Court\n\nDuring her years on the court, as the bench has become more conservative, she has increasingly moved to the left, gaining a reputation for her spirited dissents.\n\nAnd in recent years, she has grown into a pop culture phenomenon.\n\nIn part due to her scathing dissents, Ms Ginsburg became the subject of a Tumblr account called Notorious RBG - a nod to the late rapper, The Notorious BIG. She has been played by actress and comedian Kate McKinnon on Saturday Night Live, and has her likeness painted on T-shirts, mugs and posters.\n\n\"I'm 84 years old,\" Ms Ginsburg says about her newfound fame in the 2018 documentary RBG.\n\n\"And everyone wants to take their picture with me.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ\n\nA fire at the cathedral in the French city of Nantes is believed to have been started deliberately, prosecutors say.\n\nThree fires were started at the site and an investigation into suspected arson is under way, Prosecutor Pierre Sennes said.\n\nThe blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, which dates from the 15th Century.\n\nIt comes a year after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.\n\nBut the local fire chief said the fire in Nantes had been contained and was \"not a Notre-Dame scenario\".\n\n\"The damage is concentrated on the organ, which appears to be completely destroyed. The platform it is situated on is very unstable and risks collapsing,\" Laurent Ferlay told reporters.\n\nThe cathedral roof had not been touched by the blaze, he said.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron has reacted, tweeting: \"After Notre-Dame, the St Peter and St. Paul Cathedral is in flames. Support to the firefighters who are taking all the risks to save the Gothic jewel.\"\n\nThe French fire service tweeted footage of the blaze.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pompiers de France This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 fire began in the early morning, with massive flames visible from outside the building. More than 100 firefighters brought it under control after several hours.\n\nMr Sennes said the national police would be involved in the investigation and a fire expert was travelling to Nantes\n\n\"When we arrive at a place where a fire has taken place, when you see three separate fire outbreaks, it's a question of common sense, you open an investigation,\" he said.\n\nNewsagent Jean-Yves Burban said he heard a bang at about 07:30 local time (05:30 GMT) and saw flames when he went out to see what was happening.\n\n\"I am shook up because I've been here eight years and I see the cathedral every morning and evening. It's our cathedral and I've got tears in my eyes,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis is not the first fire at the cathedral. It was damaged by Allied bombing in 1944, during World War Two, and then in 1972 its roof was largely destroyed.\n\nIt was rebuilt 13 years later with a concrete structure replacing the wooden roof.\n\nIn 2015 a huge fire destroyed part of the 19th Century basilica of Saint-Donatien in Nantes.", "Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Aaradhya all tested positive earlier this week\n\nAishwarya Rai Bachchan has been taken to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this week.\n\nThe Indian actress, a former Miss World and one of Bollywood's most famous faces, is being treated at Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital, ANI agency reports.\n\nHer daughter Aaradhya has also been taken to hospital, PTI agency reports.\n\nAishwarya's husband Abhishek and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan, both also famous actors, have been in hospital since Saturday with the virus.\n\nOn Sunday, 77-year-old Amitabh Bachchan - a Bollywood superstar who has achieved global fame during his long and illustrious career so far - tweeted that he had tested positive for the virus.\n\nAishwarya Rai and Aaradhya have both been taken to hospital in Mumbai\n\nAnother series of tweets from his son Abhishek, also a famous actor, confirmed that he, his 46-year-old wife Aishwarya and eight-year-old daughter Aaradhya had also tested positive.\n\nUntil now Aishwarya Rai and Aaradhya have been isolating at home.\n\nNews that the family, often described as Bollywood royalty, had been affected by the coronavirus sent shockwaves across India. This week, thousands of fans have held prayers for the family's recovery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday India recorded a record 35,000 new cases of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, surpassing the one million mark.\n\nThe country now has the third-highest number of cases in the world, after the US and Brazil. The current death toll is 25,602.\n\nThe western state of Maharashtra, where Mumbai is located, is still the biggest hotspot with the highest case count - more than 280,000 - of all the states.", "Conwy Castle is considered by Unesco to be a fine example of military architecture\n\nWales' major heritage sites will start to be reopened from next month.\n\nUnesco World Heritage Sites such as the castles at Beaumaris, Conwy and Harlech will reopened by historical monuments body Cadw in August.\n\nEntrance to sites will be ticketed as Cadw attempts to ensure social distancing in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe historical monuments, however, will not reopen seven days a week. Cadw will issue more detail later this month.\n\nDates for the reopening of Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire and Caernarfon Castle are yet to be confirmed due to ongoing refurbishment works at those sites.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said Wales' indoor visitor attractions can reopen from 3 August as long as Covid-19 cases continue to fall and strict safety measures are in place.\n\nBeaumaris Castle was built as part of Edward I's campaign to conquer north Wales after 1282\n\nDates for the reopening of Grade I listed Tintern Abbey is to be confirmed\n\nCaernarfon Castle was used for the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1911 and 1969\n\nAll monuments will reopen with a reduced visitor capacity \"ensuring a safe and socially distanced on-site experience for staff and visitors\" while visitors and members will have to book time-allotted tickets.\n\nTourism in Wales, the country's second biggest economy, has been affected by the coronavirus crisis but now the five-mile travel limit has ended it has given the sector a little hope amid stark warnings.\n\n\"The coronavirus pandemic has proved hugely challenging for everyone involved in the heritage and tourism industry in Wales, including Cadw,\" said culture and tourism minister Lord Elis-Thomas.\n\nSome sites including Castell Coch near Cardiff, Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths in Newport will not reopen until September.\n\nBut Rug Chapel, Rhuddlan Castle, Valle Crucis Abbey and Llangar Church in Denbighshire and Oxwich Castle on the Gower will not reopen until the spring.\n\n\"We understand that there may be some frustration around the ongoing closure of certain monuments,\" added Mr Elis-Thomas.\n\n\"But rest assured that we are working as hard as we can to prepare them for reopening — and will do so when we are confident of them being safe spaces for everyone to enjoy.\"", "Dr Fauci: \"It's only reflecting negatively on them\"\n\nUS infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has described recent efforts by the Trump administration to discredit him as \"bizarre\" and \"nonsense\".\n\n\"Ultimately, it hurts the president to do that,\" Dr Fauci said in an interview with The Atlantic. \"It doesn't do anything but reflect poorly on them.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a White House official shared a list detailing past apparent erroneous comments by Dr Fauci.\n\nBut on Wednesday Mr Trump insisted he had a \"good relationship\" with him.\n\n\"We're all in the same team including Dr Fauci,\" he said. \"We want to get rid of this mess that China sent us, so everybody's working on the same line and we're doing very well.\"\n\nThe White House statement attacking Dr Fauci criticised him for what it said was conflicting advice on face coverings and remarks on Covid-19's severity.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Dr Fauci told The Atlantic that targeting him was \"completely wrong\".\n\n\"I cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"I think they realise now that that was not a prudent thing to do, because it's only reflecting negatively on them,\" he added.\n\nThe top government expert on infectious diseases took the high road in his first public comments after White House officials, both on and off the record, questioned his professional judgement and handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDr Fauci acknowledges that the advice and analysis he has provided has shifted over time, but he insists his recommendations have always been based on the latest science.\n\nThose views have sometimes led to clashes with the president, who has attempted to shift focus to rebuilding a US economy that has been devastated by the pandemic. Dr Fauci has said that the top priority must be controlling the spread of the virus and recent reopening steps have set those efforts back.\n\nSuch blunt talk has helped make Dr Fauci a popular figure during the pandemic, and that alone may be behind some of the resentment that is simmering within the White House.\n\nThe swipes at Dr Fauci, however, seem destined to be counter-productive. With a general election just a few months away the Trump campaign needs a consistent public message - and an administration attacking one of its own, then distancing itself from those attacks, may only promote a message of chaos and confusion.\n\nDr Fauci was also criticised by Peter Navarro, Mr Trump's top trade adviser, in an opinion piece for USA Today in which he said the disease expert had been \"wrong about everything I have interacted with him on\".\n\nHowever, the White House distanced itself from Mr Navarro's remarks, with communications chief Alyssa Farah tweeting that the article \"didn't go through normal White House clearance processes\" and was \"the opinion of Peter alone\".\n\nAsked about Mr Navarro's piece as he departed the White House for Atlanta, Mr Trump said he should not have written it.\n\n\"Well he made a statement representing himself. He shouldn't be doing that,\" he said.\n\nIn his interview with The Atlantic, Dr Fauci said he was not thinking of resigning over the attacks on him.\n\n\"I think the problem is too important for me to get into those kinds of thoughts and discussions. I just want to do my job. I'm really good at it. I think I can contribute. And I'm going to keep doing it,\" he said.\n\nHe has also told Reuters that he believes the US will successfully develop a vaccine against the coronavirus by the end of the year.\n\nIt follows early stage results from a vaccine developed by the firm Moderna, which Dr Fauci said were promising because the vaccine appeared to offer the type of protection seen in a natural infection.\n\nDr Fauci's comments come after reports that as of 15 July, US hospitals will have to report Covid-19 patient data to the federal health agency in Washington instead of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).\n\nThe CDC, the US's top public health institute, has until now been responsible for handling data about the pandemic from its hospital network.\n\nHealth experts have expressed concerns that data will be politicised, become less transparent and possibly affect the work of researchers and modellers.\n\nThe US has reported more than 3.4 million cases of coronavirus, and more than 136,000 deaths nationwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "The crown prince of Kuwait has taken on the role of partial ruler after the country's emir was hospitalised.\n\nSheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, 91, was admitted for \"routine\" medical tests on Saturday, the country's national news agency said.\n\nThe report added he was in \"good health\" but gave no further details.\n\nHis half-brother and crown prince, 83-year-old Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, will \"temporarily\" take on a number of functions.\n\nLast summer, the emir was reported to have suffered a health \"setback\" while in Kuwait.\n\nThe following month, he was hospitalised for medical tests during a visit to the US.\n\nSheikh Sabah has been credited with shaping the Gulf nation's foreign policy and spent decades as foreign minister before becoming emir in 2006.", "India's capital, Delhi, has seen a sharp dip in coronavirus case numbers in recent weeks. Is one of the country's biggest hotspots actually close to flattening the curve? Aparna Alluri finds out more.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Delhi was scrambling to fight a pandemic that appeared to be spiralling out of control.\n\nJune had been a terrible month for the city - with record surges almost every day, it accounted for most of the case load in the capital territory up to that point. Overrun labs and public hospitals added to the chaos and anxiety - as did conflicting information from the state and central governments.\n\nBy the end of the month, Delhi responded with a flurry of measures, from door-to-door health check-ups to increased testing, with the use of antigen tests, which are rapid but less reliable than the more widely-used RT-PCR tests.\n\nThese efforts seem to be paying off, says K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and member of the national Covid-19 taskforce.\n\nDelhi's daily case count has been dropping sharply, even as testing remains consistent.\n\nThis week it has recorded 1,200 to 1,600 new cases a day - about half of its daily count in the last week of June, when it was reporting more than 3,000 new cases a day.\n\nWhile Maharashtra, the state with the highest case load, continues to see a rise, Tamil Nadu, also a major hotspot, is seeing a more gradual decline in daily case numbers.\n\nAs far as the situation in Delhi goes, Prof Reddy is cautious. \"There are two explanations. One is that this is a genuine fall [in cases]. The other is that some of this is the result of the fact that they are using a lot of antigen tests.\"\n\nThat is, if antigen tests account for most of Delhi's increased testing rates, they may be missing a lot of cases, driving the case numbers down.\n\nAntigen tests are fast - they give results in minutes, unlike the RT-PCR test, which is longer, more complex and takes hours to generate a result.\n\nThe crucial difference between the two is that they look for different parts of the virus as evidence of infection. The antigen test looks for viral proteins whose presence is taken as proof of infection. But their absence does not mean the person is not infected. The RT-PCR test, on the other hand, looks for the RNA of the virus, which is a far more reliable indicator.\n\nIn fact, India's current testing guidelines require that anyone who tests negative for the virus must be retested with an RT-PCR kit.\n\nSo the question is how many tests of each kind is Delhi doing, and is everyone being retested? That data is not publicly available, leaving experts wondering how much of Delhi's \"turnaround\" could be the result of a poor testing strategy.\n\n\"I am inclined to believe there is a drop in cases, an observation that is bolstered by the falling deaths,\" says Prof Reddy.\n\nDelhi's reported Covid-19 daily deaths have fallen from 62 at the end of June to 41 earlier this week. It has now dipped below even Tamil Nadu, which has consistently reported fewer Covid-19 deaths than Delhi or Maharashtra since the pandemic began.\n\nWhile most experts, including Prof Reddy, agree that deaths are being under-reported, he says there is no reason to assume more deaths are being under-reported now than before.\n\nExperts see deaths as the second-best measure after confirmed cases, given the inconsistency of testing data.\n\nProf Reddy also points to the fact that the Delhi government has taken concrete steps that could explain a fall in cases to some degree, irrespective of the extent of testing with antigen kits.\n\n\"There is more emphasis on public health, more household visits, more testing, better public communication,\" he says.\n\n\"The public alarm helped, and there is a lot more energy in the system, and much better co-ordination between the centre and the state.\"\n\nBut at the same time, he says, it's too early to call this a turnaround. Only a continued drop in numbers - both cases and deaths - would count as evidence of a promising sign.\n\nInstead, he adds, the focus should be on improving hospital admissions and access to speedy treatment to lower deaths. \"That will also give confidence to people to self-report if they have symptoms.\"\n\nBut Delhi may not be the focus of attention for too long as cases are rising fast in other parts of the country.\n\nSouthern states such as Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are seeing some of the steepest rises. Telangana too saw a rapid rise in cases until recently, but its testing has been inconsistent.\n\nTamil Nadu's dip in cases might be the result of a strict state-wide lockdown for two weeks but it also has one of the country's highest testing rates, and it's only using RT-PCR kits.\n\n\"During the lockdown, they had fever camps, suspected cases were referred to testing centres, transportation was provided,\" says Manoj Murhekar, director of the National Institute of Epidemiology in Chennai (Madras), the state's capital.\n\n\"But it's too early to say if this trend will continue,\" he adds.\n\nClosed shops in Bangalore in Karnataka, which along with Tamil Nadu has a strict local lockdown\n\nMaharashtra continues to see a rise in daily case numbers - its capital city, Mumbai, has started to register a gradual decline, but surrounding districts, such as Thane, and Pune and other cities in the state are seeing spikes.\n\n\"After the lockdown, the movement of people was much more than what the government anticipated,\" says Subhash R Salunke, an adviser to the state government on its Covid-19 response.\n\n\"But my worry is the deaths.\"\n\nWith more than 10,900 deaths, Maharashtra has more Covid-19 fatalities than any state in India - and deaths have been rising too.\n\n\"You will see a downward trend in Mumbai definitely,\" Dr Salunke says. \"But this is not going to be over soon.\"\n\nData and analysis by Shadab Nazmi and Aparna Alluri", "Two of the first customers to be served at The Scotsman's Lounge pub in Edinburgh earlier in the week\n\nThe first minister has warned people not to drop their guard as Scotland heads into the first weekend of pubs and restaurants being open indoors.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the nation's \"collective sacrifices\" had helped get the virus under control and urged Scots to \"keep it up\".\n\nThe reopening of indoor spaces requires anti-virus precautions to be in place.\n\nCustomers will also be asked to provide their name and a phone number, as part of the NHS Test and Protect scheme.\n\nScottish pubs were able to open their beer gardens last weekend, but this is the first weekend since the Covid-19 lockdown began in March that they have been able to allow customers inside.\n\nReflecting on the latest coronavirus figures, Ms Sturgeon tweeted: \"Another day yesterday with no deaths registered of people with confirmed #COVID.\n\n\"My thanks to everyone across [Scotland] - our collective sacrifices have helped get this virus under control. Please keep it up. Let's not drop our guard now.\"\n\nColin Wilkins, from the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, said he was confident that pubs and bars could provide the right environment for people to enjoy a safe visit.\n\nBut he told BBC Scotland that customers should be aware of the new regulations when using pubs.\n\nColin Wilkins said it was possible to provide a safe environment for pub customers\n\n\"We work in a very heavily-regulated industry anyway so we're used to dealing with customers,\" he said.\n\n\"Customers have their part to play as well and we're asking those that do visit our pubs to bear with us and comply with the necessary restrictions that are now in place.\n\n\"Certainly visits to our pubs will be different, but everything that can be done will be done to ensure that a visit to the pub is as enjoyable as it was before.\"\n\nMr Wilkins also urged pubs and bars to gather customers' contact details as requested by the Scottish government, saying there should be \"no confusion\" over whether this needed to be done.\n\n\"The test and protect is the one thing that's going to help us, because the last thing we want is a spike coming back now that the industry's back up and opening,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Photographs from Princess Beatrice's wedding to property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have been released by Buckingham Palace.\n\nFour official pictures have been issued after their small ceremony at The Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor.\n\nOne shows the beaming couple leaving the chapel through its flower-covered archway.\n\nIn another they are outside the entrance with Beatrice's grandparents, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nBeatrice's parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, did not appear in either of the released photos, though the palace confirmed her father walked her down the aisle. It comes as Prince Andrew continues to keep a low profile following the arrest of his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking offences, which she denies.\n\nThe Queen loaned Beatrice a vintage dress for the occasion, as well as a diamond fringe tiara which the monarch wore on her own wedding day in 1947.\n\nThe newlyweds decided to hold a private ceremony with their parents and siblings after they postponed their wedding in May due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBuckingham Palace sent out two pictures taken by Benjamin Wheeler, the day after Friday's wedding. Two further images by the Oxfordshire-based photographer - showing the couple holding hands in the grounds outside the chapel after they were married - were issued on Sunday.\n\nIn a statement the couple said they were so \"touched by the warm wishes they have received since their wedding\" they decided to share two more photographs from their \"happy day\".\n\nWhen the national lockdown began on 23 March, weddings in England were banned under almost all circumstances. However, since 4 July, ceremonies of up to 30 people have been allowed to take place.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said the wedding was held within government guidelines.\n\nIt is believed to be the first time the Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, have attended a family gathering since lockdown began.\n\nFor the ceremony, Beatrice wore a vintage Peau De Soie taffeta dress, in shades of ivory by Norman Hartnell, on loan from the Queen, and trimmed with duchess satin and encrusted with diamante.\n\nThe dress appears to be a modified version of the one the Queen wore to the world premiere of Lawrence Of Arabia at the Odeon cinema Leicester Square in December 1962\n\nThe dress was remodelled and fitted by the Queen's senior dresser Angela Kelly and designer Stewart Parvin, according to Buckingham Palace.\n\nBeatrice, who is ninth in line to the throne, also wore the Queen Mary diamond fringe tiara loaned to her by her grandmother.\n\nThe Queen wore the same tiara when she married Prince Philip in November 1947\n\nBeatrice, 31, and Mr Mapelli Mozzi, 35, had originally planned to marry on 29 May this year at the Chapel Royal, St James Palace, in London.\n\nThe new venue of Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park - a short drive from Windsor Castle - is Beatrice's childhood home. Her parents still live at the property.\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi's son Wolfie was best man and pageboy.\n\nBeatrice and her husband began dating in autumn 2018 and got engaged last September.\n\nThe couple are said to have started a relationship after meeting again at Beatrice's sister Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank.\n\nAfter Friday's ceremony, Beatrice's wedding bouquet was placed on the tomb of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey, as is tradition for royal brides.\n\nThe bouquet was fashioned out of trailing jasmine, pale pink and cream sweet peas, royal porcelain ivory spray roses, pink O'Hara garden roses, pink wax flower, baby pink astilbe and, in keeping with royal tradition, sprigs of myrtle.\n\nThe Reverend Canon Anthony Ball laid the bouquet with Toby Wright, the son of the sub-dean of the Chapel Royal, Reverend Paul Wright.", "The funeral of a man shot dead by police after stabbing six people in Glasgow was delayed after more than 100 people turned up to the ceremony.\n\nThe funeral for Badreddin Abadlla Adam was due to start at Linn Cemetery at 14:00 but police were called when a crowd breached Covid-19 rules.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Sudan was shot by officers after wounding six people.\n\nPC David Whyte, 42, was among those injured during the attack at the Park Inn Hotel on 26 June..\n\nThe Scottish government's current rules allow for a maximum of 20 guests at funeral services.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said officers were in attendance \"assisting staff with social distancing regulations\".\n\nAt the time of his knife attack, Adam was being temporarily housed in the hotel that was being used as accommodation for asylum seekers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe was described as a \"quiet and polite and decent guy\" by asylum seekers who were also residing at the city centre hotel.\n\nThe burial ceremony took place in Glasgow\n\nFellow resident, Andrew, said: \"One way or the other we have been affected mentally, physically and otherwise.\n\n\"I (was not) around when it took place but I happened to gather some information from my other asylum seekers.\n\n\"They described him as a quiet and polite and decent guy - they were surprised that he acted the way he acted.\n\n\"There must be something that pushed him to behave in that ugly manner which honestly I strongly condemned because it is abnormal, but definitely something must have pushed that guy into that level of disastrous act.\"\n\nPC Whyte, one of the attacker's six injured victims, paid tribute to police and medical staff after being discharged from hospital a week after the attack.\n\n\"There is no doubt that I face a long road to recovery but I am absolutely determined to be back on duty as soon as I possibly can,\" he said.\n\n\"I would like to thank the medical staff at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for saving my life and getting me back to where I am today.\"\n\nAt the time of his discharge on 2 July four other men remained in hospital, three in a stable condition while one was still critical.\n\nThe funeral has now reportedly taken place after it was delayed for about an hour.", "Rep John Lewis announced he had stage 4 cancer in December 2019\n\nRep John Lewis, a leader in the civil rights movement and later US congressman, has died at the age of 80.\n\nLewis was one of the \"Big Six\" civil rights leaders, which included Martin Luther King Jr, and helped organise the historic 1963 March on Washington.\n\nAs a congressman he was a Georgia Democrat, and represented an area which covered most of its capital Atlanta.\n\nIn December 2019 Lewis announced that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.\n\n\"I have been in some kind of fight - for freedom, equality, basic human rights - for nearly my entire life,\" he said in a statement released at the time. \"I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now.\"\n\nDuring the civil rights movement, Lewis was one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and then became its chairman from 1963 to 1966.\n\nHe co-organised and spoke at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the rally at which Dr King delivered his historic I Have a Dream speech.\n\nLewis was the last surviving speaker from the march.\n\nJohn Lewis addressing the crowd at the historic March on Washington in 1963\n\nDemocratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis's death in a statement posted on her website and on social media.\n\nShe wrote that Lewis \"was a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation\", and that as a congressman he was \"revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the Capitol\".\n\n\"Every day of John Lewis's life was dedicated to bringing freedom and justice to all,\" she said. \"As he declared 57 years ago during the March on Washington, standing in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial: 'Our minds, souls, and hearts cannot rest until freedom and justice exist for all the people.'\n\n\"How fitting it is that even in the last weeks of his battle with cancer, John summoned the strength to visit the peaceful protests where the newest generation of Americans had poured into the streets to take up the unfinished work of racial justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Lewis is the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington\n\nUpon news of his death, civil rights group the NAACP tweeted that they were \"deeply saddened\".\n\n\"His life-long mission for justice, equality and freedom left a permanent impression on our nation and world,\" the organisation said. \"The NAACP extends our sincerest condolences to his family, and we send prayers of comfort and strength to all.\"\n\nIn a statement, former President Barack Obama said he had spoken with Lewis after a virtual town hall with a group of activists following the death of George Floyd. Obama said Lewis could not have been prouder of their efforts - \"a new generation standing up for freedom and equality\".\n\n\"Not many of us get to live to see our own legacy play out in such a meaningful, remarkable way. John Lewis did,\" he said.\n\n\"And thanks to him, we now all have our marching orders — to keep believing in the possibility of remaking this country we love until it lives up to its full promise.\"\n\nFormer presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tweeted that Lewis \"was a true American hero and the moral compass of our nation\".\n\nLewis's death comes on the same day as the death of fellow civil rights leader C T Vivian at the age of 95. Vivian helped organise the Freedom Rides - a protest to integrate buses in the south - and later went on to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).", "When you have picked your jaw up from the floor after the revelations hackers working for the Russian state are believed to have been trying to steal research into a vaccine that could combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus, it's worth knowing that attempts at interference do not stop there.\n\nThose actions - described as \"despicable\" by the government - are believed to have targeted, not just UK scientists, but those from Canada and the US as well.\n\nAnd it's clear, even from the rather technical public statements from security leaders, that the UK government believes the Kremlin itself was involved.\n\nThis is not a group of hackers working out of their parents' garage. The group thought to be responsible - APT29 - is one of those previously linked to hacks on the US Democrats in 2016.\n\nAnd the UK government is confident the attacks were known about at the highest level of the Russian state.\n\nMinisters also chose today, though, to confirm already widely held suspicions that Russian \"actors\" separately tried to interfere in the UK election last year.\n\nThis accusation is not explicitly against the Russian state, but those shadowy figures who \"amplified\" leaks of government documents during the 2019 campaign, which were then used by the Labour Party to make claims against the Tories.\n\nIt seems a lifetime ago, but one of Labour's central mantras against Boris Johnson was that the NHS would be \"up for sale\" in a trade deal with the Americans. You might remember hearing the chant at numerous events - \"Not for sale! Not for sale!\"\n\nAt one of those campaign events, Jeremy Corbyn dramatically unveiled leaked documents that he alleged proved this to be the case.\n\nLabour supporting doctors and nurses wearing scrubs even handed out the reams of paper.\n\nThe papers did show that the US wanted access to the NHS, but they did not categorically prove that the Tories would go along with it.\n\nIn any case, there was widespread suspicion about where the hundreds of pages had come from, after they had first appeared on the website Reddit.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has not claimed today that Russian influences stole the documents.\n\nBut he has accused them of \"amplifying\" the claims online, condemning these attempts at interfering in the UK's democratic process as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nIt's important to say too that Labour has also slammed the Russians' apparent role.\n\nIt's not a secret that there have been attempts by Russia to interfere in what happens on UK soil - most dramatically, of course, with the Novichok attacks.\n\nAnd the culture select committee found some evidence of media aligned with the Kremlin spreading anti-EU messages during the EU referendum.\n\nRumours and allegations have swirled about Russian attempted influence for years, although the extent of what has gone on has never been clear.\n\nDespite many suspicions of attempts at meddling in the referendum and other campaigns, significant concrete evidence is in short supply.\n\nThat's one of the reasons why, until today, UK ministers have stopped short of saying that political interference has happened here.\n\nSo, it matters that this is the first time a UK minister has made an explicit link to Russia, in one way or another, trying to meddle in elections in the UK.\n\nBut the timing of that statement creates its own intrigue too.\n\nNext week, at long last, the powerful group of MPs who monitor UK intelligence will publish a report on the Russian threat to the UK - a report that has been anticipated for a very long time and may perhaps set the record straight on all of this.\n\nIt's been produced by an independent committee who are able to access and interrogate intelligence information.\n\nThe report was completed many months ago, and while No 10 has continually denied there is anything fishy, it has been sitting on the prime minister's desk for a long time.\n\nThe Tories' attempts to install a loyal chairman of the committee backfired spectacularly yesterday, which you can read about here.\n\nNow, the report itself, which looks at the spectrum of the threat that Russia may pose to the UK - the financial influence of wealthy Russians in the country, what happened in Salisbury, attempts at meddling in political campaigns and more - will be published next week.\n\nIs it politically convenient for ministers to acknowledge the threat themselves just before others may make embarrassing claims about it?\n\nLabour politicians have frequently accused the Conservatives of ignoring Russian interference because of their relationship with Tory Party donors.\n\nDid it suit the government to publicise the claims that material used by Labour was also manipulated by Russia?\n\nIt seems, as one former UK ambassador to Moscow said this afternoon, a \"remarkable coincidence\" that the government decided at this moment to admit explicitly, for the first time, that Russia has tried to stick its nose into our politics - especially when there is a running criminal investigation into who obtained the documents to start with.\n\nBut Downing Street denies that there is any link in the timing at all.\n\nWhatever shenanigans there may have been about the timing of these announcements, it is clear there is cause to be anxious about Russia's attitude to the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson once hoped, as foreign secretary, that he could reset the UK's relations with Vladimir Putin.\n\nToday's evidence suggests that what he did get right was his own later admission that he was wrong.", "Fahim Selah was best known for his role in creating popular start-ups in Nigeria and Bangladesh\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of leading tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh who was found dead in New York on Tuesday, police say.\n\nThe body of Saleh, 33, was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment.\n\nHis 21-year-old executive assistant Tyrese Haspil has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.\n\nThe suspect is alleged to have owed Saleh tens of thousands of dollars, police said.\n\nThe entrepreneur was best known for his role in creating popular ride-sharing companies in Nigeria and Bangladesh.\n\nMr Haspil is accused of using a taser on Saleh and then fatally stabbing him on Monday.\n\n\"[The suspect] handled [Saleh's] finances and personal matters,\" NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison told reporters after the arrest on Friday.\n\n\"It is also believed that he owed the victim a significant amount of money.\"\n\nNew York Police Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison announced the arrest on Friday\n\nSaleh's body was discovered by his cousin who checked on him on Tuesday afternoon after he had not been seen for several days, Chief Harrison said.\n\nAccording to US media reports, CCTV footage from the building in which Saleh lived showed him entering a lift with a man wearing a mask on Monday.\n\nHis body was discovered with an electric saw placed nearby, police said.\n\nThe 33-year-old was the son of Bangladeshi immigrants and created his first company while still in high school.\n\nHe went on to co-found the ride company Pathao, which is popular in Bangladesh and Nepal, in 2015.\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 pathaobd 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\nMore recently, he helped found the Nigerian motorbike taxi app Gokada. But the company faced a setback after authorities in Lagos banned motorbike taxis earlier this year.\n\nBoth companies have paid tribute to the entrepreneur.\n\nGokada described Saleh as \"a great leader, inspiration and positive light for all of us\" in its tweet.\n\nHussain M Elius, who co-founded Pathao with Saleh, told Bangladesh's Daily Star newspaper: \"Fahim believed in the potential for technology to transform lives in Bangladesh and beyond.\n\n\"He saw the promise in us when all we had was a common purpose and a shared vision. He was, and will forever remain, an incredible inspiration for Pathao and our entire ecosystem.\"", "Relationship counsellors say they are bracing themselves for a \"post-lockdown reckoning\" similar to that usually seen after Christmas.\n\nSteph James, a counsellor in rural Wales, said couples \"thrown together in a stressful situation\" could trigger a \"surge\" in relationship breakdowns.\n\nA UK-wide poll of 2,000 people at the start of lockdown found 23% said it was placing pressure on their relationship.\n\nRelate Cymru urged people to seek help and not let problems \"fester\".\n\nThe Relate survey in April found 29% of those questioned in Wales said lockdown was exerting extra pressure on their relationship.\n\nAround 20% of respondents in Wales said they were having doubts about their future together, compared to a figure of 12% for the UK as a whole.\n\nOf those questioned across the UK, 42% said they were finding their partner irritating and 36% argued more.\n\nMs James said: \"We may see a surge as we do after Christmas. Couples are thrown together in a stressful situation like this.\n\n\"Many can't leave, and there may come a lockdown reckoning where all the issues come to the fore.\n\n\"They are trying to get through, stiff upper lip. But as we get to some kind of normal, relationships will break down.\"\n\nHowever, confidentiality issues have meant no counselling for those in abusive relationships, despite a \"huge increase\" during lockdown.\n\nMs James described some couples opening up more on video conference sessions from the comfort of their living room, and one couple becoming closer despite the husband being in Dubai and wife in Wales.\n\nLauren (not her real name) returned to her native Cardiff for a break before lockdown, she and her boyfriend of four years having just been furloughed from their jobs in England.\n\nBut when the lockdown kicked in and the pandemic stretched on, the pair found themselves reflecting on the relationship.\n\nThey eventually decided on an amicable split.\n\nThe 24-year-old said: \"It just made me realise that it would be possible to have a different life without being in a relationship, and I don't think that I would have realised that had it not been for lockdown.\n\n\"I think it's definitely a step in the right direction for both of us, so it's sort of a weird blessing in disguise.\"\n\nLauren said the pandemic had certainly added strain to the relationship.\n\n\"It was highly stressful finding out that we weren't going to be getting an income and trying to do a joint Universal Credit application,\" she said.\n\n\"And so trying to sort all of that financial stuff out, while still contributing to the same rents and bills and having the trouble of not really being happy in the relationship, that was a massive pressure.\"\n\nWhile the break-up has been tinged with sadness, Lauren felt it had ultimately been healthy for both parties.\n\n\"I don't think I realised how much my headspace was taken up by thinking about how my decisions might affect someone else,\" she said.\n\nSteph James said some farmers had struggled in lockdown\n\nMs James, who is based near Cardigan and works across mid and west Wales, said farming couples in particular had struggled, with the demands of rural life taking their toll.\n\n\"It's already difficult running a farm and you add into that home schooling and getting the children to knuckle down.\n\n\"We've also had the beautiful weather and them wanting to go outside, with a lot of rural areas isolated, the five-mile rule and no access to childcare.\"\n\nDuring lockdown, the charity Refuge has seen calls about domestic abuse increase by 25% while Gwent Police chief constable Pam Kelly said there had been \"suppressed reporting\" and it was \"inevitable\" more cases would come to light after lockdown.\n\n\"There has been a huge increase,\" Ms James said.\n\n\"Couples have been thrown together and abuse issues have manifested themselves. Home should be a safe area, but often it isn't.\"\n\nHowever, counselling for couples in this situation often involves chatting to them individually to get to the bottom of the abuse issues.\n\nThe lockdown means victims could find it harder to escape their abusers, say campaigners\n\n\"If one of them is unsafe, [chatting via video conference] with the other partner in the house, the more vulnerable person could be in danger,\" she added.\n\n\"We don't want to put anyone at greater risk, so have to prioritise safety.\"\n\nMs James noted that counselling via video apps and telephone had seen many benefits, including people more open to something often seen as \"taboo\" from the comfort of their homes.\n\nWhile there was a drop-off in counselling at the start of lockdown, more couples have now been engaging with it.\n\nLockdown has not been bad for all though, as Ms James points to the couples that have \"pulled together\", had less distractions and been able to focus on their relationship, as well as realising all their problems were trivial in the face of the pandemic.\n\nThere have also been the emergence of \"turbo relationships\" - those who were in the early stages when lockdown started and then moved in together, which could have been \"a recipe for disaster\".\n\n\"You're together 24-7, not going out with friends, so building very strong foundations,\" Ms James said.\n\n\"Time will tell, these are unprecedented times. Will they flounder on foundations, or stay strong? One core aspect will be spending time out of lockdown.\"\n\nHome schooling and working from home have added to underlying tensions\n\nRelate Cymru's manager Val Tinkler urged people to seek help now and not let problems \"fester until things get irreparably bad\".\n\n\"We always see a peak in people seeking relationship support after Christmas, when spending unusually long together brings issues to the surface,\" she said.\n\n\"Add to that the current extended period of isolation, worries about job security, finances, how to juggle work with childcare and uncertainty about the future - and it's clear why we're expecting a relationship reckoning.\"\n\nRelate launches its first ever Relationships Week from 20 to 26 July, for those struggling to cope as they come out of lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS in England will get an extra £3bn of funding to prepare for a possible second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe funding will also help ease winter pressures on the health service, Downing Street said.\n\nIt follows warnings a second wave this winter could see as many as 120,000 Covid-19 deaths in UK hospitals.\n\nThe prime minister made the funding commitment at a No 10 briefing, where he also pledged a new testing target.\n\nCapacity will be increased to at least 500,000 tests a day by the end of October, Mr Johnson said.\n\nConfirming the extra £3bn in funding for the NHS in England, he said Covid-19 could become \"more virulent\" in winter.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"Demand for testing is not the only challenge that winter will bring. It's possible that the virus will be more virulent in the winter months and it's certain that the NHS will face the usual annual winter pressures.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're making sure we're ready for winter and planning for the worst.\"\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive additional funds, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called for an urgent review into how coronavirus deaths have been recorded in England.\n\nDowning Street said the new NHS funding would be available immediately and would allow the NHS to continue using additional private hospital capacity and maintain the temporary Nightingale hospitals until the end of March 2021.\n\nThis will provide additional capacity for coronavirus patients, as well as allowing the NHS to carry out routine treatments and procedures, No 10 said.\n\nNon-urgent operations were suspended as the UK went into lockdown, to free up hospital beds during the first wave of coronavirus - but in May NHS England told hospitals they should restart procedures.\n\nIn normal times an announcement of £3bn to help the NHS in England cope with winter pressures might look generous.\n\nBut these are not normal times as the government pumps tens of billions into the economy to soften the blows of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe head of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, has been in talks with the Treasury to get guarantees that the Nightingale hospitals can stay open through until next spring in case there is another Covid surge.\n\nHe also wanted secure funding in place to do a deal with private hospitals to help tackle the backlog of cancelled non urgent operations such as hip and knee replacements.\n\nThat money now seems to have been secured, though we await further details.\n\nThe question is, will this be enough to get the health service through what could be one of the most difficult winters in its history?\n\nThere have been predictions that the waiting list for routine surgery will swell to 10 million as fears of a second wave of Covid cases in the depths of winter won't go away.\n\nHighlighting other measures to protect the NHS as it heads into the winter, Mr Johnson said the government would carry out the biggest flu vaccination programme in the history of the health service, while supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators had also increased.\n\nThe announcement was made as the prime minister announced a further easing of lockdown measures.\n\nThe prime minister encouraged people to return to using public transport, while advice for employers will change from 1 August.\n\nFrom the beginning of next month, Mr Johnson said employers would have more discretion to bring staff back to the workplace providing it was safe to do so.\n\nSince late March the government had been advising people to work from home if possible to help curb coronavirus.\n\nLast week Mr Johnson had signalled a change, saying: \"I think we should now say, well, 'Go back to work if you can'.\"\n\nBut the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told MPs on Thursday there was \"absolutely no reason\" to change the government's current guidance on working from home.\n\nSir Patrick wore a mask as he spoke to the Commons Science and Technology Committee on Thursday\n\nEarlier this week a report, requested by Sir Patrick, called for immediate action to reduce the risks posed by a second wave of coronavirus this winter.\n\nAmong its recommendations were increasing the capacity of the test and trace programme and having more people vaccinated against flu.\n\nAsked to model a \"reasonable\" worst-case scenario, scientists suggested a range of between 24,500 and 251,000 virus-related deaths in hospitals alone, peaking in January and February.\n\nThe estimate does not take into account any lockdowns, treatments or vaccines.\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\nResearch suggests the virus can survive longer in colder conditions and is more likely to spread when people spend more time indoors.\n\nExperts are also concerned the NHS will be under extreme pressure, not just from a resurgence of coronavirus but also from seasonal flu and a backlog of regular, non-coronavirus workload.\n\nThe British Medical Association chairman, Chaand Nagpaul, has called for more detail on how the £3bn funding will be used.\n\n\"The government talks of winter planning, but we need transparency on this, including how far this money can stretch in tackling a modelled worst-case forecast - including a second peak, additional non-Covid demand and a possible flu outbreak,\" Dr Nagpaul said.\n\n\"Crucially, the government must make prevention a priority and take every necessary step to try and avoid a national second spike all together.\"\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospitals and other NHS organisations, echoed the call for clarity over what the money will be used for, saying funding is already in place for Nightingale hospitals and private beds.\n\nWhile welcoming the financial support, deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery added: \"Trusts need more than that. They have got to recover the lost ground of the last four or five months and put measures in place to manage the additional activity that always happens in winter.\"", "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.", "Susan Bassett cancelled her holiday this weekend in confusion about the dates\n\nPeople living in a number of suburbs just outside Leicester have been released from the local lockdown. BBC News has been to meet some of them.\n\nWhile the rest of England has been enjoying staycations, having a pint in a pub and booking a haircut, people in parts of Leicestershire have watched enviously from the sidelines.\n\nBut more of the county can now rediscover life's little pleasures after several areas outside the city centre were released from the lockdown zone.\n\nBut the conditions and dates mentioned in the announcement by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Thursday were initially confusing.\n\nBelieving she could not travel anywhere until after 24 July, Susan Bassett immediately cancelled a three-day trip to Poole planned for this weekend.\n\nThe 54-year-old, from Braunstone Town, said she later realised restrictions were in fact being lifted nearly a week earlier - meaning she could have gone away after all.\n\n\"I'm not a happy bunny,\" she said.\n\n\"We're getting the money back but not the holiday and everything is sold out now or too expensive.\n\n\"It's the fourth holiday we've had to cancel this year. We shouldn't have been in lockdown in the first place.\"\n\nTracy Plant said she was looking forward to a seaside trip\n\nFor Tracy Plant, 40, also from Braunstone Town, it means she can finally take a trip to the beach.\n\n\"We were so pleased, we were dancing and singing round the house when he made the announcement,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been hard. We've got to do what we've got to do but I'm looking forward to a bit more freedom.\n\n\"But I feel sorry for the people still in Leicester, my mum and dad are still in the lockdown zone. So we want to be happy but we're sad for them too.\"\n\nShe said Mr Hancock's message about the timings of lifting the lockdown was \"as clear as mud\" so it was easy to see how people had become confused.\n\nPublican Kim Thornley said she was looking forward to welcoming customers again\n\nJeffrey Williamson, 82, said he and his wife were happy they were now \"free and easy\".\n\n\"It was a bit confusing to say the least at first, with the two different dates,\" he said.\n\n\"It would be better if they just had one spokesperson. But we're pleased to hear it's sooner and we're not in it anymore.\"\n\nA pub in Glenfield that had been ready with its beers to open on 4 July, is finally able to open on Monday.\n\nKim Thornley, landlady at the Railway Inn, said she had missed seeing her regulars and was \"elated\" at the news.\n\n\"I can finally open my front door and welcome my customers,\" she said.\n\n\"Being a landlady, I'm a social person and to not have any customers in four months, it has been a hard slog.\n\n\"I normally only take two days off a year - Boxing Day and New Year's Day.\"\n\nMs Thornley said she had used the closure to decorate the pub for her returning customers.\n\n\"The beer is in the cellar ready to go, I have put the optics back up today and I'm looking forward to Monday morning.\n\n\"Everything is coming together nicely. I'm just relieved I can finally open.\"\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.", "Alexandrovskaya competed for her adopted country at the 2018 Winter Olympics\n\nEkaterina Alexandrovskaya, who was born in Russia but competed for Australia in figure skating at the Olympics, has died in Moscow at the age of 20.\n\nThe cause of her death on Friday has not yet been disclosed. Alexandrovskaya retired in February due to injury.\n\nShe was granted Australian citizenship to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics with indigenous Australian pairs skating partner, Harley Windsor.\n\nWindsor, who won the world juniors with her in 2017, said he was devastated.\n\n\"The amount we had achieved during our partnership is something I can never forget and will always hold close to my heart,\" Windsor wrote on Instagram.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by h_d22 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\nHer coach, Andrei Khekalo, said Alexandrovskaya was diagnosed with epilepsy earlier this year.\n\n\"She was fearless. She was like a fish in the water,\" he told AFP.\n\nIan Chesterman, the Australian Olympics team chief in Pyeongchang in 2018, said: \"Katia... was a vibrant and talented person and an incredible athlete.\"\n\nAlexandrovskaya broke barriers with Windsor, who became the first indigenous Australian to qualify for the Winter Olympics.\n\nHe had flown to Moscow to meet Alexandrovskaya, saying: \"The first time we skated together we matched really well.\"\n\nIt is the second death of an Australian Winter Olympian in 10 days.\n\nAlex Pullin, a two-time world champion snowboarder and three-time Olympian, drowned while spearfishing last week on Australia's Gold Coast.", "Capt Sir Tom has been knighted in a socially distanced ceremony in the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nThe 100-year-old war veteran, who raised millions for NHS charities, told reporters he would not share what the Queen said to him as she honoured him.\n\nCapt Sir Tom said: \"I don't think I'll tell anyone what she said. It was just the Queen and I speaking privately.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace says it believes it is the first ceremony of its kind and other Royal investitures have been postponed.", "Tony Elliott, the founder of Time Out magazine, has died aged 73 after a long illness, the organisation has said.\n\nElliott started the magazine in London in 1968 and it grew into a global media brand covering hundreds of countries.\n\nA statement on Time Out's website described him as \"a visionary publisher, a tireless champion of city culture and a staunch friend\".\n\nIt said Time Out's first post-lockdown print magazine in London on 11 August would be dedicated to him.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we announce that Time Out's founder Tony Elliott passed away on 16th July, after a long illness,\" the statement said.\n\n\"He will be sorely missed by his family, friends and colleagues.\n\n\"His life and his work inspired millions of people who did not have the good fortune to know him personally.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Elliott, BBC arts editor Will Gompertz described him as a \"visionary\".\n\n\"He really was the most wonderful, generous person whose passionate support for the arts was unstinting and invaluable,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Will Gompertz\n\nTime Out Group's chief executive Julio Bruno said Elliott had died with lung cancer.\n\n\"He would not allow that to stop him,\" he wrote in an article on LinkedIn.\n\n\"He kept looking at the world with those inquisitive eyes, with that innate curiosity that very few possess in such measure.\"\n\nBruno said he met Elliott five years ago and he \"was engaged with the company until the end\".\n\n\"I will miss his advice, his passion, his profound understanding of the media world. And I will miss his friendship above all,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Tony was a visionary, a pioneer, a brave man and a great friend. We owe him very much and we will fight to keep his legacy alive.\"\n\nDavid Fear, who previously worked as film editor at Time Out NY, tweeted that Elliott would \"argue [with] half of our suggestions, smile and go 'Keep it up!'\".\n\nThe magazine's global deputy film editor Joshua Rothkopf described him as \"so Swinging London\", adding: \"I'll miss him.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joshua Rothkopf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElliott founded Time Out while he was a student at Keele University.\n\nThe first issue of the listings magazine was produced from his mother's kitchen table, funded by £70 he had received from his aunt for his 21st birthday.\n\nTony Elliott, pictured in 1971, three years after he founded Time Out\n\nThe company has now become a global media and leisure business covering food, drink, culture, travel and entertainment in 328 cities across 58 countries, through websites, magazines and live events.\n\nMarking Time Out's 50th anniversary, Elliott said he started the brand \"because it was hard to find out where to go and decide what to do in London: there was not one single place to find the information\".\n\n\"So I effectively created a publication for myself.\"\n\nIn 2017 he was appointed a CBE for services to publishing. He was honoured at the British Media Awards with an outstanding contribution award that same year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrei Kelin: \"We do not see any point in interference\"\n\nRussia's ambassador to the UK has rejected allegations that his country's intelligence services tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research.\n\n\"I don't believe in this story at all, there is no sense in it,\" Andrei Kelin told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nHowever, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it is \"very clear Russia did this\", adding that it is important to call out this \"pariah-type behaviour\".\n\nMr Kelin also rejected suggestions that Russia had interfered in UK politics.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Raab said Russians almost certainly sought to interfere in the 2019 UK election through illicitly-acquired documents.\n\nThe papers, which emerged online, detailed UK-US trade discussions and were used by Labour in its election campaign.\n\n\"I do not see any point in using this subject as a matter of interference,\" Mr Kelin said.\n\n\"We do not interfere at all. We do not see any point in interference because for us, whether it will be [the] Conservative Party or Labour's party at the head of this country, we will try to settle relations and to establish better relations than now.\"\n\nThe interview comes days before a report into allegations of wider Russian interference into UK democracy is due to be published by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.\n\nOn Thursday, UK, US and Canada security services said a hacking group called APT29 had targeted various organisations involved in Covid-19 vaccine development, with the likely intention of stealing information.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was more than 95% certain that the group, also known as The Dukes or Cozy Bear, was part of Russian intelligence services.\n\nAsked whether that was true, Mr Kelin did not directly answer but said: \"I learned about their existence from British media.\"\n\n\"In this world, to attribute any kind of computer hackers to any country, it is impossible,\" he said.\n\nMr Raab responded on Sunday, saying the UK government does not just \"throw out allegations\" and accused Russia of denying the claims in the same way they \"denied responsibility for the 2018 nerve agent attack on Salisbury\".\n\n\"It is very clear that as the world was coming together and we were trying to drive vaccine collaboration to get a vaccination for this terrible virus, Russia has been trying to sabotage it,\" said the foreign secretary.\n\nMr Kelin dismissed suggestions that it would be an \"advantage\" for Russia to know about vaccines being developed. He said Russian pharmaceutical company R-Pharm had already entered a partnership with AstraZeneca to manufacture the coronavirus vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford, should it prove effective.\n\nElsewhere in the BBC interview, Mr Kelin said Russian officials studying the country's recent constitutional referendum discovered \"several cyber-attacks\" originating from UK territory.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Russia voted in favour of a wide-ranging set of constitutional changes, which included clauses banning same-sex marriage and making it possible for President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036.\n\nMr Kelin stressed that Russia was not \"accusing the United Kingdom as a state\" of being involved in the cyber-attacks and did not give further details as to their nature.\n\nAndrew Marr also asked Mr Kelin whether he had seen the recent BBC miniseries, The Salisbury Poisonings, which dramatised the poisoning of former spy and MI6 informant Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\n\"I saw part of them,\" he said, adding that it was \"so dull\" he could not watch the three-part series to the end.\n\nThe UK has accused two Russian military intelligence officers of being behind the poisonings but the ambassador indicated Moscow was keen to move on from the incident, saying: \"We still do not understand why some spy story should disrupt these important business relations which will be very helpful to Britain... when it is exiting from the European Union.\n\n\"We are prepared to turn the page and we are prepared to do business with Britain.\"\n\nThe interview with Andrei Kelin was shown on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One at 09:00 BST on Sunday.", "Campaigners are concerned about pedestrian safety standards for US vehicles\n\nSafety experts are urging the UK government to exclude American cars from any post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nThey say imported vehicles should meet British safety standards for accidents with pedestrians, cyclists and children.\n\nUK PM Boris Johnson has indicated he expects cars to be included in any new transatlantic trade agreement.\n\nBut safety campaigners point to a spike of pedestrian injuries and deaths in US road accidents.\n\nThe increase is associated with a boom in large SUVs, which have been engineered to protect passengers but not pedestrians.\n\nThe UK government said safety standards would not be \"diminished\" as a result of talks.\n\nIn the UK and Europe, cars are designed to minimise harm to people on foot or on bikes if they are hit by a vehicle. SUVs sold in the UK must meet the standards.\n\nThe Parliamentary Advisory Committee on Transport Safety has written to Trade Secretary Liz Truss, saying: “We note that in negotiations covering food safety the USA has argued against accepting higher UK standards. It has sought to characterise these as protectionism.\n\n“We are concerned that pressure for lower safety standards will be applied in negotiations regarding the automotive sector.\n\n“US vehicle safety standards are much lower than those permitted for vehicles sold in the UK.”\n\nDavid Ward, president of the Global New Car Assessment Programme, told BBC News: “US crash standards are much lower for pedestrians... we simply can’t let American vehicles into the UK if they don’t meet our standards.”\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman told BBC News the government would decide its own safety regulations after Brexit.\n\n“Road safety or environmental standards will not be diminished as part of a free trade agreement with the USA or any other country,” she said.\n\nBut safety campaigners note that, on the parallel issue of whether to allow imports of chlorinated chicken from the US, ministers are under relentless pressure to give way.\n\nThe head of the UK Transport Research Laboratory, Richard Cuerden, said: “We know the PM and others have said the automotive sector is on the cards for a new trade deal after Brexit. Well, it’s fine to trade – but they have to meet our rules in this regard.”\n\nDonald Trump has spoken of his desire to sign a free trade deal with the UK\n\nUS President Donald Trump has previously derided safety standards for pedestrians - although the White House later said he was joking.\n\nA Ford Europe spokesperson said the firm had no intention of trying to bring vehicles into Europe that did not comply with regulations.\n\nBut Mr Cuerden said, from past experience, US negotiators would typically insist on equivalence of free access between markets. That meant cars could be used as a bargaining chip in the talks.\n\nMr Cuerden also warned that many of the UK’s crash barriers were designed to resist a car of standard weight and height. If British drivers started to buy large US-style SUVs in big numbers, the barriers might have to be replaced.\n\nBig SUVs are the focus of concern among US experts, too. A study from the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) said while the number of people killed in road crashes had fallen overall, the number of pedestrians killed by vehicles had risen by 53% over a decade.\n\nOver the same period, the share of SUVs in the vehicle fleet rose to 29% from 21% - a trend replicated in the UK.\n\nIIHS said design changes meant US SUVs no longer posed a greater threat to the occupants of other vehicles but there had not been a similar effort to address the danger that large SUVs posed to pedestrians.\n\nMatt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council, which represents US carmakers, said cars made there were just as safe as European vehicles.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Cars, SUVs and other light trucks that meet US safety standards achieve equivalent safety performance to the safety standards applied in the European Union.\n\n\"A US-UK trade agreement should address the tariff and technical barriers to open US-UK automotive trade. This would increase competition and provide more consumer choice.\"", "Stefano Rossi, owner of Stefano's Fish and Chips in Edinburgh's Morningside, said his earnings were being \"whittled away to nothing\"\n\nSome business owners in Scotland are calling on their customers to pay with cash - saying the hidden costs from card payments are \"crippling\" them.\n\nThe surge in electronic payments due to coronavirus guidance has left small businesses with hundreds of pounds of extra charges each month.\n\nRestaurateurs also said charges for increased takeaway deliveries were running into thousands of pounds.\n\nAnd some publicans said they could not afford table-ordering app fees.\n\nStefano Rossi, owner of Stefano's Fish and Chips in Edinburgh's Morningside, said his earnings were being \"whittled away to nothing\".\n\nHe said: \"Before the lockdown, I used to pay about £40 a month on card machine charges but now I've been paying £400 a month.\n\n\"I really need customers to return to paying with money now as all the charges are crippling my business.\n\n\"Some customers are seeing the sign I have put up and asking me if I'm trying to tax dodge, and I'm having to explain to them that could not be further from the truth.\n\n\"I declare everything and the reason for my sign is I just want to stop all these charges.\"\n\nHe added he was paying £550 a month extra on Just Eat charges since the lockdown began.\n\n\"People just don't realise that when they pay £10 for a takeaway order we only receive £8.10 and that is if we use our own driver,\" he said. \"Just Eat charges 14% on every order plus a 50p service charge and it's 35% if you use their driver.\n\n\"The delivery order costs are just too much now and I would urge customers to please start coming back to the shop and to use money.\"\n\nNadeem Amgid, owner of Yayas Grillhouse in Edinburgh's Colinton Mains, said there were a catalogue of charges involved with paying electronically.\n\nHe said: \"People don't realise it costs us more if they pay electronically and even more if they pay over the phone.\n\nTakeaway owner Nadeem Amgid said he wanted his customers to be aware of all the hidden costs involved in cashless transactions\n\n\"The charges even vary depending on which card customers use.\n\n\"I've seen a huge difference in my card charge bill since the lockdown and am now paying £500 more on charges a month.\n\n\"Then there are the third party delivery charges which you were almost forced to join when the lockdown started as that was the way people were ordering food.\n\n\"Before the lockdown, I was spending about £600 a month on Just Eat and Uber Eat charges. But since the lockdown, I'm spending £3,480 a month.\"\n\nHe added: \"People think we want money over card payments for tax reasons but it's not that. It's because the electronic payment charges have become a real burden.\"\n\nAntonio Baiano, owner of the Napole Pizzeria restaurant in Edinburgh's Corstorphine, said he was only surviving because everyone in his family had been helping.\n\nRestaurateur Antonio Baiano said he was struggling with his new delivery costs\n\nHe said: \"I wish people would start using money again because it is costing me so much currently.\n\n\"I didn't do delivery before the lockdown but now I've had to join Just Eat and Uber Eat.\n\n\"The more money I make the more they make and the more you work the less profit is for you. I've been working 12 hour days during the lockdown but seen less profit because I have to pay so many charges.\n\n\"I've been giving £2,800 per month to Just Eat and Uber Eat.\n\n\"The costs are a lot but the customers don't know about it.\"\n\nZaheer Aslam, of the business podcast Chattin with Z, said: \"Small business owners have been telling me they are concerned that, between the fees they are now paying for the increased card machine use and the costs for using third party companies, it is not sustainable.\n\n\"They are saying to me they want customers now to return to spending money on-site so they don't have to pay the high commission costs to third party companies.\n\n\"With more card payments and less cash they are saying the increased overhead costs are too much and they say their businesses as a result are suffering massively.\"\n\nTom Ponton, owner of Oz Bar in Edinburgh's Grassmarket, said: \"We looked at the table order apps but they were just too expensive as they have a monthly charge, a charge for every transaction and a charge to use their cash machine.\"\n\nA Just Eat spokeswoman said: \"Just Eat is only successful if our restaurant partners are successful and we believe our commission rates are aligned with the value we provide to our partners.\n\n\"Through our 30 day Covid-19 emergency support package, we gave over £11m worth of support to the many thousands of independent restaurants we work with across the UK.\"", "Indoor performances with socially distanced audiences can take place in England from the start of August, the prime minister has said.\n\nThe government is working with the sector on pilots of performances with socially distanced audiences in theatres and music venues.\n\nBoris Johnson said the findings would feed into final guidance for venues in the run-up to them reopening.\n\nBut the head of Theatres Trust said the move \"will not be economically viable\".\n\nDame Judi Dench was among many theatre figures to voice concerns for her industry\n\nAlthough Jon Morgan, director of Theatres Trust welcomed the news as \"a step in the right direction\", he said that \"for most theatres it will not be economically viable to reopen with 30-40% audience required under social distancing\".\n\nHe said they needed to progress to theatres being allowed to open fully \"with the appropriate safety measures\", adding: \"Without this most theatres cannot reopen viably and we need the go-ahead for Christmas shows, on which the survival of many theatres depends, in the next few weeks at the very latest.\"\n\nThe government stressed that \"audiences, performers and venues will be expected to maintain social distancing at all times.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How theatre can reopen during the pandemic\n\nIt added: \"This guidance will be for organisations in England. Organisations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should adhere to the advice of the devolved administrations at all times.\"\n\nVenues have been shut since March as part of the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport added it was now working with venues including the London Symphony Orchestra on measures for reopening.\n\nHowever it added that singing and the playing of brass and wind instruments in groups or in front of an audience is \"still currently limited to professionals only\".\n\nThe announcement is likely to be welcomed by theatre owners and producers, but a sense of frustration with the government is likely to remain.\n\nIt makes no financial sense for many venues to open with social distancing rules in place; theatre budgets tend to be based on a breakeven of around 70% capacity.\n\nIf social distancing measures mean a theatre can only run at 20-25% capacity, the producer cannot afford to put the show on.\n\nWhat the industry says it desperately needs from the government is some clear guidance on when stage five (fuller audiences indoors) of the phased return will be possible.\n\nThe call is for the government to announce a \"not before\" date, which would allow producers and theatre owners to make a plan of action for the coming months, be that preparing a show or reducing overheads.\n\nThe Society of London Theatre, which represents venues in London's West End, said it was \"delighted\" by what it called \"another welcome step on the road map towards reopening with full audiences\".\n\nYet it said it would not be \"practical or economically viable\" for many shows to open with social distancing restrictions.\n\n\"We welcome the news that theatres & performance venues can reopen with social distancing in August, but the reality is the vast majority will not be opening,\" tweeted actors' union Equity.\n\nChoreographer Sir Matthew Bourne also expressed doubts about theatres' ability to open with social distancing in place.\n\n\"Why make these announcements when they know that the vast majority of theatre, dance and music is not financially viable under 'Covid secure' conditions?\" he tweeted.\n\nThe UK's media and entertainment union Bectu said the news was \"a significant development\" but that venues would need government support if they are to reopen.\n\nMr Dowden said the announcement was a \"welcome step in the path to a return to normal\"\n\n\"We know that theatres and venues will not be open in two weeks' time,\" said its head Philippa Childs. \"Theatres will have to bring back productions, sell tickets, conduct rehearsals and prepare for how they will operate in a Covid-secure way before they can open up again.\n\n\"This announcement brings into sharp focus the need for urgent answers to the pressing questions that we have been asking since the arts recovery package was announced nearly two weeks ago.\"\n\nEarlier this month the government announced a £1.57bn support package, following several weeks of lobbying from theatres, music venues, art galleries and other cultural institutions, many of which had said they were on the brink of collapse.\n\nThe government has also now outlined measures to \"support the safe return of audiences\", including:\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"The UK's performing arts sector is renowned across the world and I am pleased that we are making real progress in getting its doors reopened to the public with social distancing.\"\n\nThis latest announcement will now see venues move to stage four of the government's \"five-stage roadmap for the return of professional performing arts\", which was recently outlined by Mr Dowden as follows:\n\nEven as the government was preparing to unveil its latest measures, however, more venues announced they were having to consider staff redundancies.\n\nThe Royal Opera House announced on Friday \"with huge sadness\" that it had made the \"difficult decision\" to begin \"a restructure process\".\n\nAnd in Edinburgh, the Traverse Theatre said it had made the \"painfully difficult decision to enter into redundancy consultation\" with \"a number\" of its team.\n\nIn a statement, the venue said it was likely that \"almost a third\" of its staff \"in customer-facing and technical roles\" would lose their jobs.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "More than 2,800 migrants have reached the UK this year, with a record number of 180 arriving on Sunday alone\n\nNine boats carrying 125 migrants have been intercepted on their way to the UK as searches continue for more vessels.\n\nThe Home Office said Border Force dealt with several incidents on Friday after being alerted to small boats in the Channel.\n\nMeanwhile, French authorities picked up three migrants in a kayak plus another 15 in a broken down boat and returned them to France.\n\nNo nationality details were available at this stage, the Home Office said.\n\nThe migrants would be interviewed and dealt with in line with immigration rules, transferring to detention where appropriate, it added.\n\nThe first boat was intercepted at about 00:30 BST on Friday and 14 men were found on board.\n\nVessels continued to arrive throughout the night and well into the next day, each with between eight and 19 people on board.\n\nThe coastguard said it had also been dealing with several incidents on Saturday morning and was coordinating a search and rescue response.\n\nMore than 2,800 migrants have reached the UK this year, with a record number of 180 arriving on Sunday alone.\n\nMinister for Immigration Compliance and the Courts Chris Philp said: \"It is in the interests of both France and the UK to stop people making this dangerous journey.\n\n\"The French have prevented more than 200 attempts in the past week alone, but more action is required.\"\n\nHe said a new Franco-British intelligence cell would \"go after the criminals facilitating these crossings\" and stronger enforcement measures were being explored.\n\nOn Friday, Calais MP Pierre-Henri Dumont accused the British Home Secretary of fake news by suggesting the French were not stopping boats from making the crossing.\n\nPriti Patel told the Commons Home Affairs Committee the British and French governments disagreed on whether it would be lawful to intercept boats.\n\nMr Dumont said: \"It's not true to say we are doing nothing, it's quite the opposite actually.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta outmanoeuvred his mentor Pep Guardiola as the Gunners reached the FA Cup final with victory at Wembley.\n\nArteta, who left his job as Manchester City assistant manager to succeed Unai Emery at Arsenal in December, now has a chance to mark his first season in charge with major silverware when they face Chelsea or Manchester United in the final on 1 August.\n\nThe match-winner was Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the world-class striker Arsenal are desperate to secure on a new long-term contract, as he ruthlessly exposed City's defensive deficiencies.\n\nAubameyang had already shot straight at Ederson with one clear chance but there was no escape for City after 19 minutes when he showed great technique to steer home Nicolas Pepe's cross with the outside of his foot at the far post.\n\nCity dominated possession after the break but squandered their opportunities and Aubameyang made them pay once more in the 71st minute when he raced away on the angle to slide a composed finish under the keeper.\n\nThis was a personal triumph for Arteta and completes a superb week after the victory over Premier League champions Liverpool at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday.\n\nAnd there was so much to admire about Arsenal's willingness to adopt a courageous gameplan, happy to patiently keep possession - often in their own area - with one such passage of play leading to Aubameyang's opener.\n\nAs against Liverpool, Arsenal were well-organised and resilient at the back, willing to throw bodies on the line to repel the wave of City attacks in the second half as the holders tried to hold on to the FA Cup.\n\nDavid Luiz had the sort of nightmare many believed would end his Arsenal career when they played City in their first post-lockdown game at Etihad Stadium, making a mistake leading to a goal then being sent off after conceding a penalty.\n\nThis was the other side of the maverick Brazilian defender, a rock at the heart of Arsenal's defence and a central figure in this victory.\n\nThe spearhead, however, was the 31-year-old Gabon striker Aubameyang, who was a huge threat throughout and illustrated exactly why he is among the game's elite group of strikers.\n\nAn ever-present menace, his two finishes were of the highest quality and demonstrated his big-match temperament.\n\nThis is why Arsenal are so keen to get his signature on a lucrative new deal - and why they will have a chance of winning the FA Cup no matter who they face in the final.\n\nManchester City rightly receive plaudits for their classic purist style - but there is a faultline running through this team that manager Guardiola simply must address.\n\nThis is a side that can defeat anyone but also has a soft centre that makes them eminently beatable - there is a reason why they have lost nine times in the Premier League this season.\n\nGuardiola's side can be cut and carved open, as they were twice by Aubameyang here, and this must surely be central to their summer transfer activity.\n\nAs at Southampton recently, they had plenty of the ball after going behind but could not find a cutting edge. This is where master finisher Sergio Aguero is missed, especially as this was one of those rare occasions when Kevin de Bruyne's radar was faulty.\n\nCity romped to a 6-0 victory in last season's final against Watford, but there will be no repeat this year and that is because there are faults in this team that Arsenal - led by Arteta - were able to exploit.\n\n'An incredible week' - what they said\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta to BBC Sport: \"We've had an incredible week to beat the best two teams in Europe, it doesn't happen every day.\n\n\"I don't care who plays, I can trust them - we made changes and everyone was ready.\n\n\"We had to suffer in many moments. We had to be really well-organised and minimise the spaces.\"\n\nOn seeing Pep Guardiola after the game: \"I high-fived him after the game and wished him luck. I love him like yesterday or this morning the same way.\"\n\nOn Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's contract talks: \"Hopefully it will help him to be more convinced we are going in the right direction.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola to MOTD: \"We didn't make a good performance, we were not ready enough. If you don't play for 90 minutes in a semi-final this can happen. We didn't play good, we are human beings. The opponent played good, sometimes it happens.\n\n\"The only regret is that we didn't play the first half like we played the second one. We had to change the set-up but we couldn't do it.\"\n\nCity's cup run comes to an end - the stats\n• None Arsenal have reached the FA Cup final a record 21 times, with the Gunners also winning the competition more than any other side (13).\n• None Manchester City have been eliminated from a domestic cup tie (League Cup and FA Cup) for the first time since February 2018 (FA Cup 5th Round v Wigan), with this their 22nd such tie since that game.\n• None Arsenal have eliminated the holders of the FA Cup on each of the last six occasions they've faced them.\n• None All four of Arsenal's shots in this match were on target - indeed they had more shots on target in this match than they'd had in their previous three meetings with Manchester City combined (3).\n• None Manchester City had just one shot on target in this match, their fewest in a game since April 2018 in the Champions League against Liverpool (0).\n• None Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang became the fourth Arsenal player to score a competitive brace at Wembley Stadium, after Reg Lewis (1950 FA Cup final), Charlie Nicholas (1987 League Cup final) and Alexis Sanchez (2015 FA Cup semi-final).\n• None Nicolas Pepe has been involved in 17 goals in all competitions for Arsenal this season (8 goals, 9 assists) - only Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (27) has been involved in more.\n\nBoth sides return to Premier League action as City face Watford at Vicarage Road on Tuesday, 21 July (18:00 BST), before Arsenal travel to Aston Villa later that evening (20:15).\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Benjamin Mendy.\n• None Joseph Willock (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Arsenal. Rob Holding replaces Shkodran Mustafi because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rodrigo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rodrigo with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 2, Manchester City 0. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Tierney. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The UK's first local lockdown, in Leicester, is due to be relaxed next week Image caption: The UK's first local lockdown, in Leicester, is due to be relaxed next week\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said new regulations allowing central government to impose local lockdowns will be published next week.\n\nHe said they will allow ministers, \"where justified by the evidence\", to close whole industries or types of business in an area, introduce local stay-at-home orders, stop people entering or leaving specific areas, reduce the maximum gathering size, or restrict local transport.\n\nIn a series of Twitter posts , Mr Johnson said the strategy of \"targeted, local action\" is \"already working\".\n\nHe pointed to outbreaks contained in Weston-super-Mare and Kirklees, work to tackle rising infections in Bradford and Blackburn, and the local lockdown in Leicester, which is due to be relaxed next week.\n\nBut he said new powers given to local councils today to rapidly tackle local outbreaks \"will not always be sufficient\".\n\nThe prime minister acknowledged that \"it may seem unjust that people just a short distance away can live their lives closer to normal\", but he said \"there is no point shutting down a city in one part of the country to contain an outbreak in another part of the country\".", "In the first 17 weeks of the year 342 deaths were registered in Ceredigion - 22% more than the five-year average\n\nCoronavirus antibody tests should be used to establish if the virus was in Ceredigion earlier than thought, its council leader has declared.\n\nDeaths at the start of 2020 were 22% higher than the five-year average, figures obtained by Newyddion S4C show.\n\nEllen ap Gwynn said she was \"almost certain\" she was infected with the virus after falling ill in January.\n\nThe health board said it was looking into the data but had not yet identified \"anything unusual\".\n\nThe local authority chief's calls follow those of MP Ben Lake.\n\nThe figures shows that in the first 17 weeks of this year, 342 deaths were registered.\n\nDeaths in January, February and March this year were higher than they have been in those months for at least a decade.\n\n\"I personally suspect Covid may have reached Ceredigion earlier, as I fell ill in January with the exact symptoms associated with the virus,\" Ms ap Gwynn said.\n\n\"I would like to see the antibody tests being made available to more people.\"\n\nThe tests can confirm whether a person had previously been infected.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, seven people died with Covid-19 in Ceredigion\n\nShe said it would be \"interesting\" to know how many had been infected to better trace the virus' spread.\n\nMarilyn Jones' mother-in-law, Nel Phillips, died on 8 January. The cause was a chest infection.\n\nMs Jones said Ms Phillips was \"breathless and coughing\".\n\n\"It was awful seeing her struggling to breathe. And then she died in my arms. It was heartbreaking,\" she said.\n\n\"I was short of breath, was in terrible pain, had a high temperature,\" she said.\n\nShe also suspects Covid-19 was in Ceredigion before lockdown.\n\n\"And I was bedridden for three days. I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover it was Covid. It was so different to a normal bug.\"\n\nHywel Dda University Health Board's medical director and deputy chief executive, Phil Kloer, said: \"We are looking into the detail behind the data and so far have not identified anything unusual, and we will work with Public Health Wales experts to analyse the data further.\"\n\n\"The mortality data does vary from month to month and year to year, and the variation can be larger when using single county data,\" he said.\n\nCeredigion has the lowest number of confirmed Covid-19 deaths in Wales.\n\nCouncil leader Ellen ap Gwynn believes she was infected with the illness in January\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics seven people have died in the county with the virus.\n\nThe Welsh Government said antibody tests were currently given to \"defined groups\" - school staff, health and care workers and care home residents.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Anyone who has Covid-19 symptoms can and should be tested at one of the many testing centres set up around Wales or via a home testing kit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nSpectators could be able to return to stadiums in England from October, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nPilots will take place from 1 August but any stadium reopenings would be subject to coronavirus guidelines.\n\nSome sports, including football and cricket, have resumed behind closed doors after the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\n\"We will pilot larger gatherings in venues like sports stadiums with a view to a wider reopening in the autumn,\" said Johnson on Friday.\n\n\"From October, we intend to bring back audiences in stadiums.\n\n\"Again, these changes must be done in a Covid-secure way, subject to the successful outcome of pilots.\"\n\nThe pilot projects will be held at:\n• county cricket friendly matches - including Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval on 26-27 July;\n• None The Goodwood horse racing festival - known as Glorious Goodwood\n\nThe Racecourse Association said the Goodwood event could cater for up to 5,000 people, plus participants.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said it was \"pleased that this announcement allows cricket to be among the first pilot events\" and that it would continue to work with the government on the safety measures required for supporters to return safely.\n\n\"For months, millions of us have felt the void of being unable to go to the match to support our team or attend a top-class sporting event,\" said sports minister Nigel Huddleston.\n\n\"So I am pleased that we are now able to move forward with a plan to help venues safely reopen their doors to fans.\n\n\"I recognise that not every sport, team or club has the benefit of huge commercial revenue, and it is often their dedicated fans that are the lifeblood which helps keep them going. By working closely with sports and medical experts, these pilots will help ensure the safe return of fans to stadiums.\n\n\"Although it will remain some time before venues are full to capacity, this is a major step in the right direction for the resumption of live spectator sport across the country.\"\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport also said further pilot events are likely to be held in other sports.\n\nIn order for fans to return to stadiums, the government has outlined operating guidelines that state:\n• None Fans must agree to a new code of behaviour that includes not attending if they potentially have symptoms of coronavirus or have been exposed to a person who has tested positive;\n• None Social distancing must be observed in seating arrangements;\n• None Crowd management plans should be in place, including the controlled entry and exit of fans and one-way systems;\n• None Additional hygiene facilities should be installed inside venues, particularly at entrances and exits;\n• None Screening procedures should be considered at stadium entrances.\n\nDomestic competitive sport in England resumed on 1 June for the first time since mid-March, with football's Premier League and English Football League (EFL) getting back under way on 17 and 20 June respectively.\n\nInternational cricket, golf, horse racing and snooker are among the other sports to have resumed.\n\nThe Premier League is understood to be pleased by the proposals and wants the maximum number of fans allowed back in stadiums as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\nThe league is also willing to offer pre-season games as possible trial events before the start of next season.\n\nThe Football Association said it welcomes the government's \"positive update\" that allows them to \"step up\" efforts to get fans back into stadiums.\n\n\"Supporters are the lifeblood of our national game, and that has been underlined by how much their absence has been felt over the last month,\" said the FA.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with relevant authorities on how we can bring them back in a safe and secure manner, including any help we can provide to the proposed pilot events.\"\n\nThe EFL said the Prime Minister's announcement started to \"provide some clarity\" as football authorities work to bring fans back.\n\n\"We will continue to work with our colleagues at DCMS, the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) and the wider football family in order to deliver on the timeframe and to assist clubs with the inevitable operational and financial challenges this will bring,\" said the EFL.\n\nPremiership Rugby says it would be ready to welcome fans back into grounds before the end of the season if given Government permission. The season is due to to resume on 14 August.\n\nIn Scotland, no date has yet been set for fans returning to stadiums. Now in phase three of the Scottish government's route out of lockdown, the Premiership - football's top flight - will begin on 1 August behind closed doors.\n\nThe second-tier Scottish Championship and Leagues One and Two kick off a reduced, 27-game season on 17 October, the same weekend as the first Old Firm derby between Celtic and Rangers of the 2020-21 campaign.\n\nThe Scottish government has held talks with Scottish Rugby about using Murrayfield as a test venue, where fans could return but be physically distanced.\n\nMore than 45,000 people in the UK have died with coronavirus, while there have been more than 292,000 confirmed cases.\n• None Watch the trailer for series 3 now", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland pace bowler Jofra Archer has been fined and given a written warning by the England and Wales Cricket Board for breaching bio-secure protocols.\n\nThe 25-year-old visited his home in Hove on Monday during his journey from Southampton, where the first Test against West Indies was played, to Manchester, the venue for the second.\n\nArcher was dropped from the squad for the ongoing second Test at Emirates Old Trafford, but can rejoin the squad on Tuesday and is available for the third Test, which starts on Friday.\n\nArcher's return to the England team is dependent on him returning two negative tests for coronavirus during a five-day period of isolation which began on Thursday.\n\nThe disciplinary hearing on Friday evening was chaired by England director of cricket Ashley Giles and attended by Archer's agent and a representative from the Professional Cricketers' Association.\n\nThe size of the fine has not been disclosed.\n• None What next for Archer and England?\n• None Archer trip could have cost 'tens of millions of pounds'\n\nGiles said on Thursday that Archer's trip home included meeting a person who has since tested negative for coronavirus.\n\nSussex bowler Archer was due to be the only member of the England pace attack from the first-Test defeat who retained his place for the second.\n\nAlthough he is now clear to play in the third, which begins on Friday, England's plans to rotate their fast bowlers during a schedule of six Tests in seven weeks may mean he misses out.\n\nStuart Broad, Chris Woakes and Sam Curran are playing in the second Test, James Anderson and Mark Wood have been rested, and Ollie Robinson and Olly Stone are pushing for inclusion.\n\nAfter play on Friday, England vice-captain Ben Stokes said the team were mindful of Archer's well-being during his period of isolation in a hotel room at the ground.\n\n\"We understand that it can be a very vulnerable and lonely place for him right now,\" Stokes told BBC Test Match Special.\n\n\"Making sure that Jof is as happy as he possibly can be is the main thing for us. We need to do everything we can to make sure we keep him going.\"", "Crowds of people were waiting to leave the park after the stabbing\n\nA man has been seriously injured in a stabbing at Thorpe Park following an altercation between two groups.\n\nThe man in his 20s was slashed in his stomach on a footbridge near the exit of the resort in Surrey shortly before 17:00 BST.\n\nThe theme park said on-site medical staff were at the scene \"within minutes\".\n\nSurrey Police said two men in their 20s had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nVisitors were locked down inside the park while police attended, with pictures on social media showing crowds building up as the bridge was cordoned off.\n\nPolice said two groups of people were involved in an altercation on the bridge close to the park's exit.\n\nOne man was treated for a slash wound to his stomach and is in hospital in a serious condition, the force added.\n\nDet Insp Andy Greaves appealed for witnesses and said officers were tracing \"all those believed to have been involved\".\n\n\"I'm keen to hear from anyone who saw what happened or who has video footage of this assault,\" he said.\n\n\"The two groups of people were close to the exit inside the park on the bridge when the assault took place.\"\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance Service said it was called to the park at about 16:50 following reports of a person with an abdominal injury.\n\nParamedics treated one person who was taken to a London hospital.\n\nThorpe Park said its on-site medical staff provided emergency first aid and said it was helping police with inquiries.\n\n\"The health, safety and security of our guests is our primary objective. We have an excellent security track record and have never had any incidents of this kind in over 40 years,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThorpe Park reopened on 4 July after being shut due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The committee is looking into Moscow's alleged influence on UK votes\n\nA long-awaited report into alleged Russian interference in the 2017 general election and the 2016 Brexit vote is to be published next week.\n\nThe Intelligence and Security Committee voted unanimously for it to be released before Parliament's summer break.\n\nThe delay in publishing the report, which was completed last year, has led to speculation that it contains details embarrassing for the Conservatives.\n\nBut the government denies that political considerations were involved.\n\nThe report is thought to look at a wide range of Russian activity - from traditional espionage to subversion - but the greatest interest is in possible interference in the 2016 and 2017 votes.\n\nDowning Street gave clearance for publication last autumn, but it did not come out before December's general election was called - at which point the old committee's membership was disbanded.\n\nPublication was further delayed by the replacement committee not being set up until this week.\n\nEspionage, subversion and influence: that's what the Russia Report is all about. How far has Russia been carrying out such activities and has enough been done to stop them?\n\nIt is not just about the traditional spy-versus-spy intelligence-gathering to steal secrets, but also Russia's use of new techniques like cyber-espionage and social media campaigns to interfere in political life.\n\nBut it is also about Russian influence, especially though money, which critics argue has seeped into public life and compromised various institutions.\n\nThe information in the report came from the intelligence agencies but also from independent experts. Some of them are believed to have painted a stark picture of a long-term failure to deter Moscow, all the way back to the weak response to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium in 2006.\n\nHow much detail is there and how damning is it? We are about to find out.\n\nThe decision by the nine-member ISC - which meets behind closed doors - to bring out the report follows the election of Julian Lewis as its chairman on Wednesday.\n\nA Tory MP since 1997, he put himself forward for the role, apparently against the wishes of Downing Street, which had preferred former cabinet minister Chris Grayling for the job.\n\nThe three Labour members and one SNP member of the committee supported Mr Lewis, who, immediately after being named chairman, was expelled from the Conservative Parliamentary Party.\n\nChris Grayling had been the PM's preferred choice for committee chair\n\nBut in a statement, Mr Lewis said the 2013 Justice and Security Act had \"explicitly removed the right of the prime minister to choose the ISC chairman and gave it to the committee members\".\n\nHe added: \"It was only yesterday afternoon [Thursday] that I received a text asking me to confirm that I would be voting for the prime minister's preferred candidate for the ISC chair.\n\n\"I did not reply as I considered it an improper request. At no earlier stage did I give any undertaking to vote for any particular candidate.\"\n\nMr Lewis also said the government had denied wanting to \"parachute\" a preferred candidate in to the chair, adding:\"It is therefore strange to have the whip removed for failing to vote for the government's preferred candidate.\"\n\nBut House of Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg accused him of of \"playing ducks and drakes with the Labour Party\" and said that was why he had had the Conservative whip withdrawn.\n\nHowever, Conservative MP Peter Bone said Mr Lewis was \"exceptionally well-qualified\" to become chairman and \"would do and excellent job\", while some in Downing Street had had a \"huge hissy-fit\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"good thing\" the committee had chosen Mr Lewis.\n\nHe added: \"They obviously chose to reject the imposition by the prime minister of his preferred chair on them…They're an independent committee and we should respect the decision they came to.\"", "US presidents and foreign leaders have joined the tributes to civil rights icon John Lewis, who has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.\n\nLewis was one of the \"Big Six\" civil rights leaders, which included Martin Luther King Jr, and helped organise the historic 1963 March on Washington.\n\nBarack Obama is among those who have praised Lewis's legacy.\n\nPresident Donald Trump later said in a tweet that he was \"saddened\" to hear of the former congressman's death.\n\nA petition to rename a bridge in Alabama that played a pivotal role in Lewis's life has drawn more than 400,000 signatures.\n\nJoe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, described Lewis as \"truly one-of-a-kind, a moral compass\".\n\nMr Biden said he had spoken to Lewis in the days before his death.\n\n\"His voice still commanded respect and his laugh was still full of joy. Instead of answering our concerns for him, he asked about us. He asked us to stay focused on the work left undone to heal this nation.\"\n\nEach of the four living former US presidents paid tribute to Lewis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Luther King III: \"John Lewis was a giant in terms of what he personified\"\n\n\"Not many of us get to live to see our own legacy play out in such a meaningful, remarkable way. John Lewis did,\" Barack Obama said. \"And thanks to him, we now all have our marching orders - to keep believing in the possibility of remaking this country we love until it lives up to its full promise.\"\n\nHis predecessor George W Bush said Lewis had \"worked to make our country a more perfect union\", while Bill Clinton described him as \"the conscience of the nation\".\n\nJimmy Carter, meanwhile, noted that the former congressman had \"made an indelible mark on history through his quest to make our nation more just\".\n\nThe flag flies at half mast over the White House\n\nThe response from current President Donald Trump, however, was far more muted and came hours after messages were issued by other US politicians.\n\n\"Saddened to hear the news of civil rights hero John Lewis passing. Melania and I send our prayers to he and his family,\" said Trump, whom Lewis had publicly criticised.\n\nFlags were flown at half-mast on Saturday morning and Vice-President Mike Pence called Lewis \"a great man whose courage and decades of public service changed America forever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He was fighting for justice when it wasn't cool\" - tributes to John Lewis in Atlanta\n\nCivil rights activists spoke of their sorrow at Lewis's death.\n\n\"John Lewis is what patriotism and courage look like,\" civil rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson, who first met Lewis during protests in 1960, said.\n\nMartin Luther King III, the eldest son of the civil rights activist, told CNN: \"From a historical standpoint, there are few who are able to become giants... John Lewis really became a giant through his examples that he set for all of us.\"\n\nA number of foreign leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, have also paid tribute.\n\nThe bridge crosses the Alabama river in the state's town of Selma.\n\nIn 1965, John Lewis led hundreds of protesters over the bridge on a peace march to Montgomery.\n\nState troopers attacked them and Lewis was left with a broken skull on what became known as Bloody Sunday.\n\nBarack Obama and John Lewis walked across the bridge 50 years after the landmark march\n\nHe walked across the bridge with then President Obama 50 years later.\n\nThe bridge was named after a Confederate general and later Ku Klux Klan leader in Alabama.\n\nThe petition on change.org cites the recent movement to remove statues and monuments to the Confederate past in the wake of the death in police custody of African American George Floyd.\n\n\"As we wipe away this country's long stain of bigotry, we must also wipe away the names of men like Edmund Pettus,\" the petition argues.", "The owner of Zizzi and Ask Italian restaurant chains said it will close 75 locations, risking the loss of up to 1,200 jobs.\n\nAzzurri Group, which also owns the Coco Di Mama pasta chain, has been sold out of administration to TowerBrook Capital Partners.\n\nThe move will keep 225 shops and restaurants open and maintain about 5,000 jobs.\n\nThe company said the coronavirus had hit restaurants hard.\n\n\"The Covid-19 crisis has had a profound impact on the casual dining sector, bringing many businesses like ours to a standstill,\" said Steve Holmes, chief executive of Azzurri Group.\n\n\"Despite being a successful operator, the immediate loss of revenue during lockdown meant that we have had to make some incredibly difficult decisions to protect the business for the long-term.\n\n\"It is with deep sadness that this process will result in the permanent closure of a number of sites and that we must say goodbye to greatly valued employees across our brands.\"\n\nLast month The Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie and Benny's, said it expected to cut up to 3,000 workers after confirming plans to shut 125 sites.\n\nAnd this month two of the UK's biggest High Street retailers, John Lewis and Boots, have announced 5,300 job cuts.\n\nThe moves come amid warnings that new economic support from Chancellor Rishi Sunak will not be enough to stop millions of workers losing their jobs.", "Scotland has seen the biggest daily rise in new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in almost a month.\n\nThe Scottish government said 21 cases had been detected in the last 24 hours - eight of them within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nIt is the biggest daily increase since 21 June.\n\nHowever, Scotland's national clinical director, Jason Leitch, said he expected to see \"day-to-day variation\" in the number of new cases.\n\nIn addition to the Glasgow and Clyde cases, there were five new cases in NHS Lothian with the rest spread around seven other health boards.\n\nMr Leitch told BBC Scotland that he did not believe the new cases were part of a cluster.\n\n\"I expect day-to-day variation and the next thing I look at is the spread around the country\" he said.\n\n\"So 21 in one small town would worry me much more than 21 spread around the country - and these 21 are spread around the country.\"\n\nMr Leitch said he was confident in Scotland's test and protect system and also pointed out that about 16,500 tests had been carried out on Friday and so a rise in the number of positive results could also be expected.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney tweeted that the 21 new positive cases were a reminder of the \"danger still out there\".\n\nThe percentage of tests coming back positive remains low in Scotland and has been under 1% since the end of May.\n\nThe World Health Organisation says that one measure which can indicate whether an epidemic is under control is whether, with a comprehensive testing system, less than 5% of samples return a positive for Covid-19 over two weeks.\n\nThe Scottish government also confirmed that no new deaths were registered in Scotland following a positive test for the virus, meaning that only one death in the last 10 days has been recorded using this measure.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital with confirmed Covid-19 fell from 316 to 305, with just three of them in intensive care units.", "Footage on social media appears to show an officer with his knee on a man's head during an arrest\n\nThe Met Police must formally apologise to a man who was detained while a police officer appeared to kneel on his neck, his lawyer has said.\n\nMarcus Coutain, 48, was filmed telling officers \"get off my neck\" as he was arrested in north London on Thursday.\n\nHis lawyer Tim Rustem said the events \"mirrored almost identically what happened to George Floyd\", who died after being restrained in the US.\n\nOne Met officer has been suspended and another placed on restricted duties.\n\nThe Met \"quickly assessed the incident\" and referred it to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is conducting an investigation.\n\nThe force said it would not be issuing any further statements.\n\nA protest against the arrest was held outside Islington police station on Saturday\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Coutain pleaded not guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court to possessing a knife in public.\n\nPolice said officers were called to reports of a fight in Isledon Road on Thursday.\n\nFootage posted on social media that evening shows two officers holding a handcuffed black man on the pavement.\n\nIn court, Mr Rustem said the police should apologise.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Rustem said the Crown Prosecution Service should review the case, drop the charges and offer a \"formal apology\" to Mr Coutain.\n\nMr Rustem said his client was legally carrying a blade for the purposes of repairing his bicycle.\n\n\"Essentially Mr Coutain was stopped and searched for matters for which he has not been charged,\" he said.\n\n\"It is the use of what I would regard as excessive force, a knee being placed on his neck ... references which mirror exactly what happened to George Floyd in America.\n\n\"A man saying 'I can't breathe' and 'get your knee off my neck', while he was already handcuffed and while he was restrained by two police officers.\"\n\nHe said his client was lucky to have only \"minimal\" injuries to his wrists and neck, adding: \"Fortunately it didn't lead to the tragic consequences that we saw in America.\"\n\nDeputy Commissioner Sir Steve House described footage of the arrest in Islington as \"deeply disturbing\" and said some of the techniques, which were \"not taught in police training\", caused him \"great concern\".\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said it had quickly assessed the incident, including the body worn video footage from the officers and their statements and justification for their use of force, and referred it to the IOPC.\n\nIn Islington, about 30 people gathered outside the police station in protest against how Mr Coutain was arrested.\n\nThe case has been sent to Snaresbrook Crown Court on 17 August.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 140 prisoners have been housed in hotels and B&Bs after being released during the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThey include some offenders who have been freed from their sentences early to relieve overcrowding and reduce the risk of infection in jails.\n\nA letter to hotel owners, seen by BBC News, says if they agree to take part in the scheme they will not be told the crime the prisoner has committed.\n\nThe government said hotels were used only as a \"last resort\".\n\nAll offenders due for release are \"thoroughly risk assessed\", the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) added.\n\nThe department said it had started using hotels in May, as part of the \"Conditional Release Date\" accommodation scheme, to prevent newly-freed prisoners having to sleep rough during the pandemic.\n\nThe MoJ said 304 former inmates let out on their scheduled release date have been provided with housing, 136 of whom have been put up in hotels or bed and breakfast accommodation.\n\nHotels have also been used to house six offenders freed early under an emergency programme to reduce overcrowding, known as the \"End of Custody Temporary Release\" scheme.\n\nAccording to officials, hotels for prisoners are identified by two business travel, conference and accommodation agencies, CTM and Calder.\n\nA hotel owner in the north of England said he had received a letter, written by the Prison and Probation Service, asking whether he would have rooms available for offenders on the early release scheme.\n\nThe letter says accommodation in hotels, B&Bs and serviced apartments would be needed for up to 56 days.\n\nIt says: \"We will not share information with you regarding the offence(s) the individual has committed but would wish to reassure that they have been subject to strict vetting.\"\n\nThe letter explains that electronic monitoring equipment would have to be installed in an offender's hotel room to ensure they abide by a curfew, but says staff would not be responsible for managing a prisoner's licence conditions.\n\n\"All incidents of concern should be dealt with in the same way as you would deal with any other resident and if local measures don't work (eg a phone call from reception to keep the noise down) be reported to police,\" the letter says.\n\nAlthough it is highly unusual for released prisoners to be accommodated in hotels, they have been used for asylum seekers, most recently, and controversially, in Glasgow.\n\nIn June, six people were stabbed at a hotel in the city which had been used to house asylum claimants. Their attacker - Badreddin Abadlla Adam - was shot dead by police.\n\nA MoJ spokesperson said: \"All offenders due for release are thoroughly risk assessed and hotels have only been used as a last resort to reduce any potential spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"These temporary measures are part of the unprecedented response to the pandemic which has helped protect the NHS and save lives.\"", "Street protests are continuing for a seventh day in Russia's far east in support of the detained governor Sergei Furgal.\n\nMr Furgal, the governor of Khabarovsk, is being held in Moscow on charges of ordering the murder of at least two businessmen 15 years ago – which he denies.\n\nThe BBC's Steve Rosenberg says there is widespread resentment towards the Kremlin - seven time zones to the west - with many people believing the arrest is politically-motivated.\n\nMr Furgal became Khabarovsk’s governor two years ago, when he defeated a candidate from Mr Putin’s United Russia party.", "A waiter in Miami wears a mask during the dinner rush\n\nPeople in Florida and Texas - where new coronavirus infections are ballooning - have described their opinions about the pandemic and their leaders decisions to restart the economy before defeating the virus.\n\nI am worried about the situation in the entire world, not just my hometown of Pembroke Pines, Florida. This is a sad situation that we have all been affected by and the best thing we can do is hope for it to end soon.\n\nI knew that this was inevitable. I do not believe Florida opened their businesses too soon. At the end of the day some responsibility has to be placed in the hands of citizens.\n\nI do not quarantine right now. I decided to stay in Gainesville, where I go to college, and am surrounding myself with people who are at very low risk of developing bad symptoms.\n\nI try to wear a mask as often as I can.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why coronavirus cases are surging in Texas\n\nAs someone who planned on moving to a large city after graduation this summer, the pandemic has affected my life a lot. Days that used to be packed with going to the gym, searching for jobs and having fun with friends have become quests of finding small activities to keep me productive.\n\nRight now, the goal of every citizen should be staying healthy and protecting those that are most vulnerable to the virus.\n\nI have been here for four years as I attend Florida Atlantic University.\n\nI feel just as nervous as I did In March when it all started. But I do think there was a period when everyone began to forget about the virus. I even thought things were getting better for awhile.\n\nI absolutely think businesses reopened too soon.\n\nFor the most part I know I could be doing better with social distancing. I've been going to yoga classes and took a trip to a hotel in Miami for the weekend which was probably not my best decision.\n\nBut we made sure to keep six feet apart and wear masks.\n\nMasks are worn to buy ice cream in Florida\n\nLiving with the pandemic has been really hard. I'm graduating from university this semester and always thought I'd be diving straight into my career, but a lot of companies are not hiring right now. To be honest, I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing.\n\nThe Florida governor needs to make it easier for people here to get a test. It should not be this hard during a pandemic to find a test.\n\nIt took days of being placed on hold or hung up on before I finally found a place that required me to stand in 99F (37C) heat for nearly two hours before I could get tested.\n\nI watched an elderly women practically collapse as she waited in direct sunlight with no seat or water.\n\nThank you to everyone on the front line fighting this thing, but we need to do better.\n\nI'm mostly worried about the people who aren't taking it seriously here in Boca Raton and are preventing us from improving or moving forward from this.\n\nI don't think it was reopening businesses that caused an increase in cases. I think it was the people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI think it's people's behaviour that caused the Florida outbreak, like crowding on beaches and in bars with no masks.\n\nI personally wear a mask when I leave my home. Most places and grocery stores require it.\n\nThe pandemic has personally affected me by having my dream internship cancelled, my graduation ceremony cancelled, my senior year in college cancelled and many job opportunities cancelled.\n\nThe governor should implement rules or do something that will make people follow them.\n\nIt's very frustrating how wearing masks has become about political opinion, rather than a simple precaution.\n\nWhen we reopened, my friends all went to the Houston bars, and they have all tested positive now. If I wasn't in the healthcare industry, I'm sure I'd still be somewhat careful.\n\nI'm a Republican, but I don't think Trump should be enforcing rules if he isn't following them. I don't agree with how he acts. I think that if he led by example, more likely people would follow and wear masks.\n\nLike, even the people who were protesting Trump wore masks, it really isn't that hard. So, I think that the way he acts discredits his authority.\n\nBut I think Governor Abbott and his team have done everything they can do.\n\nSome bar owners here in Austin are vocally going against what we need to do - criticising the data and suing the government for shutting them down.\n\nIf we continue to do this, we are going to be shut down for the rest of the year. For me that's completely narcissistic. How certain bar owners are acting is ludicrous.\n\nThe reopening should have been done less quickly.\n\nI think initially the decision by local and state government, who closed down everything quickly, was made out of fear instead of data.\n\nIf it was scientific evidence that led to the closure back in March, I think that the data wasn't shared as well as it should have been. The New York governor gave daily talks where he would explain with data. That was more credible than what occurred here in Texas.\n\nThe pandemic is horrible. So many people have died, but I don't think the is media is portraying it in the correct light, and are putting the president at fault for it.\n\nPersonally, it's affecting me with school and stuff but don't know anyone with the virus.\n\nWhen Texas reopened I was hanging out with friends on a daily basis.\n\nPlaces up north are much worse. There is so much land here, and when you look at the numbers and the percentages, a lot of deaths are in nursing homes.\n\nWe shouldn't be shutting down the economy I'm happy with the way the things reopened the way they did.\n\nI wash my hands to be more cautious and stuff, but if I need to go to the store I'm going to go. I've been to a couple of parties. I am aware I could get it at a party.\n\nI went to Austin, I thought if I'm getting it, it would for sure be then. But two weeks later I'm fine. I was around so many different people, and nothing happened.\n\nI have lived in Miami for the last 23 years where I lead the Florida International Bankers Association.\n\nI am as concerned now as I was when the pandemic first started. I still have most of my essentials delivered to my house and I wear a mask anytime I go out.\n\nI do not believe the issue is when businesses reopened, but rather how the guidelines are being respected.\n\nMy staff and I have been working remotely from home for more than 100 days now. I no longer have the freedom to go to restaurants or movies and, more importantly, to travel.\n\nIf I could speak to my governor, I would ask him to be more stringent in enforcing the recommended WHO and CDC guidelines regarding the use of masks and social distancing.\n\nInterviews have been edited for clarity", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci has emerged as the face of America's fight against coronavirus. But he is also battling the dangerous spread of misinformation, sometimes from within his own government.\n\nOver his five decades as a medical researcher, Anthony Fauci has seen his effigy burnt, heard the cries of protesters calling him a \"murderer\", and had smoke bombs thrown outside his office window.\n\nBut he has also been praised as the most famous doctor in America, and the man whose compassion and calm helped the US make otherwise impossible strides in confronting a public health crisis.\n\nAs head of immunology at the National Institutes of Health during the 1980s HIV/Aids epidemic, Dr Fauci, 79, has seen conflict before.\n\nNow, as the US struggles to contain the pandemic six months after its first known case, the White House is targeting Dr Fauci by briefing reporters about his alleged mistakes.\n\nBorn on Christmas Eve, 1940 to a family of immigrant Italian pharmacists in Brooklyn, Anthony was \"delivering prescriptions from the time I was old enough to ride a bike,\" he told the Holy Cross college alumni magazine in 2002.\n\nIn 1966, he graduated first in his class at Cornell medical school, whose library he had helped build as an undergraduate working construction to earn money over the summers.\n\nThe family pharmacy in Brooklyn run by Dr Fauci's father, known in the neighbourhood as 'Doc'\n\nFollowing a medical residency, he joined the NIH in 1968 as part of the US war effort, instead of being drafted to fight in Vietnam. \"Yellow Berets\", the researchers were called - a play on military division Green Berets.\n\nA turning point in his career came decades later, he said, when a report landed on his desk on June 5, 1981, describing the death of an otherwise healthy patient from a strange pneumonia normally seen in people with cancer. Another report soon followed describing 26 deaths, all gay men.\n\n\"I remember reading it very clearly,\" he later said. \"It was the first time in my medical career I actually got goose pimples. I no longer dismissed it as a curiosity. There was something very wrong here. This was really a new microbe of some sort, acting like a sexually transmitted disease.\"\n\nAs a clinician, Dr Fauci's work on the regulation of the human immune system was credited with helping to reveal how the HIV virus destroys the body's defences. He led clinical trials for zidovudine, the first antiretroviral drug to treat Aids.\n\nAs the epidemic swept through the US in the 1980s, however, he became the target of activists angry at the Reagan administration's muted response and lack of access to novel drugs.\n\nAids activists protesting the government's response to the epidemic in 1988\n\nProtesters held signs outside government offices that said: \"Dr Fauci, you are killing us\" and he was denounced on television by activists.\n\nThe playwright and gay rights advocate Larry Kramer even modelled the antagonist of a play after him.\n\n\"I remember looking out a window and people on the lawn of the NIH were throwing smoke bombs,\" Dr Fauci recalled in a 2011 interview. \"Police were ready to arrest them and I said, 'Don't. Bring them up to my office so I can talk with them'.\"\n\nHis compassion for Aids sufferers was lauded, and he was credited with convincing regulators to loosen restrictions on clinical trials for patients to test new drugs.\n\nThe New York Times called him \"the government's leading Aids celebrity\" - but noted that he still actually did all his research work himself, not like \"a lot of people you see quoted on TV [who have] assistants don white coats and do all that tedious work\". He was awarded the highest US civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2008.\n\nIn 1984, he was appointed director of the NIH's Allergy and Infectious Diseases division, a title he still holds.\n\nThe research division he leads has overseen studies on everything from Aids to Ebola to asthma.\n\nHe has advised six presidents, helping to found George W Bush's US government Aids initiative in Africa and now, serving as explainer-in-chief to the public amid the Covid-19 outbreak of the Trump era.\n\nFor Americans, he has become a trusted presence behind the podium at White House Covid-19 briefings, where he has dispensed facts about the US response, explaining the science and sometimes correcting President Trump's pronouncements.\n\nA vaccine will take at least a year and a half, he has said, dampening Mr Trump's optimistic claim one would be ready very soon.\n\nThe current US leader, who is known to dislike being challenged, has even begrudgingly given Dr Fauci a high compliment. The researcher, Mr Trump has said, is \"a major television star\".\n\nHowever, observers say his contradictions of the president's claims has laid bare the frictions of working with the White House. When Dr Fauci told CNN in an interview that the US \"could have saved lives\" if it had introduced measures to stop Covid-19, Mr Trump shared a tweet on firing him.\n\nDr Fauci told Science magazine that when it comes to giving the public correct information, \"I'm trying my best. I cannot do the impossible\".\n\n\"I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him [President Trump] down. OK, he said it. Let's try and get it corrected for the next time.\"\n\nBut he will try and stay the course, he said, adding: \"To my knowledge, I haven't been fired.\"\n\nIn early May, Dr Fauci was blocked from testifying to a panel in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives that was investigating the country's response to the pandemic.\n\nThe White House said that as Dr Fauci is part of the government response to Covid-19, \"it is counter-productive to have the very individuals involved in those efforts appearing at congressional hearings\".\n\nHe instead appeared in front of the Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee of the Republican-controlled Senate on 12 May.", "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus - after previously being criticised for calling the virus a \"little flu\".\n\nMr Bolsonaro says he took the test, his fourth, on Monday after developing symptoms, including a high temperature.\n\nAfter announcing the positive result to the media, Mr Bolsonaro stepped back and removed his mask before continuing to speak.", "Meet the care workers who opted to live at their place of work to protect the residents from Covid-19.\n\nThe 12 carers at the Court House Retirement Home, Cheddar, Somerset, last saw their families on 14 April.", "Scotland Office Minister Iain Stewart says the measures announced today by Rishi Sunak take the total support from the UK government to £160bn.\n\nMr Stewart says: \"As the chancellor made clear this is just the next step in our recovery programme.\"\n\nFurther measures will be brought in at the right point he says and the £30bn announced today comes on top of all the other measures the UK government has announced already, he says.\n\nThe UK government minister encourages the first minister now to do all she can to make sure the tourism and hospitality sectors don't suffer a \"three winter period\" in Scotland.\n\nMr Stewart argues that the \"eat out to help out\" discount will help the sector return.\n\nOn the Scottish government announcement on air bridges, he says he has not seen any evidence to suggest Spain as a whole is not safe to travel to.", "The World Health Organization has acknowledged there is emerging evidence that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air.\n\nThe airborne transmission could not be ruled out in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated settings, an official said.\n\nIf the evidence is confirmed, it may affect guidelines for indoor spaces.\n\nAn open letter from more than 200 scientists had accused the WHO of underestimating the possibility of airborne transmission.\n\nThe WHO has so far said that the virus is transmitted through droplets when people cough or sneeze.\n\n\"We wanted them to acknowledge the evidence,\" Jose Jimenez, a chemist at the University of Colorado who signed the paper, told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"This is definitely not an attack on the WHO. It's a scientific debate, but we felt we needed to go public because they were refusing to hear the evidence after many conversations with them,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nyka Alexander from the WHO explains what an airborne virus is.\n\nAnother signatory - Professor Benjamin Cowling of Hong Kong University - told the BBC the finding had \"important implications\".\n\n\"In healthcare settings, if aerosol transmission poses a risk then we understand healthcare workers should really be wearing the best possible preventive equipment... and actually the World Health Organization said that one of the reasons they were not keen to talk about aerosol transmission of Covid-19 is because there's not a sufficient number of these kind of specialised masks for many parts of the world,\" he said.\n\n\"And in the community, if we're thinking about aerosol transmission being a particular risk, then we need to think about how to prevent larger super spreading events, larger outbreaks and those occur in indoor environments with poor ventilation, with crowding and with prolonged close contact.\"\n\nWHO officials have cautioned the evidence is preliminary and requires further assessment.\n\nBenedetta Allegranzi, the WHO's technical lead for infection prevention and control, said that evidence emerging of airborne transmission of the coronavirus in \"crowded, closed, poorly ventilated settings that have been described, cannot be ruled out\".\n\nFor months, the WHO has insisted that Covid-19 is transmitted via droplets emitted when people cough or sneeze. Droplets that do not linger in the air, but fall onto surfaces - that's why handwashing has been identified as a key prevention measure.\n\nBut 239 scientists from 32 countries don't agree: they say there is also strong evidence to suggest the virus can also spread in the air: through much tinier particles that float around for hours after people talk, or breathe out.\n\nToday the WHO admitted there was evidence to suggest this was possible in specific settings, such as enclosed and crowded spaces.\n\nThat evidence will have to be thoroughly evaluated, but if it is confirmed, the advice on how to prevent the virus spreading may have to change, and could lead to more widespread use of masks, and more rigorous distancing, especially in bars, restaurants, and on public transport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: The health claims that won't go away", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Opposition protesters storm Serbian parliament over stricter lockdown measures due to be reinforced\n\nDozens of police and protesters have been hurt in riots that broke out outside the National Assembly in the Serbian capital Belgrade.\n\nThe protests began peacefully on Tuesday evening and included students and families, angered by a move to re-impose a weekend curfew because of a rise in coronavirus infections.\n\nProtesters broke into the assembly, prompting police to intervene.\n\nClashes erupted and police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters.\n\nFar-right nationalists have been blamed for stirring up the unrest and storming the assembly building. Serbian media said they included an MP who has pushed anti-vaccine and anti-5G conspiracy theories.\n\nSerbian President Alexander Vucic on Wednesday condemned what he described as the most brutal political violence for years and appealed for the protests to end, citing the risk of increased infection.\n\nOn Wednesday evening police again clashed with protesters, firing teargas as bottles, stones and flares were thrown from the crowd.\n\nIt took police 15 minutes to clear the parliament building\n\nSerbia saw its deadliest day so far in the pandemic on Tuesday. President Vucic announced in a televised address that there had been 13 further deaths and 120 people were on ventilators, with 4,000 people being treated in hospital.\n\nThe situation was most alarming in Belgrade, he said, before imposing a ban on gatherings of more than five people from Wednesday, with a curfew in force from 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Friday until 05:00 on Monday morning.\n\nMr Vucic said on Tuesday the curfew would apply only to the capital, but he was keen for it to be extended nationally.\n\nHowever, in a sign that situation was being reassessed on Wednesday, Serbia's chief epidemiologist, Predrag Kon, said later that Belgrade was improving and a lockdown in the city was \"unlikely\".\n\nIn a further TV address on Wednesday, President Vucic said a curfew would probably not be imposed on the capital, but stricter measures would be announced. A decision will now be taken by the Covid-19 crisis response team on Thursday.\n\nA makeshift hospital has been set up inside the Belgrade Arena to cater for an increase in patients\n\nSerbia has seen a dramatic rise in cases and authorities have announced a state of emergency in several towns and cities.\n\nOpponents accuse the president of lifting the lockdown far too early, in May, allowing football matches with spectators and few limitations on movement ahead of elections on 21 June that Mr Vucic's party won by a landslide.\n\nCritics also accuse the government of not giving the true number of deaths during the initial weeks of the pandemic. Serbian authorities say there have been 341 deaths and 17,076 cases. Some 300 new infections are being reported daily.\n\nSome restrictions were brought back last week in areas where the virus is most prevalent. Prime Minister Ana Brnabic was booed when she visited Novi Pazar, one of the cities worst hit by the new outbreak.\n\nThe protests against a fresh curfew began with a mixture of locals, including students and members of the \"Don't let Belgrade drown\" citizen movement, which described the gathering as spontaneous. Many of them observed social distancing although not everyone wore masks.\n\nScuffles broke out between police and protesters later in the evening and shortly after 22:00 local time (20:00 GMT), a large group entered the assembly building, reportedly involving ultra-nationalists and anti-vaccine campaigner Srdjan Nogo. Crowds could be heard chanting \"Serbia has risen\".\n\nMany of the protesters outside parliament wore masks, but not everyone\n\nAfter about 15 minutes, police managed to clear the assembly building, but clashes continued outside. Rocks were thrown, police used tear gas and protesters set police cars alight.\n\nAuthorities said 43 police were among those wounded. Rights groups called for an investigation after video showed protesters being kicked and beaten by police with truncheons.\n\nSmall-scale protests are common in Belgrade. An atomised political opposition, and more recently an election boycott, means disgruntled citizens have to take to the streets to make their voices heard.\n\nBut the protests don't normally feature police swinging batons and firing tear gas while protesters hurl stones and set light to police vehicles. The scenes reflect a sour mood in Serbia's capital triggered by Mr Vucic's warning of a weekend lockdown.\n\nProtesters hurled rocks at police as the clashes erupted\n\nSome protesters expressed anger at the government's rapid removal of restrictions to allow last month's parliamentary election to go ahead. Tens of thousands attended football matches and nightclubs reopened, signalling that normal life had resumed. The SNS gained the massive majority they wanted, but the Covid-19 infection rate has been rising ever since.\n\nAuthorities have placed barricades around the National Assembly to prevent a repeat on Wednesday evening.\n\nPresident Vucic on Wednesday described the attack on parliament as an illegal, aggressive protest that had more to do with extreme right-wing politics than Covid-19. He said another 11 people had died of the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\n\"There are no free beds in our hospitals,\" he warned, having said the day before that hospitals in Nis, Novi Pazar, Zemun and other cities were filling up fast.\n\nIn a separate development, neighbouring Romania said on Wednesday that it had seen a record number of 555 cases in the past 24 hours. Romania has had more than 30,000 infections but only once, in April, has it seen more than 500 cases in a day.", "The government is keenly aware that younger workers are more exposed to the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn some of the hardest hit sectors - retail, hospitality and leisure, a third of the workforce is aged between 16 and 24.\n\nIt is also fertile ground for young people to start their own businesses.\n\nHowever, its's also one of the sectors of the economy least likely to bounce back quickly, which is why the Chancellor will announce plans on Wednesday to find new jobs to replace the old ones young people typically filled.\n\nA £2bn \"kickstarter\" jobs fund will see the government pay for the first 25 hours - at minimum wage - for six months, for companies taking on young workers claiming universal credit.\n\nIt's estimated that this could translate into the support of more than 300,000 new jobs.\n\nThat may help offset the 500,000 job losses that the British hospitality industry is predicting in that sector alone this year, unless there is further support.\n\nPossible measures could include extending the government's wage support scheme that is due to start wearing off from 1 August, before being withdrawn completely at the end of October. But that is thought to be unlikely.\n\nThe government may listen to pressure from industry groups, calling for targeted VAT cuts to boost confidence and profit margins in crippled sectors.\n\nWhat seems certain is that the government focus will shift tomorrow, from a mode of \"protect and survive\" for the jobs of the past, to one of trying to create the jobs of the future.", "Rishi Sunak presented his summer statement in the Commons on Wednesday\n\nThe Welsh Government will get an extra £500m as a result of the chancellor's summer statement, the UK government has said.\n\nRishi Sunak announced measures to help hospitality, tourism and young people in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nMeasures include cuts to VAT and discounts for eating out.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said the announcement did not pull the \"levers needed to support\" the recovery from coronavirus.\n\nThe UK government says it has provided Welsh ministers, who run many of Wales' public services including the NHS, with a total of £2.8bn during the pandemic.\n\nBoth measures will apply in Wales, as will a £2bn 'kickstart' scheme to create more jobs for young people.\n\nThe decision to give employers £1,000 per staff member they take back from the furlough scheme is also UK-wide.\n\nBut a temporary stamp duty holiday on the first £500,000 of all property sales applies to England and Northern Ireland. In Wales stamp duty is devolved.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said through the crisis the UK government has \"supported hundreds of thousands of people in Wales, putting in place one of the largest and most comprehensive economic responses in the world\".\n\nThe measures led to calls from the UK government for ministers in Cardiff to go further in relaxing lockdown.\n\nUK government Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said: \"The opportunities we are creating and the new routes into employment are great news for young people in Wales, while VAT cut for tourism and hospitality will be a huge boost for that sector.\n\n\"It is now absolutely essential that Wales' world-class tourism and hospitality industry can properly open for business.\"\n\nCurrently no date is set for pubs, cafes and restaurants to reopen indoors in Wales, although plans are for them to use outdoor spaces from 13 July.\n\nOutdoor attractions have been allowed to reopen with the lifting of travel restrictions last Monday, and self-contained accommodation is also expected to open from 13 July.\n\nA cut to the Welsh version of stamp duty has not been ruled out\n\nThe UK government announcement on stamp duty prompted requests for the same in Wales, where the charge is called land transaction tax (LTT).\n\nIt is not levied for properties sold in Wales worth £180,000 and lower.\n\nEstate agent Morris, Marshall and Poole with Norman Lloyd, said such a cut would \"stimulate the local market\", while the Home Builders Federation said cutting LTT would \"increase industry confidence and encourage investment\".\n\nWales' finance minister Rebecca Evans did not rule out matching the stamp duty holiday, saying she would consider the implications of the announcements over the \"next day or so\".\n\nMs Evans said it was \"really surprising that the chancellor had very little to say today about public services, health, social care\" and local government, calling for more cash to \"reopen healthcare more widely\".\n\nShe added the youth employment scheme looked \"very much indeed\" like the Welsh Government's part-EU funded Jobs Growth Welsh scheme, which she said had helped 20,000 into employment since 2012.\n\nThe 'kickstart' fund will subsidise six-month work placements for people on Universal Credit aged between 16 and 24, who are at risk of long-term unemployment, while Jobs Growth Wales offers firms subsidies for six-month job opportunities.\n\nMs Evans denied that the restaurant discount would put more pressure on the Welsh Government to reopen indoor hospitality. \"I think what we really want to see is the evidence which tells us that it is safe to increase the opportunities for those hospitality businesses to open,\" she added.\n\nRebecca Evans has called for more flexibility in how the Welsh Government spends money\n\nThe UK government said the summer statement confirmed \"an additional £500m of Covid-19 funding for the Welsh Government through the Barnett formula\".\n\nThe Welsh Government has seen its budgets rise since the Covid-19 crisis began - the UK government said it has now provided £2.8bn extra cash.\n\nUnder the Barnett system, public spending in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland increases or decreases according to how spending in England rises or falls.\n\nWelsh public services are mostly funded by UK governments grants, with a small amount of revenue from Welsh Government taxation in Wales added on.\n\nThe last Welsh Government supplementary budget in May for coronavirus said ministers in Cardiff were spending £22bn in 2020/21.\n\nPlaid Cymru said the UK government had not learned the lessons from the start of the coronavirus crisis, and did not announce any measures to support the next stage of the pandemic, such as local lockdowns.\n\nBrexit Party Senedd leader Mark Reckless welcomed the chancellor's statement: \"We would encourage Welsh Government to cut stamp duty here too, but there is not much point while they still ban most property viewings. It's time for a UK wide approach.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it is awaiting \"full clarity on what this announcement means for Wales but we do know that it did not pull the macro levers needed to support the recovery\".\n\n\"It ignored the joint calls from devolved nations to ease the rigid fiscal rules that limit our response and made only a passing reference to public services\".\n\nWelsh Finance Minister Rebecca Evans, together with counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland, has called for the rules to be loosened so devolved governments can borrow more.", "Record numbers of nurses, midwives and nursing associates have registered in the UK, figures show.\n\nBy the end of March, there were 716,600 nurses, midwives and nursing associates on the register, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.\n\nDespite this the NMC is worried coronavirus will hit the ability to recruit and retain overseas staff.\n\nThe rise is driven by those joining and staying from the UK and from countries outside of Europe.\n\nThere has been a significant increase in those from the Philippines and India in particular.\n\nBut those coming from Europe have dropped by 5% to just over 31,000.\n\nThe NMC report includes the results of a survey of more than 6,000 people asking why they had left the profession.\n\nThe main reason given was too much pressure leading to stress and poor mental health. This was before the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe NMC also revealed more than 14,000 had joined the temporary register set up to boost numbers during the pandemic. This includes staff who have come out of retirement to help out.\n\nNMC chief executive Andrea Sutcliffe said: \"It's great to celebrate record numbers of people on the register.\"\n\nBut she predicted there would be \"stormy waters ahead\".\n\n\"As a result of the pandemic and subsequent travel restrictions, we may no longer be able to rely on the flow of professionals joining our register from overseas in the same way.\"", "Head teachers in England say GCSEs and A-levels will have to be slimmed down for next year's exams, because of the teaching time lost in the lockdown.\n\nA grassroots group of more than 5,000 heads is warning it is \"neither realistic nor workable\" to catch up in full by next summer.\n\nThey are calling for reduced content or to have some \"open book\" exams where students can use text books.\n\nThe exam watchdog Ofqual has suggested removing some practical parts of exams.\n\nWest Sussex head teacher Jules White is the organiser of the Worth Less? campaign group, which originally formed over school funding shortages.\n\nThe network of heads is now raising concerns about trying to run next year's exams with few changes, when many pupils have been out of school for so long and when there is the risk of more disruption from local lockdowns.\n\nThey are also calling for more support for pupils' mental health when they return to school in the autumn.\n\n\"The government must strike a much better balance to maintain standards whilst looking after children's mental health,\" said Mr White, head of Tanbridge House School in Horsham.\n\n\"The idea that pupils will simply 'catch up' on months of lost learning is neither realistic nor workable.\"\n\nHe also said it would be \"highly undesirable\" if the lack of time to complete courses meant \"reducing grade boundaries so low as to become meaningless\".\n\n\"Content for content's sake achieves nothing. Surely it is best that students leave Year 11 with deep knowledge and understanding for the next step in their education,\" said Clive Sentance, head teacher of Alcester Grammar School in Warwickshire.\n\nLast week the Department for Education's guidance for the return to school in the autumn said pupils would be expected to carry on with all the GCSEs and A-levels they had planned.\n\nThe exams regulator Ofqual said there would not be any reduction in the number of exams and suggested only a few changes, such as removing geography field trips or science practicals.\n\nAdditionally, to allow more teaching time, next year's exams are expected to take place later in the summer.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, described the changes as \"little more than tinkering at the edges\".\n\nHe warned that young people had \"lost a huge chunk of face-to-face teaching time\" and said the \"very minor changes\" proposed by Ofqual failed to \"recognise the enormous pressure on schools and their pupils\".\n\nMr White's group of heads, representing schools in 78 local authorities, is calling for a significant reduction in next year's exams, to reduce pressure on schools and stress on students.\n\nAs well as reducing the course content for GCSE and A-level, they also suggest using open-book exams for some subjects, where candidates would have access to text books or other notes during the exam.\n\nOfqual is running a consultation on any changes to next year's exams and says final decisions will be announced in August.", "As we reported earlier, VP Mike Pence has been holding a press briefing, where he confirmed the US has passed 3 million cases of the virus.\n\nHe's downplayed a threat from President Trump over schools reopening, saying the White House would be \"very respectful\" of states and communities who decide they can't fully open their schools.\n\n\"We're here to help,\" Mr Pence - a former governor of Indiana - told reporters.\n\n\"We don't want federal guidance to be a substitute for state and local laws and rules and guidance. We're here to assist with the shared objective, which I think is shared by every parent in America, which is we want to get our kids back. We want to get them back in the classroom.\"\n\nHis tone was markedly different to that of President Trump, who earlier today threatened to cut off funding to schools that don't open in the autumn. He also said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) guidelines for reopening schools were \"very tough and expensive\".\n\nSchools in the US normally begin the year in either August or early September.\n\nThe CDC's guidelines suggest pupils and staff all wear face coverings and stay at home if necessary. They also suggest schools should implement staggered timetables and socially distanced seating arrangements, and close communal spaces.\n\nHowever Mr Pence said the agency would be issuing new guidelines soon.\n\nThe US has the highest number of infections, and the highest death toll, in the world.", "\"I don't think there will be an industry to go back to,\" says Kiri Pritchard-McLean\n\nComedy clubs have called for a slice of the government's £1.5bn emergency arts funding, with a warning that hundreds face closure within the next year.\n\nComedy was not mentioned when the government announced its bailout package for the arts on Sunday.\n\nHalf of the clubs that took part in a Live Comedy Association survey said they would definitely face permanent closure without financial support.\n\nChair Brid Kirby said small venues were \"the bedrock of the entire industry\".\n\nShe told BBC News: \"All of the household names will have started in those clubs. The risk of those clubs disappearing therefore poses a risk that we could lose a whole new generation of voices from the industry.\"\n\nThe association surveyed more than 660 people working in comedy, from venue owners and stand-up performers to producers and publicists, about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. It found:\n\nThere are 600 comedy clubs in the UK, according to the association. Kirby said: \"We need live comedy to be included in the distribution of this £1.57bn.\n\n\"The concern currently is that as we have had a longstanding history of being overlooked as an art form [for funding], we're really worried at not seeing comedy listed in the press release and not being able to get any clarity on whether we will be included once the details are announced.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How comedians went online to survive lockdown\n\nKirby has met officials from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), who told her there was no reason comedy would be actively excluded but that they were waiting for guidelines, she said.\n\nA DCMS spokesperson told BBC News: \"This week we announced the biggest ever one-off investment in UK culture to help the industry through the coronavirus pandemic. This funding will provide targeted support to organisations and venues across a range of sectors and detailed eligibility criteria will be set out in the coming weeks.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, comedian Shazia Mirza said small clubs were vital for all performers who go on to play bigger venues or star on TV.\n\n\"We've been ignored because no money is being pumped into these small clubs,\" she said.\n\nMark Watson said Britain's live comedy scene is \"the best and most vibrant in the world\"\n\nFellow stand-up Kiri Pritchard-McLean warned: \"I don't think there will be an industry to go back to. The people giving this money don't understand how the industry works, least of all comedy.\n\n\"We have one of the best comedy circuits in the world because we have so many brilliant comedy clubs, which means you can gig several times a night and get really great at what you do.\n\n\"If those institutions aren't being helped... then it disappears and we stop being world leaders in this.\"\n\nIn a statement, comic Mark Watson said the British live comedy scene was \"the best and most vibrant in the world\" and \"produces work on a fraction of the budgets enjoyed by theatre, opera, or anything else\".\n\nHe added: \"Any rescue plan for the performing arts needs to include it.\"\n\nThe government has said the grants and loans would be available to \"the performing arts and theatres, heritage, historic palaces, museums, galleries, live music and independent cinema\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The ambulance crew was on a call at a property in Stephens Close, Wolverhampton\n\nA man has been charged with wounding two paramedics who were stabbed during a call-out to his home.\n\nMichael Hipgrave and Deena Evans, of West Midlands Ambulance Service, were hurt at a property Wolverhampton on Monday after being called to check on the welfare of a man.\n\nMartyn Smith, 52, of Stephens Close, is charged with two counts of wounding with intent.\n\nMr Smith was remanded in custody and will appear at the city's crown court on 5 August.\n\nMr Hipgrave was discharged from Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Monday night and is recovering at home after surgery for cuts to his back.\n\nMs Evans remains at the hospital where she is receiving further treatment for a knife wound to her chest and remains in a stable condition.\n\nOn Tuesday, an ambulance service spokesman said both staff members were \"recovering well\".\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 13-year-old was hit on the pavement in Old Road\n\nA 13-year-old boy is fighting for his life after being hit by a car as he walked along the pavement.\n\nThe driver and passenger of the Jaguar failed to stop following the crash in Wigan at about 16:30 BST on Tuesday, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nThe boy is thought to have been walking along Old Road in Ashton-in-Makerfield when the car hit him and then a wall.\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nHe remains in custody for questioning, said a GMP spokesperson.\n\nA nearby wall was damaged after it was struck by the car\n\nThe 13-year-old sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital where he remains in a life-threatening condition.\n\nOld Road was closed for about six hours while police investigated but has since reopened.\n\n\"We are very much keeping an open mind and would make a direct plea to anyone who may have been involved, or has the slightest bit of information, to do the moral thing and come forward,\" he said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook's \"vexing and heartbreaking\" decisions are causing significant setbacks for civil rights, an audit commissioned by the company says.\n\nThe two-year-long review says its actions have left many activists \"disheartened, frustrated and angry\".\n\nFacebook has already said it will make some - but not all - of the changes called for in the 100-page report.\n\nThe official number of advertisers boycotting Facebook over its civil-rights policy is now at nearly 1,000.\n\nFacebook commissioned the review in May 2018, a month after founder Mark Zuckerberg faced intense questioning at a congressional hearing.\n\n\"With each success, the auditors became more hopeful that Facebook would develop a more coherent and positive plan of action that demonstrated, in word and deed, the company's commitment to civil rights,\" it says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boycott wants Facebook to do more about hate speech and misinformation\n\n\"Unfortunately, in our view Facebook's approach to civil rights remains too reactive and piecemeal.\n\n\"Many in the civil rights community have become disheartened, frustrated and angry after years of engagement where they implored the company to do more to advance equality and fight discrimination, while also safeguarding free expression.\"\n\nBut the audit report also praises Facebook for progress in some areas, such as its improved consultations with rights groups.\n\nFacebook said the report was \"the beginning of the journey, not the end\".\n\n\"What has become increasingly clear is that we have a long way to go,\" it said.\n\n\"As hard as it has been to have our shortcomings exposed by experts, it has undoubtedly been a really important process for our company.\"\n\nThe auditors also referenced Facebook's decision to allow a controversial post from US President Donald Trump to remain on the platform.\n\n\"When it means that powerful politicians do not have to abide by the same rules that everyone else does, a hierarchy of speech is created that privileges certain voices over less powerful voices,\" the report says.\n\n\"This report outlines a number of positive and consequential steps that the company has taken but at this point in history, the auditors are concerned that those gains could be obscured by the vexing and heartbreaking decisions Facebook has made that represent significant setbacks for civil rights,\" it adds.\n\nChief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the audit had already had a \"profound effect\" on the company and Facebook had already acted on many of its recommendations.\n\n\"While we won't be making every change they call for, we will put more of their proposals into practice soon,\" she said.\n\nShe also noted that two years ago, the company could not have predicted the audit would be published at a time of a major advertising boycott of Facebook.\n\nOrganisers of the boycott said a meeting with Facebook's senior management this week, including Ms Sandberg and Mr Zuckerberg, had been \"disappointing\".\n\n\"It was abundantly clear in our meeting today that Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook team is not yet ready to address the vitriolic hate on their platform,\" the Stop hate for Profit group said, adding the company would not respond directly to the demands of the boycott.\n\nAnd it accused Mr Zuckerberg of offering \"the same old defence\" society had \"heard too many times before\".\n\n\"Facebook wants us to accept the same old rhetoric, repackaged as a fresh response,\" it said.\n\nColor of Change president Rashad Robinson also said the meeting \"was a disappointment\".\n\nFacebook's Sheryl Sandberg said there is still much more to do\n\nThis audit is grim reading for Facebook.\n\nWhat makes it so significant is the report looks at whether Facebook itself is driving people towards extremism.\n\n\"Facebook should do everything in its power to prevent its tools and algorithms from driving people toward self-reinforcing echo chambers of extremism,\" it says.\n\nAnd that is not just a criticism there is nasty stuff on the platform.\n\nIt is criticism the platform itself may drive hate.\n\nFailure to act can have dangerous and life-threatening real-world consequences, the report says.\n\nAnd it will add momentum to the Facebook ads boycott that had gone a bit quiet over the past few days.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged Facebook's much-lauded oversight board will not now launch until late-autumn. The board will be an independent body that can decide what kind of content can and cannot be on Facebook - with the power to overrule the company's own decisions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oversight Board This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen asked, the Oversight Board Administration said the tweet did not necessarily mean the start date would be after the US Presidential election on 3 November.\n\n\"There has been no change to the oversight board's timing for becoming fully operational, and we expect it to begin its work in the coming months,\" it told the BBC.\n\n\"No effort is being made to avoid any particular event, and the board aims to begin its work as early as possible. No exact date can be set yet as the technical and operational systems are still being set up.\"", "FBI Director Christopher Wray, pictured in February, described a wide-ranging campaign by the Chinese government to disrupt US life\n\nThe director of the FBI has said that acts of espionage and theft by China's government pose the \"greatest long-term threat\" to the future of the US.\n\nSpeaking to the Hudson Institute in Washington, Christopher Wray described a multi-pronged disruption campaign.\n\nHe said China had begun targeting Chinese nationals living abroad, coercing their return, and was working to compromise US coronavirus research.\n\n\"The stakes could not be higher,\" Mr Wray said.\n\n\"China is engaged in a whole-of-state effort to become the world's only superpower by any means necessary,\" he added.\n\nIn a nearly hour-long speech on Tuesday, the FBI director outlined a stark picture of Chinese interference, a far-reaching campaign of economic espionage, data and monetary theft and illegal political activities, using bribery and blackmail to influence US policy.\n\n\"We've now reached a point where the FBI is now opening a new China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours,\" Mr Wray said. \"Of the nearly 5,000 active counterintelligence cases currently under way across the country, almost half are related to China.\"\n\nThe FBI director mentioned a programme called \"Fox Hunt\", which he said President Xi Jinping had \"spearheaded\" and he said was geared at Chinese nationals living abroad seen as threats to the Chinese government.\n\n\"We're talking about political rivals, dissidents, and critics seeking to expose China's extensive human rights violations,\" he said. \"The Chinese government wants to force them to return to China, and China's tactics to accomplish that are shocking.\"\n\nHe continued: \"When it couldn't locate one Fox Hunt target, the Chinese government sent an emissary to visit the target's family here in the United States. The message they said to pass on? The target had two options: return to China promptly, or commit suicide.\"\n\nThe programme was originally begun in 2015 to target people accused of corruption and has reportedly led to the capture of thousands of fugitives.\n\nHowever, reports of extraordinary rendition of political opponents by Beijing have multiplied in recent years, starting with Gui Minhai, one of a group of Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared in 2015 and resurfaced in Chinese custody. Unlike the others, Mr Gui disappeared abroad - in Thailand - rather than from Hong Kong itself.\n\nChina is fast becoming a new kind of threat to the West, not so much because of its growing military capabilities - though that is a factor - but because in economic and technical terms it is already a peer competitor of the United States, and a peer competitor in a very different kind of world.\n\nNineteenth Century great powers competed more or less on equal terms but operated in a far less integrated international system. In the second half of the 20th Century, the Soviet Union was a peer military competitor of the United States, but with a relatively weak economy largely isolated from the wider international system.\n\nChina, however, has huge and growing economic muscle. It shares much of the same economic space with the West and its dominance of crucial supply chains - think medical PPE for example - only enhances its power.\n\nThe level of integration of today's globalised world and the importance of data and information only act as force multipliers for Beijing's overt and covert global reach.\n\nIn the unusual address, Mr Wray asked Chinese-born people living in the US to contact the FBI if Chinese officials target them seeking their return.\n\nThe Chinese government has defended this programme in the past, saying it is part of a legitimate anti-corruption effort.\n\nThe threat posed by China will be further addressed by the US attorney general and secretary of state in coming weeks, Mr Wray said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liu Xiaoming: China is not the enemy of the US\n\nThe address comes amid heightened tensions between the US and China.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been highly critical of China amid the coronavirus outbreak, repeatedly blaming the country for the global pandemic. In another move, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this week that the administration was looking at banning Chinese apps - including the hugely popular TikTok.\n\nThe apps \"serve as appendages of the Chinese Communist Party's surveillance state\", he said.", "The Chancellor has said his package of measures aimed at limiting the economic impact of coronavirus are \"absolutely vital\" for Scotland.\n\nRishi Sunak said many rural areas of Scotland would particularly benefit from a cut to VAT for the hospitality and tourism sector.\n\nAnd he said Scotland would now receive a total of £4.6bn in additional Barnett funding from the UK government.\n\nThe figure had been put at £3.8bn by the UK government before his statement.\n\nThe Scottish government welcomed parts of Mr Sunak's announcement, but accused him of showing a lack of ambition by not introducing the £80bn stimulus package it had called for.\n\nMany of the measures unveiled by Mr Sunak will apply in Scotland, including the \"job retention bonus\" that will pay firms a £1,000 bonus for every staff member kept on for at least three months when the furlough scheme ends in October.\n\nVAT on food, accommodation and attractions will be cut across the UK from 20% to 5% from next Wednesday.\n\nThe cut will apply to eat-in or hot takeaway food from restaurants, cafes and pubs, accommodation in hotels, B&Bs, campsites and caravan sites, attractions like cinemas, theme parks and zoos.\n\nMr Sunak also unveiled a scheme to give 50% off to people dining out across the UK in August.\n\nAnd he announced a £2bn \"kickstart\" scheme to help create more jobs for young people which will cover Scotland, England and Wales.\n\nThe chancellor's speech, as expected, was all about jobs with billions of pounds to stem looming unemployment.\n\nFor a Conservative government these are big spending interventions, perhaps more natural territory for Labour or the SNP.\n\nIt's certainly no easy balancing act for a relatively new chancellor. He wants to give people hope but he certainly isn't sugar-coating it.\n\nDespite calls to extend the furlough scheme, it was a no. An admission some jobs will never come back, shifting the focus on getting employers to hire people who have been furloughed through bonuses.\n\nThe chancellor was also keen to flash his unionist credentials early on. The UK government will be aware of a series of polls suggesting support for independence growing during the pandemic.\n\nSo the chancellor stressed the \"special bond\" of the union and the support people in devolved nations received.\n\nHowever, his announcement of a temporary stamp duty holiday in England to stimulate the property market will not apply in Scotland unless the Scottish government matches the move through its equivalent Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.\n\nThe Chancellor told the Commons that the UK government remained \"absolutely committed\" to its goal of \"levelling up in every part of the country\".\n\nHe added: \"I am pleased to tell the House that the sum total of Barnett funding for Scotland as a result of all the interventions through this crisis now totals £4.6bn, which is going to support similar measures in Scotland as we are providing elsewhere.\n\n\"The measures I announced today - the jobs retention bonus for furloughed employees, the Kickstart scheme, the VAT cut, the eat out to help out discount - are all incredibly significant interventions and all of them benefit the entire United Kingdom.\"\n\nMr Sunak also stressed the importance of tourism to the Scottish economy, particularly in rural and coastal areas, and said that the VAT and eating out measures would be \"absolutely vital in driving the growth of Scotland going forward again\".\n\nHe added: \"Again, they are a reminder to everyone - we are stronger together, one United Kingdom\".\n\nThe UK government says measure it has previously introduced, such as the furlough scheme, have \"protected more than 620,000 jobs, thousands of businesses and paid £425m to self-employed people\" in Scotland.\n\nKate Forbes says she needs additional borrowing powers to help Scotland's economic recovery from the pandemic\n\nThe Scottish government had called on the Chancellor to show \"greater ambition in the level of investment in our economy\" by introducing an £80bn stimulus package.\n\nIts finance secretary, Kate Forbes, said that Mr Sunak's commitment to economic recovery \"appears to be less than half of that with no apparent increase in capital infrastructure\".\n\nShe added: \"We called for an £80bn stimulus package to build a strong, green and inclusive economic recovery and while there are elements in this announcement to be welcomed, in particular the measures on VAT for tourism and hospitality, overall this package is a huge opportunity missed.\n\n\"It falls well short of delivering what is needed to boost the economy and protect jobs.\n\n\"There is no new capital spend, no extension to the furlough scheme for hard-hit sectors and no further support for households in financial difficulty. A half-price meal out does not help those struggling to put food on the table.\"\n\nMs Forbes made a request to be allowed to borrow £500m this year and to be given the flexibility to reallocate any unused capital funding on day-to-day spending in a letter to the Treasury two weeks ago.\n\nShe has argued that the \"relatively limited\" changes would \"ease some of the immense pressures on our budget\" caused by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said at the time that he would consider the request - but there was no mention of it in the Chancellor's statement.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham midfielder Eric Dier has been given a four-match ban and fined £40,000 for climbing over seats to confront a fan after a match in March.\n\nThe incident happened after Spurs were knocked out of the FA Cup at home by Norwich.\n\nThe Football Association ban rules the 26-year-old out of all but one of Tottenham's remaining Premier League fixtures.\n\nDier has also been warned about his future conduct by the FA.\n\nA statement said: \"The Tottenham player admitted that his actions at the conclusion of a fixture against Norwich City in the FA Cup were improper but denied that they were also threatening.\n\n\"An independent regulatory commission subsequently found Eric Dier's actions to be threatening.\"\n\nThe incident occurred on 4 March in the fifth-round tie following a penalty shootout in which Dier scored, but Spurs eventually lost.\n\nSpeaking at the time, Spurs manager Jose Mourinho said a fan had insulted Dier after the game.\n\nFollowing the announcement the Portuguese boss refused to comment on the ban to avoid \"getting into trouble\" but did confirm that the club would not be appealing.\n\n\"If you appeal you have other risks. At least let's start next season without a suspension,\" Mourinho added.\n\n\"We all know how it works with the FA decisions. I don't think we will appeal.\"\n\nWhat happened and how did the FA come to its ruling?\n\nDier jumped over the pitchside barriers into the stand at the end of the game. He made a beeline for a fan and clambered over seats until he reached the top row of seats in front of the hospitality boxes.\n\nAnother video shows him being restrained by fans and security, while shouting \"he's my brother\". He is then led away by security with his arm around a fan.\n\nThe fan later said in a statement to the police, who took no action following an investigation, that he had \"been an idiot\".\n\nDier, who has 40 England caps, argued during the hearing that his actions did not deserve a football ban as he just wanted to \"protect\" his brother Patrick who he believed was \"in trouble\", but the panel disagreed.\n\nIn a written statement, the independent regulatory panel outlined a number of aggravating factors:\n• None The stand was heavily populated by spectators.\n• None Dier travelled an appreciable distance for a not insignificant period of time trying to reach the spectator - it was a determined and sustained attempt to get to the spectator.\n• None He pursued the spectator after he had desisted and moved away.\n• None He pursued the spectator when he knew he posed no threat to his brother.\n• None Dier's actions caused some pushing and shoving in the stands\n• None Dier's actions resulted in a melee at the entrance of exit 103.\n• None He is a high-profile footballer, whose conduct was witnessed by many within the ground and countless others more widely.\n• None Alex Brooker explores what it really means to be disabled in the UK", "The Joint Biosecurity Centre is being asked to develop new ways to respond to coronavirus outbreaks\n\nThe government's new Joint Biosecurity Centre is to take a more prominent role in coordinating the response to Covid-19, the BBC understands.\n\nThe JBC will be asked to develop novel ways to quickly identify and contain potential outbreaks.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group, Sage, will meet less often and its sub-groups will feed into departments.\n\nBut some fear there may be insufficient expertise in the JBC for the job.\n\nA spokesman said a slimmed-down Sage would focus on longer-term concerns, such as the impact of winter.\n\n\"Sage will continue to provide a single consensus view of scientific advice at the heart of government decision-making, to inform the national strategic response to the coronavirus epidemic.\n\n\"As we move into the next phase of the coronavirus response, the JBC will complement the work of Sage, providing more operational focus including data analysis and epidemiological expertise, with the aim of ensuring that outbreaks of coronavirus are detected and brought under control quickly.\"\n\nThe JBC was formed in May to help the UK's chief medical officers set the threat levels in each of the four nations.\n\nThe centre, part of the NHS test-and-trace service, brings together epidemiologists and analysts from national and local government, and universities, to provide real-time analysis of outbreaks and develop interventions to stamp them out.\n\nNew ways of identifying a brewing outbreak before it takes hold could include:\n\nBut privately some scientists are expressing concern that, given how important the JBC will be to the public's wellbeing, little is known about how it will operate, and the quality and experience of its personnel.\n\nFormer government chief scientific adviser Prof Sir David King said the operations of the new body were a mystery.\n\nHe also questioned whether the JBC had the in-house expertise to undertake the type of analysis that was necessary to identify potential surges in infection, expressing publicly what other experts said off the record.\n\n\"Are the JBC scientists going to be willing to be cross-examined by the media, or is it a body feeding information behind the scenes to ministers?\n\n\"If it is the latter, then how will government regain the trust of the public?\"\n\nHow the JBC will operate and interact with bodies such as Public Health England (PHE) is still being worked out. Many government advisers, such as Prof Sir Roy Anderson of Imperial College, London, believe transparency is essential for its success.\n\n\"As with Sage, it will be important that the workings of the new centre are open to scrutiny by independent experts,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMany on Sage are delighted that JBC will be taking responsibility for monitoring the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThomas House, of Manchester University, is among those who have been working for no payment during the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Sage is very much designed for emergencies, so the current model isn't sustainable.\n\n\"I'm working on my n-th last-minute request to do complex analysis of messy data at short notice just now, and it's an exhausting way to work.\"\n\nBut he added that there should be more openness.\n\n\"The exact way JBC will work is still to be determined, and it's a good thing that the BBC is prompting discussion and scrutiny of what the public might want from such a body.\"", "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has come under criticism for his response to coronavirus, most recently for attending an anti-lockdown rally where he was seen coughing without covering his mouth.\n\nThe BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus in Brazil.", "Public Health Wales, supported by the Army, spent two hours swabbing everyone at Claremont Court Care Home in Newport\n\nCare homes have been \"badly let down\" during the coronavirus pandemic and the Welsh Government has been too slow to respond, a report has said.\n\nThe Senedd's health committee described Wales' testing policy in care homes at the start of the outbreak as \"flawed\".\n\nIt said it took \"too long\" to start \"appropriate testing measures\". Care homes account for 28% of Wales' 2,438 coronavirus deaths.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it did not accept residents had been let down.\n\n\"The Senedd's health committee has focused on testing, which is just one part of our response,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We have provided a wide range of support, including extra nursing staff where necessary and free PPE [personal protective equipment] for care homes across Wales.\"\n\nHow well Wales coped with the pandemic, including whether there was adequate PPE and effective testing policies was explored by the cross-party committee.\n\nThe crisis \"exposed serious weaknesses that existed in many areas\", its report said.\n\nHowever, it added: \"A second wave does not have to be inevitable if the lessons of the last few months are properly learned and fully applied.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nearly one-fifth of residents at Tregwilym Lodge died in the space of a month\n\nEarly in the outbreak, 1,097 patients were discharged from hospitals to care homes without being tested for Covid-19.\n\nCare home residents with symptoms, and those being discharged from hospital, were not routinely tested until 29 April.\n\nOn 16 May it was announced that all residents and staff, regardless of whether they had symptoms, could be tested.\n\nThe committee points out this was \"considerably later than both England (28 April) and Scotland (1 May)\" took the same decision.\n\nWales' initial approach was \"flawed, and... it was subsequently too slow in responding to the mounting crisis\", the report adds.\n\nIt said: \"We are deeply troubled by the number of Covid-related deaths in care homes. Care homes look after some of our oldest and most vulnerable members of society.\n\n\"They deserve to be protected in the event of a national health emergency, yet they have been badly let down during this crisis.\"\n\nParkside House Residential Home in Penarth says it has kept the virus at bay\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has said policies are based on scientific advice - and there was no evidence that discharging people from hospitals to care homes without tests led to more deaths.\n\nBut the report said decisions to reverse the original testing policy, later than happened in England and Scotland, came \"at great cost to the social care sector\".\n\nThe report also said there was a lack of PPE at the start of the outbreak and it was \"extremely concerning\" Wales has - at times - come within days of running out.\n\nOther concerns included the fact vulnerable people who were asked to shield from the disease did not always get clear information and the UK-wide decision to abandon contact tracing early in the crisis was \"devastating\".\n\nIt said the Welsh Government should now make sure it has an \"efficient and effectively functioning contact tracing system\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said its approach had been \"rooted in scientific evidence with the sole objective of saving lives, regardless of where people live\".\n\n\"Everyone working in social care has worked tirelessly to protect some of the most vulnerable people in Wales,\" he added.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the sector to identify and provide any additional support it needs to respond to the virus.\"\n\nCare Forum Wales, which represents the industry, said some of its members felt under pressure to admit hospital patients who had not been tested.\n\nChairman Mario Kreft said: \"This report is essentially confirming what we knew already and what Care Forum Wales has been saying for months that essentially care homes, their residents and staff inadvertently became collateral damage in a drive to protect the NHS from being overrun.\"", "Nicole Pavier says an eating disorder still \"plagues\" her life. A former England gymnast, she says she was weighed every day during her career.\n\nPavier, 24, told BBC Sport how she developed bulimia when she was 14 and that she retired three years later after becoming \"a shell of a person\".\n\nShe is one of several gymnasts to speak to BBC Sport about what they called a \"culture of fear\" within the \"mentally and emotionally abusive\" sport of gymnastics.\n\nBritish Gymnastics has announced an independent review will take place following allegations of mistreatment from a number of athletes in recent days.\n\n\"It is clear that gymnasts did not feel they could raise their concerns to British Gymnastics and it is vital that an independent review helps us better understand why so we can remove any barriers as quickly as possible,\" said chief executive Jane Allen.\n\nPavier said she became \"terrified\" she would put on weight, and would find \"mechanisms\" to try to prevent her from doing so.\n\n\"Being an adult now, you really realise how much it has affected you, from the eating disorders, the chronic pain, waking up having nightmares every night, never feeling good enough,\" Pavier said.\n\n\"It has such a long-term implication.\"\n\nShe alleges gymnasts were weighed twice a day sometimes, and claims her coach, Claire Barbieri, would \"discuss people's weights in front of the whole group\" and display their weights on a whiteboard.\n\nBarbieri told BBC Sport she has \"never, to date, ever had any formal complaint raised against me by a gymnast\".\n\n\"I acknowledge that the regime for training elite gymnasts can at times be a tough one,\" she said in a statement. \"However, throughout my career I have followed British Gymnastics best practice and I continue to treat the welfare of the gymnasts I coach as my top priority.\"\n\nShe added: \"In line with standard practice at the time, the club had a system of weighing and measuring the elite gymnasts daily. Following advice from the GB medical team this was reduced to twice a week.\n\n\"I am fully aware of the risks of eating disorders amongst gymnasts and ensured that professional advice was obtained and followed where potential issues had been flagged.\n\n\"Although a whiteboard was used initially, I acknowledged some gymnasts' concerns with this and changed the practice - introducing a system where the gymnasts had more privacy and kept their own records.\"\n\nBritish Gymnastics' independent review will be conducted by Jane Mulcahy QC.\n\nAllen said: \"The behaviours we have heard about in recent days are completely contrary to our standards of safe coaching and have no place in our sport. The British Gymnastics integrity unit is set up to investigate all allegations when reported or identified by our national network of club and regional welfare officers.\n\n\"There is nothing more important for British Gymnastics than the welfare of our gymnasts at every level of our sport and we will continually strive to create a culture where people feel they can raise any concerns that they may have.\"\n\nPavier says she was 21 when she gained control of her eating disorder, but admits she is still \"picking up the pieces\".\n\n\"I still hate the way I look, I still feel like I'm overweight, I still wake up and don't want to eat breakfast some days or won't eat anything,\" she says.\n\n\"There is no day where I'll wake up and look in the mirror and be happy with what I see.\"\n\nAthletes 'sat on and made to sit in cupboards'\n\nBBC Sport also heard testimonies from several other gymnasts - at all levels of the sport, who had several different coaches and trained at several different clubs - as well as some parents.\n\nFrom their testimonies, BBC Sport has learned how some gymnasts were allegedly:\n• None Made to sit in store cupboards if they cried or refused to perform a skill in training;\n• None Hit by one coach on the legs with a wooden stick;\n• None Sat on if they were not fully on the ground while performing the splits.\n\nIt was claimed one coach made their gymnasts do three hours of conditioning after seeing some of them eating chips.\n\nAnother coach is said to have made theirs line up and watch as they ordered cleaners to search through bins to find discarded snack wrappers.\n\nOther gymnasts also said they trained through injuries. A parent told BBC Sport her daughter broke her wrist during training. As soon as her daughter was out of a splint, she says she was made to use the wrist in moves, once causing her so much pain she vomited.\n\nOne gymnast says she broke a rib in training but chose not tell her coach, with the injury eventually causing a punctured lung that prevented her competing and training for a year.\n\nMany of the gymnasts BBC Sport spoke to say they still suffer psychological effects, including anxiety and depression, for which some remain on medication and others are receiving therapy.\n\nOne says she continues to have night terrors, years after retiring, while a parent told of young gymnasts she knew of whose hair had fallen out because of the stress they felt.\n\nCoaches would frequently \"scream\" at gymnasts and their parents, with one parent saying they had been \"groomed\" as well as their children, who they knew would be \"punished\" if training methods were not accepted.\n\nMany of the athletes spoken to said they would not want any children they may have in the future to do gymnastics.\n\nBritish Gymnastics declined to comment on any individual cases but told BBC Sport in a statement: \"British Gymnastics condemns any behaviour which is harmful to the wellbeing of our gymnasts. Such behaviours are completely contrary to our standards of safe coaching.\n\n\"Our integrity unit investigates all allegations reported to us or identified by our national network of club welfare officers and takes disciplinary action to prevent recurrence.\n\n\"We have worked particularly hard in recent years to ensure that our athlete and coaching culture is transparent, fair and inclusive.\n\n\"British Gymnastics is reaching out to any gymnast, either current or past, that has concerns around specific incidents or behaviours and encourages them to contact our integrity unit.\"\n\n'We want to show support'\n\nLast week, British former gymnast Jennifer Pinches, who competed at the London 2012 Olympics, reached out to fellow gymnasts on social media.\n\n\"We wanted to come together and just show our support for anyone that has been mistreated,\" the 26-year-old told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's about gymnasts and a support network coming together.\n\n\"Unfortunately, certain types of behaviour have become a bit normalised in gymnastics, unacceptable behaviour - and it's not just Britain, it's across the world.\n\n\"There's a better way, we know that, so we want to take a stand against any kind of damaging behaviour and support those who have experienced mistreatment. We want a safe happy and healthy environment for gymnasts.\"", "TikTok has deleted a collection of videos found by the BBC to be using a \"sickening\" anti-Semitic song that gained more than 6.5 million views.\n\nThe song surfaced on the app on Sunday and includes the lyrics: \"We're going on a trip to a place called Auschwitz, it's shower time.\"\n\nThe first video to use the song showed a giant robot scorpion with a swastika attacking and killing people.\n\nTikTok's algorithm ensured that video alone got more than six million views.\n\nOther videos that made further use of the song accounted for the additional half a million views.\n\nAuschwitz was a Nazi death camp in a German-annexed part of Poland where more than a million people died during World War Two, many of them in gas chambers after being told they were going to take a communal shower.\n\nNearly 100 users chose the song for their own videos. One showed a character from the computer game Roblox that looks like Hitler.\n\nThe first video that sparked the viral meme gained hundreds of thousands of likes\n\nAnother used a clip of a shooter game where people are killed by green gas canisters.\n\nOther videos used imagery from films or television documentaries about the Holocaust.\n\nOne video used a Hitler lookalike character from the video game Roblox\n\nThe collection of videos attracted the large audience in less than three days before they were removed.\n\n\"It was incredibly distressing to watch this sickening TikTok video aimed at children, showing a swastika-bearing robot grabbing and incinerating Jews, as the music poked fun at Jewish men, women and children being killed with poison gas at Auschwitz,\" said Stephen Silverman, director of investigations and enforcement for the Campaign Against Antisemitism.\n\n\"TikTok has a particular obligation to tackle this content fast because it specialises in delivering viral videos to children and young adults when they are most impressionable, and yet our research has shown that TikTok has become one of the fastest vectors for transmission of memes mocking the Holocaust.\"\n\nSome of the videos used gaming clips with the song\n\nTikTok took about eight hours to remove all the offending videos.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Keeping our users safe is a top priority for TikTok, and our community guidelines make clear what is not acceptable on our platform.\n\n\"We do not tolerate any content that includes hate speech, and the sound in question, along with all associated videos, have now been removed. While we will not catch every instance of inappropriate content, we are continuously improving our technologies and policies to ensure TikTok remains a safe place for positive creative expression.'\"\n\nSome of the videos used clips from Holocaust movies and TV programmes\n\nSome experts believe TikTok needs to do more to check the content of videos before promoting them to a wider audience.\n\nMichael Priem, chief executive of Modern Impact said: \"TikTok is not revealing their algorithms or strategy behind content. But it's widely believed that it's similar to other commonly used models that collect data on our content consumption and peers influenced network.\n\n\"As specific videos gain momentum the algorithm then promotes them more widely across the platform. Hence the users intuitively asking each other to 'help this go viral'. The problems rest then on the content filtering.\"\n\nThe user who posted the original video that started the meme appears to be a young teenager from the UK. He did not respond to requests for comment and his account was still live at the time of writing. He wrote on his profile that he had gained 12,000 new followers after posting the video.\n\nA very similar version of the video was uploaded to YouTube in 2015. It was posted on a small channel and gained 67,000 views in the nearly five years it was live. YouTube removed it after being contacted by the BBC.\n\nIt is not clear where the song originated, but the imagery is from a computer game called Besiege that allows players to create custom siege weapons.", "A vote will take place on Thursday to determine whether offensive words will be banned\n\nLeaders of the Scrabble tournament community in North America are voting on whether to ban the use of racial and homophobic slurs.\n\nThe vote will decide whether the words will be removed from the North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA) list of accepted words.\n\nThe NASPA manages competitive Scrabble tournaments and clubs in North America.\n\nThe decision is due after weeks of anti-racism protests in the US and around the world.\n\nHasbro, owner of the rights to Scrabble in North America, told The New York Times on Tuesday that the NASPA had \"agreed to remove all slurs from their word list for Scrabble tournament play, which is managed solely by NASPA and available only to members.\"\n\nHasbro has not allowed slurs in its dictionary since 1994. However the association has still permitted them.\n\nThe NASPA advisory board is set to vote on Thursday. The removal of the words from its vocabulary list could affect online versions of the game. The association licenses its list of words to software developers, according to Mashable.\n\nNASPA Chief Executive John Chew told the BBC: \"The vote is at this point a necessary formality, and we will be removing all offensive words from our lexicon. We will be reviewing our candidate list of 236 such words carefully to make sure that they all need to be deleted, which may take an additional week or two after the decision.\"\n\nAddressing members in a letter, Mr Chew said: \"When we play a slur, we are declaring that our desire to score points in a word game is of more value to us than the slur's broader function as a way to oppress a group of people.\n\n\"I don't think that this is the time for us to be contributing divisively to the world's problems.\n\nHe told Reuters news agency that he was worried people were put off from joining the association due to offensive language in the association's dictionary.\n\nAbout 1,000 people took part in the association's poll on whether to remove the words, he said.\n\nThe survey asked respondents whether they wanted the \"N-word\", or all slurs, or all offensive words removed from the association's vocabulary.\n\nMr Chew said members were split over removing the \"N-word\" and the public were in favour of its removal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDaniel Tunnard plays competitive Scrabble in Spanish and has written a novel about the game, Escapes. He told the BBC that there are some words in the English language that are so offensive and so inflammatory that it's understandable for players to question whether they should be using them in a game.\n\n\"There are hundreds of thousands of words valid for play in Scrabble, we're not going to miss some 80 words that might cause offence.\n\n\"Slurs account for something like 0.0004% of the word list, it isn't going to make a tremendous difference. And new, non-offensive words are being added all the time, like OK, which got lots of press last year. There is no shortage of words.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course, there will inevitably be a situation if slurs are banned where a world championship final hinges on one player's inability to play a now-banned word. That's bound to happen.\"", "The chancellor's summer statement will mean an extra £39m in public spending for Northern Ireland, Finance Minister Conor Murphy has said.\n\nHe said other recent announcements, such as support for the arts, would add a further £116m to Stormont budgets.\n\nHe also welcomed moves such as a hospitality VAT cut but said the overall package did not go far enough.\n\n\"The measures are not ambitious enough to spur economic recovery,\" Mr Murphy said.\n\n\"Covid-19 will continue to have a dramatic impact on our economy for some time to come.\n\n\"What is needed is a comprehensive stimulus package.\"\n\nMr Murphy was responding to a range of measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to boost the hospitality and tourism industries.\n\nThe measures announced on Wednesday include a six-month cut in VAT from 20% to 5% for the hospitality and tourism sectors.\n\nHospitality Ulster said the announcement was \"a welcome boost\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Mr Murphy urged the government to ease \"rigid fiscal rules\" in NI.\n\nThe chancellor did not respond to that in his statement to the House of Commons, but outlined a number of other measures, including:\n\nThe package is designed to help prevent mass unemployment and help the economy, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHospitality and tourism have been particularly affected due to a huge decline in air travel and the introduction of social-distancing rules.\n\nHospitality Ulster said the move comes at a time many in the industry were \"fearful for their future\" but will help to \"paint a brighter picture\".\n\nBill Wolsey, whose portfolio includes Belfast's Merchant and Bullitt hotels and the Dirty Onion bar, welcomed the news.\n\n\"We have just had a 10% increase from breweries and food prices have gone up, so the cut in VAT will help us keep prices as they are,\" he said.\n\n\"The whole industry is doing their very best to make sure they don't make redundancies.\"\n\nAn end to NI's \"antiquated licensing laws\" would also boost \"an industry on its knees\", he added.\n\nThe hospitality industry in Northern Ireland has pursued a long campaign for a VAT cut.\n\nThis was mainly about bringing the sector into line with competitors in the Republic of Ireland who have been paying VAT at a much lower rate.\n\nNow the industry has its wish, but not in circumstances it could have ever imagined.\n\nRestaurants, pubs and other businesses face a huge battle for sustainable trading in an era of social distancing.\n\nThe VAT cut will allow them to fund price promotions in an attempt to get people through the doors.\n\nOr alternatively many will simply pocket in the VAT saving in an attempt to keep their businesses above water.\n\nColin Johnston, general manager of the Galgorm Resort, described the new measures as \"pretty much a game changer\".\n\nHoward Hastings, managing director of Hastings Hotels, said they would \"go a long way in helping the local economy recover\".\n\nDetails of how the package will be paid for - through borrowing and possible tax rises - are likely to be unveiled in the chancellor's autumn budget.\n\nMr Sunak also announced a temporary stamp duty holiday in Northern Ireland and England to stimulate the property market.\n\nThis would exempt the first £500,000 of all property sales from the tax.\n\nThe Westminster announcement comes as a Stormont committee heard the money generated by tourism in Northern Ireland is likely to drop from £1bn last year to £400m in 2020.\n\nJanice Gault, of the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation, said in the medium term the sector hoped to \"get the GB market back\".\n\nBut she said international visitor numbers were likely to be low over the summer.\n\n\"For us, we see the really difficult time of trading is going to be from September through to next March.\"\n\nJoanne Stuart, of the Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance, told the committee businesses believed it would take at least two to three years to recover from lockdown.\n\nShe said it was \"critical to the survival of businesses over the winter period\" that they can maximise the rest of this year's season.\n\n\"What we now need to see is communication from our political leaders to encourage people to stay local and support local businesses this year,\" she said.\n\nEarlier, Mr Murphy, along with his Scottish and Welsh counterparts Kate Forbes and Rebecca Evans, made a call for greater financial flexibility ahead of the chancellor's statement.\n\nThey said it would help them respond better to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThey want assurances that will give them the freedom to switch capital funding to day-to-day revenue.\n\nMr Murphy, along with Kate Forbes and Rebecca Evans, made the call ahead of the Chancellor's summer statement\n\nThe ministers also called for an end to the arbitrary limits on borrowing and more clarity on details around the forthcoming spending review.\n\nMr Murphy said it was \"crucial\" that devolved administrations were \"equipped to respond swiftly and effectively to the challenges arising from Covid-19\".\n\n\"More financial flexibility can help us deal with these challenges and use our budgets to support public services, protect the vulnerable, and deliver an economic recovery,\" he said.", "California and Texas each reported more than 10,000 new daily cases on Tuesday\n\nMore than three million people in the US have now tested positive for Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOver 131,000 deaths have been reported, and on Tuesday the US broke its record for most new cases reported in one day.\n\nDespite the rise, the White House wants to press forward on some reopenings, including for schools.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence, who leads the White House Coronavirus Taskforce, argued rules should not be \"too tough\".\n\nCases were flattening out, he said, while President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that America was \"in a good place\" regarding the pandemic.\n\nOver 60,000 new cases were reported Tuesday, shattering the previous highest tally of 55,220 new cases on 2 July.\n\nThe latest figures came as the states of California and Texas each reported more than 10,000 new daily cases.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert and adviser to the White House on the coronavirus, said the country was still \"knee-deep\" in only its first coronavirus wave.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at the US Department of Education on Wednesday, Mr Pence defended the Trump administration's response to the pandemic.\n\n\"While we mourn with those who mourn, because of what the American people have done, because of the extraordinary work of our healthcare workers around the country, we are encouraged that the average fatality rate continues to be low and steady,\" he said after lowering his face mask.\n\nHe added that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will issue new guidelines on reopening schools after Mr Trump criticised a plan put forward by the expert body as \"very tough and expensive\" and threatened to cut off funding to schools that don't open in the autumn.\n\n\"The president said today we just don't want the guidance to be too tough,\" Mr Pence said. \"That's the reason why, next week, CDC is going to be issuing a new set of tools, five different documents that will be giving even more clarity on the guidance going forward.\"\n\nSchools in the US normally begin for the year in either August or early September.\n\nThe CDC's guidelines suggest pupils and staff all wear face coverings and stay at home if necessary. They also suggest schools should implement staggered timetables and socially distanced seating arrangements, and close communal spaces.\n\nIn Oklahoma, health officials in the city of Tulsa said President Trump's campaign rally there last month and the protests that took place at the same time \"likely contributed\" to a spike in cases locally, the Associated Press reported.\n\n\"In the past few days, we've seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,\" Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr Bruce Dart said. The Trump campaign has not yet commented.\n\nMeanwhile, two prestigious universities in the US are taking legal action against the government over an immigration rule they say will force international students to leave the country.\n\nUnder the rule, introduced by the Trump administration, foreign students would be barred from staying in the country if their colleges don't hold in-person classes this autumn. Much university teaching is shifting online during the pandemic.\n\nHarvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - two of the highest-ranking universities in the world - have now asked a federal court to block the rule.\n\nHarvard President Lawrence Bacow said in an email to the Harvard community: \"We will pursue this case vigorously so that our international students - and international students at institutions across the country - can continue their studies without the threat of deportation.\"\n\nIn other US virus-related news:", "Care homes could face a staffing \"black hole\" because of the impact of the government's immigration bill, care leaders have warned.\n\nThe Cavendish Coalition - which represents UK health and social care groups - says it is gravely concerned.\n\nThe current proposals would not allow enough overseas workers to be recruited, it has warned.\n\nThe government said immigration is \"not the answer to the challenges in the social care sector\".\n\nLeaders of 37 national care organisations, including the NHS Confederation, have signed the letter to the prime minister.\n\nThey say the proposed post-Brexit bill could have a damaging effect on care homes and other social care services, especially as the nation heads towards winter - which could bring further challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Immigration Bill, which has been given initial approval by MPs, repeals EU freedom of movement and introduces a new framework for who can come to live in the UK.\n\nThe legislation will put EU and European Economic Area (EEA) citizens on an equal footing to immigrants from outside the bloc.\n\nIt also paves the way for the government to introduce a new points-based system.\n\nBut the Cavendish Coalition said this points-based system currently does not include social care as the roles do not pass the proposed minimum salary threshold and \"are not classed as a shortage occupation\".\n\nOne in six workers in the sector is a foreign national and earn on average between £16,400 and £18,400 in England, says the coalition. But from next January, under the new bill, foreign workers will have to be on a minimum of £25,000 to be allowed in to the UK.\n\nDanny Mortimer, co-convenor of the Cavendish Coalition and chief executive of NHS Employers, said: \"If adult social care wasn't in a precarious position before coronavirus, it certainly is now.\"\n\nHe said one in five health and care workers have said that they are likely to leave their roles after the pandemic, adding that was \"pretty worrying\" given that the sector had 122,000 vacancies in England alone.\n\nThe coalition is calling on the government to come up with a \"transitional solution\" to \"navigate the gap\" between the new immigration system and a longer term plan and funding settlement for social care.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The Migration Advisory Committee has been very clear in its assertion that immigration is not the answer to the challenges in the social care sector.\n\n\"As we implement the new immigration system, we want employers to focus on investing in our domestic work force.\n\n\"Additionally, the EU Settlement Scheme means that all EU and EAA citizens, and their family members, currently working in social care can stay in the UK and we are encouraging them to do so.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nTwo-time world champion snowboarder Alex Pullin has died while spearfishing in his native Australia, local officials have confirmed.\n\nPullin, 32, was found unresponsive off a beach on Queensland's Gold Coast on Wednesday.\n\nHe was treated by paramedics at the scene but could not be revived, authorities said.\n\nNicknamed \"Chumpy\", Pullin was Australia's flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.\n\nA Queensland Ambulance spokesman said: \"The man was spearfishing off Palm Beach. He was brought to shore by bystanders where he was treated by local lifesavers and paramedics.\"\n\nA snorkeler had spotted Pullin unconscious underwater on an artificial reef, local media said.\n\nLifeguards brought him to shore and called paramedics about 10:30 local time (00:30 GMT).\n\nA police official told Australia's Channel 9 News that Pullin appeared to have been diving alone.\n\n\"He didn't have an oxygen mask, we understand he was free diving and spearfishing out on the reef,\" Officer Chris Tritton said.\n\nThe athlete had previously shared pictures online of himself spearfishing, swimming and surfing.\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 alexchumpypullin 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 sport's Australian top body, Snow Australia, said it was \"shocked and saddened\" by Pullin's death.\n\n\"Alex was a beloved member of the Snow Australia community and he will be dearly missed,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"An incredible athlete, beloved teammate and role model, you will be sorely missed,\" the Australian Olympic Team, which Pullin had been part of three times, said.\n\nThe chief executive of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, Geoff Lipshut, described the athlete as \"one of our great winter sports pioneers\". He told Reuters news agency that Pullin had retired from snowboarding last month but had not announced the decision before his death.\n\nPullin was the flagbearer for Australia at the 2014 Games\n\nOther athletes and commentators have also paid tribute, with many describing him as a kind and generous person.\n\n\"The world will miss such a talented human and a double world champion without ego and without selfishness who is everyone's best mate,\" wrote former Australian speed skater Steven Bradbury.\n\nPullin, who grew up in the town of Mansfield, Victoria, first learned to snowboard when he was eight years old, going on to win world championship titles in 2011 and 2013.\n\nHe also represented Australia in snowboard cross at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Olympics.", "Amadou Gon Coulibaly had just returned from heart treatment in France\n\nIvory Coast's PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly has died after falling ill at a ministerial meeting.\n\nThe 61-year-old had been chosen as the ruling party's candidate for October's presidential election, after Alassane Ouattara said he would not seek a third term in office.\n\nMr Gon Coulibaly had only just returned from France where he had received two-months' heart treatment.\n\nPresident Ouattara said the country was in mourning.\n\nHe said Mr Gon Coulibaly had become unwell during a weekly cabinet meeting and was taken to hospital where he later died.\n\n\"I pay tribute to my younger brother, my son, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was for 30 years my closest partner,\" the president said. \"I salute the memory of a statesman of great loyalty, devotion and love for the homeland.\"\n\nHe had received a heart transplant in 2012 and had travelled to Paris on 2 May for the insertion of a stent.\n\nHe returned last Thursday saying: \"I am back to take my place by the side of the president, to continue the task of developing and building our country.\"\n\nMr Gon Coulibaly was among the favourites to win the presidential election.\n\nAn article in Le Monde on Monday quoted one foreign observer as saying: \"If Gon Coulibaly were unfit, Ouattara would have no choice but to run as a candidate because there is no plan B.\n\n\"This matter has so far remained taboo because the president has clearly shown his willingness to leave and indicated who his choice was to succeed him.\"\n\nMr Ouattara's decision in March not to run stunned the country.\n\nAt the time, the BBC's James Copnall wrote from the main city, Abidjan, that there was praise from politicians as Mr Ouattara broke the normal mould for the region of trying to remain in power.\n\nEven then it was clear that Mr Gon Coulibaly would be backed as the successor candidate.\n• None PhD in economics and worked for IMF\n• None Sworn in as president on 6 May 2011 after years in opposition\n\nMr Ouattara's supporters say he has brought economic growth, stability and a renewed standing for Ivory Coast on the international stage.\n\nBut opposition politicians - and many Ivorians - say that the president has not done enough to bring the nation together, and heal the wounds of the bitter conflict that divided Ivory Coast and then brought him to power.\n\nAround 3,000 people are thought to have died in the war sparked by candidate Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to accept he had lost the 2010 elections to Mr Ouattara, before troops loyal to the current president arrested Mr Gbagbo in April 2011.\n\nThe long-running political disputes between him, Mr Ouattara and another former president, Henri Konan Bédié, have been disastrous for Ivory Coast.", "Johnny Depp arriving at the High Court in London on Wednesday morning\n\nJohnny Depp has denied he slapped ex-wife Amber Heard after she laughed at one of his tattoos, as he appeared at a hearing at London's High Court.\n\nHe accused Ms Heard of \"building a dossier\" against him after the court heard she wrote an email describing him as a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde character.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun newspaper over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\".\n\nThe Sun has defended the accuracy of its story.\n\nIt had referred to \"overwhelming evidence\" that Mr Depp attacked Ms Heard, 34, during their relationship - which he strenuously denies.\n\nMr Depp is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) and its executive editor Dan Wootton over the article, published in 2018.\n\nMs Heard claims that Mr Depp first hit her in early 2013 - one of 14 separate allegations of domestic violence, all denied by Mr Depp, which are being relied on by NGN in their defence.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing, NGN's lawyer Sasha Wass QC began by asking Mr Depp about an alleged incident in March 2013 involving one of his tattoos which reads \"Wino Forever\".\n\nIt had originally said \"Winona Forever\" in reference to his relationship with actress Winona Ryder, but he had changed it when they split in 1993.\n\nMs Wass said Ms Heard - who was also in court - had made a joke out of the tattoo at a time when he was drinking heavily after about 160 days of sobriety.\n\nMs Wass said the actor then slapped his ex-wife across the face, a total of three times. He denied this.\n\nThe barrister then put it to Mr Depp that he \"broke down\" after coming to his senses and realising what he had done, to which he said: \"I didn't hit Ms Heard.\"\n\nThe High Court also heard details of the email Ms Heard wrote to the actor - but never sent - saying he lived \"in a world of enablers\".\n\nIt it, she said: \"It's like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Half of you, I love. Madly. The other half scares me.\"\n\nShe wrote that she knew she was \"dealing with the monster\" when he had been drinking.\n\nIn response, Mr Depp, 57, said the \"dossier\" was being built up from early on \"that appears to be an insurance policy for later\".\n\nHe agreed he would describe the allegation he was a serial domestic abuser as a \"hoax\", adding the claims were \"patently untrue\".\n\nAmber Heard was also at the High Court in London for the second day of the case\n\nThe court heard about another alleged incident that month when Ms Heard claims Mr Depp hit her several times after an argument about a painting by her ex-partner, Tasya van Ree, which was hanging in her Los Angeles home.\n\nMs Wass read out part of Mr Depp's witness statement in which he said he had asked Ms Heard to remove the painting \"as a courtesy\" to him.\n\nHe said she hadn't taken it down it but denied allegations put to him by Ms Wass that he tried to remove the painting and to set fire to it, saying each time they were \"not true\".\n\nMr Depp was asked whether he would describe himself as jealous. He responded: \"I am, yes. I can be jealous.\"\n\nMs Wass asked Mr Depp about an alleged incident on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles in May 2014.\n\nThe barrister put it to Mr Depp that he had been \"screaming obscenities\" at Ms Heard on the plane and brought up the subject of fellow actor James Franco - whom Mr Depp \"suspected\" was having an affair with his partner.\n\nMs Wass said Mr Depp threw ice cubes at Ms Heard, and was \"in a blind rage\", becoming so angry he slapped her across the face.\n\nMr Depp denied that happened, or that he called Ms Heard a \"slut\" and a \"whore\".\n\nThe barrister suggested the actor went to the toilet of the plane, where he passed out.\n\nMr Depp said in response: \"As Ms Heard was berating me, screaming at me and whatnot, as is her wont, she began to get physical.\"\n\nHe added that he then \"grabbed a pillow from the couch and slept on the bathroom floor\".\n\nMs Wass asked about an incident in which Ms Heard's dog \"had eaten some hash, some cannabis - quite a lot\".\n\nThe actor replied: \"The puppy got a hold of a little ball of hashish and just scooped it up before I could get to it.\"\n\nThe court has also heard about an alleged incident in which it is claimed Mr Depp held another of Ms Heard's dogs out of a car window, which he dismissed as \"utter falsity\".\n\nAmber Heard and Johnny Depp, pictured in 2015, were married for two years\n\nOn the first day of the libel case the court heard that Mr Depp denied being violent towards his ex-wife and accused Ms Heard of being violent towards him.\n\nNGN previously tried to have the case thrown out, but Mr Justice Nicol ruled last week the case could go ahead.\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\"\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the Pirates of the Caribbean star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.\n\nMr Depp, has been Oscar and Bafta-nominated and won a Golden Globe in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.", "Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has been criticised both within the country and internationally for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nMore than 53,000 people have died and there are over 1.1m confirmed Covid-19 cases in Brazil.\n\nTwo health ministers have left over his strategy - the first was fired after publicly disagreeing with Mr Bolsonaro’s attitude. The second, Nelson Teich, quit after less than a month.\n\nHe did not see eye-to-eye with the president over his insistence on using the anti-malarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as treatment for the virus.", "The injured man was found in Seeley Drive\n\nA man has died in a stabbing in south London.\n\nPolice and paramedics were called to Seeley Drive, West Dulwich, where they found the man with stab injuries at about 18:30 BST.\n\nThe man, thought to be aged 18, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they were working to find his family.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched. No-one has been arrested and a crime scene remains in place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Diners will get a 50% discount off their restaurant bill during August under government plans to bolster the embattled hospitality sector.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the \"eat out to help out\" discount as part of a series of measures to restart the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe deal means people can get up to £10 off per head if they eat out from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nMr Sunak also said VAT on hospitality and tourism would drop to 5%.\n\nThe reduction, from 20%, will be in place for the next six months.\n\nAs he announced the discount, the chancellor said the UK was facing a \"unique moment\" because of Covid-19, adding: \"We need to be creative.\"\n\nPubs and restaurants reopened on Saturday after more than three months in lockdown, with safety measures in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nMr Sunak sought to reassure the public that it was safe to dine out. \"I know people are cautious about going out. But we wouldn't have lifted the restrictions if we didn't think we could do so, safely,\" he said.\n\nThe discount will not apply to alcohol, but to food and soft drinks up to £10 per person.\n\nThe Treasury said the 50% discount can be used unlimited times during August and applies to participating restaurants, cafés, and pubs across the UK.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by HM Treasury This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sunak said the plan was aimed at getting \"customers back into restaurants, cafes and pubs\" and protecting \"the 1.8 million people who work in them\".\n\nHowever, the scheme prompted criticism from some who questioned subsidising meals out while British people continue to die from the coronavirus and many people are struggling financially.\n\nBusinesses that want to take part in the scheme will have to register through a website that opens on Monday 13 July.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"Each week in August, businesses can then claim the money back, with the funds in their bank account within five working days.\"\n\nHe added that the cut in VAT, from 20% to 5%, would apply to \"eat-in or hot takeaway food from restaurants, cafes and pubs; accommodation in hotels, B&Bs, campsites and caravan sites [and] attractions like cinemas, theme parks and zoos\".\n\nThe lower tax rate will be implemented next Wednesday, 15 July, and will remain in place until 12 January 2021.\n\nCaroline Roylance, owner of The George pub at Fordingbridge, Hampshire, said she would be applying for the \"eat out to help out\" scheme.\n\nThe pub reopened on Wednesday after being closed since 23 March, when the coronavirus lockdown was implemented.\n\nPub-owner Caroline Roylance said the measures will help her business \"through the next few months\"\n\nShe said the discount and the VAT cut \"will help us make it through the next few months, because trade is unlikely to return to pre-Covid levels for some time\".\n\n\"Saying that, it's been surprisingly busy today, which is encouraging, but it's still not July busy,\" said Mrs Roylance. \"It's a start though.\"\n\nUK Hospitality, the trade body which represents the industry, \"warmly\" welcomed the moves, as well as Mr Sunak's plans to stem unemployment through schemes such as creating thousands of job placements for young people.\n\nHowever, UK Hospitality's chief executive, Kate Nicholls, said: \"This doesn't mean we are out of the woods and there are still significant challenges ahead.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK is facing a \"unique moment\"\n\n\"The biggest of these is the spectre of rent liabilities, which many businesses are still facing from their closure period. We are going to need government support on this before too long.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the exclusion of alcohol from the \"eat out to help out\" discount hit some pub groups' share prices.\n\nMitchells & Butler's share price jumped by 7.3% to 175p towards the end of Mr Sunak's statement, when he revealed the VAT cut for the hospitality and leisure industries, as well as the dining out discount.\n\nBut once it became clear it did not include alcohol, Mitchell & Butler's share price fell \"just as quickly as it spiked up\", said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK.\n\nMarston's share price also dropped 6.1% to 48.98p. JD Wetherspoon's share price fell 2% to 986p.", "Three major online retailers have dropped fast fashion brand Boohoo over allegations of low pay and unsafe conditions at a supplier's factories.\n\nNext dropped Boohoo clothes from its websites last week, while Asos and Zalando followed suit on Tuesday.\n\nThis follows a Sunday Times report claiming workers at a Leicester factory were paid £3.50 an hour, while being offered no protection from coronavirus.\n\nBoohoo said if the reports were true, conditions were \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nThe company, which also owns the Nasty Gal and PrettyLittleThing brands, has denied any responsibility but said it would \"thoroughly investigate\" the claims.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"We will not hesitate to immediately terminate relationships with any supplier who is found not to be acting within both the letter and spirit of our supplier code of conduct.\"\n\nThe fast fashion retailer declined to comment on the moves made by Next, Asos and Zalando.\n\nBoohoo's shares fell a further 12% on Tuesday after a 16% slump the day before, following the publication of the allegations in the Sunday Times.\n\nBoohoo was already under fire after Labour Behind the Label, a workers' rights group, claimed that some employees at factories in Leicester that supply the fast fashion firm were \"being forced to come into work while sick with Covid-19\".\n\nAt the time Boohoo said it would \"not tolerate any incidence of non-compliance especially in relation to the treatment of workers within our supply chain\".\n\n\"Next concluded there is a case for Boohoo Group to answer,\" said a spokesman for the retailer.\n\n\"As a result, last week Next removed the Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing branded items it was selling previously, from all Next websites.\"\n\nThe company said it has set up its own investigation over the claims.\n\n\"Next is not pre-judging the outcome of this process and no final decision has been made, however, while there is a case to answer, these labels will remain suspended from all Next websites,\" the spokesman said.\n\nZalando, the Berlin-based online fashion store which had €6.4bn (£5.8bn) sales last year, said it \"has made the decision to delist all products by Boohoo Group and subsidiaries and pause all new business with Boohoo effective 7 July\".\n\nIt said the health and safety of workers has remained of utmost importance to the company. During the coronavirus crisis Zalando said it had introduced \"strict preventative measures to keep all employees safe while staying open for business\".\n\n\"We expect our partners to apply similar fundamental priorities and will distance ourselves from those who don't,\" the firm added.\n\nZalando said it will take action \"to address endemic human rights issues identified with Boohoo and in their supply chain\".\n\n\"Only once all corrective actions have been satisfactorily addressed by Boohoo, can a conversation be revisited to discuss the commercial relationship between Zalando and the Boohoo group moving forward.\"\n\nAsos, meanwhile, has temporarily suspended its trading relationship with all Boohoo brands.\n\nIt is understood the suspension will remain pending the outcome of Boohoo's investigation.", "\"No one will be left without hope.\"\n\nThat's quite the promise from the Chancellor at a time when fears are rising of a spike in unemployment.\n\nJobs have already been disappearing. As expected, therefore, Rishi Sunak's priority at the despatch box was to find ways to create new jobs, and to protect others.\n\nThe new Jobs Retention Bonus, a cash payment to employers who bring staff back from the taxpayer backed furlough scheme, was the big surprise - it is a significant and potentially very expensive way of trying to get people back to work.\n\nBosses who bring staff back to work after they have been at home on taxpayer funded wages will get £1,000 per employee if they are still on the payroll at the end of January.\n\nHypothetically, it could cost up to £9bn if everyone returns to work. That seems unlikely, and it is impossible to know what the take up will be, but it is another major intervention from this Conservative chancellor.\n\nHe's prepared to spend as much as £30bn by the time you include the other measures he confirmed - cuts to stamp duty, VAT in the hospitality sectors down to 5%, a scheme to create jobs for young people that might have a price tag of £2bn. Spending on infrastructure was accelerated too and don't forget an 'eat out to help out' scheme where customers will get discounts on their social life (although not including alcohol) courtesy of the Chancellor - insert pun here.\n\nDon't let excitement about a few cheap burgers (only Monday to Wednesday) distract you from what this is about.\n\nThe Chancellor has just outlined another hefty chunk of spending to try to prop up the economy, specifically to try to keep millions of people from joining the dole.\n\nMany of the measures run against traditional Tory instincts. And there isn't a whiff of how any of it will be paid for for at least another couple of months.\n\nBut that's against the background of the sharpest decline in the economy in generations, with the fortunes of what will actually happen next dependent on the progress of a deadly disease.\n\nThe opposition parties already suggest that the scale of what the government is proposing falls short of what will be required.\n\nRishi Sunak admitted in his statement \"our plan will not be the last - it is the next\", knowing full well that the profound economic impact of the coronavirus crisis is far from passed.", "The government is offering a carrot to businesses if they hang on to their workers.\n\n£1,000 for every worker who returns from furlough who is still employed at the end of January.\n\nThe government says it could cost up to £9bn – a pretty blunt calculation of 9 million furloughed workers multiplied by £1000.\n\nOf course it won’t be that simple.\n\nThe calculation facing business owners is more complicated.\n\nDo they want to start paying 5% of employee wage costs next month, then 14% in September and then over 20% in October – followed by three months of full wages to land a prize of £1,000 during the worst recession in living memory.\n\nA lot of that will be contingent on demand, which the chancellor has tried to stimulate in the worst-affected industries by cutting VAT and offering half-price early bird food, but it is surely wildly optimistic to think that employers will hang on for that long.\n\nWe also learned two other important things today.\n\nFirst, that any idea of extending the furlough scheme – as many have called for in some form - appears dead.\n\nSecond, the government and business are realising just how much they need each other.\n\nThese programmes are big and challenging to deliver.\n\nRishi Sunak said early on that today is not the last intervention but the next intervention.\n\nThe biggest question of all – the question that may determine the future of hundreds of thousands of workers - is whether he’s made his carrot big enough.", "Supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) must be guaranteed ahead of winter when the UK could face a second wave of coronavirus, say MPs.\n\nThe cross-party committee says it is not convinced there is a robust plan or \"sufficient urgency\" from government.\n\nIt comes after an official assessment of the supply and distribution of PPE in England between March and May highlighted shortcomings.\n\nNationally, PPE stocks never ran out, says the government.\n\nBut there were some shortages, including the supply of gowns.\n\nThe Commons Public Accounts Committee called on ministers to come forward with a detailed plan within two months, setting out how they intended to keep the NHS and the care sector fully supplied in future.\n\nThe business leader brought in by the government to sort out shortages of PPE, Lord Paul Deighton, recently told the BBC that supplies were now stable and had been secured for the rest of the year.\n\nSince the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, global demand for PPE has been at unprecedented levels.\n\nMuch of the PPE used in the UK is bought from overseas suppliers.\n\nAs of 5 July, the Department of Health and Social Care had distributed more than 2.2 billion items of PPE for use by health and social care services in England.\n\nThat compares with 2.43bn for the whole of 2019, pre-coronavirus.\n\nAlmost 28 billion items of PPE have been ordered overall from UK-based manufacturers and international partners to provide a continuous supply in the coming months.\n\nTemporary scrapping of VAT on PPE has been extended until the end of October to make it easier and cheaper for care homes, charities and businesses to acquire the vital kit.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We do not accept these claims. We have been working around the clock to deliver PPE to the frontline throughout this global pandemic, working with industry, the NHS and the armed forces to create a distribution network to supply over 58,000 settings.\n\n\"We will continue to give the NHS whatever it needs and protect it for the future. We have written off £13.4bn of NHS hospital debt, recently announced another £1.5bn of capital investment, and we will deliver 50,000 more nurses by end of this Parliament.\"", "Bianca Williams won European and Commonwealth gold in the 4x100m relay in 2018\n\nThe Met has referred itself to the policing watchdog over the controversial stop-and-search of a British sprinter in west London.\n\nBianca Williams and Ricardo dos Santos, a Portuguese 400m runner, were stopped in Maida Vale on Saturday.\n\nCommonwealth Games gold medallist Williams, 26, accused the Met of racially profiling her partner for driving a black Mercedes.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will investigate.\n\nFootage of the stop and search has been shared widely on social media.\n\nIn a statement the Met said the decision to refer to the IOPC had been taken \"due to the complaint being recorded and the significant public interest\".\n\n\"Two reviews of the circumstances by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards have not identified misconduct for any officer involved,\" the force added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter after being posted by former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who questioned why the vehicle had been targeted\n\nThe Met had said officers were patrolling the area in which Ms Williams was stopped because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nBut Ms Williams believes she and her partner were targeted because they are black and were driving a Mercedes.\n\n\"They [the officers] said there's a lot of youth violence and stabbings in the area and that the car looked very suspicious,\" she said on Monday.\n\n\"They see a black male driving a nice car, an all-black car, and they assume that he was involved in some sort of gang, drug, violence problem.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan told the BBC he was \"pleased\" that the Met had referred the case as \"it's really important that Londoners have trust and confidence in the police and the way the police are policed\".\n\n\"There are concerns about the how the police behaved so it's right and proper that those concerns are looked into,\" he said.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Met Police Federation, said it had been supporting officers involved in the incident and called on the IOPC to \"conclude their work in a fair and timely fashion\".\n\nHe added that \"a short clip of an incident widely shared on social media does not always tell the full operational policing story\".\n\nThe police watchdog is also investigating a video of a white officer from Cambridgeshire Police quizzing a black driver which was shot in Ely in 2015 and was shared on Facebook in June as Black Lives Matter protests took place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Attractions could, but might not, pass the VAT cut on to ticket prices\n\nA reduction in VAT might not cut the price of a family trip to the rollercoasters, but venues hope it may give their sector less of a rocky ride.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a temporary drop in the sales tax from 20% to 5% for attractions, meals and accommodation.\n\nA family ticket to the zoo of £144 could, in theory, become £18 cheaper.\n\nBut experts predict many businesses will not cut prices, instead using the money to save their ailing businesses.\n\nThe chancellor said the VAT rate on food, non-alcoholic drink, accommodation and attractions in the UK would be cut to 5% between 15 July and 12 January.\n\nIn theory, the rate change could mean a couple buying a pub meal costing £45 without alcohol would save £5.62, while a £54.50 one-night stay at a hotel in a family room would see a saving of £6.81, according to accountants Deloitte.\n\nIn practice, venues may decide to keep prices the same, but keep the extra money they would have sent to the tax authority. Providers will not refund those who have booked and paid for accommodation later in the summer, because the rate is for when the sale was made.\n\nMany of these businesses find themselves on the brink, given they were closed for months during lockdown, and the Treasury believes that the choice should remain with these operators, rather than the government, on whether to pass on savings.\n\nMinisters may hope to get somewhere close to the reaction of a VAT cut in 2008, when eight in 10 firms said they passed it on, although that was a much more wide-ranging policy.\n\nThis latest cut marks a move towards more targeted support for the worst-hit sectors of the economy.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of trade body UK Hospitality, said: \"This [VAT change] doesn't mean we are out of the woods and there are still significant challenges ahead.\"\n\nThe biggest of these was the rent payments that many of these businesses still needed to pay, despite not having any income for weeks.\n\nThe policy will mean many businesses in the hospitality sector will be operating on three different rates of the sales tax.\n\nAlcohol will see a 20% VAT rate, there is a 0% VAT rate on cold takeaway food, and everything else will now see a temporary 5% rate.\n\nThis would add an extra administrative burden for the sector, said Alison Horner, from accountants MHA MacIntyre Hudson.\n\nThere is concern, too, about the timing of the latest cut.\n\nAlthough the summer holidays mean many families will be free to visit attractions, they still may be nervous in doing so.\n\nThey may be worried about coronavirus. They may not fancy the idea of booking days, or possibly weeks, in advance, as venues have reduced their capacity. They might not like the potential of having to queue at a social distance.\n\nIf the venues themselves could not increase the number of customers owing to virus restrictions, then the VAT would just be a giveaway not targeted at those who were struggling, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.\n\nTax specialist Chas Roy-Chowdhury argued that the chancellor could have delayed any VAT cuts until a vaccine was found and people returned to some kind of normality.\n\nThis would give the UK economy some significant \"momentum\" at that time, he said, rather than a watered-down version now.\n\nOthers, including many venues, would argue that without any stimulus now, many of these restaurants, cinemas or attractions simply would not survive until then.", "The 2020 Ryder Cup has been postponed for a year because the coronavirus pandemic means the event cannot be staged safely with spectators present.\n\nThe match between the United States and Europe was due to be held at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin on 25-27 September.\n\nBut the biennial event has now been rescheduled for 24-26 September 2021.\n\n\"The spectators make it a unique and compelling event and playing without them was not a realistic option,\" said PGA of America chief Seth Waugh.\n\n\"It became clear that our medical experts and the public authorities in Wisconsin could not give us certainty that conducting an event responsibly with thousands of spectators in September would be possible.\n\n\"Given that uncertainty, we knew rescheduling was the right call.\"\n\nProfessional men's golf in the US has resumed behind closed doors but players have said the Ryder Cup should not go ahead without fans.\n\nThe women's Solheim Cup is scheduled to take place from 4-6 September, 2021 in Ohio and LPGA commissioner Mike Whan has told BBC Sport that the Ryder Cup decision does not affect their plans.\n\nThe European Tour announced that the qualification process for the European team has been frozen until the beginning of 2021.\n\nAnd the next Ryder Cup to be held in Europe has been pushed back a year with Rome now set to host the event in 2023.\n\n'The crowd atmosphere would have missed'\n\nEurope captain Padraig Harrington said it was a \"relief\" that organisers decided to postpone the competition.\n\n\"For me, it was very messy behind the scenes,\" the 48-year-old Irishman said.\n\n\"The decision was based on health and safety, but trying to get organised behind the scenes, it was going to be incredibly difficult to pull a team together that was fair and representative, and all the complications that go with it.\n\n\"For example, what happens if a player gets Covid? What happens if there's a cluster? Do players have to quarantine?\"\n\nHarrington also said that if the Ryder Cup went ahead without fans then it would have lost part of its character.\n\n\"The team atmosphere the crowd generate, that would've been missed,\" the three-time major winner added. \"When you win in a tournament it's very exciting, but you don't get the same experience as you would at the Ryder Cup.\n\n\"I've seen over the years, the amount of players that come out of their shell in terms of their personality because of the crowds and that would be missed.\"\n\nIn 2018 Europe regained the trophy with a 17½-10½ win over USA in the 42nd edition of the biennial competition.\n\nMeanwhile, there has been a knock-on effect from the rescheduling with next September's Presidents Cup - between the US and a Rest of the World team - at Quail Hollow also now postponed for a year.\n\nThe Wells Fargo Championship will be played at its traditional venue at Quail Hollow in 2021 and at TPC Potomac in 2022, during Presidents Cup year.\n\nThis year's PGA Tour in the US has played four events behind closed doors following the shutdown enforced by coronavirus, despite a handful of positive tests, while the European Tour will resume on 22 July with the first of six successive UK events.\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus cases is rising again in the US with fears it could reach 100,000 per day.\n\nOnly three of the four annual men's majors are scheduled to take place in 2020 - all of them in the United States - after the Open Championship, due to be played from 15-18 July at Royal St George's in Kent, was cancelled.\n\nThe rearranged USPGA Championship is now set to be the first major of the year but that will be held behind closed doors in San Francisco from 6-9 August.\n\nThe US Open is to be played at Winged Foot in New York State from 17-20 September, with the Masters following from 12-15 November at Augusta National.\n\nIt was clear there were two different camps: those who know the financial difficulties of navigating this period without holding an event that is their biggest cash cow, and the players.\n\nThese golfers had no interest in generating roars and cheers that would only be heard in living rooms. They need to hear them for themselves - that is what makes the Ryder Cup such an attractive proposition for them.\n\nAnd it was that view that ultimately held sway. The players are everything and their views are the ones that played the biggest part in the decision to postpone until 2021.\n\nSo we will wait another year. Hopefully former Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn's fears are unfounded, although there is plenty to suggest he makes a worryingly worthwhile point over whether it will be possible to have fans at the match in 2021.", "British sprinter Bianca Williams said she had \"never had to experience anything like this\", after being stopped by police in her car in London.\n\nWilliams, 26, and her partner Ricardo dos Santos have accused the Metropolitan Police of racial profiling and acting violently towards them.\n\n\"It's a really sad world that we live in and if it's not one black man, it's another black man,\" a tearful Williams said on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nWilliams said she and Dos Santos - who had their three-month-old son in the car - are considering legal action.\n\nShe added: \"It was just weird that we were treated that way and what hurt me the most was me being dragged away from my son.\"\n\nWilliams and Portuguese 400m record holder Dos Santos, 25, fear they were targeted because they are black and drive a Mercedes.\n• None When can police stop and search you?\n\nPolice say the vehicle had been on the wrong side of the road and the driver sped off when asked to stop.\n\nOfficers were patrolling in the Maida Vale area because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nA police statement said: \"Officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards have reviewed both footage from social media, and the body-worn video of the officers, and are satisfied that there is no concern around the officers' conduct.\"\n\nHowever, Williams - who says she has been left \"really shaken\" by the incident - insists \"at no point did we drive on the wrong side of the road or speed off\".\n\n\"We didn't want to get out of the car because of how their behaviour was, they had batons ready and it is very scary, you worry about your life when the police are acting that way, we had a baby in the car,\" the European and Commonwealth relay gold medallist said.\n\n\"My partner got dragged out of the car, they handcuffed him straight away and pinned him up against the wall... I didn't want to be separated from my three-month-old son and they then put me in handcuffs straight away too.\n\n\"It's just nasty and the police were talking to him [Ricardo] as if he was scum, as if his life didn't matter.\n\n\"The police always say to him you look like someone we're looking for, how can you afford a £60,000 car, you look very suspicious.\"\n\nDos Santos and Williams say police handcuffed them while their son was in the car and carried out a search that lasted 45 minutes.\n\nVideo of the incident showed them protesting that they had done nothing wrong and Williams screaming \"my son is in the car\".\n\nDos Santos, who plans to meet lawyers on Monday, said he had been stopped by police as many as 15 times since they changed their car to a Mercedes in November 2017.\n\nOn Monday, British Athletics released a statement about the incident, saying: \"We are aware of the hugely distressing footage of Bianca Williams and her partner being handcuffed by the police outside their home yesterday.\n\n\"Our staff have been in touch with her and will be on hand for any support required.\"\n\nThe police statement said that at about 13:25 BST on Saturday, officers from the Territorial Support Group \"witnessed a vehicle with blacked-out windows that was driving suspiciously, including driving on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nThe statement added: \"They indicated for it to stop but it failed to do so and made off at speed. The officers caught up with the vehicle when it stopped on Lanhill Road. The driver initially refused to get out of the car.\"\n\nThey searched Williams and Dos Santos, and the vehicle. Nothing was found and no arrests were made.\n\nThe incident was first raised on social media by their coach, 1992 Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who accused the police of abusing their power and institutionalised racism.\n\nWilliams, the fifth-fastest British woman in history over 200m, and Dos Santos said a written report given to them by police did not mention driving on the wrong side of the road, and that where they stopped is a single car-width road.\n\nWhen can the police stop and search you?\n\nIn most cases in England and Wales, police can only stop and search you (or your vehicle) if they have \"reasonable grounds\" that you might be carrying:\n• None Something that could be used to carry out a crime, like a crowbar\n\nReasonable grounds for stopping someone cannot be based on race or whether the person is a known criminal.\n\nInstead, officers must base it on current intelligence (has there been a recent crime in the area, for example) and make balanced judgement calls on the behaviour of the suspect.\n\nIn this case, the Metropolitan Police says there had been an increase in violent crime in the area and that the car in question was driving suspiciously. Bianca Williams denies this.\n\nIf you are stopped, you have a number of rights. This includes being told the reason why you are being stopped, what they expect to find on you and information on how to receive records of the search.", "Six men have been arrested in the Netherlands following the discovery of seven shipping containers converted into cells and torture chambers.\n\nThe containers were located in Wouwse Plantage, south of Rotterdam, after French police cracked encrypted phones used by criminals.\n\nDutch police said the containers were found before they were used, and potential victims were now in hiding.\n\nInside the containers was a dentist chair with straps and handcuffs.\n\nPolice also found a building in Rotterdam, which they believe was another criminal base.\n\nThe suspects were arrested on 22 June following a Franco-Dutch operation to infiltrate the EncroChat encrypted phone system.\n\nPolice intercepted millions of messages including that of one of the suspects, a 40-year-old man from The Hague. Investigators were able to access his contacts via an Encrochat phone.\n\nAfter locating the containers in April in Wouwse Plantage, near the Belgian border, police put the area under observation and found that multiple men were working on them almost every day. When the containers were almost finished, investigators decided to intervene.\n\nA video posted online by police shows officers arresting the suspects and also entering the containers.\n\nOfficers found handcuffs attached to the floors and ceilings of the structures, which had also been soundproofed.\n\nIn one container, they also discovered police clothing and bulletproof vests. In another, they located pruning shears, scalpels and balaclavas.\n\nTwo of the suspects have also been detained for possession of weapons.\n\nThe arrests are among 800 made across Europe after EncroChat messages were intercepted and decoded.\n\nEncroChat, which has now been taken down, was based in France and had an estimated 60,000 subscribers.\n\nIt operated on customised Android phones and, according to its website, provided \"worry-free secure communications\".\n\nCustomers were able to access features such as self-destructing messages, which deleted from the recipient's device after a certain amount of time.\n\nThe system also had a panic wipe, which meant all data could be removed from the device by entering a four-digit code from the lock-screen.\n\nGangs are believed to have used the devices to plot attacks on rival groups, plan ways of enforcing drug debts and arrange for money to be laundered. Threats detailed on the site included acid attacks and chopping off limbs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tom Symonds is shown how a customised Android phone with EncroChat installed works", "The publication of leaked WhatsApp messages sent and received by former health secretary Matt Hancock has highlighted the issue of government policy on care homes during the first wave of coronavirus.\n\nThe Telegraph claims Mr Hancock ignored advice - in April 2020 - to test everybody going into care homes.\n\nHis spokesperson disputes this and says he had also been advised that there was not enough capacity to do so.\n\nSo, what action did the government take in the care sector in England, where there were more than 40,000 deaths involving Covid-19.\n\nOn 14 March 2020, the government began prioritising the most vulnerable individuals for testing, including those in hospitals and care homes.\n\nIf an outbreak was suspected, a handful of residents at a home could be tested.\n\nReality Check understands that some care providers found access to testing to be very limited at this time.\n\nFigures for March to May 2020\n\nOn 14 April, according to messages seen by The Telegraph, which we cannot independently verify, there was discussion of advice from Chief Medical Officer Sir Chris Whitty to Mr Hancock that there should be testing for everyone going into care homes.\n\nIt is reported that Mr Hancock initially accepted that advice but later that day changed his mind and said the government should just commit to testing people being moved to care homes from hospitals.\n\nMr Hancock's spokesperson said this followed an operational meeting at which he had been advised that it was not possible to test everyone going into care homes.\n\nOn 15 April, the social care action plan was launched as care home deaths in England were peaking at around 400 a day.\n\nThis included a pledge to test all care staff who needed one, for example if they were in a household that was self-isolating.\n\nAt that point, just 1,000 care staff had been tested out of an estimated half a million who work in care homes.\n\nThe government said it would \"move... to a policy of testing all residents prior to admission to care homes\", starting with people being moved there from hospitals.\n\nAll care home residents with coronavirus symptoms would also be tested.\n\nOn 28 April, this was extended to all care staff and residents, regardless of whether they had symptoms.\n\nIt's important to remember that early in the pandemic it wasn't widely understood that people who didn't have symptoms could pass on coronavirus.\n\nOn 19 March 2020, NHS guidance said that \"unless required to be in hospital, patients must not remain in an NHS bed\".\n\nThis policy was implemented to free up beds in advance of an expected surge in coronavirus patients.\n\nOn 2 April, the rules on discharging patients to care homes were clarified, saying \"negative [coronavirus] tests are not required prior to transfers/admissions into the care home\".\n\nEven elderly patients who tested positive could be admitted to care homes, if measures - such as wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and isolation - were used.\n\nFrom 15 April, the government said that all patients discharged from hospitals would be tested for coronavirus.\n\nBy this time, an estimated 25,000 patients had been discharged to care homes. In July, Panorama gathered data from 39 hospital trusts, which showed three-quarters of people discharged were untested.\n\nUp to this point more than 5,700 care home residents had died in England and Wales (either in homes or in hospital).\n\nPublic Health England has published research into the impact of hospital transfers. It found that 1.6% of the lab-confirmed outbreaks in care homes that they knew about by mid-October 2020, had come from people discharged from hospitals.\n\nBut it is not clear what percentage of outbreaks up to 15 April (when the testing policy changed) were the result of patients being moved to homes.\n\nAnd it is important to note that, at this time, there was a lack of testing so not every outbreak may have been recorded. Also, the figures do not count people who were not previously care home residents who were transferred into them from hospitals.\n\nThe government has repeatedly said that decisions to discharge patients from hospitals during this time were made by medical professionals on a case-by-case basis.\n\nIn March 2020, specific guidance related to coronavirus said that the PPE in care homes should be similar to that used in hospital settings.\n\nThe government launched the National Supply Disruption Response on 13 March, a centralised line for care and health providers to raise concerns.\n\nThis was followed on 19 March by a promise to deliver 300 masks to each care provider.\n\nConcerns over PPE peaked at the end of March and early April, as bodies such as Unison, the Royal College of Nursing and care homes themselves highlighted shortages.\n\nBecause care homes are generally privately-run, they are responsible for purchasing their own PPE. Many found their local suppliers were running low and that they were competing with better-funded hospitals.\n\nA letter from the government on 2 April recognised \"the challenges providers may have experienced in obtaining PPE supplies over recent weeks,\" and promised that the supply chain would be bolstered, with support from the armed forces.\n\nOn 10 April the government announced a PPE action plan, which included freeing up 34 million pieces of equipment to \"local resilience forums\" who would then distribute it to care homes through local authorities.\n\nBy this point, 3,100 care home residents had died in England and Wales.\n\nGeneral guidance produced on 25 February 2020 included advice for carers on what to do if they came into contact with someone with Covid-19 - but there was nothing advising against visits to care homes.\n\nIn one section it said: \"It remains very unlikely that people receiving care in a care home or the community will become infected.\"\n\nAnother section said: \"Currently there is no evidence of transmission of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom. There is no need to do anything differently in any care setting at present.\"\n\nHowever, the government's own Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) had advised on 10 February that \"it is a realistic probability that there is already sustained transmission in the UK, or that it will become established in the coming weeks.\"\n\nOn 3 March, the government released its coronavirus action plan - the document did not mention restricting visits to care homes.\n\nBy 5 March, England had had 273 cases of people with the virus.\n\nThat day Prof Chris Whitty told a committee of MPs that as there were cases that could not be traced back to people who had come from abroad, it was \"highly likely therefore that there is some level of community transmission in this virus in the UK now\".\n\nItaly suspended visits to care homes at this point, five weeks after recording its first case. A day later, Nursing Homes Ireland, which represents hundreds of care homes in Ireland, banned non-essential visits, just six days after the first confirmed case in the country.\n\nOn 10 March, Prof Martin Green, head of Care England, which represents independent care providers, directed criticism in an Independent article at the government for its response.\n\n\"There is no evidence of a plan. I'm not even certain they have these plans and aren't just making them up as they go along,\" he said.\n\nSome homes were already deciding to close their doors to visitors, with care groups Barchester and HC-One stopping non-essential visits on 10 March and 12 March.\n\nScottish Care - a representative body for social care in Scotland - advised care homes to close to visits on 11 March.\n\nOn 13 March, the government's guidance from 25 February was updated to say that \"care home providers are advised to review their visiting policy, by asking no-one to visit who has suspected Covid-19 or is generally unwell, and by emphasising good hand hygiene for visitors\".\n\nOn the same day, Bupa and Four Seasons care homes stopped non-essential visits.\n\nIt wasn't until 16 March that it was announced that social distancing should be carried out by everyone, in particular those aged over 70 and vulnerable people.\n\nThat day, the prime minister was asked about care homes and said: \"We don't want to see people unnecessarily visiting care homes.\"\n\nIn the period between 25 February and 16 March, 14 deaths of care home residents were reported along with 30 outbreaks in England's 15,000 care homes.\n\nOn 21 March, guidance was introduced to encourage medically vulnerable people to remain indoors as much as possible until the end of June - a process known as shielding.\n\nFinally, on 2 April a document from the Department of Health and Social Care said that \"family and friends should be advised not to visit care homes, except next of kin in exceptional situations such as end of life\".\n\nThis piece was originally published in July 2020.", "Ameer Davies-Rana can be seen on S4C's Hansh service and heard on BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales\n\nA TV presenter who endured racism while growing up has backed calls to remove a monument to a slave trader.\n\nSir Thomas Picton, a 19th Century war hero from Haverfordwest, has been denounced for cruelty as a slave owner and colonial governor of Trinidad.\n\nCarmarthenshire councillors have voted unanimously to adopt a plan to tackle racism in line with the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nAmeer Davies-Rana, 23, said it was time to \"get rid\" of such memorials.\n\nMr Davies-Rana, who has contributed to S4C's Hansh service and to BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales, said he suffered racist comments \"from an early age\" while growing up in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.\n\n\"In primary school, I was the only person of colour, so it made me question my identity. In secondary school, racism was thrown in my face with the p-word and n-word,\" he said.\n\nMr Davies-Rana said he could recall one incident while visiting Carmarthen, when he was passing a group of children on a busy street \"shouting at the top of their voices, the n-word\".\n\n\"I couldn't believe it. As soon as I turned a corner, I burst out crying,\" he said.\n\nCalls have been made to remove memorials around the UK which honour people with links to slavery and racism.\n\nIt follows protests around the world after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis in the United States.\n\nAn \"urgent audit\" is to be carried out of statues, street and building names to address the country's connections with the slave trade, the Welsh government announced on Monday.\n\nThere have also been calls to remove the obelisk to Picton in Carmarthen, along with street names associated with the general, who was killed at Waterloo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. TV presenter Ameer Davies-Rana wants the obelisk removed but one councillor says it should include a more \"rounded picture\" of Picton's past\n\nMr Davies-Rana said: \"Personally, I think we should get rid of them. We are in a new day and age. Racism is not tolerated, regardless of who you are.\"\n\nAt the Carmarthenshire council meeting, the motion discussed calls to:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCouncillor Cefin Campbell, a Plaid Cymru member of Carmarthenshire's executive board, said the authority was determined to see meaningful change.\n\n\"We need to reach out and listen to BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] communities' concerns and experiences,\" he said.\n\n\"We need that to impact on our policy. We need to educate young people about the impact of racism and how unacceptable it is.\"\n\nA review of public monuments - including the controversial Thomas Picton monument - will be reviewed.\n\nAddressing the meeting, Llwynhendy Labour councillor Fozia Akhtar said memorials such as Picton's should be removed \"as we should not promote anybody who promotes racism\".\n\n\"We need to re-evaluate who we put up as role models,\" she added.\n\nIndependent councillor Shahana Najmi, who represents the Lliedi ward Llanelli, said issues on diversity in the authority's workforce needed to be examined.\n\nA task-and-finish group will be set up to hear the concerns of the BAME community across the authority, to inform policy. It will be asked to conclude its work within six months.", "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\nA £2bn temporary jobs scheme for the under 25s will be unveiled by the chancellor later. The \"kickstart scheme\" will subsidise six-month work placements for an estimated 350,000 people. The government will cover the cost of the National Minimum Wage and employers will be able to top it up. Applications will open in August, with the first jobs expected to start in the autumn. We'll hear from the chancellor in the Commons at lunchtime - here's what a selection of young people are hoping for.\n\nCampaigners say home-schooling has taken a toll on both parents and children, and it's \"not sustainable, fair or workable\" to assume a similar situation could continue in the event of future lockdowns. Parents responded to a survey from group Sept for Schools asking for their experiences with stories of stress, guilt and strained relationships.\n\nThe government says all pupils in England will be back in school in September. Schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland are aiming for a full return for all pupils when the new term begins. In Wales, ministers have said blended learning - a mix of home and classroom learning - would be likely for some time to come, but more detail is expected in the coming days.\n\nFor months, the World Health Organization has insisted Covid-19 is transmitted via droplets emitted when people cough or sneeze and that they do not linger in the air. However, the organisation has now accepted there's emerging evidence it can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air after people talk or breathe out - especially in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated settings. It could potentially strengthen calls for the widespread wearing of masks, and there are also warnings that discarded PPE could be damaging our oceans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: 'The masks you throw away could end up killing a whale'\n\nThe first International cricket match to take place anywhere in the world for 128 days is due to get under way at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton later. It'll be played behind closed doors in a bio-secure environment with crowd-noise pumped in for atmosphere. Stand-in captain Ben Stokes said the team understood it was an important moment for fans across the country.\n\nLet's just not talk about the rain...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will an England Test match look like?\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest in our live page.\n\nPlus, can you become reinfected with coronavirus if you've already had it? BBC health reporter Rachel Schraer looks at what we know so far about immunity and Covid-19.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 20m-high (65ft) crane crashed on to a property in Gale Street, Bow\n\nA woman died and four people were injured when a crane collapsed on to houses and a block of flats which were being built in London.\n\nThe 20m (65ft) crane crashed on to the development and two terrace houses in Compton Close, Bow, before 14:40 BST.\n\nThe woman was found on the first floor of one of the houses and died at the scene. Four others were injured, including two people taken to hospital for head injuries.\n\nOne witness described \"feeling the ground shake\" when the crane collapsed\n\nThe crane collapsed where a block of flats was being built in Watts Grove and crashed on to two adjacent houses.\n\nA woman whose home was one of those damaged said she and her family were \"so lucky to be alive\".\n\n\"The way that everything fell - if my brother or sister had been in their rooms which is where it hit directly, I just cannot bear to think about it,\" she said.\n\nSecuring the properties will be a \"complex rescue operation,\" London Fire Brigade said\n\nThe woman, who asked not to be identified, described the sound of the collapse as being \"like an earthquake\", adding that she had been left \"traumatised\" by what had happened.\n\nAnother witness described \"feeling the ground shake\" when the crane collapsed.\n\nDJ Munro, who lives nearby, said he heard \"the metal of the crane crushing against the scaffolding and then the wood crushing in the house\".\n\nA video posted on social media showed a terrace house with part of the roof collapsed.\n\nEyewitness Bridget Teirney said she believed the crane driver had escaped safely.\n\nTwo people were treated in hospital and another two were treated at the scene\n\nThe crane that collapsed was being used by Swan Housing Association and NU living at the time.\n\nA spokeswoman for Swan Housing Association and NU living said they were \"deeply saddened by an incident that occurred at our Watts Grove development site this afternoon\".\n\n\"Our staff are on site to provide support to the emergency response and the investigation.\"\n\nJerry Swain, national officer for union Unite, said there had to be \"an urgent, full and complete investigation into the circumstances that led to this accident\".\n\nHe added: \"The preliminary findings of which must be released in weeks, rather than months or years, in order to ensure that similar accidents are avoided in the future.\"\n\nThe crane also crashed on to a block of flats under development\n\nLondon Ambulance Service tweeted to say it had \"a number of crews and specialist resources\" at the scene.\n\nLFB assistant commissioner Graham Ellis said securing the house had been a \"complex rescue operation\".\n\nMr Ellis said: \"Our Urban Search and Rescue crews undertook a complex rescue operation and used specialist equipment to search the properties.\"\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan said the collapse was \"a tragedy\" and his \"heartfelt condolences go out to the family of the victim who died\".\n\n\"We must ensure the lessons are learned so an accident like this never happens again,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fast fashion brand Boohoo has ordered an independent review of its UK supply chain following reports of poor working conditions at a factory in Leicester.\n\nIt comes after retailers Next and Asos dropped Boohoo goods from their stores amid claims workers were underpaid and not socially distancing.\n\nThe firm is also facing calls for a boycott on social media.\n\nBoohoo, which said it was \"appalled\" by the allegations, has asked a senior barrister to lead the review.\n\nIt comes after a Sunday Times report claimed workers at a Leicester factory that supplied clothes to Boohoo were paid just £3.50 an hour, while being offered no protection from coronavirus.\n\nThe factory was also said to be operating during a localised lockdown designed to stop a spike in Covid-19 cases in Leicester.\n\nLabour Behind the Label, a workers' rights group, has separately claimed that some employees at factories in Leicester that supply the fast fashion firm were \"forced to come into work while sick with Covid-19\".\n\nBoohoo said it took \"extremely seriously all allegations of malpractice, poor working conditions, and underpayment of workers\".\n\nIt said that Alison Levitt, a senior barrister who specialises in business crime, would lead an investigation looking into whether the company's suppliers pay the minimum wage, and comply with coronavirus safety regulations, working hours rules and immigration law.\n\nIt will also spend an initial £10m \"to eradicate supply chain malpractice\", with the help of audit and compliance specialists Verisio and Bureau Veritas.\n\nThe brand is popular with young women in particular, who it targets with marketing campaigns using Instagram \"influencers\" including contestants from the reality TV show Love Island .\n\nThat strategy could be in question, as the company was criticised on platforms including Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag boycottboohoo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex cast member Vas Morgan and model Jayde Pierce, distanced themselves from the brand in social media posts on Tuesday.Boohoo said in June that it expected sales to increase by at least 25% this year, a stark contrast to the struggles seen at many High Street retailers.\n\nHowever, shares in the firm have dropped by almost half this week, diving 23% on Wednesday alone.\n\nThe company has grown rapidly since it was founded in Manchester in 2006 by Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane.\n\nBefore the Sunday Times' investigation the business was valued at about £5bn.", "Johnny Depp was pictured arriving at the High Court in London on Tuesday morning\n\nClaims that Johnny Depp was violent towards ex-wife Amber Heard are \"complete lies\", his lawyers have told the High Court.\n\nThe actor is suing the publisher of the Sun - News Group Newspapers (NGN) - and executive editor Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\".\n\nMr Depp has strenuously denied that he was violent towards Ms Heard.\n\nBut NGN lawyers said the \"wife beater\" description was \"entirely accurate\".\n\nBoth Mr Depp and Ms Heard were in court in London on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a written outline of the Hollywood star's case, his barrister, David Sherborne, said the article made \"defamatory allegations of the utmost seriousness\" against Mr Depp, accusing him of committing serious assaults on Ms Heard and \"inflicting such serious injuries that she feared for her life\".\n\nMr Sherborne said: \"The articles amount to a full-scale attack on the claimant as a 'wife beater', guilty of the most horrendous physical abuse.\"\n\nHe added: \"The claimant's position is clear - Ms Heard's allegations are complete lies.\n\n\"The claimant was not violent towards Ms Heard, it was she who was violent to him.\"\n\nAmber Heard wore a face covering as she turned up at the High Court\n\nDuring a day of cross-examination by Sasha Wass QC, barrister for NGN, she argued there was a \"nasty\" side to Mr Depp's character.\n\nShe later suggested Mr Depp \"regularly engaged in destructive and violent behaviour\", which the actor denied.\n\nThe court was shown a video, recorded by Ms Heard without Mr Depp's knowledge, in which he was shown pacing around a room, swearing and kicking a cabinet.\n\nAsked by Ms Wass if he would agree he was violent in the clip, Mr Depp replied: \"I was violent with some cupboards.\"\n\nHe added: \"Clearly, I wasn't in the best state of mind.\"\n\nMr Depp was also questioned about his use of drugs and said there had been \"an internal fight in me in terms of alcohol and drugs and other numbing agents throughout my life, from the age of 11\", when he first took one of his mother's \"nerve pills\".\n\nAs part of its defence, NGN alleges Mr Depp was \"controlling and verbally and physically abusive towards Ms Heard, particularly when he was under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs\".\n\nIn witness statements filed as part of the case, Mr Depp said he has never abused Ms Heard, or any other woman, in his life and alleged Ms Heard was \"calculating\", \"sociopathic\" and \"a narcissist\".\n\n\"I am now convinced that she came into my life to take from me anything worth taking, and then destroy what remained of it,\" he said.\n\nMr Depp said the pair sought the help of a marriage counsellor who he says confirmed to him that Ms Heard had a \"borderline, toxic narcissistic personality disorder and is a sociopath\".\n\nIn his witness statements he also accused Ms Heard of repeatedly punching him in the face and severing his finger by throwing a vodka bottle at him.\n\nNGN previously tried to have the case thrown out, but Mr Justice Nicol ruled last week the case could go ahead.\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\"\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the Pirates of the Caribbean star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.\n\nMr Depp, 57, has been Oscar and Bafta-nominated and won a Golden Globe in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He married the Aquaman and The Danish Girl actress, now 34, in February 2015, but she filed for divorce after 15 months.\n\nA defamation action is a civil law claim and can be brought if someone publishes to other people a statement about you which has either caused your reputation serious harm or is likely to cause it serious harm.\n\nThere are four possible defences to defamation. Firstly, that the statement about you is true. Secondly, that it was not a statement of fact but an honest opinion. Thirdly, that publication was justified because it was on a matter of public interest, and finally that it was protected by \"privilege\".\n\nHowever, defamation actions work differently from many civil actions such as breach of contract, where the burden of proving the \"wrong\" lies with the person bringing the claim. In defamation, that person has to show that the statement about them has a defamatory meaning - ie that it lowers them in the minds of right-thinking members of society.\n\n\"Meaning\" is now decided by a judge at an early, pre-trial stage. Many cases settle after the judge has ruled on meaning, but if a claim does go to trial, the burden then lies with the publisher to prove, for example, that the statement was substantially true. This is when the gloves come off and personal reputations and behaviour come under intense scrutiny.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email us at entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The boss of Burger King UK has warned that economic damage triggered by the coronavirus pandemic may push the fast food chain to permanently shut up to 10% of its restaurants.\n\nThose closures could lead to more than 1,600 lost jobs, Alasdair Murdoch said.\n\nGovernment schemes to help the restaurant industry do not do enough to overcome the combination of fixed costs and lost sales, he said.\n\n\"I don't think you can ever get over the top of this problem,\" he said.\n\nBurger King has reopened about 370 of its 530 restaurants in the UK, Mr Murdoch told the BBC's Newscast\n\nOn Wednesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government would subsidise 50% of restaurant bills up to £10 per person in August, in an effort to jumpstart consumer spending.\n\nMr Murdoch said that it was an \"innovative approach\" and that Burger King expected to participate.\n\nBut despite that scheme and other government support, he said the chain could close 5% to 10% of its stores as a result of costs such as rent and \"taking absolutely no money\".\n\nSuch closures would lead to between 800 to 1,600 job losses, he said. The chain has more than 16,500 UK staff, he said.\n\n\"If we can possibly avoid it, we will,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't want to lose any. We try very hard not to, but one's got to assume somewhere between 5% and 10% of the restaurants might not be able to survive,\" he told the BBC's Newscast.\n\n\"It's not just us - I think this applies to everyone out there in our industry,\" he said.\n\nThe firm has been pushing to re-negotiate rents, but he said: \"Some of these High Streets - they're not coming back.\"\n\nMr Murdoch, who has previously said Burger King would withhold its payments, called rents the \"decisive issue\". He said he hoped the government would consider more proactive support on the matter.\n\nHe added that the government's furloughing scheme and VAT cut for restaurants was already aimed at avoiding job losses.", "People gathered at Grenfell Memorial Community Mosaic at the base of the tower block in London on the third anniversary of the fire\n\nThe lead fire safety consultant of the Grenfell Tower refurbishment ignored documents outlining proposed cladding and insulation materials, the inquiry into the fire has heard.\n\nTerry Ashton said he did not read an email from project architects detailing a planned cladding system because he was not the \"primary recipient\".\n\nThe hearing was told he also failed to read the architect's progress report.\n\nThe inquiry has concluded that cladding fuelled the 2017 fire in west London.\n\nHearings in the second phase of the inquiry returned this week after a four-month break due to coronavirus. It is looking at the refurbishment of the residential block in North Kensington in which 72 people died.\n\nMr Ashton, of fire engineering firm Exova, ignored an email from architecture firm Studio E on 23 October 2012 which included attachments containing details and drawings of a planned cladding system.\n\nAsked why, he told the hearing that people are often copied into emails on big projects in \"a sort of scattergun approach\".\n\nThe inquiry's counsel, Kate Grange QC, asked him: \"Wasn't that a really important document prepared by the architects that would inform your work on the outline fire safety strategy?\"\n\nMr Ashton said he would not have read it unless \"specifically asked to do so\".\n\nPeople released balloons at the base of the tower block on the third anniversary of the fire\n\nThe inquiry also heard that he did not read the architect's progress report which he was sent on 31 October 2012, and failed to mention plans to cover the tower block in cladding at all in his first fire safety report published on the same day.\n\nHe said: \"Had we had some sort of preliminary details of the cladding for us to consider then we might have incorporated it in the list.\"\n\nMr Ashton, a fire consultant of 25 years and with no formal training as a fire engineer, said his main focus was on the refurbishment of the lower four floors of the 24-storey tower block at the time\n\nMs Grange showed Mr Ashton the architect's 2012 Stage C report - which he was seeing for the first time - that included drawings and proposed cladding and insulation materials.\n\nShe asked him whether he agreed that it contained \"specific information\" about what was proposed, including the type of insulation to be used in the tower block's outer cladding.\n\nHe replied: \"I can see that now, yes.\"\n\nThe inquiry heard that between October 2012 and November 2013, he produced three issues of a fire strategy report without pressing the architects to ask what materials they planned to use to cover the tower block.\n\nIn all three reports he wrote that the proposed changes will \"have no adverse effect on the building in relation to external fire spread\" adding this would be confirmed by an analysis in a later issue of the report, but no further report was completed.\n\nMr Ashton denied the lawyer's suggestion that failing to ask for further details on the proposed cladding system had been an \"abdication\" of his responsibilities.\n\nHe said: \"I wouldn't put it in those strong terms. We can only react to what we are being given to look at.\"\n\nHe added he accepted that perhaps he should have pursued the architects \"a bit more firmly, or at all\" to ask about what they were doing about the external walls.\n\nExova has previously said criticism of it is \"unjustified\" because it was not consulted about the flammable materials which eventually coated the building in North Kensington.\n\nThe firm's counsel, Michael Douglas QC, has told the inquiry the company had been \"left out\" of planning discussions and had been effectively sidelined after Rydon became the main contractor in 2014.\n\nThe inquiry heard on Monday that Dr Clare Barker, the former principal fire engineer at Exova, did not raise the need for any proposed cladding system to have a separate fire safety assessment during a meeting in July 2012.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak: \"We cannot lose this generation\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is to cut VAT on hospitality as part of a £30bn plan to prevent mass unemployment as the economy is hit by coronavirus.\n\nThe government will also pay firms a £1,000 bonus for every staff member kept on for three months when the furlough scheme ends in October.\n\nAnd Mr Sunak announced a scheme to give 50% off to people dining out in August.\n\nThe chancellor warned \"hardship lies ahead\", but vowed no-one will be left \"without hope\", in a statement to MPs.\n\nHe told MPs he will cut VAT on food, accommodation and attractions from 20% to 5% from next Wednesday.\n\nIt came as the latest death toll for coronavirus, in all settings, increased by 126 to 44,517.\n\nLabour said the chancellor's plans did not go far enough and the job retention money should be better targeted to prevent it going to firms that were already planning to bring staff back.\n\n\"We were promised a 'New Deal', but what we got was a 'Meal Deal',\" the party added.\n\nMr Sunak rejected calls to extend the furlough scheme beyond October, saying it would give people \"false hope\" that they will have a job to return to, and \"the longer people are on furlough, the more likely it is their skills could fade\".\n\nHe conceded that jobs would be lost but said he would \"never accept unemployment as an inevitable outcome\" of the pandemic.\n\nDetails of how the package will be paid for - through borrowing and possible tax rises - are likely to be unveiled in the chancellor's Autumn Budget.\n\n\"Over the medium-term, we must, and we will, put our public finances back on a sustainable footing,\" he told MPs, adding that the jobs plan was merely the next stage \"in our fight to recover and rebuild after coronavirus\".\n\nThe \"job retention bonus\" could cost as much as £9.4bn if every furloughed worker is brought back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak chats to customers and serves a few meals to highlight his VAT rate cut to help the hospitality trade\n\nExplaining how it will work, the chancellor said: \"If you're an employer and you bring back someone who was furloughed - and continuously employ them through to January - we'll pay you a £1,000 bonus per employee.\n\n\"It's vital people aren't just returning for the sake of it - they need to be doing decent work.\n\n\"So for businesses to get the bonus, the employee must be paid at least £520 on average, in each month from November to the end of January - the equivalent of the lower earnings limit in National Insurance.\"\n\nThe VAT cut will apply to eat-in or hot takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks from restaurants, cafes and pubs, accommodation in hotels, B&Bs, campsites and caravan sites, and attractions like cinemas, theme parks and zoos.\n\nRishi Sunak said this \"£4bn catalyst\" would help protect \"over 2.4 million jobs\". The Treasury said it hoped firms would pass the VAT savings on to customers but many had been without income for months so it would be their decision.\n\nThe VAT cut is aimed at boosting theme parks and other attractions\n\nMr Sunak also announced an \"Eat Out to Help Out\" discount, which he said would help protect 1.8 million jobs, at a cost of £0.5bn.\n\nMeals eaten at any participating business, Monday to Wednesday, will be 50% off in August, up to a maximum discount of £10 per head for everyone, including children.\n\nBusinesses will need to register, and can do so through a website, which will open next Monday.\n\nLuke Johnson, former chairman of the Pizza Express, among other restaurant businesses, told BBC Radio 4's PM the chancellor understood the challenges facing the hospitality sector.\n\nAsked if the voucher scheme would work, he said: \"I think a lot of people are still frightened and so every inducement that can be brought to bear to encourage people to get back to their habits of eating and spending and working is good news.\"\n\nThe chancellor also announced a £2.1bn \"kickstart scheme\" to create more jobs for young people.\n\nThe fund will subsidise six-month work placements for people on Universal Credit aged between 16 and 24, who are at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\nA temporary stamp duty holiday, costing £3.8bn, to stimulate the property market was another measure unveiled by the chancellor.\n\nThis will exempt the first £500,000 of all property sales from the tax, from midnight.\n\nA few other pledges released in the build-up to his statement included:\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Annaliese Dodds told the BBC she was \"concerned\" the UK looks \"set to be breaking the previous unfortunate record of three million people unemployed\".\n\nShe said job support should be better targeted to help struggling sectors.\n\nSome 9.3 million workers are having 80% of their salaries paid for by the government - up to £2,500 a month - under the furlough scheme, which was originally due to end in July, before being extended to October, with employer contributions.\n\nFrom August, employers must pay National Insurance and pension contributions, then 10% of pay from September, rising to 20% in October.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI, said: \"The job retention bonus will help firms protect jobs, but with nearly 70% of firms running low on cash, and three in four reporting lack of demand, more immediate direct support for firms, from grants to further business rates relief, is still urgently needed.\"\n\nMike Cherry, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the newly self-employed and company directors had \"once again been overlooked\".\n\nThe National Institute of Economic and Social Research warned that the chancellor's \"badly timed\" measures \"could trigger a rapid rise in unemployment\".\n\nThe think tank said he was ending the furlough scheme too early and the bonuses for employers to bring staff back \"look too small to be effective\".\n\nThe Chancellor has just outlined another hefty chunk of spending to try to prop up the economy, specifically to try to keep millions of people from joining the dole.\n\nMany of the measures run against traditional Tory instincts. And there isn't a whiff of how any of it will be paid for, for at least another couple of months.\n\nBut that's against the background of the sharpest decline in the economy in generations, with the fortunes of what will actually happen next dependent on the progress of a deadly disease.\n\nWill the kickstart scheme benefit you? Are you looking to buy a home, what are your views on the stamp duty changes? Will VAT cut benefit your business? Have you recently become unemployed? Email your thoughts to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "PC Harper died after his ankles became entangled in a tow strap attached to a car\n\nA teenager accused of murdering PC Andrew Harper has told a court he feels \"disgraceful\" over his death.\n\nHenry Long, 19, was trying to evade arrest after attempting to steal a quad bike from a house in Stanford Dingley, Berkshire, on 15 August.\n\nThe policeman was chasing after a suspect when his ankles became entangled in a tow rope attached to a Seat Toledo driven by Long.\n\nPC Harper, 28, was dragged for more than a mile along country lanes.\n\nGiving evidence at the Old Bailey, Long said he did not know PC Harper was attached to the vehicle.\n\nHe said: \"If I was aware I would have stopped the vehicle, tried to save him.\"\n\nLeft to right: Henry Long, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole deny murder\n\nLong, from Mortimer, Reading, has pleaded guilty to PC Harper's manslaughter but denied \"in any way\" intending to harm or kill him.\n\nHe said: \"I accept that I killed him from what I was doing, the way I was driving.\"\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, asked him: \"Did you care about what happened?\"\n\nLong said: \"The fact he died, yes.\"\n\nHe told jurors he could not sleep and thought about PC Harper's family and how they felt.\n\nLong admitted he had been a passenger in cars chased by police before, but said this was the first time he had been the driver.\n\nHe told the court he was a \"thief\" like his father and grandfather, stealing quad bikes and mechanical equipment.\n\nHis two passengers on the night, Albert Bowers, of Moat Close, Bramley, and Jessie Cole, of Paices Hill near Reading, both 18, have also denied murdering the Thames Valley Police officer.\n\nAll three have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Soho residents have mixed feelings about the events of Saturday night after images of packed streets and drunken antics filled the news.\n\nParts of the West End were pedestrianised over the weekend to allow restaurants and bars to put tables and chairs in the streets from 17:00 to 23:00, with inspiration taken from continental outdoor-dining culture.\n\nTim Lord, chair of the Soho Society residents group, said we “can’t have the chaos again that we saw on Saturday.\n\n“There was not enough marshalling... There needs to be a way of making it street dining rather than a street party. If they can’t, the whole thing might have to be pulled.”\n\nMeanwhile, 84-year-old Debbie Smith, of Old Compton Street, said jokingly: “I’ve lived here 50 years, it was much worse in the 1960s. Yes it was very busy, and noisy to live next to. But heavens, what do you expect?”\n\nNicholas, from Frith Street, said he felt \"sorry for the restaurants because I think it would make more sense to pedestrianise the streets through the whole day”.\n\nThe council was approached for comment on whether it will deploy more marshalls next weekend to disperse crowds, but it did not respond to that point.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are working with businesses in the area to ensure that they are operating responsibly and implementing the social distancing guidance that the council has provided.\"", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his summer economic plan to help the UK economy recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt includes plans to protect jobs, help younger workers and encourage spending with measures such as a VAT cut for leisure activities and a restaurant voucher scheme.\n\nHere is a summary of the main points.\n\nGetting ready to reopen a restaurant in Central London\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I fell through the gap with the furlough scheme\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool continued their relentless pursuit of a Premier League points record with victory over Brighton at the Amex Stadium.\n\nThe newly-crowned champions looked on course to secure three more points with ease when they went two up inside eight minutes as Brighton, with sights set on Premier League safety, made a nightmare start.\n\nNaby Keita robbed Davy Propper in a dangerous position to set up Mohamed Salah before Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson swiftly swept home a superb second from 20 yards.\n\nBrighton, however, fought back with real spirit and fully deserved to pull a goal back when Leandro Trossard fired a crisp finish past Liverpool keeper Alisson from the impressive Tariq Lamptey's cross.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp stopped Brighton's progress with some astute substitutions and a corner from one, Andrew Robertson, was headed in by Salah for his 19th league goal of the season.\n\nBrighton manager Graham Potter, whose side are edging towards preserving their top-flight status, were left to rue those opening minutes while Liverpool - with 92 - close in on Manchester City's 100-point Premier League landmark.\n\nLiverpool have now won 30 of their 34 Premier League games this season (drawn two, lost two); this is the fastest any side has ever reached 30 wins in a season in the history of the English Football League.\n\nLiverpool had their uncomfortable moments in this game and their defending lacked its usual assurance in the face of a spirited Brighton response to those two early goals but in the end, as on so many occasions, they simply carried too much firepower and quality.\n\nKlopp's pressing demands were in evidence as Brighton paid the price for a risky possession plan near their own goal early on and in Salah they have a reliable goal machine who is a proven world class match-winner.\n\nSome of Liverpool's players will want to make an impact before the end of the season, even with the club's first title in 30 years already won, and Keita was highly impressive for an hour before his substitution while teenager Neco Williams, given his first Premier League start in an unaccustomed position of left-back, had some uncomfortable moments but will be all the better for this experience.\n\nWilliams was replaced by Robertson at the interval but this was not so much a reflection of his performance but more Klopp not wanting to take any chances with the Welsh youngster on a yellow card.\n\nLiverpool may not have been quite at their intense, irresistible best since clinching title, which is perfectly understandable.\n\nHowever, they will to win, quality and sheer belief remains and they still have more history in their sights before the end of this stellar campaign.\n\nBrighton's impressive form since the season's re-start means they are now close to Premier League safety - but they have had two harsh lessons at home in the last week, first from Manchester United and now from Liverpool.\n\nIt will have been disappointing for manager Graham Potter but he will take heart from the manner in which Brighton responded to conceding two goals in the first eight minutes that would have seen many teams sink without trace against this Liverpool side.\n\nBrighton picked themselves up and gave Liverpool some real problems before they ran out of steam and ideas in the second half and Salah wrapped up the points for the champions.\n\nThere was still much to admire from Brighton's play, particularly teenage defender Lamptey, who was a real threat down the right flank and the quality of Trossard, whose goal was a masterpiece of technique and provides Potter's side with a real threat.\n\nIt may have been another home defeat but Potter's policies look certain to see Brighton still in the Premier League next term.\n\n'It's my responsibility' - what they said\n\nBrighton manager Graham Potter speaking to Match of the Day: \"Its not an ideal start and it's my responsibility - I asked them to play that way, the decision making could be better but they showed personality to claw back into the game. We created chances before scoring a really good goal. We tried to play, we went toe-to-toe and there were lots of positive performances.\n\n\"The scoreline can affect you but if you analyse the chances we had they were good chances. They are a top side who can hurt you, with unbelievable players everywhere. I'm proud of the players, they stuck with it and they played a good game.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to Match of the Day: \"I saw two very good teams, both trying to play football. They had a brave formation and set up but we had a super solution for that. Our high press was outstanding but when we lost the ball in the wrong moment it was really difficult.\n\n\"They deserved the goal so we had to adjust a few things like our protection and position in midfield and it helped. The beginning was outstanding and the end was good again. I couldn't respect more what Graham [Potter] is doing here - they made it a really tough game.\"\n\nOn Neco Williams: \"The yellow card was the only reason [he came off]. He was good but I cannot ask a 19-year-old not to make another challenge on a yellow card. We asked a lot, we put him on the wrong side and asked him for a really hard press. We asked for a lot but he can do that, he was good.\"\n\nOn chasing the points record: \"It's not important for me, I'm not interested in any of this but I want to win football games. For sports people in general it might be important. We are champions and it could be softening but it is not - the boys go with everything.\n\n\"We have 92 points and last season we had 97. We got five points more than this last season - that's unbelievable, I have no idea how we did that.\"\n\nAnother away success for Liverpool - the stats\n• None Liverpool have never won more matches (30) in a single league campaign (level with 1978-79 and 2018-19).\n• None Brighton have only won two of their 14 Premier League games in 2020 (drawn seven, lost five); no other side has won fewer in the calendar year.\n• None This was Liverpool's 13th away league win this season; the joint-most the Reds have ever won on the road in a league season in their history.\n• None Brighton have lost back-to-back home league games for the first time since April 2019.\n• None After going seven hours and 47 minutes without scoring a goal away from home in all competitions, Liverpool scored twice within 127 seconds.\n• None Liverpool were 2-0 ahead in the eighth minute of this match, the earliest they have taken a two-goal lead in a Premier League match since May 2011 against Fulham (seven minutes).\n• None Salah has reached 100 goal involvements for Liverpool in the Premier League (73 goals, 27 assists in 104 appearances), becoming just the fourth player to do so for the Reds after Steven Gerrard (212), Robbie Fowler (158) and Michael Owen (148)\n• None Salah has been directly involved in eight goals in his six Premier League appearances against Brighton, scoring five and assisting three.\n• None Liverpool captain Henderson has scored more Premier League goals in 2019-20 (four) than in his previous three seasons combined before this (three).\n• None Brighton winger Trossard has scored in back-to-back Premier League games for the very first time; seven of his eight combined goals (five) and assists (three) in the competition have come at the Amex Stadium.\n\nLiverpool play at home against Burnley on 11 June (15:00 BST), with Brighton at home to Manchester City later that day (20:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Aaron Mooy tries a through ball, but Aaron Connolly is caught offside.\n• None Joseph Gomez (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Yves Bissouma.\n• None Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Virgil van Dijk with a headed pass following a set piece situation.\n• None Tariq Lamptey (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dale Stephens with a through ball. 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. Sir Mark Sedwill: The decision to stand down was \"amicable\".\n\nThe UK's top civil servant will receive a payout of almost £250,000 when he steps down in September.\n\nSir Mark Sedwill confirmed he was leaving Whitehall last month as Boris Johnson announced plans to split his role as cabinet secretary and national security adviser into two posts.\n\nHis exit follows reports of tensions between him and senior members of Mr Johnson's team in Downing Street.\n\nOn Wednesday, the PM signed off the £248,189 pension contribution.\n\nThe amount was recommended by Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary Alex Chisholm, with advice from Civil Service Human Resources and legal advisers, before being agreed by Mr Johnson.\n\nIn a note from No 10, the PM said the payment was \"likely to be in the form of a pension contribution\" for Sir Mark.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Sir Mark told the National Security Strategy Committee he had not \"resigned\" but left his post \"by agreement\" with the PM.\n\n\"We had concluded it was time to split the jobs again and have a separate security adviser and separate cabinet secretary,\" he added.\n\nSir Mark said the timing was \"at his initiative\", as it was \"never my intention to do that [job] long-term\", but the departure was \"entirely amicable\".\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator in post-Brexit trade talks with the EU, David Frost, will take over as national security adviser as a political appointee.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has published a job advert for the cabinet secretary position, with a salary of £200,000, and the role is open to current and former permanent secretaries.\n\nThe person who gets the position will advise the prime minister on implementing policy and the conduct of government.\n\nDominic Cummings, regarded as the prime minister's most influential political adviser, has long called for an overhaul of the civil service.\n\nSir Mark is a career diplomat who served as Ambassador to Afghanistan during a 20-year career in the Foreign Office, before working alongside former Prime Minister Theresa May as the most senior civil servant in the Home Office.\n\nHe took over as cabinet secretary at short notice following Sir Jeremy Heywood's death in November 2018.\n\nAsked about reports of anonymous briefings from Downing Street against him, Sir Mark told the committee that civil servants had become \"fair game\" and it \"goes with the territory\".\n\nHe added: \"It is never pleasant to find oneself, particularly as an official, in the midst of stories of that kind.\n\n\"I don't think it is ever pleasant in government, whether it is against ministers, between them and particularly against officials, when you have briefings to which you cannot really reply, particularly those that are off the record and sniping away.\n\n\"But it is a regrettable feature of modern politics, I'm afraid.\"\n\nAfter he leaves government service in September, Sir Mark will be made a peer and will chair a new panel on global economic security when the UK assumes the presidency of the G7 economic group of nations.", "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.", "Deaths in care homes in Wales continue to rise\n\nAll social care workers will get a cash bonus of £500 each, First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced.\n\nThe payments will be made to more than 64,000 workers, at a cost of £32.2m.\n\nDeaths with coronavirus in Welsh care homes continue to rise - there were 184 such deaths by 17 April, accounting for 40% of all Covid-19 deaths in Cardiff.\n\nMr Drakeford said both residential and domiciliary staff were \"often accepting a greater degree of risk\" and the payment was designed to recognise that.\n\nThe first minister said it was a flat-rate payment, and therefore most benefited the lowest paid.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Wales 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\nHe called on UK government departments not to tax the bonus or to reduce benefits as a result.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Drakeford said care home workers and residents would only be tested for coronavirus if they were symptomatic, despite the UK government announcing all residents and staff would be tested in England.\n\nMark Drakeford said: \"I want our social care workforce to know their hard work is both appreciated and recognised\"\n\n\"They are undertaking tasks, which involve a high level of intimate personal care, often accepting a greater degree of risk and responsibility,\" Mr Drakeford said at the Welsh Government's daily briefing on Friday.\n\n\"Many of our social care workers are juggling their own personal caring responsibilities with their professional ones.\n\n\"I want our social care workforce to know their hard work is both appreciated and recognised.\n\n\"This payment is designed to provide some further recognition of the value we attach to everything they are doing to - it recognises this group of people are providing the invisible scaffolding of services, which support both our NHS and our wider society.\"\n\nFurther details, including when the payment will be made, were still being worked out, the Welsh Government said.\n\nThe Unison union in Wales welcomed Mr Drakeford's announcement, and reiterated its calls for a higher pay for care workers.\n\nTheir work \"should be valued much more highly by society\", according to Dominic MacAskill, its head of local government in Wales.\n\n\"It can't be right that many care workers, particularly in the private or non-profit sector, suffer in-work poverty because of very low wages and precarious contracts,\" he said.\n\n\"That's why Unison believes all care workers should earn at least £10 per hour to lift them and their families out of poverty.\"", "A personal cap on care costs in England was being considered by ministers prior to the coronavirus outbreak, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe idea was raised during talks with Sir Andrew Dilnot, the former UK statistics chief, whose proposals for a cap were abandoned in 2017.\n\nIt is understood a specific social care tax was among options discussed to cover the costs.\n\nDetails were not agreed by the March Budget and were put off till autumn.\n\nA senior figure involved in the talks, which took place in January and February, said there had been \"90% agreement\" on revisiting Sir Andrew's model.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is understood to have taken part in the discussions.\n\nSir Andrew's proposals would have introduced a more generous means-test for government funding, as well as a lifetime limit on social care costs.\n\nThey were put into law in 2014 under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, but delayed and then eventually ditched under David Cameron.\n\nHis successor, Theresa May, later suggested and then abandoned a form of the proposals in 2017.\n\nUnlike health care, social care is not generally provided for free. In England, anyone with assets over £23,250 is expected to contribute to costs.\n\nLocal authorities determine their own means-tests for those receiving care at home, which have to be as generous as the test for care homes.\n\nAlongside adopting a version of the Dilnot model, ministers are considering making changes to the way the social care sector is funded, which is under severe strain after years of cuts to local council budgets.\n\nOne option is to hand money more directly to English care homes, rather than the current model of providing funding through local authorities.\n\nEarlier this month, £600m in government funding to help with infection control in care homes was given to councils on a ring-fenced basis.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock hinted earlier this week that a similar model could be an option for long-term financing of the system.\n\nSenior sources have also told the BBC the Conservatives seriously considered including providing free personal care in their manifesto for last year's election.\n\nHowever, the idea was ditched as the party wanted to rule out rises to income tax, VAT or national insurance.\n\nThe plan for free personal care, which is already available in Scotland, could have cost as much as £10bn in the first year. Some care costs are capped in Wales and home care is free for the over-75s in Northern Ireland.\n\nA source involved in the discussions said: \"No one wanted to raise taxes, so we put it off.\"\n\nThe party's manifesto eventually promised extra funding for social care in England and to pursue cross-party talks on long-term changes to the sector.\n\nMinisters acknowledge reform is long overdue, with a senior figure saying: \"It is obvious now that there is a need for change.\"\n\nDowning Street would not comment on the manifesto.\n\nBut a government spokesperson said ministers remain committed to bringing forward a social care plan \"so everybody is treated with dignity and respect, and nobody has to sell their home to pay for care\".\n\n\"The health secretary has already sought views from across Parliament, but this is one of the most complex issues we face, and it is right we take time to develop a fair, sustainable solution,\" they added.\n\n\"Care homes will continue to get all the support they need to tackle the impacts of the pandemic, with £3.2bn to help address pressures in adult social care and £600m to control infections in care homes.\"", "The acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, has written to Kent Police asking them to investigate whether Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has broken coronavirus quarantine rules.\n\nMr Farage tweeted a picture of himself at lunchtime on Saturday having a pint in a pub, as many businesses in England reopened.\n\nExactly a fortnight ago, Mr Farage tweeted from a trip to the United States - where he was a guest at a rally for President Trump.\n\nPeople travelling to the UK from the US are required to quarantine for a period of 14 days from the moment they arrive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nigel Farage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"There are clearly serious questions to answer for Nigel Farage,\" Sir Ed said.\n\n\"It is clear from his social media posts that he was in America on 20 June, and he was pictured at a Trump rally that evening. Given the current requirements for visitors returning to the UK to isolate for 14 full days on their return, Nigel Farage appears to be in violation of the quarantine,\" he added.\n\n\"By choosing to go to the pub when it appears he should have been staying at home, Mr Farage is showing a flagrant disregard for the safety of people in his community.\"\n\nIn his letter to Kent's chief constable, Alan Pughsley - which has also been sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel - the former cabinet minister said:\n\n\"I write to ask you to immediately investigate this issue, establish the timeline of events for Mr Farage's return to the UK and establish whether Mr Farage was in breach of his quarantine. It is vital that lives are not put at risk by breaches of quarantine.\n\n\"I am copying this letter to the home secretary as I believe this case illustrates the difficulties that the police and Home Office will have in enforcing the quarantine rules as they are currently set out.\"\n\nSo how has Mr Farage managed to quarantine back in the UK for 14 days, if he was in the States two weeks ago?\n\nHe insists he has \"been back from the USA for two weeks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nigel Farage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 spokesman told me he flew straight back to Britain on the same day - and claimed that a negative coronavirus test after he got back meant he could head back out and about again.\n\nBut the Department of Health has told me getting a test does not get you out of quarantining - self isolating at home - because a test could amount to a false negative; you could be harbouring the virus but not yet symptomatic.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Alexandra Phillips, a former Brexit Party MEP who once worked as Nigel Farage's media adviser, said:\n\n\"Dear Ed Davey, The police have better things to do, you sad little man. Getting an officer to go to Nigel's house to tell him he shouldn't have gone to the pub is a total waste of resources and makes you look like a pathetic, attention-seeking twerp.\"", "The decision to allow the group to disembark follows a week of tension on board the ship\n\nItaly has given permission for 180 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean to disembark from a charity-run ship.\n\nThe decision comes after a stand-off that lasted more than a week.\n\nThe Ocean Viking, operated by rescue group SOS Méditerranée, declared a state of emergency on Friday, citing fears for the safety of both migrants and crew.\n\nThe migrants are set to be transferred to a government vessel in Sicily on Monday and will quarantine for 14 days.\n\nMedics have already tested those on the Ocean Viking for Covid-19. Results are expected on Monday.\n\nThe migrants are from a range of countries including Pakistan, Eritrea and Nigeria. They had fled the coast of Libya when they were rescued in four separate groups between 25 and 30 June.\n\nThey include 25 minors, most of whom are unaccompanied by adults and two women, including one who is pregnant.\n\nThe ship had been awaiting permission to allow the passengers off the vessel in either Italy or Malta.\n\nThe migrants were rescued while fleeing the coast of Libya\n\nAs time went on, those on board had become desperate to reach land - while others, unable to contact friends and family to let them know they were safe, had become distraught, AFP news agency reports.\n\nA doctor for SOS Méditerranée said he had noted \"enormous psychological discomfort on the ship\", where the situation was \"almost out of control, for guests and crew\".\n\nOne crew member said there had been a series of fights and threats of suicide.\n\nAn Italian interior ministry source told AFP that a medical team had been sent to the ship ahead of disembarkation.\n\n\"We're very happy! We've come a long way, Libya was like hell and now at least we can see the end. I need to tell my family that I'm still alive,\" said one passenger, 27-year-old Rabiul from Bangladesh.\n\nSOS Méditerranée wrote on Twitter that the \"unnecessary delay of this disembarkation has put lives at risk\".\n\nMore than 110,000 migrants tried to cross the Mediterranean last year. More than 1,200 died during the attempt, according to the International Organisation for Migration.\n\nThe UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, says that more than 24,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe by sea during the first six months of this year, although it is thought that warmer weather during summer could lead to an increase in the number of attempts.", "New quarantine exemptions will allow major sporting events, as well as TV and film productions, to go ahead this summer, the government has said.\n\nSome sports teams and production crews will not have to quarantine upon arrival in England if they are essential to the event or production.\n\nThe scheme gives the green light for Formula One, international football, golf and snooker tournaments to return.\n\nMinisters said darts, horse racing and other sports are expected to follow.\n\nThe government's new quarantine exemptions mean Silverstone will be able to stage races in August, while Champions League and Europa League football, the PGA British Masters Championship and the World Snooker Championships will go ahead.\n\nAnnouncing the scheme, which applies to England only, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"The British summer of sport is back on.\"\n\nUnder the new rules, sports authorities, event organisers and the film and TV industry would need to follow \"stringent protocols\" to become exempt from the 14-day quarantine rule.\n\nAt the moment, most travellers to the UK must quarantine for two weeks. However, from 10 July, people arriving in England from dozens of countries deemed \"low risk\" will not have to isolate.\n\nThose who earn exemption by following the new rules will have to live and work in controlled \"bubbled\" environments and must be tested for coronavirus regularly.\n\nPeople working in the film industry will be required to remain for 14 days within a bubble that includes only their accommodation and production location.\n\nThe scheme will apply to individuals coming into England specifically to work on film and television productions which qualify as British under one of the government's cultural tests or official co-production treaties.\n\nIt comes as the culture secretary is under increasing pressure to provide further support to the performing arts.\n\nThe government's plan for the return of live theatre and music, announced last week, was dismissed by many in the industry as inadequate amid calls for financial help and a timetable for reopening.\n\nActors' union Equity said that without investment to save jobs and venues, such guidance would be \"meaningless\".", "\"Every penny\" of the bonus should go to staff, Health Minister Vaughan Gething says\n\nSocial care workers in Wales have still not received a £500 cash bonus that was promised more than two months ago.\n\nThe health minister said the Welsh Government is \"looking to exhaust every avenue\" to persuade the UK government the bonus should not be taxed.\n\nVaughan Gething said \"every penny\" should go to social care staff and not be \"a windfall for the Treasury\".\n\nThe UK government said Welsh ministers had the power and funding to increase the payment to account for deductions.\n\nMore than 64,000 social care workers were told by First Minister Mark Drakeford on 1 May that they would get a cash bonus of £500, at a cost of £32.2m.\n\nIt was to recognise the fact residential and domiciliary care staff were \"often accepting a greater degree of risk\", Mr Drakeford had said.\n\nVaughan Gething said the UK government's stance was \"deeply frustrating\"\n\nIn June, the pledge was extended to care home kitchen and domestic staff, agency and nursing staff, personal assistants working in care homes, and domiciliary workers.\n\nBut no payments have yet been made.\n\n\"It's deeply frustrating for not just the government but, in particular, for care home workers themselves,\" Mr Gething told the BBC Politics Wales programme.\n\n\"We're still trying to get the UK government to a position where they won't take tax and National Insurance off these payments.\"\n\nCare home industry leaders say their funding assumes staff are only paid the minimum wage\n\nMary Wimbury, chief executive of Care Forum Wales, said even if workers got the bonus, it would \"not be enough\".\n\n\"We see the £500 as the first step to a long-term solution where the vital role care workers undertake is properly rewarded,\" she said.\n\n\"We cannot continue with local authorities and health boards setting fee rates that assume they will only be paid the legal minimum wage.\"\n\nIn a statement, the UK government said it had provided £2.3bn of funding for the Welsh Government to support people, businesses and public services during the pandemic.\n\n\"We are working with the Welsh Government to determine the exact scope of the proposed bonus,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"Payments made in connection with employment are however chargeable to income tax and NICS unless explicitly exempt.\n\n\"The Welsh government has the powers and funding to gross up the payment, if its intention is for social care workers to benefit by at least £500.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Siberian tiger has attacked and killed a female zookeeper in Switzerland in front of visitors and zoo employees.\n\nStaff rushed to her aid and eventually managed to draw the tiger out of the cage, but the 55-year-old keeper died at the scene, Zurich zoo said.\n\nVisitors raised the alarm at about 13:20 (11:20 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nAn investigation is under way to determine why the zookeeper was in the cage at the same time as the tiger.\n\nDespite an emergency team at the zoo luring the tiger from the enclosure and into a holding pen, efforts to resuscitate the wounded keeper failed, the zoo said in a statement.\n\n\"Sadly all help came too late,\" a spokeswoman for Zurich police, Judith Hoedl, said.\n\nThe tiger, named Irina, was born at a zoo in Denmark in 2015 and transferred to Zurich last year.\n\nThe director of Zurich zoo, Severin Dressen, said the zookeeper had been a member of staff there for some time, the AP news agency reported.\n\n\"Our full sympathy is with the relatives of the victim,\" Mr Dressen added.\n\nProfessional counselling has been made available for those who witnessed the attack.\n\nZurich zoo said it would remain closed on Sunday following the incident.\n\nAnimal attacks at zoos and sanctuaries are relatively rare, but this is not the first reported attack at Zurich zoo.\n\nIn December 2019, a crocodile at the zoo bit the hand of a keeper during a routine cleaning operation in the animal's enclosure. When the reptile failed to release its grip on the keeper, the decision was made to shoot it.", "The government is pledging to provide 30,000 new traineeships to get young people in England into work, as fears about mounting unemployment increase.\n\nTraineeships provide classroom-based lessons in maths, English and CV writing, as well as up to 90 hours of unpaid work experience.\n\nUnder the £111m scheme, firms in England will be given £1,000 for each new work experience place they offer.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive £21m for similar schemes.\n\nThe additional funding for traineeships is set to be announced by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday when he will unveil an economic plan to deal with the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nEmployers are not required to pay trainees for a work placement, unlike apprenticeships where the minimum wage rate is £4.15 per hour.\n\nOn an apprenticeship, a person is employed to do work while studying for a formal qualification, usually for one day a week, either at a college or training centre over a number of years.\n\nBusinesses have been hit hard since the UK went into lockdown on 23 March, and even though restrictions are gradually being eased, consumer demand remains depressed.\n\nAs a result, companies with a presence across the UK have revealed thousands of staff cuts in the past week.\n\n\"Young people's employment prospects are expected to be disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of coronavirus,\" the Treasury said in a statement announcing plans to expand the traineeship programme.\n\nTraineeships are intended to get people into their first job after education. They last from six weeks to six months and they are open to people aged between 16 and 24.\n\n\"Expanding traineeships will be part of a wider package to support young people and to ensure they have the skills and training to go on to high quality, secure and fulfilling employment,\" the Treasury said.\n\nEmployers must currently offer a minimum of 100 hours of work experience. But the Treasury statement refers to \"a high-quality work placement of 60 to 90 hours\", which could suggest a new, lesser, commitment for providers.\n\nThe expanded scheme will be in place in England from September 2020.\n\nThe Treasury said that three quarters of young people who completed a traineeship moved on to employment or further study within a year. In contrast, three quarters of 18-24 year-olds who are not in education, employment or training for three months will continue to be out of work and out of education for a full 12 months, according to government figures.\n\nThe number of people starting traineeships has, however, been declining gradually, from a high of 24,100 in 2015-16 down to 14,900 in 2018, according to figures from the Department for Education.\n\nDavid Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, told the BBC's Today programme: \"We know that young people get treated very badly in recessions and will be at the back of the queue for jobs.\n\n\"What we want is a whole range of actions that the government can take: put money into colleges to give them a chance, incentivise employers to take on trainees, but also take on apprenticeships as well.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need really bold action now on both the labour market and on skills.\"", "Hairdressers in England have re-opened for business for the first time in three months as lockdown restrictions eased, along with pubs, restaurants and cinemas.\n\nCustomers in Coventry posed for portraits before and after their haircuts at 17A Salon and Men's Grooming Company, while sharing their thoughts on the experience.\n\n\"I'm really pleased, [the hairdresser] has done a great job and I'm off to a barbecue tonight if the weather holds off.\n\n\"I've been desperate for a cut and have been pre-booked since June, they just moved it back to the opening day.\n\n\"I have had no worries about coming along as there is lots of information about keeping safe.\"\n\n\"My hair has become increasingly annoying.\n\n\"It blows into my face but is not long enough to tie back, so very pleased to be getting it cut.\n\n\"When you move to a new area it is important to find a dentist and hairdresser you can trust, and this is one of those.\"\n\n\"A haircut makes you feel better about yourself.\n\n\"I've had no worries about the safety of coming here as I have been working throughout and don't know anyone who has caught it.\"\n\n\"It's an amazing feeling to get my hair done at last, I can finally wear it down again, [it's] the best feeling.\"\n\n\"I've had it up to hide my roots.\"\n\n\"My hair has been driving me mad, it's been 17 or 18 weeks since I had it cut.\n\n\"My wife had a go at it with the clippers but got scared, but it did take a bit of weight out of it at the back.\n\n\"I did contemplate a buzz cut but decided against it.\"\n\n\"This is my first proper cut since February but my housemates have been cutting it.\n\n\"We've all done each other's now. I've cut about four people's hair but I've been looking forward to a proper cut.\"\n\n\"It's been horrible not to have my hair cut, it's been hard to keep it under control.\n\n\"I've been coming here for 40 years and am used to having it cut every four or five weeks.\n\n\"It's fabulous now it's done, when it is short it so much more manageable, I don't have to blow dry it every morning.\"\n\n\"I had my last cut on 10 March and now really need it as I usually have a 0.5 grade on the sides.\n\n\"I thought about a home cut but didn't want to let the missus do it.\n\n\"So today, I'm looking forward to it and have treated myself to a cut with the head barber - probably the most expensive haircut I'll ever have.\"", "US President Donald Trump has lashed out at his political enemies in a speech to mark 4 July at the White House in Washington DC.\n\nThe president pledged to defeat the \"radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters\", in an apparent reference to anti-racism protesters.\n\nMany US demonstrators want a re-evaluation - or the total removal - of statues connected to slavery. Mr Trump has accused them of wanting to \"erase our history\".", "All staff at the 2 Sisters plant in Llangefni have been sent home on full pay\n\nStaff who have yet to be tested for coronavirus after an outbreak linked to a food processing factory have been urged to \"act immediately\".\n\nAnglesey council's plea comes after 210 cases have been confirmed among workers at the 2 Sisters plant, in Llangefni.\n\nMeanwhile, Public Health Wales (PWH) said about 300 workers \"have not yet presented for testing\" at a Wrexham food factory which has had 166 cases.\n\nIt said there was \"no evidence\" Rowan Foods was the source of the outbreak.\n\nAbout 1,000 people linked to the Wrexham food factory have already been tested.\n\nRowan Foods in Wrexham has introduced screens and visors to keep staff safe\n\nOn Saturday, PHW said it was working with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board to \"urgently contact just over 300 workers that have not yet presented for testing\".\n\nMeanwhile, six more Covid-19 cases were identified in the workforce associated with the 2 Sisters plant on Friday, taking the total from 204 to 210.\n\nPHW said the \"increase in reported cases is low, which is reassuring and is evidence that the control measures put in place combined with the rapid testing process, have worked\".\n\nIn a tweet, Anglesey council shared a link for other 2 Sisters workers to get a test \"to help safeguard themselves, family, friends and their communities\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Isle of Anglesey CC #KeepWalesSafe", "Matt Forward with his hawk in Trafalgar Square\n\nWhether it's nurses, carers or supermarket staff, key workers have rightly been hailed as heroes during lockdown.\n\nBut behind the frontline of the pandemic there have been a huge number of people who have been busy doing essential jobs, as outlined by the government.\n\nThey include those working across the food and transport industries, people providing childcare, working in public service and the financial sector.\n\nThey have been allowed to travel to work and send their children to school while the rest of us have been in lockdown. We spoke to some of them to find out how lockdown has been.\n\nMatt Forward's job is to keep the pigeons away from Trafalgar Square. Pest management was covered in the key worker list, so throughout lockdown Matt drove himself and his Harris hawk 45 miles to the iconic square early two mornings a week.\n\nFrom 06:00, his \"little boy\" Lighten would fly around for a couple of hours - perching on Nelson's Column and the roof of the National Gallery.\n\nHarris hawks are social birds known for their co-operative manner\n\nHis presence alone was enough to keep the pigeons away. \"If I was a pigeon and saw this beast flying around everywhere I wouldn't want to nest and get too comfy,\" he says.\n\nMatt, who lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, said he never thought of stopping his job because of lockdown.\n\n\"If someone wasn't there doing the job that we do, we'd be overrun,\" he says. Matt is new to the profession - he swapped his work as a plumber for the \"best job in the world\" a few months before lockdown.\n\nMatt has kept birds of prey all his life, but only recently started getting paid to work with them\n\nHe saw a \"hell of a difference\" during lockdown, particularly because there were fewer people about, meaning there was less food waste for the pigeons to eat. \"People aren't dropping bags of crisps in Trafalgar Square anymore,\" he says, \"basically food isn't on a plate for them.\"\n\nBut because there is less food around, it's changed the behaviour of the pigeons. They seem a bit braver because they're hungrier, he says.\n\nAfter he finishes in Trafalgar Square, he takes his bird of prey to other places in the capital - London Stadium, museums, hotels.\n\nMatt says he loves that, despite coronavirus, people still come up to him to ask him about what he's doing. \"It's not as if I'm walking a dog down the road,\" he says. \"People show a lot of interest in it - that's one of the reasons I love it.\"\n\nLockdown has been \"a rollercoaster\" on Lunan Bay Farm, in Angus. Perched on the eastern coast of Scotland, the farm produces free range goat meat, honeyberries and other niche products. But a third of its business comes from asparagus - which has just a six-week season, running from early May until the middle of June.\n\n\"Covid hit us right before our asparagus started,\" says Jillian McEwan, who runs the farm with her husband Neil, a fifth-generation farmer. \"It is a high-intense time because it is such a short season.\"\n\nAs food producers, they also qualified as key workers, but were faced with a race to pick - and then sell - their asparagus right in the middle of lockdown.\n\nNeil and Jillian usually sell most of their asparagus to restaurants around Scotland\n\n\"We were able to booster our workforce with people who had been furloughed or had been made redundant,\" Jillian says. They ended up with a team of 10-15 pickers, who all had to be equipped with masks, gloves and aprons.\n\nThe farm usually uses lightweight tractors in the asparagus fields, with pickers filling baskets on a platform pulled behind it. But to ensure social distancing they needed a much larger platform, meaning a heavier tractor was required.\n\nJillian worries about the impact the heavier machinery could have in the coming years.\n\n\"By compacting the ground it will have an impact on next year's crop. So there were a lot of consequences of Covid for us.\"\n\nThe six-week asparagus season fell in the middle of lockdown\n\nThe farm has 15 acres of asparagus and harvested 7,500kg in the six weeks from 4 May. But then came the challenge of finding new customers to sell it to while it was fresh. The 70-plus restaurants who usually take most of it were all closed.\n\nInstead they've turned to small farm shops and independent retailers. Much of their asparagus has been delivered to people as part of veg boxes. \"It actually proved to be quite successful for us. We could have actually sold three times the amount of asparagus we produced.\"\n\n\"I have 62 volunteers that help me run manage the locks,\" says Alex Goode, site manager at Foxton Locks, in Leicestershire. \"I went down to zero at the start of lockdown.\"\n\nAs a key worker, the operation of the area became Alex's responsibility during lockdown.\n\nJust a handful of boats a day passed through Foxton Locks during lockdown\n\nLocated on the Leicester section of the Grand Union Canal, Foxton boasts the longest and steepest set of staircase locks in the UK. It is a set of 10 individual locks, split into two by a passing area. In the height of summer it can see 30-45 boats pass through every day.\n\nWith all but essential travel stopped on the canal system at the beginning of lockdown, that number fell to between one and four a day. Yet boaters still needed to pass through the locks.\n\n\"People who are living on their boats, it is their house, they still needed to get to areas where they could empty their toilets and fill up their water. Other people needed to move around to get to sick relatives, or to get somewhere to moor for lockdown.\"\n\nWorking mainly from home, he created a next day booking system, where all the boats wanting to pass had to register for a set time the following day, giving Alex time to arrive, unlock the locks, and make sure coronavirus protocols were being stuck to by boaters.\n\nA team of more than 60 volunteers usually help to maintain and run the locks\n\nAlex would also perform a daily safety check to make sure there was no damage or vandalism to the lock - or to the tow path, where locals came for their daily permitted exercise.\n\nHe says about 10-15 boats a day now pass through Foxton and he is looking forward to the canal volunteers returning at the beginning of July.\n\n\"It resembled something out of ET,\" says Caitlin Rehal. The 37-year-old specialist speech and language therapist is describing the personal protective equipment she had to wear to see a 102-year-old patient.\n\nNeither were suspected of having coronavirus, but such PPE is just one of the changes Caitlin has seen in her profession since the pandemic hit.\n\n\"It was almost impossible to engage with this patient while wearing all of this gear,\" she said. \"It was very hard to get her to know I was a person trying to speak to her. My impression was it was as if a bin was speaking to her… like something was talking but perhaps it shouldn't be.\"\n\nCaitlin says she felt like she was wearing an \"ET\" outfit\n\nCaitlin says that as the PPE guidance has changed she hasn't been required to wear the \"ET\" outfit again - now a surgical mask, gloves and an apron are deemed suitable to see patients.\n\nAs a specialist health key worker, she has continued to work at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, in Kent, during the pandemic, treating people struggling to communicate or swallow, which affects their eating and drinking.\n\nShe says her team regularly sees patients who have had a brain injury, a fall, or those with dementia, Parkinson's or multiple sclerosis. And now Covid-19 - because it affects the respiratory system, it can have an impact on the way people swallow, she says.\n\n\"Overall we have had fewer patients but of those patients some of them are much higher risk. So it's been a bit of an adjustment,\" she says. It's also meant many of the patients her team treats have been younger than usual - aged in their 50s and 60s, rather than 70s and older.\n\n\"It's been a bit of an adjustment,\" says Caitlin\n\nBut because she has asthma, Caitlin has been unable to work with many of those higher risk patients. She can't see anyone suspected of having coronavirus, even with elaborate PPE.\n\nShe says she's grateful for the support of her colleagues when she felt \"she wasn't able to pull her weight\". \"Their understanding and appreciation of the work I was able to do, in lieu of being able to be on the high-risk wards with them, was very important for my emotional health in a very stressful period.\"", "Singapore's TraceTogether Tokens are the latest effort to tackle Covid-19 with tech. But they have also reignited a privacy debate.\n\nThe wearable devices complement the island's existing contact-tracing app, to identify people who might have been infected by those who have tested positive for the virus.\n\nAll users have to do is carry one, and the battery lasts up to nine months without needing a recharge - something one expert said had \"stunned\" him.\n\nThe government agency which developed the devices acknowledges that the Tokens - and technology in general - aren't \"a silver bullet\", but should augment human contact-tracers' efforts.\n\nThe first to receive the devices are thousands of vulnerable elderly people who don't own smartphones.\n\nTo do so, they had to provide their national ID and phone numbers - TraceTogether app users recently had to start doing likewise.\n\nIf dongle users test positive for the disease, they have to hand their device to the Ministry of Health because - unlike the app - they cannot transmit data over the internet.\n\nHuman contact-tracers will then use the logs to identify and advise others who might have been infected.\n\n\"It's very boring in what it does, which is why I think it's a good design,\" says hardware developer Sean Cross.\n\nHe was one of four experts invited to inspect one of the devices before they launched. The group was shown all its components but were not allowed to turn it on.\n\n\"It can correlate who you'd been with, who you've infected and, crucially, who may have infected you,\" Mr Cross adds.\n\nSingapore was the first country to deploy a national coronavirus-tracing app.\n\nThe local authorities say 2.1 million people have downloaded the software, representing about 35% of the population.\n\nIt is voluntary for everyone except migrant workers living in dorms, who account for the majority of Singapore's 44,000-plus infections.\n\nThe government says the app helped it quarantine some people more quickly than would have otherwise been possible.\n\nBut by its own admission, the tech doesn't work as well as had been hoped.\n\nSome people have uninstalled the app because of its drain on battery life\n\nOn iPhones, the app has to be running in the foreground for Bluetooth \"handshakes\" to occur, which means users can't use their handsets for anything else. It's also a huge drain on the battery. Android devices don't face the same problem.\n\nAutomated contact-tracing can in theory be hugely effective, but only if a large percentage of a population is involved.\n\nSo, owners of Apple's devices are likely to be among others asked to use the dongles in the near future.\n\nWhen the Token was first announced in early June, there was a public backlash against the government - something that is a relatively rare occurrence in Singapore.\n\nWilson Low started an online petition calling for it to be ditched. Almost 54,000 people have signed.\n\n\"All that is stopping the Singapore government from becoming a surveillance state is the advent and mandating the compulsory usage of such a wearable device,\" the petition stated.\n\n\"What comes next would be laws that state these devices must not be turned off [and must] remain on a person at all times - thus sealing our fate as a police state.\"\n\nMinisters point out the devices don't log GPS location data or connect to mobile networks, so can't be used for surveillance of a person's movements.\n\nMr Cross agrees that from what he was shown, the dongles cannot be used as location-trackers.\n\nBut he adds that the scheme is still less privacy-centric than a model promoted by Apple and Google, which is being widely adopted elsewhere.\n\n\"At the end of the day, the Ministry of Health can go from this cryptic, secret number that only they know, to a phone number - to an individual,\" he explains.\n\nBy contrast, apps based on Apple and Google's model alert users if they are at risk, but do not reveal their identities to the authorities. It is up to the individuals to do so when, for example, they register for a test.\n\nDr Michael Veale, a digital rights expert at University College London, warns of the potential for mission creep.\n\nHe gives an example in which a government struggling against Covid-19 might want to enforce quarantine control. It could do so, he says, by fitting Bluetooth sensors to public spaces to identify dongle users who are out and about when they should be self-isolating at home.\n\n\"All you have to do is install physical infrastructure in the world and the data that is collecting can be mapped back to Singapore ID numbers,\" he explains.\n\n\"The buildability is the worrying part.\"\n\nBut the official in charge of the agency responsible for TraceTogether plays down such concerns.\n\n\"There is a high trust relationship between the government and people, and there is data protection,\" says Kok Ping Soon, chief executive of GovTech.\n\nHe adds that he hopes the public recognises that the health authorities need this data to protect them and their loved ones.\n\nAnother reason Singapore prefers its own scheme over Apple and Google's is that it can provide epidemiologists with greater insight into an outbreak's spread.\n\nThis was in part why the UK government initially resisted adopting the tech giants' initiative until its own effort to work around Apple's Bluetooth restrictions failed to pass muster.\n\nIf Singapore's wearables work as hoped, other nations may be tempted to follow.\n\n\"[With more data], you are able to make policy decisions which very carefully tie restraints or obligations only to high-risk activities. Otherwise you're left with much blunter tools,\" comments privacy expert Roland Turner, another member of the group invited by Singapore to inspect its hardware.\n\n\"There is perhaps a paradoxical consequence that greater freedoms are possible.\"", "Around the UK, people have paused once again to thank NHS staff and care workers for their tireless work during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson led the clapping at 10 Downing Street, where he was joined by Annemarie Plas. Plas initiated the weekly clap for the NHS, which became a regular feature of the pandemic at its height. Image caption: Prime Minister Boris Johnson led the clapping at 10 Downing Street, where he was joined by Annemarie Plas. Plas initiated the weekly clap for the NHS, which became a regular feature of the pandemic at its height.\n\nNHS staff outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle stepped outside to salute the NHS on its 72nd birthday. Image caption: NHS staff outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle stepped outside to salute the NHS on its 72nd birthday.\n\nPlayers and officials stood for a minute's applause for NHS staff before the Premier League match at Anfield, Liverpool Image caption: Players and officials stood for a minute's applause for NHS staff before the Premier League match at Anfield, Liverpool\n\nMembers of staff at London's Chelsea and Westminster hospital were among those to celebrate 72 years of the NHS Image caption: Members of staff at London's Chelsea and Westminster hospital were among those to celebrate 72 years of the NHS\n\nMeanwhile, about 100 protesters gathered at Marble Arch in London, calling for the end of racial disparity in the health system. Image caption: Meanwhile, about 100 protesters gathered at Marble Arch in London, calling for the end of racial disparity in the health system.", "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.", "Scenes like this are unlikely as the US faces a spike in coronavirus cases\n\nFor millions of Americans, celebrating 4 July comes with certain rituals and traditions.\n\nParades, public fireworks displays and large family reunions are some of the most popular ways Americans mark the nation's independence from Britain in 1776.\n\nBut this year is set to look a little different. Here's why.\n\nSadly, it looks like the floats will have to stay in the garage this year.\n\nCities around the US have cancelled their annual parades as cases of coronavirus continue to rise. The National Independence Day Parade in Washington DC is the highest-profile casualty.\n\n\"Covid-19 infection levels will not be abated to the degree that it would be safe,\" its organisers said in a rather downcast statement.\n\nThe annual parade in Washington DC has been cancelled because of coronavirus\n\nBut others have approached things with a more creative touch.\n\nIn the small town of Montgomery, Ohio, there's set to be a \"reverse parade\" where motorists will drive past a stationary show featuring the usual marching band, stilt walkers and floats.\n\nEither way, we're unlikely to see the kind of showpiece events that we're used to. There's always next year, at least.\n\nFireworks displays are synonymous with Independence Day and - while a raft of events have been cancelled - it's not all bad news.\n\nSome organisers have come up with ingenious ways to ensure they can still go ahead without crowds gathering to watch.\n\nSome cities are trying to avoid crowds gathering to watch the displays\n\nIn New York, the Macy's Fireworks Show is being held over a series of nights at unspecified locations and times. Each show will last for just five minutes to avoid crowds being able to gather.\n\nOther cities, such as Boston and Houston, are encouraging people to watch the fireworks from home on TV or online. Which brings us nicely onto...\n\nIt's fair to say this pandemic has pushed a lot of people to do more online, and that appears to include celebrating Independence Day.\n\nA huge number of events will be streamed online so they can be enjoyed safely at home.\n\nThe Capitol Fourth concert in Washington DC is one of the most well-known. This year, it was pre-recorded in \"iconic locations across the country\" and will be shown both online and on TV.\n\nAnd in Los Angeles, an arts centre is set to host an \"online block party\" with music and other performances being shown live on Facebook. Plenty of other cities are planning to livestream concerts of their own.\n\nWhat better way to commemorate the birth of a nation?\n\nOh, and one of the quirkier Independence Day traditions - Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - is still going ahead with various Covid-19 precautions in place.\n\nThe century-old competition will be shown on TV where it's previously attracted almost two million viewers. Some traditions are sacred, after all.\n\nWhile some events organisers are finding innovative ways to keep things on track, there's no getting around the fact that a lot of public spaces will be closed this weekend.\n\nBars and restaurants will be shut in many states, as officials continue to pull back on plans to reopen after the recent spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nAnd beaches in states such as Florida and California, which would normally be packed with holidaymakers, will be closed to the public.\n\nThere have been protests over beach closures - such as this one in California\n\nBut there's some consolation if you had planned a trip to see a major attraction.\n\nA fair few offer some form of online tour, including the USS Constitution which is one of the world's oldest warships. It's set to stream virtual tours as well as a live 21-gun salute to mark Independence Day on Saturday.\n\nBeyond the pandemic, the US has also been rocked by another major news event this year.\n\nThe death of African American George Floyd in police custody in May triggered nationwide protests and led to renewed demands for an end to institutional racism. Many of these protests targeted statues of controversial historical figures.\n\nNow, some officials are concerned that Independence Day could see further clashes at monuments and sites.\n\nMemorials to the Confederacy, a group of southern states that fought to keep slaves, have been targeted\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration has put \"rapid deployment teams\" in place to guard federal monuments around the country ahead of the long weekend.\n\n\"While the department respects every American's right to protest peacefully, violence and civil unrest will not be tolerated,\" Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said in a statement announcing the move.\n\nThere are also plans for Black Lives Matter protests on 4 July in a swathe of cities including Orlando, Newark and Washington DC.\n\nWhile the majority of this year's events will take place on 4th, the celebrations will actually kick-off on 3rd.\n\nThat's when President Trump will travel to the Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota for the first firework display there in more than a decade.\n\nIt's proved to be a controversial plan for a few reasons. Firstly, there are environmental concerns as some fear the display could set off wildfires in the surrounding forest.\n\nAnd Native American groups are planning to protest against Mr Trump's visit as the monument to former US presidents was built on land sacred to the Sioux tribe.\n\nPresident Trump will bring fighter jets and fireworks to Mount Rushmore on 3 July\n\nThe event has also attracted criticism because social distancing will not be enforced and masks will not be mandatory. \"We told those folks that have concerns that they can stay home,\" the Republican governor said.\n\nMr Trump has promised a \"special evening\" back in Washington DC, too, where 10,000 fireworks will be set off as part of the \"Salute to America\" event which is still going ahead.\n\nBut the city's Mayor Muriel Bowser has expressed concern and urged people to stay at home. \"Ask yourself, do you need to be there?\" she said. \"Do you know if you'll be able to social distance?\"\n\nTheir disagreement points to the fraught political backdrop that is likely to make this year's Independence Day - in more ways than one - unlike any other.", "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.", "\"Urgent\" support is needed to prevent \"widespread devastation\", the hospitality sector has warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nAround 120 hospitality and tourism bosses have signed an open letter calling for aid and investment.\n\nThe industry wants to see VAT reduced, tax bills further deferred and some rent debt covered through grants.\n\nBosses say parts of the sector will not survive because some businesses remain closed, despite the easing of lockdown.\n\n\"Hospitality businesses operate with very high fixed costs and labour costs are the only flexible point to absorb this suppressed demand,\" the letter said.\n\n\"Many parts of the late night and leisure economy, as well as activities such as events and conferencing in our hotels, have no provisional date for reopening and this is impacting confidence and undermining job security.\"\n\nLabour is calling for the government to create a £1.7bn \"fightback fund\" to prevent firms in the hospitality industry and on High Streets from going under.\n\nIt wants ministers to give councils more flexibility to tailor support for their local economies and better focus funds on struggling businesses, such as hotels and cafes in coastal communities, as well as conference centres and music venues in towns and cities.\n\nThe Treasury said the government's job retention scheme had protected 9.2 million jobs, adding that the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, had announced a business rates holiday specifically for businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors.\n\nBosses claim that the hospitality and tourism industry have been hardest hit by the crisis, compared to other sectors. They also argue that the impact is likely to last longer than in other sectors, due to social distancing rules, restrictions on business events and lower demand from international tourists.\n\n\"Sales across the sector are expected to be 56% lower than last year, reducing revenues by £73.4bn and half of businesses do not expect to reach break even until the end of next year,\" the hospitality industry warned.\n\nThe hospitality industry says it is confident it can recover and operate safely and responsibly, but it needs help from the government to get there\n\nTrade group UK Hospitality says it is \"confident\" that the industry can return to full strength and still be able to operate safely and responsibly, but it will require help from the government to enable businesses to \"restart and begin to recover\" over the remainder of 2020 and into 2021.\n\nTo that end, bosses have outlined a set of recommendations for the government, which include:\n\nThe hospitality industry stressed in the letter that the sector has a record of creating new jobs following a crisis, and that it can be trusted to do it again, with help from the government.\n\n\"In the decade that followed the financial crisis hospitality consistently created around one in six new jobs thanks in part to the VAT cuts and investment in youth employment and training introduced in the immediate aftermath,\" hospitality bosses wrote.\n\n\"We can do so again. Physical hospitality cannot be replicated digitally online, in the same way that some form of retail can be. We therefore urge you and your colleagues across government to work with us to stimulate demand and support the sector's recovery.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarl Cameron, one of the first black actors to forge a successful career in British film and television, has died aged 102, his family has confirmed.\n\nBermuda-born Cameron, who lived with his wife in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, died in his sleep on Friday.\n\nCameron first appeared on screen in the 1951 film Pool of London, in a rare starring role for a black actor.\n\nHis family said he \"was an inspirational man who stood by his moral principles\".\n\nCameron was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.\n\nHis other screen credits include 1965 Bond movie Thunderball and Doctor Who.\n\nHis family said they \"have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and respect they have received\".\n\n\"As an artist and actor he refused to accept roles that demeaned or stereotyped the character of people of colour,\" they added. \"He will be very sadly missed.\"\n\nEarl Cameron outside Buckingham Palace with his CBE, which he received in 2009\n\nBermuda Premier David Burt tweeted: \"I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of iconic Bermudian actor Earl Cameron.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Premier David Burt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPaterson Joseph, who recently starred as Kamal Hadley in the BBC's Noughts and Crosses series, said Cameron was a \"giant man\", whose \"pioneering shoulders are what my generation of actors stand on\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFamily friend Martin Beckett said: \"He's a great character, very spiritual, very modest, we're going to miss him.\n\n\"He would never take on roles that demeaned people of colour.\"\n\nCameron also starred alongside Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn in the 2005 film The Interpreter.\n\nOne of his final acting credits was for a small part in the 2010 film Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC as he turned 100, Cameron said he wanted to see more black actors in roles.\n\nAlan White as Schultz and Earl Cameron as Williams in a scene from \"Dr Who and The Tenth Planet\"\n\nHe said: \"There's a lot of talent out there and I think the British film industry would prosper by using more black talent.\"\n\nCameron joined the British merchant navy and arrived in the UK in 1939.\n\nHe told the Royal Gazette he made his debut in the chorus of Chu Chin Chow, a West End show, when he was working as a dishwasher at a restaurant and they needed someone quickly.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Black Doctor Who actor ahead of his time. Video, 00:00:49Black Doctor Who actor ahead of his time", "People who have had healthcare postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic could be treated at the hospital constructed to help Scotland fight the virus.\n\nThe £38m NHS Louisa Jordan was built at the SEC in Glasgow in April but it has not been needed during the outbreak.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said the facility will help the NHS \"recover\" from the effects of the virus response.\n\nIt will initially be open to some orthopaedic outpatients this month.\n\nIf the appointments are judged to be \"clinically successful\" and patients are satisfied, the hospital could be used to provide a wide range of delayed planned healthcare.\n\nStaff training, teaching and examinations will also be held in the large building as there is plenty of space for social-distancing.\n\nBut if it is needed to deal with a second spike of coronavirus, the Scottish government said it could by ready to accept Covid patients with a few days' notice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 27,000 people have not been able to have their planned hospital treatments over the past 14 weeks, according to figures from Public Health Scotland.\n\nThey were paused - along with screening services - at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis in a bid to ensure there was enough capacity in the NHS to deal with the pandemic.\n\nSome services are starting again, with hip and knee replacements among procedures resuming at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank .\n\nThe health minister said the Louisa Jordan could also play a vital role in tackling the backlog.\n\n\"As we begin to resume some paused NHS services safely, carefully and in a series of stages, this national hospital will play an important role in helping our NHS recover by providing planned healthcare for non-Covid outpatients,\" Ms Freeman said.\n\n\"It will also ensure the sustainability of our NHS workforce as the clinical setting, alongside the ability to maintain physical distancing, will allow undergraduates and postgraduates to carry out training, teaching and examinations, and support training for the wider health and social care workforce in Scotland.\n\n\"By continuing to follow the clear public health advice, we can continue to suppress this virus in Scotland.\"\n\nThe hospital will provide up to 1,036 additional beds\n\nThe Louisa Jordan was built in less than two weeks to offer extra capacity to the NHS in dealing with the predicted influx of patients with coronavirus symptoms.\n\nA total of 1,036 bed bays were built and it was initially able to treat 300 patients.\n\nIt was named after a Glasgow-born nurse who died in Serbia in 1915 during World War One while working in a hospital.", "The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency teams\n\nA man in his 20s has been shot dead in north London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Roman Way in Islington at 15:20 BST and found the man with gunshot wounds.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene, close to Pentonville Prison, shortly afterwards, the Met Police said.\n\nThe man's next of kin have been informed but no-one has been arrested. Officers have cordoned off the Westbourne Estate area as they investigate.\n\nThe force said it was too early to say whether the shooting was linked to the prison, which is one of the country's oldest and busiest jails and houses a men's prison and a young offender institution.\n\nA witness said he heard a number of shots, ran to his window and saw \"a guy on a bike or moped rode off\".\n\nThe man was shot dead close to a children's playground\n\n\"When I looked to the park, I could see a guy stagger then fall,\" he added.\n\n\"That was it, then police came.\"\n\nThe witness, who wanted to remain anonymous, added: \"There's always crime around here, the shooting is shocking, but not much of a surprise.\n\n\"It's not nice though, especially near the local park.\"\n\nIslington South and Finsbury MP Emily Thornberry said: \"My thoughts are with the victim's family and friends and local residents in whose midst this terrible event occurred.\"\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 infections in Leicester were \"three times the rate of the next highest city\"\n\nMatt Hancock has said he is concerned about working practices in some clothing factories in Leicester, which is under local lockdown.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, the health secretary said he was \"very worried about the employment practices in some factories\" in the city.\n\nLeicester was put on local lockdown on Monday after a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky's Sophy Ridge he was \"very worried\" about the number of infections in Leicester.\n\nHe confirmed the government has already shut down businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe city is the subject of the UK's first local lockdown\n\nAsked if there was a link between employment practices in Leicester and the outbreak there, Mr Hancock described guidance for employers as \"statutory guidance\" backed up by fines.\n\n\"There are clearly some problems that have been under the radar in Leicester that need action,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSpeaking on Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Mr Hancock said: \"We've seen outbreaks in clothing factories and in food factories and there are some quite significant concerns about some of the employment practices in some of the clothing factories in Leicester, they are important problems to deal with.\n\n\"We also have the authority to shut down the business if it doesn't follow the guidance.\"\n\nOn Thursday, online fashion retailer Boohoo defended its business practices after a workers' rights group said staff at Leicester factories that supply the group were at risk of coronavirus.\n\nLabour Behind the Label said workers were \"being forced to come into work while sick with COVID-19\".\n\nBoohoo said it had \"terminated relationships\" with factories over the treatment of workers.\n\nIn a statement, the group said: \"The Boohoo group will not tolerate any incidence of non-compliance especially in relation to the treatment of workers within our supply chain.\"\n\nThe group said it would investigate the allegations and take any necessary action.\n\nA HSE spokesperson previously said: \"In Leicester we are actively investigating three textile businesses, have recently contacted 17 and undertaken three site visits.\n\n\"Enforcement action is being taken at one of these sites and further spot inspections will take place in the area in the coming days and weeks.\"\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.", "Portuguese model Sara Sampaio said the magazine cover image was in \"very bad taste\"\n\nVogue Portugal has responded to criticism over its depiction of mental health treatment on a recent magazine cover saying its aim was to \"shine a light\" on the important issue.\n\nThe \"Madness Issue\" features a woman in a bathtub in a hospital setting with a nurse pouring water over her head.\n\nMental health experts and sufferers said the cover depicted a \"dystopian\" and \"outdated\" idea of treatment.\n\nVogue Portugal said the image was intended to \"start a discussion\".\n\n\"The cover story explores the historical context of mental health and is designed to reflect real life and authentic stories,\" the publisher said in a statement posted on Twitter on Saturday.\n\n\"Inside the issue features interviews and contributions from psychiatrists, sociologists, psychologists and other experts,\" the statement added.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe woman featured in the bathtub, Slovak model Simona Kirchnerova, wrote in an Instagram post on Friday that it was a \"career highlight\" because those standing either side of her were family members.\n\n\"Made it to Vogue cover with my mum and my grandma,\" she wrote.\n\nBut London-based clinical psychologist Katerina Alexandraki told the BBC that she considered the cover to be \"unethical\".\n\n\"For those with experience of the psychiatric system, seeing a fashion magazine cover presenting a woman in such a vulnerable state can be a reminder of a very challenging time in their lives,\" she said.\n\n\"This image reinforces the idea of women being vulnerable and helpless during a mental health breakdown. It does not show us the effort those with mental health put in to overcoming their struggles, their strengths and resistance to overcome adversity,\" she added.\n\nPortuguese model Sara Sampaio said images like the one portrayed on the Vogue Portugal cover \"should not be representing the conversation about mental health\".\n\nMs Sampaio, who said she had suffered with mental health issues herself, said she considered it \"very bad taste\".\n\n\"It looks like its in an [outdated] mental hospital\" that used to \"torture\" patients, she said in a video posted on social media.\n\nShe added that it comes at a particularly sensitive time \"because of Covid and the way that mental health has been dealt with\" while many people have been isolated or directly affected by the deadly coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWriter and mental health awareness advocate Poorna Bell, whose husband took his life 2015, wrote about her disapproval on Twitter using an expletive, preceded by: \"On behalf of anyone who has ever been in a psychiatric hospital or had a loved one who has been in one.\"\n\n\"The thing is knowing how painfully slow the process is to get anything signed off on a magazine, this will have been seen and approved by many, many eyeballs,\" she added.\n\nA psychotherapist based in Lisbon, Silvia Baptista, said the cover was \"everything the mental health conversation doesn't need\".\n\n\"These nurses, this patient, what is this? What is this uninformed and disrespectful ensemble?\" she wrote on Instagram, adding that it was wrong to \"glamorise\" mental illness.\n\nVogue Portugal ended its statement saying that it recognised the \"significance of the topic of mental health\".\n\n\"Our intention, through visual storytelling, is to shine a light on the important issues of today,\" it said.\n• None Coronavirus: How to protect your mental health", "Luis Abinader will replace Danilo Medina, whose party has been in power for 16 years\n\nEarly results in the presidential election in the Dominican Republic give the opposition candidate, Luis Abinader, an unassailable lead.\n\nHis two main rivals have conceded defeat and the outgoing president has congratulated Mr Abinader on his win.\n\nHis victory puts an end to 16 years in power of the centre-left Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).\n\nVoter turnout was high despite the election being conducted during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWith about 60% of the votes counted, Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) had 53% of the votes.\n\nLuis Abinader has won the top job on his second attempt\n\nIn second place is the candidate for the Dominican Liberation Party, Gonzalo Castillo, with 37% of the votes.\n\nMr Abinader needed to have more than 50% of the votes to stave off a second round of voting on 26 July.\n\nWhile votes are still being counted, Mr Abinader's comfortable lead prompted both Mr Castillo and third-placed candidate Leonel Fernández to concede defeat.\n\nMr Castillo said that the official count \"shows that there is an irreversible trend and that from now on we have a president-elect... Our congratulations to Mr Luis Abinader\".\n\nGonzalo Castillo of the governing PLD party has conceded defeat\n\nOutgoing President Danilo Medina, who has served two consecutive terms and could therefore not run for a third, said that democracy in the Dominican Republic had \"emerged stronger\" from the election and wished his successor every success.\n\nMr Abinader said that \"all Dominicans had won by voting for change\".\n\nOpinion polls had predicted a victory for Mr Abinader after an acrimonious split in the governing Dominican Liberation Party.\n\nFormer President Leonel Fernández left the party, which had chosen Gonzalo Castillo as its presidential candidate, and ran for the presidency for the People's Force party.\n\nHe is currently in a distant third place with less than 9% of the vote.\n\nMr Abinader celebrated the early results with his supporters while urging them to await the official announcement from the electoral board.\n\nHe appealed for unity, saying that he owed his victory to the Dominican people, who he said had \"all won tonight\".\n\nIt is the second time Mr Abinader, a US-educated economist, ran for the top job in the Caribbean nation.\n\nIn 2016 he lost to Danilo Medina in the second round.\n\nSome analysts think he benefitted from discontent among Dominicans with the way the government has handled the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe election was postponed from its original date in May because of the outbreak.\n\nThe Dominican Republic is one of the worst-affected countries in the Caribbean, with more than 37,000 confirmed cases and almost 800 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nMr Abinader and his wife were among those who tested positive for coronavirus and he had to temporarily stop campaigning while he recovered.\n\nLocal media reported that the election proceeded smoothly except for one incident in which a person was shot dead outside a polling station when an argument erupted between rival party supporters.\n\nOne of the main challenges for Mr Abinader in his new job will be to revive the country's tourism industry which has been battered by the travel restrictions imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nHis own family operates major tourism projects in the Dominican Republic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon Stevens: \"We do not have a fair and properly resourced adult social care system\"\n\nPlans to adequately fund the social care sector need to be in place within a year, the head of NHS England has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC the Covid-19 crisis had shone a \"very harsh spotlight\" on the \"resilience\" of the care system.\n\nHe said there was a need to \"decisively answer\" how high quality care could be provided long-term.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would bring forward a plan for reform.\n\nIn their 2019 election manifesto, the Conservatives pledged to find a cross-party solution to reduce pressures on the sector and provide long-term funding.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Sir Simon said the Covid-19 pandemic should be used to give momentum to plans to overhaul how the system works.\n\n\"If any good is to come from this, we must use this as a moment to resolve once and for all to actually properly resource and reform the way in which social care works in this country,\" he said.\n\n\"The reality is that after at least two decades of talking about it, we do not have a fair and properly resourced adult social care system with a proper set of workforce supports.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would hope by the time we are sitting down this time next year on the 73rd birthday of the NHS that we have actually, as a country, been able to decisively answer the question of how are we going to fund and provide high-quality social care for my parents' generation.\n\n\"If you take back the history coming out of the Second World War, the country at that point was on austerity. We had rationing for bread and potatoes.\n\n\"The founders of the NHS did not use that as a moment to hesitate, they said, 'let one of the legacies of the war be the creation of the NHS'.\n\n\"That's the same legacy we need for long-term care support in social care coming out of coronavirus.\"\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has placed many care homes under additional stress\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he agreed with NHS England chief executive Sir Simon.\n\n\"The system needs a huge amount of work - it has been broken for a long time,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"I think it has been fractured, it's been underfunded, I think the staff have been undervalued and underpaid, and the prime minister needs to take responsibility.\n\n\"The Conservative government has been in power for 10 years and therefore they've had time to start doing something about social care - they haven't done it.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said it had set out a \"comprehensive action plan\" to support social care in England during the pandemic.\n\n\"We know there's a need for a long-term solution for social care and there are complex questions to address,\" they added.\n\n\"We will bring forward a plan that puts social care on a sustainable footing to ensure the reforms will last long into the future.\"\n\nAdult social care encompasses the support provided by councils to older people and younger adults with disabilities.\n\nUnlike health care, social care is not generally provided for free. In England, anyone with assets over £23,250 is expected to pay for some or all of their costs, leading to the prospect of some having to sell their homes to pay for care.\n\nServices have also been stretched as a result of years of funding cuts from government and growing demand linked to an ageing population.\n\nIn Scotland, free personal care is available. Some care costs are capped in Wales, and home care is free for the over-75s in Northern Ireland.\n\nPolitical parties have been talking about reforming the sector for the past 20 years.\n\nThe Conservatives previously brought forward legislation for a cap on care costs, but the plan was scrapped amid concerns about the costs of implementation.\n\nHowever, the idea was again considered by ministers in the current government prior to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAt December's election, the government pledged an extra £1bn per year for social care in England over the next five years.\n\nIt has subsequently given an extra £3.2bn in emergency Covid-19 funds to English councils, which can be put towards helping with social care costs.\n\nMinisters have also promised an additional £600m for care homes to help with controlling infections.\n\nDo you work in a care home? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None What are the challenges facing social care?", "Champions of the 104th annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo\n\nConey Island in the US has hosted a special socially-distanced version of an annual hot dog eating contest amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNew records were set in both the men's and women's categories at the climate-controlled indoor event in Brooklyn, New York City, on Saturday.\n\nCalifornian Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut won the men's division for the 13th time, swallowing 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes.\n\nMiki Sudo, from Connecticut, took the women's title by downing 48.5 hot dogs.\n\nThe contest is usually held outdoors and is watched by thousands of people lining the beach.\n\nWomen compete in the socially distanced hot dog eating competition on Coney Island\n\nSpeaking ahead of the competition on Saturday, Ms Sudo, 35, said she was unsure how she would perform in an air-conditioned setting.\n\n\"To be honest I'm a creature of habit, so having any unknown variables might throw me off,\" she said.\n\nMr Chestnut, 36, said the precautionary measures in place were \"super weird\", adding: \"One of the best things about this contest is the energy and the energy the audience brings. There's been years where I don't feel my best and the audience pushes me.\"\n\nJoey Chestnut (C) competes with other participants separated by plexiglass\n\nThe Fourth of July competition - Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - has reportedly taken place every year on the US Independence Day holiday since Polish immigrant Nathan Handwerker opened his stand on Coney Island in 1916.\n\nA judge in a face mask and visor checks that all is in order as the men's competition begins\n\nWhile Mr Chestnut has won the men's category on 13 occasions, there was an upset in 2015 when he came second to competitor Matt Stonie.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Landlady Ann Perkins said neighbours, who delivered flowers, had been \"incredible\"\n\nA car smashed through the front of a pub hours before it was due to open for the first time in nearly four months.\n\nThe owners of the Swan Inn near Ashford in Kent were woken by a \"terrible bang\" at about 02:00 BST as a Land Rover crashed into the Grade-II building.\n\nLandlord Ray Perkins said he was \"distraught,\" adding: \"We just don't know why we had such bad luck.\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and taking a vehicle without consent.\n\nThe teenager and two other 17-year-olds were treated at hospital for minor injuries before being discharged, Kent Police said.\n\nMr Perkins said: \"We spent weeks getting the pub ready to open today and eight hours before we are due to open, this happens. How much bad luck can we have?\"\n\nLandlady Ann Perkins said she heard an \"horrendous noise and the actual floor in our bedroom dropped\".\n\nThe couple went downstairs to find \"the car parked in the pub, with three youths in it\" and the air thick with \"smoke and dust from rubble,\" she said.\n\nMrs Perkins fears the interior of the pub will be out of action for many months\n\nThree people inside the vehicle needed treatment in hospital for minor injuries\n\nWhile the interior of the pub is likely to remain closed for many months, Mr Perkins said the \"show must go on\" and they have opened to customers using marquees in the pub garden.\n\nMrs Perkins said neighbours in the village of Little Chart had provided \"incredible\" support, delivering flowers and helping to clean the bar and glassware.\n\nKent Police said: \"Three 17-year-old boys, who were inside the vehicle, were taken to a local hospital to be treated for minor injuries before being discharged.\n\n\"One of these teenagers has been arrested on suspicion of taking a vehicle without consent and drink driving.\"\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\nTake an archaeologist, a bored schoolgirl living through coronavirus lockdown, and a shared interest in exploring ancient tombs.\n\nThe result? One of Wales' most important Bronze Age sites recreated - in the video game Minecraft.\n\nIt is the achievement of Dr Ben Edwards, from Wrexham, and his daughter Bella, 11.\n\nTheir models of Bryn Celli Ddu on Anglesey are now being shared with classrooms around the world.\n\nThe models can be loaded into the block-building universe of Minecraft, and explored to learn more about both the site, Neolithic life and art.\n\nThe burial mound dates back an estimated 5,000 years, with its so-called \"passage tomb\" whose entrance aligns perfectly with the sun at dawn on the summer solstice.\n\nThe ancient and modern: Bryn Celli Ddu burial chamber for real - and in Minecraft\n\nThe passage tomb aligns with the rising sun on the longest day of the year\n\nMore recent excavations at the site, including some by the Manchester Metropolitan University archaeologist Dr Edwards himself, revealed the burial chamber was built as a \"henge\".\n\nLike Stonehenge, this was a ritual enclosure consisting of a bank around an inner ditch, enclosed in a circle of upright stones.\n\nDr Edwards has used those digs, alongside work with researchers from the University of Central Lancashire and Wales' historical environment service Cadw, to painstakingly recreate Bryn Celli Ddu in the video game.\n\nIt was then incorporated in the educational edition of Minecraft, which is used across the world to deliver lessons in anything from chemistry to computer coding.\n\nYou can now add ancient Welsh history to that list.\n\n\"I knew Bella had access to the education version of Minecraft at school here, near Wrexham, and I had access to it at my university.\n\n\"So it was always at the back of my mind for a while to do something in Minecraft,\" said Dr Edwards, who has worked on other more grown-up computer models of Bryn Celli Ddu in the past.\n\n\"It was never a massive priority, but then you are in lockdown, it's the Easter holidays, and you are home schooling.\n\n\"I just said to Bella: 'Shall we have a crack at this?'\"\n\nReal geographical data was used to map the virtual Minecraft site\n\nThe game is famous for players being able to build almost anything out of graphic blocks, creating massive worlds and playgrounds.\n\nThough it may be a game, Dr Edwards took the approach to Bryn Celli Ddu seriously, and used actual geographical mapping data to recreate the landscape for the Minecraft models.\n\nIt includes the tomb itself, as it may have appeared in the Bronze Age, and alongside it other burial mounds and pits discovered in the last few years.\n\nRock art recovered from Bryn Celli Ddu is also represented in the game, alongside a model of what a Neolithic home may have looked like nearby.\n\nAccording to Dr Edwards, the hardest thing to build was not the burial mounds or house.\n\n\"It was planting the trees,\" he said.\n\nEach one had to be individually \"planted\" and grown by Bella and her father as part of the Minecraft world.\n\n\"Bella had to show me how to do a lot of things, because she uses it more than me,\" Dr Edwards confessed.\n\nIn the end, she approved of the final version and said it was \"very realistic\".\n\n\"And she knows, because she used to come down to the excavations too,\" her father added.\n\nA Neolithic settlement was recreated as part of the digital game project\n\nDr Ffion Reynolds, from Cadw, said it was exactly children such as Bella who would benefit from playing with the Minecraft model.\n\n\"We were looking for creative ways of providing people with a digital experience of Bryn Celli Ddu,\" said Dr Reynolds, who would normally be spending the summer months giving guided tours of the excavations to schools from the area.\n\n\"This was a way of continuing our relationship with those schools, and offering them a way of 'visiting' the site digitally.\"\n\nCoronavirus restrictions mean Cadw's sites across Wales have been closed to the public, including Bryn Celli Ddu.\n\nIt also meant, for the first time in years, those who celebrate the summer solstice were unable to gather at the burial mound to witness the dawn phenomenon there.\n\n\"However, it did allow us get access with a special camera crew, and we have been able to capture the sunrise there with 360-degree filming,\" Dr Reynolds added.\n\nShe said Cadw hoped to make the footage available in the very near future, as well as reopening the site to visitors.\n\nMeanwhile, those with access to Minecraft at home or in school can now visit the site digitally - in safety.\n\nThe Bryn Celli Ddu Minecraft world is free to download for the Minecraft Education version from Hwb - the Welsh Government's teaching resource site, and also from the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage.\n\nAnd for those looking for a more serious experience, Dr Andrews and his colleagues are behind an augmented reality app available for Apple devices, which can guide visitors around the real site - once it reopens.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Electron mission was lost late in the ascent from Mahia Peninsula\n\nThe American launch company that flies its rockets out of New Zealand has lost its latest mission.\n\nRocket Lab said its Electron vehicle failed late in its ascent from Mahia Peninsula on North Island.\n\nAll satellite payloads are assumed to have been destroyed.\n\nThese included imaging spacecraft from Canon Electronics of Japan and Planet Labs Inc of California, as well as a technology demonstration platform from a UK start-up called In-Space Missions.\n\n\"I am incredibly sorry that we failed to deliver our customers' satellites today. Rest assured we will find the issue, correct it and be back on the pad soon,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nRocket Lab has made everyone in the space sector sit up since it debuted its Electron vehicle in 2017. It's at the head of a wave of new outfits that want to operate compact rockets to service the emerging market for small satellites.\n\nSaturday's lift-off from New Zealand was the Electron's 13th outing to date. All prior launches had been a complete success, bar the very first which failed to reach its intended orbit.\n\nWhat went wrong this time is unclear. Video footage showed the rocket's second-stage engine operating normally five minutes and 40 seconds into the flight, at an altitude of 192km, and at a speed of 3.8km/s. The video feed then froze.\n\nThe main payload on board was a satellite from Canon Electronics - part of a series the company is producing to image features on the ground smaller than a metre across.\n\nPlanet, which operates the largest network of imaging spacecraft in orbit, was trying to loft five of its latest iteration of satellite. Because the San Francisco company produces and launches so many spacecraft, it will more easily bounce back from this failure.\n\nBut for the In-Space Missions start-up, the Electron's loss is a major disappointment. Its Faraday-1 platform was to be the showcase of the company's new service.\n\nFaraday-1 was a kind of \"car pool\" satellite that allowed third parties to fly payloads in orbit without the requirement to fund and build a whole spacecraft themselves. They just needed to rent a compartment in Faraday-1, even if it was just for a standalone instrument or circuit board.\n\nFaraday-1 would have provided its on-board community of seven payloads with all the power, communications and operating support they required.\n\nAmong those taking up this cost-effective solution was Prometheus, a new radio technology from the UK, Portsmouth arm of European aerospace giant Airbus.\n\nThis equipment was to have conducted a radio-frequency survey, scanning the globe for distress beacons and the activities of military radars, with a view to incorporating this sensing capability into future services.\n\nAlso present on board was Lacuna Space, who are based at the Harwell science campus in Oxfordshire. It's developing sensitive receivers to pick up faint signals from remote, battery-powered devices. These are being used in the burgeoning field of machine-to-machine communications - part of what's become known as the \"Internet of Things\".\n\nIn-Space, which is itself based in Bordon, Hampshire, tweeted: \"The In-Space team is absolutely gutted by this news. Two years of hard work from an incredibly committed group of brilliant engineers up in smoke. It really was a very cool little spacecraft.\"\n\nFuture missions are already in production.\n\nThe Airbus Prometheus radio would have conducted radio spectrum surveys", "Pubs, cafes, restaurants and cinemas in England have opened their doors to customers for the first time in three months.\n\nWe asked six young photographers to document what an evening out looked like.\n\nThe seaside town and port situated on the east coast of Yorkshire is perhaps best known for its strong literary associations - particularly Bram Stoker's Gothic novel Dracula - and the dramatic abbey ruins on the headland overlooking the town.\n\nThe Moon and Sixpence, a harbour-side bar, offers views of the historic town. But its popular window seats have been removed to meet social distancing measures.\n\nManager Lex Atkinson takes the details of all customers as they come to enjoy an evening out. The bar is offering table service only, and a booking system is in place, with customers limited to a two-hour slot.\n\nThese friends who travelled to Whitby from nearby Darlington say they are happy to see bars opening again as it is time to kick-start the economy. They say not seeing their friends is the thing they have missed most over the past three months.\n\nEmma Morley and Lee Clarke from Peterborough both work for the NHS, and say they have had a hectic three months. Because of their work, they have been around people throughout the lockdown. \"It doesn't really feel any different for us [being out again], we're not having to step out of our comfort zone,\" says Emma.\n\nLex Atkinson admits that a night out at the bar \"looks so different to how it did before\". She says the reduced capacity will allow them to ease themselves back in gently after three months off. \"It means we've got time to enforce the new stricter cleaning procedures such as wiping down till points and menus between every customer with antibacterial spray,\" she says.\n\nThe weekend marks the end of Pride events in the UK. Covid-19 meant that celebrating LGBT+ rights looked a little different this year with many of the events held virtually.\n\n\"We have installed screens between each table, there are sanitiser units around the building and everything is socially distanced,\" says Jeremy Joseph, owner of G-A-Y. Capacity inside the club has been cut. People give their details before entering, and these are held for 21 days to tie in with the NHS track and trace system.\n\n\"To be honest I wouldn't normally be inside a bar but I did miss Pride generally,\" says Evan, a 32 year old actor (pictured right). He says the atmosphere on Old Compton Street has been \"amazing\". \"This feels the closest to Pride that we could have,\" he says.\n\nTommy is 25 and also an actor. He says he feels safe with the precautions the bar had in place. \"They've put up lots of barriers, so it's a one-way system. There's lots of perspex so that germs can't be spread.\" He's not so sure about the new rules of having to sit in a booth. \"You can't get up and dance,\" he says.\n\nMichael, a 22-year-old receptionist, (pictured left) was disappointed events had been affected by the lockdown. \"It's one of the days of the year that I like to go out and express myself. But it's OK because today it does feel festive - everyone's out and about, and it feels a bit like Pride today.\"\n\nOne of London's coolest neighbourhoods, Peckham is filled with a variety of bars, restaurants and unique street art.\n\nGilda Bruno is a 22 Italian living in London. \"I moved here just before lockdown began. I was ready to explore a new city, meet new people and see what the city had to offer me. Then all of a sudden this happened.\n\n\"Now things are going to get better. I'm going to try to make the most of my stay in London and connect with like-minded people and also the nightlife. It hasn't been possible for the last few months.\"\n\n\"It's definitely going to be a challenging experience, because in the past few years I have experienced a lot of social anxiety. I never really enjoyed being in big crowds, so having to face that experience again after a few months when I only interacted with my two flat mates is going to be a struggle.\"\n\n\"Maybe people are going to be just as clumsy as me socially - especially after being inside for so long. I'm not really worried about the restrictions in place in the bars. It might make the focus more on being around people, conversation and quality time rather than just drinking.\"\n\nSituated in the northern part of the county close to the Scottish border and often referred to as the \"Gateway to the Cheviots\", the small town of Wooler is a popular base for walkers. It has many attractive stone-built watering holes dotted around the town.\n\nAt The Angel Inn, landlady Nikki says getting ready to reopen has been \"a lot of work\". \"I've put in a one-way system and taken out lots of furniture,\" she says.\"The staff all have plastic visors. I've made two separate smoking areas, and counted anyone coming in. We really need to be safe.\"\n\nChatton is a village roughly 3 miles (6km) east of Wooler. A group of agricultural workers have gathered at The Chatton Arms Hotel. \"We are regulars here, and our group is made up of people aged 18-to-35,\" says one. \"People of all ages gather here - we all talk to each other. It's good for the older farmers. Without this they wouldn't see anyone. If we didn't have the pub here, there would be nothing else to do.\"\n\nFarmer Jonny Spink was out at his local The Three Horseshoes in Wensley. \"As a farmer not a lot has changed for me during this time. I'm enjoying being out. Working on your own can be stressful, and it's bad for your mental health not seeing anyone.\"\n\nDescribed as \"Stratford's place to be\", Roof East, is a roof-top bar on top of an old shopping centre.\n\nThe unusual venue boasts a crazy golf course, baseball batting cages and the Scottish game of curling. Its cinema is temporarily closed.\n\nBirute, who works at the bar, is worried about the prospect of a local lockdown. She says young people need to be able to continue with their lives, as long as they \"cooperate with the stipulations of post-lockdown life.\"\n\nStephanie, who also works at the venue is cautious: \"I reckon in a week of two there will be a second wave,\" she says. \"Given a little freedom, the natural tendency is for people to do their own thing, so I think people may forget the new rules.\"\n\nUnfortunately, rain cut short Saturday night's festivities and the venue was forced to close early.\n\nFour friends - two couples - have met up to enjoy a few drinks in the local pub, The Queens Arms in Audenshaw, Manchester.\n\n\"The last time I went out was in February and I've really missed socialising with my friends,\" says Demi Lonsdale. Dean Fallon thinks the pubs are doing enough to keep people safe: \"We had to sign a form for tracing purposes, there are perspex screens at the bar, I'm really impressed.\"\n\nClub promoter Jake Rees, has put on a special event billed as a \"sober rave\". It features entertainment and guest speakers, which he hopes will help people start to socialise again, after so many months at home.\n\n\"These events are about making sure people feel safe and have a good time. It's nice to see people socialising again - you can really see people light up when they are around other people enjoying good vibes.\"", "People across England have had their first night out in three months, after coronavirus restrictions eased.\n\nHospitality venues such as pubs and restaurants as well as hairdressers, cinemas and theme parks reopened with strict social distancing rules.\n\nBut ministers urged caution and England's chief medical officer said the latest step was not \"risk-free\".\n\nIt comes as buildings and landmarks across the country were lit up to celebrate the NHS.\n\nPeople were also encouraged to place lights in their window on Saturday to remember those who have died from the virus.\n\nBuildings were lit up blue in honour of the tens of thousands of people who have died during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK\n\nDowning Street was lit up blue while other public buildings including Royal Albert Hall, Blackpool Tower, the Shard and the Wembley Arch were also illuminated.\n\nRestrictions on the hospitality sector remain in place in Scotland and Wales, while pubs have been able to open in Northern Ireland since Friday.\n\nIn England, people are being allowed to stay the night away from home for the first time since lockdown started, with campsites and holiday accommodation also reopening.\n\nPolice in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall reported gridlock on the roads on Saturday - including a high volume of caravan owners heading to the coast.\n\nDespite the relaxation of restrictions, some 30% of bars, pubs and restaurants have stayed shut, according to the Night-Time Industries Association, amid fears for safety and concerns over how to implement social distancing guidance.\n\nCampaign for Real Ale national chairman Nik Antona said: \"The government have not really been helpful with their guidance, leaving it to the last minute in a lot of cases.\" Some pubs \"want to see what's going to happen\" before opening their doors, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's good to have a proper pint\" : The BBC's Fiona Trott talks to drinkers in a pub in Newcastle\n\nAt a pub in Newcastle, punters enjoyed their first \"proper pint\" in more than three months. \"The atmosphere is a bit different... that was expected. But everyone's having a good time,\" one customer told the BBC's Fiona Trott.\n\n\"The regulations are good and everyone is sticking with them, by the looks of things,\" said his companion.\n\nBut it is a very different sort of Saturday evening from pre-lockdown expectations. Customers are expected to book a table in advance, to register their details on arrival and to stay no more than three hours.\n\nWhile pubs in Scotland remain closed one publican in Berwick-upon-Tweed claimed 70% of his pub's bookings were from over the border.\n\nPublican Marc McDonald told BBC Scotland people had travelled from as far afield as Glasgow and Edinburgh to drink at The Meadow House.\n\nIt is a different story in Leicester where the streets were largely deserted as pubs and other venues remain closed after the city became the first to be subject to a local lockdown on Monday, following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nOther rule changes that came into effect on Saturday include allowing two households to meet indoors or outside, including for overnight stays - although they have to maintain social distancing.\n\nPeople in England are still urged to stay 2m apart, but the new \"one metre plus\" guidance means they can get closer if they use \"mitigation\" measures, such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak welcomed the reopening of businesses, saying it was \"good news\" people were working again.\n\nOn a visit to The Bell and Crown in Chiswick, west London, Mr Sunak said the almost half a million people who worked in Britain's pubs and bars were \"helping us all to enjoy summer safely\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government's messaging as \"all over the place\", telling TimesRadio: \"You have had some government messaging saying go out and have a drink, other messaging saying be responsible, be cautious - the messaging, I think, has been very poor over the last few weeks.\"\n\nDespite the easing of restrictions, public health experts are continuing to warn people to be cautious to avoid a second UK wave of the epidemic.\n\nProf Robert West, an epidemiologist from University College London, told the BBC: \"We are looking at around 20,000 new infections a week and around 1,000 deaths a week and the rates aren't coming down very fast.\"\n\nThe latest figures, released on Saturday, showed a further 67 people had died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 44,198.\n\nHow are you planning to deal with lockdown easing? Are you going to meet loved ones for the first time since it began? Are you working? Are you happy or concerned about lifted restrictions? 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:", "Pubs, cafes, restaurants and cinemas in England have opened their doors to customers for the first time in three months.\n\nWe asked six young photographers to document what an evening out looked like.\n\nThe seaside town and port situated on the east coast of Yorkshire is perhaps best known for its strong literary associations - particularly Bram Stoker's Gothic novel Dracula - and the dramatic abbey ruins on the headland overlooking the town.\n\nThe Moon and Sixpence, a harbour-side bar, offers views of the historic town. But its popular window seats have been removed to meet social distancing measures.\n\nManager Lex Atkinson takes the details of all customers as they come to enjoy an evening out. The bar is offering table service only, and a booking system is in place, with customers limited to a two-hour slot.\n\nThese friends who travelled to Whitby from nearby Darlington say they are happy to see bars opening again as it is time to kick-start the economy. They say not seeing their friends is the thing they have missed most over the past three months.\n\nEmma Morley and Lee Clarke from Peterborough both work for the NHS, and say they have had a hectic three months. Because of their work, they have been around people throughout the lockdown. \"It doesn't really feel any different for us [being out again], we're not having to step out of our comfort zone,\" says Emma.\n\nLex Atkinson admits that a night out at the bar \"looks so different to how it did before\". She says the reduced capacity will allow them to ease themselves back in gently after three months off. \"It means we've got time to enforce the new stricter cleaning procedures such as wiping down till points and menus between every customer with antibacterial spray,\" she says.\n\nThe weekend marks the end of Pride events in the UK. Covid-19 meant that celebrating LGBT+ rights looked a little different this year with many of the events held virtually.\n\n\"We have installed screens between each table, there are sanitiser units around the building and everything is socially distanced,\" says Jeremy Joseph, owner of G-A-Y. Capacity inside the club has been cut. People give their details before entering, and these are held for 21 days to tie in with the NHS track and trace system.\n\n\"To be honest I wouldn't normally be inside a bar but I did miss Pride generally,\" says Evan, a 32 year old actor (pictured right). He says the atmosphere on Old Compton Street has been \"amazing\". \"This feels the closest to Pride that we could have,\" he says.\n\nTommy is 25 and also an actor. He says he feels safe with the precautions the bar had in place. \"They've put up lots of barriers, so it's a one-way system. There's lots of perspex so that germs can't be spread.\" He's not so sure about the new rules of having to sit in a booth. \"You can't get up and dance,\" he says.\n\nMichael, a 22-year-old receptionist, (pictured left) was disappointed events had been affected by the lockdown. \"It's one of the days of the year that I like to go out and express myself. But it's OK because today it does feel festive - everyone's out and about, and it feels a bit like Pride today.\"\n\nOne of London's coolest neighbourhoods, Peckham is filled with a variety of bars, restaurants and unique street art.\n\nGilda Bruno is a 22 Italian living in London. \"I moved here just before lockdown began. I was ready to explore a new city, meet new people and see what the city had to offer me. Then all of a sudden this happened.\n\n\"Now things are going to get better. I'm going to try to make the most of my stay in London and connect with like-minded people and also the nightlife. It hasn't been possible for the last few months.\"\n\n\"It's definitely going to be a challenging experience, because in the past few years I have experienced a lot of social anxiety. I never really enjoyed being in big crowds, so having to face that experience again after a few months when I only interacted with my two flat mates is going to be a struggle.\"\n\n\"Maybe people are going to be just as clumsy as me socially - especially after being inside for so long. I'm not really worried about the restrictions in place in the bars. It might make the focus more on being around people, conversation and quality time rather than just drinking.\"\n\nSituated in the northern part of the county close to the Scottish border and often referred to as the \"Gateway to the Cheviots\", the small town of Wooler is a popular base for walkers. It has many attractive stone-built watering holes dotted around the town.\n\nAt The Angel Inn, landlady Nikki says getting ready to reopen has been \"a lot of work\". \"I've put in a one-way system and taken out lots of furniture,\" she says.\"The staff all have plastic visors. I've made two separate smoking areas, and counted anyone coming in. We really need to be safe.\"\n\nChatton is a village roughly 3 miles (6km) east of Wooler. A group of agricultural workers have gathered at The Chatton Arms Hotel. \"We are regulars here, and our group is made up of people aged 18-to-35,\" says one. \"People of all ages gather here - we all talk to each other. It's good for the older farmers. Without this they wouldn't see anyone. If we didn't have the pub here, there would be nothing else to do.\"\n\nFarmer Jonny Spink was out at his local The Three Horseshoes in Wensley. \"As a farmer not a lot has changed for me during this time. I'm enjoying being out. Working on your own can be stressful, and it's bad for your mental health not seeing anyone.\"\n\nDescribed as \"Stratford's place to be\", Roof East, is a roof-top bar on top of an old shopping centre.\n\nThe unusual venue boasts a crazy golf course, baseball batting cages and the Scottish game of curling. Its cinema is temporarily closed.\n\nBirute, who works at the bar, is worried about the prospect of a local lockdown. She says young people need to be able to continue with their lives, as long as they \"cooperate with the stipulations of post-lockdown life.\"\n\nStephanie, who also works at the venue is cautious: \"I reckon in a week of two there will be a second wave,\" she says. \"Given a little freedom, the natural tendency is for people to do their own thing, so I think people may forget the new rules.\"\n\nUnfortunately, rain cut short Saturday night's festivities and the venue was forced to close early.\n\nFour friends - two couples - have met up to enjoy a few drinks in the local pub, The Queens Arms in Audenshaw, Manchester.\n\n\"The last time I went out was in February and I've really missed socialising with my friends,\" says Demi Lonsdale. Dean Fallon thinks the pubs are doing enough to keep people safe: \"We had to sign a form for tracing purposes, there are perspex screens at the bar, I'm really impressed.\"\n\nClub promoter Jake Rees, has put on a special event billed as a \"sober rave\". It features entertainment and guest speakers, which he hopes will help people start to socialise again, after so many months at home.\n\n\"These events are about making sure people feel safe and have a good time. It's nice to see people socialising again - you can really see people light up when they are around other people enjoying good vibes.\"", "Three teenagers remain in hospital in a serious condition\n\nA 17-year-old girl has died and three other teenagers were seriously injured in a car crash in Kent.\n\nA Suzuki Swift carrying six teenagers hit a tree in a garden in Mundy Bois Road in Egerton, near Ashford, at about 20:20 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe police watchdog has been informed because a Kent Police vehicle was \"in close proximity at the time of the collision\", the force said.\n\nTwo teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of driving offences.\n\nKent Police said officers were in the area due to reports an illegal rave was taking place in nearby Pluckley.\n\nHowever, the force found no such event was being held.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said \"police on patrol in a marked vehicle saw a vehicle containing six people that then headed off at speed\".\n\nThe police car then \"turned around to follow the vehicle and found it had crashed\", the IOPC said.\n\nThe 17-year-old girl died while being taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nTwo men - aged 19 and 18 - and a second 17-year-old girl remain in hospital in a \"serious but stable condition\", a force spokesperson said.\n\nA 19-year-old man from Ashford and a 17-year-old girl from Maidstone, who have been discharged from hospital, have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nOfficers have asked for anyone who saw the silver hatchback to contact them.\n\nKent Police said it had \"made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct due to a police vehicle being in close proximity at the time of the collision\".\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said it had begun an investigation, adding: \"Part of our investigation will be to establish whether or not the police were actively pursuing the vehicle.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A leaked letter seen by the BBC has revealed an extensive list of concerns about how the social care sector is coping with the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe letter raises fears about funding, testing, personal protective equipment (PPE) and the shielding scheme for vulnerable people.\n\nWritten on Saturday, to a senior official at the Department of Health and Social Care by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass), it says mixed messages from the government have created \"confusion and additional workload\".\n\nOn protective equipment for care workers, the letter says the national handling has been \"shambolic\".\n\nEarly drops of equipment have been \"paltry\" and more recent deliveries have been \"haphazard\", with some even being confiscated by border control for the NHS.\n\nThe letter says there have been contradictory messages from the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health on the shielding scheme for people particularly at risk from the illness.\n\nAnd while the rollout of testing for care workers has been generally welcomed, the letter states \"testing for care workers appears to be being rolled out without being given thought to who is going to be tested and what we are going to do with the result\".\n\nAdass is a charity that supports members from all 151 local authorities in England with responsibility for adult social care.\n\nThe organisation is also critical of the way central government has recruited volunteers, saying the national scheme has \"diverted 750,000 volunteers away from supporting local communities and left them with nothing to do for the first three weeks\", and claiming it was \"shameful that this was not done in collaboration with local government\".\n\nWhile the letter, also reported in the Local Government Chronicle, welcomes some of the guidance given by Whitehall, it raises significant concerns about the interaction between central government and local government.\n\nIt suggests the sector had to make \"invidious decisions before the pandemic\" and now is not being given the same consideration as the NHS.\n\n\"We are very concerned that there is a significant imbalance between listening, hearing, and understanding NHS England as opposed to social care,\" it says.\n\nThe social care system helps and looks after older and disabled people in residential centres and in their own homes. There are more than 400,000 residents in care homes in 15,000 locations in England.\n\nAdass has broadly welcomed the health secretary's plan to help social care, which was announced on Wednesday.\n\nMatt Hancock announced that all care home residents and staff with Covid-19 symptoms will be tested for coronavirus, as well as any new care home residents being discharged from hospital into care.\n\nBut senior figures in the care sector say there is scepticism about whether the commitments can be delivered.\n\nResponding to Mr Hancock's announcements, Adass said: \"We now have a national strategy; the challenge is now to implement it. Any strategy will ultimately be judged by actions it produces, not words it contains.\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said: \"It's absolutely true that we need to do more - that's why we put the next stages of our action plan out... so we can test all people going from hospital into care homes.\"\n\nHe said that 15% of care homes in the UK have two or more cases of Covid-19.\n\nWhen challenged on that figure - one care home boss, for example, says two thirds of his homes are infected - Mr Hancock said it was a \"robust figure\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that \"what really matters is availability of testing now in social care\" where he said more than 10,000 tests of residents had been undertaken.\n\nMr Hancock also said his latest figures showed 1,500 care workers were tested on Tuesday, while 4,100 workers have the test \"immediately available to them\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health said the government's plan in England included \"ramping up testing, overhauling the way PPE is being delivered to care homes and helping to minimise the spread of the virus to keep people safe\".\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with the social care sector to ensure they have everything they need to respond to this outbreak and receive the recognition they deserve,\" they added.\n\nThe government has also said it is \"committed to ensuring that all areas have access to PPE\" and is \"working round the clock\" with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the army to ensure supply.\n\nIt said 38 million items of PPE had been delivered to local resilience forums - multi-agency groups of emergency services and agencies - since last week.\n\nLabour's shadow social care minister Liz Kendall said the concerns raised in the letter were \"extremely worrying\".\n\n\"Their view that the supply chain for PPE has been shambolic and that testing for care workers hasn't been properly thought through must be an urgent wake up call for ministers,\" she added.\n\n\"Coronavirus has exposed the already fragile state of these vital services. Ministers must heed the warnings from Adass and take all necessary to halt the emerging crisis in social care.\"\n\nDo you live or work in a care home? How have you been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Dyfed-Powys Police has issued more fines for lockdown breaches than any force in the UK\n\nDyfed-Powys Police's commissioner has said \"proactivity\" is behind the force issuing more fines than any other for lockdown breaches.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn spoke as Wales braced itself for the lifting of the Welsh Government's five-mile \"stay local\" travel guidance on Monday.\n\nUp to 22 June, the force issued 1,651 fixed penalty notices. The next highest was North Yorkshire Police with 1,122.\n\nMr Llywelyn said enforcement was used as the \"final measure\".\n\nThe Dyfed-Powys force serves mid and west Wales, including popular tourist destinations such as the Brecon Beacons, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.\n\nOver one two-day period its officers turned around 1,000 cars for breaches of lockdown regulations.\n\nFrom Monday people will be able to travel as far as they wish in Wales for the first time since 23 March.\n\nHowever, they can only stay overnight in one other home nominated as part of their \"extended household\" - Wales' version of England's support \"bubbles\".\n\nMr Llywelyn told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement it was a small minority who broke the rules.\n\n\"Some might question why Dyfed-Powys Police, one of the smallest in terms of the population size of police forces across England and Wales, albeit the largest geographically, has actually issued more tickets than any other police force,\" he said.\n\n\"And a lot of that is due to the proactivity.\"\n\nOf the other Welsh forces, figures up to 22 June showed North Wales Police issued 464 penalties, South Wales Police 315 and Gwent Police 128 - all with much larger populations than Dyfed-Powys.\n\nIn England, the most penalties were issued by North Yorkshire Police with 1,122 with the smallest number being 35 by the Ministry of Defence Police.\n\nPeople were warned not to come into Wales from England to because of different lockdown rules\n\nMr Llywelyn said his force explained the rules to people \"lots\" during lockdown's first few weeks.\n\nBut four or five weeks in, people were still travelling \"hundreds of miles\" into the force's area.\n\n\"The police have, from the outset, tried to use the four-phase approach that they talked about - the engaging, explaining, encouraging, and enforcing as the final measure,\" he said.\n\n\"We have seen lots of people coming over the border from England and I do, to a degree, feel some sympathy towards them, because the messaging has not always been that clear from central UK government about the differences between the regulations in the different nations across the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus crisis could \"level down\" the UK economy with London and the South East expected to bounce back more quickly than Hull and Bradford.\n\nSectors such as finance and construction will be worst affected by the pandemic, a report from the Social Market Foundation think tank warned.\n\nInitially, that means London and the South East would be worst hit, but other areas face a slower recovery.\n\nThe Treasury said it was committed to \"levelling up\" every region of the UK.\n\nThe worst-affected areas in the short-term:\n\n\"After the financial crisis, London recovered quickly because of a concentration of jobs in banking and insurance,\" the Social Market Foundation (SMF) report said.\n\n\"Whilst these jobs will face the biggest initial blow from coronavirus, evidence suggests the capital is more economically resilient and the labour market will recover quicker than the rest of the country.\"\n\nBut that is not the case in areas where unemployment rates were above the UK's average of 3.8% last year, according to the SMF, a centrist think tank.\n\nIt said those areas, which include Manchester and Peterborough, face the slowest recovery.\n\nThe areas that will find it hardest to bounce back:\n\n\"Policy makers need to recognise that national or even regional data can conceal the local realities of this recession and should not rely on it when making important decisions for the recovery from coronavirus,\" said Amy Norman from the SMF.\n\n\"The economic severity of coronavirus will be felt across many places, but we must remember that this recession does not occur in isolation,\" she said.\n\n\"Many people and places outside of the capital will be particularly vulnerable due to the lasting hardships of the past decade.\"\n\nThe report also found that young people were more vulnerable to the economic impacts of the virus crisis.\n\nIt said people between the ages of 20 and 24 were least likely to work in sectors like education, health or public administration, which have seen fewer people furloughed or made redundant.\n\n\"Young people's jobs are most at risk, but a quarter of older workers also face job instability,\" Ms Norman said.\n\n\"Politicians have announced the guaranteed youth opportunity but are light on support for those in older categories who will find themselves out of work.\"\n\nA Treasury spokeswoman said: \"As we recover from the outbreak we remain committed to levelling up every region and nation of the UK - helping ensure they return to growth, jobs and prosperity in a way that is safe.\n\n\"Alongside our generous package of economic support that has protected millions of jobs and businesses, we're supporting communities up and down the country. At Spring Budget 2020, we allocated more than £6bn for local transport in towns and cities across England, £5bn to support the rollout of the fastest broadband, and committed to a £2.5bn skills fund to help our communities thrive.\"\n• None Why North-South is not England's only divide", "That's a wrap: The National Theatre in London\n\nEmpty theatre buildings nationwide have been covered in colourful messages of support, as they remain closed due to Covid-19 concerns.\n\nThe National Theatre in London has been wrapped in bright pink barrier tape, which reads \"Missing Live Theatre\".\n\nThe project, led by stage designers group Scene Change, also includes the Manchester Royal Exchange and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.\n\nAs well as the Lyric Belfast, the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff and Theatre Royale Plymouth.\n\nVenues have been shut since March, with many warning that they will go out of business in the coming months without support.\n\nThe art intervention was unveiled on the same day that the National Theatre confirmed 400 casual staff will soon lose their jobs.\n\n\"We have committed to paying our casual staff until the end of August, but very sadly due to the changes in the government Job Retention Scheme, we simply cannot afford to offer financial support beyond that point, when we won't be back performing as usual,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\nShe added they hoped \"additional financial support from government may be forthcoming\" to allow performing again \"in a limited way\" but said \"it is set to be many months before it will be possible to perform to audiences at usual capacities, so regrettably a proportion of job losses are unavoidable\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News on Friday, Oscar-winning actor, writer and theatre director Sir Mark Rylance warned that 70% of venues could be closed by Christmas, meaning 290,000 jobs in the sector are at risk, with redundancies being made already.\n\nSir Mark, who also revealed he will reprise his role in Jerusalem next year at some point, stressed that theatres can't go back to usual, and they are going to have to change how they operate and what stories they tell in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"They are devastatingly badly affected,\" said Rylance.\n\n\"We have discovered that what the pandemic has brought to the surface too, is that 70% of the workers in theatre are freelance,\" he added. \"They've not benefitted from any furlough scheme or any of the job retention schemes that the buildings and the permanent staff have benefitted from, so people are really in trouble, and they're going to be in more trouble in August and September.\"\n\nA close-up of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester\n\nIn a statement, Scene Change declared: \"This is a moment of reset in our industry and we believe the design community can be an essential part of the transformation that will see theatre buildings being reopened and the ways in which theatre can be reimagined,\"\n\n\"As shapers of theatrical space through the use of people and place, our work is pivotal in connecting an entire ecosystem within the theatre industry. We are ideally positioned to be at the heart of any discussions about how theatre operates in the future.\"\n\nThe tapes will stay up for a week and then be taken to envelop other theatres.\n\nVenues throughout London's West End will join in on Saturday, while The RSC, Sadler's Wells, Theatr Clwyd and Theatre Royal Stratford East will take part the following week, along with Sheffield Theatres, and the Ambassador Theatre Group.\n\nTom Piper, one of the team behind the campaign, told the BBC's Colin Paterson the design was \"inspired by the fact that the National Theatre was sort of wrapped with hazard warning tape it looked like a toxic sort of waste site\".\n\n\"And we know that theatres are not toxic places, they are places of great healing, where people will come together with a sense of community and that's what we're all missing at the moment,\" added Piper, who also who helped create the 2014 sea of ceramic poppies outside the Tower of London.\n\nHe encouraged people to go along and see the outdoor \"guerrilla\" artwork for themselves, from a safe distance.\n\n\"It's a gesture of love for these buildings really and to highlight that they're empty, they need to be full of people,\" he said.\n\nLast week, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published a five-stage plan for a \"phased return\", which will initially let performances take place outdoors, with indoors performances to follow later.\n\nHowever, the roadmap for the return of live theatre and music was met with calls for financial support and a timetable for reopening, with many dismissing the plan as inadequate.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It is not clear how quickly Wales' contact tracing system is working, according to the health minister.\n\nVaughan Gething said people were contacted \"in a matter of days but what I want to have is more detail\".\n\nStatistics show 81% of positive cases were reached and 84% of their contacts were contacted between 21-27 June.\n\nBut the figures do not show how long it takes from contacting someone who tests positive to asking their contacts to self-isolate.\n\nThe Welsh Government's contact tracing system - Test, Trace, Protect - asks for the details of all the people an individual who tests positive has had contact with.\n\nThose people are then asked to self-isolate for 14 days to prevent the virus spreading further.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Wales, Mr Gething said statistics relating to the speed of that system had not been published because \"we need to get the data right so we're not providing misleading data to the public and that's really important\".\n\nAsked if he had private data as to how quickly the system is working, Mr Gething said: \"It isn't clear because there are things we need to sort out in the back-end system.\n\n\"I know that we're getting to over 84% of our contacts and I know we're getting to them in a matter of days.\n\n\"But what I want to have is more detail on how many people we're getting to within 24 hours of knowing who the contacts are, how many within 36, 48 and so on.\n\n\"I couldn't tell you the exact detail on all those points because it changes day-to-day,\" he added.\n\nThe speed of processing Covid-19 tests is an important part of the system, with new figures published this week showing the proportion of tests turned around within 24 hours fell to just 35.1% a few weeks ago.\n\nVaughan Gething: \"We're looking at what we do to improve\"\n\nNew data giving a breakdown of weekly performance shows that last week, 49.4% of results were processed within a day and 74.4% within two days.\n\nThe government's scientific advisers have said contact tracing systems \"perceived to be most successful\" require results within 24 hours.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme on 14 June, Mr Gething said: \"We get about 90% within 48 hours and that's what you need to have an effective system.\"\n\nBut the weekly breakdown figures show that the number of tests processed within 48 hours has been below 90% since the week ending 17 May.\n\nAsked about the discrepancy in the figures, Mr Gething said: \"The point is that we're looking at what we do to improve.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns MS said: \"It is a scandal that only half of Covid test results in Wales are being turned around in a day compared to two-thirds of a similar number of daily tests were being processed in this time just a few weeks ago.\n\n\"Ministers need to get a grip and turn this situation around to ensure an effective testing system is in place as we reopen Wales,\" she added.", "We know our population is ageing and, as we live longer, many of us will need support in old age. There has also been an increase in the numbers of people living with a disability who may rely on some level of social care.\n\nNiall Dickson, the head of the NHS Confederation, which represents NHS providers, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the system was trying to cope with \"huge amounts of extra demand\" as a result of there being \"many many more\" older people.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2015, the number of people aged 65 and over in the UK increased by 21%, while the number aged 85 and over increased by 31%.\n\nMore than a million more people were living with a disability in the UK in 2016 than 10 years earlier because people are living longer with disabilities than before. This is all good news.\n\nBut at the same time, directors of adult social services in England say they have had to cut £4.6bn from their budgets since 2010.\n\nSo who is getting care, what kind of care are they getting and who is paying for it?\n\nUnlike the NHS, in England social care is not free at the point of delivery - a lot of people have to pay for at least some of their care, and a lot of that care is delivered by private providers.\n\nThat can be anything from someone coming to your house to help you get out of bed or washed, to full-time accommodation in a care home.\n\nIt's a little different in the rest of the UK - home care is capped at £60 a week in Wales and free for the over-75s in Northern Ireland, while Scotland provides free personal care, that is help with things such as washing and dressing, in both care homes and people's own homes.\n\nThe UK Homecare Association estimates that more than 70% of homecare services in the UK are bought by local authorities, with the rest bought by people paying for their care themselves.\n\nIn 2014-15, that equated to 646,000 people being cared for in their homes with the state paying.\n\nThis doesn't necessarily mean 70% of people who need care at home are paid for by the state.\n\nIn 2015, Age UK estimated that more than a million older people in England were living with unmet social care needs (such as not receiving assistance with bathing and dressing), a rise from 800,000 in 2010.\n\nPeople not eligible for funding may just be doing without the care they really need or relying on informal care from friends and family.\n\nWhen it comes to residential care, the latest figures from 2014 suggest local authorities across the UK paid for 37% of people, while the NHS funded 10% of care home places.\n\nThe rest was made up of people who either paid for all of their care (41%), or topped it up with a contribution from their local council (12%).\n\nOn 31 March 2016, in England, there were 199,305 people in nursing and residential home places and 452,990 people accessing long-term care in the community for whom the local council had some role in funding or providing care or assessing the needs of the person receiving it.\n\nThe most recent data doesn't tell us how many people were cared for overall in England, but we can say that there were 1.8 million requests for support in 2015-16.\n\nOf those, 28% were from people aged 18-64 and the remaining 72% were aged 65 and over.\n\nBut of these requests, 57% resulted in no direct support from the council.\n\nFor the over-65 group, almost a quarter of requests for support were from people being discharged from hospital.\n\nThink tank the King's Fund says the number of older people getting state-funded help in England alone fell by 26% between 2009 and 2014.\n\nThis is in the context of an ageing population.\n\nThe government has said English councils' social care departments are getting an extra £3.5bn by 2020.\n\nAlmost £2bn of this comes from council tax, which local authorities have been allowed to raise by 3% this year and next year provided they spend it on adult social care.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Belfast man Christopher Gault left medicine to join the priesthood in 2014.\n\nWith the outbreak of coronavirus, he returned to work as a doctor for six weeks on the front line in Belfast’s Mater hospital.\n\n\"There were, of course, patients who lost their lives and there was physical and spiritual suffering during this crisis,\" said the trainee Dominican.\n\n\"The hardest part about being a doctor is accepting that a patient is at the end of their life and there’s nothing more we can do.\"\n\nBr Christopher added: “But how people reacted was immensely inspiring, I remember nurses who, after their shift ended, were sitting for hours with patients who couldn’t be visited by their families.\"\n\nHe is now back in Dublin continuing his studies as part of the Dominican Order.", "Most universities have seen their finances harmed by the pandemic\n\nThirteen universities face \"a very real prospect\" of insolvency following the coronavirus crisis unless they receive a government bailout, a study suggests.\n\nHigh-ranking universities with large numbers of international students face the largest immediate drop in income, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nBut the least prestigious universities are at the greatest risk, says the IFS.\n\nThe IFS does not name the universities, but says a targeted government bailout would be the most cost-effective plan.\n\nThe fallout from Covid-19 \"poses a significant financial threat\" across UK higher education, with most institutions left with reduced net assets, says the analysis.\n\nThey say the total size of the sector's losses is \"highly uncertain\" - anywhere between £3bn and £19bn, or between 7.5% and almost half the sector's annual income.\n\nThe researchers' central estimate is an £11bn loss, amounting to a quarter of the sector's annual income.\n\nIn addition, universities which are running pension scheme deficits will see them widen during the pandemic as investments stagnate.\n\nBut there are big variations between institutions, says the study.\n\nUniversities with many international students which also have substantial pension obligations are often also higher-ranking institutions, with \"large financial buffers\" and the option of alleviating losses by admitting more UK-based students.\n\nBut this behaviour could harm less selective universities, which could see their potential students recruited by higher-ranking institutions.\n\nWithout significant redundancies, which would impact on teaching quality, universities are unlikely to be able to claw back much of the losses through cost savings, the researchers warn.\n\nSome universities went into the crisis with far stronger finances than others, they add.\n\n\"Our analysis shows it is not the universities with the greatest losses, but the institutions in the weakest financial positions before the crisis, that are at the greatest risk of insolvency,\" they conclude.\n\nThe researchers do not name names but, under their central estimate, suggest 13 universities, out of the UK's 165 higher education institutions, would end up with negative reserves \"and thus may not be viable in the long run without a government bailout or debt restructuring\".\n\nLess selective universities may face tougher competition for UK-based students\n\nThe analysis, which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation, suggests a targeted bailout aimed at \"keeping these institutions afloat could cost just £140m\".\n\nIFS research economist Elaine Drayton said a targeted bailout would be by far the cheapest option.\n\n\"However, rescuing failing institutions may weaken incentives for others to manage their finances prudently in future,\" she warned.\n\n\"General increases in research funding avoid this problem, but are unlikely to help the institutions that are most at risk, as few of them are research active.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students said the crisis had \"exposed many of the flaws inherent in running our education like a market\".\n\n\"When funding is so unstable, it's no wonder that our universities and the jobs of thousands of academic and support staff are now at risk,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are of course especially concerned about the risk to students that this instability poses.\"\n\nThe University and College Union's general secretary, Jo Grady, called on the government \"to step in and guarantee lost funding for universities so they can weather this crisis and lead our recovery on the other side\".\n\n\"We need a comprehensive support package that protects jobs, preserves our academic capacity and guarantees all universities' survival,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said a government package announced in May, allows UK universities to access business support and job retention schemes, while the sector will also benefit from the pulling forward of £2.6bn in tuition fee payments to ease cash flow problems.\n\nAdditionally, research focused universities across the UK will see 80% of fees lost from international students covered by government, alongside £280m in extra research funding.\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, said the body had been working closely with government on proposals to support universities.\n\nNicola Dandridge, chief executive of the universities watchdog for England, urged all registered higher education providers to inform the Office for Students if they encountered financial difficulties.\n\n\"In these circumstances, we will be proactive in ensuring students' interests are protected, including helping make sure that students can find an appropriate course elsewhere should any provider close,\" she added.", "NHS England is launching a new service for people with ongoing health problems after having coronavirus.\n\nThe government says \"tens of thousands\" of people have long-term symptoms after catching Covid-19.\n\n\"Your Covid Recovery\" will be an online portal for people in England to access tutorials, contact healthcare workers and track their progress.\n\nThe project will be rolled out in two phases, with the web portal launching later this month.\n\nIt will only be accessible via a personal log-in and will be available to virus patients who had to be treated in hospital, as well as to those who managed their illness at home.\n\nLater in the summer, tailored rehabilitation will also be offered to those who qualify, following an assessment.\n\nEach programme will last a maximum of 12 weeks, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nThe online portal pilot site is called Space for COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)\n\nThe service, which was developed and piloted in Leicester, will include access to mental health services, community support groups and exercise tutorials, either online or over the phone.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the portal would \"give people who have survived the virus on-demand access to online clinical support\" for problems with breathing, mental health or other complications.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that long-term effects for some were like \"post-viral fatigue syndrome\".\n\nHe added that the government was spending £8m for research in this area and was developing a support package for those who have experienced such symptoms.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said: \"Rolling out Your Covid Recovery alongside expanding and strengthening community health and care services is another example of how the NHS must bring the old and the new together to create better and more convenient services for patients.\"\n\nThe new service was announced on the day of the 72nd birthday of the NHS, which was founded on 5 July 1948.\n• None Calls for 'post-Covid syndrome' to be recognised", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People have been applauding the NHS in a range of locations\n\nThe prime minister has joined a nationwide applause to pay tribute to NHS staff on the 72nd anniversary of the health service.\n\nThe round of clapping was inspired by the weekly Clap for Carers initiative to thank key workers during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson said he celebrated with staff who \"quite simply, saved my life\" after he caught the virus.\n\nIt is hoped the anniversary applause will become an annual tradition.\n\nSpeaking after applauding outside Downing Street, Boris Johnson tweeted: \"Thank you to the whole NHS family and all of our carers for all you have done and continue to do to keep us well and cared for.\n\n\"In these past few months, indeed the past 72 years, you have represented the very best of this country. Our gratitude to you will be eternal.\"\n\nHe later added in a statement that he had marked the occasion with staff from St Thomas' Hospital, who cared for him when he was admitted to hospital with coronavirus in April.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson took part in the clap from outside Downing Street\n\nA World War Two Spitfire plane with the words \"Thank U NHS\" painted on its underside tipped its wings above hospitals and the homes of fundraisers and volunteers, recognising the way people have supported the NHS and local communities during the pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the celebrations were \"very personal for me\" as his late mother was a nurse and later relied on the health service when she became ill.\n\nHe said: \"Many, many times she got gravely ill and it was the NHS that she turned to, and I remember as a boy, a teenager, being in high dependency units, in intensive care units, with my mum, watching nurses and other support staff keep my mum alive.\n\n\"They did that on more than one occasion - it's etched in my memory. For them, it was just the day job. They were doing that every day.\"\n\nLeeds General Infirmary workers joined in to mark the health service's 72nd anniversary\n\nMembers of the public came together - at a safe distance - to share the moment\n\nThe National Health Service was launched on 5 July 1948, with the core principle that it is free at the point of delivery and is based on clinical need.\n\nAs part of a weekend of anniversary events, UK landmarks were lit up blue in celebration and remembrance on Saturday.\n\nDowning Street, the Royal Albert Hall, Blackpool Tower, the Shard and the Wembley Arch were all illuminated and a minute's silence was held to remember those who have died during the pandemic.\n\nThe latest government figures, released on Sunday, showed a further 22 people had died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 44,220.\n\nPeople were also asked to place lights in their windows in a show of remembrance on Saturday night, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, lighting a candle in Canterbury Cathedral.\n\nA World War Two Spitfire plane flew over hospitals in Cambridge\n\nFirst Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon was among officials joining in with the nationwide applause on Sunday evening.\n\nIn a video message she said the country was \"depending more than ever\" on its health and care workers, and thanked them \"from the bottom of my heart\".\n\nFirst Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said NHS staff and social care workers were \"all heroes\".\n\nAnd Captain Tom Moore - who raised more than £32m for the health service by walking laps of his garden during lockdown - shared a video of himself clapping from his armchair at home in Bedfordshire.\n\nThe idea for Sunday's round of applause was inspired by the success of the weekly Clap for Carers, which saw households across the country show their appreciation for the NHS and other key workers during the lockdown.\n\nEarlier, Liverpool FC players applauded key workers ahead of their Premier League match against Aston Villa\n\nPeople clapped in Tredegar in south Wales - the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, the health service's founding father\n\nAnnemarie Plas, who founded the Clap for Carers initiative, joined Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside No 10 for the clap at 17:00 BST.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on Sunday morning, she said: \"We have had this first part of the crisis, we don't know what lies ahead, so if we can have this one moment where we say thank you to each other and recharge our batteries for what may be a heavier time that lies ahead, then I think that is a beautiful moment.\"\n\nShe said the NHS helped her when she arrived in the UK from the Netherlands as a new mother, \"so I feel very happy to be in touch with the NHS this way\".\n\nAnnemarie Plas, who founded the Clap for Carers, clapped alongside the prime minister in Downing Street\n\nSunday's applause (pictured) was inspired by the weekly Clap for Carers which took place at the height of the coronavirus lockdown\n\nMs Plas added that the celebrations were \"not just about the NHS\" but about others who have also \"sacrificed so much\" during the pandemic - such as \"delivery workers, teachers, parents, good neighbours\".\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge praised healthcare workers on a visit to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk.\n\nThe couple chatted to staff and volunteers about how they coped during the first wave of the epidemic.\n\nDuke and Duchess of Cambridge visited a hospital near their home in Anmer, Norfolk\n\nThe Prince of Wales paid tribute to staff working through \"the most testing time in the service's history\".\n\nIn a video message to mark the occasion, Prince Charles spoke of his gratitude and pride for the \"costly sacrifices\" of NHS staff.\n\n\"Despite all that has been endured, there is deep cause for gratitude, and a true reason for pride,\" he said.\n\nThe prince also said the pandemic had brought out the best in people, adding: \"This renewal of our community spirit has been a silver lining during this dark time.\"\n\nTwo dogs outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital were dressed for the occasion\n\nThe Shard in London was one of the many landmarks lit up blue on Saturday\n\nSpeaking at a rally celebrating seven decades of the health service, Labour leader Sir Keir said NHS staff needed a pay rise in the wake of the pandemic.\n\n\"It's very important that we don't just say thanks, but recognise in a meaningful way what the NHS has done,\" he said.\n\nHis comments come after unions representing more than 1.3 million nurses, cleaners, physiotherapists, healthcare assistants, dieticians, radiographers, porters, midwives, paramedics and other NHS employees wrote to the chancellor and the prime minister calling for pay talks to start soon.\n\nMeanwhile, about 100 protesters gathered at Marble Arch in London, calling for the end of racial disparity in the health system.\n\nProtesters gathered at Marble Arch before moving to Downing Street\n\nOne of the organisers, Tyrek Morris, 21, told the crowd: \"We are protesting for black lives and one of the demands we have is to abolish the racial disparity within the NHS, especially towards black women.\n\n\"We need to implement extensive measures to prevent the disproportionate suffering of black women in healthcare and bring to an end the significantly increased black maternal mortality rate.\"\n\nHow are you marking the anniversary of the NHS? 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:", "2 Sisters food factory on Anglesey has suffered an outbreak of coronavirus\n\nMeat plants should consider staggered staff starts and gaps between carcasses on production lines to prevent the spread of coronavirus, according to new Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nThey emphasise social distancing and for staff to work and take breaks in small groups.\n\n\"Cohorts\" should be formed, particularly if staff live together and travel to work with each other.\n\nIt said staff should not lose pay if they have to self-isolate.\n\n\"Self-isolation will not occur if pay is absent, causing infection to spread,\" the guidelines state.\n\nThe guidelines have been issued following clusters of coronavirus cases at Welsh food factories - including 2 Sisters on Anglesey, Rowan Foods in Wrexham and Kepak in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nThey stress coronavirus is \"unlikely\" to be transmitted through food or packaging, and the guidelines are designed to protect plant workers.\n\nOn Friday, the first minister confirmed 204 cases of coronavirus had been recorded among workers at 2 Sisters, while 166 cases had now been linked to Rowan Foods.\n\nMark Drakeford said cases at Kepak appeared to be different to the other sites, as they were spread over several months.\n\nWhile he said there were 33 cases at that site, Public Health Wales said the verified figure was 29.\n\nIt said Mr Drakeford was using numbers from the company.\n\nRowan Foods in Wrexham says it has introduced screens and visors to keep staff safe\n\nHeather Lewis, of Public Health Wales, said no outbreak had been declared at the site, but investigations were ongoing.\n\n\"HSE officers were satisfied that Kepak Merthyr are taking all reasonably practicable measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 within the workforce,\" she said.\n\nRowan Foods said it had also been visited by the HSE and that this went \"well\". It said \"no enforceable action\" was taken.\n\n\"We have no serious issues which need addressing and we continue to comply with the law,\" a spokesman said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is \"crystal clear\" that drunk people are unable to socially distance, the chair of the Police Federation said as pubs reopened on Saturday.\n\nMinisters had urged caution ahead of hospitality venues reopening in England after three months of lockdown.\n\nJohn Apter dealt with \"naked men, happy drunks, angry drunks, fights and more angry drunks\" on shift in Southampton.\n\nBut police thanked the majority of people for acting responsibly as they enjoyed the night out.\n\nStreets were packed in London's Soho district, with images showing revellers outside pubs into the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said \"a small number\" of premises closed early following advice from officers due to crowding, but the force added that there were \"no significant issues\" in the capital.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police received more than 1,000 reports, most of which were \"drink-related\".\n\nBars on Hilton Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter set out tables for customers\n\nIn north Nottinghamshire, four people were arrested and several pubs decided to close after alcohol related anti-social behaviour.\n\nWhile people were out in droves at thousands of venues, fears emergency services could be as busy as New Year's Eve appear not to have been realised.\n\nBut Mr Apter, from the Police Federation, an association for police staff in England and Wales, said: \"What was crystal clear is that drunk people can't/won't socially distance.\n\n\"It was a busy night but the shift managed to cope. I know other areas have had issues with officers being assaulted.\"\n\nSome streets in Soho, London, were closed to traffic\n\nPolice officers were seen walking through heavy crowds in Soho\n\nAddressing concerns raised by Mr Apter, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people had largely acted responsibly, saying the \"vast majority of people are, I think, doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told Sky News' Sophy Ridge: \"Overall I'm pleased with what happened yesterday, it was really good to see people out and about and very largely social distancing.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, NHS England chief executive, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"Pleasingly, we did not see last night the kind of scenes that people feared might be. It was the foolish few, but the sensible majority.\"\n\nRob Moore, paramedic at the West Midlands Ambulance Service, told BBC Breakfast it had been a \"really average\" night shift in his area.\n\n\"We were really prepared for a sudden upsurge in calls related to people being out drinking but it hasn't happened thankfully,\" he said. \"Hopefully it's a sign people have heeded the advice and had a sensible night.\"\n\nPeople in England are still urged to stay 2m apart, but the new \"one metre plus\" guidance means they can get closer if they use \"mitigation\" measures, such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face.\n\nBoris Johnson and government experts had urged people to stick to the rules to avoid creating a second wave of coronavirus, with chief medical officer for England Chris Whitty saying easing lockdown is not \"risk-free\".\n\nThe latest government figures, released on Sunday, showed a further 22 people had died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 44,220.\n\nA group sits outside a bar and restaurant in Whitby, after travelling from nearby Darlington\n\nDr Chris Smith, a virologist from the University of Cambridge, said that the majority of people are \"responsible\", but urged caution, citing cities such as Leicester and Melbourne, which have imposed localised lockdowns.\n\n\"I would remind people, have a look at what's going on around the world,\" Dr Smith told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We could easily lurch back in the wrong direction if we don't remain vigilant because this thing hasn't gone away. We've still got a lot of circulation of the virus in the country, it's just a lot lower than when we started.\"\n\nIn Leicester, streets were largely deserted as pubs and other venues remain closed after the city became the first to be subject to a local lockdown on Monday, following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nRestrictions on the hospitality sector remain in place in Scotland and Wales, while pubs have been able to open in Northern Ireland since Friday.\n\nThere were further lockdown restrictions relaxed in England on Saturday, including hairdressers and barber shops reopening.\n\nLong queues were seen outside barbers and there were midnight hairdressing appointments as people tamed their locks following months of closures.\n\nOther places now allowed to reopen in England include:\n\nThere were long queues outside a barbers in Clapham, south London\n\nPeople are also allowed to stay the night away from home for the first time since lockdown started, with campsites and holiday accommodation also reopening.\n\nPolice in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall reported gridlock on the roads on Saturday - including a high volume of caravan owners heading to the coast.\n\nTwo households can also meet indoors or outside, including for overnight stays - although they have to maintain social distancing.\n\nMeanwhile, new quarantine exemptions will allow major sporting events, as well as TV and film productions, to go ahead this summer.\n\nHow are you planning to deal with lockdown easing? Are you going to meet loved ones for the first time since it began? Are you working? Are you happy or concerned about lifted restrictions? 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:", "Staff in care homes are set to get a £500 bonus\n\nCare home kitchen and domestic staff will get a £500 bonus, First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced.\n\nThe payment will also go to agency and nursing staff, personal assistants working in care homes and domiciliary workers.\n\nArrangements are being put in place to start making the payments to tens of thousands of people across Wales.\n\nMr Drakeford dubbed social care the \"scaffolding\" that holds society together.\n\n\"Without the vital care provided by this small army of people who work in our homes and care homes, we know the NHS would not be able to cope, and very many people would not be living independent lives,\" he added.\n\n\"This payment recognises the tremendous dedication of the tens of thousands of social care workers throughout Wales who are caring for some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.\"\n\nHe said the Welsh government was working with the UK government and HM Revenue and Customs to ensure the money reached people.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the work they did was \"vital\"\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"It is right that this payment is awarded to those who play a role in looking after care home residents.\n\n\"As well as the important work social care staff are doing in people's homes and care homes, we know that domestic and kitchen staff are working beyond their normal roles, providing care and friendship to residents during this pandemic.\"\n\nStaff who worked between 15 March and 31 May will receive the extra payment.", "Doddie Weir says reaching milestones in life helps him live with Motor Neurone Disease (MND).\n\nAs he celebrates his 50th birthday, the former Scotland rugby international says he is looking forward.", "The government is pledging to double the number of frontline staff at job centres in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to pledge £800m to recruit 13,500 extra staff as part of an economic recovery package announced on Wednesday.\n\nThe Treasury says 4,500 of them will be in position by October, with more following later in the year.\n\nLabour has called for more targeted support to prevent job losses.\n\nThe announcement comes after UK companies announced thousands of job cuts this week, with many firms cutting jobs now to reduce costs.\n\nJob centres are set for more face-to-face meetings with jobseekers from Monday, as lockdown restrictions are eased.\n\nThe government says its furlough scheme, currently paying 80% of the wages of more than nine million workers, has already stemmed job losses from a sharp economic decline following the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nHowever, the scheme is due to be pared back from August, and is set to finish at the end of October.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said schemes to support jobs should be better tailored to individual sectors and tied to the easing of lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"There's a strong argument for continuing to provide support in areas where there would be viability for the future,\" she told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.\n\n\"We want to make sure that people are in that kind of situation for as short a period as possible,\" she said.\n\n\"The problem is, we don't have those alternative opportunities yet available, we don't have the support packages there.\"\n\nHigher unemployment is inevitable as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, that much the government admits.\n\nThe impact of the crisis is already all too clear, with companies in various sectors announcing significant redundancies over the last few weeks.\n\nWhat is not yet clear is how far the chancellor is willing to go to limit the number of people losing their jobs.\n\nLabour criticise the government's \"one size fits all\" economic approach and say current support should continue through local lockdowns.\n\nA further extension to the job retention scheme has been ruled out, beyond that Chancellor Rishi Sunak has promised \"bold\" action to restart the economy.\n\nWith recession looming and further job cuts expected he will be under significant pressure to deliver on that.\n\nThe Treasury is committing to increase the total number of mentors working in job centres in Great Britain to 27,000, double the current 13,500.\n\nA spokesperson added that the extra staff would provide \"expert advice\" to those seeking work to help jobseekers \"make the most of their skills\".\n\nThe chancellor is also expected to pledge an extra £32m for recruiting extra careers advisors, and £17m for work academies in England.\n\nPCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka said the recruitment of extra staff for job centres was welcome, but the announcement \"falls well short of what is required\".\n\nHe also accused the government of being \"reckless\" by sending job centre staff back to work \"when Covid-19 is still a threat\".\n\n\"Some job centres have no screens installed and we have reports that some are so flimsy they can easily be knocked over,\" he said.\n\n\"Risk assessments have not been agreed with the union and our members say PPE and hand santisers are in short supply.\"\n• None UK businesses cut more than 12,000 jobs in two days", "Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West are among the world's wealthiest celebrities\n\nUS rapper Kanye West has said he is running for president, potentially pitting him against a man he says he admires, Donald Trump.\n\n\"We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,\" he tweeted. \"I am running for president of the United States!\"\n\nHis wife Kim Kardashian West and entrepreneur Elon Musk endorsed him.\n\nBut it's unclear whether West is really running.\n\nHe does not appear to have registered his name with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for November's election. The closest name the FEC database shows is a candidate called \"Kanye Deez Nutz West\", who filed their papers with the Green Party in 2015 under the address \"1977 Golddigger Avenue, Suite Yeezus\" and appears to have raised no money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ye This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is also not the first time West has claimed that he is running for the White House.\n\nAt the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, he said he had decided to run for president in 2020.\n\nBut last November he pushed the date back, saying he would actually run in the 2024 contest.\n\n\"What are you laughing at?\" he asked the crowd at Fast Company's Innovation Festival.\n\n\"We would have created so many jobs that I'm not gonna run, I'm gonna walk,\" he said, adding he was considering changing his name for the run to \"Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn his tweet on Saturday, US Independence Day, West, 43, did not say if his supposed run would be affiliated with a particular political party.\n\nIn any case, contesting the nomination of one major parties would be impossible at this stage, with the election only four months away.\n\nIn order to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate, West would have to gather a certain amount of signatures and register in states by a particular deadline. The deadline has already passed in some major states but the music star would still technically have time to file in many others.\n\nThis year's contest is likely to be a straight battle between Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.\n\nIn 2018, West made a bizarre appearance at the White House with President Trump during which he wore a Make America Great Again hat and made an expletive-filled rant that Mr Trump described as \"quite something\".\n\n\"I love this guy right here,\" West said, walking behind the desk to hug the seated president, who said: \"That's really nice.\"\n\nThe rapper also pushed back on the idea that African-Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic Party voters, saying: \"People expect that if you're black, you have to be Democrat.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKim Kardashian West retweeted her husband's statement about the presidential run with an American flag.\n\nShe has in recent years become a significant voice in the US movement for criminal justice reform and has successfully lobbied President Trump to release several prisoners.", "As the day wore on crowds gathered outside pubs and bars in London's Soho\n\nPubs, cinemas and hairdressers have reopened as lockdown restrictions are eased across England - but how have people adjusted to the latest \"new normal\"?\n\nThe Rush Hair salon on Deansgate in Manchester city centre opened its doors at 09:00 BST to welcome customers for the first time in more than three months.\n\nWhile staff were wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and shields divided each hair-cutting station, it was much like business as usual, according to the BBC's Lauren Hirst.\n\nSalon manager Abbie Denton told her: \"It feels like you're starting a new job with all the new changes but it's just great to be back.\"\n\nAbbie Denton said Rush Hair's staff were \"raring to go\"\n\nThe salon was fully booked and Ms Denton, who has worked at Rush Hair for eight years, said she was happy to be back doing what she loves.\n\n\"We had a full training day yesterday where we went through everything about the PPE and health and safety and we had a Zoom call with the CEO this morning, which was all about team building and got everything raring to go,\" she said.\n\nBBC presenter Ben Tavener joined the first customers entering Pall Mall Barbers for a haircut near London's Trafalgar Square.\n\nHe said: \"The experience ultimately wasn't that bad - a little fiddly when cutting around my ears as I had to hold the mask in place for a few seconds without the elastic bands.\n\n\"But a small price to pay to end three months of 'lockdown hair'.\n\n\"One of the barbers - Michael Barby - has had to shave off his prized beard, as it won't fit under his face mask. Four years of growth gone in a snip.\n\n\"But he's glad to be back at the grindstone. And his 'beard off' raised over £2,000 for charity.\"\n\nBarber Michael Barby had to shave off his prized beard, as it won't fit under his protective face mask\n\nLipstick & Locks, in Sudbury, Suffolk, opened for 24 hours from midnight - and was expecting 43 clients through the door in that time.\n\nManager Megan Tuck said: said: \"It's been such an exciting day for us… so lovely to be back and work.\"\n\nLipstick & Locks manager Megan Tuck said its reopening was \"exciting\"\n\nIn the afternoon, punters outside Dukes 92 - a bar and restaurant in the centre of Castlefield, Manchester - were in good spirits\n\nOperations director Lucy McCarthy said: \"It's been pretty stressful trying to open with all the changes but so far so good.\n\n\"We are just really excited to be open.\"\n\nA group of friends enjoying drinks outside Dukes in Castlefield\n\nSome parts of central London \"seemed as if things had never been different\", according to BBC journalist Winnie Agbonlahor.\n\nJill and Sean Connel, from Twickenham, had travelled into the capital to show their six-month-old son Charlie that \"even though it's all very scary, it's OK and people are friendly\".\n\nTheir train was \"almost completely empty\" with everyone wearing masks and being very respectful, Mrs Connel said.\n\n\"We expected it to be more crowded but everywhere we've been so far, including Buckingham Palace, has been quite quiet,\" she added.\n\nJill and Sean Connel travelled into central London with their six-month-old son Charlie\n\nAs the wedding ban was lifted, a trainee doctor who contracted Covid-19 became one of the first brides in England to say \"I do\".\n\nShe was working in A&E at Ipswich Hospital when she became unwell in March.\n\nThe ceremony was restricted to 30 people, but it was live-streamed for others to enjoy the celebrations.\n\nThe happy couple said they were looking forward to having a \"massive party\" next year\n\nIn Upware, Cambridgeshire, 38-year-old Tom Jones moored up on his river cruiser boat at the Five Miles From Anywhere pub.\n\nIt's the first time boat owners have been allowed to stay overnight on their boats, because they are classed as a second home.\n\nMr Jones said: \"It's great to be able to support this fantastic local business, and the beer is a definitely a bonus.\n\n\"We are taking things slowly and trying to stay outside as much as possible.\"\n\nIn the Lake District, visitors said they were keen to get their fill of stunning views and fresh air as lockdown eased.\n\nPeople arrived as early as 06:00 at Waterside House Campsite on the shores of Ullswater with some having travelled from London, Gloucestershire, Merseyside, Manchester and the North East.\n\nFamilies pitched tents, hooked up their campervans and set up gazebos to protect them from the showers.\n\nNearby Pooley Bridge was busy and queues formed for the farm shop while other visitors enjoyed the sunshine in the beer gardens.\n\nBBC Look North's Hannah Gray said things were \"starting to get busy\" in Leeds as the afternoon progressed.\n\n\"Some people were very dressed up and clearly intending to have a night of partying,\" she added.\n\nCampers pitched up on the shores of Ullswater in the Lake District\n\nBBC News Online picture editor Phil Coombes put together some before and after photos of clients at The Men's Grooming Company in Coventry.\n\nDom Nelson, 30, said: \"I'm really pleased. He has done a great job and I'm off to a barbecue tonight if the weather holds off.\n\n\"I've been desperate for a cut and have been pre-booked since June - they just moved it back to the opening day. I've no worries coming along as there is lots of information about keeping safe.\"\n\nDom Nelson said he had been \"desperate\" for a haircut\n\nMeanwhile in Leicester, the streets were deserted as the city remained at a standstill in the first localised lockdown after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe only sign of activity in the streets was around the city's open-air market, which remained open.\n\nDhansukh Rana, 79, was shopping for some fruit and vegetables at a stall with his wife.\n\nHe said: \"I have to keep moving but it is sad they have left out Leicester when the rest of the UK is moving on.\"\n\nDhansukh Rana said many people in the city were suffering", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nA US woman who says she was brought to Britain aged 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew has said he \"should be panicking\" following the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell.\n\nVirginia Roberts Giuffre, one of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, says she was trafficked to London by Epstein in 2001.\n\nShe spoke to Australia's Channel Nine 60 Minutes programme following the arrest of Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was arrested on charges of helping Epstein's sexual exploitation of girls and young women, and also perjury.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell both deny allegations made against them.", "Renowned surgeon Dr El Tayar worked in the NHS for 11 years before moving back to his native Sudan to help establish a transplant programme.\n\nHe returned to the UK in 2015, working as a locum surgeon before his death.\n\nHe gave the \"precious gift of life to so many people around the world\", fellow surgeon Abbas Ghazanfar wrote in a tribute.", "Teams of six - three men and three women - take part in a series of physical challenges\n\nAn outdoor events firm has said it will not have the money to refund thousands of people over cancelled events.\n\nDevon-based Tribal Clash said it was \"facing bankruptcy\" after cancelling events in Devon, Portugal and the United States due to coronavirus.\n\nThe events would have attracted about 450 teams of six who have paid a total of £270,000 in registration fees.\n\nThe government said refunds should normally be given for cancellations of \"promised goods or services\".\n\nTribal Clash, billed as the \"world's most savage team competition\" was founded in 2013 as a series of physical tasks on a beach with teams of six - three men and three women.\n\nIt expanded in 2017 with competitions in Australia, Portugal and the US.\n\nAbout 100 teams who had entered the Devon and Portugal events this year had received refunds, said co-founder Andrew Barker.\n\nBut there was \"no cash\" left from the ticket sales and \"we simply don't have and never have carried enough cash reserves to refund 100% of our customers\", he said.\n\nAndrew Barker: \"We are in a very precarious situation and we are literally on the brink of bankruptcy\"\n\nSome of the ticket money had been spent on subsidising previous events and investment in future events, while the rest had gone on overheads, paying hire companies, landowners and transport.\n\nThe firm had offered an online competition, a training weekend and discounts.\n\nThe total package \"we believe far exceeds the price paid\", said Mr Barker.\n\nTribal Clash is billed as the \"world's most savage team competition\"\n\nThe firm, which netted £174,000 in a 2018 crowdfunding appeal, had considered rolling over entries to 2021, but the firm said it had \"no idea\" if they would happen.\n\n\"We are in a very precarious situation and we are literally on the brink of bankruptcy,\" Mr Barker said.\n\nThe pandemic has been nothing short of a nightmare for the live events industry and for those with tickets to those events.\n\nWe are hearing from lots and lots of consumers who are really distressed by not being able to get hold of refunds.\n\nConsumers should get a full refund if they've paid for an event that isn't going ahead, depending on terms and conditions.\n\nA customer can take online courses or whatever an event organiser is offering, but a refund has to be an option.\n\nThe best option is to turn to your bank. If you have paid with debit cards there is something called chargeback where your bank can claw money back from the recipient account.\n\nIf you pay for something that's more than £100 on your credit card there is something called Section 75 in the Consumer Credit Act which gives you protection and the credit card company has to refund you.\n\nWhat we really need is government stepping in to support these businesses either with clear instructions on how the events industry can open up again or financial support that they need to survive in the meantime.\n\nMr Barker added: \"There are many other companies in the live events sector in exactly the same position.\n\n\"The leisure sector has been hit hardest by the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"None of us has been able to make any sales since this began.\n\n\"The government has mandated that we cannot trade and have promised 100% refunds but that has not been balanced against the need to protect our industry and all of the jobs that businesses like ours provide.\"\n\nMr Barker posted a message about the firm's plight on Instagram and some responses were sympathetic.\n\n\"This is an awesome and creative compromise. I wish you nothing but success,\" said Mike Carroll.\n\nThe event has grown in seven years to become an international organisation\n\nFormer Tribal Clash competitor Chris Mills, who set up a website for customers seeking refunds, said: \"Everyone wants to have Tribal Clash, but at the moment it is very one-sided, we have put money in but we are not getting anything out.\n\n\"I'm disappointed because it feels as if the customers are footing the bill for Covid-19.\n\n\"That angers me because every other event that I have been involved with has found some solution.\"\n\nAndrew Barker has guided Tribal Clash from its Devon roots in 2013\n\nFirms that failed to refund people for events cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak could face legal action from the consumer watchdog.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it would take companies to court if they flouted the law.\n\nThe CMA said it would \"normally require the consumer to be offered a refund for any services they have already paid for but that are not provided... because of government public health measures.\n\n\"This may be a partial refund of the total amount the consumer has paid, to reflect the value of the services already provided.\"\n\nA Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokesperson said: \"We have been clear that we want to get the performing arts and live events fully back up and running safely as soon as possible.\n\n\"We have developed a five-stage roadmap which provides a clear pathway back to performance and are working closely with the sector as well as public health and medical experts on guidance for this phased approach.\"", "Ghislaine Maxwell is expected to appear in court in New York on charges of helping Jeffrey Epstein's sexual exploitation of girls and young women, and also perjury. She has previously denied any wrongdoing.\n\nWhen she moved to New York, she became friends with Laura Goldman.\n\nLaura Goldman spoke to the BBC's Today programme and was asked whether she thought Ms Maxwell would speak about Prince Andrew, a former friend of Epstein, as part of a potential plea deal.\n\nHe has also strenuously denied any wrong doing.\n\nThis video has been removed while the BBC investigates claims about the veracity of the contributor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here are the key differences between lockdown rules in Wales and England\n\nPeople have been warned not to breach coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Wales this weekend, including those thinking of travelling from England.\n\nRules have been relaxed in England so people can now \"drive to other destinations\" and meet one person outside their households outdoors.\n\nBut in Wales they cannot travel \"a significant distance\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford told those mulling a weekend trip to Wales \"don't do it\".\n\nRules in Wales mean travelling long distances are not allowed, with the rules in England also specifying that overnight stays away from home are not allowed.\n\nSpeaking at Friday's Welsh Government news conference, Mr Drakeford said: \"I know many people in Wales are concerned about people travelling long distances from England, particularly in the light of the UK government's announcement last weekend.\n\n\"I understand their concern. Our rules here in Wales are clear, travel should only be local, and it should only be essential.\n\n\"Travelling a long way to visit beauty spots or second homes in Wales is neither of those things - so don't do it.\"\n\nPeople have been urged not to travel a significant distance to exercise\n\nPolice forces in Wales have the power to fine people for making non-essential journeys, including those from England into Wales, with a £60 penalty for lockdown breaches.\n\nAnd Welsh police forces have expressed concerns over whether traffic into Wales could continue to increase as a result of Prime Minister, Boris Johnson's easing of restrictions.\n\nSouth Wales Police reminded people inside and outside Wales the regulations remain in place and they would be enforced.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Valentine said: \"Travelling into Wales for exercise or without a reasonable excuse is not permitted, and I appeal for the support of people living in England.\"\n\nGwent Police Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman warned anyone thinking of flouting the rules to they could face action.\n\n\"If you're travelling - either cycling, in the car or on a motorbike - then we've got patrols out, we're visible, we will be stopping you, we will be explaining to you what the situation is, we will be asking you to return home.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said there would be no \"specific targeting\" of people travelling from across the border, although its patrols would continue.\n\nOn Friday, a letter by the All Wales Policing Group of chief constables and police and crime commissioners to the first minister said \"there is growing evidence that adherence to the regulations is weakening in some areas\".\n\n\"We should make it clear that we want to be balanced and proportionate in the use of fines, taking our local communities with us in the way that we enforce the rules, with the difference of messaging in England being a challenge which can be helped by a similarity of maximum fine levels\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Welsh Government said it was not planning to change the fine system to increase penalties above £60 but it was keeping the matter \"under consideration\".\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\nAt the start of the pandemic, some Welsh beauty spots saw \"unprecedented\" weekend crowds, prompting criticism from authorities.\n\nAhead of this weekend, Wales' three national park authorities issued a joint call for \"all UK residents to respect the rules and measures in place in Wales\".\n\n\"These measures in Wales mean that people cannot drive to exercise in Wales - no matter where they live,\" said Emyr Williams, chief executive of Snowdonia National Park.\n\n\"There will continue to be no parking or access to the most popular sites in the Welsh National Parks.\"\n\nPembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority chief executive Tegryn Jones said the \"message was clear\" for people who did not live within walking distance of beauty spots.\n\n\"Do not visit Wales' national parks until the Welsh Government's guidelines to avoid unnecessary travel in Wales have been lifted,\" he added.\n\nNational parks said they would be \"making significant efforts\" to ensure correct information reaches the public\n\nAnd the coastguard told people coronavirus \"hasn't gone away\" and told them to \"respect the coastline\".\n\n\"Don't forget though, in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, nothing has changed. Give the coast a miss and stay home to save lives,\" they said in a statement.", "US President Donald Trump denounced \"angry mobs\" who are \"trying to tear down statues of our founders\", in a speech marking 4 July celebrations at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.\n\nThe location was controversial, as the monument features the faces of two slave-owning former US presidents, and stands on land taken from the indigenous Lakota Sioux by the US government in the 1800s.\n\nThousands of Trump supporters gathered despite concerns over the possible spread of coronavirus.", "Valtteri Bottas beat Lewis Hamilton to pole position as Mercedes dominated qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix, while Ferrari had a shocking day.\n\nMercedes seemed unbeatable as the season re-started after a four-month delay as a result of the coronavirus.\n\nThe cars, painted black this year to reflect Mercedes' support for anti-racism, were half a second clear.\n\nThe fastest Ferrari of Charles Leclerc was in seventh as the sheer scale of their lack of performance became clear.\n\nTeam-mate Sebastian Vettel did not even make it into the final part of qualifying and the four-time world champion will start 11th.\n\nIt was a toss-up as to which was the biggest shock - the size of Mercedes' advantage over everyone else, or how badly wrong Ferrari have got it with this year's car.\n\nAs attention turns to the race on Sunday, there will be a question as to whether anyone can challenge Mercedes, and also a focus on F1's stance against racism, in the wake of the focus on the issue created by protests around the world.\n\nThe drivers are to make a collective statement before the race by wearing \"end racism\" T-shirts, although there remains a question as to whether all of them will take a knee.\n• None Drivers' reluctance to take a knee shows 'lack of understanding' - Hamilton\n\nMercedes have dominated the weekend, the cars quickest by a significant margin in every single session.\n\nThe Finn was quicker than Hamilton on the first runs by 0.122 seconds and then, running ahead of the Briton, went off at Turn Five on his final run.\n\nHamilton was ahead of Bottas on split times at that point. The world champion improved his time over the rest of the lap but lost out on pole position by 0.012secs.\n\nBottas said: \"It feels really good. I have missed this feeling after qualifying, the shakes. It is something special when you push the car to the limit. It feels so good. Our team, amazing job - we seem to be in our own league.\"\n\nHamilton said that the incident with Bottas \"didn't really affect the lap\", adding: \"Great job by Valtteri. This is a great job by the team and I am happy to be here.\"\n\nVerstappen in third was 0.538secs off pole. The Dutchman will start the race on a different tyre than Mercedes, having chosen to run the medium in second qualifying, while Mercedes were on the soft, but on the face of it the world champions look to be unbeatable.\n\nVerstappen said: \"It is going to be quite a bit warmer tomorrow and that could play to our advantage, Mercedes were on a different level today but let's see what we can do tomorrow.\n\n\"I suspect we are a little bit better off in the race. We have nothing to lose so I will try to make it as difficult as possible for them.\"\n\nHamilton was investigated after qualifying for ignoring yellow flags waved for the Bottas incident and for going off track on his first lap.\n\nNo further action was taken with regard to flags because there were conflicting green light signals showing at the same time. His first lap time was deleted for going off track at Turn 10, but it made no difference to his grid position because his second lap was his fastest anyway.\n\nAs attention turns to the race on Sunday, there will be a question as to whether anyone can challenge Mercedes, and also a focus on F1's stance against racism, in the wake of the focus on the issue created by protests around the world.\n\nThe drivers are to make a collective statement before the race by wearing \"end racism\" t-shirts, although there remains a question as to whether all of them will take a knee.\n\nEven before arriving in Austria, Ferrari were downplaying expectations, saying that they had had to redesign their car after discovering problems following pre-season testing and that the first parts of that change would not appear until the Hungarian Grand Prix in two weeks' time.\n\nBut few expected them to be as far off the pace as they were.\n\nBoth drivers were in danger of being knocked out at the end of second qualifying but Leclerc managed to scrape through in 10th place.\n\nEven he seemed surprised to be so slow.\n\n\"Are we safe?\" the 22-year-old asked his engineer at the end of the second session.\n\n\"Yes,\" he was told. \"You are P10.\"\n\nIn the end, Leclerc managed to make it into seventh on the grid by pulling out all the stops in the final session but the inquiry will be long and questing.\n\nRival teams pointed out that whereas at last year's Austrian Grand Prix there were five cars with Ferrari engines in the top 10, while this year only one made it through - and that all those teams had lost more than 0.5secs a lap in performance compared to 2019.\n\nThere was a controversial settlement between governing body the FIA and Ferrari over the winter, with the FIA saying that they had doubts about the legality of the Ferrari engine in 2019 but could not prove them.\n\nRivals were angered that the details of the settlement were kept confidential.\n\nThe Racing Point - or 'Pink Mercedes' as it has become known for its likeness to last year's Silver Arrow - had looked best of the rest behind Mercedes and Red Bull on Friday but McLaren pipped them thanks to a stellar performance from Lando Norris.\n\nThe Briton qualified a brilliant fourth, less than 0.2secs behind Verstappen and ahead of the second Red Bull of Alex Albon.\n\nAlbon set the same time as Racing Point's Sergio Perez, but as the Anglo-Thai set it first, he will start ahead of the Mexican.\n\nBehind Leclerc, the second McLaren of Carlos Sainz was eighth, ahead of Perez's team-mate Lance Stroll and the lead Renault of Daniel Ricciardo.\n• None Comedian and actor Chris O'Dowd joins from LA to chat to Louis", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSouthampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl said Che Adams' first goal for the club was \"so important for him\" as the forward's spectacular strike earned Southampton victory over Manchester City in a lively encounter at St Mary's.\n\nAdams, who joined Saints from Birmingham City for £15m a year ago, lobbed goalkeeper Ederson with a first-time strike from 40 yards out after Oleksandr Zinchenko had surrendered possession in midfield.\n\nIt has taken 30 appearances for 23-year-old Adams to open his account for the Saints, after registering 22 goals in 46 Championship games last season.\n\n\"When you hear how much the guys were celebrating him as he went into the dressing room, then you know how happy they are he scored,\" Hasenhuttl said.\n\n\"He has always been working hard. He showed the trust we had in him to start him today was the right one.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola made six changes to the side which thrashed champions Liverpool 4-0 at Etihad Stadium on Thursday, with key playmaker Kevin de Bruyne among those initially rested.\n\nAdams' goal drew an intense reaction from City, as Fernandinho hit the post and the in-form Alex McCarthy kept out David Silva's header in the aftermath.\n\nThe visitors rarely let up thereafter but were repeatedly left frustrated by Saints goalkeeper McCarthy, whose one-handed save from Gabriel Jesus in the second half was the pick of several superb stops.\n\nSouthampton had chances of their own amid the increasing City pressure but neither Nathan Redmond nor Danny Ings could convert rare opportunities, while Ederson was alert to Stuart Armstrong's swerving shot.\n\nThere was to be no repeat of City's comeback to win the reverse fixture 2-1 in November and defeat leaves Guardiola's side 23 points behind Liverpool, who beat Aston Villa 2-0 earlier on Sunday.\n\nSouthampton welcomed Manchester City to St Mary's with 40 points already secured - a tally which saw them a reassuring 13 points clear of the relegation places prior to kick-off.\n\nThat return, with six games remaining, had already bettered their total haul in each of the past two seasons and allowed Hasenhuttl's side to approach Sunday's fixture without fear.\n\nAlthough City settled into the mesmerising passing that has hypnotised many other opponents, Southampton once again demonstrated the desire and determination which has seen them admirably recover from their humiliating 9-0 defeat by Leicester in October.\n\nAdams has had to wait for his opportunities in his first season at Southampton but his first goal in 456 days was one to savour as Stuart Armstrong robbed Zinchenko and the striker punished the wandering Ederson emphatically.\n\nThe hosts could have led after just six minutes but Nathan Redmond was unable to convert after Adams had gathered an uncharacteristic miskick by Aymeric Laporte.\n\nIngs went close from Kyle Walker-Peters' excellent cross, but it was in defence where Southampton supplied the heroics as the returning Jack Stephens led by example with brave blocks and vital clearances in front of the unbeatable McCarthy.\n\nEpitomising the commitment to the cause despite there being little to play for, striker Ings - unable to add to his tally in the race for the Golden Boot - was among those throwing their body in the way as Saints held on for a rare home victory. They have now taken 17 points from 17 home games this season.\n\nHasenhuttl's side were staring at a relegation fight halfway through this campaign, but in 13th with five matches to go they have officially secured their Premier League status for another season.\n\nManchester City's immediate response to officially being dethroned as Premier League champions was to dismantle Liverpool at Etihad Stadium.\n\nRaheem Sterling ominously claimed \"next season starts now\" after that result but, as Sunday's team news suggested, City's priorities now lie with the FA Cup and Champions League in a season in which they have already dropped more league points than in the previous two combined (33).\n\nA return to the consistency which had delivered back-to-back league titles is the task for Guardiola, given the sheer brilliance his team can produce on any given day - yet Sunday's defeat demonstrated that may take some work.\n\nZinchenko's error was typical of the momentary lapses in concentration that have cost City so dearly this campaign, though the visitors had ample opportunities to turn the game in their favour as they fired 26 shots at goal.\n\nJesus, with six of those attempts, was once again unable to provide the clinical touch in Sergio Aguero's absence, while De Bruyne and Phil Foden were unable to unlock a dogged Southampton defence following their second-half introductions.\n\nThe desire to recover a result was certainly evident in City's performance with Riyad Mahrez and Sterling both also going close, but with second place all but secure an FA Cup semi-final meeting with Arsenal on 18 July is where attentions surely now lie.\n• None Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has lost three consecutive away league games for the first time in his managerial career\n• None Southampton have ended a run of six consecutive Premier League defeats against Manchester City, with their first league victory against them since May 2016\n• None City have lost nine Premier League games this season, last losing more in a single campaign in 2015-16 under Manuel Pellegrini, when they lost 10\n• None Southampton have won 11 points against 'big six' sides in the Premier League this season - only Wolves (12) have won more outside of those 'big six' sides\n• None Che Adams' first goal for Southampton was the longest-range Premier League goal so far this season (39 yards). It arrived in his 25th appearance, with his 22nd shot in the competition\n• None Man City had 26 shots in this game. That's their highest tally in a Premier League match without scoring since March 2016, recording the same number against Manchester United\n• None This was the fifth time City have made six or more changes for a Premier League match this season. With 120, they have made 33 more changes than any other side during this campaign, ahead of Arsenal and Chelsea (87 each)\n\nManchester City host Newcastle on Wednesday (18:00 BST), while Southampton travel to Everton on Thursday (18:00).\n• None Binge on all three series of the hit comedy from BBC Three\n• None New versions of Alan Bennett's classics starring Jodie Comer, Martin Freeman and many more\n• None Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Nathan Redmond. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Almost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, ONS figures show.\n\nBut only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics figures are the first to reveal the full toll on care homes, including deaths that happened in hospital.\n\nCare homes in England will carry out routine testing from Monday.\n\nThere were just over 66,000 deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between 2 March and 12 June this year, compared to just under 37,000 deaths last year.\n\nCovid-19 was the leading cause of death for male care home residents, accounting for a third of all deaths, and the second most-common cause of death for female residents, after dementia and Alzheimer's disease.\n\nWhile 20,000 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, another 10,000 of the excess deaths were registered to other, non-Covid, causes.\n\nPrevious analysis from the ONS has suggested that many of those \"non-Covid\" deaths could have involved undiagnosed coronavirus.\n\nThree-quarters of these deaths occurred within the care homes themselves and a quarter were care home residents who died in hospitals.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We have been doing everything we can to ensure care home residents and staff are protected during this unprecedented global pandemic.\n\n\"We announced today that we will be rolling out repeat testing for care home staff and residents across the country from Monday, to help further reduce the spread of infection in care homes.\"\n\nDeaths from all causes in England and Wales have fallen to below the five-year average for the first time since before the coronavirus outbreak took hold, as of the week ending 19 June.\n\nONS figures showed deaths from all causes were lower than average for the time of year in care homes and hospitals.\n\nThe number of people dying at home was still slightly higher than average, but decreasing.\n\nDeaths where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate accounted for 8% of all deaths compared with 33% of deaths in the week ending 10 April.\n\nAlso on Friday, a survey of care homes in England which provide care for the elderly and younger people with dementia - the \"Vivaldi study\" - was published.\n\nMore than half of providers surveyed said they had coronavirus infections in their homes.\n\nIt also found care homes that offered their staff sick pay or relied less heavily on bank or agency staff (who may work in more than one home) had fewer infections.\n\nFrom next week, residents in care homes in England for over-65s, or younger patients with dementia, will receive monthly coronavirus tests.\n\nAny care home dealing with an outbreak, or at increased risk of an outbreak, will be more intensively tested.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritish sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner have accused the Metropolitan Police of racial profiling and acting violently towards them.\n\nEuropean and Commonwealth relay gold medallist Williams, 26, and Portuguese 400m record holder Ricardo dos Santos were stopped in a vehicle in London.\n\nThey fear they were targeted because they are black and drive a Mercedes.\n\nPolice say the vehicle had been on the wrong side of the road and the driver sped off when asked to stop.\n\nOfficers were patrolling in the Maida Vale area because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nA police statement said: \"Officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards have reviewed both footage from social media, and the body-worn video of the officers, and are satisfied that there is no concern around the officers' conduct.\"\n\nWhen can the police stop and search you? In most cases in England and Wales, police can only stop and search you (or your vehicle) if they have \"reasonable grounds\" that you might be carrying:\n• None Something that could be used to carry out a crime, like a crowbar Reasonable grounds for stopping someone cannot be based on race or whether the person is a known criminal. Instead, officers must base it on current intelligence (has there been a recent crime in the area, for example) and make balanced judgement calls on the behaviour of the suspect. In this case, the Metropolitan Police says there had been an increase in violent crime in the area and that the car in question was driving suspiciously. Bianca Williams denies this. If you are stopped, you have a number of rights. This includes being told the reason why you are being stopped, what they expect to find on you and information on how to receive records of the search.\n\nWilliams and 25-year-old Dos Santos, who are training for next year's Tokyo Olympics, told the Times they plan to formally complain at being pulled from their car for a weapons search when returning home from a training session.\n\nThey say police handcuffed them while their three-month-old son was on board and carried out a search that lasted 45 minutes.\n\nDos Santos, who plans to meet lawyers on Monday, said that he had been stopped by police as many as 15 times since they changed their car to a Mercedes in November 2017.\n\nVideo of the incident showed them protesting that they had done nothing wrong and Williams screaming \"my son is in the car\".\n\nThe police statement said that at about 13:25 BST on Saturday officers from the Territorial Support Group \"witnessed a vehicle with blacked-out windows that was driving suspiciously, including driving on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nThe statement added: \"They indicated for it to stop but it failed to do so and made off at speed. The officers caught up with the vehicle when it stopped on Lanhill Road. The driver initially refused to get out of the car.\"\n\nAfter searching Williams and Dos Santos, and the vehicle, nothing was found and no arrests were made.\n\nThe incident was first raised on social media by their coach, 1992 Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who accused the police of abusing their power and institutionalised racism.\n\nWilliams, the fifth-fastest British woman in history over 200m, and Dos Santos said that a written report given to them by police did not mention driving on the wrong side of the road, and that where they stopped is a single car-width road.", "Gareth Cooper played for Bath, Celtic Warriors, Newport Gwent Dragons, Gloucester and Cardiff Blues in his club career\n\nRugby star Gareth Cooper's ex-wife has been ordered to pay back just £1 after swindling him out of £1m.\n\nEx-British and Irish Lions player Mr Cooper, 41, set up two gyms and freight businesses to be run by Debra Leyshon.\n\nBut Leyshon, 41, fraudulently obtained mortgages and loans in her husband's name while telling Mr Cooper the struggling business was \"thriving\".\n\nShe also re-mortgaged the family home and four other properties, and Mr Cooper was bankrupted by the con.\n\nThe former Wales international previously said his trust in others had been \"destroyed\".\n\nLeyshon was given a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to 13 counts of fraud - totalling more than £1m.\n\nHer business partner Simon Thomas, 47, and associate Mark Lee also received suspended sentences after admitting fraud.\n\nOn Friday, a Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) hearing at Cardiff Crown Court was told Leyshon, from Bridgend, had benefitted to the tune of £371,271 and Thomas, from Cowbridge, £161,081.\n\nBut Judge David Wynn Morgan ordered both to pay back just a £1 nominal sum within the next 28 days.\n\nDebra Leyshon was ordered to pay back just £1 after a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing\n\nRoger Griffiths, prosecuting, said: \"Leyshon and Thomas have both been made bankrupt and their assets are being dealt with by a trustee in bankruptcy.\n\n\"As a result, the Crown will only be able to recover a nominal sum due to their status.\"\n\nLee, 43, from Exeter, was not subject to the hearing as the prosecution did not go ahead with POCA proceedings against him.\n\nIn a statement read out at sentencing in December, Mr Cooper said: \"I was deceived and manipulated by the person I trusted the most - my wife and the mother of my children.\n\n\"I do not think I will ever be the same again.\"\n\nMr Cooper said previously his trust in others had been \"destroyed\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nChelsea manager Frank Lampard says his team will have to get used to added pressure during a nervy Premier League run-in after they beat Watford on Saturday.\n\nManchester United had leapfrogged the Blues - who lost 3-2 at West Ham on Wednesday - into fourth place by thrashing Bournemouth earlier in the day.\n\nHowever, Lampard's side responded with a comfortable win over the struggling Hornets to reclaim the final automatic qualification spot for next season's Champions League.\n\nOlivier Giroud opened the scoring for the Blues, latching on to Ross Barkley's clever pass and steering a left-foot shot into the bottom-right corner.\n\nWhile Watford worked hard to contain the hosts, they offered little to suggest they were capable of a first win at Stamford Bridge since 1986.\n\nAnd they fell further behind before the break, with Etienne Capoue's rash challenge on Christian Pulisic resulting in a Chelsea penalty that Willian converted.\n\nThereafter it was relatively plain sailing for Lampard's side, who rounded off the scoring when Barkley found the top left corner from Cesar Azpilicueta's cross.\n\nThe Blues have now won three of their four games since the top flight resumed in June.\n\n\"Pre-West Ham, we could have gone third and we let ourselves down,\" Lampard told Sky Sports.\n\n\"Today, there was a bit of pressure to get back to fourth and we produced - so get used to that pressure, whatever way it looks, because it's going to be tough all the way through.\"\n\nNigel Pearson's Watford remain a point above the relegation zone but have played a game more than 18th-placed Aston Villa, who travel to champions Liverpool on Sunday (16:30 BST).\n• None Reaction to Chelsea's win over Watford plus all the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nManchester United's thumping victory against Bournemouth had seen Chelsea drop out of the top four places for the first time since 26 October.\n\nBut this was the perfect response from Lampard's side who were brimming with energy throughout and appeared galvanised by Wednesday's lacklustre defeat at West Ham.\n\nThe Blues made four changes to their starting XI and looked considerably more assured defensively while Willian - who scored a penalty in his third consecutive game - Barkley and Pulisic provided the thrust going forward.\n\nEngland midfielder Barkley was particularly impressive, demanding the ball in tight areas and then restricting his number of touches to get out of trouble and maintain Chelsea's attacking momentum.\n\nChelsea's opener was the perfect example as he controlled and swivelled away from a defender in one movement and then sliced open the Watford defence with his third touch.\n\nBarkley, who played more attacking passes (47) than any of Chelsea's other front six players, also capped a fine individual performance with his first Premier League goal of the campaign late on.\n\nAfter meekly losing to Southampton last Sunday, manager Pearson had called for his side to produce a performance that \"better represented\" them.\n\nAnd his players initially responded with a committed and gritty show, albeit one that lacked the quality to suggest they were ever going to trouble their hosts.\n\nThere was no lack of application - Pearson's side collectively ran almost 5km more than their higher-placed opponents - it was simply a gulf in class.\n\nBut they were also guilty of moments of carelessness in possession, such as when Capoue presented Chelsea with an easy opportunity to double their advantage.\n\n\"To concede in the first half was painful because we showed the qualities that were missing last week,\" Pearson told Sky Sports.\n\n\"We are having to play our way back into nick. Time is not on our side but we have to be brave enough and want the ball. The second half performance was one we can build on.\"\n\nDanny Welbeck's introduction after the interval did provide them with some pace and quality in the final third but it was too little too late.\n\nWelbeck wriggled into several promising positions and forced Kepa Arrizabalaga into a superb save late on, but it was one of very few moments that would have excited any Watford supporters watching at home.\n\nAnd it was a performance indicative of a side, if you discount Jan Bednarek's own goal, that has failed to score in three consecutive defeats and is now anxiously looking over its shoulder at their relegation rivals.\n• None Chelsea have won four successive Premier League games at Stamford Bridge for the first time since winning seven in a row at home under Antonio Conte between October and December 2017.\n• None Watford have lost four consecutive Premier League away games in a row for the first time since the final six on the road in the 2017-18 season under Javi Gracia.\n• None Watford haven't won away at Chelsea in any competition since May 1986 (5-1), drawing four and losing nine at Stamford Bridge since then.\n• None Chelsea have scored two or more goals in nine of their past 10 Premier League games, only failing to do so in a 2-0 loss to Man Utd at Stamford Bridge in February.\n• None Only seven defenders have recorded more Premier League assists than Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta (31), with the Spaniard equalling his record for assists in a single campaign in the competition (6 - also 2017-18).\n• None After failing to score with his last 63 shots in the Premier League, Ross Barkley has scored his first goal since netting against Burnley in October 2018.\n• None Chelsea midfielder Barkley has been directly involved in eight goals in his last 10 starts in all competitions (three goals, five assists).\n• None Olivier Giroud has scored four goals in his last seven Premier League games for Chelsea, more than he had netted in his previous 38 appearances (3).\n• None Willian is the first ever Chelsea player to score a penalty in three consecutive Premier League games and the sixth different player to do it in the competition.\n\nChelsea travel to Crystal Palace in their next Premier League outing on Tuesday, 7 July (18:00 BST). Watford host bottom club Norwich on the same date at the same time.\n• None Comedian and actor Chris O'Dowd joins from LA to chat to Louis\n• None Offside, Watford. Adam Masina tries a through ball, but Danny Welbeck is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 3, Watford 0. Ross Barkley (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Reece James with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Danny Welbeck (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathaniel Chalobah.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Masina (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. Billy Gilmour replaces N'Golo Kanté because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Men aged 18 to 34 from ethnic minority groups were twice as likely to be fined for breaching lockdown coronavirus laws as young white men, figures show.\n\nA National Police Chiefs' Council report said overall those from minority ethnic groups were 1.6 times more likely to be fined than white people.\n\nGovernment statisticians analysed 17,039 fixed penalty notices imposed from March to May in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC chairman Martin Hewitt said it was \"a concern to see disparity\".\n\nBut he said it was a \"complex picture\" and each force will work to \"mitigate any risks of bias - conscious or unconscious\".\n\nPolice have been able to issue fines for breaching public health regulations introduced to help prevent the spread of Covid-19 since 27 March.\n\nMr Hewitt said issuing a fine was \"a last resort\" and the data only presented a \"partial picture\" because it \"does not show the hundreds of thousands of interactions with the public where engagement, explanation and encouragement was effective and there was no need to issue a fine\".\n\n\"Many forces have brought in community representatives to help them scrutinise the circumstances around each FPN (Fixed Penalty Notice) and if it has been issued fairly,\" he said.\n\nThe analysis showed the highest overall disparity rates to be in Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Lancashire, where those from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds were 6.5 times, 5.6 times and five times more likely to be fined than white people respectively.\n\nOnly one police force, Cheshire, recorded no overall level of ethnic disproportionality.\n\nBBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said senior police officers had highlighted that high levels of disproportionality in some regions may be due to large numbers of visitors travelling to areas with proportionately low numbers of residents from black, Asian and ethnic minority groups.\n\nAnd Mr Hewitt said: \"For a number of forces, continued focus on crime and violence could affect their disparity rate as areas... that have been a focus of police activity are also areas with a higher concentration of black, Asian and minority ethnic people, which also increases the possibility of officers identifying and dealing with breaches during those deployments.\"\n\nThe report also said there were 20 forces that each issued fewer than 40 fines in total to people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nMr Hewitt said a \"plan of action\" was being developed \"to address issues of inclusion and race equality that still exist in policing - like the lower trust in us from black communities, their concerns about use of powers like stop and search and the concerns from people of colour within policing about inclusivity and equality at work\".\n\nNPCC data also showed the total number of fines issued to 20 July had risen to 18,669 across England and Wales, with eight fines imposed in the previous two weeks - six of which were for people not wearing face coverings on public transport.\n\nPolice have fined one person for not self-isolating after arriving in England. Rules mean travellers from certain countries are told told quarantine for 14 days after returning home.\n\nMr Hewitt said he was not aware of any fines being issued to shop customers since face coverings were made mandatory in stores in England on Friday.\n• None Could police fine me for exercising?", "The body of the late US civil rights icon John Lewis has been carried over Selma's historic Edmund Pettus Bridge for a final time.\n\nOn 7 March 1965, known as \"Bloody Sunday\", Lewis and other peaceful protesters were attacked by Alabama police officers as they marched over the bridge.\n\nThey had planned to walk to state capital Montgomery to demand equal voting rights.\n\nLewis, who died aged 80 on 17 July, will be laid to rest in a private ceremony in Atlanta on Thursday.\n\nRead more: 'A man who fought for equality until his last breath'", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office has updated its travel advice to Spain. Britons are now advised against all non-essential travel to the country, including the Balearic and Canary Islands, based on the current assessment of Covid-19 risks there. It comes after a quarantine for travellers returning to the UK from Spain was reintroduced over the weekend. We've been answering your questions about the travel rules for Spain here. Meanwhile, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is leaving a family holiday in Spain early to return to the UK, after the new restrictions came into force.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForecasters are warning the UK economy could take until 2024 to return to the size it was before lockdown. Analysis from the EY Item Club, which uses a similar economic model to the Treasury, suggests unemployment will rise to 9% from 3.9%. It also estimates the economy will shrink by 11.5% this year, worse than the 8% it predicted only a month ago. The Item Club says consumers have been more cautious than expected, while growth is also being dampened by low business investment.\n\nA pet cat has become the first animal in the UK to test positive for the strain of coronavirus causing the current pandemic. It's thought the cat caught coronavirus from its owner, who had previously tested positive for the virus. But experts say there's no cause for alarm - they stress the case is very rare and does not mean the disease is being spread to people by their pets. We've looked at the evidence on pets catching Covid-19 here.\n\nA small number of coronavirus cases in pets have been found in Europe, North America and Asia\n\nMen aged 18 to 34 from ethnic minority groups were twice as likely to be fined for breaching lockdown laws as young white men, new figures suggest. Overall, those from minority ethnic groups were 1.6 times more likely to be fined than white people, according to a report by the National Police Chiefs' Council. NPCC chairman Martin Hewitt said it was \"a concern to see disparity\" but it was a \"complex picture\" and each force would work to \"mitigate any risks of bias - conscious or unconscious\". You can read more about the powers police have to enforce lockdown rules here.\n\nScottish pilot Stephen Cameron made headlines around the world after surviving for more than two months on a ventilator in Vietnam. Now recovering in hospital back in the UK, the 42-year-old from Motherwell is warning Britons \"not to be blasé\" about the virus. He told the BBC he was a \"living example\" of how serious it can be, while his doctors said he now faces \"a long path\" to recovery.\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 all the latest in our live page.\n\nPlus, track the world's coronavirus hotspots with our visual guide to the pandemic.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Joe Biden, left, has been leading Donald Trump in the polls\n\nThe first US presidential debate between Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September.\n\nIt had been due to take place at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana but was changed because of concerns over coronavirus precautions.\n\nIt will now be co-hosted by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.\n\nThe two men will hold three debates in all before the 3 November vote.\n\nReverend John I Jenkins, president of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, said the health precautions needed to stage the event \"would have greatly diminished the educational value of hosting the debate on our campus\".\n\nThe new location will be at Western Reserve University's Health Education Campus, the Commission on Presidential Debates said.\n\nThe second presidential debate on 15 October will take place in Miami after getting shifted from the University of Michigan.\n\nThe third will take place in Nashville on 22 October, while a debate between Vice-President Mike Pence and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee - who has still to be chosen - will be held on 7 October in Salt Lake City.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Trump's attitude toward coronavirus has shifted\n\nMr Biden is currently holding a lead of 15 percentage points nationally, a Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests.\n\nThe president's national approval ratings have dropped in a year dominated by coronavirus - of which the US has by far the world's highest death toll with more than 147,000 - and widespread protests over the death of black man George Floyd in police custody in May.", "Demand at food banks in the US has surged during the pandemic Image caption: Demand at food banks in the US has surged during the pandemic\n\nIn the US, the $600 (£465) a week additional payment that the government approved to top up unemployment benefits during the pandemic will expire on 31 July.\n\nIn many states, recipients have already received their last cheque.\n\n\"It's pretty dire,\" says Brandon Humberston, who worked as a cook at Mexican restaurant until the pandemic cost him his job. His benefits will be cut from $750 to $150. \"My generation is hanging on by a thread.\"\n\nPoliticians in Washington have yet to act.\n\nWhile Democrats have proposed another $3tn in spending, Republicans have rejected that plan and they are divided about how much more aid - if any - is warranted.\n\nThe fate of the unemployment benefits that Mr Humberston - and an estimated 30 million other Americans rely on - is giving the debate a sense of urgency.\n\nYou can read more here.", "Schools and colleges in England are being told by the exams watchdog to be more lenient this year about letting pupils stay on to take A-levels.\n\nEven if pupils do not get the required GCSE grades, Ofqual is calling for \"greater flexibility\".\n\nA-levels and GCSE exams were cancelled in the pandemic and exam boards will issue replacement results.\n\nThe exams watchdog says schools should put \"slightly less weight\" on pupils getting \"one or two lower grades\".\n\nIf pupils do not get the results they expect they can take written exams in the autumn - but that would be too late for those taking GCSEs who planned to start A-level courses in September.\n\nOfqual has written to schools and colleges saying this year they might look beyond specific grades and consider \"other robust evidence\", such as \"if you already know a student and their potential well\".\n\n\"You may wish to consider the approach you take for certain students, given they did not have the opportunity to sit exams and other assessments,\" says the letter from the chief regulator, Sally Collier.\n\nThis summer's results will be based on factors including teachers' predicted grades, results in previous exams, performance of the school in previous years and how the school ranked pupils in order of how well they expected them to achieve.\n\nOfqual warns that teachers could be investigated for malpractice if they tell pupils or parents the predicted grades or rankings submitted by schools before exam boards issue their results.\n\nHowever, the watchdog says this information can be shared after the exam results are published.\n\nLast week Ofqual announced that exam results would be more generous this year - with 2% more pupils getting A grades or above at A-level and 1% more getting grade 4 or above at GCSE.\n\nTeachers had been even more optimistic in their predicted grades, although the moderation process to keep results in line with previous years means many of these predicted grades will have been lowered.\n\nThere have been fears of \"unconscious bias\" in the results, but Ofqual says there is no evidence of any widening gaps in terms of ethnicity, gender or deprivation, compared with years when pupils have taken exams.\n\nThere could still be questions about the results of individual pupils, such as those who perform better in exams than in coursework or in schools which rapidly improve above their performance in previous years.", "Talks are under way with Spain about easing quarantine rules for the Balearic and Canary Islands, a government source has said.\n\nThe potential move would mean people arriving in the UK from the islands would not have to self-isolate for 14 days after rules changed this weekend.\n\nThe travel industry is hoping ministers make a decision by Friday.\n\nA government source said there are no plans to change the rules, while No 10 said \"no travel is risk free\".\n\nOne travel industry source said the government had told them it wanted to study more data from Spain's islands before making a decision.\n\nThe rate of infection in Spain is 35.1 cases per 100,000 people, while the UK is at 14.7, according to the latest figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nData up to 19 July suggested there were lower rates of infection in the Balearic and Canary Islands than in mainland Spain.\n\nMeanwhile, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said he cancelled a holiday to the Balearics after the change in quarantine rules was announced on Saturday.\n\nLabour's shadow health minister Justin Madders said the change \"couldn't have been done at a worse time or handled in a worse way\" and questioned whether the quarantine rule should extend to the whole of Spain.\n\nAmong the thousands of British holidaymakers affected was Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who flew to Spain on Saturday despite knowing a decision on the policy was due.\n\nMr Shapps said in a statement he would return to the UK this week in order to complete his quarantine and would return to work as soon as possible.\n\nJames Middleton, a receptionist from Weston-super-Mare, is also due to return home from his holiday this week.\n\nHis employer is looking at what it can do to help but the 49-year-old, who is holidaying in Tenerife until Tuesday, said he now risks going without pay in order to observe the quarantine rule.\n\nJames Middleton is on holiday in Tenerife and now faces a 14-day quarantine on his return to the UK\n\n\"I will have credit card bills to pay at the end of the month and with no income for two weeks, I will not be able to pay them and will invite interest on them,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\nHe said he has \"no problem\" with the quarantine rule as the government \"has to act on the information\" it has - but he thinks it should \"support\" those who are affected.\n\n\"They have said before no one should suffer as a result of following these rules so they should stand by it. The minimum support on offer should be sick leave pay,\" he said.\n\nConcern has grown among employers about what to do if their staff cannot immediately return to work after holidaying in Spain.\n\nDebbie Pearson runs small catering businesses in the West Midlands. Staff at her business that caters for weddings and events are furloughed, but staff at two firms that supply meals for the elderly are still working.\n\nMs Pearson said she will not be able to claim statutory sick pay for workers who must isolate for two weeks upon returning for holiday for either of those businesses.\n\n\"If I have to pay to pay them, I would pay them,\" she said.\n\nBecause one of her businesses only has three staff, it will also pile pressure on the remaining two staff if they have to cover the extra work for two more weeks.\n\n\"We pride ourselves on being a good employer,\" she said. \"If somebody had been abroad and told to isolate, I'd want to make sure they weren't asked to work.\"\n\nHoliday companies have responded to the imposition of the quarantine for people arriving from Spain.\n\nEasyJet said it would operate its full schedule of flights to Spain, but it is cancelling holidays to all Spanish destinations for the next few weeks. It said it only offered holidays where there was no known requirement to self-isolate on arrival or return.\n\nRyanair said its schedules \"remain in place\" and it will continue flights in and out of Spain as normal.\n\nJet2 cancelled flights and holidays from Costa de Almeria, Alicante, Malaga and Murcia up to 16 August. Package holiday firm Tui cancelled all mainland Spanish holidays until 9 August.\n\nIt said customers due to travel to all areas of Spain between 27 July and 9 August would be able to cancel or amend holidays and receive a full refund or the option to rebook their holiday with an incentive.\n\nHowever, there will be uncertainty for those with holidays due to depart from 10 August as the company said it will be update passengers with future bookings on 31 July.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office currently advises against \"all but essential travel\" to countries without air bridge agreements in place.\n\nTui has urged the UK government not to slap blanket quarantines on whole countries.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of TUI UK and Ireland, said the government should have a \"regionalised\" policy.\n\nThat would mean only travellers returning from coronavirus hotspots should be forced to quarantine.\n\nThe UK imposed the restriction over the weekend after a spike in infections in some Spanish regions, including Catalonia, where Barcelona is located, and Aragon.\n\nHoliday giant Tui has cancelled departures to Spain up to 9 August following the quarantine announcement\n\nThe French government has been telling its nationals to stay away from Catalonia, while Norway has imposed a new 10-day quarantine on all travellers arriving from Spain.\n\nMr Flintham told the BBC that the government was \"rightly nervous\" about people's ability to move \"relatively unchecked\" around countries which had a spike of cases in certain areas.\n\nHowever, he said most holidaymakers stayed in one place when they got there and should be safe if they were not in high-risk areas.\n\n\"They do not go travelling around wider Spain and then they come home again,\" he said.\n\nA further seven people with coronavirus have died across all settings in the UK, according to latest government figures - bringing the UK's death toll to 45,759.\n\nThe government also said in the 24-hour period up to 09:00 BST on Monday, there had been a further 685 lab-confirmed cases. The UK's total is 300,111.", "One person has been fined by police for breaching quarantine rules after arriving from abroad, new figures from forces in England and Wales show.\n\nThe data released by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Monday comes after holidaymakers in Spain and its islands were told they would have to self-isolate for 14 days when returning to the UK.\n\nThe ticket for breaching quarantine rules, which was issued by Lincolnshire Police, was one of only eight fixed penalty notices handed out in England in the two weeks to July 20, with none in Wales.\n\nNPCC chairman Martin Hewitt said compliance with the rules had been good, but added \"it's really difficult to understand how people will respond\" after Spain was removed from the UK's list of safe destinations over a spike in the number of coronavirus cases.\n\n\"You would hope that people would come back and be responsible,\" he said.\n\nA total of 18,669 fixed-penalty notices, including 16,029 in England and 2,640 in Wales, have been recorded by forces up to July 20. The figures do not include fines issued during the local Leicester lockdown.", "Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures (BAME) are set to feature on British notes and coins for the first time.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is considering proposals from a campaign group for legal tender to be more inclusive, according to the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nMr Sunak has asked the Royal Mint to come up with new designs honouring BAME figures.\n\nMilitary nurse Mary Seacole and spy Noor Inayat Khan are being considered.\n\nThe former Conservative parliamentary candidate Zehra Zaidi is leading the Banknotes of Colour campaign.\n\nShe says no non-white person has ever been featured on British currency.\n\n\"Who we have on our legal tender, our notes and our coins, builds into a narrative of who we think we are as a nation,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe former Conservative parliamentary candidate Zehra Zaidi is leading the Banknotes of Colour campaign\n\nBAME people who have served the nation - such as military figures and nurses - have been put forward for the proposed set of coins.\n\nTwo years ago Ms Zaidi started a petition for the British World War Two secret agent Noor Inayat Khan, who was also a descendant of Indian royalty, to be featured on a coin, but the campaign fell on deaf ears.\n\n\"She was the first female radio operator to be sent to enemy-occupied France,\" said Ms Zaidi.\n\n\"She was one of only four women in history to receive the George Cross.\"\n\nThe Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole is also being considered. She was born in the Caribbean to a Scottish father and a Jamaican mother.\n\nAt the outbreak of the Crimean War she travelled to England hoping to join Florence Nightingale's team of nurses.\n\nWhen she was turned down, she travelled to the Crimea herself and established the \"British Hotel\" - somewhere the soldiers could rest and enjoy a good meal.\n\nIn May, a community hospital was named after the pioneering nurse.\n\nBAME figures such as Walter Tull, the British Army's first black officer, have been featured on commemorative coins in the past.\n\n\"But commemorative coins are not the same as legal tender because legal tender acts as a passport, an ambassador,\" says Ms Zaidi.\n\n\"We must tell the story of inclusive representation as it matters for cohesion and it matters in the narrative of who we are as a nation.\"", "Anonymous briefings against civil servants have had a \"demoralising\" effect on the service, the UK's top civil servant has said.\n\nCabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, who is standing down in September, said \"sniping\" against officials had risen in recent years.\n\nSir Mark also said a \"decade of pay restraint\" had made it harder for the civil service to retain expertise.\n\nHe added the size of the cabinet should be cut to improve decision-making.\n\nSpeaking at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, Sir Mark said the current number of ministers had made it a \"cumbersome forum\" for debate.\n\nHe said smaller groups below cabinet level, such as a special committee for no-deal Brexit preparations, were where \"big issues are thrashed out\".\n\nSir Mark acknowledged civil servants were \"not the only victims\" of anonymous briefings, which had also sometimes been directed at politicians.\n\nBut he added they had become \"damaging to the process of governance\".\n\n\"There's nothing more destabilising for a senior cabinet minister to read a whole load of stuff in one of the newspapers about whether or not the skids are under them because of something that's happened,\" he said.\n\nSir Mark, who took up his post after Sir Jeremy Heywood's death in November 2018, is also standing down as UK national security adviser.\n\nHis exit, announced in June, followed reports of tensions between him and senior members of Boris Johnson's team.\n\nBut he said anonymous briefings should not necessarily be linked with a number of announced departures from the civil service in recent months.\n\n\"I don't think you should read into the fact that several of us are leaving within the first year of a new parliament, I don't think you should read too much of a connection between the two,\" he said.\n\nSir Philip Rutnam, ex-top civil servant at the Home Office, quit in February and is suing the Home Office for unfair dismissal.\n\nSir Simon McDonald will leave the Foreign Office in September when it merges with the Department for International Development.\n\nSir Mark Sedwill, a career diplomat, has also served at the Home Office.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Mark called for a \"fundamental review\" of civil servants' pay, progression, and pensions.\n\nHe said he agreed that \"churn\" in the best officials between different roles had made it harder for departments to hang on to expertise.\n\nBut he said a \"decade of pay restraint\" since 2010 had contributed to the most talented officials moving on, in turn meaning the remainder could negotiate bigger salaries in \"departments under the spotlight\".\n\nHowever, he added that the civil service was currently \"too metropolitan\" and \"too short term\" in its thinking, and reform was \"rightly\" on the government's agenda.\n\nHe also added there were too few ethnic minority civil servants, and their views had been \"under-represented in the policy debate\".", "Officials have been carrying out health checks in Da Nang neighbourhoods\n\nVietnam has closed Da Nang to tourists after 15 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases were recorded there - the first in the country since April.\n\nTourists cannot enter the city for 14 days and up to 80,000, mostly domestic, visitors are to be flown home.\n\nVietnam has been lauded as a success story of the pandemic having acted early to close borders and enforce quarantine and contact tracing.\n\nIt has recorded just over 400 cases and no deaths.\n\nBut over the past four days, nearly 100 days after its last locally transmitted case, 14 new cases emerged in Da Nang, a central coastal city popular with domestic tourists. Another case was reported in nearby Quang Ngai Province.\n\nPrime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday ordered Da Nang residents to re-implement social distancing and close all non-essential services.\n\nHe said the response had to be \"decisive\" but that he was not yet ordering a total lockdown of the city.\n\nAnalysis by scientists found that the strain of the virus in Da Nang had not previously been detected in the country, Vietnam's health minister said.\n\nNguyen Thanh Long said that claims the strain was more contagious than others seen in the country were yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe first new case - patient 416 - was a 57-year-old man who sought medical care on 20 July for flu symptoms.\n\nHe is now on a ventilator and, according to doctors quoted in local media, in a critical condition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nContact tracing identified more than 100 people who had interacted with the man, but all returned negative tests.\n\nHowever over the weekend, three more cases were confirmed, including one 17 year old from neighbouring Quang Ngai province who had travelled home on a coach with people who had been at the Da Nang C Hospital.\n\nDa Nang C Hospital sealed its doors in response to the first diagnosis.\n\nOn Monday, a further 11 cases were confirmed. Seven were patients at a hospital in Da Nang and four are medical staff. The hospital was not identified.\n\nThe cases have raised fears that a full outbreak could be under way in Da Nang.\n\nPeople in Hanoi are being asked to wear masks again after months without\n\nWith international travel largely impossible, Da Nang had been promoted as a holiday destination for Vietnamese people.\n\nOfficials say up to 80,000 domestic tourists are in the city, so extra flights are being laid on to take them home. People may be asked to quarantine on their return, according to media reports.\n\nHospitals across the country have also stepped up preventative measures, while the capital, Hanoi, has begun urging people to wear masks in public again.\n\nDomestic football matches were also suspended on Sunday.\n\nThe new cases are a significant setback for Vietnam, which has been proud of its success in containing the virus. It has been praised by the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nUnlike many countries, Vietnam acted early on the pandemic, before it even had confirmed cases. It recognised that it did not have the resources to tackle widespread infection so instead, did everything it could to keep the virus out altogether.\n\nIt closed its borders to almost all travellers except returning citizens and requires anyone entering the country to quarantine in government facilities for 14 days and undergo testing.\n\nMost of its cases have been detected in quarantine.\n\nAn extensive contact tracing and testing operation also meant it was able to quickly quash local outbreaks.\n\nIts most famous foreign patient, a British man who spent 68 days on a ventilator, was able to travel home earlier this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vietnam put out this song to teach people how to protect themselves from coronavirus", "The UK's biggest tour operator, Tui, has cancelled all mainland Spanish holidays until 9 August.\n\nThe move comes after the government imposed a 14-day quarantine on people arriving in the UK from Spain.\n\nThe firm said all those going to the Balearic and Canary Islands could still travel as planned from Monday.\n\nThe airline industry has reacted with dismay to the decision to impose the quarantine, calling it a big blow.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is advising against all but essential travel to mainland Spain. Quarantine measures apply to those returning from mainland Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, such as Majorca and Ibiza.\n\nBritish Airways is still operating flights, but said the move was \"throwing thousands of Britons' travel plans into chaos\".\n\nBudget airline easyJet is also maintaining a full schedule, as is Jet2.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nWizz Air said it would continue to operate flights to Spain \"as scheduled for the time being\", but added that it is \"re-evaluating this schedule in light of potential diminished demand\".\n\nRob Griggs of Airlines UK said the move was a \"big blow\" to the aviation sector.\n\nHe told the BBC that individuals should be tested for coronavirus instead of having to self-isolate automatically.\n\n\"We back the idea of voluntary testing on arrival or before you leave,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We think testing would... enable individuals to come back without the need for quarantine if they test.\"\n\nMr Griggs also called on the government to be \"a little more specific\" in its advice, since the latest spike in coronavirus cases in Spain did not affect the whole country in the same way.\n\nTui said it would contact customers affected and offer them the right to cancel or amend their holidays.\n\n\"All customers currently on holiday can continue to enjoy their holiday and will return on their intended flight home,\" it added.\n\nTui said health and safety was its highest priority, but urged the government to \"work closely\" with the travel industry.\n\n\"This level of uncertainty and confusion is damaging for business and disappointing for those looking forward to a well-deserved break,\" it added.\n\nQuarantine measures for UK travellers were first introduced in early June. But after pressure from the aviation and travel industries, the government and devolved administrations published lists of countries exempt from the rules.\n\nThe decision to remove Spain from those lists was announced on Saturday following a spike in Spanish coronavirus cases, with more than 900 new cases reported on Friday.\n\nSpanish officials have also warned a second wave could be imminent as major cities have seen cases surge.\n\nBA is among the airlines disappointed by the government's move\n\nThe Airport Operators Association said the new measures would \"further damage what is already a fragile restart of the aviation sector, which continues to face the biggest challenge in its history\".\n\nHowever, easyJet said it was \"disappointed\" and would operate a full schedule in the coming days.\n\n\"Customers who no longer wish to travel can transfer their flights without a change fee or receive a voucher for the value of the booking,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nA spokesman for the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) said the government's quarantine rule change was \"disappointing\".\n\n\"We suggest the government considers lifting the quarantine rules for flights to and from certain regions with lower infection rates, or to places such as the Balearic Islands or the Canaries - which are geographically distinct from mainland Spain - to avoid further damage to the UK inbound and outbound tourism industries,\" he said.\n\nPeople currently on holiday in Spain have been advised by the Department of Transport to follow the local rules, return home as normal, and check the Foreign Office's travel advice website for further information.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers advised holidaymakers that if they were already in Spain when the government's advice changed, their insurance was likely to cover them until they returned home.\n\nBut it added: \"Travelling to countries against FCO advice is likely to invalidate your travel insurance and this would apply to those yet to travel to mainland Spain.\n\n\"Customers looking to change or cancel their travel plans should speak with the airline provider, tour operator or travel agent in the first instance.\n\n\"If you booked your trip or took out your travel insurance after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, you may not be covered for travel disruption or cancellation. In either circumstance, we'd advise checking with your insurer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Scottish pilot, who spent more than two months on a ventilator in Vietnam, has warned Britons \"not to be blasé about coronavirus\" as lockdown eases.\n\nStephen Cameron, 42, from Motherwell, was Vietnam's sickest patient and became known nationwide as Patient 91.\n\n\"I'm a living example of what this virus can do and how it is serious,\" he told the BBC from his Wishaw hospital bed.\n\nHis doctors say he now faces \"a long path\" to recovery,\n\nStephen Cameron is recovering in the University Hospital Wishaw near Glasgow\n\nDr Manish Patel, the respiratory consultant has been responsible for Mr Cameron's care since his return to Scotland on 12 July.\n\n\"People say going into ITU is like running a marathon. In Stephen's case, I think he's run multiple ultra-marathons,\" he said.\n\nMr Cameron said: \"I don't think the NHS could cope if there was a wave of people who needed the amount of care and life support that I needed.\"\n\nThe pilot spent 68 days on a ventilator - most of which he was also reliant on an Ecmo machine, a form of life support only used in the most extreme cases.\n\n\"I've been told that I was Asia's sickest patient for a period,\" he said. \"And that because of the things they learnt from me, Vietnam's doctors were able to employ that knowledge on patients in a similar position.\"\n\nMr Cameron narrowly avoided a double lung transplant when his lung capacity fell to 10%\n\nDr Patel told the BBC that Mr Cameron surviving such a long time in a medically-induced coma was \"exceptional\".\n\n\"We don't have much experience of people being on a ventilator for more than a month and a half,\" he said.\n\nAccording to data from the Scottish Intensive Care Society, three-quarters of Covid-19 survivors stay in intensive care for under 21 days, and are ventilated for an even shorter period of time.\n\nStephen Cameron with the British consul general Ian Gibbons and the chairman of Ho Chi Minh City's People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong\n\nMr Cameron narrowly avoided a double lung transplant when his lung capacity fell to 10%. He also suffered multiple organ failure and lost 30kg (4.7 stone) in weight while in a coma, and is still struggling to walk despite extensive rehab.\n\n\"When I first woke up, I thought, will I be able to walk again?,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't know if I was paralysed for life because I couldn't feel my feet and I wasn't sure if that was the end of my flying career.\"\n\nMr Cameron's aim is to pilot a plane again by \"early next year\". But his rehab will be long and arduous, and his job security has been thrown into doubt by the devastating effects the pandemic has wrought on the Asian air travel industry.\n\nHe came closer to dying of coronavirus than anyone else in Vietnam, which has had under 10 ICU admissions and fewer than 500 confirmed cases.\n\nThe effort to keep him alive and avoid a single death from the virus in a country of 95 million people meant all Vietnam's best ICU doctors were involved in his care, and his story made headlines in national newspapers and led TV news bulletins.\n\n\"The vast majority of the country knew about Patient 91, which was my moniker,\" he said.\n\n\"On their equivalent of the 10 o'clock news, they had somebody with my X-rays, my CT scans, my stats, and actually talking through them in maybe a five-minute segment.\n\n\"I mean that is a bit mind-blowing when you think about it.\"\n\nHundreds of press and members of the public watched Mr Cameron's departure from hospital in Ho Chi Minh City a fortnight ago.\n\nWhen he first fell ill at an expat bar, which was the site of southern Vietnam's biggest outbreak, his case caused controversy as there was speculation he was the source of the outbreak.\n\n\"There seemed to be a desire to pin it on me coming from abroad, as I did a visa run to Bangkok a week earlier,\" he told the BBC in June, when he was still in Vietnam.\n\n\"I was the first person to put my hands up and say: 'Look I don't feel well'. It was inevitable I would be blamed.\"\n\nSince Mr Cameron's return to the UK, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has thanked his counterpart in Vietnam, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, for the treatment of the 20 British Covid-19 patients in the country, including Mr Cameron.", "Chinese technology giant Huawei starts a four-day online event today focusing on how technology can be used in the fight against the coronavirus.\n\nThe \"Better World Summit\" will also explore how to boost the world economy in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMeanwhile, HSBC has issued a statement defending its cooperation with the US in a case against Huawei.\n\nIt came after Chinese state media accused the London-headquartered bank of “setting traps to ensnare” Huawei.\n\nThe world’s biggest telecoms equipment maker said the summit will feature talks by technology industry executives and experts from around the world, including Huawei's deputy chairman Guo Ping as well as South Africa's telecoms minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams.\n\nThe event is being held against the backdrop of growing pressure on the company as tensions rise between Beijing and western governments.\n\nOn Friday, an article in China's official People’s Daily newspaper said HSBC had \"framed” Huawei and played a role in the arrest of the company's finance chief Meng Wanzhou.\n\nThe following day, HSBC posted a statement on the Chinese social media platform WeChat which said it was not involved in Washington's decision to investigate Huawei or arrest Ms Meng.\n\nIt also said “HSBC has no malice against Huawei, nor has it ‘framed’ Huawei”. In response, another Beijing-controlled newspaper, The Global Times, said: \"Chinese observers called HSBC's statement 'not persuasive' at all\".\n\nMeanwhile, the US has been calling on members of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance - which also includes the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - to avoid Huawei kit.\n\nAustralia has barred Huawei from providing 5G technology for the country's network.\n\nEarlier this month, the British government banned the country's mobile providers from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after the end of this year.\n\nThe companies were also told they must remove all of the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.\n\nIt follows sanctions imposed by the US government, which claims Huawei poses a national security threat - something the company denies.\n\nAs early as this week a court in Canada will open a hearing into what evidence should be made public in proceedings on whether to extradite Ms Meng to America.", "A government scheme offering £50 bike repair vouchers will launch in England on Tuesday as part of plans to boost cycling and walking.\n\nAn initial 50,000 vouchers will be made available online later in the day on a first-come, first-served basis.\n\nThe prime minister also announced that access to bikes will be available on the NHS as part of the strategy.\n\nBut Labour said many of the government's proposals were taking too long to come into effect.\n\nIt comes after the government launched its obesity strategy on Monday.\n\nGPs in areas of England with poor health will be encouraged to prescribe cycling, with patients able to access bikes through their local surgery.\n\nThe idea is that GP surgeries will have a stock of bicycles to lend, with training, access to cycling groups and peer support.\n\nIn some cases, if they used them enough, patients would be allowed to keep them.\n\nRecent Public Health England research found that being overweight or obese puts people at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19.\n\nGovernment statistics showed nearly 8% of critically ill patients in intensive care units with the virus have been morbidly obese, compared with 2.9% of the general population.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said cycling and walking have \"a huge role to play\" in tackling health and environmental challenges.\n\n\"But to build a healthier, more active nation, we need the right infrastructure, training and support in place to give people the confidence to travel on two wheels,\" he said.\n\n\"That's why now is the time to shift gears and press ahead with our biggest and boldest plans yet to boost active travel - so that everyone can feel the transformative benefits of cycling.\"\n\nFormer Olympic gold medal cyclist Chris Boardman, now a policy adviser to British Cycling, welcomed the plans.\n\n\"There's a quarter of households in Britain who don't have access to a car at all and we've got public transport operating at 30%, so 70% of people have got to find another way to travel or not go to work,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"This can be not only provision for people who don't have a car now, it's a consultation for the future.\"\n\nThe government's \"Fix Your Bike\" vouchers are being released in batches \"to help manage capacity\" and so that the scheme can be monitored before being rolled out more widely, the government said.\n\nThey will typically cover the bill for a standard service and the replacement of a basic component such as an inner tube or cable.\n\nDuring a Downing Street briefing in May, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the initiative would be \"available from next month\".\n\nBut the Department for Transport (DfT) said in July that it would only begin when maintenance shops could handle the expected spike in demand.\n\nHalfords says it has thousands of slots available each day for customers to bring their bikes into stores to identify potential faults which could be rectified under the scheme.\n\n\"We think the government's 'Fix Your Bike' voucher scheme will not only help individuals become more confident about keeping their bikes maintained, but will help speed up the cycling revolution,\" said chief executive Graham Stapleton.\n\nThe retailer previously reported that bike sales had risen by 57.1% in the 13 weeks to 3 July, as people sought to avoid public transport during lockdown.\n\nThousands of miles of new protected cycle lanes, cycle training for children and adults, and the creation of the UK's first zero-emission transport city are also part of the plans to promote cycling and walking.\n\nThe initiative has been welcomed by cycling groups and environmentalists.\n\nThey have long argued that Active Travel - the new phrase for walking and cycling - fulfils twin objectives of improving health and well-being, while also reducing emissions that harm people's health and fuel climate change.\n\nBut they point out that the investment is less than a 10th of the £27bn that the government previously announced would be spent on new roads.\n\nThere's now increasing pressure for that road budget to be reduced.\n\nAA head Edmund King told BBC News in April that some of the cash might be better spent on improving broadband.\n\nAnd environmentalists have brought a legal challenge against the plans because the construction and use of the roads will increase carbon emissions when ministers are committed to reducing emissions.\n\nA recent study suggested that big carbon savings can be made by constructing cycle lanes in suburbs, to be used by e-bikes.\n\nOther measures to improve the well-being of pedestrians and cyclists include strengthening the Highway Code, improving legal protections, increasing lorry safety standards and working with the police and retailers to tackle bike thefts.\n\nThe plans will be funded by a £2bn investment announced in February.\n\nMr Shapps said it was a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a shift in attitudes\" to make cycling or walking part of daily routines.\n\nMatt Mallinder, director of the charity Cycling UK, said the plan \"places cycling at the heart of our towns and cities\", but he called for even more funding \"to truly shift gears\".\n\nKerry McCarthy, Labour shadow cycling minister also said that the Conservative party had \"failed to seize the opportunity this crisis has posed\".\n\n\"Although funding is welcome, cyclists will be rightly concerned about how long it is going to take to actually put these plans into practice.\"\n\nDid you take part in a previous scheme where doctors prescribed exercise, such as vouchers for free gym sessions or similar? Did it help you? 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:", "MI6 officers have been accused of attempting to interfere in a major legal battle over crimes linked to intelligence agencies.\n\nDocuments reveal officers sought to prevent documents being provided to one of the country's top judges.\n\nThe agency has since apologised - but critics say it was an attempt to put pressure on the judge and his team.\n\nOn Monday, the judge said MI6 had acknowledged that nothing like the incident should ever happen again.\n\nThe allegation of an inappropriate attempt to intervene in the work of the semi-secret Investigatory Powers tribunal has emerged 16 months after the incident.\n\nIn early 2019, the IPT, which hears complaints against intelligence agencies, was gathering and considering evidence in a case about whether MI6 and others can authorise their agents to commit crimes.\n\nMI6, its UK counterpart MI5 and the communications agency GCHQ, were preparing their defence against the case which could see the current secret rules being disclosed.\n\nOn 5 March, two MI6 officers called Susan Cobb, the secretary of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. They told her the tribunal should not have been provided with copies of secret documents which were potentially relevant to the case.\n\nThe documents were highly-sensitive inspections of MI6's work. The IPT had a legal right to not only see the documents but also to consider them as evidence.\n\nBut the officers told Ms Cobb the documents should not be passed to Lord Justice Singh, other members of the tribunal or the senior lawyer who advises them.\n\nTwo days later, Ms Cobb wrote to MI6 saying the phone conversations amounted to \"inappropriate interference\".\n\n\"It was inappropriate for your staff to seek to intervene in ongoing legal proceedings in the way that they sought to do,\" she wrote. \"The tribunal is an independent judicial body.\"\n\nMs Cobb then sent the letter to the independent watchdog that inspects MI6.\n\nDays later, a senior MI6 manager replied, admitting the contact had been wrong.\n\n\"Please accept my apologies for any misunderstanding that may have arisen as a result of the approach made to the tribunal,\" said the letter.\n\nIn court on Monday, lawyers for the campaign groups in the case - Reprieve, Privacy International and the Pat Finucane Centre - called for a wider investigation. They said the tribunal should ask whether MI6's directors had ordered an attempt to interfere in the case. But lawyers for the government said the agency had already apologised for what had been a mistake.\n\nLord Justice Singh said he would not order a wider investigation into MI6's motivations.\n\n\"The tribunal's secretary acted entirely appropriately in responding the way she did and by drawing these matters to my attention,\" he said.\n\n\"This tribunal is, in substance, a court which is completely independent of the government, the intelligence agencies and everybody else.\n\n\"In March 2019, it was recognised that the direct communication was inappropriate. An apology was given and it was recognised that nothing like this should happen in the future. Everyone recognised that something serious had gone wrong.\"\n\nMaya Foa, director of Reprieve, said: \"Britain's security services play a crucial role in keeping this country safe.\n\n\"But they do not get to decide what evidence a court should see. MI6 was right to apologise.\"", "Olivia de Havilland in 1940, a year after one of her career-defining roles in Gone with the Wind\n\nOlivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died at the age of 104.\n\nDe Havilland's career spanned more than 50 years and almost 50 feature films, and she was the last surviving star from Gone with the Wind (1939).\n\nThe film earned her one of her five Oscar nominations.\n\nDe Havilland, who had lived in Paris since 1960, was central in taking down Hollywood's studio system, giving actors better contracts.\n\nShe also had a tempestuous relationship with her sister, fellow Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine.\n\nAt the time of her death, De Havilland was the oldest living performer to have won an Oscar. She died of natural causes at her home in the French capital, her publicist said.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hosts the Oscars, labelled her as \"an immeasurable talent\"\n\n\"Here's to a true legend of our industry,\" the Academy said.\n\nIn a statement, the estate of fellow Hollywood star Humphrey Bogart, called Dame Olivia a \"true Classic Hollywood icon\".\n\nDe Havilland with Errol Flynn in Dodge City (1939). The pair had a strong on-screen chemistry\n\nOlivia Mary de Havilland was born in Tokyo in 1916 and soon moved to California with her family.\n\nShe made her breakthrough in Captain Blood, opposite Errol Flynn, and the pair developed an immediate chemistry.\n\nDe Havilland was then cast in the role of Melanie in David O Selznick's epic adaptation of the Margaret Mitchell novel, Gone with the Wind.\n\nShe lost the best supporting actress Oscar to Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in the film.\n\nBut she did win a Best Actress Oscar in 1946 for her role in To Each His Own, and then a second for The Heiress in 1949.\n\nDe Havilland also famously turned down the role of Blanche DuBois in the 1951 adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire. Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for the role.\n\nDe Havilland continued to act until the late 1980s, winning a Golden Globe in 1986 for Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.\n\nOff screen, she took on the studios at a time when they had complete control over their stars.\n\nBacked by the Screen Actors Guild, she took Warner Brothers to court in 1943 when it added time to her original contract as a penalty for turning down roles.\n\nThe California Supreme Court ruled in her favour in what became known as the De Havilland Law, which loosened the grip studios had on their actors.\n\nMuch has been made of her feud with her sister. The pair reportedly had a difficult relationship from childhood. It was exacerbated by them both being nominated for Best Actress in 1942, with Fontaine winning out.\n\nDe Havilland was also reportedly angered by Fontaine's comments about her new husband, Marcus Goodrich, whom de Havilland married in 1946. And there was also disagreement over medical treatment for their mother in 1975. Fontaine died in 2013.\n\nDe Havilland was created a Dame in the 2017 Birthday Honours list, within weeks of her 101st birthday.\n\nOlivia de Havilland was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire\n\nAfter her death, actor and musician Jared Leto paid tribute to the actress, describing her as \"a class act\".\n\n\"I still have the kind and thoughtful letters she wrote me in longhand on beautiful blue stationery,\" he tweeted. \"They were of another era.\"\n\nLeto also credited Dame Olivia with helping to bring about a law that enabled him to get out of a lengthy and exploitative music contract.\n\n\"I got to thank her for fighting the system back then so I could battle it now,\" Leto added. \"It was amazing to meet her - she's a legend.\"\n\nActress Jane Seymour said she would \"cherish\" the memories of appearing alongside the \"larger than life\" Dame Olivia in 1988 film, The Woman He Loved.\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 janeseymour This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Armed police searching for a group of men with weapons accidentally stormed the wrong house.\n\nOfficers with guns first raided a property on Blaenclydach Street, Cardiff and were later seen around the corner at a house in Blaenclydach Place.\n\nSouth Wales Police apologised and admitted officers \"attended the wrong address\" at about midday on Sunday.\n\nThe force said it would arrange for a door to be repaired.\n\nCharlie Gough, who lives at the house that was raided wrongly, was on his way home at the time and when officers \"burst in and smashed the door\".\n\nThere were \"four or five\" police cars outside the property, the 23-year-old said.\n\n\"They were all stood outside ready to raid the house,\" he added. \"If I had been inside it would have been terrifying.\"\n\n\"If they were just going to knock on a door and got the wrong house, it'd be no big thing,\" said Mr Gough, who works on the BBC's Casualty programme.\n\nBut he said he thought police would \"double check\" when they were armed.\n\nSouth Wales Police admitted they went to the wrong house\n\nA spokesman for South Wales Police said: \"Following reports of a disturbance in Cornwall Street yesterday involving a group of men armed with weapons, firearms officers were making arrest enquiries in the Grangetown area of Cardiff.\n\n\"While looking for one of the suspects, officers unfortunately attended the wrong address.\n\n\"Officers apologised to those living in the house and have made arrangements for the door to be repaired.\"\n\nSoon after they were seen about 120 metres away at a property around the corner\n\nThe force said three men in their 30s and a 16-year-old boy were arrested.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle also warned social distancing will remain in force in the Commons for some time\n\nPlans for daily televised press briefings from No 10 risk sidelining Parliament, the Commons Speaker warns.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle told the BBC he was worried the idea was \"not the way forward\" and major announcements should always be made in Parliament first.\n\nIf MPs always learned of policy changes through the media, it would make it harder for them to do their jobs, he told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour.\n\nHe also suggested it would be some time before Parliament returned to normal.\n\nWhile he longed to see the Commons benches \"packed\" and MPs \"jostling\" for room again, he said social distancing would only be relaxed when it was safe to do so, due to the threat of coronavirus.\n\n\"I can't see that happening tomorrow, let's put it that way,\" he told the programme. \"I think we're a little bit further away from normality as we knew it.\"\n\nIn the UK, lobby reporters currently receive twice daily briefings from No 10, but they are not broadcast.\n\nInstead, Downing Street is planning to pilot daily televised press briefings from October, modelled on US briefings from the White House.\n\nThe daily coronavirus briefings - which took place for three months up until the end of June - attracted large TV audiences.\n\nNo 10 hopes a more permanent arrangement would help the government get its message across, while increasing engagement with the public.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Carolyn Quinn, Sir Lindsay said Parliament should be the place in which MPs and the public found out what was happening.\n\n\"You know the worry I've had - that statements should be made to the House first,\" he said. \"Once you've made that statement, by all means go and have a press conference. But do it after, not before.\n\n\"If there's something new to come out and you want to tell the world, tell Parliament and let the world watch it from Parliament's eyes.\"\n\nDaily televised press briefings are a feature of life in the US\n\nIn recent months, Sir Lindsay has rebuked a number of ministers after details of policies appeared in the press before being unveiled in Parliament.\n\nHe said he did not want this to become a habit under the new arrangements.\n\n\"Members are elected to hold the government to account and we've got to allow them to do so,\" he said. \"And if you're briefing the press first, that's not the way forward.\n\n\"It's not good for Downing Street, it's not good for relations and it doesn't endear your own backbenchers.\n\n\"They want to know that they count and that they matter. And I think that's the way forward for all of us.\"\n\nSir Lindsay, who was elected Speaker in November, said he had been right to insist on the 2m social distancing rule remaining in force in the Commons, even when it was relaxed in society at large.\n\nThe guidelines restrict the number of MPs able to be physically present in the chamber at any one time.\n\nWhile the Commons is at its most lively when it is full, the Speaker said he had a duty of care to MPs and staff.\n\n\"It would be nice to be able to turn the clock back and know that you could have a full chamber without risk,\" said Sir Lindsay.\n\n\"But while there's risk, I cannot see it.\"\n\nSir Lindsay also told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour that he enjoyed presiding over Prime Minister's Questions\n\nReflecting on his duties, the Speaker said he was enjoying the \"clash of styles\" between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nBut he revealed he had been getting advice from one of his predecessors, Baroness Boothroyd, on ensuring the set piece of the parliamentary week did not drag on beyond its allotted 30 minutes.\n\nThe Chorley MP also spoke about living with type-one diabetes, which he was diagnosed with shortly before last year's election campaign.\n\nHe said he had been given a \"big tip\" on managing his blood sugar levels by ex-Prime Minister Theresa May, who also has the condition.\n\n\"When it significantly drops, I have to take a jelly baby,\" he said. \"So when I go very low, I rely on the jelly baby to put me back in the right place.\"\n\nSir Lindsay added: \"I always say to people with diabetes, it doesn't end your life - far from it. You've just got to work with it. And that's what I want to prove.\"", "Ryanair has said it will continue its flights in and out of Spain as normal, despite the UK government's decision to impose a 14-day quarantine on travellers arriving from the country.\n\nNeil Sorahan, Ryanair's chief financial officer, told the BBC: \"The schedules remain in place.\"\n\nThe travel industry has been plunged into confusion by the quarantine rule, which was announced over the weekend.\n\nAirlines have called it a \"big blow\", throwing travel plans into chaos.\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Today programme, Mr Sorahan said: \"As things stand, the market remains open, the schedules remain in place and we continue to operate in and out of Spain as normal.\"\n\nHe added, however, that Ryanair was keeping its entire operation \"under consideration\" as it builds back its route network post-lockdown.\n\nMr Sorahan was questioned about previous remarks by Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary, who has described quarantine measures as a \"political stunt\".\n\nHe said it was \"a possibility\" that people would not follow the guidance.\n\n\"it's extremely difficult to police quarantine. People make their own decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think it's the most effective measure out there, but it's the measure that's been chosen by the UK government.\"\n\nEarlier, Ryanair revealed that it had fallen into loss in the first three months of the financial year after what it called the most challenging period in its history.\n\nWith more than 99% of its fleet grounded because of the pandemic, the airline reported a loss of €185m (£169m) over the April-to-June period, compared with a profit of €243m a year earlier.\n\nRyanair said it expected to clear more than 90% of refunds for cancelled flights by the end of July.\n\nThe airline said it was impossible to predict how long the coronavirus pandemic would persist.\n\n\"A second wave of Covid-19 cases across Europe in late autumn (when the annual flu season commences) is our biggest fear right now,\" it added.\n\nThe UK announced a surprise 14-day quarantine for travellers from Spain on Saturday\n\nAirlines have been struggling because of global travel restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIn May, Ryanair announced it was set to cut 3,000 jobs across Europe.\n\nHowever, earlier this month, the company revealed that it had cut a deal with the Unite union, including temporary pay cuts, so that UK cabin crew jobs would be safeguarded.\n\nThe airline later said it was shutting its base at Frankfurt Hahn airport after German pilots voted to reject pay cuts.\n\nIn its latest results statement, Ryanair repeated its criticism of rival airlines for receiving what it called \"illegal state aid\" to stay in business.\n\n\"Many other airlines are cutting capacity, with the result that air travel in Europe is likely to be depressed for at least the next two or three years,\" it added.\n\n\"This will create opportunities for Ryanair... to grow its network and expand its fleet, to take advantage of lower airport and aircraft cost opportunities that will inevitably arise.\"\n\nThe airline said the challenge of Brexit, and in particular a no-deal Brexit, remained high.\n\nIt said it hoped that the UK and EU would agree a trade deal for air travel that would allow the free movement of people and the deregulated airline market between the UK and Ireland to continue.\n\n\"As an EU airline, the Ryanair Group should be less affected by a no-deal Brexit than UK registered airlines. We still, however, expect adverse trading consequences to arise,\" the airline said.\n\n\"Ryanair has put the necessary measures in place to ensure that the group remains majority EU owned, including restricting voting rights of non-EU shareholders, in the event of a 'hard Brexit'\".\n\nRyanair said it remained a committed supporter of the \"game-changer\" Boeing 737 Max plane, which was grounded last year after two crashes killed all 346 people on the flights.\n\nIt was due to take delivery of its first 737 Max planes more than a year ago and still hopes to do so before the end of 2020.\n\nThe US aviation regulator has started formal test flights for the troubled plane after Boeing overhauled its flight control system.", "Alexander Dennis has been owned by group of Scottish investors since 2004\n\nBus builder Alexander Dennis Limited is expected to cut 650 jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Falkirk-based firm employs 2,300 people, including 1,000 at its Scottish factory and head office.\n\nThe workforce were told on Monday that more than quarter of them are at risk of redundancy, following a 45-day consultation.\n\nBritain's biggest bus builder was bought by a Canadian company last year for £320m.\n\nBut since the lockdown passenger numbers and, as a result, orders for new buses have plummeted.\n\nADL chief executive Colin Robertson said: \"A few short months ago, we were looking at a record year of sales, reaping the benefits of all our investment in new technology, new products and new markets.\n\n\"All of this changed with the impact of Covid-19.\"\n\nDespite the support offered by the UK government's job retention scheme he added that industry is facing an \"unprecedented crisis\".\n\nManagers in Falkirk have been appealing to the Scottish and UK governments to step in and save thousands of industry jobs, citing the prime minister's commitment to renewing Britain's bus fleet with lower-emission models.\n\nADL chief executive Colin Robertson (left) with NFI president Paul Soubry after the Canadian company bought Alexander Dennis last year\n\nBut no special deal for the sector has been agreed.\n\nUnite Scotland described the news as \"devastating\" for the workforce and their families.\n\nRegional officer Willie Thomson said: \"We believe these actions are premature and urge the company to continue to explore all options to protect jobs and livelihoods.\n\n\"We stand ready to work with them to achieve this.\n\n\"Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the bus industry with the collapse of new orders from operators due to the crisis.\"\n\nThe union also called on both the Scottish and UK governments to support the industry.\n\nMr Thomson added: \"The Alexander Dennis workforce has a crucial role to play in a cleaner and greener future for both our economy and our communities.\n\n\"We will be fully engaging with the company in the coming weeks and we will do all we can to save these jobs.\n\n\"Each job is a worker, a family affected, and they shouldn't be the ones to pay the price for this crisis.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the industry was one with \"a bright future, but short-term difficulties\".\n\nHe added: \"This news is deeply concerning and any redundancies following from this will be a hammer blow, both to the workforce and their families as well as Scotland's manufacturing base.\n\n\"That's why no stone should be left unturned to save these jobs.\"\n\nScottish Conservative Central Scotland MSP Alison Harris said: \"It's essential both the UK and Scottish governments work together to try and save as many of these jobs as possible, and ensure the company can continue its pioneering work in the future.\"\n\nADL's head office is in Larbert and its main factory is in Camelon.\n\nIt also employs workers in Guildford and Scarborough.\n\nAlexander Dennis, which is the world's largest producer of double-decker buses, was acquired by a group of Scottish investors in 2004.\n\nStagecoach founders Sir Brian Souter and Dame Ann Gloag owned more than half the company, which is now part of the NFI Group, which makes buses for the North American market.", "The home secretary has demanded a \"full explanation\" from Twitter and Instagram on why anti-Semitic posts by rapper Wiley were not removed more quickly.\n\nPolice are investigating a series of posts on the grime artist's social media accounts. He has been temporarily banned from both Twitter and Instagram.\n\nPriti Patel said the posts were anti-Semitic and \"abhorrent\".\n\n\"Social media companies must act much faster to remove such appalling hatred from their platforms,\" she said.\n\nWiley, 41, known as the \"godfather of grime\", shared conspiracy theories and insulted Jewish people on his Instagram and Twitter accounts, which together have more than 940,000 followers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Priti Patel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter removed some of Wiley's tweets with a note saying they violated its rules - but other tweets were still visible 12 hours after being posted. It later said Wiley's account had been locked for seven days.\n\nFacebook - which owns Instagram - said on Sunday that the platform had also blocked the rapper from his account for seven days, and that there was \"no place for hate speech on Instagram\".\n\nBut Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the steps taken by Twitter and Instagram were not enough.\n\nIn a letter to bosses of the two social media firms, he said that when the material was published on their platforms, \"the response - its removal and the banning of those responsible - should be immediate.\n\n\"It takes minutes for content shared on your platform to reach an audience of millions. When someone influential shares hate speech, in that time it may have an impact on the views of many who look up to them.\"\n\nMr Khan said it was \"particularly disheartening\" when social media had played a \"positive role in amplifying the vital voices\" of the Black Lives Matter movement recently.\n\nWiley's series of posts began on Friday night and his manager John Woolf's initial response was that, having known the artist for 12 years, \"he does not truly feel this way\".\n\nBut on Saturday, Mr Woolf said he had \"cut all ties\" with the London-born rapper and that there was \"no place in society for anti-Semitism\".\n\nWiley first entered the UK singles charts with Wearing My Rolex in 2008. His subsequent hits include Heatwave in 2012 and Boasty in 2019, a collaboration with rappers Stefflon Don and Sean Paul and actor Idris Elba.", "The transport secretary is leaving a family holiday in Spain early to return to the UK, after quarantine restrictions came into force.\n\nGrant Shapps said he would come home on Wednesday so he can \"get through quarantine\" as quickly as possible and return to work.\n\nHe added he wanted to help the government \"handle the situation\".\n\nHe flew out on Saturday morning aware that the 14-day quarantine rule could be imposed on Sunday.\n\nIt's understood Mr Shapps had originally decided to press ahead with his holiday and then quarantine on his return to the UK, to avoid a possible public backlash.\n\nIn a statement, he added: \"I've been in constant contact with officials and industry representatives since I arrived in Spain on Saturday afternoon.\n\n\"However, I think it's right to get back to work in the UK as soon as possible in order to help handle the situation.\"\n\nOn Monday evening, the Foreign Office said it now advised against all non-essential travel to the whole of Spain, including the Balearic and Canary Islands.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said he had decided to cancel a planned holiday to the Balearic Islands.\n\n\"I know there will be other people who'll be much worse affected than me, and I do strongly sympathise with the situation in which they find themselves,\" Mr Gove said.\n\n\"But we all recognise that public health comes first,\" he added.\n\n\"Whilst self-isolation for 14 days can be difficult, everyone will want to do the right thing.\"\n\nQuarantine measures apply to all those returning from mainland Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, such as Majorca and Ibiza.\n\nIt is not known where Mr Shapps is staying.\n\nMinisters discussed the rising infection rate in parts of Spain on Friday night.\n\nOnce in Spain, Mr Shapps took part in a meeting with other UK ministers at which it was agreed to impose the restrictions.\n\nThe requirement came into force on Sunday.\n\nMore than 900 cases of coronavirus were reported in Spain on Friday, and the country's officials are warning of fears of a second spike.\n\nAnother Tory MP, Minister for London Paul Scully, has been affected by the changes.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy confirmed Mr Scully was in Lanzarote and would be isolating on his return to the UK.", "Facebook will be challenged on whether its current practices respect EU citizens' right to privacy\n\nFacebook has pushed back against a European Union investigation into its practices, taking it to court over privacy concerns.\n\nTwo investigations are being carried out into Facebook to find out if it breaches competition laws.\n\nTo gather information, the European Commission has demanded internal documents from Facebook that include 2,500 specific key phrases.\n\nFacebook says that means handing over unrelated but highly sensitive data.\n\nThe European Commission says it will defend the case in court, and its investigation into Facebook's potential anticompetitive conduct is ongoing.\n\nThe social media giant has filed an appeal to the EU courts, arguing against the breadth of the document requests.\n\n\"We are cooperating with the commission and would expect to give them hundreds of thousands of documents,\" said Tim Lamb, Facebook's competition lawyer.\n\n\"The exceptionally broad nature of the commission's requests means we would be required to turn over predominantly irrelevant documents that have nothing to do with the commission's investigations, including highly sensitive personal information such as employees' medical information, personal financial documents, and private information about family members of employees.\"\n\nA Facebook spokesperson stressed the company is not trying to hold up the investigation, saying the firm has been very forthcoming with information so far.\n\nHe said Brussels' request for any documents which include the phrases \"big question\", \"shut down\" and \"not good for us\" could even force Facebook to hand over confidential security assessments of its California headquarters.\n\nFacebook says it offered commission investigators the chance to view sensitive but unrelated documents in a secure-viewing room where no copies could be made, but the offer was refused.\n• None Zuckerberg: Advertisers will be back 'soon enough'", "Those taking part in the boycott include MPs David Lammy and Rosena Allin-Khan, singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, actor Jason Isaacs, broadcasters Rachel Riley and Maajid Nawaz, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, and entrepreneur Lord Sugar\n\nA 48-hour boycott of Twitter by some of its users, protesting at the platform's alleged lack of action on anti-Semitism has begun.\n\nIt was triggered by the actions of grime music artist Wiley, who shared several posts on Twitter on Friday.\n\nSome of the tweets were deleted, but Twitter was criticised for taking time to act and leaving some tweets up.\n\nThe Prime Minister's official spokesman has said Boris Johnson believes \"Twitter needs to do better\".\n\nThe offending messages \"should not have been able to remain on Twitter and Instagram for so long\", he added, and \"social media companies need to go further and faster to remove content like this\".\n\nDozens of well-known figures supporting the two-day \"walkout\" are using the hashtags #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate and #48HoursSilence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Rapper Wiley's Twitter account has been suspended after anti-Semitic posts\n\nMany of those taking part accused Twitter of \"breaking its own policies\" for not having taken a tougher line - Wiley has been temporarily suspended by Twitter but not banned.\n\nThe protest formally began at 09:00BST. But since that time, other people and organisations have joined, including the accounts of Greenpeace UK, the Royal Opera House, the pop group McFly, sports broadcaster Gary Lineker, as well as members of the public.\n\nHowever, some people have questioned whether keeping silent is the best way to challenge online hate.\n\nPolice are now investigating Wiley's tweets, and said \"enquiries remain ongoing\". The so-called \"godfather of grime\" has also been temporarily barred from Instagram.\n\nActress and writer Tracy-Ann Oberman, who is one of those leading the movement, tweeted on Saturday that Twitter had \"allowed [Wiley] 48 hours of pure race hate\".\n\nShe said that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey \"has to stick by [Twitter's] remit of anti racism. Silence is complicity. Please walk out with us.\"\n\nThe rallying cry was taken up by a diverse cross-section of Twitter users, including:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Jewish Chronicle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA host of MPs from different parties also said they would take part - including Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan and David Lammy, former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, acting Lib Dems leader Ed Davey, and Conservative MP Jane Stevenson.\n\nThose taking part have vowed not to tweet - or use Twitter at all - from Monday morning to Wednesday morning, reflecting the 48 hours of inaction they accuse Twitter of.\n\nSome organisations are also taking part, including the Music Producers Guild, the National Children's Bureau charity, London's Southbank Centre, the Jewish Chronicle newspaper and the American Jewish Committee.\n\nKaren Pollock, chief executive of the UK's Holocaust Educational Trust, tweeted her organisation's support for the move, writing that Twitter can be \"abusive, distressing and so draining\".\n\nShe added: \"It is about time social media companies Twitter [and] Instagram live up to the values their users would expect.\"\n\nTwitter said: \"Abuse and harassment has no place on Twitter and we strongly condemn it\". The firm highlighted its policies that ban the promotion of violence against people on the basis of religion, race or ethnicity.\n\n\"We enforce our rules judiciously and impartially for all and take action if an account violates our rules,\" it said.\n\nWiley began posting a stream of offensive messages on social media before being temporarily banned by Twitter on Saturday\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, has written to Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey and Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, telling them: \"social media companies have a responsibility to act and must do so without delay\".\n\n\"This cannot be allowed to stand. Your inaction amounts to complicity.\"\n\nDuring his tweet session, Wiley referenced conspiracy theories about Jewish people and other insulting material. He also posted extensively to Facebook-owned Instagram.\n\nMany have now been replaced with notices that the tweets are no longer available because they violated Twitter's rules.\n\nHowever, they had already attracted the attention of a number of public figures and the police.\n\nOn Saturday, London's Metropolitan Police in Tower Hamlets tweeted that they had received \"a number of reports\" about anti-Semitic tweets, and that \"the relevant material is being assessed\".\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel said she had asked Twitter and Instagram for a full explanation, while London mayor Sadiq Khan has written to the firms, criticising their reaction.\n\nWiley's management also dropped the artist over the weekend, saying: \"There is no place in society for anti-Semitism.\"\n\nThe 41-year-old artist, whose real name is Richard Cowie, is a major figure in grime music, and was made an MBE in 2018 for services to music.\n\nThe anti-Semitism row has also resulted in calls for that honour to be withdrawn.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United secured a place in the Champions League at the expense of Leicester City with victory at King Power Stadium.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side needed a point from this decisive final-day meeting to confirm a place in the top four - and break the hearts of the Foxes, who were in a Champions League spot for so much of the season.\n\nLeicester needed victory once Chelsea took command at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers but their dreams were dashed as Bruno Fernandes scored a 71st-minute penalty after Anthony Martial tumbled under challenge from Wes Morgan and Jonny Evans.\n\nBoth sides had their chances, with Leicester City keeper Kasper Schmeichel saving well from Marcus Rashford in the first half and Jamie Vardy seeing a header glance off the frame of the goal after the break.\n\nLeicester pressed but could not break Manchester United down and their misery was compounded when Evans was sent off against his former club for a wild, late lunge on Scott McTominay.\n\nManchester United confirmed the formalities seconds from time when substitute Jesse Lingard robbed Schmeichel and rolled the ball into an empty net.\n\nIt is a result that fulfils the usual minimum requirement of Champions League qualification for Manchester United.\n\nBut while Leicester City's fifth-placed finish is highly creditable and earns a place in the Europa League, this will undoubtedly be a huge disappointment and anti-climax after being in a position to reach the Champions League for so long.\n\nIt will be scant consolation for them that striker Vardy will claim the Golden Boot, as the Premier League's top scorer with 23 goals.\n\nAfter Fernandes had made an impressive debut in a goalless draw at home to Wolves on 1 February, Manchester United stood 14 points adrift of Leicester City, who were third.\n\nFast forward to his decisive role in this victory that sees United qualify for next season's Champions League by taking that third place, and you can see the extent of his impact.\n\nThe Portuguese attacker - a mid-season signing from Sporting Lisbon in a deal that could eventually be worth around £68m - has provided the missing link for this Manchester United side.\n\nHe has built a bridge between midfield and a talented attacking array of strikers with his talent and his positive style, looking forward every time he receives possession.\n\nFernandes was not at his best here but he was the man who unlocked Leicester's defence as Martial won the crucial penalty, then performed his usual hop, skip and jump to send Schmeichel the wrong way and ease any lingering United nerves.\n\nIt capped a remarkable recovery for Manchester United - with credit also due to manager Solskjaer for guiding his side into the top four.\n\nThe scenes at the final whistle here showed the extent of Leicester City's bitter disappointment at being denied the footballing and financial prize that seemed theirs for the taking for so long.\n\nBrendan Rodgers' side had started to lose their early-season sparkle even before the campaign was halted in March by the coronavirus pandemic - yet they were still in a powerful position as the finish line approached.\n\nThey have still had a fine season but there is no point glossing over this huge missed opportunity.\n\nRodgers is left to rue moments such as the inexplicable meltdown at Bournemouth, where they led at half-time only to lose 4-1.\n\nThe manager faces a big job to pick his players up and remind them of what they have achieved in returning to European football.\n\nWhen they go into next season's Europa League, will they be without players such as Ben Chilwell, a target for Chelsea and reduced here to exhorting his team-mates from the directors' box as he was absent through injury?\n\nFoxes fail to hang on to top four - the stats\n• None Leicester finished fifth despite ending 325 days inside the top four places during the season.\n• None Manchester United recorded a top-four finish in the Premier League for just the second time in five seasons - and the third time in seven seasons since Sir Alex Ferguson retired.\n• None Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has lost 10 of his 12 meetings with Manchester United across all competitions, suffering defeats in each of the past five.\n• None Manchester United extended their unbeaten run to 14 games in the Premier League, their longest run without defeat in the competition since April 2017.\n• None Bruno Fernandes' penalty was the 14th Manchester United have been awarded in the Premier League this season, which is the most for a team in a single campaign in the competition's history.\n• None Since making his debut in the competition in February, Fernandes has been directly involved in more goals in the competition than any other player (15).\n• None Jesse Lingard scored his first Premier League goal for Manchester United since December 2018, when he hit two in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first game in charge against Cardiff.\n• None Harry Maguire became the first outfield player since Gary Pallister in 1994-95 to start every game in a Premier League campaign for Manchester United.\n• None Goal! Leicester City 0, Manchester United 2. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Brandon Williams (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Demarai Gray (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. George Hirst (Leicester City) header from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kasper Schmeichel. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The UK economy could take until 2024 to return to the size it was before the coronavirus lockdown, according to analysis from the EY Item Club.\n\nThe forecasters, who use a similar economic model to the Treasury, suggest unemployment will rise to 9% from 3.9%.\n\nThey also estimate the economy will shrink by 11.5% this year, worse than the 8% they predicted only a month ago.\n\nConsumers have been more cautious than expected, they said, while low business investment will dampen growth.\n\nAs a result, they now expect the post-coronavirus economic recovery to take 18 months longer than previously forecast.\n\nHowever, the Item Club says it is early days and useful data has only recently been made available.\n\n\"Unsurprisingly, without hard data, a wide range of views on the performance and outlook for the UK economy emerged,\" said Mark Gregory, UK chief economist at EY.\n\nLast week, the Bank of England's chief economist Andy Haldane told MPs the UK economy had \"clawed back\" about half the fall in output it saw during the peak of the coronavirus lockdown in March and April.\n\nThere had been a V-shaped \"bounceback\", he said, referring to the shape that indicates a rapid economic recovery.\n\nLast month, Mr Haldane said the economy was \"on track for a quick recovery\".\n\nHowever, other economists have expressed doubts about the potential for such a swift recovery in activity.\n\n\"Even though lockdown restrictions are easing, consumer caution has been much more pronounced than expected,\" said Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club.\n\n\"We believe that consumer confidence is one of three key factors likely to weigh on the UK economy over the rest of the year, alongside the impact of rising unemployment and low levels of business investment.\n\n\"The UK economy may be past its low point but it is looking increasingly likely that the climb back is going to be a lot longer than expected.\"\n\nThe government has moved to cut taxes, support wages and offer incentives to spend in an effort to keep the economy going and encourage consumers to spend.\n\nEarlier this month, Chancellor Rishi Sunak cut VAT on hospitality and promised to pay firms a £1,000 bonus for every staff member kept on for three months when the furlough scheme ends in October.\n\nBut he also conceded that not every job would be saved, and his £30bn package was criticised for helping certain sectors, such as restaurants and tourism, but ignoring others.\n\nLast month, the Bank of England said it would pump an extra £100bn into the UK economy to help fight the \"unprecedented\" coronavirus-induced downturn.", "The UK has updated its advice against all non-essential travel to Spain to include the Balearic and Canary Islands following a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nForeign Office guidance was changed on Monday to include both mainland Spain and islands such as Ibiza and Tenerife.\n\nHoliday firm Jet2 has told passengers not to go to the airport after cancelling flights to all Spanish destinations on Tuesday.\n\nThe change is in addition to the self-isolation policy that began on Sunday.\n\nThe amended advice came after calls for clarity from travel companies and as airlines announced sweeping flight cancellations.\n\nJet2 said it will not be operating flights to Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza, or to mainland Spain, but will be running a schedule of flights back from those destinations on Tuesday.\n\nHoliday operator Tui, meanwhile, said it would cancel all its packages to the Balearic and Canary Islands until 31 July and to mainland Spain until 9 August.\n\nTravellers returning to the UK from anywhere in Spain must now self-isolate for 14 days at a registered address.\n\nHoliday firm Jet2 has cancelled flights to the Balearic and Canary Islands\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"We have considered the overall situation for British nationals travelling to and from the Balearic and Canary Islands, including the impact of the requirement to self-isolate on return to the UK, and concluded that we should advise British nationals against all non-essential travel to the whole of Spain.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier, Boris Johnson's official spokesman warned \"no travel is risk-free during this pandemic\".\n\nThe rate of infection in Spain is 35.1 cases per 100,000 people, while the UK is at 14.7, according to the latest figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nData up to 19 July suggested there were lower rates of infection in the Balearic and Canary Islands than in mainland Spain.\n\nMeanwhile, a government source told the BBC that the Spanish government was lobbying for the Balearic and Canary Islands to be exempt from the quarantine policy, and that discussions on the matter had taken place.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described the decision to impose a 14-day quarantine as an \"error\" as it applied to the whole of Spain, rather than affected regions, the Reuters news agency reported.\n\nAmong the thousands affected by the change in travel advice was Tom Clasby, who had checked into an airport hotel near Stansted with his fiancé, their two daughters, and other family members, ahead of a holiday to Majorca.\n\nMr Clasby, 26, was due to depart at 06:55 BST on Tuesday but now faces having to return home to Bury St Edmunds.\n\n\"We're in a situation where we can't do anything yet and I don't actually know what to do. The poor little girls have been so excited for this holiday - it's the second holiday this year we've had cancelled,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We are just very disappointed, the girls will be so upset in the morning.\"\n\nTom Clasby said he was dreading telling his two daughters their Spanish holiday was cancelled\n\nAnother would-be traveller, Rachel Warren, 43, said her bags were half packed for a planned trip to Tenerife on 31 July when she received a text message saying her trip was cancelled.\n\nIt's the third holiday she's had called off this year.\n\n\"I was supposed to be going to Mexico, changed it to Ibiza and then amended the booking for a third time when they all got cancelled. I thought Tenerife was going to be third time lucky and now this has happened,\" she said.\n\n\"I can try and rebook; god knows where, or how, or when!\"\n\nRachel Warren has now had three holidays cancelled due to the coronavirus\n\nAlso affected was Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who flew to Spain on Saturday despite knowing a decision on the quarantine policy was due.\n\nMr Shapps said in a statement he would return to the UK this week in order to complete his quarantine and would return to work as soon as possible.\n\nAnd Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said he cancelled a holiday to the Balearics after the change to quarantine rules was announced on Saturday.\n\nEasyJet, British Airways, and Ryanair said they would continue to operate full schedules of flights to Spain, though EasyJet said its holidays would be cancelled for the next few weeks.\n\nThe UK imposed the restriction over the weekend after a spike in infections in some Spanish regions, including Catalonia, where Barcelona is located, and Aragon.\n\nThe French government has told its nationals to stay away from Catalonia, while Norway has imposed a new 10-day quarantine on all travellers arriving from Spain.\n\nIt comes as a further seven people with coronavirus were reported to have died across all settings in the UK, according to latest government figures - bringing the UK's death toll to 45,759.\n\nThe government also said in the 24-hour period up to 09:00 BST on Monday, there had been a further 685 lab-confirmed cases. The UK's total is 300,111.", "Football in the UK has signed up to the \"Mentally Healthy Football Declaration\", which is spearheaded by the Duke of Cambridge and commits to making mental health a priority at all levels of the sport.\n\nIn a video call, Prince William, who is president of the Football Association, spoke to former England captain David Beckham, Aston Villa defender Tyrone Mings, Crystal Palace winger Andros Townsend and Manchester City defender Steph Houghton about their mental health and the state of the problem in football.\n\nHere are their personal experiences.\n\nBeckham on 'different era' and 'keeping it all in'\n\nAfter being sent off for England in the 1998 World Cup against Argentina, Beckham, who was 23 at the time, was vilified in the press and abused by football fans in the stands for months.\n\n\"When I look back on it now, I didn't realise how hard it was. The times I've faced adversity throughout my career - '98 was by far the toughest,\" said former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder Beckham.\n\nThe all-time England appearance record-holder added: \"The reaction at the time was pretty brutal, but times have changed.\n\n\"If social media was going around at that time in '98, it would have been a whole different story. Did I feel OK to go to someone and say I needed help? No. I just felt I had to keep it all in and deal with it myself.\n\n\"Now I'm the one preaching to my kids and to other kids that it's really important to talk. We all know now that it's OK not to be OK, and it's OK to say that. It's OK to come out and say I need help.\"\n\nPalace winger Townsend, 29, says he is \"not very shocked\" to see racial abuse aimed at Premier League footballers, including his team-mate and Ivory Coast forward Wilfried Zaha and other high-profile sports stars.\n\n\"We seem to have gone backwards in football. We seem to have a kind of a copycat era where people see one person give out racist abuse and, for some reason, they think it's cool to do the same,\" said Townsend.\n\nA 12-year-old boy was arrested over the abuse Zaha was subjected to, something Townsend finds \"quite scary\".\n\nHe added: \"We all need to kind of look at ourselves and think, how can we do better? How can we bring up our kids to not know these sort of phrases in the first place?\n\n\"It's a real eye opener and we have to keep working hard to try and eradicate this - not only from football, but from society as well.\n\n\"Since the stuff with George Floyd, everyone seems to be getting behind it. The Premier League, the FA and clubs, they've backed us.\"\n\nTownsend called for social media companies to come down harder on racist abuse.\n\n\"People can so easily make false new accounts under aliases and make a racist remark and then delete their account and not be held accountable,\" he added.\n\n\"Every person needs to be held accountable for their actions on social media.\"\n\nMings on how academies can be 'challenging' for young players\n\nEngland centre-back Mings, 27, played a key part in Villa avoiding Premier League relegation, but has had to overcome several injury and personal setbacks during his career.\n\n\"I was at Southampton as an academy player and got released at 15,\" Mings told Prince William. \"I've kind of seen the good and bad sides of academies.\n\n\"They have great pools of talent and they can be a pathway into the professional game. But they can also be quite challenging.\n\n\"I felt like kids are exposed to pressure at such young ages in academies and it's year-long contracts - will I be kept on for the next year?\"\n\nAs a result, Mings has set up his own football academy.\n\n\"If kids want to be away from that and not feel pressurised to win games or impress people, then that's the environment we have set up. We've had really good feedback.\"\n\nHoughton on the mental health pressures of being captain\n\n\"I spent a lot of time worrying and it affected the way I played as I was trying to be everyone's best friend,\" says Manchester City and England skipper Houghton.\n\n\"But I was the one who was suffering and my form dipped.\"\n\nAs a result, the 32-year-old defender, who made her international debut in 2007, has had to learn to control her own performances and stay \"true to her beliefs\" on how football should be.\n\nBeckham, Townsend, Mings and Houghton were speaking to Prince William, while Townsend was also interviewed by Nick Robinson about mental health on Radio 4's Today Programme.", "A St Bernard dog that had to be rescued from England's highest mountain has fully recovered and is back home with her owners.\n\nDaisy collapsed while descending Scafell Pike on Friday. She had shown signs of pain in her rear legs and had refused to move.\n\nMembers of the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team had to intervene and carried her down on a stretcher.\n\nSt Bernards are usually the ones helping with such missions - they were originally bred to rescue people in the Italian and Swiss Alps.", "A small number of coronavirus cases in pets have been found in Europe, North America and Asia\n\nA pet cat has tested positive in the UK for the strain of coronavirus that is causing the current pandemic.\n\nExperts say it is the first confirmed case of infection in an animal in the UK but does not mean the disease is being spread to people by their pets.\n\nIt's thought the cat caught coronavirus from its owner, who had previously tested positive for the virus. Both have now recovered.\n\nHealth officials stress the case is very rare and no cause for alarm.\n\nUK chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss said: \"This is a very rare event, with infected animals detected to date only showing mild clinical signs and recovering within in a few days.\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest that pets directly transmit the virus to humans. We will continue to monitor this situation closely and will update our guidance to pet owners should the situation change.\"\n\nYvonne Doyle, Public Health England's director for health protection, advised people to wash their hands regularly, including before and after contact with animals.\n\nAn animal's fur could carry the virus for a time if a pet were to have come into contact with someone who was sick.\n\nA private vet initially diagnosed feline herpes virus - a common cat respiratory infection - but the sample was also tested for Sars-Cov-2 as part of a research programme.\n\nThere has been a very small number of confirmed cases in pets in other countries in Europe, North America and Asia.\n\nDaniella Dos Santos, President of the British Veterinary Association, said: \"Our advice to pet owners who have Covid-19 or who are self-isolating with symptoms remains to restrict contact with their pets as a precautionary measure and to practise good hygiene, including regular handwashing.\n\n\"We also recommend that owners who are confirmed or suspected to have Covid-19 should keep their cat indoors if possible, but only if the cat is happy to be kept indoors. Some cats cannot stay indoors due to stress-related medical reasons.\"", "Covid-19 is easily the most severe global health emergency ever declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), its leader has said.\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he would reconvene the WHO's emergency committee this week for a review.\n\nThere have been five other global health emergencies: Ebola (two outbreaks), Zika, polio and swine flu.\n\nMore than 16m cases of Covid-19 have been reported since January, and more than 650,000 deaths.\n\n\"When I declared a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January... there were less than 100 cases outside of China, and no deaths,\" Dr Tedros said.\n\n\"Covid-19 has changed our world. It has brought people, communities and nations together, and driven them apart.\"\n\nThe total number of cases, he added, had roughly doubled in the past six weeks.\n\nAlthough the world had made a huge effort in fighting the virus, there remained \"a long hard road ahead of us\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zhang Hai's father died with coronavirus after travelling to Wuhan, China, for routine surgery just before the lockdown\n\nAt Monday's briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, the WHO also said travel restrictions could not be the answer for the long term, and countries had to do more to halt the spread by adopting proven strategies such as social distancing and wearing masks.\n\n\"It is going to be almost impossible for individual countries to keep their borders shut for the foreseeable future. Economies have to open up, people have to work, trade has to resume,\" WHO emergencies programme director Mike Ryan said.\n\nWHO officials acknowledged however that further lockdowns in countries experiencing renewed outbreaks may be necessary, but suggested they should be as short as possible, and confined to as small a geographic area as possible (ie local lockdowns).\n\n\"The more we understand about the virus, the more surgical we can be in controlling it,\" said Mr Ryan.", "Police were called to East India Dock Road in Poplar shortly after 18:50 BST on Monday\n\nA toddler is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from a block of flats in east London.\n\nThe Met Police were called to East India Dock Road in Poplar shortly after 18:50 BST on Monday to reports that a child had \"fallen from a height\".\n\nThe boy was taken to a specialist hospital for treatment. No arrests have been made in the inquiry.\n\nA security guard at the tower said the family involved were \"very nice people\" and boy's fall was \"just horrible\".\n\nThe child was treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to a major trauma centre.\n\nA resident at the block, who did not want to be named, said she saw people outside with the child before emergency services arrived.\n\n\"They were trying to help but they did not know what to do,\" she said.\n\nOther residents living in the tower have spoken of their concerns about the building's windows, which can be opened wide on some settings.\n\nLydia Best, 50, said she was \"very scared about the windows\" and she only ever opened them \"a little bit, even when it is hot\".\n\nRanjit Naik said the \"quite large\" windows were also \"something I worry about\".\n\nThe 43-year-old father of two said he keeps the keys in the locks so his own children are not able to get to them.\n\nA road closure was put in place at East India Dock Road's junction with Chrisp Street and Newby Place but the route has since been re-opened.\n\nPeople who witnessed what happened or have footage have been asked to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "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.\"", "The American GPS and fitness-tracker company Garmin is dealing with the aftermath of a ransomware attack, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nOwners of its products had been unable to use its services since Thursday.\n\nHowever, some of its online tools are now being provided in a \"limited\" state, according to its online dashboard.\n\nGarmin has said it was \"the victim of a cyber-attack that encrypted some of our systems\".\n\nBut the statement it released avoided any reference to a ransom demand.\n\n\"Many of our online services were interrupted including website functions, customer support, customer-facing applications, and company communications,\" it said.\n\n\"We have no indication that any customer data, including payment information from Garmin Pay, was accessed, lost or stolen.\"\n\nThe firm added that it expected all its systems to return to normal operation within a few days, but warned that there might be a \"backlog\" of user data to process.\n\nIt is not known if the firm paid the blackmailers, but a source told the BBC it was in the \"final stage of recovery\".\n\nThe BBC's cyber reporter Joe Tidy said the malware involved was Wasted Locker - a program that scrambles the target's data, and was first detected in the wild around April. Victims are typically contacted after their computers are infected, and told they must transfer funds if they want to return the files to their original state.\n\nSome customers have already reported that Garmin's services appear to be \"partially\" working again.\n\nEarlier reports claimed that the company had been asked to pay $10m (£7.79m) to get its systems back online.\n\nPilots who use flyGarmin were unable to download up-to-date aviation databases, which aviation regulators such as the FAA require pilots to have, before they can fly.\n\nCustomers were also unable to log into Garmin Connect to record and analyse their health and fitness data.\n\nThere have been many high-profile attacks in recent months, but few victims have been as tight-lipped as Garmin.\n\nEven now, despite confirmation from many different sources across different newsrooms, the company is choosing not to admit it was ransomware.\n\nThe big question is whether or not the company paid the blackmailer what is likely to be a multi-million dollar demand.\n\nIt seems the company has somehow got the decryption key it needs to start bringing services back online.\n\nAs well as customers and shareholders, the US authorities will be very keen to know what happened.\n\nMembers of Evil Corp, the criminal group that's suspected of being behind the hack, were indicted in 2019 by the US Treasury.", "London-listed companies are more profitable when women make up more than one in three executive roles, according to new research.\n\nListed firms where at least one-third of the bosses are women have a profit margin more than 10 times greater than those without, it suggests.\n\nOf the 350 largest companies listed, just 14 are led by women, according to gender diversity business The Pipeline.\n\n15% of companies in the FTSE 350 have no female executives at all.\n\nThe group's co-founder Lorna Fitzsimons said having more women in the decision-making room means businesses are better able to understand their customers.\n\nThe Pipeline's Women Count 2020 report \"shows the stark difference in net profit margins of companies that have diverse gender leaderships compared to those who do not,\" she said.\n\nThe Pipeline says London-listed companies with no women on their executive committees have a net profit of 1.5%, whereas those with more than one in three women at that level reach 15.2% net profit margin.\n\nThe report also points out that in the largest 100 London-listed companies, the total number of female chief executives is the same as the number of bosses named Peter - six.\n\nWhen it comes to chief financial officers in those firms, fewer than two out of 10 are women, while men make up 96% of investment managers.\n\nThe sectors with the lowest number of women in executive roles are construction and retail.\n\n\"If you look at retail, entry level jobs are usually 80% women,\" Ms Fitzsimons said. \"But they don't make it to the executive level.\"\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May, who contributed to the report, said there can be no good explanation for the massive underrepresentation of women at the top of British business.\n\n\"Every single male CEO who looks around his boardroom table to see nine out of 10 male faces staring back at him needs to ask himself what he is doing to make his business one which his daughter or granddaughter can get on in,\" she wrote.\n\nVanda Murray OBE led Blick PLC in the early 2000s. She currently chairs the board at Marshalls PLC, a FTSE 250 construction firm.\n\nWhile she welcomes recent moves to encourage women to make up 30% of company boards, she says it's in executive, decision-making roles where women are still underrepresented.\n\n\"There are talented females out there, no-one could really argue against this,\" she said.\n\nLeadership groups with people from mixed backgrounds, ethnicity and gender do better because \"they challenge more, and they have more discussion and debate and that leads to better decision-making,\" she said.\n\nMs Murray said Marshalls has a female HR director, but the rest of the executive committee members are men.\n\n\"We have plans in place. We have talent management programmes and training and development so that we can make sure the younger female managers come through.\"", "Hilary Mantel has won the Booker Prize twice - for Wolf Hall in 2009 and 2012's Bring Up the Bodies\n\nHilary Mantel's The Mirror & The Light is among the novels longlisted for this year's Booker Prize.\n\nIt is the third book in the author's Cromwell trilogy, and was selected for its \"masterful exhibition of sly dialogue and exquisite description,\" the judges said.\n\nMantel has previously won the prize twice - for the first two novels in the trilogy.\n\nThe longlist will be whittled down from 13 to a shortlist of six in September.\n\nZimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga was nominated, like Mantel, for the third novel in her own trilogy - entitled This Mournable Body.\n\nThis year's longlist - nicknamed the 'Booker's dozen' - features eight debut novels.\n\nThe prize, which has been going since 1969, was last year won jointly by Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.\n\nThe annual longlist was compiled from 162 English-language novels published in the UK or Ireland.\n\nMargaret Busby, chair of the 2020 judges, said that each of the titles on this year's list was \"deserving of wide readership\".\n\n\"Included are novels carried by the sweep of history with memorable characters brought to life and given visibility, novels that represent a moment of cultural change, or the pressures an individual faces in pre- and post-dystopian society,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Some of the books focus on interpersonal relationships that are complex, nuanced, emotionally charged. There are voices from minorities often unheard, stories that are fresh, bold and absorbing,\" she added.\n\n\"The best fiction enables the reader to relate to other people's lives; sharing experiences that we could not ourselves have imagined is as powerful as being able to identify with characters.\"\n\nThe shortlist of six books will be announced on 15 September, with the £50,000-prize winning author being revealed in November.\n\nGabriel Krauze - Who They Was\n\nAnne Tyler - Redhead by The Side of The Road\n\nC Pam Zhang - How Much of These Hills is Gold\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A petition calling for a town's major to resign after he was caught breaking lockdown rules has been signed by more than 2,000 people in two days.\n\nPictures appeared on social media of a large gathering at a house in Luton, attended by Labour mayor Tahir Malik and councillors Asif Masood and Waheed Akbar.\n\nIt came as Luton was designated an \"area of intervention\" by Public Health England through a rise in cases.\n\nThe men said they were \"sorry that we did not live up to the standards that are rightly expected of us,\" and both the council and Labour Party said they would investigate.", "The trainee vets say they're relieved to be back with their friends again after the long lockdown\n\nThe first students are beginning to return for face-to-face teaching on UK university campuses - with a new term of compulsory masks and closed bars.\n\nMost students won't begin until the autumn, but veterinary students are now back at the University of Nottingham.\n\nThey are the pioneers for how campuses across the UK could look as they reopen after the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\n\"The social experience will be more limited, but these are unprecedented times,\" says registrar Paul Greatrix.\n\nThe first cohort going back in Nottingham are 150 trainee vets, some of whom will see a great deal of each other - as the university adopts the \"bubble\" system in which small groups will live as well as study together.\n\nThe university is calling it \"households\" rather than \"bubbles\", but it is the same principle of restricting the spread of infection by keeping people in small groups which are kept separate from each other.\n\nWithin these households of three to 10 students there will be no need for social distancing or wearing masks, but where different households meet the students will have to stay apart.\n\n\"Safety has to be the priority,\" says Dr Greatrix.\n\nThe buildings are mapped out with one-way systems and hand sanitising stations and masks have to be worn, including in lessons, by staff and students.\n\nLectures will be online and there will be in-person teaching for small groups, which is essential for a practical subject such as veterinary science.\n\nSarah Cripps says it was impossible to teach such a practical subject online\n\nThe student bars are closed and there are posters up for a pizza night that's going to be an online event.\n\n\"We can't emulate an all-night club experience through a Zoom chat,\" says Dr Greatrix.\n\nBut he says the university is doing everything it can to create a sense of involvement.\n\nThe students at Nottingham just seem very glad to be back and seeing friends, after months of being cooped up at home and having to study online.\n\nRegistrar Paul Greatrix says it is a huge logistical operation to get ready for 40,000 students and staff in the autumn\n\nThey don't seem particularly daunted by the safety restrictions or that much of the socialising will be online.\n\n\"We were desperate to come back,\" says Amy Thornton. \"It will be different, but it was time to come back.\"\n\nShe will be living in a bubble with five other trainee vets - and isn't worried about the new arrangements or seeing too much of a small number of people.\n\n\"It's just nice to see people again,\" says Emily Howell. \"We're going to have to get on with it.\"\n\nTom handles a milk snake as part of the training in looking after reptiles\n\nThe online lectures are useful, she says, because you can rewind them. \"But I can't wait to do practicals.\"\n\nHer flatmate, Lewis Ashman, says he has no concerns about any risks from going on to the campus. \"It's safe,\" he says.\n\nTom, getting his first chance to hold a snake and a bearded dragon called Barbie, says it's \"great to be back\".\n\nThe students don't mind the masks, but they're finding that dogs used in training don't like them - and it can set them off barking.\n\nIt's also a relief to be back teaching in person rather than online, says clinical assistant professor, Sarah Cripps.\n\nNottingham has a one-way system operating across its buildings\n\nUniversities didn't close, but went online - and the pandemic has shown the limitations of remote teaching, and how much is missed when students and teachers are not there together in person.\n\nAnd in the case of a practical subject such as learning to be a vet, which is all about handling, it's impossible to switch completely online.\n\nDr Greatrix says reopening for the rest of Nottingham's 40,000 students and staff will be one of the biggest projects the university has ever faced.\n\nThere will be staggered arrival times in September to reduce contacts between students, in what is like a small town turning up.\n\nEmily Howell and Lewis Ashman do not have any worries about the safety of being on campus\n\nAnd there are plans if there are further Covid-19 outbreaks, either in halls of residence or in parts of the city where students are living.\n\nThere is a strong message of reassurance about safety - not least to overseas students, particularly from China, who have been doubtful of how well the pandemic has been handled in the UK.\n\nDr Greatrix says he will be pleased if more than 50% of overseas students turn up as planned - with many universities fearing a financial hit from cancellations.\n\nUniversities can introduce safety rules, but students are adults and he recognises there is no way of preventing people in separate bubbles from meeting away from the university - such as going to a local pub.\n\nAnd it's not possible to put the same safety controls on students living in private accommodation.\n\n\"We'll try to regularly remind students about a sense of responsibility,\" said Dr Greatrix.", "Researchers hope the discovery could help show how marine plant life survives extreme changes in climate\n\nScientists have discovered kelp off the coast of Scotland, Ireland and France that has survived since the last ice age, around 16,000 years ago.\n\nExperts from Heriot-Watt University's Orkney campus analysed the genetic composition of oarweed from 14 areas across the northern Atlantic ocean.\n\nIt is hoped the discovery could help show how marine plant life survives extreme changes in climate.\n\nDr Andrew Want collected samples from Kirkwall Bay, near his home.\n\nThe marine ecologist said the \"refugee populations\" managed to hang on and survive \"amid dramatic changes\".\n\nDr Want, who is based at Heriot-Watt's International Centre for Island Technology in Orkney, said: \"Oarweed in Scotland and Ireland is more closely related to populations in the high Arctic than to the Brittany cluster.\n\n\"As the ice sheets retreated from northern European shorelines at the end of the most recent ice age, oarweed distribution followed and recolonised the higher latitudes of the Atlantic.\n\n\"Kelp plays a critical role in the Atlantic so it is important to understand what affects its distribution and survival over time and how sensitive it is to change.\"\n\nThe research team, which included academics based in Portugal and France, found one distinct genetic cluster along the eastern seaboard of Canada and the US.\n\nAnother was discovered in central and northern Europe and a third compact population around Brittany.\n\nDr Want said the \"Brittany population\" is once again close to the other populations but has managed to remain distinct.\n\nHe added: \"Worryingly, this unique Brittany gene pool is projected to disappear under greenhouse gas emission scenarios.\n\n\"This provides further evidence of the loss of biodiversity expected with rapidly changing marine temperatures.\"\n\nThe team's findings have been published in the European Journal of Phycology.\n\nDr Joao Neiva, from Algarve's Centre of Marine Sciences, said: \"Our study shows how marine organisms adjust to shifting climates by migrating polewards and even across the Atlantic when conditions are favourable.\n\n\"These migrations provide a mechanism by which marine life buffers the effects of global climatic shifts, and how they can compensate for predictable contractions at warmer limits as the modern climatic crisis unfolds.\n\n\"While the species may not be threatened at global scales, range contractions can have very negative impacts if vanishing ranges are composed of unique and diverse populations.\n\n\"This is certainly the case off the coast of Brittany.\"", "Rapper Wiley's Twitter account has been temporarily locked while Instagram said it had deleted some of his content, after a long series of posts on both platforms on Friday and Saturday.\n\n5 Live's Emma Barnett, whose grandmother escaped the from the Nazis in Austria, spoke out about the rapper's anti-Semitic views on her radio programme.\n\nShe said the rapper's words \"burn deep, are deeply dispiriting and play on a very well hidden fear a lot of Jewish people have – that some day anti-Semitism will rise up once more\".\n\nListen to the full discussion on BBC Sounds.", "The split between genders in the amount of paid and unpaid work they do has shrunk over the last 40 years, according to a think tank.\n\nA new study by the Resolution Foundation found that men in the UK are doing fewer paid hours and women more.\n\nThe foundation says that women and men are almost equal in terms of overall hours worked, clocking in 50 and 51 hours a week respectively.\n\nHowever, men get paid for 10 more of their weekly hours than women do.\n\nSince the 1970s, women have increased their paid working hours by more than five hours to 22 per week, and have cut unpaid hours, which include childcare duties and household chores, by almost three.\n\nMeanwhile, men have cut their paid hours by more than eight to 34 per week. The number of unpaid hours worked has increased by more than five a week.\n\nWomen still spend more time on childcare and spend slightly more time on \"personal care\". Men, by contrast, spend more time in front of the TV. Both spend the same amount of hours asleep.\n\nThe report also highlights what it describes as a \"new divide\" across households. Women in higher-income households have seen the biggest increase in paid work, with men in lower-income households seeing a drop in their working hours - by as much as three hours a day - since the 1970s.\n\nThe foundation suggests that, as a result, the gap in total hours of paid work between high and low-income households has grown from 40 minutes per week in 1974 to four hours and 20 minutes in 2014-15.\n\nOne in seven workers in low-income households want to increase their hours of work, compared with just one in 30 workers in high-income households.\n\nGeorge Bangham, economist at the Resolution Foundation, said that since the coronavirus outbreak, many households are reconsidering how they structure their days.\n\n\"Debates around how people spend their time often focus on a single goal - speeding up the move to a shorter working week to enable more time for socialising, sport and hobbies,\" he said.\n\n\"But this isn't how people's lives have changed over the past four decades, desirable as it may be.\n\n\"Men are doing less paid work, while women are doing more. Both have less time for 'play' with childcare up and leisure time down.\n\nHe added that a new \"working time inequality\" has emerged.\n\nLabour's shadow women and equalities secretary, Marsha de Cordova, said: \"The government must carry out and publish an Equality Impact Assessment of the financial and social measures it has taken so far to support people through the pandemic.\n\n\"It's vital to prevent lower income households bearing the brunt of the crisis when they were already doing less paid work than high income households and many wanted to be doing more.\"", "Being obese or overweight puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, experts say after examining existing studies.\n\nThe review of evidence by Public Health England found excess weight put people at greater risk of needing hospital admission or intensive care.\n\nAnd the risk grew substantially as weight increased.\n\nThe release comes ahead of an expected government announcement of new measures to curb obesity.\n\nDr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said the current evidence was clear, that being overweight or obese puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, as well as from many other life-threatening diseases.\n\n\"Losing weight can bring huge benefits for health - and may also help protect against the health risks of Covid-19,\" she said. \"The case for action on obesity has never been stronger.\"\n\nThe UK has one of the highest levels of obesity in Europe. Almost two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese, with similar figures in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe NHS says most adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9 are overweight, while those with a BMI of 30 to 39.9 are classed as obese.\n\nBody mass index is calculated by dividing a person's mass in kilograms by the square of their height in metres.\n\nAnother measure of excess fat is waist size - men with a waist of 94cm or more and women with a waist of 80cm or more are more likely to develop obesity-related problems.\n\nSupporting people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight may reduce the severe effects of Covid-19 on the population, especially among vulnerable groups who are most affected by obesity, the report said.\n\nProf Susan Jebb of the University of Oxford, said we already know that older people, men, those from South Asian and some other ethnic groups, and people living in more deprived areas, are at increased risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"Over and above these things, this review shows that excess weight is another very important risk factor,\" she said.\n\nThere was anecdotal evidence that some people were struggling with their weight during the pandemic, she added, which offered a \"re-set moment\" for everyone to think about their lifestyle.\n\nAccording to the report, while some data suggests that more people have exercised during lockdown, evidence indicates that the nation's exercise levels have not increased overall.\n\nMeanwhile, snack food and alcohol sales from High Street shops have increased.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce new measures soon to combat obesity, including a ban on TV junk food adverts before 21:00.\n\nThe measures are yet to be finalised, but are also likely to include a ban on online ads for unhealthy foods, and limits on in-store promotions.", "The government had to act \"rapidly and decisively\" to impose a quarantine on people arriving in the UK from Spain, a minister has said.\n\nHealth minister Helen Whately said the UK virus rate must be kept down to avoid a second spike.\n\nAsked about a quarantine for other countries, such as France and Germany, she said No 10 will monitor virus rates and \"take action\" if necessary.\n\nLabour has called for support for those having to quarantine.\n\nThe party says there is no guarantee employers will allow people to work from home for two weeks.\n\nIt comes as a UK government source has confirmed talks are under way with Spanish authorities about introducing specific air bridges with the Balearic and Canary Islands.\n\nThe rate of infection in Spain is 35.1 cases per 100,000 people, while the UK is at 14.7, according to the latest figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nThe new coronavirus travel rule was announced on Saturday evening following a spike in the number of new cases in Spain this week.\n\nIt came into force less than six hours after it was confirmed by the government, and requires travellers returning from all parts of Spain - including the islands of Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza - to provide an address where they will self-isolate for 14 days or risk a fine.\n\nDuring those two weeks, people must not go out to work, school, or public areas, or have visitors except for essential support. They should not go out to buy food if they can rely on others.\n\nAlmost 1.8m people were due to fly from the UK to Spain before the end of August, according to analysis by travel experts The PC Agency.\n\nGlobal airline body the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called the UK government's decision \"disproportionate\" and warned that it will cause a \"big setback for consumer confidence\".\n\nAndrew Flintham, the managing director of Tui UK and Ireland, the UK's biggest tour operator, called for a more \"nuanced\" quarantine policy that would allow customers to go to certain regions of countries with a lower number of infections.\n\nThe company has cancelled all mainland Spanish holidays until 9 August after the change in rules, but said all those going to the Balearic and Canary Islands could still travel as planned from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know it's hard for the many people who are on holiday in Spain,\" Health Minister Helen Whately said\n\nRyanair has said it will continue its flights in and out of Spain as normal, and Jet2 said it will still operate its schedule of holidays and flights to and from mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.\n\nEasyJet has said it is cancelling holidays to all Spanish destinations for the next few weeks, but flights will still go ahead.\n\nMr Flintham told BBC Breakfast: \"We'd really like a nuanced policy, so if there is a travel advice that says you can still go to the Canary Islands and the Balearics, we'd also like to have that backed up with a quarantine that obviously, isn't in place.\n\n\"If there's a travel advice that says you can't go, then we believe that clearly the quarantine should be in place.\n\n\"If we can have a lined up and regional policy, it will be much easier for us to communicate that to customers.\"\n\nAsked about this, and the difference in the number of new infections between mainland Spain and places like the Balearic Islands, Ms Whately said that she recognised that rates are \"lower in the islands\" but that they were going up \"very rapidly in some locations, not just in mainland Spain\" and No 10 had to take scientific advice on how to \"best protect the UK\".\n\nShe urged anyone considering booking a holiday to \"be mindful that we are still in the situation of a global pandemic\".\n\nAsked about whether people arriving from other countries, such as France and Germany, could also soon have to quarantine, Ms Whately said No 10 will monitor virus rates and \"take action\" if necessary.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It is the right thing for us to do to keep an eye on the rate in these countries, so if we see something going on, like we've seen in Spain, we would have to take action.\"\n\nShe said the so-called air bridges to other countries would be kept constantly \"under review\", adding that the government is \"enacting the policy\" it had committed to doing when they were first brought in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds criticised the \"chaotic nature\" of the government's decision-making and urged it to bring in \"smarter\" measures at airports rather than a blanket quarantine.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"We certainly would be following the advice and introducing protective measures at the border if there are spikes in cases in other countries, absolutely.\n\n\"But there are two serious questions around this. The first is why we are still employing the... blunt tool of the 14-day quarantining rather than smarter measures and secondly the chaotic nature of the decision-making which certainly hasn't bred confidence in the government's approach.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think you need a smarter set of quarantine measures at the airport. I've suggested this test, trace and isolate regime but you can also have temperature checking and other things - you look at a range of measures.\"\n\nQuarantine measures apply to those returning from mainland Spain, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, such as Majorca and Ibiza.\n\nReturning travellers must provide an address where they will self-isolate for 14 days and failing to do so could result in a fine.\n\nDuring those two weeks, people must not go out to work, school, or public areas, or have visitors except for essential support. They should not go out to buy food if they can rely on others.\n\nPeople who do not self-isolate can be fined up to £1,000 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and those returning to Scotland could be fined £480, with fines up to £5,000 for persistent offenders.\n\nAmong the travellers caught up in the rule change was Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who flew to Spain early on Saturday morning.\n\nThe BBC understands that Mr Shapps decided to remain in Spain and self-isolate on his return so as to avoid a possible public backlash.\n\nSources say that Mr Shapps - even though he knew the quarantine was about to be imposed - felt he could not use the information to escape the need to quarantine by returning to London ahead of its introduction at midnight.\n\nMeanwhile, fellow cabinet minister Michael Gove confirmed he has cancelled his planned holiday to one of the Balearic Islands following the rule change.\n\nHe called the government's approach to the quarantine measures \"coherent\".\n\nThe director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Dame Carolyn Fairburn, said the new measures would have a \"chilling impact\" on the tourism industry, and that \"there are lessons to be learned\".\n\n\"Anyone going abroad now will know that this can happen,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour programme. \"It was in the small print, but I'm not sure that people knew that that advice could change so quickly.\"\n\nAnd the Airport Operators Association said the new measures would \"further damage what is already a fragile restart of the aviation sector, which continues to face the biggest challenge in its history\".\n\nWhat should I do if I'm are already in Spain? Continue your holiday, follow the local rules, return home as planned, and regularly check Foreign Office (FCO) travel advice, the government says.\n\nWhat about if I have a trip to Spain booked? Contact your travel provider, as some holiday operators like Tui have cancelled trips to mainland Spain. The FCO is advising against all non-essential travel to mainland Spain, but that does not include the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, such as Majorca and Ibiza. However, anyone arriving from any part of Spain, including its islands, must quarantine.\n\nWhat will happen with travel insurance? For people already in Spain, the Association of British Insurers said it's \"likely\" insurance will stay in place until they return home. Otherwise, those travelling now against FCO advice will invalidate their insurance. If in doubt, check with your insurer.\n\nRead more here. Send your questions to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk\n\nOn Thursday, Spain recorded 971 new infections - the biggest daily increase since Spain's lockdown ended - and 922 on Friday.\n\nBut on Sunday, the country's foreign minister insisted it was safe to visit, saying \"the outbreaks in Spain are perfectly controlled.\"\n\nForeign Office guidance advising against all but essential travel to mainland Spain does not include the islands, but ministers opted to apply blanket quarantine arrangements across the Spanish territories.", "The 17-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA 17-year-old has been stabbed to death and four other boys were injured as two groups clashed in Manchester.\n\nPolice were called to a disturbance in Henbury Street, Moss Side, at about 19:30 BST on Sunday. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nTwo 15-year-olds and a 17-year old were also hurt, as well as a 16-year old who is in hospital with \"potentially life-changing injuries.\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy arrested at the scene remains in custody, police said.\n\nThe 15-year-olds and the 17-year-old were also arrested on discharge from hospital.\n\nHe is being held on suspicion of murder and the injured boys are also in custody awaiting questioning in connection with the killing, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nSupt Mark Dexter said: \"No parent should ever have to bury their child and my heart goes out to the mother and father who lost their son yesterday evening.\"\n\nHe added: \"Despite us having made four arrests, we are still actively piecing together the circumstances around this incident and I would urge anyone who has any information to please get in touch with us as a matter of absolute urgency.\n\n\"Violence of this kind is unacceptable and it is difficult to digest that another young life has been lost.\n\n\"We and the community have been working so hard to reduce knife crime, we obviously all need to do more and we will.\"\n\nPolice were called to a disturbance in Henbury Street, Rusholme\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stella Frew was pronounced dead at the scene in Sutton on Friday\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who died after she was struck by a van.\n\nStella Frew, 38, was pronounced dead at the scene in Tonfield Road, Sutton, south-west London, just before 18:00 BST on Friday. The vehicle left the scene after the crash.\n\nPolice believe she climbed into a white van on Friday afternoon and \"later got into a dispute with the driver\".\n\nA man in his 20s was arrested on Sunday and remains in custody.\n\nEmergency services were called to Tonfield Road in Sutton on Friday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Helen Rance said police think Ms Frew had been \"deliberately harmed\".\n\n\"We believe she got into a white transit van in this area and later got into a dispute with the driver of this van,\" she said.\n\nShe appealed for \"anyone who may have seen Stella in the area of the A24 in Stonecot, West Sutton on Friday afternoon\" to contact Scotland Yard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It had been a criminal offence not to work from home if you were able to\n\nA coronavirus law requiring people in Wales to work from home where they can has been scrapped by the Welsh Government.\n\nIt means it is no longer a criminal offence for individuals not to do so.\n\nThe changes were made as part of the easing of Wales' lockdown rules. The Welsh Government said the offence was no longer seen as proportionate.\n\nBut First Minister Mark Drakeford said working from home \"remains a cornerstone of our approach\".\n\nThe recommendation will remain in Welsh Government guidance.\n\nThe move comes after the UK government signalled a change to the advice to work from home in England.\n\nEarlier in July Prime Minister Boris Johnson said employers would have \"more discretion\" from 1 August.\n\nDespite this, the chief scientific adviser to the UK government, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was no reason to change the guidance on home working.\n\nMark Drakeford said people should continue to work from home 'wherever they can'\n\nRegulations had been in place in Wales for months requiring people to work from home where it was \"reasonably practicable\".\n\nThe Welsh Government removed the regulation over the weekend, with the offence lifted on Saturday.\n\nMark Drakeford said the Welsh Government's policy \"remains clear that people should continue to work from home wherever they can\".\n\n\"The increase in remote and flexible working has been one of the few positives we can take away from the coronavirus pandemic and for public health and other reasons I am keen that this continues - and the Welsh Government will lead by example,\" he said in a statement.\n\nBut he added that in order to provide the \"flexibility needed to sustain this policy we will lift the legal requirement to work from home\".\n\n\"Guidance will be provided to ensure that home working remains a cornerstone of our approach to recovery in Wales.\n\n\"Employers will also have responsibilities to support home working,\" he added.", "Amazon is ramping up its online grocery service with the aim of serving millions of shoppers across the UK by the end of 2020.\n\nOnline food sales have almost doubled during the pandemic with grocers struggling to keep up with demand.\n\nAmazon is now after a bigger slice of this fast-growing market, which analysts say could increase pressure on rivals such as Ocado.\n\n\"[Amazon] can be compelling, disruptive and it's a business with gigantic ambitions.\"\n\nAmazon Fresh offers same or next-day grocery deliveries for customers in London and parts of the Home Counties.\n\nShoppers have to subscribe to Amazon Prime to get it and users currently have to pay an additional monthly fee or a delivery charge per order. It has about 10,000 products including fresh, chilled and frozen food.\n\nFrom Tuesday, this service will now be a free benefit to subscribers in these areas on orders above £40.\n\nAbout 40 postcodes in Surrey will also have access to a faster offer, with a possible same-day delivery before midnight if you order by 21:00.\n\nAmazon says it will roll out this quicker and unlimited free delivery grocery service to \"multiple cities\" by the end of this year. It's an ambitious move.\n\n\"Grocery delivery is one of the fastest growing businesses at Amazon and we think this will be one of the most-loved Prime benefits in the UK, \" says Russell Jones, country manager of Amazon Fresh UK.\n\nHe says this expansion was on the cards before Covid-19.\n\n\"We've been planning this for a long time. It's a big step up in volume. In the early days of lockdown all our capacity was being used. We're confident that we can launch this service now at this point in time,\" he says.\n\nAmazon revealed few specifics about its plans.\n\nIt launched Amazon Fresh in the UK in 2016 and has never given sales figures or customer numbers. It hasn't even confirmed how many Amazon Prime members it has in the UK.\n\nAccording to market research firm Mintel, there are 15 million subscribers, potentially giving Amazon a huge platform.\n\n\"I think they will be a big player in food retailing online. They wouldn't be doing it otherwise. Most of the markets they go into, they want to be the biggest player,\" says Richard Hyman.\n\nIt's also far more difficult for grocers to make a profit with online sales compared to customers visiting stores.\n\n\"The frightening thing for everybody else is that they all really need to make money, whereas Amazon doesn't and that places them at an enormous advantage.\"\n\nBut it won't be easy, says Thomas Brereton, retail analyst at GlobalData.\n\n\"At the moment, people don't really consider Amazon for food. They've got to build brand awareness and that takes time and a lot of investment.\"\n\n\"Food and non-food retailing are two very different concepts, and Amazon must be careful not to underestimate the competitiveness of the UK grocery market.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Also, because of what's happening with the economy, value is going to be the main driver, which is something Tesco's been trying to do with Aldi and its price match campaign. Amazon's target is going to be fairly premium as it has signed a lot of deals with smaller, independent suppliers.\"\n\nA big battle for upmarket shoppers is set for the autumn. In September, Ocado will start selling M&S products instead of Waitrose food. And it's these players, thinks Richard Hyman, who have most to worry about when it comes to Amazon's latest move.\n\n\"If you think about the demographic of Prime, these members are relatively better-off... It's one thing fighting Amazon off when you have an established business, but fighting them off when you've got something completely new in the case of M&S and relatively new in the case of Waitrose flying solo will be more challenging.\n\n\"Amazon are very clever at getting the rest of the market to follow their agenda and I think what they will particularly be doing is upping the ante on delivery times,\" he says.\n\nAll of the established players have been rapidly building online capacity to cope with soaring demand, which many believe will be a permanent shift in shopping behaviour. Amazon's expansion means this part of the £119bn grocery market is going to become even more competitive in the coming months.", "Holidaymakers are able to use sites with shared facilities from this weekend\n\nHolidaymakers can once again carry on camping in Wales - but it won't be as you remember it.\n\nFrom Saturday sites with shared facilities are allowed to open, with strict rules and regulations, having missed most of the high season.\n\nBusinesses said they had been inundated with inquiries but it would not make up for lost trade during lockdown.\n\nThere had also been the expense of deep cleaning, adding social distancing and reducing pitch numbers, some said.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford warned holidaymakers they \"must get used to some changes\" to protect everyone from coronavirus.\n\n\"It's the responsibility of all of us to follow these new rules so we can keep ourselves and our loved ones safe,\" he said.\n\nThe British Holiday and Home Parks Association said it expected almost all of the 1,322 sites in Wales that offer shared facilities to open.\n\nAnd Philippa George, who chairs the Forum for South East Wales Tourism, estimated 97% would be welcoming visitors.\n\n\"It's been very hard, because all these businesses that have not been open have had no income for the season,\" she said.\n\nThere is less than two months of that left.\n\n\"It pretty well dries up in September, that is one of the quietest months in the season,\" said Ms George.\n\nPhilippa George has reduced numbers at her Monknash campsite and followed Covid-19 social distancing and hygiene advice\n\nThe cost of adding measures to conform to coronavirus regulations was \"quite expensive\", she said.\n\nMs George worried sites would be driven out of business.\n\n\"That is three winters of no income for some people,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been extremely serious and I am hoping the Welsh Government will help.\n\n\"Across tourism we need to look at these businesses otherwise we are going to lose some.\"\n\nMs George, who runs Heritage Coast Camping, in Monknash, Vale of Glamorgan, said: \"I'm only going to be effectively open for August and September, so income is reduced massively.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms George said more people wanted to take holidays in the UK\n\nSince the announcement sites would be allowed to reopen, her phone has been ringing off the hook.\n\n\"It has been ringing from half-seven to half-11 at night,\" Ms George said.\n\n\"The people who ring, I've been discussing with them what we are doing to protect them and their safety.\n\n\"Without exception they have enjoyed that discussion and welcomed it.\"\n\nHeritage Coast Camping is not opening until 31 July as it is not ready yet.\n\n\"With shared facilities it is difficult because you are talking about showers, toilets, washing up rooms,\" Ms George said.\n\nTo maintain social distancing this means no more than two people at a time can use them.\n\nSharon Evans runs Llandow Touring Caravan Park, which also accepts tents and is opening on Saturday.\n\nShe said: \"We have been able to open a fortnight now with the caravans on site, where customers are using their own facilities, which has given us a bit of a trial run.\n\n\"We have screens in reception and hand sanitisers and social distancing and we have spent a great deal of time deep cleaning.\n\n\"The level of interest has been overwhelming.\"\n\nRoger Thomas, of the Three Golden Cups site, said demand was so pent up he expected people \"whatever the weather\"\n\nIt was \"frustrating\" sites were banned from opening in Wales until Saturday, Ms Evans said, adding: \"Our customers have been going to England.\"\n\nSome of her customers have been visiting for years, she said: \"It's been very lonely without them, very quiet.\"\n\nRoger Thomas, who runs the Three Golden Cups campsite a few miles away in Southerndown, said trade was normally weather dependent.\n\n\"If the weather is dreadful people tend not to come,\" he said.\n\n\"But this year the demand is so pent up I expect they will come whatever.\"\n\nThe Camping and Caravanning Club said in Wales sites at Bala, Rhandirmwyn, Cardigan Bay and Wyeside were open.\n\nBut only Wyeside will be open with shared facilities from Saturday.\n\n\"It's great for campsites across Wales to be able to open their shared facilities, such as toilet blocks, as this will mean tent-campers and campervanners can now pitch up alongside caravans and motorhomes, which have self-contained washrooms,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBritish Holiday and Home Parks Association boss Ros Pritchard said: \"We are hoping to see the return of our tent campers on Saturday.\"", "Heated terraces became ubiquitous in France in the 1990s, when smoking bans came into force\n\nFrance's government has announced new environmental measures, including a ban on heated terraces for cafes and bars.\n\nEcology Minister Barbara Pompili said outside heating or air conditioning was an \"ecological aberration\".\n\nThe ban would not come into force until after the winter as restaurants have been hard hit by Covid-19, she added.\n\nAll heated or air-conditioned buildings open to the public will also have to keep their doors closed to avoid wasting energy.\n\nMs Pompili told reporters it was wrong for shops to \"air-condition the streets\" in summer by keeping their doors open just to spare customers from having to open them.\n\n\"Neither should terraces be heated in winter so people can feel warm as they drink coffee,\" she said.\n\nTrade groups say more than 75% of restaurants and cafes in the Paris area have a heated terrace.\n\nA few French cities have already banned them but Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo refused to do so, saying it would be too much of a blow to businesses.\n\nMs Pompili said officials would talk to owners about ways of implementing the measure after the winter.\n\nShe was appointed by new Prime Minister Jean Castex, who has pledged €20m ($23m; £18.2m) for climate-related investment as part of a €100m stimulus plan aimed at helping the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe measures announced by Ms Pompili were proposed by the 150-member Citizens' Convention on Climate, set up by President Emmanuel Macron last year and randomly selected from members of the public.\n\nThey also include the creation of two natural parks and a national nature reserve.\n\nOwners of buildings will be encouraged to improve insulation and banned from installing new coal- or oil-burning furnaces, while limits will be imposed on developments in rural areas.", "The anonymous whistleblower said some factories had stayed open and taken on extra staff during the lockdown\n\nA whistleblower from Leicester's textile industry says some factories almost doubled their staffing to cope with online orders during the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nThe worker, who cannot be identified, said firms that \"maybe used to have 50 people working comfortably, now had 80 or 90 people in the same area\".\n\nInvestigations are ongoing into employment practices at several firms.\n\nA lockdown was enforced in Leicester after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe worker told the BBC some factories had stayed open and taken on extra staff during the lockdown.\n\n\"If somebody did have Covid or wasn't well, they were still there passing it on to whoever's next to them,\" he said.\n\n\"During Covid we've had no social distancing whatsoever in the factories.\n\n\"They [factory bosses] were getting a lot of pressure from customers to produce garments as quickly as possible, in as much volume as possible, because people were shopping from home and they needed the goods to be in.\n\n\"So the pressure was on these suppliers to hire anybody that was walking around and just get somebody on a machine to make a garment.\n\n\"Garments go through, six, seven pairs of hands before they get packed and sealed, so a lot of people are touching the same things.\"\n\nHe said the situation had made already poor conditions worse.\n\n\"Very few factories, if any, have cleaners coming in and out,\" he said.\n\n\"I've seen people eating at their tables, then going straight back to work. There's no kitchens in a lot of these places, there's barely toilets, and it's all logged because it's all about productivity rather than humanity.\"\n\nConcerns about working conditions have prompted investigations by several agencies, including the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, Leicester City Council, the police and fire service, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and immigration enforcement.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday he was \"very worried about the employment practices in some factories\".\n\nThe whistleblower said the falling price paid for products had led to a \"substantial\" decline in pay rates and working conditions over the past 10 years.\n\n\"The way the market is at the minute, it's the person who produces the good cheapest who gets the order,\" he said.\n\nLeicester was put on a local lockdown after Matt Hancock said it accounted for 10% of all positive Covid-19 cases in the country\n\nLukasz Bemka, from the Bakers and Allied Workers Union, said they shared concerns about pay practices and safety at the factories.\n\n\"Some people are not getting their wage slips - just cash in hand,\" he said.\n\n\"There have been issues around providing the appropriate PPE during the pandemic and not carrying out the proper risk assessments.\"\n\nHe said some factories used CCTV cameras to alert factory bosses if the authorities paid a visit.\n\n\"In the case of a police raid or agency visit they can quickly get rid of uncomfortable people from the shop floor.\n\n\"They can even get rid of the whole workforce within minutes before the authorities hit the shop floor.\"\n\nAn HSE spokeswoman said it was investigating 10 textile businesses in Leicester. The whistleblower is not understood to have been referring to any of the businesses under investigation.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"Since the start of the pandemic in March, we've made 80 workplace interventions with more than 45 site visits. Ten investigations are on-going. Enforcement action has been taken against 10 businesses.\n\n\"Following this particular outbreak in Leicester, HSE has engaged with 32 textile businesses and undertaken 30 site visits to assess compliance with health and safety legislation.\n\n\"Enforcement action of some kind is being taken at half of these businesses where non-compliance with health and safety requirements, including COVID-19 risk controls, was found.\"\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.", "Johnny Depp has claimed \"all hell would break loose\" if he failed to follow ex-wife Amber Heard's \"rules\".\n\nThe actor, 57, told London's High Court during a libel hearing Ms Heard, 34, would often force him to give her attention.\n\nMs Heard claimed he once threw a magnum of champagne at her, which he denied.\n\nMr Depp is suing for libel over an article that called him a \"wife beater\" - but the Sun newspaper maintains the story was accurate.\n\nThe April 2018 piece by journalist Dan Wootton was about the casting of Mr Depp in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film franchise.\n\nMr Depp's lawyers say the article made \"defamatory allegations of the utmost seriousness\", by accusing him of committing serious assaults on Ms Heard.\n\nBut the Sun is defending the article as true - and is seeking to prove so at the High Court.\n\nSpeaking about his relationship with Ms Heard, Mr Depp told the court it was \"normal\" for the couple to have dinner in front of the television, and to lie or sit on the couch together.\n\nHe said: \"But on occasion, out of nowhere, if my hand wasn't holding Ms Heard's hand or I didn't have my arm around her or whatever, she would reach over and grab my hand and put it on her thigh, so that I was then feeding the attention that she wanted.\n\n\"It was almost as if there were rules, she has a routine and if that routine isn't met to her standards then there was going to be a problem.\"\n\nDuring the fourth day of proceedings, the High Court was also told:\n\nEarlier in the day, Sasha Wass QC, representing Sun publisher News Group Newspapers, suggested Mr Depp got out of bed to argue with Ms Heard after her 30th birthday party, which the actor denied.\n\nThe barrister said Mr Depp was \"very distressed\" about the news he had received earlier that night about his finances \"and the last thing you wanted to be told was that you were a disappointment to your wife\".\n\nMr Depp replied: \"I believe that's the last thing any husband would want to hear.\"\n\nMs Wass went on to accuse Mr Depp of picking up a magnum bottle of champagne and throwing it at Ms Heard, which missed, with the glass smashing, which he denied.\n\nShe also alleged he grabbed Ms Heard by her hair and pushed her onto the bed adding \"when she tried to leave, you blocked the bedroom door and you tried to grab her hair\".\n\nThe barrister suggested Mr Depp then \"pushed her to the ground\" and \"bumped her chest\" before leaving a birthday message which contained an expletive and exiting the penthouse apartment.\n\nAmber Heard's 30th birthday was held at the iconic Eastern Columbia Building in LA\n\nMs Wass then told the court further details of events which followed, described as the \"defecation incident\".\n\nThe barrister said to Mr Depp that \"it came to your attention the following, that was the day of Amber's actual birthday, that the cleaner had found faeces in the bed\".\n\nShe suggested Mr Depp was later sent photographs of the faeces, which the actor found \"hilarious\" and that \"there were jokes like... 'Amber in the dumps' going on.\"\n\nMr Depp replied: \"It was one of the most absurd, unexpected statements that I have ever witnessed in my life so, yes, initially I did laugh because it was so strange.\"\n\nHe told the court it was \"a mystery\" who defecated in the bed \"and it was not left by a three or four-pound dog\", in reference to the couple's pets, one of which was said to have \"problems with her toilet habits\".\n\n\"I was convinced that it was either Ms Heard herself or one of her cohort involved in leaving human faeces on the bed,\" Mr Depp added.\n\nHe told the court he thought the incident was \"a fitting end to the relationship\".\n\nDetails of Ms Heard's allegations of sexual violence against the Pirates of the Caribbean star were heard in private on Friday and not disclosed to the press or public.\n\nThe court was also told an LAPD officer saw \"no injuries\" on Ms Heard's face after she alleged Mr Depp had thrown her own mobile phone at her.\n\nShe claimed he had come to the penthouse \"drunk and high\", became enraged and then threw the phone \"like someone throwing a baseball\", which hit her in the eye.\n\nBut domestic violence specialist Melissa Saenz said she saw no marks on Ms Heard's face after the alleged incident in May 2016.\n\nMs Heard also claimed Mr Depp had smashed things in the apartment with a wine bottle before leaving but Ms Saenz told the court via videolink from Los Angeles she had found no damage after searching the entire flat.\n\nMs Wass suggested the police \"didn't give the care to this case that you say you did\".\n\nMr Depp and Ms Heard were married for two years until 2017\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\"\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "A recent video of 11-year-old Anthony Mmesoma Madu dancing in the rain went viral with the likes of Hollywood superstar Viola Davis and other celebrities sharing the video.\n\nAnthony is one of the 12 students at the Leap of Dance Academy in Lagos.\n\nThe academy, founded in 2017, is the brainchild of Daniel Ajala Owoseni who has been been teaching ballet for free without a dance space.", "President Trump has commuted his former adviser's prison term, which had been due to begin next week.\n\nRoger Stone was convicted of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, he said he would appeal his conviction and expressed concerns about Covid-19 cases in the prison he had been assigned to.", "A cow that got stranded at the bottom of a steep bank on the Northumberland/Cumbria border has been finally freed.\n\nThe 15-year-old Galloway got stuck at the Crammel Linn waterfall near Gilsland on Monday night.\n\nIt is thought a visitor left a gate open and the cow found its way down from its field to the water's edge.\n\nThe area has been hit by heavy rain for days, and the frightened animal was unable to make its way back up the hill due to the soft ground.\n\nThe fire and rescue service from nearby RAF Spadeadam joined other rescuers in a bid to try and guide the animal to safety, but in the end it had to be sedated and airlifted out by an RAF helicopter.", "The Ministry of Defence has announced a raft of measures to tackle \"unacceptable levels\" of bullying and discrimination in the armed forces.\n\nThese include setting up a 24-hour helpline staffed by counsellors outside the chain of command.\n\nPersonnel will also undergo training to ensure they have the confidence to challenge inappropriate behaviour.\n\nIt comes after Britain's most senior military officer said \"laddish behaviour\" had to be stamped out.\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, the chief of the defence staff, said it was driving out talented female and ethnic minority personnel as he told MPs this week the culture within the armed forces was worrying and said the pace of change was unacceptable.\n\nFigures published by the independent Service Complaints Ombudsman show that women and black, Asian and other ethnic minority ethnic (BAME) personnel are more likely to complain about bullying, harassment and discrimination.\n\nLast year, 23% of complaints about discrimination were made by women even though they make up just 12% of the regular armed forces.\n\nBAME personnel also made a disproportionate number of complaints. They make up 8% of the regular armed forces but lodged 11% of complaints about bullying, harassment and discrimination.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace has already described the record of the armed forces on diversity as woeful. Of the top 150 military officers only three are women.\n\nAnnouncing the new measures Mr Wallace said: \"There is simply no place for bullying or harassment in our armed forces and I am determined to stamp this out.\n\n\"Our anti-bullying helpline is an important next step and I will continue to seek the change in behaviour we need to see across defence.\"\n\nDefence minister Johnny Mercer said the helpline would \"allow personnel to report incidents in a safe and secure environment\" and would ensure that concerns were dealt with quickly and professionally.\n\nThe MoD said it would also conduct a wider review of its anti-bullying measures to ensure progress is being made.\n\nInoke Momonakaya, a Fijian soldier, served with the 2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment from 2005-2012, doing tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. In January 2019 he was awarded £490,000 from the MoD for racial discrimination.\n\nHe told BBC Three's Racism in the Ranks documentary last month that he and fellow Fijian soldiers were ordered to dress as Taliban insurgents for an Army training video, with white soldiers playing friendly forces.\n\nWhite soldiers also wrote his name on a black troll doll, which a senior officer displayed in his office, which he said made him feel \"like a second-class soldier\".\n\nAsked about his reaction to the new measures, such as the 24-hour hotline, Mr Momonakaya, who lives in in the town of Kirkham, in Lancashire, said he was \"happy\" because it showed the MoD is \"taking steps\" against racism and things were going in a \"positive direction\".\n\nHe welcomed the helpline being private and outside the chain of command, but questioned \"what further steps\" would be taken once a person has made a phone call and how the issue might be dealt with afterwards.\n\nHe said that, as well as racism, sexual harassment and bullying also still go on in the Army, and that all soldiers should be educated about these issues so they can be dealt with.\n\nThe new measures are being introduced one year after the publication of a report by the current head of the RAF, Air Chief Marshall Mike Wigston, which found a significant number within the armed forces had experienced bullying, harassment and discrimination, but had felt unwilling or unable to report it.\n\nHe also highlighted a perception among some that the armed forces were led by a \"pack of white middle-aged men\".", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nMPs have warned the system of predicted grades - which is being used in place of GCSE and A-level exams in schools in England this summer - could deny pupils the marks they deserve. The Commons Education Committee says disadvantaged and ethnic minority pupils face particular risks from the possibility of unconscious bias. The regulator, Ofqual, says it is working with exam boards to ensure all students and their families can register complaints, or appeal against results.\n\nLabour wants the government to clarify its position on face coverings after Boris Johnson said a \"stricter\" approach to their use in England was needed. Face coverings became compulsory in shops in Scotland on Friday - and senior sources have said the government is considering a similar move south of the border. They are currently advised in enclosed public spaces, so why aren't more politicians wearing face coverings?\n\nLabour has warned that the economic downturn caused by coronavirus must not \"increase the gap\" in income and wealth between the north and south of England. Deputy leader Angela Rayner urged the government not to leave regions behind and to think of the \"human cost\" of unemployment. The prime minister has previously promised to \"level up\" the country.\n\nRestrictions on holidays are being relaxed in Wales this weekend, with holidaymakers able to stay at cottages, caravans and yurts for the first time since March. Holiday accommodation without shared facilities such as bathrooms are able to reopen from Saturday. In England some restrictions are also being lifted, allowing open air swimming pools and outdoor theatres to reopen.\n\nLockdown has prompted many people to reflect on past relationships that ended badly. A BBC story about a surprise lockdown apology from an ex resulted in many readers getting in touch with stories of their own about contacting an ex - and either apologising or rekindling their old romances. Here is a selection of those stories.\n\nTo take measures to protect yourself. Tap here to find out how.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "I missed an appointment the other day because it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to leave Broadcasting House. My place of work has changed a bit since I last set foot in W1A pre-lockdown. A one-way system has been introduced to allow for social distancing, which is a good idea. That the job was given to a brilliant escape-room game designer is evidence that someone, somewhere has a mischievous sense of humour.\n\nStill, better get used to it.\n\nOne-way is the new way nowadays. Supermarkets, coffee shops, and now arts venues have all gone down the same one-way street.\n\nThe National Gallery in London was the first of the major national museums to reopen to the public on Wednesday, offering a lockdown-easing visitor experience that is markedly different from the pre-pandemic wander-at-will affair.\n\nIt is still free to see its collection of world-class paintings but tickets have to be booked online for a specific day and time. Once in the gallery you are encouraged to wear a face covering, use the hand sanitiser stations, and choose from one of three prescribed one-way routes: A, B or C (you can do them all if you want).\n\nTo help maintain social distancing, the National Gallery has devised a strict one-way system with three routes\n\nEach trail takes around 30 minutes and features hundreds of stunning paintings. All three options are something of a smorgasbord of styles and epochs, but broadly speaking route A focuses on Italian paintings, route B is more Flemish and Dutch, and C is German and British.\n\nThere are way-finding arrows on the floor which double-up as two-metre markers for social distancing. They work well on the whole, but become a little confusing when the B and C routes converge. I was whisked off in the direction of Lucas Cranach the Elder's mean-mouthed masterpieces when I'd set my sights on the swirling Baroque of Peter Paul Rubens.\n\nAdam and Eve, 1526 by Lucas Cranach the Elder is on route C\n\nAurora abducting Cephalus (1636-37) by Rubens is on route B\n\nAs wrong turnings go, that's hardly a disaster. But you can't rectify your mistake.\n\nThe defined routes are like motorways, once you're on one you have to go with the flow until the next exit, which in this case, is the exit.\n\nThat said, there are plenty of visor-wearing gallery assistants to ask for directions. They are very helpful as long as you don't try to swim against the tide; if you do they'll read you the riot act (moon walking won't fool them, I tried).\n\nFair enough. The safety of visitors and staff alike is paramount, and with levels of anxiety running high, the gallery can't afford to have people going off-piste. The digressive pleasures of gallery-going have gone, for the time being at least.\n\nThe new normal is the curated walking tour, which, it turns out, has a lot going for it.\n\nIt is helpful, for instance, if you're not a regular at the National Gallery, which can be overwhelming: which way should you turn, what should you see?\n\nNow, you can't go wrong, each of the three routes serves up room after room of exquisite paintings, contextualised within their period and style. Take your pick: do you fancy a gallery full of Rembrandts or one chock-a-block with Holbein's (my advice, go around twice, see them both).\n\nThe Ambassadors (also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve), 1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger is on route C\n\nRoute A is the shortest and has fewest pictures, and conveniently takes you back to the starting point for all three options, unlike B and C which both finish with the Impressionists and a five-minute hike back to the beginning if you want to try another option. It also features some wonderful pictures including Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks, Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, and Piero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ, which is one of the most exceptional paintings you will ever set eyes upon.\n\nThe Virgin of the Rocks (1491 - 1508) by Leonardo da Vinci is on route A\n\nNot only has it the aforementioned rooms dedicated to Rubens and Rembrandt (including the splendid A Woman bathing in a Stream, and a very late, very moving self-portrait), but also Velázquez's The Toilet of Venus, Seurat's magnificent Bathers at Asnières, and Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus.\n\nA Woman bathing in a Stream (perhaps Hendrickje Stoffels), 1654 by Rembrandt is on route B\n\nBathers at Asnières, 1884 by Georges Seurat is on route B\n\nDoes that mean Route C is the weakest link? Absolutely not.\n\nIt has Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, Constable's The Hay Wain, and Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. And that's just a few of the Britons.\n\nElsewhere, you'll also see Van Gogh's A Wheatfield with Cypresses, Holbein's The Ambassadors, and Bruegel's Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery.\n\nJMW Turner's breathtaking painting The Fighting Temeraire is on route C\n\nA visor-wearing National Gallery assistant looking at Vincent van Gogh's A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, 1889, which is on route C\n\nIt's like a feast of all your favourite dishes, served at once, leaving you with no choice other than to gorge yourself until you can't take any more.\n\nMaybe it is too much, but it's difficult to see what more the National Gallery could do in the current circumstances. It has clearly thought long and hard about how to best display its collection in a manner that will give the greatest access to its greatest pictures, while also giving confidence to the public visiting at a time when Covid-19 still lurks ominously like the black spot of syphilis in Hogarth's famous moralising satire Marriage A-la-Mode (route C).\n\nMarriage A-la-Mode: The Inspection is the third in a series of six satirical works by Hogarth, which shows the terrible consequences of marrying for money rather than love\n\nI was just happy to be back among one of the finest fine art collections in the world, and grateful to all of those who have made it possible. It felt safe enough, and the few small teething problems are insignificant compared to the show that has been put on in such a challenging climate.\n\nWelcome back the National Gallery. And congratulations for finding an intelligent solution to a difficult situation: turning expert curators into art-route planners might be more than a quick fix, it could be the future.", "The victim was stabbed at the lights on the southbound sliproad of the M5 at junction 21 near Weston-super-Mare\n\nA dispute at traffic lights on an M5 motorway sliproad led to a car passenger being stabbed.\n\nThe knifing at the Weston-super-Mare junction happened after a row erupted between the occupants of two vehicles, on Friday\n\nA man was later arrested over the knifing after emergency crews were called at about 22:15 BST.\n\nA 26-year-old man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Avon and Somerset Police said.\n\nThe 42-year-old suspect, from Birmingham, has been arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent and remains in custody.\n\n\"The victim was a passenger in a car which had just exited the M5 at this junction and was at a set of traffic lights,\" Avon and Somerset Police said in a statement.\n\n\"A dispute then ensued with the driver of another car, following which the victim was stabbed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma Pratt's first appointment to register Skye's birth was cancelled due to lockdown\n\n\"It's been a weird feeling to know she technically doesn't exist,\" says Emma Pratt.\n\nHer newborn daughter, Skye, was born the week before lockdown began. She is now almost four months old, but her birth still hasn't been registered.\n\nNormally, babies have to be registered with the local council within 42 days of being born, or 21 days in Scotland. But during the coronavirus lockdown, many councils paused all birth registrations - and are only now starting up again. It means they're faced with backlogs of thousands of babies to register. And for the parents, it can cause practical problems.\n\n\"It's just annoying,\" says Ms Pratt, 35, from Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross. \"It's something that should have been done within weeks of her being born and we are now four months.\n\n\"We can't open a bank account and my auntie had brought her premium bonds and we had to provide her identity, which we haven't been able to do. So that's been all cancelled.\n\n\"People have really kindly sent us cheques and we haven't been able to deposit them. It's really frustrating.\"\n\nMs Pratt finally managed to book an appointment to register the birth, face to face, for next Friday.\n\n\"It's funny because people have been saying she doesn't officially belong, and she doesn't,\" she adds. \"We could even change her name now if we wanted to, and that's crazy.\"\n\nFor new mum Olivia McDermott, 24, registering her son Elijah's birth meant the difference between continuing with her training to become a nurse.\n\nMs McDermott would have had to drop out of her nurse training course if her baby wasn't registered\n\nWithout a birth certificate, she could not apply for a childcare grant, and without the grant she said she would not be able to continue her course.\n\n\"Goodbye, dream job,\" says Ms McDermott, from Leeds. \"I'm meant to be going into my final year of training to be a nurse. I was just like, I won't be able to come in.\n\n\"There's a massive shortage of nurses, and the birth certificate is stopping me.\"\n\nShe and her partner checked the council website every morning to see when registrations would resume. She eventually got an appointment and registered her son on Wednesday. \"Now I'm able to register him I'm feeling a lot better,\" she says.\n\nMs McDermott adds that it has been \"really hard\" having your first baby in lockdown. \"Normally, you have an idea in your head of what it will be like when you first have a baby, with all your friends and your family. But there wasn't any of that. Luckily I have a partner.\"\n\nDespite the added hassle, Ms McDermott says she is now optimistic about the future.\n\n\"Although it caused me anxiety about the funding and not having his birth certificate, I'm just happy that they have managed to open safely as that is so important for this time that we are in.\"\n\nMs McDermott said she wouldn't have enough money to live on without the childcare grant\n\nOne of the most common problems with the delay has been getting passports. Parents whose families live abroad are desperate to get a passport so they can introduce their babies.\n\nAgi, who did not want her second name used, wants to take her newborn son to Poland to meet her parents and elderly grandmother.\n\n\"It didn't occur to me, I almost booked flights for August,\" says Agi, who lives in south-east London.\n\nBecause her son was born two weeks ago, he will be \"at the back of the queue\" compared to the babies born at the beginning of lockdown, she adds. Many councils have resumed registrations but are prioritising babies by the dates they were born. Her council is currently only registering babies born before the end of March.\n\n\"This is the most frustrating aspect, the lack of communication and not knowing how big the delay I'm looking at,\" she says.\n\n\"Are we looking at weeks, a month, six months? I have an elderly grandmother who would ideally like to see her great grandson.\n\n\"There's talk of swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms opening but you can't register the birth of your child.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils, has urged the government to allow birth registrations to be done over the phone, to help clear the backlog.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"With birth registrations having to be suspended for three months due to the pandemic, councils are experiencing a considerable backlog in registrations. Now that registrations have resumed, councils are offering appointments in some registration offices where they have been able to put in place safety measures to protect families as they work through this backlog, and are planning to open further offices soon.\n\n\"The registrations have to be done face to face, which is why we are urging government to consider allowing them to be done over the phone or online in the future, and as part of any further local or national lockdowns in response to the pandemic.\n\n\"Greater flexibility in the birth registration process would help councils reduce delays and families enjoy a smoother experience.\"\n\nThe government has warned parents they still may not be able to register a birth at the moment because of the virus, but \"you'll be able to register at a later date\". Despite this, councils say parents can still apply for child benefit and Universal Credit.\n\nAnd as lockdown is eased further, parents of newborn babies can begin introducing them to the wider world and their social circles. But for some parents, they will just have to wait a little longer before their baby becomes \"official\".", "The Twelfth of July is not \"cancelled\" and should be celebrated at home, according to Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster.\n\nAlthough some individual bands are planning to hold parades, large demonstrations have been called off in 2020 because of the risk of Covid-19.\n\nMrs Foster acknowledged it would be a \"difficult\" year for many as a result.\n\nShe was speaking on the Orange Order's Radio Boyne station on Saturday evening.\n\nEach year, the organisation marks the anniversary of the victory of Protestant William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690.\n\nAlthough it has cancelled its summer parades along with the Royal Black Preceptory and Apprentice Boys of Derry, the Parades Commission has been notified of more than 250 parades from individual bands over the 11 to 13 July period.\n\nParades are usually held on 12 July but due to the Twelfth falling on a Sunday this year, it is being celebrated on Monday 13 July.\n\nThe latest Covid-19 guidance from the NI Executive allows for up to 30 people to meet outdoors while social distancing.\n\nThe commission said it considered it necessary to impose restrictions on three parades based upon \"pre-existing parading tensions in those specific locations\".\n\nIt added there had been a \"high level of positive engagement with the vast majority of organisers\".\n\nTwelfth of July parades take place every year in Northern Ireland to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne\n\nMrs Foster said she was particularly missing celebrating the day with her sister and brother-in-law who live in England.\n\n\"We know it's all very difficult, but thanks to Grand Orange Lodge there's a good way to celebrate at home this year,\" she told Radio Boyne.\n\nReferring to the risks from coronavirus, the first minister said \"it's very much under control at present\".\n\n\"We don't want that to build up again when it could be a big challenge for us,\" she added.\n\n\"We're trying to protect the community, protect our older members.\"\n\nSupporting the Orange Order's '12th at home' campaign, Mrs Foster encouraged people to \"make memories with your children\" and said \"2020 will be a year we won't forget\".\n\n\"It's important we still celebrate the Twelfth and still celebrate our culture,\" she continued.", "Men wearing life vests get ready with their paddle boards as the Bala Adventure and Watersports Centre in Bala, Gwynedd\n\nThe first minister has said Wales is \"absolutely safe\" to visit again after he defended not opening tourism sooner.\n\nFrom Saturday some holiday homes have reopened for the first time since lockdown began.\n\nBut with pubs still unable to open, the Welsh Conservatives have accused the Welsh Government of putting jobs at risk.\n\nMark Drakeford, on a visit to the Vale of Glamorgan, said a \"step by step\" approach was right to lifting lockdown.\n\nIn England, all hotels, B&Bs and campsites have been allowed to reopen since 4 July, with cleaning of shared spaces.\n\nIn Wales, only self contained accommodation, with no shared facilities, such as kitchens and bathrooms, are currently able to open.\n\nFrom Monday, Welsh pubs and restaurants with outdoor spaces, will be able to welcome back customers outdoors for the first time.\n\nBut many businesses have said they will not be opening, saying it will not be viable due to the two-metre (6ft) social distancing rule, which remains in place in Wales.\n\nMark Drakeford visited The Hide in St Donats, in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nShoppers were out in Cardiff as restrictions ease a little further in Wales\n\nMr Drakeford said easing restrictions had to be done \"step by step\" and he thought there would be a \"gradual build-up\" of people wanting to holiday in Wales and go to pubs, restaurants and cafes.\n\nDuring a visit to The Hide in St Donats, Mr Drakeford said the crisis \"has had a profound impact on the visitor economy\" and a phased approach to reopening tourism would give businesses, staff visitors and communities the confidence for a successful reopening.\n\n\"My message to people thinking of making a visit inside Wales or to Wales, is that Wales is open, the tourism industry is beginning again,\" he said.\n\nWalkers enjoy the fine day and the lockdown restrictions being eased with a stroll in the Brecon Beacons\n\nCars parked near the foot of Pen y Fan as people make the most of the lockdown restriction easing\n\n\"The virus hasn't gone away, we still need to do all the things we know. A social distance, hand washing, all those careful things.\n\n\"But the virus in Wales is now at a very low ebb of circulation. It's absolutely safe to be here, but you can play your part as well.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he was \"looking forward\" to going on holiday to Pembrokeshire when he had a chance, and people could help keep others safe by avoiding crowded areas.\n\nSocial distancing in operation on Llandudno pier on Saturday\n\nThe first weekend of the restrictions being eased and people enjoyed a paddle in Porthcawl\n\nBut with many hotels in Wales still closed due to restrictions, Welsh Conservative MP David Jones accused the Welsh Government of being behind the UK government in making decisions.\n\nThe Clwyd West MP wrote on twitter: \"Sadly the tourist season in Wales didn't begin four weeks after England\".\n\nMember of the Senedd, Janet Finch-Saunders, said it was not right that pubs and restaurants in Wales had to wait until 3 August before they could allow customers back inside.\n\nMrs Finch-Saunders said with many not having outdoor spaces, or enough room for customers, the first minister's \"uneven\" proposals would have a \"disastrous impact\" on Welsh jobs.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Drakeford said the \"balance is shifting\" on evidence for the use of face masks.\n\nThe car park at Pen y Pass as Snowdonia National Park is reopened for its first weekend since restrictions were eased\n\nWalkers returned to parts of Snowdonia National Park on Saturday\n\nBut he doesn't yet believe it is \"sensible\" to make use of them mandatory in certain situations.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Drakeford said the view of the Wales's chief medical officer was still that face coverings should be recommended but not required.\n\n\"When the weight of evidence changes, if it does, then we will change our policy.\"\n\nIn Wales, face coverings are recommended in situations where people cannot socially distance, like on public transport.\n\nBut their use is not mandatory - and both the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru are calling for face coverings to be compulsory on public transport and in shops, as is the case in Scotland.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid health spokesman said \"every possible measure to help us leave lockdown safely should be adopted and we have consistently called for the use of face masks in public spaces where social distancing is difficult\".", "An inquiry into whether Home Secretary Priti Patel bullied staff must be published \"immediately\", the Labour Party has said.\n\nA Cabinet Office investigation into several allegations about Ms Patel's behaviour was launched in March.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove on Saturday, saying that the delay in publishing the findings was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the process was \"ongoing\" and it would respond to the letter \"in due course\".\n\nThe MP for Witham faces accusations she mistreated staff in her current role as home secretary.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson - who has said he is \"sticking by\" Ms Patel - asked the Cabinet Office to establish the facts following the claims levelled against her.\n\nThe report is understood to have been completed.\n\nIn the letter to Mr Gove, Mr Thomas-Symonds and shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said the delay \"creates the clear sense that the government is acting in the interests of a Conservative Party elite, rather than the national interest\".\n\nThey added: \"We have been asking frontline public servants to make extraordinary sacrifices throughout this pandemic and it is only right that they have full faith in those in government who make demands of them.\n\n\"This report must now be published immediately for it to be properly considered before recess begins, and we look forward to your confirmation of this.\"\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs earlier this year that he was \"sticking by\" Priti Patel\n\nThe investigation was launched by Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill - who has since announced his resignation following reports of tensions between him and senior members of the PM's team in Downing Street.\n\nSenior Cabinet Office official Helen McNamara and senior civil servant Alexander Allan are compiling the report.\n\nThe letter follows a report in The Times of a \"stand-off\" between senior officials and political aides over the publication of the report.\n\nThe paper said Ms MacNamara was refusing to exonerate Ms Patel from some of the allegations of bullying, despite the PM's aides supposedly wanting the inquiry to find there was no conclusive evidence of bullying.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds said in the letter: \"It has been over four months since the government promised a report into whether the home secretary broke the Ministerial Code.\n\n\"There are now allegations of deeply inappropriate political interference in the publication of the report, both in terms of content and timing. The delay in producing it is totally unacceptable.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: \"The prime minister asked the Cabinet Office to establish the facts of the case, in line with the Ministerial Code.\n\n\"That process is ongoing and we will respond to the letter in due course.\"\n\nIn February, Sir Philip Rutnam resigned as the Home Office's permanent secretary, saying there had been a \"vicious and orchestrated\" campaign against him in the department. The inquiry is separate to the employment tribunal claim lodged by Sir Philip.\n\nMs Patel's allies said the home secretary was a \"demanding\" boss but not a bully.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJack Charlton, a World Cup winner with England and former Republic of Ireland boss, has died aged 85.\n\nThe former Leeds defender had been diagnosed with lymphoma in the last year and also had dementia.\n\nOne of English football's most popular characters, he was in the team that won the World Cup at Wembley in 1966, alongside his brother Bobby.\n\nHe made a record number of appearances for Leeds and achieved unprecedented success with the Republic of Ireland.\n• None 'He changed our lives' - former players pay tribute\n• None Football Daily: 'He was a natural leader' - a tribute to Jack Charlton\n\nA family statement read: \"Jack died peacefully on Friday, July 10 at the age of 85. He was at home in Northumberland, with his family by his side.\n\n\"As well as a friend to many, he was a much-adored husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.\n\n\"We cannot express how proud we are of the extraordinary life he led and the pleasure he brought to so many people in different countries and from all walks of life.\n\n\"He was a thoroughly honest, kind, funny and genuine man who always had time for people.\n\n\"His loss will leave a huge hole in all our lives but we are thankful for a lifetime of happy memories.\"\n\nThe England football team tweeted to say they were \"devastated\" by the news, while he was hailed as a man who \"changed Irish football forever\" by the Football Association of Ireland.\n\n\"He was a great and lovable character and he will be greatly missed. The world of football and the world beyond football has lost one of the greats. RIP old friend,\" said England's 1966 World Cup final hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst.\n\nCharlton had spells in charge of Sheffield Wednesday, Middlesbrough and Newcastle.\n\nHe led the Republic of Ireland to their first major finals at Euro '88 and the World Cup quarter-finals at Italia 90.\n\nLeeds United, where he spent his entire 21-year playing career and made a joint club record 773 appearances before retiring as a player in 1973, said they were \"deeply saddened\".\n\nCharlton, part of the Leeds side that won the 1969 league title and the 1972 FA Cup, is the third club legend and former England international to die this year after Norman Hunter and Trevor Cherry.\n\nDespite not being called into the England team until days before his 30th birthday, Charlton won 35 caps and, playing alongside younger brother Bobby, lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy at Wembley in 1966.\n\nHe also helped England finish third at the 1968 European Championship, and was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year in 1967.\n\n\"Saddened to hear that Jack Charlton has passed away,\" wrote former England striker Gary Lineker on Twitter.\n\n\"World Cup winner with England, manager of probably the best ever Ireland side and a wonderfully infectious personality to boot. RIP Jack.\"\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland forward John Aldridge said: \"Absolutely gutted that big Jack has passed away.\n\n\"What a football man, loved and adored, especially in Ireland. The best manager I was lucky to play for.\n\n\"The times we had on and off the pitch were priceless. My thoughts are with Pat and the family. RIP my good friend. Never forgotten.\"\n\nHe is survived by wife Pat, whom he married in 1958, and their three children, John, Deborah and Peter.\n\nCharlton's granddaughter, journalist Emma Wilkinson, tweeted: \"Beyond sad to have to say goodbye to my beloved Grandad, Jack Charlton.\n\n\"He enriched so many lives through football, friendship and family. He was a kind, funny and thoroughly genuine man and our family will miss him enormously.\"\n\nIrish president Michael D Higgins said: \"He leaves a legacy of outstanding leadership of a group of players of many diverse talents, which he moulded into the successful team that captured the imagination of the nation.\"", "Shops and shopping centres all require face coverings under the new rules Image caption: Shops and shopping centres all require face coverings under the new rules\n\nBelgium has taken a notable and noticeable step in its Covid-19 public health campaign, by making the wearing of face masks mandatory in public places. It applies to shops, cafes, bars and restaurants, museums, theatres, libraries and places of worship.\n\nBefore now, it was advisory, but not mandatory, except for hospitals and clinics, hairdressers and public transport.\n\nAnyone visiting the cinema will also now have to wear a face covering Image caption: Anyone visiting the cinema will also now have to wear a face covering\n\nBelgian virologist and government adviser Mark Van Ranst says the move was made after it became clear that advising people to wear them wasn’t enough.\n\n“Face masks reduce droplets and can reduce the viral transmission in poorly ventilated areas. it took a while to convince people, but now the time has come,” he told reporters.\n\nFailure to wear a mask can now result in prosecution. Shops and businesses that fail to enforce the rule can be closed down as well. That’s led to some criticism from labour unions, who argue that responsibility should lie with the customer.", "Ruaridh and Caroline MacDonald run agency The Cottage Co and have been preparing their own Romany caravan for guests\n\nHolidaymakers are due to arrive at cottages, caravans and yurts in Wales for the first time since March.\n\nHoliday accommodation without shared facilities such as bathrooms are able to reopen from Saturday.\n\nSome in the industry say there is light at the end of the tunnel after a \"rollercoaster\" lockdown rescheduling bookings and issuing refunds.\n\nNow the focus has moved to following guidance for reopening, writing risk assessments and deep cleaning.\n\nSher from Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, booked a cottage near Llangrannog, Ceredigion, as soon as the first minister announced the easing of restrictions.\n\nShe and her husband Dameon are heading there on Monday.\n\nShe said: \"It's my 50th birthday and we were planning to go to Greece so having somewhere to see the sea and countryside after being within five miles for so long is very important.\"\n\nShe said she was not concerned about safety: \"Where we're going is very isolated, but having said that I wouldn't be concerned if it was somewhere more populated, as long as there's proper measures in place.\"\n\nShe said she had not spoken to the owners about what changes they had put in place, adding: \"I've been there four or five times before and it's always been spotless.\"\n\nRuaridh and Caroline MacDonald run self-catering accommodation agency The Cottage Co from their home in Monmouthshire and also have their own Romany caravan which has its first guests arriving on Saturday.\n\nThe MacDonalds' Romany caravan has been deep cleaned in preparation to welcome guests on Saturday\n\nMr MacDonald described lockdown as \"both a challenge and an opportunity\".\n\n\"We realised it was vital to keep in touch with guests and owners and in a funny way it's made the company stronger and strengthened our connection with guests,\" he said.\n\n\"Its been a rollercoaster in terms of moving hundreds of bookings and giving refunds... we've been talking to hundreds and hundreds of guests.\"\n\nHe said a surge in inquires meant they had nothing available for the whole of the summer.\n\n\"There's been significant financial impact but if things are okay from now on that would be a wonderful result,\" he said.\n\nTy Glyn in Criccieth, Gwynedd, is one of many coastal properties preparing to reopen\n\nHe said they had spent time speaking to accommodation owners about their preparation to minimise risk to guests: \"They are very keen to get going and have been deep cleaning, coming up with new risk assessments and simplified what is in the cottage so it is easier to clean.\"\n\nHe said preparing their Romany caravan had not been too difficult: \"Dare I say it but with outdoor glamping social distancing is relatively easy.\n\n\"The caravan is very much on its own so they won't meet anyone else... it's a low-ish risk.\n\n\"It's very exciting to be reopening... and guests are certainly incredibly keen to come.\"\n\nHide Wales' cabins, shepherd's hut and lodge in St Donats, Vale of Glamorgan, are reopening on Monday.\n\nIts owner Paula Louise Warren said of the past three months: \"It's been bonkers.\n\n\"You have to arrange so many things, all our bedding, all our beautiful woollen blankets have all been put in storage and instead we're using cotton as everything needs to be boiled.\"\n\nThe shepherd's hut at Hide Wales will be reopening on Monday\n\nShe said getting ready to reopen had been a \"real journey\" but advice from Visit Wales and Business Wales had been invaluable.\n\n\"We weren't expecting to be able to open until Christmas so we are grateful. It's about being safe,\" she said.\n\nGreg Stevenson is the owner and director of Under the Thatch.\n\nHide Wales says preparing to reopen has been a \"real journey\"\n\nThe agency has 82 holiday properties on its books with about 60 in Wales, seven of which he owns.\n\nHe said his company actually increased its staff's hours through lockdown: \"Right from the start we were corresponding with customers,\" he said.\n\n\"We've seen our advanced sales for the rest of the year are higher than ever before... I'm so pleased thanks to our customers.\"\n\nMenai Holiday Cottages has been taking bookings for cottages such as Belan Fawr on Rhosneigr, Anglesey\n\nHe said he was \"delighted\" to be welcoming guests again: \"We've been waiting for it for a long time.\n\n\"We were very frustrated that the other countries of the UK and Europe had dates [for reopening] and we didn't... we got the date so late which caused huge administration problems and a huge amount of work in the office.\"\n\nGlamping accommodation such as Cwt Alpaca in Llanidloes, Powys, can reopen from Saturday\n\nHe said he was pointing owners to Welsh Government guidance for the sector but it had come in \"too late\" which was a \"niggle\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said the first minister asked owners to begin preparing to reopen three weeks ago and guidance was published on 29 June.\n\nShe said the reopening date was moved forward by two days to enable Saturday to Saturday bookings following calls from the industry.\n\nMr Stevenson said he did not think customers had too many safety concerns: \"We've had very few queries... if I'm reading it correctly the customers are not too paranoid about this issue.\"\n\nHoliday cottages, such as Bwthyn Tresinwen in Pembrokeshire, have been preparing to welcome guests\n\nWhen asked if locals would welcome back tourists, he said: \"I think a lot of people are very cautious at the moment but if you ask them one week after the 11th then they'll be fine.... give it a couple of weeks and people will be more relaxed.\"\n\nMenai Holiday Cottages has 490 properties on its books in Snowdonia, Anglesey, and the Llyn Peninsula in Gwynedd.\n\nIts managing director Jack Matthews said: \"There's finally light at the end of the tunnel.\n\n\"There's a huge amount of excitement. Bookings have climbed back very quickly.\"\n\nCabins with their own bathrooms, such as Caban Llys y Frân in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, can reopen\n\nHe would have liked the reopening date to be 10 July to allow Friday to Friday bookings - about 60% of its cottages are Friday changeover - and to have been consulted by the Welsh Government.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said it had been speaking to the industry through the four regional tourism forums, sector representative bodies including Wales Tourism Alliance, individual businesses and holding a weekly meeting of the tourism taskforce group.\n\nMr Matthews believes communities are ready for the change.\n\n\"Locals are ready for tourists to come back at a distance,\" he said.\n\n\"A minority may have strong views but it's about getting the balance right, I'm sure tourists will be respectful.\"", "The coronavirus crisis could spark a \"personal debt time bomb\", according to Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS).\n\nIt has said the number of people unable to manage their debts may climb as the furlough scheme is reduced and job losses increase.\n\nA survey for the service shows 27% of respondents were worried about making repayments during the pandemic.\n\nCitizens Advice warned the situation could be causing financial hardship and is pushing more people into poverty.\n\nIt said support schemes during the lockdown have been welcome, but managing the situation as these begin to lift would \"require thoughtful and significant intervention\".\n\nCAS financial health spokesman Myles Fitt said: \"The issue is most often a result of insecure or low incomes which are simply not able to keep pace with the cost of living.\n\n\"While concerns about unemployment have understandably replaced it for the time being, the issue of personal debt will become a real challenge in the coming months and years.\n\n\"An income shock from a job loss or reduced pay, combined with the cost of arrears such as council tax, housing or energy bills built up due to Covid-19 payment holidays, will put individual and household finances under extreme pressure.\n\n\"Our fear is that many households will fall into unmanageable debt, causing financial hardship and pushing more people into poverty, or exacerbate existing poverty.\"\n\nThe company which conducted the poll also warned people who are are already struggling financially could be hardest hit.\n\nSpokesman Mark Diffley said: \"Overall, a quarter of Scots remain concerned about paying utility bills and paying their rent (24% and 26% respectively), while 20% are concerned about paying for food and essentials and 35% about their income.\n\n\"Of additional concern is the finding that, once again, it is apparent that the highest levels of concern are recorded from those in the poorest socio-economic groups who are least likely be able to bear the financial burdens which they are facing as a result of the virus.\"", "Bachchan has been a star for five decades\n\nAmitabh Bachchan, one of India's best known film actors, has tested positive for Covid-19, he told his millions of Twitter followers.\n\n\"I have tested Covid positive, shifted to hospital, hospital informing authorities, family and staff undergone tests, results awaited,\" he wrote.\n\nHis son Abhishek, daughter-in-law Aishwarya and granddaughter Aaradhya have also tested positive.\n\nBachchan, 77, has been involved in 200 films in five decades as a star.\n\nHe and Abhishek, 44, were taken to Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday, and his son described them both as having mild symptoms.\n\nAmitabh is currently in the isolation unit of the hospital, news agency ANI reported, quoting a public relations officer for the hospital. He urged anyone who had been close to him in the past 10 days to get tested.\n\nOther members of the Bachchan family have returned negative coronavirus antigen test reports, local media reported.\n\nMumbai municipal officials have since put up banners outside the actor's house in the city, classifying it as a \"containment zone\".\n\nThe news has led to an outpouring of support for the pair on social media. Among those paying their respects were actress Sonam K Ahuja and former India cricket player Irfan Pathan.\n\n\"Dear Amitabh ji, I join the whole Nation in wishing you a quick recovery! After all, you are the idol of millions in this country, an iconic superstar! We will all take good care of you. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!\" said India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.\n\nBachchan has won multiple awards since rising to prominence in the 1970s\n\nBachchan Snr has enjoyed starring roles in hit movies such as Zanjeer and Sholay. Since rising to fame in the 1970s, he has won numerous accolades including four National Film Awards and 15 Filmfare Awards. France has also bestowed its highest civilian award, the Legion of Honour, for his contribution to cinema.\n\nOutside acting, Bachchan Snr had a brief stint in politics and was elected as a member of India's parliament in 1984 at the behest of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. But he resigned three years later, disillusioned by a corruption scandal under Mr Gandhi's government.\n\nHe was also a businessman, setting up the Amitabh Bachchan Corporation in 1995 for event management and the production of films. After the venture failed, he went on to host TV game show Kaun Banega Crorepati - based on the UK game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - and has starred in more movies since. His latest film was the comedy Gulabo Sitabo, released on Amazon.\n\nIn recent months, he has been prominent in helping the government get its message across in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nIndia has seen a sharp rise in the number of coronavirus cases, with the total climbing to nearly 821,000 on Saturday - the third highest caseload in the world. There have been complaints about a lack of both testing and frontline medical staff.\n• None Why Amitabh Bachchan is more than a superstar", "The Jubilee Pool in Penzance is hoping to reopen at the end of July\n\nOperators of outdoor swimming pools have criticised the timing of the government announcement allowing them to reopen.\n\nSome have decided not to open, claiming a lack of preparation time has made a shorter summer season \"unviable\".\n\nMany are run by community groups or charities and have mounted fundraising efforts in order to survive.\n\nThe government said \"comprehensive guidance\" was available to leisure operators.\n\nAs part of the easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions, swimmers can visit outdoor pools from Saturday, while indoor gyms, pools and sports facilities can reopen from 25 July.\n\nPool operators have said the announcement came too late to allow them to go through the process of cleaning and filling pools and meeting both water-quality and coronavirus safety standards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bathers returned to outdoor swimming, as coronavirus restrictions were eased\n\nThere are more than 100 outdoor public swimming baths around the country - many restored and run by community groups.\n\nThe volunteer-run Hilsea Lido in Hampshire said on Facebook, \"with a heavy heart\", it would not reopen until 2021.\n\n\"With no clear indication of when we would be allowed to open, we were not able to prepare the pool in advance.\n\n\"Hilsea Lido is a massive pool and the preparation costs reflect this,\" it said.\n\nShap Lido in Cumbria - England's \"highest heated pool\" - said it would \"not be financially viable\" to open for a six-week summer period, as did Portishead's community lido in Somerset.\n\nThe lido in Petersfield, Hampshire, takes two weeks to fill and two weeks to heat up\n\nPeterborough's lido is among those not reopening this weekend\n\nIn Berkshire Covid-19 restrictions meant contractors were not been able to complete repair work on Northcroft Lido, which will remain closed as a result.\n\nPeterborough's 1930s art deco lido will also not reopen this weekend after its operator was forced to hand back its council contract due to financial difficulties during the crisis.\n\nAmong those planning to open is Lymington Sea Water Baths in Hampshire which dates back to the early 19th Century.\n\nManager Hugo Ambrose said: \"It's certainly not going to be a good, viable year but I do think there's a community we need to work with.\"\n\nCornwall's coastal art deco Jubilee Pool in Penzance is hoping to reopen at the end of July.\n\nOperations officer Nicola Murdoch said reopening \"isn't possible at 48 hours notice\" and would require a deep clean, staff training and social distancing measures.\n\n\"It's fantastic to have the green light, but a little more notice like indoor leisure centres would have been helpful,\" she added.\n\nThe covers remain on Droitwich Lido which plans to reopen for six weeks this summer\n\nDroitwich Lido plans to open in August thanks to a £55,000 grant from Wychavon Council.\n\nManager Tim Kirkham said: \"We're in winter mode - we've got a lot of work and power washing to do but I'm sure we can do it. People have been so supportive.\"\n\nHowever its usual capacity of 550 swimmers will be reduced to about 100.\n\nIn London, the 1930s Parliament Hill Lido has introduced online booking for hour-long socially distanced sessions for an \"adjustment to a new way of swimming\".\n\nThe Department of Media, Culture and Sport said: \"We recognise the importance of reopening our indoor and outdoor pools as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy.\n\n\"We have published comprehensive guidance to enable the reopening of outdoor pools and outdoor water parks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man could have lived as much as 2,500 years ago and may have been murdered or executed. The clay soil helped preserve his skeleton\n\nAn Iron Age skeleton with his hands bound has been discovered by HS2 project archaeologists, who believe he may be a murder victim.\n\nThe remains of the 2,000-year-old adult male were found face down at Wellwick Farm near Wendover in Buckinghamshire.\n\nProject archaeologist Dr Rachel Wood described the death as \"a mystery\" and hopes further analysis will shed light on the \"potentially gruesome\" find.\n\nA Stonehenge-style wooden formation and Roman burial have also been discovered.\n\nThey are among a number of finds ranging from the Neolithic Age to the Medieval period unearthed ahead of construction work for the 225mph (362 km/h) rail line.\n\nThe archaeologists also found an Iron Age funerary monument, which would have been used only by \"high status people\"\n\nThis Iron Age gold coin called a stater dating from about about 100BC was found in a ditch near the funerary monument\n\nDr Wood, who works for Fusion JV, said: \"Discovering a site showing human activity spanning 4,000 years came as a bit of a surprise to us.\"\n\nA large Neolithic circular monument of wooden posts 65m (213 ft) in diameter and aligned with the winter solstice, \"similar to Stonehenge\", was uncovered.\n\nThe site also has evidence of domestic occupation during the Bronze to Iron Ages (3000BC to AD43), including a roundhouse and animal pits.\n\nThe Roman burial was found in a square enclosure. The skeleton was in a coffin lined with lead and probably had a wooden outer layer\n\nThe Neolithic wooden circle, dating to between 4,000 to 5,000 years old, is seen as further evidence of the site's ritual importance over thousands of years\n\nDuring the Roman era it was used for burials and a \"high status\" skeleton buried in an \"expensive\" lead coffin was unearthed.\n\nDr Wood said the fascinating thing about the site was its \"persistent use over centuries for the burial of specific, high status people\".\n\nThe only exception was the Iron Age skeleton.\n\nDr Wood said: \"The death of the Wellwick Farm man remains a mystery to us, but there aren't many ways you end up in a bottom of a ditch, face down, with your hands bound.\n\n\"We hope our osteologists will be able to shed more light on this potentially gruesome death.\"\n\nJewellery including brooches and this ring were discovered. Experts believe it could date to the Iron Age\n\nThe HS2 high-speed rail link will connect London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.\n\nIt is the biggest infrastructure project in Europe, but has been delayed and faced concerns over the exact route and spiralling costs.\n\nIts official price tag in 2015 was £56bn but the latest figure was reported to be rising to £106bn.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a London teenager found dead while on holiday in Malaysia is scheduled to begin next month.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August last year.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nIn January her Irish-French parents, Meabh and Sebastian, expressed shock at the case being closed and called for an inquest.\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra, say they do not believe she would have wandered off alone\n\nThe inquest is set to begin on 24 August, a family statement said, and is expected to last for two weeks.\n\nThe statement said: \"We have fought very hard to keep Nora's case alive, after it was initially closed by the police in early 2020, and it has been our wish all along to have an inquest.\n\n\"This will be crucial in determining the fullest possible picture of what happened to Nora and how her case was dealt with.\"\n\nMuch of the proceedings are expected to take place using video conferencing software.\n\nIn January, her parents said they were \"shocked\" by a decision by the Malaysian Attorney General's Chambers to close the case, \"not least because it is based on a preliminary report from the coroner's office\".\n\n\"As a vulnerable child, with significant physical and mental challenges, we strongly refute any conclusion that Nóra was alone for the entire duration of her disappearance,\" her parents previously said.\n\nNora, her parents and her younger brother and sister arrived at the resort in a nature reserve near Seremban, about 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, on 3 August for a two-week stay.\n\nThe head teacher at Nora's school in Wandsworth, south-west London, paid tribute to her as \"a delight to work with\".", "Campaigners released red dye into the fountains in protest against animal farming, police say\n\nTwo people have been held on suspicion of criminal damage after red dye was released into London's Trafalgar Square fountains, police said.\n\nThe stunt was in protest against animal farming with campaigners claiming the government had \"blood on [its] hands\".\n\nIt was carried out by campaign group Animal Rebellion on Saturday afternoon.\n\nDemonstrators, some of whom stood up to their knees in the red water, alleged that the Covid-19 pandemic was caused by animal exploitation.\n\nA tweet by the Met said: \"Two people have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage following an incident at the fountains in Trafalgar Square earlier 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\nWhile some activists poured blood-red dye into the fountains' waters, others held placards and staged a socially-distanced protest in Trafalgar Square.\n\nStephanie Zupan, a representative of Animal Rebellion, said: \"The government must now begin a transition towards a plant-based food system, or risk future zoonotic pandemics of catastrophic proportions.\"\n\nDemonstrators alleged that the Covid-19 pandemic was caused by animal exploitation\n\nAnimal Rebellion said the action was coordinated with protests in 20 cities, including Bristol, Brighton and New York.\n\nKieran Blyth, another representative for the group, said: \"These unsatisfactory and dangerous measures will only increase the risk of future pandemics.\n\n\"The government are playing with the potential of tens of thousands more deaths.\"", "Belgium has singled Leicester out for stricter restrictions after the city was placed in a local lockdown\n\nLeicester has joined a handful of European cities to be placed on the Belgian government's \"red-zone\" list.\n\nIt means anyone arriving in the country who has recently visited Leicester will be told to place themselves in a two-week mandatory quarantine.\n\nIt is the only UK city to be included in Belgium's list. The other cities are in Portugal or Spain.\n\nLeicester was the site of England's first local lockdown on 29 June following a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nSir Peter Soulsby, mayor of Leicester, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier there was \"no clear understanding of what will constitute the threshold that needs to be achieved before we can be released from [the local lockdown]\".\n\nHe spoke out after the government announced the number of coronavirus cases in Leicester was going down.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the seven-day infection rate had dropped from 135 to 117 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nBut when he was pressed on what level they had to reach to leave the lockdown, Mr Hancock would not commit to a specific number.\n\nSigns are due to be erected around Brussels Airport telling arriving passengers to inform the authorities if they have been in Leicester during the lockdown.\n\nThe Belgian government has also told its own citizens to avoid travelling to the city if possible.\n\nSir Peter was speaking to the Radio 4 Today programme\n\nSir Peter has previously said the government should have shared its data sooner with Leicester City Council about where the cases were in order for the local authority to target affected areas and communities.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it prioritised giving detailed local data to public health bodies but was now sharing it with councils.\n\nThe DHSC spokesman added: \"We continue to work closely with local authorities in Leicester to further curb the spread of the virus, so that these necessary restrictions can be removed as soon as possible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The protest was in the wake of a video showing a man being restrained by police in Brighton\n\nThousands of protesters have marched through Brighton in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nDemonstrators held placards and shouted \"black lives matter every day\" and \"UK is not innocent\".\n\nIt follows an outcry over a video showing a man shouting \"I can't breathe\" while being restrained on the ground by three Sussex Police officers.\n\nIn another BLM protest, attended by hundreds in Hull, the police custody death of a man was remembered.\n\nBrighton protesters were serenaded by a string quartet as they passed the city's war memorial.\n\nThe Sussex force said the man was arrested and became aggressive towards officers before being placed on the ground.\n\nThe incident has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nMany of the demonstrators wore face coverings as they marched through Brighton\n\nLast month, more than 10,000 protesters marched through the East Sussex city in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement worldwide.\n\nIt followed the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes in the US city of Minneapolis on 25 May.\n\nHis death sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests, including in the UK.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "The couple have been married since 1997\n\nJada Pinkett Smith has revealed on her chat show in a heart-to-heart with husband Will Smith that she did have a relationship with singer August Alsina.\n\nSpeaking to Smith on her Facebook show Red Table Talk, the actress said that the relationship happened while the pair were separated.\n\n\"We were over,\" she says. \"From there, as time went on, I got into a different kind of entanglement with August.\"\n\nMr Smith then presses her, saying \"an entanglement? A relationship.\"\n\n\"I was in a lot of pain and I was very broken,\" she countered.\n\nThe pair have been married since 1997, have two children together, and said they are currently back together after a split.\n\nThe couple said they wanted to do the show to clear up speculation circulating in the media over an interview August Alsina recently gave to a radio morning show, The Breakfast Club.\n\nThe rapper said he had been in a relationship with Pinkett Smith and that Smith had given the affair his \"blessing\", leading to speculation that the Hollywood power couple were in an open marriage.\n\n\"The only person that can give permission in that particular circumstance is myself,\" Pinkett Smith said.\n\n\"I could actually see how he would perceive it as permission because we were separated amicably and I think he also wanted to make it clear that he's also not a home-wrecker. Which he's not.\"\n\nShe had not spoken to the rapper in years, she added.\n\nSmith asked her what she felt she was looking for in the \"interaction\" with Alsina about four-and-a-half years ago.\n\n\"I just wanted to feel good,\" she replied, as her husband nodded sympathetically. \"It had been so long since I had felt good.\"\n\nNow the couple are back together, Pinkett Smith said they had reached a place of \"unconditional love\".\n\nTowards the end of the interview, Smith told her: \"I'm gonna get you back first.\"\n\nPinkett Smith laughed and responded: \"I think you got me back! I think we're good on that.\"\n\nAt the end of the chat, the pair fist-bumped.\n\n\"We ride together, we die together. Bad marriage for life,\" they said in a quote derived from Smith's Bad Boys movies.", "Amazon has said an email sent to employees asking them to remove the video-sharing app TikTok from any mobile device that can access their company email was sent in error.\n\nAn internal memo sent to staff earlier on Friday had said employees should delete the app over \"security risks\".\n\nThe app, owned by a Chinese company, has come under scrutiny because of fears it could share data with China.\n\nTikTok said it did not understand Amazon's concerns.\n\n\"This morning's email to some of our employees was sent in error. There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok\", a company spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nBut earlier on Friday, a memo sent to staff seen by multiple news outlets stated that the app must be removed from mobile devices.\n\n\"Due to security risk, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email.\n\n\"If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by July 10 to retain mobile access to Amazon email\", it read.\n\nTikTok said the company had not received any communication from Amazon before the email went out.\n\nArtificial intelligence-powered short video app TikTok is one of the most downloaded mobile apps in the world, and its popularity has only grown during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThis has drawn the attention of the Trump administration - on Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News that it was considering a ban on Chinese social media apps.\n\nMr Pompeo went so far as to say that TikTok users risk their private information ending up \"in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party\".\n\nTikTok is owned by Chinese start-up ByteDance, which has taken pains to point out that its chief executive is American.\n\nIt has also said publicly several times that it has never, and will never, share TikTok users' data with the Chinese authorities.\n\nAnd on Friday, the firm decided to halt its operations in Hong Kong - a move designed to show its distance from the Chinese government.\n\nBut many people use their smartphones for both recreation and to access their work email accounts.\n\nTikTok is on many personal smartphones, and with rising numbers of cyber-security vulnerabilities regularly being discovered in both the Android and iOS mobile operating systems, perhaps Amazon is now starting to worry whether the app could perhaps be used to infiltrate devices.\n\n\"We still do not understand their concerns, we welcome a dialogue so we can address any issues they may have and enable their team to continue participating in our community,\" TikTok said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Fans are accusing TikTok creators of exploiting them for cash\n\nTikTok was launched outside mainland China by Beijing-based ByteDance to reach a global audience. It increased its popularity during the global coronavirus lockdowns with about 315 million people downloading the app in the first three months of this year, according to research firm Sensor Tower.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and an Australian member of parliament have recently suggested the app needs more scrutiny over its data and privacy policies because its headquarters are in China.\n\nMr Pompeo has banned Department of State employees from downloading the app and suggested it could also be banned in the US.", "The incident occurred in the coastal resort of Marbella, southern Spain\n\nA British man has died in Spain after falling from a hotel balcony in the early hours of Saturday and landing on another man, according to reports.\n\nPolice in Malaga told the Mail they were \"investigating\" the death of two men in Marbella after \"one man landed on another man, killing him as well\".\n\nThe Foreign Office told the BBC it was \"supporting the family of a British man following his death in Spain\".\n\nA spokesman for the FCO added officials were in contact with local police.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nHe won all the major races, including the Grand National in 2003 on Monty's Pass and the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Kicking King and Bobs Worth.\n\nGeraghty was also associated with champion chasers Moscow Flyer and Sprinter Sacre.\n\n\"I am happy to say I'm announcing my retirement,\" said Geraghty, the retained jockey for owner JP McManus.\n\n\"A big thank you to my family, friends and everyone who has supported me over the last 24 years.\n\n\"I've been blessed to have had a wonderful career and I'm looking to what the future holds.\"\n\nGeraghty replaced AP McCoy as the main man for McManus after the legendary jockey retired in 2015.\n\nHe bounced back from a succession of injuries to ride five winners at Cheltenham in March, including the Champion Hurdle on Epatante.\n\nGeraghty, who was Irish champion jump jockey in 2000 and 2004, is the second most successful rider in Cheltenham Festival history with 43 wins, behind only his compatriot Ruby Walsh, who quit the sport last year.\n\nWhat they said\n\nRichard Johnson, four-time champion jockey: \"Happy retirement Barry, an amazing career. Top man on and off the track. No man better on the big day.\"\n\nTrainer Nicky Henderson: \"Enjoy your retirement Barry, we've had many great days together over the years. See you back at Seven Barrows soon, hopefully.\"\n\nJockey Tom Scudamore: \"Wishing you all the best and happiness in retirement. Congratulations on a great career. One of the very best and a gent with it.\"\n\nWhile the timing and nature of his announcement, at 23:00 BST on Saturday via Twitter, may have been a surprise, Geraghty is bowing out at a similar age to McCoy and Walsh.\n\nHe broke his leg in a fall on the eve of last year's Grand National, one of a catalogue of injuries.\n\nYet Geraghty remained at the elite level and one of his last winning rides was one of his best - guiding Champ from a seemingly forlorn position to win the RSA Chase at Cheltenham in March.\n\nHe will be remembered as a successful and likeable rider who managed to thrive in a golden generation of jump jockeys.", "Other surfers tried to save the teenager\n\nA teenage boy has been killed in a shark attack off the northern coast of New South Wales in eastern Australia, police say.\n\nThe 15-year-old was surfing when he suffered severe leg injuries at Wooli Beach, 630km (390 miles) north of Sydney, according to witnesses.\n\nNearby surfers came to help, including one who is reported to have tried to pull the shark away.\n\nFirst aid was given on the beach but the boy died at the scene.\n\n\"Several board-riders came to his assistance before the injured teen could be helped to shore,\" a police statement said.\n\nAn official investigation has been launched, but the authorities have not released the name of the teenager.\n\nOne witness said the shark may have been a great white. They are active in the area at this time of year.\n\nThis is the fifth fatal attack by a shark in Australia this year.\n\nIn April, a shark attacked and killed a 23-year-old Queensland ranger on the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nIn another fatal attack in June, a shark bit the leg of a surfer off Kingscliff, 800km (500 miles) north of Sydney.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drones used to spot sharks on Australian beaches\n• None How do you stop sharks attacking?", "Hundreds more cases are to be reviewed by an independent inquiry into maternity care at an NHS trust, BBC News has learned.\n\nAs many as 300 cases were discovered following an examination of records at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS trust.\n\nIt is understood the inquiry is now looking at about 1,500 cases of death or harm, most between 1998 and 2017.\n\nThe Shrewsbury and Telford trust said it was co-operating with the inquiry and its maternity care was improving.\n\nLast week, West Mercia Police announced it had opened an investigation into whether criminal charges could be brought in relation to the maternity problems.\n\nThe independent review, chaired by Donna Ockenden, was ordered by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt in 2017 after two sets of parents who had both lost children through avoidable medical errors raised concerns about care.\n\nThat initial investigation into 23 deaths has continually expanded as more families have raised questions about the care they have received.\n\nBut the problems at the trust extend far beyond its maternity services. No other trust in England has as many conditions on its licence as Shrewsbury and Telford.\n\nInspectors, the Care Quality Commission, revealed last week that they had \"new and ongoing concerns around patient safety\" following an inspection in June.\n\nUrgent discussions were said to be taking place with NHS England.\n\nJanette O'Maoldhomhaigh has long wondered why her son Declan was still born at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.\n\nOn arriving there in October 2000, 33 weeks pregnant, she says she was placed on a monitor but after being left alone for about an hour, a doctor came and told her the baby had died.\n\nShe had to give birth to her son the following day, and needed the support of a charity to bury him.\n\n\"I didn't save money for a funeral as I didn't expect my son to die,\" she said.\n\nFollowing media reports, she has contacted the Ockenden inquiry to find out why her son died, why she was left alone for close to an hour and whether the wrong dosage of steroids was given to her for a long-standing chest complaint shortly before she gave birth.\n\nShrewsbury and Telford NHS trust has been in special measures since November 2018.\n\nWhen that downgrading was announced, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said external support would be offered to the trust by NHS England. But since then, care has deteriorated.\n\nIts accident and emergency department is regularly either the worst, or among the worst, in England. The number of patients seen within four hours of arrival has sometimes been as low as 65%.\n\nIn some months, hundreds of patients have spent more than 12 hours on trolleys waiting to be seen, while hundreds more are trapped in ambulances waiting for more than one hour to actually be admitted to hospital.\n\nThere is a widespread belief across Shropshire that while frontline staff are providing the best care they can, they've been let down for years by the trust's senior leadership.\n\nThe last CQC inspection was published in April.\n\nNinety-two breaches of legal requirements were found, and inspectors detailed 94 separate actions the trust must take.\n\nThe CQC found staff \"did not feel respected, valued, supported or appreciated\", and demonstrated high levels of bullying, harassment, discrimination, stress and work overload.\n\nDirectors of the trust described themselves as \"shocked\" that inspectors had downgraded their rating for providing a caring service - from good, to requires improvement.\n\nGill George, a long-time campaigner for better healthcare in Shropshire, said the biggest issue facing the trust was cultural, suggesting the senior team do not have a clear indication of what is happening at the trust.\n\nInspectors said \"leaders recognised the quality of data was poor however they were relying on and taking assurance from this data\".\n\nAccording to Ms George, \"because of quite a weak leadership over many, many years...what you have is a messy, complex, unhappy organisation with problems at virtually every level\".\n\nMaggie Bayley, interim chief nurse at the trust, said the potential new cases were found after the inquiry asked it to carry further checks, following an initial search of records held electronically.\n\nOn the latest CQC report, Ms Bayley said: \"We recognise that a significant amount of work needs to be undertaken to address the issues...\n\n\"There is a dedicated programme of improvement at the trust to address all the concerns raised with us. Some progress has been made, for example in our emergency departments.\"\n\nShe added: \"Services in maternity are now graded as being 'good' for caring, effectiveness and responsiveness....\n\n\"We are already receiving some positive feedback about the care we provide.\"", "EasyJet has been accused of intending to use pilots' sickness records when drawing up plans for over 700 job cuts.\n\nThe Balpa pilots' union said it was \"unnecessary and wrong\", claiming the airline was risking safety because unwell staff would report for work.\n\nEasyJet said general absenteeism could form part of its assessment, but denied sickness might be a key component.\n\nThe airline said it had put forward initial proposals for talks with Balpa which were at a very early stage.\n\nEasyJet is planning 727 pilot redundancies as part of up to 4,500 job cuts and a restructuring that includes closing bases at Stansted, Southend and Newcastle airports.\n\nThe airline has blamed the collapse in air travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAhead of the start of formal talks, Balpa said the airline has told pilot representatives it will use sickness as a component in choosing who loses their job.\n\nBrian Strutton, Balpa's general secretary, called it outrageous. \"Flight safety is built on a culture of openness and not fear of repercussions. This is a well understood and fundamental tenet for everyone involved in ensuring our skies are safe.\n\n\"It is unnecessary and wrong that easyJet is intending to use sickness as a stick to beat its safety-critical staff. EasyJet has in the past rightly encouraged pilots to report in sick or fatigued if they are unfit to fly - that is in everyone's best interest.\"\n\nHe said EasyJet was planning to use the start of the coronavirus period as part of its sickness timeframe, when staff may have been sick or shielding themselves.\n\nBut the airline rejected Balpa's claims: \"We would never put forward proposals which would compromise safety as we have an industry-leading safety culture, as Balpa acknowledges.\n\n\"Safety is our number one priority and we are focused on doing what is right for the long term health of the company and our people so we can protect jobs going forward,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\nThe airline said it is still setting out formal proposals for talks with Balpa, and while sickness might be one of the criteria, the focus would be on attendance and conduct.\n\n\"It is not true to say that sickness is a key component of the proposals. We have put forward a full range of criteria, including absence, for discussion with the union,\" the airline.\n\nEasyJet added that any general absentee assessment would be based on data from before coronavirus hit.\n\nThe airline said: \"We are focused on doing what is right for the long term health of the company and our people so we can protect jobs going forward.\"\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet said it had begun re-building its summer schedule and would be flying to and from all its UK bases across July and August, but at reduced capacity.\n\nThe airline said it planned to fly 50% of its 1,022 routes in July and 75% in August.\n\n\"We continue to monitor the flight volumes every two weeks and adjust capacity accordingly to latest booking trends,\" the EasyJet said.", "Cabinet Minister Michael Gove has defended his plans for new post-Brexit border infrastructure after Labour said the government was unprepared.\n\nA £705m funding package to help manage Britain's borders has been announced as the UK prepares to leave the EU customs union at the end of the year.\n\nMr Gove insisted the government had been \"laying the groundwork for months\".\n\nBut Labour's Rachel Reeves said the plans were \"too little, too late.\"\n\nThe funding announcement follows a leaked letter from International Trade Secretary Liz Truss raising concerns about the readiness of Britain's ports.\n\nUnder the plans, new border posts will be created inland where existing ports have no room to expand to cope with the extra checks that will be required.\n\nIt relates only to the external borders of England, Scotland and Wales. Mr Gove told BBC's Andrew Marr programme that more details will be set out about the situation for Northern Ireland \"later this month\".\n\nThe new funding will include up to £470m to build port and inland infrastructure, and £235m will be allocated for IT systems and staffing.\n\nThe money for IT and staffing includes:\n\nCabinet Office Minister Mr Gove said the funding would help the UK \"seize the opportunities\" post-Brexit.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January and is now in an 11-month transition period, during which existing trading rules and membership of the customs union and single market apply.\n\nWhat the UK's relationship with the EU will look like when the transition period ends will depend on whether a trade deal is reached.\n\nNorthern Ireland will continue to follow some EU rules on agricultural and manufactured goods even after the transition period.\n\nCustoms checks on EU goods will be delayed until July 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Blake breaks down the next round of Brexit negotiations\n\nA leaked letter, first reported by Business Insider, suggested Ms Truss had expressed concerns about the government's plans to phase in checks on EU goods coming into the UK after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMs Truss reportedly warned fellow ministers that failing to impose full border controls until July could see increased smuggling from the EU, lead to legal challenges at the World Trade Organization, and even weaken the union with Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Gove said: \"With or without further agreement with the EU, this £705m will ensure that the necessary infrastructure, tech and border personnel are in place so that our traders and the border industry are able to manage the changes and seize the opportunities as we lay the foundations for the world's most effective and secure border.\"\n\nFormer national security adviser Lord Ricketts responded on Twitter to Mr Gove's comments. \"It's not clear to me how we will have 'the world's most effective and secure border' (Mr Gove) when we will lose access on 1 Jan to the Schengen Information System which gives alerts on movement of criminals/suspects,\" he said.\n\nHe added that UK police and border staff consulted the shared Schengen system 600 million times last year.\n\nFormer director general of UK Border Force Tony Smith said the funding was \"obviously welcome\" but \"a bit late in coming\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the plan showed the \"sheer complexity of the new bureaucracy\" which businesses face from 1 January and said it had been in discussions with the UK government as various sectors in Wales were affected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about reports the government had bought land in Kent to build a large lorry park as part of preparations for post-Brexit border checks, Mr Gove said: \"It is not our intention to create a massive concrete lorry park, it is the intention to provide the smart infrastructure which in Kent and elsewhere will allow the freight to flow.\"\n\nLabour shadow minister Rachel Reeves said the measures were \"too little, too late\" and accused the government of being unprepared.\n\nAnd on the Brexit talks she said: \"We were promised an oven-ready deal but it looks like the government forgot to turn the oven on,\" referring to the Conservative Party's election slogan.\n\nThe new Irish Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, told the BBC's Andrew Marr that his country does not yet have all the information it needs about the Irish sea border arrangements.\n\n\"We do need more details, we need more precision,\" he said. \"I think we need an injection of momentum into the overall talks between the European Union and United Kingdom in relation to Brexit.\"\n\nHe said although he believes progress towards a trade deal has been slow, he added: \"I believe that if there's a will there's a way in terms of resolving outstanding issues.\"\n\n\"I think there will be a deal, there has to be a deal,\" he said, but added: It can't be at any price.\"\n\nMr Gove said there had been \"movement\" in the negotiations but acknowledged that \"differences\" remained.\n\nBoth sides agreed to \"intensify\" negotiations last month and held the first face-to-face talks since the coronavirus pandemic at the beginning of July.\n\nThe UK government has ruled out extending the transition period in order to reach a deal.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Gove also said the government will introduce a migration policy \"that ensures we're open to the world's best talent\".\n\nThe government is planning a points-based immigration system which treats EU migrants the same as those from the rest of the world and which takes different factors like skills and language into account when awarding visas allowing people to work in the UK.\n\nMr Gove said: \"And the new technology we're introducing will allow us to monitor with far greater precision exactly who, and what, is coming in and out of the country, enabling us to deal more effectively with organised crime and other security threats.\"\n\nMore details about changes to the immigration system will be revealed on Monday.\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We will scrap the bureaucratic Resident Labour Market Test, lower the skills and salary threshold and remove the cap on skilled workers.\"\n\nThe so-called \"resident labour market test\" only allows companies to recruit new workers from outside the EU if they are on the shortage list or if they have been unable to find anyone suitable after advertising in the UK.\n\n\"Our new Health and Care Visa will ensure the NHS continues to benefit from the outstanding health and care professionals who have kept this country on its feet throughout the pandemic,\" Ms Patel added.\n\nAnd she said \"a new graduate route will ensure international students can stay in the country once they have completed their studies\".", "A large police presence remains in the area where the boy was stabbed\n\nA 10-year-old boy has been stabbed and is being treated in a Bolton hospital.\n\nA man, aged 18, was later arrested in connection with the knifing near Bridgeman Street in Great Lever.\n\nEmergency crews were called at about 13:15 BST, but the stabbing is being treated as an \"isolated incident\", Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nThe boy is described as being in a stable condition and the suspect is being held on suspicion of assault, the force said.\n\nA witness told the Manchester Evening News there were five to six ambulances and up to seven police cars at the scene.\n\nIn a statement, GMP said a \"large police presence remains in the area, whilst investigation work is carried out\".\n\nDet Supt Joanne Rawlinson said: \"No child should ever be the victim of such a distressing incident... [but] we are pleased to hear the news the boy is doing well and that he may be discharged later today.\n\n\"I appreciate that such news is likely to cause upset and shock within the local community, as well as the wider public, but I can assure you that we are doing absolutely everything we can to piece together the circumstances of this incident.\n\n\"In a recent development, specially trained officers have made an arrest of an 18-year-old man who will be questioned by detectives in the coming hours.\"\n\nDet Supt Rawlinson added that if people \"have any concerns or issues, we would urge them to speak with the officers\" who remain in the area.\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. Dame Vera's cortege halted as it passed through her home town of Ditchling\n\nTwo Spitfires flew over the funeral procession of Dame Vera Lynn as family, friends and fans said goodbye to the Forces' Sweetheart.\n\nHer cortege was accompanied by the Battle of Britain flypast as it travelled through Ditchling in East Sussex at midday.\n\nDame Vera died last month at the age of 103 and her funeral was held at Woodvale Crematorium in Brighton.\n\nThe World War Two fighter planes made three passes over the village.\n\nHundreds of people had gathered to await the arrival of the cortege and the crowd applauded as the aircraft flew over.\n\nRepresentatives from the Royal British Legion stood with flags as they waited to honour Dame Vera.\n\nShops in the village displayed portraits of Dame Vera\n\nThe funeral procession stopped at the crossroads in the centre of Ditchling, where the singer lived for 50 years, to allow people to pay their respects.\n\nLater, as the procession made its way out of the village, there were shouts of \"hip hip hooray\" from the crowd.\n\nThe cheers were followed by a spontaneous rendition of We'll Meet Again, one of the songs Dame Vera was well-known for.\n\nA private service at the crematorium chapel included music from a bugler from the Royal Marines.\n\nThe family said a full memorial service would be held at a later date.\n\nPeople applauded as the Battle of Britain flypast took place\n\nDame Vera's daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, said Ditchling had always been special to her mother.\n\n\"That is why we know she would be touched that so many people want to pay their respects,\" she said.\n\nShe also urged people to continue to back the causes that were important to her mother, adding: \"We are sure her music will endure forever but most importantly, we hope that people will continue to support those charities that she cared about so much.\n\n\"It means so much to us to see my mother's legacy living on.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted footage of the flypast, saying it has been \"a farewell befitting a truly great Briton\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson #StayAlert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said Dame Vera's work would never be forgotten.\n\n\"Her support helped to sustain the fortitude of British personnel deployed around the world and those waiting for them to return,\" he said.\n\nChief of Defence Staff Sir Nick Carter said the Armed Forces would be \"forever grateful\" to Dame Vera, adding: \"Her lasting legacy of lifting spirits will remain.\"\n\nThe Spitfires made three passes over Ditchling as hundreds of people lined the streets\n\nEvery lamppost in the narrow streets of Ditchling bears a large poppy.\n\nUnion flags flutter in the breeze and shop windows display portraits of the woman who became known as the Forces' Sweetheart.\n\nCamera crews and photographers have descended on the village along with servicemen and women who have come to pay their respects.\n\nIt is a fond farewell for Dame Vera.\n\nA picture of Dame Vera and a video were projected on to Dover's white cliffs ahead of her funeral.\n\nThe lyrics of We'll Meet Again appeared as the music was played across the English Channel.\n\nThe projection on the 350ft cliffs was visible to ships and planes and could also be seen from the main road and some back gardens.\n\nThe singer was best known for performing hits such as We'll Meet Again to troops on the front line.\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\nDame Vera's face and the lyrics to We'll Meet Again were projected on to the cliffs at Dover\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Football Association of Ireland says former manager Jack Charlton \"changed Irish football forever\".\n\nThe former Leeds and England defender, who had been diagnosed with lymphoma, died on Friday aged 85.\n\nEngland said it was \"devastated\" by the death of a key member of the 1966 World Cup-winning side.\n\nTributes were also paid by former clubs Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough.\n• None 'Player, manager, pundit - Charlton was one of football's legendary characters'\n• None \"You either worked in the pit or you played football\" Jack Charlton on Desert Island Discs\n• None Football Daily: 'He was a natural leader' - a tribute to Jack Charlton\n\nCharlton spent his entire playing career with Leeds between 1953 and 1973, before joining Middlesbrough later that year in his first managerial post.\n\nIn 1977, he took over at Wednesday and had a spell with his boyhood club Newcastle before moving into international management with the Republic of Ireland in 1986.\n\n\"Charlton's contribution to the game and Leeds United will never be forgotten,\" said the West Yorkshire club.\n\n\"He will remain in football folklore forever and his records at Leeds United are unlikely ever to be surpassed.\"\n\nNewcastle United said: \"We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former NUFC manager and England World Cup winner Jack Charlton at the age of 85. RIP, Jack. A true legend of the game.\"\n\nSheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough said they were \"saddened\" to hear of Charlton's death.\n\nOne of English football's most popular characters, he was in the team that won the World Cup at Wembley in 1966, alongside his brother Bobby.\n\nCharlton achieved unprecedented success with the Republic of Ireland, leading them to their first major finals at Euro 88 and the World Cup quarter-finals at Italia 90.\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland international David O'Leary, whose winning penalty against Romania guided the country into the quarter-final in 1990, told BBC Radio 5 Live Charlton's \"impact was immense\".\n\n\"He took the country from really low down to something very, very special. He was fantastic for Ireland and I think Ireland was fantastic for Jack and they both complemented each other in that great run of success,\" said O'Leary.\n\n\"So many people who weren't football fans got so much enjoyment, particularly during Italia 90, because any time we played, the whole country stopped to watch the match.\n\n\"Jack never let anything faze him. He had a very direct way of playing and he wasn't a man that was concerned about the opposition. It was about us playing the way he believed was best for us. He kept things simple.\"\n\nAshington-born Charlton never played for his boyhood club Newcastle, instead joining Leeds United as a 15-year-old and spent his whole playing career with the Whites.\n\nCharlton made a record 773 appearances between 1953 and 1973, winning an English league title, FA Cup, League Cup and two Fairs Cups.\n\nHe is the third Leeds United legend to have died this year, following the deaths of team-mates Norman Hunter and Trevor Cherry.\n\nThe Leeds United Supporters' Trust hoped the club, which leads the Championship, can seal promotion to the Premier League as a fitting tribute to the three men.\n\n\"Another massively sad day for the fans and club as we lose another legend. RIP Big Jack,\" it said.\n\n\"If there was ever a more prominent year for us to go up it's now, let's do it for Jack, Norman and Trevor.\"\n\nCurrent Leeds United captain Liam Cooper said Charlton's death was \"a very sad day\".\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker: \"Saddened to hear that Jack Charlton has passed away. World Cup winner with England, manager of probably the best ever Ireland side and a wonderfully infectious personality to boot.\"\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland defender Paul McGrath: \"Absolutely gutted. Father figure to me for 10 years, thanks for having faith in me. Sleep well Jack, Love ya. Broken heart.\"\n\nTimes football writer Henry Winter: \"Sad, sad day. RIP Jack Charlton. Epitome of the word legend. A winner as a player, gave everything for Leeds United and England. Inspirational manager and wonderful company. He lived the fullest of lives and enriched so many lives. Thoughts with Jack's family and his many, many friends.\"\n\nFormer Leeds United and Republic of Ireland midfielder Johnny Giles on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"When Don Revie took over at Leeds, Jack didn't have a great reputation with training and he was prepared to let him go, but he really knuckled down and he was the best defender in what is now the Premier League for five years.\"\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland midfielder Mark Lawrenson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"As a manager, he had a dose of realism. Johnny Giles gave me my debut for the Republic when he was player/manager but somewhere along the line, there was always a manager who was going to come and make those players a better team, and it was Jack.\"", "Police released images of suspects lying on the ground\n\nFive people have been killed after attackers stormed a South African church, reportedly amid an argument over its leadership.\n\nSouth African police said they had rescued men, women and children from a \"hostage situation\" on the outskirts of Johannesburg on Saturday morning.\n\nThey have also arrested at least 40 people, and seized dozens of weapons.\n\nEyewitnesses say the men who stormed the International Pentecostal Holiness Church were part of a splinter group.\n\nThe church's leadership has reportedly been the subject of infighting since its former leader died in 2016. Police had previously been called to the church following a shoot out between members in 2018, South Africa's IOL reports.\n\nThe year before, the church's finances had come under the spotlight, amid allegations some 110m rand ($6.5m; £5.2m) had gone missing, according to The Sowetan newspaper.\n\nOn Saturday, police were called to the church in Zuurbekom in the West Rand at 03:00 local time (01:00 GMT).\n\nA number of weapons have been recovered by police\n\nAccording to national police spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo, a group of attackers indicated to those inside \"that they were coming to take over the premises\".\n\nHe said four people had been found shot and burnt to death in cars, while a security guard, who was thought to have been responding to the incident, was also fatally shot.\n\nFive rifles, 16 shotguns and 13 pistols, along with other weapons, were found at the church, which police have been combing for evidence.\n\nThe South African Police Service (SAPS) said that among those arrested were members of SAPS, the South African National Defence Force, the Johannesburg Metro Police Department and the Department of Correctional Services.\n\nThe International Pentecostal Holiness Church is thought to have about three million members in Southern Africa.\n\nWhile the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, one of the largest churches in that region, has made tabloid headlines over missing money and its leadership squabbles in the last few years, what happened on Saturday took many by surprise - including authorities.\n\nNow police say they have launched a high-level investigation looking into the exact circumstances around the shooting - not least, who ordered the attack.\n\nPart of the investigation is trying to ascertain whether the four people who were killed and burnt inside a car were part of the group who had earlier stormed into the church.\n\n\"We've arrested all those we reasonably believed are suspects. They have been taking in for questioning,\" said police spokesperson Vish Naidoo.\n\nAs night falls, police officers have been deployed to monitor the safety of hundreds of congregants living on the church premises who are said to be fearful of another attack.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNorwich City became the first club to be relegated from the Premier League this season as Michail Antonio scored all four goals to ease West Ham's troubles near the bottom of the table.\n\nA seventh successive league defeat left Daniel Farke's side anchored at the foot of the table, 13 points from safety with only three games to play.\n\nHaving struggled to adapt since winning the Championship last season, Norwich's third relegation in seven seasons was sealed by Antonio's superb performance in front of goal.\n\nThe forward volleyed the first from inside the six-yard area after Issa Diop's flick from a corner before using his head to guide Mark Noble's free-kick beyond Tim Krul.\n\nHammers skipper Noble also provided the ball over the top for Antonio's hat-trick. Krul saved his initial shot but it fell invitingly for the West Ham player to head over the line. His fourth was a tap-in from Ryan Fredericks' pass.\n\nWest Ham's first Premier League away win under David Moyes lifts them six points above the relegation zone, with two of their remaining three matches at home to fellow strugglers Watford and Aston Villa.\n\nNorwich's dreadful form since the Premier League resumed after being suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic meant it was a matter of when - not if - they would be relegated\n\nTheir 24th league defeat came after an abject performance, the Canaries failing to score for a league-high 17th game this season.\n\nArgentine midfielder Emiliano Buendia tested Lukasz Fabianski while Teemu Pukki, who has not scored since netting his 11th league goal of the season on 22 January, headed a good chance wide.\n• None 'The outcome is more or less what was expected' - Farke has no regrets after relegation\n• None Reaction from Carrow Road as Norwich City are relegated\n\nWhat went wrong for the Canaries?\n\nThere were emotional scenes at Carrow Road when referee Kevin Friend signalled the end of the match.\n\nA number of Norwich players dropped to the ground while boss Farke consoled his team.\n\nHaving spent the majority of this prolonged campaign in the bottom three, the end of the season cannot come soon enough.\n\nThe Canaries depart England's top flight having caused one of the biggest shocks of the season, a 3-2 win over defending champions Manchester City, while Farke's side also held Arsenal and Tottenham at home, and won at Everton.\n\nWhen Jamal Lewis hit the winner against Champions League hopefuls Leicester on 28 February, shortly before the season was suspended, Norwich were just four points from safety with 10 games remaining.\n\nBut they have been woeful since the restart, losing all six league games by an aggregate score of 15-1.\n\nFarke opted to keep the core of last season's team that finished with five more points than Sheffield United on the way to winning the Championship in impressive style.\n\nNine of the 11 players that started against West Ham also started the final Championship game of last season against Villa.\n\nWhile Villa spent more than £100m after winning promotion via the play-offs, Norwich spent a fraction of that sum, with £750,000 for West Ham right-back Sam Byram one of their biggest outlays.\n\nThey have managed just five clean sheets and scored only seven times away from Carrow Road.\n\nWith two of their three remaining games at third-placed Chelsea and second-placed Manchester City, they are on course to finish the season with the fewest away goals in the Premier League era.\n\nWhat now for Farke and his players?\n\nFarke insists Norwich will not do anything \"crazy\" in the transfer market as they look to bounce back in 2020-21 - but there are some important decisions to be made.\n\nThe former Borussia Dortmund reserve-team boss has a contract until 2022 and is keen to stay and rebuild a team capable of making an immediate return to the Premier League.\n\nWhether Farke will be in charge after a dreadful run of form remains to be seen, while Norwich's hierarchy has some tough decisions to make concerning the future of the club's playing assets.\n\nIn November 2019, the Canaries announced losses of £38m for the financial year ending June 2019 before senior staff forecast a profit in the region of £16m for 2019-20.\n\nThat was before the season was suspended, Norwich warning in April that they could lose up to £35m because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt may prompt Norwich to cash in on highly-rated young players like Ben Godfrey and Todd Cantwell, although Farke stated on the eve of the West Ham game: \"If we want to bounce back next season it is important we keep our best players to be competitive.\"\n\nDefender Godfrey, 22, has been linked with German teams Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig, while Sheffield United are reported to be interested in 22-year-old midfielder Cantwell.\n\nThis was a huge win for West Ham - and not just in terms of the score.\n\nHaving started the game three points above the relegation zone, they have created some breathing space before the last three games of the season - and left Bournemouth and Aston Villa in big trouble.\n\nThe Hammers had failed to win any of their previous seven away league games under Moyes - but they made up for it as they claimed their biggest away win in the Premier League since November 2007.\n\nIn addition to scoring the first hat-trick of his professional career, Antonio became the first West Ham player to score four goals in a league match since David Cross against Tottenham in September 1981.\n\nSince the restart, Antonio has been involved in 78% of West Ham's Premier League goals, scoring six and assisting one - form Moyes will hope he can continue to the end of the season.\n• None Norwich have been relegated from the Premier League for a record fifth time.\n• None West Ham picked up their first away win in the Premier League since December (1-0 v Southampton), ending a run of eight games on the road without a win (D1 L7).\n• None Norwich have lost 24 Premier League games this season - in no league season in their history have they ever lost more.\n• None The Canaries have conceded 17 goals from set-piece situations in the Premier League this season (excluding penalties), more than any other side.\n\nWhile Norwich are back in action on Tuesday at Chelsea (20:15 BST), West Ham host fellow strugglers Watford next Friday (20:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Todd Cantwell (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jamal Lewis.\n• None Offside, Norwich City. Todd Cantwell tries a through ball, but Adam Idah is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Norwich City 0, West Ham United 4. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Memorial events are being held in Bosnia and Herzegovina to mark the anniversary of the massacre\n\nBoris Johnson has paid tribute to the victims of Srebrenica to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina.\n\nAround 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in 1995 by Bosnian Serb forces - the worst atrocity on European soil since the end of World War Two.\n\nThe prime minister said \"we owe it to the victims\" to remember Srebrenica and \"to ensure it never happens again\".\n\nIt comes after he was criticised for a 1997 article he wrote about Srebrenica.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson was urged to apologise for his comments in which he described \"these Muslims\" as not \"exactly angels\".\n\nIn a letter from more than 100 Muslim representatives and 30 MPs, Labour's Tony Lloyd said there can be \"no excuse for in any way blaming the victims of a genocide for its perpetration\".\n\nBut Downing Street said the comments had been taken out of context.\n\nMr Johnson said in a video posted on Twitter on Saturday: \"I want to join with you once more in mourning the victims of those terrible events, and to stand with the families in their fight for justice.\n\n\"As in so many cases from this conflict which brought violence and destruction across the western Balkans, many families still do not know what happened to their loved ones. Many perpetrators have still not been held to account.\n\n\"And there are those who would prefer to forget or deny the enormity of what took place. We must not allow that to happen.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who previously worked as a Foreign Office lawyer involved in bringing war criminals to justice at the Hague, also released a statement.\n\nHe said: \"During my time in the Hague between 2003 and 2006, pursuing those responsible for this dark chapter in European history, I was reminded daily of the heinous cruelty perpetrated against the innocent.\n\n\"The UK is determined to end impunity and help rebuild those countries affected.\"\n\nThe massacre took place during the Bosnian War (1992-1995) when the Serb army was engaged in an ethnic-cleansing operation.\n\nThousands of Muslims sought safety in Srebrenica, which the UN was protecting with Dutch forces, but the area fell in July 1995 during a Serb offensive led by General Ratko Mladic.\n\nPrince Charles had planned to personally pay his respects at nearby Potocari cemetery but the trip was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn a recorded message, he said the \"terrible events\" of July 1995 were \"a dreadful stain on our collective conscience\".\n\nHe said: \"The international community failed those who were killed, those who somehow survived and those who endure the terrible loss of their loved ones.\n\n\"By remembering the pain of the past and learning its lessons, we can together resolve that it must never happen again.\"", "West Midlands Police said the one-year-old fell from the window of a flat at the YMCA in Erdington\n\nA one-year-old boy has suffered a serious head injury falling from a second-floor window, police say.\n\nThe child fell from the window of a flat in the YMCA on Reservoir Road in Erdington, Birmingham, shortly before 19:30 BST on Friday.\n\nHe remains in hospital and inquiries are continuing into the circumstances, West Midlands Police said.\n\nNo-one has been arrested. The force has urged any witnesses and anyone else with information to get in contact.\n\nWest Midlands Police has urged anyone with information to come forward\n\nA spokesperson for YMCA Heart of England said the child had fallen from a second-floor flat at its housing scheme, The Vineyard.\n\n\"Staff from the YMCA scheme next door attended the scene within minutes and offered our support to the family and everyone involved,\" they said\n\n\"Our heart goes out to the little boy's family and our thoughts and prayers are with them.\n\n\"We are working with the West Midlands Police and will be carrying out our own investigation internally so that we fully understand what has taken place. YMCA Heart of England takes health and safety extremely seriously and our residents' safety and welfare is central to everything we do.\"\n\nIt said The Vineyard, which opened in May 2016 \"meets or exceeds all relevant safety standards\".\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 wife of Philippe Monguillot, Veronique Monguillot (centre), holds a portrait of her husband during a protest march\n\nA bus driver has died in France, five days after he was attacked by passengers who reportedly refused to wear face masks, his family says.\n\nPhilippe Monguillot, aged 59, had been left brain dead after the assault in the south-western city of Bayonne.\n\n\"We decided to let him go,\" his daughter Marie told AFP news agency, saying doctors had agreed.\n\nTwo men in their 20s were arrested and charged with attempted murder after the assault late on Sunday.\n\nTwo other men were charged with failing to help a person in danger while a fifth man was charged with attempting to hide a suspect.\n\nMr Monguillot was set upon after he reportedly asked three of the men to put on face masks and also tried to check another man's ticket.\n\nFace masks are mandatory on public transport in France.\n\nThe mayor of Bayonne condemned the \"barbaric act\", local media report.\n\nOn Wednesday, thousands of people took part in a protest march in the city.\n\nRegional bus services were severely disrupted as drivers refused to work following the incident.", "Ishak Mostefaoui is the first IS-supporter from the UK to die in the custody of the Syrian Democratic Forces\n\nA man who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria has died while being held in prison in the country, the BBC has been told.\n\nOne source said that Ishak Mostefaoui, previously from east London, was killed while attempting to escape custody.\n\nAnother said the death came during serious disorder in a jail in Hassakeh, which houses IS prisoners from various countries.\n\nThe death and surrounding circumstances have not been officially confirmed.\n\nAfter being captured last year, the 27-year-old was held in a prison in north-east Syria controlled by the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.\n\nSources said he was one of around 10 British men and 30 British women being held by the militia - but he was the first to die in SDF custody.\n\nThe prison where he was held is a converted school. When the BBC spoke to him there last October he admitted joining IS.\n\nThe general situation in the prisons and camps where IS prisoners are being held has deteriorated this year and there have been several riots.\n\nThe British government has refused to allow adult prisoners to return to the UK, saying they should be put on trial in the region.\n\nA government spokesman told the BBC the Foreign Office had advised against all travel to Syria since 2011.\n\nThey added: \"Those who chose to leave the UK and fight for, or support, Daesh potentially pose a very serious national security risk.\"\n\nA cell at the prison where Mostefauoi was being held\n\nThe SDF has said foreign states should take responsibility for their citizens, stating earlier this year that IS prisoners were \"a time bomb\" and \"we need to set up international courts, under UN jurisdiction, and try them in NE Syria where they perpetrated their crimes\".\n\nSeveral countries have arranged for the return of some citizens.\n\nMinisters have said that, of the estimated 900 people who have left the UK for Syria to join violent Islamist groups, 20% have died, 40% have returned to the UK, and 40% are still in the region.\n\nThere are differing accounts of how Mostefauoi died.\n\nThe BBC has been given the two versions: that he was shot while trying to escape, and the other that he was killed during recent rioting.\n\nAn IS propaganda channel on a messaging app claims he was killed while trying to get water during a siege of the prison that also saw food and medication withheld from inmates.\n\nLast year, the BBC revealed that Mostefaoui was one of several University of Westminster students to have travelled to Syria.\n\nHis Algerian family had settled in London when Mostefaoui was five. He was described as a popular, football-loving boy, brought up in a home that was opposed to extremism, but he later became increasingly radicalised while a student.\n\nIn April 2014, Mostfaoui told his father that he was going to Amsterdam for a few days, leaving with just a small bag, and he then secretly made his way to Syria.\n\nIn 2018, Mostefaoui had his British citizenship revoked.\n• None 'At least seven from my university joined IS'", "Estimates suggested up to 40,000 people took part\n\nThousands of people have taken part in protests in Russia's far east over the arrest of a regional leader.\n\nThey marched to the regional government in Khabarovsk shouting slogans against President Vladimir Putin.\n\nKhabarovsk governor Sergei Furgal was detained on Thursday, accused of having ordered the killing of several business people 15 years ago.\n\nMr Furgal defeated the candidate of Mr Putin's United Russia party in elections two years ago.\n\nHis party, the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democrat Party of Russia, is usually seen as loyal to the Kremlin.\n\nBut correspondents say Mr Furgal's victory was seen as a blow to United Russia's grip on power in the regions, and he is a popular figure in the far east.\n\nSergei Furgal was remanded in custody on Friday\n\nEstimates by regional media and opposition put the number of demonstrators at between 5,000 and 40,000, in a city of about 600,000 inhabitants.\n\nOpposition leader Alexei Navalny's regional office described the rally, which lasted nearly four hours, as \"an absolute record for our region and a unique show of unity in society\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Штаб Навального в Хабаровске This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideo footage showed protesters shouting slogans such as \"Freedom!\", \"Putin is a thief\" and \"Putin, resign\".\n\nSeveral other towns in the region held smaller protests. Police did not intervene or make any arrests.\n\nThousands took to the streets of Khabarovsk in what locals are calling the biggest protest they've seen in decades.\n\nThey're angry at the arrest of Sergei Furgal and from their chants - against Moscow, and against Vladimir Putin himself - they believe the move is political.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Furgal beat the Kremlin's chosen candidate for governor by a landslide. He's proved popular locally, cutting the number of civil servants and putting the governor's yacht up for sale.\n\nNow he's facing a murder charge, from his pre-political days in the murky world of metals trading. Mr Furgal's supporters want to know why the authorities waited until now, though, 15 years later to arrest him.\n\nThe protests were not authorised and in Khabarovsk the meeting point had been taped-off overnight, supposedly for Covid 19 disinfection. But the crowds marched in any case, and the police - on this occasion - didn't intervene.\n\nMr Furgal was arrested by masked law enforcement officers on 9 July and brought to Moscow. A day later he was remanded in custody for two months ahead of his trial.\n\nHe is accused of organising two murders and one attempted murder of businessmen in 2004-05, and could face life imprisonment.\n\nThe arrest comes amid fears of a crackdown on opposition following last week's vote to approve constitutional reforms that will allow Mr Putin the option of seeking two more terms in office.\n\nOn Tuesday, Russian space agency official and former journalist Ivan Safranov was charged with treason, following accusations that he had passed official secrets to a Nato country.", "Scott McGlynn used make-up to hide his acne while he was at school\n\nSocial media influencer Scott McGlynn has more than 150,000 Instagram followers and can earn £6,000 for his beauty and skin care posts.\n\nBut as a teenager bullies targeted him for his acne, dubbing him \"pizza face\".\n\nHis face and back were affected by the condition, which left him lonely and depressed.\n\nNow, a clinical psychology expert has called for more specialist training for healthcare professionals with \"centres of excellence\" in Wales.\n\n\"It was really bad, I had it all over my back as well,\" said Scott, 33. \"It went up my forehead and around my face and cheeks.\"\n\nThe bullying started when he was 12 and Scott, who now has 153,000 Instagram followers, would wear makeup to hide his acne.\n\n\"When people would comment on how I looked it would affect my confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"I would walk with my face looking at the floor, hoping that no-one would say anything. I don't think the teachers were really trained to deal with situations like that.\"\n\nOnce a week, pizza would be served as school dinner and Scott \"didn't even want to eat in the dining hall then\".\n\n\"There was a stage where I would eat lunch in a classroom with two of my friends.\"\n\nScott says the bullies who used to torment him have tried to get in touch with him\n\nHe would avoid PE so he did not have to get changed in front of everyone else: \"Putting myself in a boys changing room, it was a very vulnerable situation. Why would I do that to myself?\"\n\nHis acne and the bullying he suffered left him introspective.\n\n\"If you met me back then you would not think I would ever do anything on social media,\" Scott, from Cardiff, said.\n\nThe support of his family helped: \"Luckily I didn't have suicidal thoughts in my head, the only reason is that I had my family there.\n\n\"If they were not there I do not know where I would be right now.\"\n\nFellow pupils at his school would call him names such as pizza-face\n\nLast year Scott was named a global skincare ambassador for Neutrogena - something he called a \"pinch me\" moment.\n\nSince the publication of of his memoir Out, and his podcast going top five in the UK iTunes chart, Scott said his former bullies have tried to get in touch.\n\n\"I don't want to know,\" he said.\n\nAcne is a common skin condition characterised by blackheads, whiteheads and pus-filled spots.\n\nIt usually starts at puberty and varies in severity from a few spots to a more significant problem that may cause scarring.\n\nA degree of acne affects nearly all people between the ages of 15 and 17.\n\nFor the majority of sufferers it tends to clear up by the late teens or early 20s, but for some it persists longer.\n\nAndrew Thompson, professor of clinical psychology at Cardiff University and a spokesman for The British Skin Foundation, said: \"There is not enough psychological support for people.\n\n\"There are psychological services available to the extent there are general services available. They are not going to turn people away.\n\n\"But those services are rather stretched and many of the practitioners have not had the training for working around people living with the impact of a skin condition.\n\n\"Dermatology services are stretched. Mental health services are stretched. And people with skin conditions fall between the gaps.\"\n\nProf Andrew Thompson said there were not enough psychological services for people with skin conditions\n\nHe said he wanted more training for healthcare professionals in treating people with skin conditions in psychological distress, with \"centres of excellence\" in Wales.\n\n\"There are some centres in London and Birmingham but as far as I am aware I do not think there are any in Wales.\"\n\nOlivia Hughes sits on the committee of Skin Care Cymru, and has suffered from psoriasis since she was seven.\n\nThe Swansea University student is writing her dissertation on the emotional impact of her condition and said there was \"not a lot in Wales\" for people who needed psychological help.\n\n\"It is very much something you have got to seek yourself, it is not something that is offered with treatment,\" the 24-year-old said.\n\n\"The physical aspects of skin conditions are looked at as being more important than the psychological effects, which are seen as secondary.\n\n\"But they are just as significant. There should be more of a combined approach.\"\n\nOlivia Hughes is writing her dissertation on the emotional impact of her psoriasis\n\nTo get psychological treatment people have to go through their GP, she said.\n\nShe accepted funding may be a \"massive issue\" but having a specialised service to help people struggling psychologically \"would be really valuable\".\n\nScott agreed services in Wales needed improving: \"Absolutely, there should be a centre of excellence.\"\n\nThe Welsh government confirmed there were no specialised dermatology services in Wales, but there had been a review of services to examine gaps that existed.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We expect health boards to put in place services tailored to the individual needs of patients, including any psychological support they might require to help them manage their condition.\"", "Jack Charlton, who has died aged 85, will always be remembered as one of the group of 11 England players who won the World Cup against West Germany in 1966.\n\nAnd yet there was so much more to the rounded, wonderful career of one of football's legendary characters - as a player with Leeds United, manager at club and international level and also as one of the first generation of television pundits, going on to enjoy a long and distinguished career in broadcasting.\n\nPlaying alongside younger brother Bobby, the Ashington-born centre-half was the late developer who went on to the greatest glory with his country.\n\nThe man simply known as 'Big Jack', of great football stock as a cousin of Newcastle United legend 'Wor Jackie' Milburn, also won the game's major club honours as part of Don Revie's Leeds United side and was a fine manager with Middlesbrough, Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle before his wonderful spell in charge of the Republic of Ireland.\n• None 'He changed our lives' - former players pay tribute\n• None Football Daily: 'He was a natural leader' - a tribute to Jack Charlton\n\nCharlton's spiky, outspoken nature was allied to a genuine, humorous, honest personality which ensured him iconic status not just as an Englishman but also as an honorary Irishman.\n\nThe giant Charlton, nicknamed 'the Giraffe' because of his long neck and the stature that made him the scourge of forwards and goalkeepers alike - almost inventing the ploy of standing in front of keepers at corners - had a slow-burning playing career.\n\nAnd rather like his great Leeds central defensive partner Norman Hunter, who also sadly died recently, his no-nonsense approach often disguised the great ability he had as a footballer.\n\nCharlton's career, if not exactly going nowhere, was lacking in direction until he fell under the guidance of Revie, who was able to harness the more maverick nature of his personality with his talent to make him an essential element of a wonderful side, going on to make a record 773 appearances for Leeds over a 23-year period as a player.\n\nHe also scored 96 goals for the club, making him ninth on their list of all-time scorers.\n\nRevie brought together a group of young players and experienced hands such as Charlton alongside Hunter, Billy Bremner, Peter Lorimer and shrewd signings such as the veteran Bobby Collins and John Giles, signed from Manchester United for a paltry £33,000.\n\nAfter gaining promotion to the former First Division in 1964, Charlton helped Leeds reach the 1965 FA Cup final, where they lost to Liverpool, but success was just around the corner and after another losing final, the brutal two-game affair against Chelsea in 1970, they finally won the coveted trophy by beating Arsenal in 1972.\n\nThe Holy Grail, the league title, was won in 1968-69, and there was silverware elsewhere such as the League Cup in 1968 and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (the forerunner of the Uefa Cup and Europa League) in 1967-68 and 1970-71.\n\nCharlton was never bound by the usual conventions, making him an even more colourful presence in the game.\n\nHe once courted trouble with the authorities by revealing he had \"a little black book\" of players he intended to, shall we say, meet again on the pitch, if they had ever crossed him - one of whom was believed to be former Everton hard man Johnny Morrissey, a tough Scouser who even his ruthless team-mate Giles suggested was an adversary best avoided.\n\nThe great Leeds team, and this was a great team, was somewhat overshadowed by their reputation for a physical approach, and should have won more than the honours that came their way - but his presence ensured Charlton still became one of the most decorated players of his era.\n\nIt was with England, however, that Charlton wrote his name indelibly into the history books. And, like his development at Leeds, his emergence as an international came later in his career.\n\nCharlton had turned 29 when he made his England debut in a 2-2 draw with Scotland at Wembley in April 1965.\n\nHe was so surprised at his call-up he subsequently asked manager Sir Alf Ramsey why he had picked him. Charlton revealed Ramsey's deadpan response was: \"I pick the best team for my pattern of play, Jack - I don't always pick the best players.\"\n\nIt was a team that became champions of the world on 30 July the following year, with one of the enduring images of England's 4-2 win after extra time against West Germany a picture of Charlton sinking to his knees, overcome by emotion, before embracing his tearful brother Bobby.\n\n\"People say to me 'was that the most memorable day of your life?' and I say 'not really' because unlike our kid [brother Bobby] and Bobby Moore, I hadn't been with them for years and years aiming for this,\" Charlton told Desert Island Discs in 1996. \"I'd just come in , done it and gone. The most joy as a player was winning the league championship with Leeds at Liverpool.\"\n\nCharlton, who won the Footballer of the Year award in 1967, went on to win 35 caps for England, the last of which came in a 1-0 win over Czechoslovakia in a group game at the Mexico World Cup in June 1970, aged 35.\n\nFollowing his retirement from playing at Leeds, Charlton was appointed manager of Middlesbrough in May 1973, his character proving more suited to the job than his quieter and more reserved brother, who had an undistinguished spell in charge of Preston North End.\n\nLegend has it he declined to be interviewed, simply handing the Middlesbrough board a list of what his responsibilities would be and warning any interference on the playing side would not be tolerated.\n\nCharlton was an instant success, winning promotion to the First Division with a top-class Middlesbrough side boasting a host of very fine players such as Graeme Souness, Willie Maddren, David Armstrong and many others.\n\nHe stayed at Middlesbrough for four years before moving on to Sheffield Wednesday, during which time he took the Owls from the bottom of the old Third Division to promotion, reaching the FA Cup semi-final in 1983, only for defeat to soon be followed by his departure.\n\nCharlton had a short spell back at Middlesbrough as caretaker before taking over at Newcastle in June 1984 but it was unproductive and he left in 1985 - before what many consider to be the crowning glory of his managerial career.\n\nHe had applied for the England job when his old boss Revie resigned in 1976 but never received a reply - instead he was appointed manager of the Republic of Ireland in February 1986.\n\nWhat followed was a glorious thrill ride that provided a thousand tales of Charlton's eccentric approach (although he was perhaps wily enough to use some of that to cover up an incredibly shrewd tactical mind and superb knowledge) and a period of success that still brings a warm glow to Ireland whenever it is recalled.\n\nCharlton made good use of eligibility rules to build a formidable side with players born outside the Republic of Ireland, such as central defender Mick McCarthy and forwards Tony Cascarino and John Aldridge.\n\nThe first sign of things to come was delivered at the 1988 European Championship when, despite losing world-class players such as Mark Lawrenson after his retirement through injury, Charlton's side beat Bobby Robson's England 1-0 in a group game.\n\nIreland just failed to make it out of the group but Charlton masterminded a run to the quarter-finals of the Italia '90 World Cup, qualifying from a group that included England and the Netherlands, both games drawn 1-1, before a win on penalties over Romania and then a narrow 1-0 defeat against hosts Italy in the last eight.\n\nThe Irish squad had an audience with Pope John Paul II in Rome during the tournament (when the football fan Pontiff allegedly referred to Charlton as \"the Boss\") and such was the pleasure Charlton's team had brought to the country a crowd of more than 500,000 welcomed them back to Dublin.\n\nCharlton guided his team to the last 16 at the next World Cup in the United States four years later, including a win over eventual finalists Italy in the group, before losing to the Netherlands. He was also awarded the freedom of the city of Dublin that year. He was awarded honorary Irish citizenship two years later.\n\nAnd it was the Netherlands who brought the curtain down on his time in charge when they beat the Republic of Ireland 2-0 at Anfield in a play-off to reach Euro '96.\n\nIf the art of management is to extract the maximum from the players at your disposal, Charlton and his trusted lieutenant Maurice Setters did that and more with Ireland.\n\nCharlton had also built a career as a skilled pundit, starting as a member of ITV's revolutionary World Cup 'panel' in 1974, and the recent revisiting of Euro '96 demonstrated his charismatic style as a standout analyst.\n\nFor a career that came late to prominence, Charlton lived the fullest of football lives and is guaranteed his place in the game's Hall of Fame.", "US President Donald Trump weighed in on his long-term ally Roger Stone's 40-month prison sentence.\n\nHe was found guilty in November on seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering\n\nMr Trump said he'd \"love to see Roger [Stone] exonerated\" but also wants \"the process to be played out\".", "Angela Rayner accused Conservatives of \"turning their backs\" on the North\n\nLabour has warned that the economic downturn caused by coronavirus must not \"increase the gap\" in income and wealth between the north and south of England.\n\nIn a speech, deputy leader Angela Rayner urged the government to think of the \"human cost\" of unemployment.\n\nShe also argued that the stamp-duty holiday would help people in London more than those anywhere else.\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to \"level up\" the country, helping parts feeling \"left behind, neglected, unloved\".\n\nLast month, the prime minister set out a £5bn plan to build homes and infrastructure as part of measures to deal with the expected massive recession following the nationwide lockdown.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.2% during the first three months of this year, according to official figures - the joint-largest quarterly fall since 1979.\n\nAnd the Office for National Statistics' data for April show a monthly fall of 20.4% - by far the biggest on record.\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech for the Durham Miners' Gala, the annual labour movement and trade union celebration which takes place online on Saturday, Ms Rayner spoke of her fears that the government might use the downturn to justify a policy of \"managed decline\" for northern England.\n\nShe said: \"The north-south divide is continuing to grow and we cannot afford for the economic impact of coronavirus to increase this gap even more.\n\n\"The Tories talk a good game on this issue but their record of turning their backs on the North speaks for itself.\"\n\nIn his summer statement this week, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a temporary holiday on stamp duty on the first £500,000 of all property sales in England to reinvigorate the property market.\n\nMs Rayner, citing research by the Resolution Foundation think tank, said this would not help the average homebuyer in north-east England, while the average buyer in London would save £14,200.\n\nShe added that the large rises in unemployment seen in former industrial areas of the North during the 1980s should not be allowed to happen again.\n\nLabour is keen to regain many former safe seats across northern England and the Midlands - once known as the \"red wall\" - that it lost in December's landslide general election victory for Boris Johnson.\n\nLast month, the prime minister said his plans would ensure \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" and that there would be no return to austerity during the coronavirus downturn.", "Jack Charlton explains his football philosophy in a BBC Sport interview during his reign as Republic of Ireland boss from 1986 to 1995.\n\nCharlton was accused of an over-reliance on long ball tactics although his time in charge saw unprecedented success for the country as it qualified for three major tournaments after never having previously reached a finals.", "Stroke, delirium, anxiety, confusion, fatigue - the list goes on. If you think Covid-19 is just a respiratory disease, think again.\n\nAs each week passes, it is becoming increasingly clear that coronavirus can trigger a huge range of neurological problems.\n\nSeveral people who've contacted me after comparatively mild illness have spoken of the lingering cognitive impact of the disease - problems with their memory, tiredness, staying focused.\n\nBut it's at the more severe end that there is most concern.\n\nChatting to Paul Mylrea, it's hard to imagine that he had two massive strokes, both caused by coronavirus infection.\n\nThe 64-year-old, who is director of communications at Cambridge University, is eloquent and, despite some lingering weakness on his right side, able-bodied.\n\nHe has made one of the most remarkable recoveries ever seen by doctors at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) in London.\n\nPaul Mylrea has made a remarkable recovery after his stroke\n\nHis first stroke happened while he was in intensive care at University College Hospital. Potentially deadly blood clots were also found in his lungs and legs, so he was put on powerful blood-thinning (anticoagulant) drugs.\n\nA couple of days later he suffered a second, even bigger stroke and was immediately transferred to the NHNN in Queen Square.\n\nConsultant neurologist Dr Arvind Chandratheva was just leaving hospital when the ambulance arrived.\n\n\"Paul had a blank expression on his face,\" he says. \"He could only see on one side and he couldn't figure out how to use his phone or remember his passcode.\n\n\"I immediately thought that the blood thinners had caused a bleed in the brain, but what we saw was so strange and different.\"\n\nPaul had suffered another acute stroke due to a clot, depriving vital areas of the brain of blood supply.\n\nDr Chandratheva says he has never seen such a high level of clotting before\n\nTests showed that he had astonishingly high levels of a marker for the amount of clotting in the blood known as D-dimer.\n\nNormally these are less than 300, and in stroke patients can rise to 1,000. Paul Mylrea's levels were over 80,000.\n\n\"I've never seen that level of clotting before - something about his body's response to the infection had caused his blood to become incredibly sticky,\" says Dr Chandratheva.\n\nDuring lockdown there was a fall in the number of emergency stroke admissions. But in the space of two weeks, neurologists at the NHNN treated six Covid patients who'd had major strokes. These were not linked to the usual risk factors for stroke such as high blood pressure or diabetes. In each case they saw very high levels of clotting.\n\nPart of the trigger for the strokes was a massive overreaction by the immune system which causes inflammation in the body and brain.\n\nDr Chandratheva projected Paul's brain images on a wall, highlighting the large areas of damage, shown as white blurs, affecting his vision, memory, coordination, and speech.\n\nThe stroke was so big that doctors thought it likely he would not survive, or be left hugely disabled.\n\n\"After my second stroke, my wife and daughters thought that was it, they would never see me again,\" Paul says. \"The doctors told them there was not much they could do except wait. Then I somehow survived and have been getting progressively stronger.\"\n\nPaul Mylrea having remote therapy - doctors did not think he would survive\n\nOne of the first encouraging signs was Paul's ability with languages - he speaks six - and he would switch from English to Portuguese to speak to one of his nurses.\n\n\"Unusually he learned several of his languages as an adult, and this will have created different wiring connections in the brain which have survived his stroke,\" says Dr Chandratheva.\n\nPaul says he cannot read as fast as he used to, and is sometimes forgetful, but that's hardly surprising given the areas of damage in his brain.\n\nHis physical recovery has also been impressive, which doctors attribute to his previous very high level of fitness.\n\n\"I used to cycle for an hour a day, do a couple of gym sessions a week and swim in the river. My cycling and diving days are over, but I hope to get back to swimming,\" Paul says.\n\nA study in the Lancet Psychiatry found brain complications in 125 seriously ill coronavirus patients in UK hospitals. Nearly half had suffered a stroke due to a blood clot while others had brain inflammation, psychosis, or dementia-like symptoms.\n\nOne of the report authors, Prof Tom Solomon of the University of Liverpool, told me, \"It's clear now that this virus does cause problems in the brain whereas initially we thought it was all about the lungs. Part of it is due to lack of oxygen to the brain. But there appear to be many other factors, such as problems with blood clotting and a hyper-inflammatory response of the immune system. We should also ask whether the virus itself is infecting the brain.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The wiring of the human brain\n\nIn Canada, neuroscientist Prof Adrian Owen has launched a global online study of how the virus affects cognition. Owen said: \"We already know that ICU survivors are vulnerable to cognitive impairment. So as the number of recovered Covid-19 patients continues to climb, it's becoming increasingly apparent that getting sent home from the ICU is not the end for these people. It's just the beginning of their recovery.\"\n\n\"Sars and Mers, which are both caused by coronaviruses, were associated with some neurological disease, but we've never seen anything like this before,\" Dr Michael Zandi, consultant neurologist at the NHNN, told me. \"The closest comparison is the 1918 flu pandemic. We saw then there was a lot of brain disease and problems that emerged over the next 10-20 years.\"\n\nAs the BBC's medical correspondent, since 2004 I have reported on global disease threats such as bird flu, swine flu, Sars and Mers - both coronaviruses - and Ebola. 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 new reality.\n\nA mysterious neurological syndrome known as encephalitis lethargica appeared around the end of World War One and went on to affect more than a million people worldwide. There is limited evidence of its causes, and whether the trigger was influenza or a post-infectious autoimmune disorder.\n\nAs well as a sleepiness coma, some patients had movement disorders that looked like Parkinson's disease, which affected them for the rest of their lives.\n\nIn his book Awakenings, the neurologist Oliver Sacks told the story of a group of patients who'd been frozen in sleep for decades, and how he used the drug L-Dopa to temporarily free them from their locked-in state.\n\nWe should be careful before reading too much into comparisons between Covid-19 and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. But with so many Covid patients having neurological symptoms, it will be important to look at the long-term effects on the brain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fergus Walsh discovers why the brain is a marvel of evolution", "The number of new coronavirus cases in Scotland has fallen to single figures after a rise on Friday led Nicola Sturgeon to warn against complacency.\n\nScottish government statistics show that 18,340 people have tested positive for coronavirus, an increase of seven in the last 24 hours.\n\nNo Covid-19 deaths were reported over that period, meaning the total number of fatalities remains at 2,490.\n\nIt is the third day in a row without any new deaths.\n\nThere were 18 new positive cases reported on Friday, which was higher than any daily tally for the past three weeks.\n\nThe first minister said at the time that the rise was being \"looked at very closely\" and served as a reminder the virus has not gone away.\n\nOn Twitter on Saturday, Nicola Sturgeon said: \"Positive cases in past 24 hrs back in single figures (7) after yesterday's increase\n\n\"Also, another day with no registered deaths amongst people who had tested positive.\n\n\"Progress still good - but with significant easing of lockdown next week, we all must take care StaySafe.\"\n\nOf those who have tested positive, 323 people were in hospital on Friday night.\n\nA total of six patients are in intensive care with confirmed or suspected Covid-19, a fall of six on the previous day.\n\nGreater Glasgow and Clyde is the health board area to have recorded the most cases positive (4,872) so far, followed by Lothian (3,165) and Lanarkshire (2,734).", "Walt Disney World was closed in March due to concerns over coronavirus\n\nWalt Disney World Resort has begun to reopen in Florida despite a coronavirus surge across the US state.\n\nThe site's Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom opened on Saturday. Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios are expected to follow from 15 July.\n\nVisitors will be required to wear masks and adhere to other safety measures across the complex in Orlando.\n\nMore than a quarter of a million cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Florida, along with 4,197 deaths.\n\nDisney first closed the resort in March during the early months of America's outbreak. While infections were largely concentrated in New York and California at first, Florida is among several states recording a rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nIn Orange County, where the resort is based, authorities have reported 16,630 cases - some of the highest numbers in Florida.\n\nAs a result, many cities and counties across Florida have reinstated restrictions that were lifted in May when infections began to drop.\n\nDespite the outbreak, hundreds of people made their way to the Disney flagship resort on Saturday.\n\nSome of its competitors, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld Orlando, reopened to visitors several weeks ago.\n\nDisney has also resumed limited operations at its four parks in Asia, and at Disney Springs - an outdoor shopping mall in Orlando. Disney reported a $1.4bn (£1.1bn) hit to profits in the first three months of the year.\n\n\"The world is changing around us, but we strongly believe that we can open safely and responsibly,\" said Josh D'Amaro, Disney's theme park chairman, in an interview with the New York Times.\n\n\"Covid is here, and we have a responsibility to figure out the best approach to safely operate in this new normal.\"\n\nDisney is selling limited ticket numbers to help maintain safety\n\nVisitors are going through temperature checks, and social distancing measures are in place\n\nWalt Disney World was closed in March due to concerns over coronavirus\n\nFirework shows and parades have been cancelled to prevent mass gatherings\n\nHand sanitiser was also widely available", "The osprey chicks are in the Highlands\n\nDame Vera Lynn, Capt Sir Tom Moore and Scottish rugby legend Doddie Weir have topped a poll to have ospreys chicks named after them.\n\nThe three birds at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest in Lochaber in the Highlands found fame via a nest camera.\n\nWoodland Trust Scotland confirmed the trio secured 50% of the votes.\n\nThor, Freya and Loki finished runner-up with 28%, while Ally, Bally and Bee polled 14%.\n\nThe least popular option, Hagrid, Boudica and Merlin, only managed 8%.\n\nDame Vera Lynn died at the age of 103\n\nCapt Tom initially set out to raise £1,000 for the NHS but raised millions\n\nThe three osprey chicks have become popular internationally during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe young trio - two males and a female - are watched by tens of thousands of fans on a nest camera.\n\nGeorge Anderson, of Woodland Trust Scotland, said of the name suggestions: \"Many wanted to honour individuals who have been on people's minds during this lockdown summer.\"\n\nMore than 10,000 votes were cast before the online poll closed on Sunday night.\n\nThe birds are expected to take their first flights in around a week and will remain in the nest until they migrate south towards the end of August.\n\nMr Anderson added: \"Most Scottish ospreys fly overland down through England before crossing the Channel to France and on to Africa.\n\n\"There is every chance that Vera the osprey may fly over those white cliffs made so famous in song by her namesake.\"", "Jen Reid posed with her statue, which appeared on the empty plinth on Wednesday\n\nA sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester, placed on the plinth where a slave trader's statue was toppled, will be removed, Bristol's mayor has said.\n\nThe sculpture of Jen Reid was erected early on Wednesday at the spot in the city where an Edward Colston statue was pulled down during protests last month.\n\nMs Reid had been photographed standing on the empty plinth.\n\nMayor Marvin Rees said it was up to the people of Bristol to decide what would replace the Colston statue.\n\nArtist Marc Quinn said his black resin statue, called A Surge of Power, was meant to be a temporary installation to continue the conversation about racism.\n\nHe said he was inspired to create it after seeing an image of Ms Reid standing on the plinth with her fist raised during the Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June.\n\nMr Quinn then contacted Ms Reid through social media and they worked together on the statue, which was erected shortly before 04:30 BST.\n\nThe new statue has has attracted people both supporting it and those against\n\nBBC producer Alex Littlewood said people had been gathering around the Jen Reid statue for most of Wednesday, with many coming to take a knee.\n\n\"Most people have been supportive of the statue, but for a short time this afternoon a small amount of people arrived calling for the statue to be removed, saying it was an act of vandalism,\" he added.\n\nMr Rees, the city's elected mayor, said removing the new statue was \"critical to building a city that is home to those who are elated at the [Colston] statue being pulled down, those who sympathise with its removal... and those who feel that in its removal, they've lost a piece of the Bristol they know\".\n\nHe added the sculpture was the work and decision of a London-based artist, \"was not requested and permission was not given for it to be installed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marvin Rees This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCouncillor Cleo Lake said while she welcomed the arrival of the statue, she agreed the long term future of the plinth should be decided by the people of Bristol.\n\nShe said: \"I expect the statue will be a temporary intervention and it is great to hear that should the statue be sold then the money raised will in part go towards the Cargo education project set to be rolled out in Bristol secondary schools this September.\"\n\nJen Reid was pictured standing on top of the plinth after the Colston statue was pulled down on 7 June\n\nMs Reid said: \"I think it's something the people of Bristol really appreciate seeing.\n\n\"My husband took the photo on the day of the protests and put it on his social media. He was contacted by Marc Quinn who then contacted myself.\n\n\"I was in his studio by the Friday after the protest with 201 cameras surrounding me, taking pictures of me from every conceivable angle. That went into a 3D print and a mould was made.\"\n\nMs Reid said the sculpture was important because it helped \"keep the journey towards racial justice and equality moving\".\n\nPeople in Bristol stopped to take photos of the new statue\n\nShe said she had felt an \"overwhelming impulse\" to climb on to the plinth during last month's protest.\n\n\"When I was stood there on the plinth, and raised my arm in a Black Power salute, it was totally spontaneous,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't even think about it. It was like an electrical charge of power was running through me.\n\n\"This sculpture is about making a stand for my mother, for my daughter, for black people like me.\"\n\nArtist Marc Quinn's previous works include a sculpture entitled Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was put on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square\n\nMr Quinn said: \"I saw pictures of Jen on the plinth and she spontaneously made this gesture and I thought 'this is amazing'.\n\n\"She's made an extraordinary artwork just by doing that and it needs to be crystallised into an object and put back on to the plinth.\n\n\"It had to be in that public realm and I wanted to put it in that charged spot where Edward Colston had been before.\"\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was pulled from its plinth last month and dragged into the harbourside\n\nOn 7 June, protesters used ropes to pull down the Colston statue, which had been at the Bristol city centre site since 1895.\n\nIt was then dragged to the harbourside where it was thrown into the water at Pero's Bridge - named in honour of enslaved man Pero Jones who lived and died in the city.\n\nBristol City Council later retrieved the statue, which will be displayed in a museum along with placards from the Black Lives Matter protest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Lewis has been the Conservative MP for New Forest East since 1997 and has previously chaired the Commons defence committee\n\nConservative MP Julian Lewis has been kicked out of the Conservative parliamentary party after beating Chris Grayling to become chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee.\n\nBelieved to be No 10's preferred choice, Mr Grayling was widely expected to get the role.\n\nBut concerns had been raised that the body's impartiality could be undermined, and MPs backed Mr Lewis.\n\nThe committee scrutinises the work of the intelligence and security services.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC that Mr Lewis \"has been told by the chief whip that it is because he worked with Labour and other opposition MPs for his own advantage\".\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy criticised the decision tweeting: \"Completely self-defeating act that bears the hallmark of a government so arrogant it really believes it is above scrutiny.\n\n\"What is in the Russia report that Johnson doesn't want to see the light of day?\"\n\nFormer Tory Cabinet minister and ex-chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Dominic Grieve, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"What troubles me about this episode, quite apart from its utter absurdity, and now withdrawing the whip from Julian, who is indeed highly respected, is the mindset it gives about what on earth is going on in Downing Street.\n\n\"Why did they try to manipulate this process? They shouldn't have done.\n\n\"The committee can only exist, the committee can only be respected... if it is seen to be non-partisan, and independent.\"\n\nAfter Boris Johnson nominated five Conservative MPs for the committee last week - giving them a majority - it had been thought Chris Grayling was a shoo-in for the chairman position.\n\nBut it seems there was a coup. Opposition members of the committee were worried Mr Grayling would be too close to No 10, and decided to back Julian Lewis. It appears he then backed himself, thus securing a majority.\n\nThat's left No 10 embarrassed and it seems angry. Sources say Mr Lewis had the whip removed because he had told the Tory chief whip he would back Mr Grayling.\n\nI hear the committee is meeting again on Thursday to discuss when to publish the much delayed Russia report. Some are pushing for it to be published next week - and believe today's events could make that more likely.\n\nMr Grayling held cabinet positions under David Cameron and Theresa May including transport secretary.\n\nDespite supporting Mr Johnson in the Conservative leadership election he was not given a role in government.\n\nThe other Conservative committee members are Sir John Hayes, Mr Lewis, Mark Pritchard, and Theresa Villiers. There are two Labour MPs - Kevan Jones and Dame Diana Johnson - plus Labour peer Lord West of Spithead. Stewart Hosie is the SNP's representative on the committee.\n\nOne of the first jobs of the newly formed committee will be to publish a long-awaited report on alleged Russian interference in UK politics.\n\nPublication has been held up by the 2019 election and then a delay in setting up the committee. It has been the longest hiatus since the committee was established in the early 1990s.\n\nThe report includes evidence from UK intelligence services concerning Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nThe delay in publication has led to speculation the report contains details embarrassing for the Conservatives, however leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg said the hold up was due to a number of committee members leaving Parliament and the need \"to make sure that the right people with the right level of experience and responsibility could be appointed\".\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Mr Jones said the report should be produced before Parliament goes into recess on 22 July.\n\n\"There's no reason why it shouldn't be. It's been through both the committee, it's been agreed through the redaction process, and it's been agreed by government,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Duchess of Sussex: \"Humanity desperately needs you\"\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has urged young women to \"push\" humanity in a \"more inclusive\" direction.\n\nSpeaking to a gender equality summit, Meghan called on delegates to challenge \"lawmakers, leaders and executives\" and make them \"uncomfortable\".\n\nShe said this discomfort would \"create the conditions to re-imagine our standards\".\n\nIt comes after she and husband Prince Harry spoke to young people about equal rights.\n\nIn a pre-recorded video, Meghan, 38, told the 2020 Girl Up leadership summit that the duke, 35, and their son Archie, will be \"cheering\" on young activists as they \"continue marching, advocating, and leading the way forward\".\n\nThe duke and duchess are now living in Los Angeles with their son after stepping back as senior working royals earlier this year.\n\nLast week, the pair spoke to young leaders during the Queen's Commonwealth Trust (QCT) weekly video call, which focused on responding to the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nIn the keynote speech to the female empowerment summit, which took place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic, Meghan told delegates humanity \"desperately\" needed them to \"push\" it in \"a more inclusive, more just, and more empathetic direction\".\n\nShe said as well as framing debate, they needed to \"be in charge\" of the conversation on issues including racial justice, gender, climate change, mental health and \"so much more\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: 'It's not going to be easy... but it needs to be done'\n\nThe duchess praised the work delegates have already been doing. She highlighted those involved in efforts like organising global Black Lives Matter protests, reforming the criminal justice system and campaigns to end gun violence.\n\nShe said: \"You are standing up and demanding to be heard, yes, but you're also demanding to own the conversation.\"\n\nShe went on to say women regularly get a verbal brush-off from those in power, something experienced \"in the moments we challenge the norms\".\n\nMeghan added: \"So if that's the case, I say to you, keep challenging, keep pushing, make them a little uncomfortable.\n\n\"Because it's only in that discomfort that we actually create the conditions to re-imagine our standards, our policies, our leadership; to move towards real representation and meaningful influence over the structures of decision-making and power.\"\n\nThis 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\nThis \"reimagining\" of standards is not \"a zero-sum game\", she explained, but rather it is \"mutually beneficial and better for everyone\".\n\nShe said the path to get there will take \"girls and women, men and boys, it will take those that are black and those that are white collectively tackling the inequities and structural problems that we know exist\".\n\nFormer US First Ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton also made appearances during the conference organised by Girl Up, an initiative created by the UN Foundation in 2010 to help support UN agencies that focus on adolescent girls.\n\nMeghan has actively campaigned on a number of humanitarian issues, especially the topics of gender equality and women's empowerment.\n\nShe has spoken previously about how a soap manufacturer altered its advert after, at the age of 11, she wrote a letter to then first lady Mrs Clinton, and other high-profile figures, complaining that it implied women belonged in the kitchen.", "Benjamin Keough's cause of death has been confirmed by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office.\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was the son of Lisa Marie Presley and grandson of the late Elvis Presley, was found dead in Calabasas, California, on Sunday.\n\nAfter an autopsy, his cause of death was listed as a shotgun wound and his manner of death was listed as suicide.\n\nFollowing his death, Lisa Marie's manager said she was \"heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated\".\n\n\"She adored that boy. He was the love of her life,\" Roger Widynowski said, adding that she was \"trying to stay strong\" for her three daughters.\n\nBenjamin was the younger of the two children Lisa Marie Presley had with her first husband, musician Danny Keough, before their divorce in 1994. The other is Mad Max actress Riley Keough, 31.\n\nLisa Marie had previously described Keough's resemblance to her famous father as \"just uncanny\".\n\nFootage of Keough and his siblings featured in the 2012 music video for Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous \"duet\" with Elvis, I Love You Because.\n\nHer close relationship with her son, whose middle name was Storm, also apparently inspired the title track on her third album, Storm & Grace, released in 2012.\n\nHe reportedly signed his own record deal with Universal in 2009, although no music was ever released.\n\nIn 2013, Lisa Marie told the Huffington Post she was letting Keough do \"his own thing\".\n\n\"I'm going to let him decide when he wants to go out and do what he wants to do,\" she said.\n\nLisa Marie also has twin 11-year-old daughters with her fourth husband, musician and producer Michael Lockwood, who she wed in 2006 after brief marriages to pop star Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "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.", "An estimated £3-4bn is being laundered via cryptocurrencies in Europe every year, the director of Europol has told the BBC.\n\nIt comes as Treasury Select Committee member Alison McGovern MP says much speedier regulation is needed.\n\nBut what are crypto-currencies? Spencer Kelly explains all.\n\nWho Wants to Be a Bitcoin Millionaire? was first broadcast at 20:30 GMT on Monday 12 February, BBC One.\n\nThe programme will be re-broadcast on BBC World News on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 February 2018.", "A star has been sent hurtling across the galaxy after undergoing a partial supernova, astronomers say.\n\nA supernova is a powerful explosion that occurs when some stars reach the ends of their lives; in this case, the blast was not sufficient to destroy it.\n\nInstead, it sent the star hurtling through space at 900,000 km/hr.\n\nAstronomers think the object, known as a white dwarf, was originally circling another star, which would have been sent flying in the opposite direction.\n\nWhen two stars orbit each other like this, they are described as a \"binary\". Only one of the stars has been detected by astronomers, however.\n\nThe object, known as SDSS J1240+6710, was previously found to have an unusual atmospheric composition.\n\nDiscovered in 2015, it seemed to contain neither hydrogen nor helium (which are usually found), appearing to be composed instead of an unusual mix of oxygen, neon, magnesium and silicon.\n\nNow, using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team has also identified carbon, sodium, and aluminium in the star's atmosphere, all of which are produced in the first thermonuclear reactions of a supernova.\n\nBut there is also a clear absence of what is known as the \"iron group\" of elements, iron, nickel, chromium and manganese.\n\nThese heavier elements are normally cooked up from the lighter ones, and make up the defining features of thermonuclear supernovas.\n\nThe lack of iron group elements in SDSSJ1240+6710 suggests that the star only underwent a partial supernova before the nuclear burning died out.\n\nLead author Professor Boris Gänsicke, from the department of physics at the University of Warwick, UK, said: \"This star is unique because it has all the key features of a white dwarf but it has this very high velocity and unusual abundances that make no sense when combined with its low mass.\n\n\"It has a chemical composition which is the fingerprint of nuclear burning, a low mass and a very high velocity; all of these facts imply that it must have come from some kind of close binary system and it must have undergone thermonuclear ignition. It would have been a type of supernova, but of a kind that that we haven't seen before.\"\n\nThe high velocity could be accounted for if both stars in the binary were carried off in opposite directions at their orbital velocities in a kind of slingshot manoeuvre after the explosion.\n\nThe scientists were also able to measure the star's mass, which is particularly low for a white dwarf - only 40% the mass of our Sun - which would be consistent with a partial supernova that did not quite destroy the star.\n\nThe nature of the nuclear burning that occurs in a supernova is different from the reactions that release energy in nuclear power plants or most nuclear weapons. Most uses of nuclear energy on Earth rely on fission - which breaks down heavier elements into lighter ones - rather than the fusion that occurs in a star.\n\n\"The process developing during a thermonuclear supernova is very similar to what we try to achieve on Earth in our future power plants: nuclear fusion of lighter elements into heavier ones, which releases vast amounts of energy,\" Prof Gänsicke told BBC News.\n\n\"In a fusion reactor, we use the lightest element, hydrogen (more specifically, different flavours, or isotopes of it). In a thermonuclear supernova, the density and temperature in the star becomes so high that fusion of heavier elements ignites, starting with carbon and oxygen as 'fuel', and fusing heavier and heavier elements.\"\n\nThe best studied thermonuclear supernovas are classified as Type Ia. These helped lead to the discovery of dark energy, and are now routinely used to map the structure of the Universe. But there is growing evidence that thermonuclear supernovas can happen under very different conditions.\n\nSDSSJ1240+6710 may be the survivor of a type of supernova that hasn't yet been observed as it's happening.\n\nWithout the radioactive nickel that powers the long-lasting afterglow of the Type Ia supernovas, the explosion that sent the white dwarf careering across our Galaxy would have been a brief flash of light that would have been difficult to discover.\n\nThe research has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.", "The broadcaster, who's been with the station for nine years, says it's \"the end of an era\".\n\n\"I've decided it's the right time for me to hang up the headphones (not a thing) and say goodbye to Radio 1,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nThe 34-year-old currently hosts the weekend afternoon show with co-host Dev Griffin - her last show will be on Sunday 9 August.\n\nAlice says she's \"met friends for life\" and thanked everyone at Radio 1, including the producers who \"patiently stood with me whilst I crashed the vocals, pressed the wrong buttons and had a prolonged crisis of confidence in those early off-air days (and beyond!).\"\n\nDuring her time at Radio 1 Alice presented the 10pm until midnight show with Phil Taggart, before taking on a weekend afternoon show and then the Weekend Breakfast Show.\n\nShe picked up a Music Week Best Music Show Award along the way and in her own words - \"had a dead nice time\".\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 thisisalicelevine This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"If you've listened to the show or got in touch with one of your amazing stories over the years, I can't thank you enough. To make jokes all day has just been a gift of a job!\"\n\nAlice hasn't revealed what she's doing next but alongside her BBC presenting duties she's been one-third of one of the world's most popular podcasts - My Dad Wrote A Porno.\n\nFellow broadcaster Clara Amfo, who's presented from the Brits red carpet alongside Alice over the last few years, was one of the first to react.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clara Amfo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo 🗣 WHO’S NEXT?! This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Clara Amfo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo 🗣 WHO’S NEXT?!\n\nAlice's announcement comes not long after Maya Jama revealed that she was leaving the station, and a week after 1Xtra Breakfast Show presenter Dotty announced she was leaving Radio 1's sister station.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said he would look at what help can be offered to a nine-year-old girl who needs to fly to the United States for cancer treatment.\n\nThe family of Eva Williams, who has a brain tumour, raised £250,000 for a new trial for their \"trooper\".\n\nBut the schoolgirl from Marford, Wrexham, has been unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nEva's father Paul Slapa said she was \"amazed\" to hear the prime minister mention her name in Parliament.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nMs Atherton described Eva as a \"beautiful and brave nine-year-old girl\" and praised her constituents for rallying round her.\n\nShe asked the prime minister if he would \"work with the family to look at ways Eva can access treatment\".\n\nBoris Johnson replied: \"Our thoughts are very much with Eva, her family and we will of course look at everything we can do to support her travel arrangements.\"\n\nEva has undergone radiotherapy to help shrink her brain tumour\n\nEva was diagnosed with a high-grade diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma in the new year, and has been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer parents Paul Slapa and Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nThe family have been told by Eva's consultant at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool that she is still eligible for treatment in the US, once she is in a position to travel.\n\nThe family used social media to thank their MP for raising the issue, saying they were looking forward to the prime minister following up the intervention \"and helping us get Eva the treatment she deserves\".\n\nMr Slapa told BBC Radio Wales the fact the question was raised gave the campaign \"a real boost.\"\n\n\"Eva was amazed the Prime Minister said her name in Parliament. She immediately text all her friends so that was nice to see her smiling about that,\" Mr Slapa said.\n\n\"She's a trooper, she battles on. She enjoys playing like any other nine-year-old child will. She's in good spirits generally.\"", "A rare version of the classic 1985 Super Mario Bros has sold at auction for $114,000 (£90,000), the most ever paid for a video game.\n\nThe cartridge, still in its original packaging, sold to an anonymous bidder.\n\nAnd the US auctioneer said demand \"was extremely high\", partly because this particular packaging had been used for a short while only.\n\nThe previous record for an auctioned game was $100,000 - for a different copy of Super Mario.\n\n\"If any lot in the sale could hit a number like that, it was going to be that one,\" Heritage Auctions video games director Valarie McLeckie said.\n\n\"We knew this would be a strong live session.\n\n\"But I don't think anybody could have anticipated how much bidding there was on Heritage Live and the phones.\"\n\nSuper Mario follows the adventures of the eponymous plumber hero, often joined by his brother, Luigi.\n\nAppetite for the game has never waned.\n\nAnd it is often cited as the most successful video games franchise so far.\n\nPiers Harding-Rolls, a gaming expert at research company Amper Analysis, said: \"Brand new 'old stock' packaged games connected to much loved gaming brands and companies, especially if they are rare versions, have risen hugely in value over the last 20 years.\"\n\n\"This is because these items are now firmly entrenched in the nostalgia of childhood gaming for many collectors in their 30s and 40s.\n\n\"As prices have risen, so more collectors have come into the market.\n\n\"These auction pieces now sit alongside other toys and collectibles that command large amounts at auction, including boxed Dinky cars, sealed, vintage Star Wars figures and pristine Marvel comics.\"", "Mass testing in Blackburn began at the weekend following a spike in infections\n\nNew measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Blackburn with Darwen have been introduced after a spike in cases.\n\nFor the next month, people living within the Lancashire authority must observe the rules in a bid to avoid a Leicester-style local lockdown.\n\nThe new measures include tighter limits on visitors from another household, and officials have called on people to bump elbows in place of handshakes and hugs.\n\nMass testing began at the weekend after 61 new cases sprang up within a week.\n\nResidents are being told to wear cloth face coverings in all enclosed public spaces, including workplaces, libraries, museums, health centres and hair and beauty salons.\n\nBlackburn with Darwen's public health director, Prof Dominic Harrison, also called for people only to bump elbows with anyone outside their immediate family.\n\nHe said public protection advice for small shops was being stepped up to ensure social distancing was being observed.\n\nTargeted testing is taking place in the borough, and residents have been told they do not need to have symptoms to be tested.\n\nProf Harrison said: \"These steps will help and we are appealing to everyone in Blackburn with Darwen to follow them to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"If we don't, a local lockdown, like in Leicester, becomes a very real possibility.\"\n\nProtective equipment is being used by shop workers around the borough\n\nHe said increased testing would mean a \"rise in the number of cases\" in the next seven to 10 days.\n\nIf rates were continuing to rise after two weeks, he said, the authority would \"have to consider reversing some of the national lockdown lifting measures locally\".\n\nThis would be done \"one by one until we see a reversal in the current rising trend,\" he said.\n\n\"It's up to everyone to make sure we don't have to do that.\"\n\nHe said there would also be \"targeted work\" after a rise in infections within the South Asian community - in particular \"cluster infections\" among families living in small terraced houses.\n\nWhen \"one person gets infected in a multi-generational household, all the household members are getting infected\", Prof Harrison said.\n\nFigures show Blackburn with Darwen recorded 47 new cases per 100,000 in the week ending Saturday, up from 31.6 the previous week.\n\nIn Leicester, where a local lockdown has been imposed, the rate has risen from 115 per 100,000 to 118 over the same period.\n\nBut this is still down from 152.2 in the seven days to 27 June.\n\nBased on figures released on Tuesday, Pendle in Lancashire currently has England's second-highest rate of new cases for the week, rising from 14.2 per 100,000 to 76.6 in the week to 11 July.\n\nInformation videos are being produced in English, Urdu and Gujurati to spread the message in the former mill town.\n\nCouncil leader Mohammed Khan said the authority was working to spread the message that \"life cannot go back to normal just yet, and we must all make sacrifices to avoid a local lockdown\".\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to get a grip on the virus, and we need everyone in Blackburn with Darwen to pull together to help us,\" he said.\n\n\"Please continue to do your bit to stick to the rules to protect yourself and your family.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Jonathan Edwards has been an MP since 2010\n\nMP Jonathan Edwards has been suspended from Plaid Cymru for 12 months after he accepted a police caution.\n\nThe Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP was arrested on 20 May on suspicion of assault.\n\nOn Wednesday Plaid Cymru's disciplinary panel suspended him from the party saying it was a \"serious matter\".\n\nThe 44-year-old MP, who has described the incident as the \"biggest regret\" of his life, said he fully accepted the decision of the panel.\n\nMr Edwards referred himself to the party's internal disciplinary committee following his arrest, and had the whip withdrawn.\n\nNow he will be suspended from the party for 12 months, meaning he will be effectively sitting as an independent MP.\n\nIn a statement the disciplinary panel said: \"Any lifting of the suspension after 12 months is dependent upon Mr Edwards appearing before the panel to demonstrate that he has undertaken a period of self-reflection and learning to address his actions\".\n\nAt the time of the caution Mr Edwards said: \"I am deeply sorry. It is by far the biggest regret of my life.\"\n\nA statement on behalf of his wife, 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\nPlaid Cymru said Mr Edwards had \"co-operated fully with the investigation\" by the panel.\n\nThe party added: \"If Mr Edwards fails to abide by the terms of the suspension he will be excluded.\"\n\nAlun Ffred Jones, the chairman of Plaid Cymru, said the party \"condemns any behaviour that falls below what is expected of our membership\".\n\n\"The speed and outcome of the disciplinary process reflect the seriousness with which the party has dealt with this matter,\" he said.\n\n\"All forms of harassment, abuse and violence are unacceptable, and this has been reflected in the verdict.\"\n• None MP cautioned after arrest on suspicion of assault\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rutendo Dafana said getting into rent arrears was like \"drowning\"\n\nA student fears having to take a year out after being furloughed from their bar job and \"drowning\" in rent arrears.\n\nRutendo Dafana has only been able to afford to pay three-quarters of their rent since being furloughed in March.\n\nNearly 40% of an estimated 180,000 tenants in private housing in Wales have fallen behind on rent in lockdown, according to a Rent Smart Wales survey.\n\nWithout action, Citizens Advice Cymru fears a \"wave of evictions\" from 23 August, when a pause on evictions ends.\n\n\"It feels like you're constantly drowning but you never die,\" the medical science student from Treorchy said.\n\nThe Cardiff Metropolitan University student is now considering the \"not ideal\" choice of leaving study for full-time work.\n\n\"The furlough scheme is giving me only 40% of what I used to make and I was hoping that the government would introduce some sort of rent forgiveness or rent discounts,\" the 21-year-old said.\n\n\"I feel like it's definitely needed now because everyone is struggling. You can't expect the money to come out of nowhere.\"\n\nA Rent Smart Wales survey of 1,343 landlords found 38% had tenants unable to pay full rent since lockdown began on 23 March.\n\nA Rent Smart Wales landlord survey found 38% had tenants unable to pay full rent since lockdown began\n\nThat is the equivalent of 68,000 tenants in Wales who have fallen behind.\n\nAccording to the survey, 28% of those were more than two months in arrears.\n\nCitizens Advice Cymru said calls for help with rent \"doubled\" during lockdown, with 1,037 between 24 March and 23 June this year, compared to 497 during the same period last year.\n\nPolicy advisor Gwennan Hardy recently warned the Senedd's equality, local government and communities committee that when the eviction pause ends in August many tenants could be \"threatened with homelessness\".\n\n\"Whilst the pause in evictions and the extension of the notice period for tenants were really welcome, it has pushed problems further down the road,\" she told the committee.\n\n\"We'd like to see some targeted help for people.\"\n\nThe organisation has called on the Welsh Government to extend the no-fault eviction notice period from three months to six, which said it was reviewing it.\n\nRent Smart Wales' survey also found nearly one in five landlords were struggling to pay their mortgage during lockdown.\n\nRent Smart Wales also found nearly one in five landlords were struggling to pay their mortgage during lockdown\n\nDouglas Haig, of James Douglas Letting Agency in Cardiff, said after three months of reduced revenues, many landlords were struggling to cover costs.\n\n\"Banning evictions is not a solution,\" he said.\n\n\"In the long run that will mean landlords will not be able to pay their mortgages and those properties will be repossessed and increase homelessness over the long term.\"\n\nMr Haig, a representative of the National Residential Landlords' Association, said a survey it carried out revealed one in five tenants in Wales was on furlough.\n\nHe was concerned the number of tenants unable to pay rent would increase when the furlough scheme was wound down.\n\n\"If we don't do something now, and possibly quite radical, then we could be looking at a lot more tenants being unable to pay their rents,\" he said.\n\nHe called on the UK government to raise universal credit housing allowance from 30% of average rent in Wales to 50% and offer tenants a three-year interest-free loan to cover lockdown rent arrears.\n\nThe UK government said it had spent an extra £6.5 billion on the welfare system in response to Covid-19, including raising local housing allowance rates for universal credit and housing benefit claimants, which it said were worth an additional £600 a year on average.\n\nOne landlord insurer said said tenants and landlords were in a \"tough spot\"\n\nLandlord insurers Hamilton Fraser estimates tenants who have fallen three months behind - £1,616 on average - in rent payments could take more than four and a half months to catch up.\n\nThe firm's Matthew Hooker said tenants and landlords were in a \"tough spot\".\n\n\"The UK government has provided both with some initial respite in the form of no evictions and mortgage holidays, however, this is only a temporary fix to a problem,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA pregnant NHS worker who recorded a tearful message after thieves broke into her car said her faith in people has been restored by a stranger who offered to cover the cost.\n\nBecky Jones, a clinical biochemist who is 23 weeks pregnant, found her car damaged in Nottingham on Saturday.\n\nMiss Jones recorded an emotional video, calling those responsible \"the pride of Britain\".\n\nOver the weekend, Miss Jones parked at Nottingham Arena car park on Brook Street to go shopping.\n\nShe later returned to put her bags in the car and meet her boyfriend.\n\nThe couple went for dinner, but when they returned to the car park they found the passenger side window was smashed and the shopping was gone.\n\nMiss Jones, who works for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"I felt absolutely devastated, and angry.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old said she had doubted her faith in people but the stranger's offer made her \"cry with happiness\".\n\nMiss Jones said the stranger's offer made her \"cry with happiness\"\n\nIn his Facebook message, the man said: \"My family are all hard-working and dedicated members of the NHS similar to yourself.\n\n\"I personally think you are all utterly amazing unsung heroes for everything you do, not just during this Covid crisis.\n\n\"I would like to cover the price of the replacement window and the maternity clothes so hopefully it restores your feelings that there are some good people out here in the world.\n\n\"I just think heroes like you might need a helping hand from time to time.\"\n\nMiss Jones said what happened to her car made her doubt her faith in people\n\nMiss Jones said: \"I'm not even bothered about replacing the window or the clothes, just the fact that he said what I was doing was really brave and that he was willing to pay for it.\n\n\"That's made all the difference.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Police confirmed it was investigating the break-in.\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.", "Dr Fauci: \"It's only reflecting negatively on them\"\n\nUS infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has described recent efforts by the Trump administration to discredit him as \"bizarre\" and \"nonsense\".\n\n\"Ultimately, it hurts the president to do that,\" Dr Fauci said in an interview with The Atlantic. \"It doesn't do anything but reflect poorly on them.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a White House official shared a list detailing past apparent erroneous comments by Dr Fauci.\n\nBut on Wednesday Mr Trump insisted he had a \"good relationship\" with him.\n\n\"We're all in the same team including Dr Fauci,\" he said. \"We want to get rid of this mess that China sent us, so everybody's working on the same line and we're doing very well.\"\n\nThe White House statement attacking Dr Fauci criticised him for what it said was conflicting advice on face coverings and remarks on Covid-19's severity.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Dr Fauci told The Atlantic that targeting him was \"completely wrong\".\n\n\"I cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"I think they realise now that that was not a prudent thing to do, because it's only reflecting negatively on them,\" he added.\n\nThe top government expert on infectious diseases took the high road in his first public comments after White House officials, both on and off the record, questioned his professional judgement and handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDr Fauci acknowledges that the advice and analysis he has provided has shifted over time, but he insists his recommendations have always been based on the latest science.\n\nThose views have sometimes led to clashes with the president, who has attempted to shift focus to rebuilding a US economy that has been devastated by the pandemic. Dr Fauci has said that the top priority must be controlling the spread of the virus and recent reopening steps have set those efforts back.\n\nSuch blunt talk has helped make Dr Fauci a popular figure during the pandemic, and that alone may be behind some of the resentment that is simmering within the White House.\n\nThe swipes at Dr Fauci, however, seem destined to be counter-productive. With a general election just a few months away the Trump campaign needs a consistent public message - and an administration attacking one of its own, then distancing itself from those attacks, may only promote a message of chaos and confusion.\n\nDr Fauci was also criticised by Peter Navarro, Mr Trump's top trade adviser, in an opinion piece for USA Today in which he said the disease expert had been \"wrong about everything I have interacted with him on\".\n\nHowever, the White House distanced itself from Mr Navarro's remarks, with communications chief Alyssa Farah tweeting that the article \"didn't go through normal White House clearance processes\" and was \"the opinion of Peter alone\".\n\nAsked about Mr Navarro's piece as he departed the White House for Atlanta, Mr Trump said he should not have written it.\n\n\"Well he made a statement representing himself. He shouldn't be doing that,\" he said.\n\nIn his interview with The Atlantic, Dr Fauci said he was not thinking of resigning over the attacks on him.\n\n\"I think the problem is too important for me to get into those kinds of thoughts and discussions. I just want to do my job. I'm really good at it. I think I can contribute. And I'm going to keep doing it,\" he said.\n\nHe has also told Reuters that he believes the US will successfully develop a vaccine against the coronavirus by the end of the year.\n\nIt follows early stage results from a vaccine developed by the firm Moderna, which Dr Fauci said were promising because the vaccine appeared to offer the type of protection seen in a natural infection.\n\nDr Fauci's comments come after reports that as of 15 July, US hospitals will have to report Covid-19 patient data to the federal health agency in Washington instead of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).\n\nThe CDC, the US's top public health institute, has until now been responsible for handling data about the pandemic from its hospital network.\n\nHealth experts have expressed concerns that data will be politicised, become less transparent and possibly affect the work of researchers and modellers.\n\nThe US has reported more than 3.4 million cases of coronavirus, and more than 136,000 deaths nationwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "Tilbrook played Betty, one of the soap's most popular characters\n\nEmmerdale actress Paula Tilbrook, who played Betty Eagleton in the soap for 21 years, has died at the age of 89.\n\nTilbrook joined the ITV soap as the gossip Betty in 1994 and left in 2015, returning for a brief cameo in the Christmas episode that year.\n\n\"The family of Paula Tilbrook are sad to confirm the peaceful passing of their beloved Paula,\" a statement said.\n\nThe show's producers described her as \"a great talent and a wonderful friend\".\n\nTilbrook died in December, but the news was only made public on The Stage website on Wednesday.\n\nThe family statement said: \"She died of natural causes a few months ago at home with her loved ones beside her.\"\n\nAs Betty, Paula Tilbrook loved a gossip over a glass of sherry\n\nBetty was one of the soap's most popular characters with fans, who revelled in her gossiping, sherry drinking and on-screen relationship with Seth, played by Stan Richards from 1978 until 2004.\n\nA spokeswoman for the show said: \"We are saddened to hear of the passing of our much loved colleague, Paula Tilbrook.\n\n\"Paula was at the heart of Emmerdale for many years and she will be greatly missed by all who worked with her and by the fans of her character, Betty.\n\n\"We have lost a great talent and a wonderful friend but she will forever live in the memories of those lucky enough to have known her.\"\n\nBetty's last scenes on the soap saw her revealing to her fellow Yorkshire villagers her plans to move to Australia after finding love.\n\nTilbrook told Digital Spy at the time: \"I did ask our producer, bless her, not to have me murdered because I was fed up of murders. It's a very, very dangerous place to be - you're better in the Bronx than in Emmerdale village!\n\n\"She said, 'Oh no, of course I won't', and she hasn't. It's a proper ending and it's a happy one. Who doesn't like a happy ending?\"\n\nAs well as starring in Emmerdale, Tilbrook also played several minor characters in Coronation Street, including Estelle Plimpton in 1977, Olive Taylor-Brown in 1978 and 1980, and Vivian Barford between 1991 and 93.\n\nTilbrook's other soap role was as another character named Betty - this time Betty Hughes - in Channel 4's Brookside between 1984 and 85.\n\nThe Salford-born actress enjoyed a wide-ranging career across TV, film, theatre and radio. In 1979, she appeared in the thriller/horror series Tales of the Unexpected, while her film credits included Yanks and Alan Bennett's A Private Function.\n\nShe appeared as dog-lover Mrs Tattersall in Open All Hours and played three roles in Last of the Summer Wine. Her other credits included Crown Court and the BBC's Play for Today.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK's inflation rate rose to 0.6% in June as the coronavirus lockdown began to ease.\n\nThe Consumer Prices Index (CPI) picked up slightly from May's four-year low of 0.5%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nFood and alcohol prices fell, but prices for clothing and games rose, the ONS said.\n\nDespite the slight increase in the rate, inflation remains below the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nJonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS, said: \"The inflation rate has increased for the first time this year, but remains low by historical standards.\n\n\"Due to the impact of the coronavirus, clothing prices have not followed the usual seasonal pattern this year, with the normal falls due to the start of the summer sales failing to materialise.\n\n\"Prices for computer games and consoles have risen, but food prices, particularly vegetables, have fallen.\"\n\nInflation has fallen sharply during the coronavirus crisis as consumer demand has slumped.\n\nIn June, men's clothing in particular rose in price, with increases coming \"across almost the full range\", the ONS said.\n\nWomen's clothing showed \"a more mixed picture across the different products\", but with the overall effect still upward.\n\nGames, toys and hobbies, particularly computer games and computer games consoles, made the biggest contribution to the inflation rise, the ONS said.\n\n\"It is possible that prices have been influenced by the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown changing the timing of demand and the availability of some items, particularly consoles,\" the ONS added.\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\nSince many areas of the economy were completely shut down in June, the ONS said it had to estimate or \"impute\" some of the data.\n\nJeremy Thomson-Cook, chief economist at financial services firm Equals, said the slight increase in the inflation rate was \"a positive sign\", but added that the outlook remained \"messy\".\n\n\"Food prices are falling from lockdown levels, clothing demand is out of kilter with typical seasonal patterns, demand for entertainment during lockdown provided a pronounced bump in prices, and the ONS has only been able to log 84% of the normal price quotes due to unavailability,\" he said.\n\n\"For now, however, inflation remains low, and both consumers and the Bank of England will be happy with that.\"\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said the small rise in inflation was unlikely to be sustained and that deflation was \"around the corner\".\n\n\"In fact, by July or August, CPI inflation may have fallen below zero,\" he said.\n\nDiscounting from retailers and the impact of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's \"eat out to help out\" scheme would push inflation down, he said.\n\nMr Dales said any bout of deflation would last just a few months, but added: \"It will be a few years before the economy is strong enough to raise inflation to the 2% target.\"", "Not all care workers visiting people's homes will be routinely tested for coronavirus, the health minister says.\n\nThere have been calls to test all domiciliary carers who look after people in their own homes, regardless of whether they have symptoms, as happens with staff in care homes.\n\nDomciliary carers are only tested when they have symptoms.\n\nVaughan Gething said some would receive anitbody tests, which show if people have had the disease, as part of a new surveillance plan.\n\n“The evidence that we have had and published today doesn't support testing the whole sector as the right approach,” he said.\n\n“It does underpin though, as I've said, everyone who has symptoms should get a test and self-isolate.\n\n“It also underpins actually the importance of a move from the UK government on statutory sick pay or supportive pay where people are advised by the contact tracing service to self-isolate as they have in Germany.\n\nSpeaking ahead of his press conference, opposition parties called for domiciliary carers to receive more testing.\n\nConservative shadow social care minister Janet Finch Saunders said the service had “gone under the radar”.\n\n“If you work in domiciliary care, social care, district nurse, occupational therapy, physiotherapy – anybody going to somebody’s home receiving care in the community, I think you should be tested,” she said.\n\nAge Cymru’s chief executive Victoria Lloyd said: “We have been clear about the need for adequate and practical access to fast testing for all social care staff to support infection control measures.\n\n\"As such we would support a programme of regular testing for domiciliary care staff.\"", "Amit, who is British with Indian heritage, kept his relationship with Michelle, who’s British with Ghanaian heritage, secret for years - because he feared his family’s reaction. He says that racist attitudes about black people in his community can be influenced by colourism and the caste system in some south Asian countries.\n\nRapper Raj Forever’s music draws on his Jamaican and Sri Lankan heritage. But growing up he was made to feel like an outsider in the Asian community and has heard offensive slurs used to describe black people.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Kim Kardashian West, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Barack Obama were all 'hacked'\n\nBillionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam.\n\nThe official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West also requested donations in the cryptocurrency.\n\n\"Everyone is asking me to give back,\" a tweet from Mr Gates' account said. \"You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.\"\n\nThe US Senate Commerce committee has demanded Twitter brief it about the incident next week.\n\nTwitter said it was a \"co-ordinated\" attack targeting its employees \"with access to internal systems and tools\".\n\n\"We know they [the hackers] used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf,\" the company said in a series of tweets.\n\nIt added that \"significant steps\" had been taken to limit access to such internal systems and tools while the company's investigation was ongoing.\n\nThe firm has also blocked users from being able to tweet Bitcoin wallet addresses for the time being.\n\nMeanwhile, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted: \"Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.\"\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre said its officers had \"reached out\" to the tech firm.\n\n\"While this appears to be an attack on the company rather than individual users, we would urge people to treat requests for money or sensitive information on social media with extreme caution,\" it added in a statement.\n\nUS politicians also have questions. Republican Senator Josh Hawley has written to the company asking if President Trump's account had been vulnerable.\n\nPresident Trump's account was not compromised, the White House said. \"The president will remain on Twitter. His account was secure and not jeopardised during these attacks,\" a statement said.\n\nThe chair of the Senate Commerce committee has also been in contact with Twitter.\n\n\"It cannot be overstated how troubling this incident is, both in its effects and in the apparent failure of Twitter's internal controls to prevent it,\" Senator Roger Wicker wrote to the firm.\n\nHe added that the company must brief the committee's staff about the hack no later than Thursday 23 July.\n\nOne cyber-security expert said that the breach could have been a lot worse in other circumstances.\n\n\"If you were to have this kind of incident take place in the middle of a crisis, where Twitter was being used to either communicate de-escalatory language or critical information to the public, and suddenly it's putting out the wrong messages from several verified status accounts - that could be seriously destabilising,\" Dr Alexi Drew from King's College London told the BBC.\n\nTwitter earlier had to take the extraordinary step of stopping many verified accounts marked with blue ticks from tweeting altogether.\n\nPassword reset requests were also being denied and some other \"account functions\" disabled.\n\nBy 20:30 EDT (00:30 GMT Thursday) users with verified account started to be able to send tweets again, but Twitter said it was still working on a fix.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded cyber-security company CrowdStrike, told Reuters news agency: \"This appears to be the worst hack of a major social media platform yet.\"\n\nOn the official account of Mr Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chief appeared to offer to double any Bitcoin payment sent to the address of his digital wallet \"for the next 30 minutes\".\n\n\"I'm feeling generous because of Covid-19,\" the tweet added, along with a Bitcoin link address.\n\nThe tweets were deleted just minutes after they were first posted.\n\nBut as the first such tweet from Musk's account was removed, another one appeared, then a third.\n\nThe Biden campaign said Twitter had \"locked down the account within a few minutes of the breach and removed the related tweet\".\n\nA spokesman for Bill Gates told AP news agency: \"This appears to be part of a larger issue that Twitter is facing.\"\n\nThe BBC can report from a security source that a web address - cryptoforhealth.com - to which some hacked tweets directed users was registered by a cyber-attacker using the email address mkeyworth5@gmail.com.\n\nThe name \"Anthony Elias\" was used to register the website, but may be a pseudonym - it appears to be a play on \"an alias\".\n\nCryptoforhealth is also a registered user name on Instagram, apparently set up contemporaneously to the hack.\n\nThe description of the profile read \"It was us\", alongside a slightly smiling face emoticon.\n\nThe Instagram profile also posted a message that said: \"It was a charity attack. Your money will find its way to the right place.\"\n\nIn any case, the real identities of the perpetrators are as yet unknown.\n\nThese \"double your Bitcoin\" scams have been a persistent pest on Twitter for years but this is unprecedented with the actual accounts of public figures hijacked and on a large scale.\n\nThe fact that so many different users have been compromised at the same time implies that this is a problem with Twitter's platform itself.\n\nEarly suggestions are that someone has managed to get hold of some sort of administration privileges and bypassed the passwords of pretty much any account they want.\n\nWith so much power at their fingertips the attackers could have done a lot more damage with more sophisticated tweets that could have harmed an individual or organisation's reputation.\n\nBut the motive seems to be clear - make as much money as quickly as they can. The hackers would have known that the tweets wouldn't stay up for long so this was the equivalent of a \"smash and grab\" operation.\n\nThere are conflicting accounts of how much money the hackers have made and even when a figure is settled upon, it's important to remember that cyber-criminals are known to add their own funds into their Bitcoin wallets to make the scam seem more legitimate.\n\nEither way, it's going to be very hard to catch the criminals by following the money. Law enforcement, as well as many angry users, will have some strong questions for Twitter about how this could have happened.\n\nCameron Winklevoss, who was declared the world's first Bitcoin billionaire in 2017 along with his twin brother Tyler, tweeted a message on Wednesday warning people not to participate in the \"scam\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Cameron Winklevoss This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the short time it was online, the link displayed in the tweets of targeted accounts received hundreds of contributions totalling more than $100,000 (£80,000), according to publicly available blockchain records.\n\nThe Twitter accounts targeted have millions of followers.\n\nApple's official account has more than four million followers, while Amazon's chief has 1.5 million\n\nLast year, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey's account was hacked, but the company said it had fixed the flaw that left his account vulnerable.\n\nDr Drew recently co-authored a paper warning about the potential of Twitter being used to sow disinformation.\n\nShe said the latest incident highlighted the need for all major social media platforms to check their security measures, particularly in the run up to the US Presidential vote.\n\n\"Social media companies such as Twitter and, Facebook all have a duty to consider the damage and influence their platforms can have on the 2020 election, and I think some companies are taking that more seriously than others,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Twitter actually has a good history of being forward-thinking and proactive in this space.\n\n\"But whatever the source of this attack [it seems they have] still not done enough.\"\n\nThe FBI's San Francisco field office put out a statement on Wednesday about the latest cyber-breach.\n\n\"The accounts appear to have been compromised in order to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud,\" it said.\n\n\"We advise the public not to fall victim to this scam by sending cryptocurrency or money in relation to this incident.\"", "Banksy spray painted his tag in the colours of a medical face mask\n\nBanksy has returned to the London Underground with a piece encouraging people to wear a face mask.\n\nA video posted on his Instagram page shows a man, believed to be the enigmatic artist, disguised as a professional cleaner.\n\nHe can be seen ordering passengers away as he gets to work, stencilling rats around the inside of a carriage.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said the art was removed \"some days ago\" in line with its \"strict anti-graffiti policy\".\n\nThe work, called If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, features a number of rats in pandemic-inspired poses and wearing face masks.\n\nOne rodent stencilled on the Circle Line train appears to be sneezing, while another is shown spraying anti-bacterial gel.\n\nThe artist's name is also daubed across the driver's door of a train.\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\nAt the end of the video, the words \"I get lockdown\" appear on the side of a station wall before a train's doors close to reveal the phrase \"but I get up again\", and Chumbawamba's 1997 song Tubthumping kicks in.\n\nAll users of public transport in London must wear a face mask.\n\nThe statement from TfL said it appreciated \"the sentiment of encouraging people to wear face coverings\".\n\n\"We'd like to offer Banksy the chance to do a new version of his message for our customers in a suitable location,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC has asked if the travel authority worked with Banksy on this artwork and, if not, whether his actions posed a security risk.\n\nEarly on in his career Banksy, who is originally from Bristol, often spray-painted rats and monkeys on to Tube trains.\n\nA man purporting to be Banksy asks onlookers to move away\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. Tu Minh Le was sentenced to 12 years at the People's Court of Hung Yen Province\n\nA man has been jailed in Vietnam 14 years after killing another man in Wales.\n\nTran Nguyen died at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital in 2006 after being brought in beaten and unconscious.\n\nTu Minh Le, 47, who had fled to Vietnam, was sentenced to 12 years for unlawful killing at the People's Court of Hung Yen Province on Tuesday.\n\nThree men were sentenced for the 44-year-old's manslaughter at Cardiff Crown Court in 2008.\n\nGwent Police said following the 2008 convictions it continued working with the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Vietnamese authorities to track down Tu Minh Le.\n\nMr Nguyen was killed two months after arriving in the UK in the back of a lorry.\n\nTran Nguyen was killed two months after arriving in the UK in the back of a lorry\n\nDuring the 2008 court case, the prosecution said Mr Nguyen had been at a cannabis plantation at a property in Newport when it was raided by rivals, who tied him up and stole the crop of drug.\n\nThe court heard his gangmaster suspected he may have had a role in the theft and was taken to a house in London where he was beaten up.\n\nMr Nguyen, a father-of-two, was then driven back to Newport where he was then dumped unresponsive and unconscious at the hospital.\n\nPolice did not discover Mr Nguyen's identity until a month after his death when his brother-in-law went to the Royal Gwent Hospital looking for him.\n\nDet Ch Insp Justin O'Keefe, who has worked on the case since the start, said it had been one of the most logistically challenging inquiries ever faced by the force.\n\n\"This was the first time a trial was held in Vietnam for a foreign offence,\" he said.\n\n\"It's taken years of work liaising with a range of authorities, but we never lost hope that we would see the outcome we now have.\"\n\nNCA head of region for Asia Pacific, Mark Bishop, said: \"This was a truly landmark case which came about because of unprecedented co-operation between the NCA, Gwent Police and the Vietnamese ministry of public security...\n\n\"Tran Nguyen's family have been through a horrendous ordeal and have had to wait 14 years for this verdict. I hope it brings some form of comfort or closure to them.\"", "Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the court's most senior liberal justice, and her health is closely watched\n\nUS Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been released from hospital after \"treatment of a possible infection\", the court has said.\n\nIt said she \"underwent an endoscopic procedure... to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August\", in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital.\n\nMs Ginsburg, 87, \"is home and doing well,\" the court said on Tuesday, one day after she was admitted in Maryland.\n\nAs the court's most senior liberal justice, her health is closely watched.\n\nShe has received hospital treatment a number of times in recent years, but has returned swiftly to work on each occasion.\n\nIn May, she took part in legal argument from her hospital bed, just a day after she was admitted with a gallbladder condition.\n\nIn August 2019, Ms Ginsburg was treated for a cancerous tumour on her pancreas. She received treatment for colon cancer in 1999, and pancreatic cancer in 2009.\n\nAnd in December 2018, she had surgery to remove two cancerous nodules from her lung. She has also suffered fractured ribs from falls.\n\nSupreme Court justices serve for life or until they choose to retire, and supporters have expressed concern that if anything were to happen to Ms Ginsburg then a more conservative judge might replace her.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has appointed two judges since taking office, and the current court is seen to have a 5-4 conservative majority in most cases.\n\nReacting to the news that Ms Ginsburg was taken to hospital, Mr Trump said: \"She's actually giving me some very good rulings… I wish her the absolute best\".", "Two of the first customers to be served at The Scotsman's Lounge pub in Edinburgh Image caption: Two of the first customers to be served at The Scotsman's Lounge pub in Edinburgh\n\nThat's all from BBC Scotland's live page on Wednesday 15 July, the day Scotland began its most significant relaxation of coronavirus measures since the country went into lockdown.\n\nNicola Sturgeon hailed a \"really significant milestone\" after Scotland recorded three days with no coronavirus cases admitted to hospitals last week.\n\nFor the seventh day in a row no deaths of patients who had tested positive for Covid-19 have been registered.\n\nThe first minister warned it was now more important than ever to stick to public health measures.", "Ms McKee, who was 29, was observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate when she was shot on 18 April 2019.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been charged in Londonderry as part of the investigation into the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nThe man was charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and possession of a firearm in suspicious circumstances.\n\nHe is due to appear via videolink at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nMs McKee was shot in Derry's Creggan estate on 18 April 2019.\n\nThe 29-year-old was observing rioting when she was shot.\n\nOne man, Paul McIntyre, 52, from Kinnego Park in Derry, has been charged with Ms McKee's murder.", "A march for Welsh independence in Caernarfon last summer\n\nA call for Welsh ministers to seek the right for the Senedd to legislate for an independence referendum has been rejected by the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymu's Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales could have dealt better with Covid-19 if it was self-governing.\n\nBut Tory Darren Millar said independence would \"make us less resilient to global events\".\n\nLabour minister Jane Hutt said Wales was \"best served by a strong devolution settlement within a strong UK\".\n\nConstitutionally, an independence referendum would require the agreement of the UK government, as was the case with the one in Scotland in 2014.\n\nOpening the debate, Mr ap Iorwerth, Senedd member for Ynys Mon, said that if Wales had the \"kinds of tools that independent countries have the ability to devise\" it could have handled the pandemic better.\n\nIndependent small nations such as Norway, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia and Lithuania \"have death rates a tenth of Wales\", he said.\n\n\"We are not asking the Senedd to support independence today, but asking the Senedd to support the principle that the people of Wales should decide,\" he said.\n\nAdam Price: \"We the people of Wales are the builders of a better Wales\"\n\nClwyd West Conservative Senedd member Mr Millar said independence would be \"bad for Wales and bad for the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"It would make us less resilient to global events and catastrophes - we would be less secure,\" he said,\n\n\"And of course we know that, as a net beneficiary of the UK Treasury, Wales would be poorer.\"\n\nUKIP Senedd member Neil Hamilton said an independent Wales would see a \"massive contraction\" of its economy and \"all the poverty and deprivation which that would imply\".\n\n\"But I think what we have seen in the last 20 years is the comprehensive failure of devolution to deliver on the promises that were made for it.\"\n\nDarren Millar said independence would be \"bad for Wales and bad for the United Kingdom\"\n\nEx-UKIP Senedd leader Gareth Bennett last month announced he was joining the Abolish the Welsh Assembly party.\n\nIn his contribution to Wednesday night's debate he said a referendum should be held on abolition of the Senedd and politicians should \"then do precisely what Wales' people tell us to do\".\n\nLabour Welsh Government deputy minister Jane Hutt said Wales' best interests were \"best served by a strong devolution settlement within a strong UK and the United Kingdom is better and stronger for having Wales in it\".\n\nAlthough she described the \"current model\" of devolution as \"outmoded and inappropriate\".\n\nThere was a need to establish \"inter-governmental mechanisms to ensure we can address the many challenges that lie ahead\", Ms Hutt said.\n\nJane Hutt said Wales was best served within a strong UK devolution settlement\n\nWinding up the debate, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the \"crisis and upheaval\" of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic had \"opened people's minds to new possibilities\".\n\n\"We the people of Wales are the builders of a better Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"No one else will build it for us.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's motion was rejected by 43 Senedd members, with nine in favour of it and one abstention.", "Viola Davis says she feels like she \"betrayed myself and my people\" in 2011 film The Help.\n\nSet in 1960s Mississippi it was nominated for multiple Oscars but Viola says it was \"created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism\".\n\nThe film was \"invested in the idea of what it means to be Black\" but catered \"to the white audience\".\n\nIt has been one of Netflix's most-watched films since recent Black Lives Matter protests.\n\nViola Davis starred in The Help along with Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard\n\nIt's based on a 2009 book that has been accused of perpetuating a \"white saviour\" narrative - when black characters are marginalised for the benefit of a white hero who \"saves\" them.\n\nViola plays a maid who helps Emma Stone's journalist character expose racism in the community - and this isn't the first time she's said she regrets the role.\n\n\"There's no one who's not entertained by The Help. But there's a part of me that feels like I betrayed myself, and my people, because I was in a movie that wasn't ready to [tell the whole truth],\" Viola told Vanity Fair.\n\nThe Emmy, Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress - the first black actor to win the \"Triple Crown of Acting\" - says she took the role because she was hoping it would make her \"pop\".\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 violadavis This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I was that journeyman actor, trying to get in.\"\n\nViola praised the film's white writer-director, Tate Taylor, and the majority-female cast that included Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer, whose performance won her an Oscar for best supporting actress.\n\n\"I cannot tell you the love I have for these women, and the love they have for me.\n\n\"But with any movie - are people ready for the truth?\"\n\nViola now has a production company with her husband Julius Tennon and will portray Michelle Obama in one of its upcoming shows\n\nBryce Dallas Howard recently shared her views on The Help too.\n\n\"I'm so grateful for the exquisite friendships that came from that film -- our bond is something I treasure deeply and will last a lifetime.\n\n\"This being said, The Help is a fictional story told through the perspective of a white character and was created by predominantly white storytellers. We can all go further,\" she wrote on Facebook, sharing a list of films that \"centre black lives\" instead.\n\nViola Davis is now at the top of her profession - but her talent wasn't really recognised until the last decade.\n\nSpeaking to Vanity Fair she compared her career - and those of other \"unknown, faceless\" black actresses who represent earlier versions of herself - to \"fabulous white actresses\" like Emma Stone, Reese Witherspoon and Kristen Stewart who've had \"a wonderful role for each stage of their lives, that brought them to the stage they are now. We can't say that for many actors of colour\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Staff at Cornwall's Eden Project have been told that job losses for up to 40% of its staff \"are sadly inevitable\" because of the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on its finances and scale of operations.\n\nManagers said the prolonged lockdown closure and continuing restrictions on visitor numbers of the attraction near St Austell had resulted in the managing company \"losing more than £7m in revenue so far this financial year\" and they had told staff \"redundancies will need to follow\".\n\nBosses said a six-week consultation process and restructuring had begun \"across all areas and levels of the company\".\n\nThey estimated that the equivalent of about 150 full-time jobs would be lost out of the current total of 375 full-time equivalent jobs, but that would equate to between 200 and 220 people in full and part-time roles \"likely to leave the organisation\".\n\nEden said it \"would provide the fullest support in whatever ways it can to those employees whose jobs are at risk\".", "A courtroom sketch of Ghislaine Maxwell, who appeared in court via video link\n\nGhislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and ex-girlfriend of the late US convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been denied bail in a high-profile sex case.\n\nAt a hearing via video link, a New York judge said she would remain in custody while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking minors for Epstein.\n\nMs Maxwell, who pleaded not guilty, will go on trial in July 2021.\n\nHer lawyers had said she was at risk of contracting coronavirus in prison.\n\nEpstein died in prison on 10 August 2019 as he awaited his trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was determined to be suicide.\n\nMs Maxwell, seen here in 2016, is accused of helping Epstein groom girls as young as 14\n\nMs Maxwell, who was arrested on 2 July, faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted.\n\nDuring Tuesday's hearing, federal prosecutors said she was an \"extreme\" flight risk and should remain in custody.\n\nIn a filing, they said that when FBI agents visited her property on 2 July, they identified themselves and asked her to open the front door.\n\n\"Through a window, the agents saw the defendant ignore the direction to open the door and, instead, try to flee to another room in the house, quickly shutting a door behind her,\" they said.\n\nThey added: \"Agents were ultimately forced to breach the door in order to enter the house to arrest the defendant.\"\n\nBut her lawyers denied that she was a flight risk and asked for her release on bail of $5m (£4m). The requested bail was secured by a $3.75m property in the UK.\n\nMs Maxwell's lawyers also said her detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, put her at \"serious risk\" of contracting coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins has taken a look at the many remaining questions for Ghislaine Maxwell\n\nProsecutors allege that between 1994 and 1997, Ms Maxwell helped Epstein groom girls as young as 14. They have said that they expect \"one or more victims\" to testify.\n\nFour of the charges Ms Maxwell faces relate to the years 1994-97 when she was, according to the indictment, among Epstein's closest associates and also in an \"intimate relationship\" with him. The other two charges are allegations of perjury in 2016.\n\nThe indictment says Ms Maxwell \"assisted, facilitated, and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom and ultimately abuse victims known to Maxwell and Epstein to be under the age of 18\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York in 2005\n\nMs Maxwell is the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell.\n\nA well-connected figure, she is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York (who was accused in the 2015 court papers of touching a woman at Jeffrey Epstein's US home, although the court subsequently struck out allegations against the duke).\n\nBuckingham Palace has said that \"any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors\" by the duke was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nMs Maxwell, who has mostly been out of public view since 2016, was arrested at her remote estate in Bradford, New Hampshire, on 2 July.", "A £4bn cut in VAT has come into force, allowing firms in the food, drink and hospitality sectors to slash prices.\n\nNando's, Pret A Manger and McDonald's are among firms to promise reductions after the chancellor ordered a temporary VAT cut from 20% to 5%.\n\nThe Treasury estimates households could save £160 a year on average, but not all firms will pass on the benefit.\n\nMany companies are expected to use the windfall to shore up finances hit by the lockdown, rather than cut prices.\n\nThe VAT reduction will stay until 12 January next year, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced last week. It was part of a package of measures to help firms recover and get consumers spending.\n\nVAT - Value Added Tax - is paid on everyday goods and services, but the tax is usually included in the price most consumers see.\n\nSeveral restaurants and food-to-go chains have announced price cuts:\n\nValue Added Tax, or VAT, is the tax you have to pay when you buy goods or services.\n\nThe standard rate of VAT in the UK is 20%, with about half the items households spend money on subject to this rate.\n\nThere is a reduced rate of 5% which applies to some things such as children's car seats and home energy.\n\nWhen you see a price for something in a shop, any VAT will already have been added.\n\nThere are also various items for which you do not have to pay any VAT, such as most supermarket food, children's clothing, newspapers and magazines.\n\nIt is clear that many businesses will not be passing on the reduction. Malcolm Bell, chief executive of Visit Cornwell, said the chancellor's move was to support business, not help holidaymakers.\n\nHe said some firms had reported tourists calling them to ask for 15% off their holiday booking. \"My message to customers is this is to help the businesses, not to reduce the cost of their holiday. It is only a temporary relaxation up to January.\"\n\nMany attractions such as museums, parks and zoos, might also not pass on the reduction.\n\nBernard Donoghue, director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva), said he expected the VAT cut would go towards helping venues \"repair their finances as opposed to being passed on to customers\".\n\nAlva members were seeing a spike in demand after three months of lockdown, with attractions that offer pre-booked visits \"vastly oversubscribed\", he said.\n\nPub chain Wetherspoon said it would use the tax break to help fund lower prices on some of its most popular beers.\n\nHowever, this move drew criticism from Tom Stainer, chief executive of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), and James Calder, chief executive of the Society for Independent Brewers (Siba).\n\n\"Like all pubs, Wetherspoon will not be able to benefit from a VAT reduction on beer sales and it is disappointing to see them potentially mislead customers into believing cheaper beer prices are as a direct result of the chancellor's measures,\" he said.\n\nWetherspoon has produced promotional posters to advertise food price cuts, including one called Sunak's Specials and another called Dishi Rishi.\n\nIts chairman, Tim Martin, has campaigned for tax equality between pubs, restaurants and supermarkets for many years. He said: \"Supermarkets pay no VAT on food sales and pubs pay 20%. Supermarkets pay about 2p per pint of business rates and pubs pay about 20p.\n\n\"A VAT reduction will help pubs and restaurants reverse this trend - creating more jobs, helping high streets and eventually generating more tax income for the government.\"\n\nBut he said that not every hospitality business would be able to reduce prices immediately.\n\n\"Some will need to retain the benefit of lower VAT just to stay in business. Others may need to invest in upgrading their premises.\n\n\"However, lower VAT and tax equality will eventually lead to lower prices, more employment, busier High Streets and more taxes for the government.\"", "Workers are self-isolating at the Herefordshire farm\n\nA group of farm workers in Scotland have been quarantined after they were on the same flight as people who travelled to a coronavirus-hit farm\n\nVegetable producer A S Green and Co in England went into lockdown after tests showed 93 people had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nSome of them were on a flight bringing agricultural workers to the UK which included 63 people heading to Scotland.\n\nTesting has been made available to them and none has shown Covid symptoms.\n\nThe Scottish government said officials in Scotland were alerted by Public Health England.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"A number of farm workers in Scotland travelled to the UK at the same time as those in Herefordshire.\n\n\"All those farm workers are understood to have undertaken the required 14-day quarantine on the farms where they are based and have exhibited no symptoms in that time.\n\n\"The risk of infection is understood to be very low in this case, however testing is being made available to all those working on these farms.\"\n\nIt is understood two farms in Scotland were affected, but their location has not been revealed.\n\nThe A S Green farm in Mathon, Herefordshire, employs a mix of seasonal workers from the UK and abroad and they have been asked to quarantine at the site's live-in accommodation.\n\nThree workers who left the farm against health advice, one of whom had tested positive for Covid-19, have now been traced and are self isolating.\n\nKatie Spence, Public Health England's Midlands health protection director, said: \"Information gathered from both the recruitment company and from the workers themselves suggested that those workers who tested positive were not showing any symptoms of Covid-19 at the time they travelled to the UK.\n\n\"We know, however, that there is a risk that people can transmit the infection before - or without ever - developing symptoms, and this is why we've taken a precautionary approach to follow-up workers who were on the same flight as the confirmed cases.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nWigan Athletic scored seven first-half goals to stun relegation-threatened Hull City before equalling the biggest victory in Championship history.\n\nThe result matched Bournemouth's 8-0 thrashing of Birmingham City in 2014 and set a new record league win for the Latics.\n\nIn an extraordinary first 45 minutes at the DW Stadium, Kal Naismith, Jamal Lowe and Joe Williams all got on the scoresheet for the hosts, while Kieffer Moore and Kieran Dowell netted twice.\n\nDowell completed his hat-trick after the break but that was where the scoring ended as Wigan also kept a 10th clean sheet in 11 games.\n\nWhile the final scoreline was staggering, the result was crucial for both sides.\n\nThe Latics, who have a 12-point deduction for going into administration looming, are now 12 points above the relegation zone with two games to play.\n\nHull's woeful run of form in 2020 continues, however, with this low point leaving them in the bottom three by one point. Grant McCann's side have won just once in their past 18 games, losing 14 of them.\n\nThe Tigers face fellow strugglers Luton and play-off chasing Cardiff in their final two games, but there was little from this performance to inspire confidence in their survival.\n• None Wigan's biggest ever league win - surpassing their 7-0 victory against Oxford United in 2017\n• None Hull conceded eight goals in a league match for the first time since November 1911 (0-8 against Wolves)\n• None Wigan were the first team to score eight goals at home in the English second tier since Manchester City beat Huddersfield 10-1 in 1987\n• None Equalled the biggest victory in the second tier since it was rebranded as the Championship in 2004 (Birmingham 0-8 Bournemouth in 2014)\n\n'I'm so, so sorry'\n\nFormer Northern Ireland midfielder McCann apologised to the supporters but indicated that he expected to be in charge for Hull's final two games.\n\n\"It has hurt us, and all I can do is apologise to the fans on behalf of everyone in that dressing room because it's nowhere good enough, and I'm so, so sorry for that,\" the 40-year-old said.\n\n\"We didn't get going at all. We concede in the first-odd minute, giving ourselves a mountain to climb, and then we seemed to concede every time Wigan went forward. We're stood there at the sideline thinking 'Is this ever going to stop?'\n\n\"We just didn't get to grips with it at all. We just didn't turn up. We all felt embarrassed. We're all hurting. We have worked so hard this season, and to get done like we did today is unacceptable, from everyone.\"\n\nPaul Cook's Wigan had been the second-lowest scorers in the league prior to Tuesday's game, but the huge victory has taken their goal difference into positive territory which could be a key factor in their survival quest.\n\nNaismith opened the scoring for the Latics inside the opening minute after he nodded home Dowell's short corner, while Moore finished well in the box after some good work from Lowe to gift him the ball.\n\nLowe registered another assist for Dowell to score Wigan's third before getting on the scoresheet himself soon after with a cool finish.\n\nMoore headed home from a Nathan Byrne cross to pile on the misery for Hull while Dowell added a second moments before Williams scored Wigan's seventh of the half just before the half-time whistle.\n\nWhat does this victory mean for Wigan?\n\nDespite their fine form either side of football's suspension amid the coronavirus crisis, Wigan's hopes of survival hang on them maintaining their impressive run after they entered administration.\n\nShould they finish outside the bottom three this season, their 12-point deduction will be implemented straight away, meaning they need to stay at least 12 points clear of the relegation zone.\n\nThe Latics began the game with a better goal difference of 11 compared to Hull, which was already a slight advantage should their deduction come into play this season, but their seven-goal haul in the first half alone extended that to 25 goals.\n\nWith the shadow of staff redundancies, wage cuts and fans funding transport for players to get to games, this remarkable victory could be the tonic the club need to maintain their Championship status.\n\n\"The players deserve so much credit but there is two big games to go,\" manager Cook said. \"We're climbing a mountain but we're not at the top.\n\n\"We're very proud of our supporters and the town, to raise the money and give us the support they have, and I think tonight we've gone a long way towards repaying that.\n\n\"Can we go the extra yard to give them that full satisfaction of overturning possibly a 12-point deduction? We have to keep believing we can.\"\n\nThis was a performance to forget for Hull and their dismal form this year means their chances of survival look even slimmer as a result of their 23rd defeat of the campaign.\n\nHull have not played in English football's third tier since 2005, enjoying promotions to the Premier League in the intervening years.\n\nThose glory days look like a distant memory, as they slipped to their biggest defeat since an 8-0 thrashing by Wolves in 1911.\n\nThere had looked to be a consolation in Hull's fortunes as the game drew to a close after Keane Lewis-Potter looked to have been brought down by Nathan Byrne.\n\nHowever referee Tony Harrington changed his mind after initially pointing to the spot, in a moment that was symbolic of a nightmare evening for Hull.\n• None Attempt missed. George Honeyman (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Callum Elder.\n• None Offside, Hull City. George Long tries a through ball, but Tom Eaves is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Tom Eaves (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Elder with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Kevin Stewart (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tom Eaves. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Johnny Depp and Amber Heard argued \"like schoolchildren\", his former estate manager has claimed.\n\nBen King told London's High Court that their rows started from \"banal beginnings\" and escalated.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper maintains it was accurate.\n\nHe denies 14 domestic violence allegations which News Group Newspapers is relying on for its defence.\n\nMr King worked for Mr Depp for three separate periods between 2014 and 2016, in Australia, London and Vancouver, Canada.\n\nIn witness statements, Mr King said he \"frequently witnessed\" Ms Heard, 34, \"goading and attempting to provoke\" Mr Depp, who he never saw \"be violent or unkind towards Ms Heard, or indeed towards anyone else\".\n\nHe said: \"Of what I heard of their arguments, they could start from very banal beginnings.\n\n\"On one occasion in London, I recall Ms Heard complained that Mr Depp had removed his hand from hers, and she complained along the lines of 'maybe you don't love me'.\"\n\nMr King continued: \"The argument then carried on and escalated seriously. The way they argued could make them seem like schoolchildren.\"\n\nReflecting on periods in London and Australia, he said he \"saw Ms Heard as the antagoniser\" while Mr Depp \"seemed keen to walk out of, or away from, arguments\".\n\n\"I want to make clear that I did not see any violence at any time. I do not want to accuse Ms Heard of anything, but this was what I saw of the pattern of their arguments,\" he said.\n\nMr King also claimed that on a number of occasions, Mr Depp \"left notes downstairs before he went to work, saying things like 'let's not do this again' and 'I love you'.\"\n\nMr Depp and Ms Heard were married for two years until 2017\n\nHe also spoke about the couple's trip to Australia in March 2015, during which it is alleged Mr Depp assaulted Ms Heard and \"completely destroyed\" a house in a drink and drug-fuelled rage, which the actor denies.\n\nMr Depp alleges his finger was severed by Ms Heard throwing a vodka bottle at him, which she denies.\n\nMr King said he was summoned to the house the couple were renting, where he found a \"significant amount of damage\" and discovered Mr Depp's severed finger tip on the floor.\n\nHe said that on the flight back to Los Angeles from Australia with Ms Heard, she asked him \"have you ever been so angry with someone that you just lost it?\"\n\nHe said: \"I replied that that had never happened to me. She seemed incredulous and asked again, 'you have never been so angry with someone that you just lost it?'\n\n\"Again, I answered that I had not and Ms Heard did not continue on this topic. This question seemed alarming to me, given the severity of the damage I had earlier witnessed at the house and the apparent serious injury to Mr Depp's finger.\"\n\nMr King also said Mr Depp was teetotal when he interviewed for the job and he was \"surprised\" when the couple brought \"a relatively large number of cases of wine\" to a house in London.\n\nHe also said that during their London stay in October 2014, he did not see Mr Depp drink, but he believed Ms Heard \"would regularly drink at least one or two bottles a night\".\n\nIn later testimony, via video link from Los Angeles, Ms Heard's former personal assistant, Kate James, claimed the actress would send a \"barrage of drunk text messages between the hours of two and four in the morning... on an almost daily basis\".\n\nMs James accused Ms Heard of deleting all the \"abusive\" texts after the actress terminated her employment.\n\nWhen Sasha Wass QC, barrister for the News Group Newspapers, suggested Ms James had been \"encouraged\" by Mr Depp and his associates to give \"vicious evidence\" against Ms Heard, she denied the accusation - adding she was \"here for my own reasons\".\n\nIn her witness statement, Ms James said she had discovered the Aquaman actress had \"stolen\" her own account of being \"violently raped\" at machete-point in Brazil in the 1990s and \"twisted it into her own story to benefit herself\".\n\n\"This of course caused me extreme distress and outrage that she would dare to attempt to use the most harrowing experience of my life as her own narrative.\n\n\"I'm a sexual violence survivor and that's very, very serious to take that stance if you are not one and I am one.\n\n\"That's the reason I'm here, because I take offence.\"\n\nAlso on Wednesday, Kevin Murphy - Mr Depp's current estate manager, who gave evidence via video link - said Mr Depp \"would never hit a woman\".\n\nMr Murphy was asked about a text message sent to him by Mr Depp, in which the actor offered his \"profound thanks\" and referred to wanting to \"rid this fraud of the ability to hurt all womankind\".\n\nHe said Mr Depp felt that Ms Heard's allegations were \"not only a fraud against him, but a fraud against women in general\".\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "Ireland wants to demonstrate to multinational investors that the country is a safe and predictable place to do business\n\nAn EU court is hearing appeals against a decision to order Ireland to recover £11.5bn of unpaid taxes from Apple.\n\nIn 2016, the European Commission found an agreement between Dublin and the technology giant was against EU law.\n\nIt said the Irish government allowed Apple to attribute nearly all its EU sales earnings to an Irish head office that existed only on paper, thereby avoiding paying tax on EU revenues.\n\nBoth the Republic of Ireland and Apple are appealing against the ruling.\n\nWhy would any government want to turn down a €14bn tax windfall?\n\nFor Ireland, the motivation is twofold: First there is the desire to disprove claims that it acts, or has acted, as a tax haven.\n\nThe country has faced increasing criticism of its corporate tax policies, with the American economist Gabriel Zucman leading the charge.\n\nHe has accused Ireland of being \"the world's number one tax haven\".\n\nSecondly, Ireland wants to demonstrate to multinational investors that the country is a safe and predictable place to do business.\n\nApple's lawyer Daniel Beard told the court the order issued by the European Commission three years ago \"defied reality and common sense\".\n\n\"The activities of these two branches in Ireland simply could not be responsible for generating almost all of Apple's profits outside the Americas\", he added.\n\nThe European Commission argued Ireland allowed Apple to reduce substantially its tax bill in a way that gave the technology giant a selective advantage over other companies located in Ireland, said Laura Treacy, a Brussels-based partner at Irish law firm McCann FitzGerald.\n\n\"The two companies in question were really the revenue generating companies for all of Europe. They happened to be located in Ireland,\" Ms Treacy told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"They were established in Ireland, but importantly, they were non-tax resident in Ireland and, as a result, they were not required to pay income or corporate tax on their worldwide profits but rather only on the profits that were attributable to the Irish operations.\"\n\nThe iPhone has been one of Apple's most successful products\n\nThe Irish state argues the EC has misunderstood the Irish tax rules and Irish tax arrangements, she said.\n\n\"Where the commission says a lot of the profits were being transferred to head offices which, according to the commission, had no employees and no staff, and carried on very little substance,\" she said.\n\n\"Ireland and Apple are saying no actually, quite serious decision making was taking place in these head office entities,\" she added.\n\n\"And it was correct to allocate the vast proportions of the profits to the head offices, leaving only smaller amounts in Ireland because they are saying only routine tax decisions were taking place in Ireland.\"\n\nMs Treacy said both Apple and Ireland argue that one of the commission's key points is incorrect and does not form part of state aid law, but is instead \"a kind of novel rule\" introduced by the commission.", "Michigan State Police released security footage showing the confrontation between the officer and the suspect\n\nA police officer in the US state of Michigan has shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a customer in a shop, in an altercation over face masks.\n\nPolice say the incident began in a convenience store near Lansing, where the suspect - named as Sean Ruis - attacked a 77-year-old man who had challenged him for not wearing a mask.\n\nThey say Ruis fled the scene in a car.\n\nHe was later pulled over by a female deputy sheriff, who opened fire when Ruis lunged towards her.\n\nMichigan State Police released footage of the confrontation in a residential area in the Lansing suburb of Delta early on Tuesday.\n\nIt shows the police car stopping a vehicle and the driver, identified as Ruis, advancing on the deputy who shoots him after a brief tussle.\n\nPolice say Ruis, 43, was carrying a weapon. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.\n\nThe incident happened 30 minutes after Ruis allegedly stabbed a customer at the Quality Dairy store in Dimondale, about six miles (10km) to the south.\n\nThe row is said to have begun when the 77-year-old - who was wearing a face mask - chided Ruis for not doing so. The elderly man is in hospital and said to be in a stable condition.\n\nIt is not the first dispute over face masks to end in tragedy in the US.\n\nLast week a security guard in Gardena, south of Los Angeles, was charged with murder over the shooting of a customer who had entered a shop without a face mask.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "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 reduction from 20% to 5% - designed to help sectors of the economy hit hardest by the pandemic - applies to a host of things including food and non-alcoholic drinks in restaurants and pubs, hotel and campsite accommodation and admission to tourist attractions. Some firms have already promised to reduce prices - Nandos, Starbucks and McDonald's among them - but others are likely to shore up their finances instead. Read more on how VAT works and why things might not look any different for customers.\n\nTheme park ticket prices could fall, but operators might use the windfall in other ways\n\nIn Scotland, the cut in VAT coincides with the reopening of bars, restaurants and tourist attractions. Hairdressers and beauty salons, cinemas, places of worship and childcare settings are also opening up in the most significant relaxation of restrictions yet. Here are the changes in full. Infection reduction measures will be in place in all settings and face masks encouraged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople in living in Blackburn with Darwen are waking up to tighter coronavirus restrictions, imposed after the area emerged as an infection hotspot. For the next month, there'll be stricter limits on socialising and a request to wear face coverings in all enclosed public spaces, including workplaces, libraries, museums, health centres and hair and beauty salons. Officials say they hope that by doing so the area can avoid a full Leicester-style local lockdown.\n\nThe number of hospital admissions in England for heart attacks fell by a third when the pandemic hit, and by the end of May, 5,000 fewer people than expected had presented with urgent heart symptoms. That's according to a study published today in The Lancet. Researchers say some avoidable deaths may have occurred because fears about catching the virus put patients off seeking help. See the NHS advice on heart attack warning signs.\n\nMany NHS procedures and treatments have been delayed or cancelled during the crisis\n\nMore than a million people have given up smoking since the pandemic hit, a survey for charity Action on Smoking and Health suggests. Four in 10 said it was in direct response to coronavirus, in part, perhaps, because government advice says smokers may be at risk of more severe symptoms. Limited access to tobacco while isolating and no opportunity to smoke socially are also likely to have contributed.\n\nTerence Craggs is one of those who has quite recently after two spells in hospital\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from our live page.\n\nPlus, what can police do about coronavirus rule breakers? Our home affairs correspondent explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "There are no plans to make face coverings mandatory for office workers in England, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC people working in offices would not need to cover up, despite a newspaper report suggesting they would.\n\n\"It is something we've looked at and rejected,\" he said, but added masks would be worn elsewhere by the public \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\nFace coverings in shops will become mandatory in England on 24 July.\n\nThose who fail to comply with the new rules on wearing face coverings in England's shops will face a fine of up to £100.\n\nChildren under 11, those with certain disabilities, and people working in shops will be exempt.\n\nScotland already requires shoppers to cover their faces while Wales and Northern Ireland are both weighing up similar policies.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has committed for the first time to an \"independent inquiry\" into the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 85 deaths of people who tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths to 45,053.\n\nMr Hancock said face coverings helped prevent spread during short interactions with strangers, but that social distancing and hand washing were more effective for contact with people over long periods of time.\n\nThere is a difference between visiting a shop for a few minutes and working alongside colleagues at a desk for several hours, he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"When you're in close proximity with somebody that you have to work closely to, if you're there for a long time with them, then a mask doesn't offer that protection.\"\n\nNo 10 has suggested face coverings are not required while buying takeaway food after cabinet ministers Liz Truss and Michael Gove were photographed on Tuesday\n\n\"The same logic applies for schools - we're not recommending masks for schools because if you're in a classroom with kids all day then a mask doesn't give you protection,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer's spokesman said the party was not calling for the compulsory wearing of face coverings in offices \"at this stage\".\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons on Wednesday, Mr Johnson declined to say he would implement the recommendations of a government-commissioned report into a potential \"winter wave\" of coronavirus infections later this year.\n\nThe PM instead said the government was busy \"getting on with implementing the preparations for a potential new spike\" and is \"engaged in record investments in the NHS\".\n\nMr Johnson went on to hail the UK's coronavirus \"Test and Trace\" scheme as being \"as good as or better than\" any other system in the world, although Sir Keir cast doubt on its success in ensuring people self-isolate.\n\nIt comes as a council in Blackburn, Lancashire, told residents they must wear face coverings while in all public settings as it worked to combat a \"rising tide\" of coronavirus cases.\n\nProf Dominic Harrison, Blackburn with Darwen's director of public health, said he hoped the use of coverings, alongside other specific measures, would prevent a Leicester-style local lockdown in the area.\n\nLeicester became subject to the UK's first local lockdown on 4 July following a spike in Covid-19 cases. There are limits on social gatherings and hotels, pubs and restaurants have not been allowed to reopen.\n\nResidents and visitors in York are also being told to \"wear masks now\" ahead of them becoming mandatory for shoppers on 24 July.\n\nHealth officials in the city said there was \"mounting evidence for the value of wearing face coverings\".\n\nMeanwhile, questions were raised about exactly where face coverings would need to be worn by shoppers in England after various cabinet ministers were seen with and without masks buying takeaway food.\n\nPhotographs of Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove showed him without a face covering while at a Westminster branch of Pret on Tuesday, while Trade Secretary Liz Truss was seen in the same shop minutes later wearing a bright blue mask.\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was \"not frankly interested\" in the pictures, adding: \"Those photographs were taken before I announced the change in policy to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak was pictured wearing a face mask when buying takeaway food at a central London sandwich shop on Wednesday afternoon\n\nDowning Street then suggested face coverings will not have to be worn when buying takeaway food in England, with official guidance due shortly.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said his understanding \"is that it wouldn't be mandatory if you went in, for example, to a sandwich shop in order to get a takeaway to wear a face covering\".\n\nIn response to the comments, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted: \"This is frankly ridiculous. The virus doesn't know if you're in a takeaway or a supermarket. The government is risking the health of the public to cover the back of a cabinet minister.\"\n\nMr Hancock said the public needed to get used to wearing face coverings in shops and at NHS facilities \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\n\"People have got to play their part,\" he said.\n\nMask-wearing has been compulsory on public transport in England and at NHS facilities across the UK since 15 June.\n\nMeanwhile, more than £5m has been donated to the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) in its first day of fundraising to help some of the world's most vulnerable through the pandemic.\n\nThe DEC, which is made up of 14 of Britain's largest aid charities, will spend donations on providing food, water and medical care to people in countries such as Syria, Yemen and South Sudan.\n\nDo you work in an office? What are your feelings about wearing a face covering at work? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The Republic of Ireland has decided not to move forward to Phase 4 of its roadmap for easing lockdown amid concerns about the spread of Covid-19.\n\n\"This virus has not changed, indiscriminate in its cruelty and relentless,\" said the taoiseach.\n\n\"The concern about the rise in cases in recent weeks is very real, the R (reproductive) number has risen above 1 in this country,\" Micheál Martin said.\n\nMr Martin said the Irish cabinet had agreed that current public health measures should remain in place and the Republic of Ireland would not progress to Phase 4 of the agreed roadmap.\n\nHe was speaking following a meeting with his cabinet colleagues on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe five key priorities identified by Irish government are:\n\nPhase 4 of Ireland's plan to move out of lockdown - which could have seen pubs that do not serve food reopen- was due to start on Monday.\n\nIt comes as two further Covid-19-related deaths were recorded in the Republic - the death toll is now 1,748.\n\nPubs will not now reopen until 10 August\n\nFourteen new cases of coronavirus have also been recorded, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 25,683.\n\nPubs and hotel bars operating as restaurants have already been allowed to reopen, under Phase 3. They are only allowed to serve alcohol to customers who purchase a \"substantial\" meal.\n\nThe news that the country will not move forward comes amid concerns about a rising number of new cases of the virus - particularity in young people - since lockdown eased and the Republic of Ireland opened up again.\n\nThere has been an increase in the number of clusters of Covid-19 in private households, particularly in the last week.\n\nCurrently a maximum of 50 people are allowed to gather indoors. This had been due to rise to 100 on 20 July.\n\nSome 200 people can gather outside. This had been due to increase to 500 in Phase 4 of the easing of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe increase in the size of crowds permitted would have allowed cultural and arts facilities, such as theatres, cinemas and galleries, to reopen their doors.\n• None Ireland to further ease restrictions on Monday", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I could be crying my eyes out on the floor and they wouldn't know\"\n\nNew parents have been left \"socially isolated\" during lockdown and unaware of how to get help, the National Childbirth Trust has claimed.\n\nBethan Sayed, who gave birth in April, said the support she has received was \"sporadic\".\n\nThe member of the Senedd warned of a long-term impact on new mothers' mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said perinatal community services had continued through the pandemic.\n\nBut there have been calls for better support in the event of a second lockdown.\n\nNew mum Bethan Sayed described support she received as \"sporadic\"\n\nNCT practice manager Val Wilcox, said some parents had been reluctant to contact health visitors or midwives because \"they don't want to bother them or they're not sure whether they're allowed to\".\n\nShe said: \"We've heard about certain services reaching out and ringing the socially isolated at the other end of the spectrum - so the elderly receiving proactive phone calls - perhaps that's something that could be put in place for new parents as well.\n\n\"So rather than having to pick up the phone themselves, someone's actually checking in with them if we go into a second lockdown.\"\n\nMs Wilcox said research showed the sooner post-natal depression sufferers sought help, the sooner they got better.\n\n\"If it's not easy or apparent where that help comes from, then an individual is more likely to spiral downward,\" she said.\n\nPlaid Cymru Senedd member, Ms Sayed, gave birth to son Idris after lockdown started on 23 March.\n\nThe South Wales West MS said she had not had a single health visit and described support as \"sporadic\".\n\nShe said she was \"overwhelmed\" by the number of people calling with similar concerns, saying they felt \"isolated\".\n\nMs Sayed is calling on the Welsh Government to ensure mothers are offered a six week check-up and are told of services available.\n\n\"The lack of consistency across both counts is really disappointing,\" she said.\n\nKatie Jones felt \"forgotten about\", having not had a single health visit\n\nKatie Jones, from Porthcawl, gave birth to her second child, George, in March, just before lockdown began.\n\nShe said she felt \"forgotten about\" having not had a single health visit and just two phone calls since her son was born.\n\n\"I'm genuinely OK but they don't know that,\" she said.\n\n\"I could be a mess on the floor crying my eyes out with my baby just not knowing what to do, and no one would have a clue right now, because there's been no touch points since he was eight weeks old.\"\n\nShe said she had been given a number if she needed help but said it would be better if the health visitors called.\n\n\"I personally wouldn't phone or text a health visitor but if they phoned me I might open up a lot more,\" she said.\n\nMichelle Townsend said support available as a first-time mum was \"patchy\"\n\nMichelle Townsend's daughter Audrey was born prematurely at 26 weeks in October.\n\nShe was allowed home from hospital 10 days before lockdown began.\n\nThe neonatal team at University Hospital of Wales had continued to visit Audrey at her Cardiff home.\n\nBut she said support available to her as a first-time mum was \"patchy\".\n\n\"I've had a conversation with the health visitor a couple of times over the phone and one face-to-face and there was a little bit of a discussion about my mental health,\" she said.\n\n\"But to be honest we'd been home about two days, and then lockdown happened, and actually I think that's had more of an impact on my mental health and wellbeing.\n\n\"And it's taken a few weeks for me to realise that I needed more support, and that's where I've found that it's been a little bit lacking.\"\n\nShe said lifting travel restrictions and letting people form extended households made \"an enormous difference.\"\n\nBut if there was a second wave of coronavirus and restrictions were tightened \"special considerations\" should be given to new parents, she added.\n\nThe Welsh Government said perinatal community services and mental health support continued throughout the pandemic.\n\n\"Support is available to parents through their named midwife and health visitor, as well as through virtual, phone and face-to-face appointments - where safe to do so,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We have recently provided funding to boost the free and confidential support available through the Family Lives helpline, to offer bilingual advice on any aspect of parenting and family life.\n\n\"We would urge anyone experiencing difficulties to get in touch with their designated health visitor, midwife or support services.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England\n\nHospital admissions for heart attacks dropped by a third across England when coronavirus took off in the UK and the nation went into lockdown, say researchers in The Lancet journal.\n\nBy the end of May, 5,000 fewer people than expected were seen and treated for urgent heart symptoms, they estimate.\n\nThe study authors say some avoidable deaths may have occurred as a result.\n\nA heart attack is a medical emergency - people with symptoms should call 999, even during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nExperts suspect coronavirus fear and anxiety may have put some patients off seeking urgent help.\n\nFrom mid-February and throughout March 2020 - when cases of coronavirus started to affect the UK - there were about 2,000 hospital admissions for suspected heart attacks and angina a week.\n\nAdmissions started to rise during April and May 2020 but were still below the 2019 average, of 3,000.\n\nLead study author Dr Marion Mafham, from the University of Oxford, said: \"Our study shows that far fewer people with heart attacks have attended hospital during this pandemic.\n\n\"It is important that anyone with chest pain calls an ambulance immediately, because every minute of delay increases the risk of dying or experiencing serious complications from a heart attack.\"\n\nDr Sonya Babu-Narayan, from the British Heart Foundation, said: \"Prompt treatment for your heart attack could save your life.\n\n\"So if you think you are experiencing symptoms, call 999 immediately.\".\n\nNHS national clinical director for heart disease Nick Linker said: \"NHS staff pulled out all the stops to treat over 100,000 people for coronavirus in hospitals during the pandemic.\n\n\"But they also made sure that everyone who needed urgent and emergency treatment for other conditions - including for heart attacks and strokes - could get it in a safe way.\n\n\"While it's good news that since the peak more people are now coming forward with heart problems, and A&E visits are closer to usual levels, our message to the public continues to be heart attacks are a medical emergency and can be fatal, so help us help you, and call 999 right away.\"", "Workers are self-isolating at the Herefordshire farm\n\nA further 19 workers have tested positive for coronavirus on a farm which went into lockdown.\n\nVegetable producers A S Green and Co in Herefordshire ordered crop-pickers to self-isolate after 74 tested positive.\n\nHerefordshire Council and Public Health England (PHE) said the number of cases had now risen to 93.\n\nTwo groups of workers who arrived in the UK via bus and plane - including some who worked at A S Green - are being traced as a precaution.\n\nIn a joint statement, the council and PHE said those who tested positive were not showing symptoms when they travelled to the UK.\n\nThey have begun contact tracing with a group of workers who travelled into the UK by private coach, including some who went on to work at A S Green and Co.\n\nAuthorities in Scotland have been notified about a group of 63 workers on the same flight who travelled to Scottish farms, the statement said.\n\nNo cases have been identified among a further 76 workers on the flight who went on to other farms in England.\n\nThree workers, including one who had tested positive for Covid-19, have been traced after they left the site against health officials' advice.\n\nAll are said to be self-isolating.\n\nOn Wednesday, Herefordshire Council said a fourth worker who tested negative for the virus had also left the site. They are also said to be self-isolating.\n\nAbout 200 workers are in quarantine at the site's live-in accommodation, and others are being tested, the council said.\n\nKaren Wright, Director of Public Health for Herefordshire, said: \"We continue to test workers at the farm and expect to see the number of cases rise over the coming days before social distancing and infection prevention measures start to take effect.\n\n\"We're aware that local residents are concerned, but the risk to the general public remains low.\"\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.", "An investigation into a coronavirus-hit farm in Herefordshire has now been widened to include others in England and Scotland.\n\nThe total number of positive coronavirus cases linked to the outbreak at AS Green & Co in Mathon now stands at 93, Public Health England (PHE) said.\n\nIn an update on Wednesday evening, PHE said 76 workers who travelled on to other farms in England came to the UK on the same flight as the Herefordshire farm workers.\n\nIt added that these 76 people have already been offered testing and no further cases have been identified to date.\n\nA further 63 workers who travelled on to Scottish farms were on the same flight.\n\nPHE said it has notified public health authorities in Scotland so this group can be \"followed-up appropriately\".\n\nA group of workers who travelled to the UK by private coach, including some of those who went on to work at AS Green and Co, are also being followed up, it added.\n\nAnother worker fled the farm, despite being told not to.\n\nPHE said the agency that employed the worker (who tested negative for the virus) is in contact with them and has been advised they are self-isolating. Three other workers who fled the farm earlier have been traced.\n\nKaren Wright, director of Public Health for Herefordshire, said as testing of workers at the farm continues, officials expect to see the number of cases rise over the coming days \"before social distancing and infection prevention measures start to take effect\".\n\nShe added that workers have been asked to remain on site and self-isolate to \"reduce risk of spread within the workforce and into the wider community\", and food and essential supplies were being delivered to the farm during this time.\n\nShe said she knows local residents are concerned, but added the risk to the general public \"remains low\"", "On the air: Leanne Thomas introduces the BBC News at Six to viewers in Wales\n\nBBC Wales has begun broadcasting live from its new headquarters in Cardiff city centre.\n\nAfter more than 50 years based in suburban Llandaff, BBC One Wales and BBC Two Wales are now both being broadcast from Central Square.\n\nDirector of BBC Wales Rhodri Talfan Davies said it was \"an historic day in Welsh broadcasting\".\n\nThe studios went live when channel announcer Leanne Thomas introduced the BBC News at Six on BBC One Wales.\n\n\"It's really exciting to be guiding viewers through the first evening of television coming from Central Square,\" she said.\n\n\"We've been planning this day for a long time, but now it's arrived it feels as if it's arrived very quickly.\n\n\"Of course, we're working under social-distancing conditions so, at the moment, the new building feels very different from what we'd been expecting, but it's still a fantastic place to be working.\"\n\nThe new headquarters are at the heart of a redevelopment opposite Cardiff Central station\n\nWith TV presentation now up and running, Radio Wales and Radio Cymru will move later in July, with sport and news due to follow in the next couple of months.\n\n\"Llandaff has served us well for over 50 years, but this move provides us with the opportunity to modernise our technology systems, provide colleagues with modern, fit-for-purpose facilities and - once social distancing has ended - open up to our audiences like never before,\" said Mr Talfan Davies.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe thanked the \"brilliant\" engineering, technology and operations teams who had contributed to the live launch on Wednesday.\n\n\"In extraordinary circumstances, they've delivered a superb result that provides a foundation for BBC Wales services for decades to come,\" he added.", "\"It was finished, but it has become unfinished\" - welcome to what seems to be extremely tricky wrangling over the report into Home Secretary Priti Patel's alleged behaviour towards staff.\n\nIt is a long time now since I spent a very strange Saturday morning, standing in the pouring rain in North London, listening up close to the extraordinary resignation statement from the top official at her department, Sir Philip Rutnam.\n\nThe former mandarin announced his intention to sue the government, making a series of incendiary allegations about how she acted.\n\nThe home secretary fervently denied his version of events, but as you would expect, the Cabinet Office swiftly announced that there would have to be a separate investigation into whether she had broken the ministerial code - the rules that guide how senior politicians are meant to behave in office.\n\nThe Cabinet Minister Michael Gove confirmed to MPs a matter of days later that it was \"vital this investigation is concluded as quickly as possible in the interests of everyone involved\".\n\nAt that stage, no one would have bargained on the coronavirus pandemic slamming the brakes on much of the business of government with its urgent demands.\n\nBut as Parliament looks to the summer break, there is an increasing sense of tension over what on earth has happened to the report into the home secretary - one of the most senior politicians in the country, the most senior woman in government - who Boris Johnson would be loath to lose.\n\nGiven the importance of her position in government, and the sensitivities around the issue, almost everyone you try to talk to about it sighs when the subject is raised.\n\nIt is not very easy to get to the bottom of exactly what is going on. It is clear however, that there is a problem.\n\nSome in Ms Patel's camp suggest that the hold up in the government's own inquiry may be down to the separate employment tribunal claim being pursued by Sir Philip through the legal system.\n\nThat is dismissed as nonsense by those backing his claim. Dave Penman from the FDA union which represents senior civil servants told me \"it's quite separate from the tribunal process.\"\n\nThere are no restrictions whatever on the prime minister around making a decision. The tribunal may not even take place until next year.\n\nOne senior official told me the initial inquiry into how the home secretary had behaved hadn't come up with much, there was nothing really amiss.\n\nOfficials in fact had been preparing to publish the outcome more than a month ago.\n\nBut then \"there was a pause\". And after another bit of work, it's suggested some issues were uncovered, but that there was no slam dunk finding that would make it impossible for her to stay on in her job.\n\nTwo separate sources concur that the inquiry has found some evidence of poor behaviour during her time in government.\n\nBut according to the senior official the report itself has since been \"parked\".\n\nNot, it's said, because it contains the kind of explosive material that would require the home secretary's automatic exit.\n\nBut because no one agrees what to do next hence, in a phrase worthy of the fictional Sir Humphrey himself, the report is now 'unfinished'.\n\nOne of the suggestions I'm told is that officials believe that there should be some \"learning\" for the home secretary, or perhaps even an apology for past mistakes, but there is not much enthusiasm on Downing Street's side for that.\n\nThere are even claims, that are denied by the Cabinet Office, that the senior official who has put the report together has threatened to resign over Number 10's reluctance to act.\n\nBut several insiders have also suggested that the tension is, in part, a result of the less than happy wider atmosphere between the Cabinet Office and Downing Street.\n\nUnease is thick in the air in Whitehall over No 10's plans for shaking up the civil service.\n\nThe service boss is on his way out, the prime minister's team are set on making change.\n\nHackles are up. Nerves are fraught. Bullying allegations against one of the most senior politicians in the land would, at any time, create tensions around the place.\n\nNeither Ms Patel's team, nor Downing Street will comment. Any kind of bullying allegation has always been and is still firmly denied by Ms Patel.\n\nAnd her allies say that she is still in the dark about what is in the report itself, and was told, it's claimed, near the start of the process, that there had been no formal complaints.\n\nBut this is a messy business, and it is nearly five months since the start.\n\nIf the decision to publish is to be made before the end of this Parliamentary session, it has to happen soon.\n\nOne insider joked the decision may come towards the end of next week, part of \"dump week\", when the government pushes out a flurry of announcements before MPs disappear for the summer.\n\nBut in the end, believe it nor, the government is under no obligation to publish the full findings.\n\nThe ministerial code has many pages, many principles, and many rules.\n\nBut whatever the investigation has found, the code makes plain it is for the Prime Minister himself to decide what to do.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hairdressers, pubs, cinemas, tourist attractions and places of worship have reopened\n\nScotland has begun its most significant relaxation of coronavirus measures since the country went into lockdown in March.\n\nHairdressers and barbers, bars and restaurants, cinemas, tourist attractions, places of worship and childcare settings can now all reopen.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said it is \"the biggest step so far\" in exiting lockdown.\n\nBut she warned she would \"not hesitate\" to close bars and restaurants again if the coronavirus starts to spread.\n\nThe reopening of indoor spaces requires anti-virus precautions to be in place and all customers will be asked to provide their name and a phone number, as part of the NHS Test and Protect scheme.\n\nThe first minister warned it was now more important than ever to stick to public health measures.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was blunt when she said sticking to public health measures was now more important than ever\n\nShe said that by some margin these are the highest-risk changes to date as they include indoor activity where the risk of spread is significantly higher than outdoors,\n\nSpeaking at the daily briefing, she added: \"I have to say I am even more nervous about today's changes than I have been about earlier changes.\n\n\"It is vital, more vital than it has been at any stage of this crisis so far, that all of us stick rigidly to the rules and guidance on how to behave in these different settings.\"\n\nThe first minister said she would not hesitate to reverse changes if the virus gets out of control again.\n\nShe said: \"If these rules are not respected and the virus spreads again then I am afraid I am going to be standing here in a few weeks' time saying we're shutting pubs and restaurants again.\"\n\nMany businesses are opening their doors for the first time since March, but not all are planning to do so right away.\n\nBarbers across have been serving people since midnight as part of the lockdown restrictions easing further\n\nTony Mann opened his barber shop in Giffnock just after midnight, and plans to cut hair for the entire day.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"For the next 24 hours, I'm going to stand here and do what I do best.\"\n\nMr Mann, who first opened his barbers in 2014, said the midnight opening was a way of offering loyal customers a haircut as soon as possible.\n\nHe said it had been stressful preparing his shop to be \"Covid-secure\", but it was very important to do so.\n\nScottish Labour Leader Richard Leonard getting a trim at Scrimshaws and Co salon in Glasgow\n\nPaul Russell said messages of support from his bar's regulars during the lockdown was a lifeline for him and his staff\n\nIn Dundee city centre, Paul Russell, licensee of the Bank Bar, said he was delighted to be back serving regulars in the pub after a \"long three months\".\n\nHe said: \"At one point we did think we would not be here but obviously we're glad to be back.\n\n\"We've been doing takeaway food to keep our hand in and it's been quite successful.\n\n\"Now we've put a lot of things in place for the safety of not just the staff but the customers as well.\"\n\nThe Bank Bar has been providing takeaway food during the lockdown\n\nTwo of the first customers to be served at The Scotsman's Lounge pub in Edinburgh\n\nNeil Douglas is offering the same food but the dining experience will be very different\n\nHand sanitiser, plastic screens and passing places on the way to the toilet, are among the measures in place to keep people safe at Ardnamurchan restaurant in Glasgow.\n\nThese protections have allowed the business to relax the 2m rule and increase their capacity to become more financially viable.\n\nDirector Neil Douglas, said: \"We have installed contactless taps and flushes in the toilet and weekly deep cleans. Our staff are organised into teams and we have turned our business model on its head.\n\n\"However, the end product is still langoustines from Ardnamurchan and venison straight off the estate, so fundamentally the food on the plate is still the same\".\n\nThe dining experience will be different - paper disposable menus, no salt and pepper on tables and sealed, pre-packaged cutlery.\n\nArdnamurchan is unrecognisable with its screens but clever distancing measures mean it has retained an 80% capacity\n\nBut just because bars and restaurants can open does not mean they will.\n\nColin Wilkinson, managing director of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, said the hospitality sector would be struggling for a long time.\n\nHe said: \"About a third of licensed premises will still not be able to reopen and be viable even with the reduced 1m social distancing restrictions in place.\n\n\"So we are looking for ongoing support for not just a few weeks but months or maybe even years ahead to get us back to anywhere near where we were before the pandemic.\"\n\nAlastair Cameron said everything had now been put in place to enable the cinema to open safely when the time comes\n\nCinemas can open, but very few will.\n\nOdeon appears to be the only major operator reopening on Wednesday in two locations - Glasgow Quay and Dunfermline. Vue & Cineworld will return on 31 July and most others have pencilled in late July or August for a comeback.\n\nAlastair Cameron, owner of the Dominion Cinema in Edinburgh, which is the oldest cinema in Scotland, said he was unable to reopen until about mid-August.\n\nHe said: \"The only product which is available at the moment is older films and our thoughts and feelings are that we need new films for our patrons to enjoy.\n\n\"If we opened and could not attract much business then we would have to close again so we need to wait until there is a new film released. I have my eye on Tenet which is a $200m film, which looks good.\"\n\nMr Cameron has removed 60 seats from his cinema for social distancing.\n\nAberdeen's Masjid Alhikmah mosque is providing free masks and hand sanitiser, and has a queuing system in place which limits its capacity to 50 people\n\nAfter months, worshippers can now gather in congregations again, with physical distancing.\n\nIn Aberdeen, afternoon prayers returned at the city's Masjid Alhikmah mosque.\n\nSpaces have been marked out on the floor for social distancing during prayer.\n\nThe Catholic Church in Scotland expects the majority of churches to reopen, but some will take longer to have workable measures in place.\n\nMost have already been open for private prayer but they can now hold socially-distanced services for up to 50 people.\n\nA spokesman for the Catholic Church said the general mood was \"excitement and relief\" that the period of restrictions seemed to be coming closer to an end.\n\nCanon Gerald Sharkey during Communion at the first mass held at St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow since 19 March\n\nThe Church of Scotland said the opportunity to return to places of worship, even on a limited basis, would bring spiritual and mental-health benefits.\n\nThe church has left it up to each congregation to decide when to reopen their buildings for worship, subject to presbytery checks of individual risk assessments.\n\nGuidance has been issued to places of worship by the Scottish government . Measures which will remain for all faiths include the retention of worshippers' contact details for Test and Protect if required, a ban on hymn books and shared items and avoiding singing or chanting.\n\nCommunities Secretary Aileen Campbell, said: \"I know it has been very difficult for our faith communities to be unable to come together in their places of worship during such challenging times.\n\n\"The updated guidance reflects the evolving scientific and health advice and has been developed in consultation with leaders and representatives of Scotland's faith and belief communities.\"\n\nThe Loch Ness visitor centre has all its virus control measures in place\n\nMuseums, galleries and monuments can open with public health measures and booking in place.\n\nBut the big attractions in Scotland say they will open at their own pace.\n\nIn Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum will not return until 17 August, with the Riverside Museum following a week later and GoMA returning on 5 October.\n\nDundee's V&A has announced it will reopen on 27 August.\n\nOne attraction that is ready is the Loch Ness Centre in Inverness.\n\nThe centre says customers will benefit from the new measures, which control the numbers flowing through the exhibition.\n\nOther attractions are expected to return gradually.\n\nThe Surgeons' Hall Museums, which include The History of Surgery Museum and the Dental Collection, will open on Wednesday, but Glasgow's Science Centre needs longer because it is updating and improving its experiences.\n\nLibraries are able to operate but will return in line with each local council's programme of reopening.\n\nCity councils in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen all said their priority was to open after ensuring the facilities were safe for staff and the public.\n\nVisit Scotland has launched a campaign to attract people to tourist attractions across Scotland.\n\nThe \"Take five for tourism\" appeal asks people across Scotland to support the sector in its \"time of need\".\n\nThe five actions that could help restart the visitor economy are taking a trip, visiting an attraction or experience, shopping locally, dining out and booking a staycation.\n\nWith tourism worth more than £11.5bn to the Scottish economy and supporting one in 12 jobs, the sector has been devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown and travel restrictions.", "Boris Johnson has committed to a full independent inquiry into the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAnd we know from inquiries we've seen before - whether it's the Iraq inquiry or the Leveson inquiry into the media, or Bloody Sunday into the army in Northern Ireland - they have the potential to shape and shatter the reputations of the most powerful and to probe their innermost thinking and calculations in moments of crisis.\n\nBut there are an awful lot of unanswered questions.\n\nWe still don't really know what the prime minister meant when he talked about an independent inquiry - it could be a full blown judge-led inquiry, or it could be a much lower calibre investigation led by an academic or maybe a select committee.\n\nWe don't know the timeframe. The prime minister has indicated he does not think an inquiry should be held while we're still grappling with coronavirus. So it could be months, even years away if we're having to wait to actually eliminate the virus or get a vaccine.\n\nAnd we don't know the remit of the inquiry or the authority it will have; will it be the sort of inquiry where witnesses are questioned under oath by barristers.\n\nWith the number of deaths from coronavirus, the catastrophe that has inflicted on care homes, and because it's involved the government imposing restrictions on us never seen before in peacetime, my sense is it will have to be a similar sort of inquiry to that into the Iraq war.", "The rate of coronavirus infections in the community in England was significantly reduced before lockdown eased in May, according to a government-commissioned study.\n\nImperial College research showed there were, on average, 13 positive cases for every 10,000 people.\n\nThis means the R number was lower than thought at 0.57, the study suggests.\n\nBut the figure does not take into account infections in care homes and hospitals at the time.\n\nCalculated using this information, the national overall reproduction number - or R - was estimated to be between 0.7 and 1 during May.\n\nThe study of 120,000 volunteers also suggested young adults aged 18 to 24 were more likely to test positive. The researchers said this could be due to young people having more social contacts over lockdown.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the findings showed the impact of lockdown.\n\nHe said: \"As a country we have made great strides towards beating this virus but we mustn't take our foot off the pedal, and such studies will be vital as we continue to fight this virus.\"\n\nThe study, which is yet to be reviewed by the scientific community, provides a snapshot survey of who was infected between 1 May and 1 June and confirms what the government said it understood about reduced infections at the time.\n\nResearchers also found people of Asian ethnicity were more likely to test positive than those of white ethnicity, while people working in care homes were at greater risk of being infected during lockdown than the general population.\n\nAnd the study showed 69% of those who did test positive reported no symptoms on the day of their test or the previous week, though they may have developed symptoms later.\n\nThose who did report symptoms complained of nausea, diarrhoea, a blocked nose, loss of smell or taste, headache, chills or fatigue.\n\nData collection has been evolving throughout the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe suspension of community testing in March - when people outside hospitals were not offered tests - made it harder for policymakers to work out what was happening.\n\nIt took another two months for widespread laboratory and testing capacity to be established and tests rolled out to everyone.\n\nSo studies like this, with testing of a significant number of participants, are important additions to our understanding of Covid-19.\n\nThe findings tell us what was happening in May in England - that the R number was lower than we thought at the time with infection rates falling sharply.\n\nIt's important to note that this study covers community infections - and not care home or hospital cases - which explains, in part, the lower R number.\n\nBut this is broadly in line with what research by the Office for National Statistics has already told us - in other words, that lockdown had successfully forced down the number of new cases.\n\nThe Imperial College findings for June will be more interesting as they will cover a period of further easing of lockdown restrictions.\n\nIn future months, policymakers will have a useful tool as they monitor the path of the virus.\n\nLockdown restrictions imposed in March were initially eased in England on 13 May, when people were allowed to spend more time outdoors.\n\nOn 15 May, the reproduction number - indicating how many people are infected, on average, by someone with the virus - was estimated to be between 0.7 and 1.\n\nIn March, the R number was estimated to be as high as 4.\n\nThe researchers say the work will be used as the basis of further studies to better understand what is happening to infection rates as lockdown eases.\n\n\"It's providing that baseline from which we can then assess what's happening particularly to the R value at local and regional levels as we ease out of lockdown,\" said Prof Paul Elliott of Imperial College London.\n\nA further 30,000 volunteers were recruited for an upscaled study to assess the rate of coronavirus infection in England during the month of June, results of which will be published later.\n\nPlans are currently under way for a second large-scale study, which will use antibody tests to determine how much of the general public has been infected with Covid-19 in the past.\n\nThe Imperial College study commissioned by the Department of Health considers data from volunteers in England only. Separate models are used by the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape in February\n\nA US judge rejected a proposed $18.9m (£15.3m) settlement of misconduct cases against abusive Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein on Tuesday.\n\nThe fund would have been distributed between dozens of female claimants.\n\nHowever various other accusers had called it unfair, saying it \"absolved\" Weinstein, his producer brother and the company board of liability.\n\nWeinstein was given a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault in March.\n\nThe settlement would have marked an end to nearly all of the civil claims against him, The Weinstein Company and several of its directors.\n\nDistrict Judge Alvin Hellerstein dismissed it for putting women who had merely met Weinstein on an almost equal footing with women who he had raped or sexually abused.\n\nIt also would have typically awarded $10-15,000 to each claimant, whereas $15m would have gone towards Weinstein's defence costs.\n\nIn a 20-minute phone hearing, Judge Hellerstein said: \"The idea that Harvey Weinstein can get a defence fund ahead of the claimants is obnoxious.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, lawyers for six of Weinstein's accusers filed an objection to the proposed payout, calling it a \"cruel hoax\".\n\nThey complained that Weinstein would not have to accept responsibility for his actions and would not make the payments personally.\n\nWhat was in the settlement?\n\nThe settlement, announced on 30 June, would have resolved a lawsuit filed in 2018 against Weinstein, his production company and his brother by the New York Attorney General's office.\n\nIt would have also settled a separate class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of women who accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault.\n\n\"After all the harassment, threats and discrimination, these survivors are finally receiving some semblance of justice,\" Attorney General Letitia James said at the time.\n\n\"Women who were forced to sign confidentiality agreements will also be freed from those clauses and finally be able to speak.\"\n\nThe settlement needed approval from both a federal judge and bankruptcy court.\n\nWhat was the response from accusers?\n\nAhead of the hearing, lawyers Douglas H Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer, who represent six accusers, said: \"While we do not begrudge any survivor who truly wants to participate in this deal, as we understand the proposed agreement, it is deeply unfair for many reasons.\"\n\nHowever, another of Weinstein's accusers, Louisette Geiss, said: \"This important act of solidarity allowed us to use our collective voice to help those who had been silenced and to give back to the many, many survivors who lost their careers and more.\"\n\nIn February, Weinstein was convicted in New York City of committing third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act, and later sentenced to 23 years in jail.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Positive tests for Covid-19 are continuing to fall, says the Welsh Government\n\nA new \"risk-based\" coronavirus testing strategy will be put in place in Wales, says Health Minister Vaughan Gething.\n\nThe number of positive tests being recorded has now dropped to about 1%, which is \"very good news\", said Mr Gething.\n\nBut he said it meant wholesale testing of entire sectors may no longer be appropriate.\n\nHe said care home staff will be offered weekly tests for the next four weeks, but then dropping to fortnightly tests.\n\nMr Gething told the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing the new strategy set out \"why, where and how we will test to achieve clear outcomes\".\n\nHe said priorities would be:\n\nHe said: \"An enormous amount has been achieved over the past few months and I would like to thank everyone for their contribution.\n\n\"But, we now need to prepare ourselves for this next phase - and for what might be a difficult winter.\"\n\nThe health minister said the low prevalence of positive tests in the residential care sector now posed other challenges, including increases in false results being returned.\n\n\"Bespoke\" testing teams will be sent into virus hotspots\n\nHe told Wednesday's briefing that was one of the reasons why antigen testing, which shows if someone has Covid-19, would become fortnightly rather than weekly in care homes later in August.\n\nHe said that where care homes are identified as higher risk, for example due to local outbreaks, \"bespoke testing regimes\" would be implemented.\n\nIn his latest statement setting out the new strategy he added: \"We now have a national testing infrastructure that means anyone who needs a test can access one.\n\n\"This enables our contact tracing system to help control the transmission of the disease as lockdown measures are eased.\"\n\nHe told the briefing: \"This risk-based approach will also apply to other settings and localities, enabling local teams to use testing as part of a wider approach to surveillance and outbreak control.\"\n\nThere are still areas where Wales \"need to improve\" on testing, says the health minister\n\nBut the health minister said he recognised more still needed to be done on turning around test results.\n\nLast week, only 66.3% of results came back within 48 hours, the worst performance since the crisis began.\n\nA single laboratory was blamed for \"difficulties\" in returning results.\n\n\"There are still areas where we know we need to improve and we are working hard to ensure more test results are returned within 24 hours,\" said Mr Gething.\n\n\"Over the weeks and months ahead, we'll make the most of new testing technologies and be ready to seize the opportunities that these offer.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said \"talk of a reduction in weekly to fortnightly testing of care home staff at a point that more restrictions are eased is going to be a concern to many\".\n\n\"I feel strongly that we need to make better use of the testing capacity available, and we need to make sure that those care workers most at risk - either in terms of their own health or the health of others they come into contact with - are tested regularly.\"", "The government must set out plans for an inquiry into its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the health service ombudsman has said.\n\nThis was not about blaming staff but about \"learning lessons\", he said.\n\nOmbudsman Rob Behrens said patients were reporting concerns about cancelled cancer treatment and incorrect Covid-19 test results.\n\nMinisters have not committed to holding an inquiry, but have accepted there are lessons to be learned.\n\nThe Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) stopped investigating complaints against the NHS on 26 March, to allow it to focus on tackling the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nBut people had continued to phone in with these concerns, Mr Behrens said.\n\nAnd cancelled treatment and wrong coronavirus test results have emerged as major themes.\n\n\"Complaining when something has gone wrong should not be about criticising doctors, nurses or other front-line public servants, who have often been under extraordinary pressure dealing with the Covid-19 crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"It is about identifying where things have gone wrong systematically and making sure lessons are learned so mistakes are not repeated.\"\n\nMr Behrens said he had written to the government on 19 May asking for information about the scope of any future inquiry, but had not received a response.\n\nHearing the real experiences of people who used NHS services during the pandemic should form part of any future review of the government's handling of the pandemic, he added.\n\nAnd an \"independent, swift and urgent\" review could have an impact on policies should there be a second wave of infections.\n\nHe said while the government still needed to focus on the current crisis, there were already themes \"that we can learn from\".\n\n\"You can do both things,\" he said.\n\nLast month a group of leading scientists and medical experts wrote to the government, demanding an urgent public inquiry into the response to Covid-19. They warned that without it more lives could be lost if there was a second spike in cases.\n\nRelatives of 450 people who have died in the pandemic have also demanded an immediate public review to minimise the continuing effects of the virus, ahead of a full inquiry.\n\nAnd a number of MPs have said they will form a cross-party parliamentary group in support of an urgent inquiry into the government's handling of the crisis.\n\nDuring an evidence session to MPs on Tuesday, patients described problems they had had because of cancelled care.\n\nKnee-surgery patient Rob Martinez said he had not heard anything from his doctors.\n\n\"It just went so silent. I was so close to having it and then it got cancelled and it was absolutely devastating,\" he said.\n\nDaloni Carlisle said: \"My doctors told me that I needed some chemotherapy. I then fell into a hole where I was absolutely in limbo.\n\n\"I'd had absolutely no communication about when this chemotherapy might start. So for most of the lockdown I've been sitting here at home knowing that all the cancer is growing, knowing that the tumours in my lung, in my liver, in my spine are all busily growing and absolutely no word from the hospital about when some treatment might start.\n\n\"I can't tell you how difficult that limbo period has been.\"\n\nMr Behrens said people should report their complaints to the PHSO office if they had not been resolved by the local service's own complaints process, \"otherwise other people may experience the same failings\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock on Tuesday tweeted that the Nightingale hospitals, set up to care for coronavirus patients if existing hospitals overflowed, would be converted into cancer-testing centres.", "The government should remove Chinese firm Huawei from the UK's 5G network by 2025 instead of 2027, as planned, ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe telecoms company is to be banned from setting up 5G, but will remain involved in 3G and 4G.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said allowing Huawei to work on these also posed a continued \"risk\" to national security.\n\nBut the government said it would \"ensure\" the UK's communications system was as \"secure as it possibly can be\".\n\nHuawei, which has repeatedly said it would not cause harm to any country, predicted the UK would now be pushed \"into the digital slow lane\", with higher bills for consumers.\n\nIn January, ministers announced the company would be kept out of the sensitive core of the 5G network - including national intelligence - but be allowed involvement in up to 35% of other parts.\n\nThis prompted criticism from backbench Conservative MPs, marshalled by Mr Duncan Smith, who called Huawei an arm of the Chinese Communist Party and a risk to the UK.\n\nThe US, with which the UK shares much of its intelligence, also applied diplomatic pressure for a rethink.\n\nUnder its revised plans, the government says Huawei will not be allowed to install any equipment for the 5G network from next year - and its existing equipment will be removed by 2027.\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith told the House of Commons that the head of BT thought the removal could happen two years earlier.\n\nHe said: \"I do think he [Mr Dowden] can do it quicker than this... There's no reason why it can't [happen].\"\n\nThe government thought it had made its decision on Huawei earlier this year. It wanted to get on with delivering faster internet and thought Huawei was best placed to ensure speedy upgrades.\n\nBut since then the US has continued to apply pressure - with its decision to impose new sanctions on China a crucial factor.\n\nMeanwhile, dozens of Tory backbenchers continued their opposition - and refused to fall in line. They have cautiously welcomed the announcement that the UK is moving away from Huawei - but they want things to move faster. Some are also uneasy that the company's technology will stay in the 3G and 4G network.\n\nThis decision wasn't without cost though. Ministers admit it will delay the rollout of 5G across the UK and will cost significant amounts of money - into the billions. They've also had to consider warnings from telecoms providers about service provision.\n\nUltimately though, the combination of political pressure - international and domestic - has won the debate in government.\n\nMr Duncan Smith added that there were \"contradictions\" in banning Huawei from 5G but not 3G and 4G, which would undergo \"software upgrades\"by Huawei \"for the next decade\".\n\n\"So, if they're a risk to us in 5G, why are they not a risk to us generally?\" he asked.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden replied: \"The reality of the 5G network is that it is fundamentally different and it's a recognition of that fundamental difference that we are imposing these rules for 5G.\n\n\"Of course, over time... 5G will be replaced by 6G, and in all of that Huawei will be absent.\"\n\nHe also said: \"There is of course no such thing as a perfectly secure network, but the responsibility of the government is to ensure that it is as secure as it possibly can be.\"\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described the announcement as a \"welcome, long-overdue step\" but accused the government of having \"no consistent approach\" to China.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said said that, while one department is \"seeking to ban them from the 5G network\", another is \"considering handing over technology involved in our nuclear industry to the Chinese government.\"\n\nSNP culture spokesman John Nicolson said it had been wrong in the first place to allow Huawei near the \"nervous system\" of the UK's telecoms network.\n\nAnd Labour MP Chris Bryant told the Commons there was \"unity\" among MPs in opposition to the company's further involvement in 5G, saying: \"I wish the government would listen to its own backbenchers.\"\n\nThe US has claimed China could use Huawei to \"spy, steal or attack\" the UK - but the company denies this and its founder has said he would rather shut the company down than do anything to damage its clients.\n\nSanctions imposed in May by Washington have limited China's access to US chip technology, which prompted the UK's National Cyber Security Centre to launch a review of the use of Huawei.", "Seventeen-year-old women are most likely to have been put on furlough during the coronavirus crisis, official data shows.\n\nSome 61% of jobs done by these young women had wages paid by the state, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said.\n\nYoung men of the same age were also more likely than not to have been furloughed, hitting 58% of their jobs.\n\nMen aged in their 40s and women aged 41 to 58 were least likely to have been put on the scheme.\n\nAnne Willmot, age campaign director at Business in the Community, said: \"Young people are being locked out of employment at the start of their careers - a key time for them to gain experience, learning and development in the workplace.\"\n\nMore than nine million workers who are unable to do their job because of the coronavirus outbreak have had their wages paid by the government.\n\nThe furlough scheme was designed to help people put on leave because of the outbreak, and prevent mass redundancies. Firms start paying towards the scheme from August. It will close in October.\n\nDetailed data has been published by HMRC which shows where the scheme was used until the end of June, by which point it had cost the Treasury £26.5bn.\n\nPeople working for smaller companies are more likely to have been furloughed than those employed by bigger businesses.\n\nSome 57% of jobs at businesses with between five and nine employees had been furloughed, compared with 19% at companies with 250 or more employees.\n\nA handful of larger companies have been repaying furlough money claimed from the Treasury.\n\nBy sector, those working in accommodation and food services had the highest proportion of employers furloughing at least some staff (87%) and the highest proportion of total employments furloughed at 73%.\n\nThe local authority with the highest proportion of jobs furloughed was South Lakeland at 40% and the lowest was Boston in Lincolnshire at 20%.\n\nThree-quarters of those eligible for support grants to help the self-employed through the coronavirus crisis had made a claim by the end of June, further data from HMRC shows.\n\nWomen were less likely to have made a claim, with 70% having done so, compared to 78% of men who were eligible and had claimed a grant.\n\nThe amount paid depends on previous income from their trade, and the figures show that the average claim for women was also lower, at £2,300, compared to the average claim for men of £3,200.\n\nThe highest proportion of claims by profession was in the construction sector.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nBritish Gymnastics has stepped aside from a review into allegations of widespread mistreatment in the sport to \"remove any doubt\" over the \"integrity or independence\" of the process.\n\nUK Sport and Sport England will now co-commission the independent review aimed at \"bringing about positive change\".\n\nSeveral gymnasts have come forward detailing their experiences of mistreatment in recent days, including Olympians Becky and Ellie Downie, who claimed abusive behaviour in gymnastics became \"completely normalised\".\n\nBritish Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen said the decision was made to \"retain the trust of the gymnastics community\", adding: \"In the past week, the complexities have increased.\n\n\"Our priority is to learn the lessons and ensure the welfare of all those within gymnastics.\"\n\nThe British Athletes Commission (BAC) said it welcomed the decision by British Gymnastics and will work with UK Sport and Sport England to \"ensure a truly independent review that can command the confidence of gymnasts and all others affected by the allegations\".\n\nA confidential helpline is also being set up for British gymnasts who say they have suffered bullying or abuse.\n\nThe service, run jointly by the BAC and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), comes amid widespread allegations in the sport.\n\nThe dedicated helpline will be \"a safe place for athletes to go to\", BAC board member Peter Crowther told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We will then get each of these athletes the respective support they need. We have already had inquiries.\n\n\"It was gut-wrenching to see these utterly disgraceful allegations be made public and concerning not just athletes, but young children.\n\n\"This is likely to be one of the more in-depth and broad-ranging situations we've faced, but unfortunately we've dealt with many situations of alleged abuse… across many sports.\"\n\nEarlier, Crowther had said the BAC should also help decide the terms of reference for the panel that leads the inquiry.\n\n\"It is understandable that British Gymnastics wants to have an independent investigation… when something as serious as this emerges,\" he said.\n\n\"[But] frankly, it's not in the interest of anyone, including British Gymnastics, to commission a report where they set the terms of the investigation and tell the investigating panel what sort of questions to ask.\n\n\"It doesn't inspire confidence - athletes need to go somewhere they feel completely safe.\"\n\nBritish Gymnastics has encouraged athletes with \"concerns around specific incidents or behaviours\" to contact its integrity unit.\n\nThe BAC/NSPCC helpline will also now be available from 20 July.\n\nOn Wednesday, Olympic medallist Beth Tweddle said \"there is no place for bullying or abuse in the sport that I love\", and urged all gymnasts to share their feelings.\n\nMeanwhile, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said the organisation takes the allegations of emotional and physical abuse in British gymnastics \"very, very seriously\".\n\n\"These cases are clearly against everything we stand for and therefore we will do everything we can with regard to prevention,\" he said.\n\n\"But also to then follow up on cases if they should come under our jurisdiction.\"\n\nBritish Gymnastics is the latest governing body to be engulfed in an athlete welfare crisis since Rio 2016, and Crowther said the development shows \"more effort needs to be put into policing the high-performance system\".\n\nCrowther said the funding the BAC received from UK Sport was \"deeply insufficient\".\n\nIn 2018, UK Sport announced a range of new initiatives to improve athlete welfare, upping investment for the BAC to £1m for the rest of the Tokyo 2020 cycle which it said would generate \"a three-fold increase in its capacity to support its members\".\n\nDame Tanni Grey-Thompson, who led a duty of care review in 2017, called for her recommendations of a sports ombudsman and independent funding of the BAC to now be implemented.\n\n\"Ultimately, I don't think enough has been done,\" the cross-bench peer and 11-time Paralympic gold medallist told BBC Sport.\n\n\"With each new issue that arises and hits the media for a brief amount of time, it then disappears again and everyone just gets back to normal.\n\n\"We do need to look at a massive cultural change. I don't think applying duty of care to anyone in the system means less medals, it just means that we help people survive the system in the best way they can.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Team GB chef de mission Mark England told BBC Sport's Nick Hope that the British Olympic Association (BOA) is \"alarmed\" by the allegations of widespread mistreatment.\n\nEngland, who led Team GB at Rio 2016 and will do so again at the Tokyo Olympics next year, insists the welfare support system in place for next summer's Games is already \"hugely sound\".\n\nHe says the BOA will consider the findings of the independent review.\n\n\"British Gymnastics took a very important step to announce an independent review,\" England said. \"It's important athletes have a voice.\"", "Maurice Roeves, right, played the villain Robert in Scottish television drama River City alongside Johnny Beattie and Jayd Johnson\n\nActor Maurice Roeves - known for playing villains and hard men - has died at the age of 83.\n\nIn a career spanning six decades, he acted in hundreds of TV shows and films including The Sweeney, Star Trek, The Eagle Has Landed and Tutti Frutti.\n\nBorn in Sunderland, the actor was brought up in Glasgow and launched his career at the city's Citizen's Theatre.\n\nHe also appeared in Eastenders, River City, Doctor Who and Irvine Welsh's The Acid House.\n\nRoeves' most recent role was a small part in the 2020 BBC television drama The Nest.\n\nHis wife Vanessa Roeves told the BBC that he had been in ill health for some time.\n\nDespite playing tough characters on screen, Vanessa said Roeves was a \"softie\" in real life and that no part was too small for her husband.\n\nShe said he was keen to be involved in his last project, despite the small appearance.\n\nAnd when Tutti Frutti was played on the launch of the BBC Scotland Channel, she said Roeves was delighted at having come \"full circle\".\n\nVanessa also said that the family would often joke, \"Does your character make it to the end of this one?\" because his characters would always be killed off.\n\nHowever, Roeves found success at a time where lots of working class actors were just managing to break through into the mainstream, such as Albert Finney and Richard Harris.\n\nOne of the hard man characters he played was the sinister McGurn (left) in the comedy series Rab C Nesbitt\n\nThe Roeves family moved to Glasgow when he was seven years old as his father had a cotton mill in Partick.\n\nHe went to school in the city and when he left full time education he took an an office job to earn money.\n\nBut he returned to his studies and secured a place at the then Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama - now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. While there he won a gold medal for his acting.\n\nMaurice Roeves as Stotz in the Dr Who adventure The Caves of Androzani\n\nAfter graduating he got a job at the Citizens Theatre as an assistant stage manager but found himself playing small roles in between sweeping the stage floor.\n\nHis first major role was as Lorenzo in the Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice when apparently screaming fans would gather at the stage door after the show to catch a glimpse of Maurice.\n\nFollowing this performance Disney sent a scout to Glasgow to see Roeves perform.\n\nHe was then screen tested and offered his first film role, marking his debut in a career that would stretch more than 60 years of television and film.\n\nRoeves' film debut was in The Fighting Prince of Donegal in 1966, where he played the Irishman.\n\nDespite launching his film career, he continued in theatre roles.\n\nHis next major role was in Macbeth at the Royal Court in London where he played Macduff, next to Sir Alec Guinness' Macbeth.\n\nOne memorable Holywood screen role for Roeves was in Last of the Mohicans acting beside Daniel Day-Lewis and Wes Studi.\n\nStudi played Magua, a native American villain who ripped the heart out of Col Edmund Munro, played by Roeves.\n\nHis friendship with Wes Studi lasted for more than 25 years and they met often near Wes's home in Santa Fe. Studi said on social media that they shared haggis together.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Studi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Credit cards spending dropped by nearly half at the start of lockdown as people played safe with their finances and shunned big purchases.\n\nA total of £8.7bn was spent on credit cards in the first full month of lockdown in April, half the level of April last year, UK Finance said.\n\nThe banking trade body said this was the lowest level of spending seen since the last economic downturn.\n\nThe cancellation of holiday plans is one likely reason for the fall.\n\nConsumers often use credit cards to pay for summer getaways or major purchases such as household appliances, owing to the extra protection available if something goes wrong.\n\nMany people uncertain about the coronavirus effect on their jobs and finances would have put off buying these items, UK Finance said.\n\nThe temporary closure of shops and travel restrictions would also have meant many people put these buying decisions on hold.\n\nSome pre-paid holidays or flights were refunded into credit card accounts after being cancelled, and consumers adopted a safety-first approach to their credit card spending similar to that seen following the banking crisis of a decade ago.\n\nAs a result, outstanding balances on credit cards fell by almost £4.7bn in April 2020, the largest monthly fall in over a decade, as many people opted to make repayments rather than spend on their credit cards, UK Finance said. Separate data from the Bank of England has also shown this repayment trend.\n\nEric Leenders, from UK Finance, said: \"The Covid-19 crisis has significantly changed how, where and when people spend their money.\"\n\nWith many shops closed in April, the proportion of card spending that was completed online hit a record level.\n\nA third of credit and debit card spending was made over the internet, according to the UK Finance figures.\n\nThe picture for debit cards is more complex. With shops closed, the use of these cards was down 5.1% in April compared with the same month a year ago.\n\nContactless payments saw a significant drop, as many people were working from home and making fewer occasional purchases, as well as commuting less.\n\nHowever, with the limit on contactless payments having risen from £30 to £45 and some shops refusing cash, the average purchase using this technology rose above £10 for the first time.", "A boy is vaccinated against measles in Samoa last year - many such programmes this year have been disrupted by the pandemic\n\nThe pandemic has led to a sharp fall in the number of children around the world being vaccinated, the UN says.\n\nThe decline in immunisation against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough over the first four months of the year is the first in nearly three decades.\n\nHe said the suffering and death caused by children missing out on vaccines could dwarf that caused by the virus.\n\nImmunisation programmes in three-quarters of the more than 80 countries that responded to a UN survey have been disrupted, Unicef and the WHO said.\n\nThey said the disruptions were linked to a lack of personal protective equipment for health workers, travel restrictions, low health worker staffing levels and a reluctance to leave home, all of which saw programmes curbed or shut down.\n\nBy May this year at least 30 measles vaccinations campaigns had been cancelled or were at risk.\n\nMeasles outbreaks were already rising before the pandemic struck, with 10 million people infected in 2018 and 140,000 deaths, most of whom were children, according to UN data.\n\nUnicef head Henriette Fore said the coronavirus had made routine vaccinations a \"daunting challenge\".\n\n\"We must prevent a further deterioration in vaccine coverage... before children's lives are threatened by other diseases, she said, adding: \"We cannot trade one health crisis for another.\"\n\nDisruption to the global immunisation programme is extremely bad news, particularly for the world's poorest countries. It is estimated that immunisations save up to 3m lives a year by protecting children against serious diseases.\n\nThe Unicef programme is specifically targeted at children who would otherwise struggle to receive good quality health care, but although vaccines now protect more children than ever before, millions of children still go without protection, and it is estimated that more than 1.5m people die each year from diseases that vaccines could prevent.\n\nExperts believe that low immunisation rates among poor and marginalised children seriously compromise all the gains made in other areas of maternal and child health, so major disruption on the scale outlined in this new report will inevitably cost a lot of lives.\n\nCoronavirus has consumed huge amounts of healthcare resources worldwide as the international community has focused on efforts to combat the deadly impact of the virus.\n\nIt has also made delivery of healthcare difficult, particularly in poorer countries where supply chains have been disrupted, facilities and protective equipment can be basic, and fear of being infected has put people off attending clinics.\n\nBut diseases such as measles, diphtheria, and cholera are already on the rise, underlining the urgency of finding ways to tackle this problem.\n\nProgress on immunisation had already been stalling before the pandemic, the UN agencies said.\n\nIn 2019 nearly 14m children - more than half of them in Africa - did not get life-saving vaccines against diseases such as measles and diphtheria.\n\nTwo-thirds of them were in 10 countries: Angola, Brazil, DR Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, and The Philippines.\n\nMeanwhile, historically high rates of immunisation had fallen in Latin America and the Caribbean, the UN said, with immunisation coverage falling by at least 14 percentage points in Brazil, Bolivia, Haiti and Venezuela over the past decade.\n\n\"The likelihood that a child born today will be fully vaccinated with all the globally recommended vaccines by the time she reaches the age of five is less than 20 percent,\" Unicef and the WHO said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Covid-19 vaccine trials in Africa are both important and controversial", "The UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.\n\nDigital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons of the decision.\n\nIt follows sanctions imposed by Washington, which claims the firm poses a national security threat - something Huawei denies.\n\nMr Dowden said the supply ban would delay the UK's 5G rollout by a year.\n\nThe technology promises faster internet speeds and the capacity to support more wireless devices, which should be a boon to everything from mobile gaming to higher-quality video streams, and even in time driverless cars that talk to each other. 5G connections are already available in dozens of UK cities and towns, but coverage can be sparse.\n\nMr Dowden added that the cumulative cost of the moves when coupled with earlier restrictions announced against Huawei would be up to £2bn, and a total delay to 5G rollout of \"two to three years\".\n\n\"This has not been an easy decision, but it is the right one for the UK telecoms networks, for our national security and our economy, both now and indeed in the long run,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The digital secretary says providers must remove all of Huawei's 5G kit from their networks by 2027\n\nBecause the US sanctions only affect future equipment, the government has been advised there is no security justification for removing 2G, 3G and 4G equipment supplied by Huawei.\n\nHowever, when swapping out the company's masts, networks are likely to switch to a different vendor to provide the earlier-generation services.\n\nHuawei said the move was \"bad news for anyone in the UK with a mobile phone\" and threatened to \"move Britain into the digital slow lane, push up bills and deepen the digital divide.\"\n\nThe action, however, does not affect Huawei's ability to sell its smartphones to consumers or how they will run.\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK said the decision was \"disappointing and wrong\".\n\n\"It has become questionable whether the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for companies from other countries,\" tweeted Liu Xiaoming.\n\nBut US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed the news, saying: \"The UK joins a growing list of countries from around the world that are standing up for their national security by prohibiting the use of untrusted, high-risk vendors.\"\n\nNew restrictions will also apply to use of the company's broadband kit.\n\nOperators are being told they should \"transition away\" from purchasing new Huawei equipment for use in full-fibre networks, ideally within the next two years.\n\nMany of Huawei's products are developed at its labs near Shenzhen, China\n\nMr Dowden said the government would \"embark on a short technical consultation\" with industry leaders about this.\n\nHe explained that the UK needed to avoid becoming dependent on Nokia - which is currently the only other supplier used for some equipment - and he wanted to avoid \"unnecessary delays\" to the government's gigabit-for-all by 2025 pledge.\n\nBT's Openreach division told the BBC it had in fact recently struck a deal to buy full-fibre network kit from a new supplier - the US firm Adtran - but first deliveries would only start in 2021.\n\nThe UK last reviewed Huawei's role in its telecoms infrastructure in January, when it was decided to let the firm remain a supplier but introduced a cap on its market share.\n\nBut in May the US introduced new sanctions designed to disrupt Huawei's ability to get its own chips manufactured. The Trump administration claims that Huawei provides a gateway for China to spy on and potentially attack countries that use its equipment, suggestions the company strongly rejects.\n\nThe sanctions led security officials to conclude they could no longer assure the security of its products if the company had to start sourcing chips from third-parties for use in its equipment.\n\nThe minister cited a review carried out by GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre as being the motivation for the changes.\n\nTSMC - one of the world's biggest chip manufacturers - has stopped taking orders from Huawei as a consequence of the US sanctions\n\nNCSC has said Huawei products adapted to use third-party chips would be \"likely to suffer more security and reliability problems\".\n\nBut other political considerations are also likely to have also come into play, including the UK's desire to strike a trade deal with the US, and growing tensions with China over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak and its treatment of Hong Kong.\n\nSome backbench Tory MPs had pressed for a shorter time-span for its removal, in particular there had been calls for the 5G ban to come into effect before the next election in May 2024.\n\nHowever, Mr Dowden said that \"the shorter we make the timetable for removal, the greater the risk of actual disruption to mobile phone networks\".\n\nBT and Vodafone had warned that customers could face mobile blackouts if they were forced to remove all of Huawei's 5G kit in less time.\n\nLabour's shadow technology minister Chi Onwurah said the government was incapable of sorting \"this mess out on their own\".\n\nIt had \"refused to face reality\" and been \"incomprehensively negligent\" in allowing matters to get to this point, she added, and a taskforce of experts now needed to be created.\n\nHopes on the part of government that this decision may put the Huawei issue to bed may be optimistic.\n\nThe reason that we are here again despite a decision in January is because one of the key players - the US - played a new card in the form of sanctions.\n\nAnd there is still time between now and legislation coming to parliament in Autumn for others to do the same - whether Conservative backbenchers or Beijing.\n\nIn the long run, many countries will be watching carefully how China reacts.\n\nWill it feel it needs to punish the UK in order to discourage others from following its lead on 5G? Or will it want to avoid being seen as a bully and prefer to try and influence the decision more subtly? Whatever the case, the Huawei story in the UK is not over yet.\n\nHuawei says it employs about 1,600 people in the UK and claims to be one of Britain's largest sources of investment from China.\n\nThe firm - whose shares are not publicly traded - does not provide a regional breakdown of its earnings. But on Monday, it announced a 13% rise in sales for the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, totalling 454bn yuan ($64.8bn; £51.3bn).\n\nThe UK will have accounted for a fraction of that. The firm's UK chief recently noted that Huawei had only deployed a total of 20,000 5G base stations - the radio receiver/transmitter equipment fitted to a mast - in the UK so far. By contrast it expects to deliver a total of 500,000 globally this year.\n\nEven so, what the firm fears and Washington hopes is that other countries will now follow Westminster's lead with bans of their own.\n\nDespite there seeming little chance of a U-turn, Huawei said it was still urging UK ministers to reconsider.\n\n\"We will conduct a detailed review of what today's announcement means for our business here and will work with the UK government to explain how we can continue to contribute to a better connected Britain,\" spokesman Ed Brewster said.\n\nShortly before the announcement Sky News revealed that Lord Browne, Huawei's UK chairman and the ex-chief executive of BP, would be leaving the Chinese company before his term had expired. It said he had given his notice a few days ago and would formally step down in September.\n\nLord Browne is stepping down six months before his time at Huawei was due to end\n\nLord Browne had led efforts to improve the company's image in the UK and had tried to prevent a ban.\n\n\"He has been central to our commitment here dating back 20 years, and we thank him for his valuable contribution,\" said Huawei, confirming the report.\n\nBT is set to be the telecoms operator most affected by the decision given it runs both the EE mobile network and Openreach, which provides fixed-line infrastructure to individual internet providers.\n\n\"We need to further analyse the details and implications of this decision before taking a view of potential costs and impacts,\" it said.\n\nThe move should, however, benefit Nokia and Ericsson, which are the two other main 5G kit vendors.\n\n\"We have the capacity and expertise to replace all of the Huawei equipment in the UK's networks at scale and speed... with minimal impact on the people using our customers' networks,\" said Nokia.\n\nHuawei still supplies masts and other 5G equipment to Germany, Switzerland and China among other countries\n\nEricsson added: \"Today's decision removes the uncertainty that was slowing down investment decisions around the deployment of 5G in the UK... and we stand ready to work with the UK operators to meet their timetable.\"\n\nHowever, both firms manufacture some of their 5G equipment in China, which has also caused concern in Washington.\n\nIn June, the US Department of Defense published a list of 20 companies it claimed had close ties to the Chinese military.\n\nIt included Panda Electronics - the firm with which Ericsson jointly runs a manufacturing facility in the Chinese city of Nanjing.\n\n\"A lot of companies assemble equipment or have some type of manufacturing in China,\" Ericsson's head of corporate communications Peter Olofsson told the BBC, when asked about this.\n\n\"Our trade compliance people have looked at this [list] and they concluded that it's not something that has an impact on Ericsson or our operations.\"\n\nUltimately Huawei believes that this was a political decision and not a business one.\n\nAnd if the political winds change, then Huawei's fortunes may too.\n\nMy understanding is that a longer time frame for the removal of its 5G kit from UK networks was a relatively desirable outcome for Huawei.\n\nSo even though no new Huawei UK equipment can be bought by UK mobile carriers after the end of this year, the fact that the UK has until 2027 to remove Huawei's 5G kit from all of its network could be seen as a potential positive.\n\nA new US administration in November could markedly change Washington's position on Huawei.\n\nSo for Huawei, playing the long game makes sense.\n\nAnd one thing that was crystal clear to me from meeting Ren Zhengfei, the company's founder is that he's a fighter.\n\nRen Zhengfei told the BBC: 'If the lights go out in the West, the East will still shine. And if the North is dark, then there is still the South.'\n\nNothing he has said indicates he is willing to give up.\n\nFor now though, the immediate impact of the UK decision will be seen as a signal that Washington's campaign on Huawei has worked.\n\nAnd the Chinese firm will not want that replicated in other countries around the world.", "Jen Reid posed with her statue, which appeared on the empty plinth on Wednesday\n\nA figure of a Black Lives Matter protester has appeared on the plinth previously occupied by the statue of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nA sculpture of protester Jen Reid was erected early on Wednesday in Bristol city centre where the Colston statue was pulled down last month.\n\nMs Reid had been photographed standing on the empty plinth after the Colston statue was toppled during the march.\n\nMayor Marvin Rees said the statue did not have permission to be installed.\n\nIn a tweet he said: \"Anything put on the plinth outside of the process we've put in place will have to be removed.\"\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\nArtist Marc Quinn said the black resin statue, called A Surge of Power, was meant to be a temporary installation to continue the conversation about racism.\n\nHe said he was inspired to create it after seeing an image of Ms Reid standing on the plinth with her fist raised during the Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June.\n\nMr Quinn then contacted Ms Reid through social media and they worked together on the statue, which was erected shortly before 04:30 BST.\n\nThis image of Jen Reid standing on top of the plinth after the Colston statue was pulled down inspired the sculpture\n\n\"I think it's something the people of Bristol really appreciate seeing,\" said Ms Reid.\n\n\"My husband took the photo on the day of the protests and put it on his social media. He was contacted by Marc Quinn who then contacted myself.\n\n\"I was in his studio by the Friday after the protest with 201 cameras surrounding me, taking pictures of me from every conceivable angle. That went into a 3D print and a mould was made.\"\n\nMs Reid said the sculpture was important because it helped \"keep the journey towards racial justice and equality moving\".\n\nThe new statue was unveiled and put on the plinth early on Wednesday\n\nShe said she had felt an \"overwhelming impulse\" to climb on to the plinth during last month's protest.\n\n\"When I was stood there on the plinth, and raised my arm in a Black Power salute, it was totally spontaneous,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't even think about it. It was like an electrical charge of power was running through me.\n\n\"This sculpture is about making a stand for my mother, for my daughter, for black people like me.\"\n\nPeople in Bristol stopped to take photos of the new statue\n\nMr Quinn said: \"I saw pictures of Jen on the plinth and she spontaneously made this gesture and I thought this is amazing. She's made an extraordinary artwork just by doing that and it needs to be crystalised into an object and put back on to the plinth.\n\n\"It had to be in that public realm and I wanted to put it in that charged spot where Edward Colston had been before.\"\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was pulled from its plinth last month and dragged into the harbourside\n\nMayor of Bristol Marvin Rees, who had previously called the statue of Colston \"an affront\", said the new sculpture \"was not requested and permission was not given for it to be installed\".\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"The future of the plinth and what is installed on it must be decided by the people of Bristol,\" he said.\n\n\"This will be critical to building a city that is home to those who are elated at the statue being pulled down, those who sympathise with its removal but are dismayed at how it happened and those who feel that in its removal, they've lost a piece of the Bristol they know and therefore themselves.\n\n\"We need change. In leading that change we have to find a pace that brings people with us. There is an African proverb that says if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.\"\n\nThe council has established a commission of historians and other experts to research the city's \"true history\".\n\nArtist Marc Quinn's previous works include a sculpture entitled Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was put on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square\n\nOn 7 June, protesters used ropes to pull the Colston statue, which had been at the Bristol city centre site since 1895, from its plinth.\n\nIt was then dragged to the harbourside, where it was thrown into the water at Pero's Bridge - named in honour of enslaved man Pero Jones who lived and died in the city.\n\nBristol City Council later retrieved the statue, which will be displayed in a museum along with placards from the Black Lives Matter protest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Edward Enninful took over as editor of British Vogue in August 2017\n\nBritish Vogue editor Edward Enninful has said he was racially profiled after being told to \"use the loading bay\" by a security guard as he entered work.\n\nEnninful, who has been editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine since 2017, said the incident happened as he walked into his offices on Wednesday.\n\nIn a social media post, he said Conde Nast, which owns British Vogue, \"moved quickly\" to dismiss the security guard.\n\nBut he said \"change needs to happen now\".\n\nEnninful, who was appointed an OBE in 2016 for services to diversity in the fashion industry, wrote on Twitter: \"Today I was racially profiled by a security guard whilst entering my work place.\n\n\"As I entered, I was instructed to use the loading bay.\n\n\"Just because our timelines and weekends are returning to normal, we cannot let the world return to how it was.\"\n\nIn a separate post to his one million Instagram followers, he said: \"It just goes to show that sometimes it doesn't matter what you've achieved in the course of your life: the first thing that some people will judge you on is the colour of your skin.\"\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\nIt is understood the security guard, who works for a third party contractor, was dismissed from the site immediately and placed under investigation by their employer.\n\nEarlier this month, when accepting an industry award for his work at the magazine, Enninful said: \"It would be disingenuous of me not to point out that I am the first black person to ever win this award - the first black person in 40 years.\n\n\"Diversity is making its way into our commissioning and on to our pages. But what about inside our workplaces?\n\n\"Who are we hiring? Who are we nurturing? Who are we promoting? How do our office environments treat people? Who is allowed to get to the top?\"\n\nWhen he took the helm of British Vogue three years ago, Enninful said he hoped to create a more diverse magazine that was \"open and friendly\".\n\n\"My Vogue is about being inclusive,\" he said at the time.\n\n\"It is about diversity - showing different women, different body shapes, different races, different classes [and] tackling gender.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edward Enninful 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.", "Banksy spray painted his tag in the colours of a medical face mask\n\nCleaners did not know graffiti on a London Underground train was by world-renowned artist Banksy when they removed it, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe piece, If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, was painted inside a Circle Line service carriage.\n\nBut by the time he unveiled the work on his Instagram account, it had been wiped away by Transport for London (TfL) cleaning crews.\n\nA TfL source said: \"It was treated like any other graffiti on the network.\"\n\n\"The job of the cleaners is to make sure the network is clean, especially given the current climate,\" they said.\n\nA video posted online showed a man - presumed to be Banksy - disguised as a cleaner and armed with stencils.\n\nIt is thought the stunt, revealed on Tuesday, was designed to encourage the use of face masks.\n\nIt was a smudge on a cleaning cloth long before the artist revealed on social media he'd done it.\n\nIn the current climate, it is perhaps reassuring that the cleaners on the Tube did their job quickly and efficiently and cleaned off the work so quickly.\n\nGraffiti is regarded - certainly in the transport world and by many commuters - as something that contributes to a threatening, unwelcoming atmosphere.\n\nOf course there will be those who say it should have been kept or protected as art but that is somewhat academic.\n\nYou get the feeling Banksy, who has previously destroyed his art on purpose, knew exactly what would happen to his work by putting it inside a carriage.\n\nThis was perhaps all part of the plan.\n\nAn official statement said the art was removed \"some days ago\" in line with the London Underground's \"strict anti-graffiti policy\".\n\nAll public transport users in London must wear a face covering, and TfL said it appreciated \"the sentiment of encouraging people\" to do so.\n\n\"We'd like to offer Banksy the chance to do a new version of his message for our customers in a suitable location,\" it added.\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\nAn app has been launched to help social distancing by showing beachgoers which areas are crowded.\n\nDeveloped by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Tourism, the free BCP Beach Check app gives real time information for visitors.\n\nThousands flocked to the area last month as lockdown restrictions eased, which council bosses said stretched services \"to the absolute hilt\".\n\nThe app is available for Apple or Android devices.\n\nThe app covers 15 miles of coastline between Sandbanks and Highcliffe\n\nCouncil leader Vikki Slade said: \"With 15 miles of coastline, there is more than enough space for people to be able to spread themselves around and maintain social distancing which is pivotal to ensuring the minimal spread of this pandemic.\"\n\nBCP Beach Check uses a traffic light system to code beaches green, amber or red to show congestion levels.\n\nData for the app is provided via a number of sources including seafront rangers, CCTV and some footfall counters, BCP Council said.\n\nThe beaches on the Dorset coast have been heaving with people in recent weeks\n\nThe app covers 24 sections of beach between Sandbanks and Highcliffe.\n\nLast month, as temperatures hit the mid-20s, thousands of people visited the Bournemouth and Poole areas.\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said the sheer numbers of people had left its services \"stretched to the absolute hilt\".\n\nThe app will also give information on the location of public toilets and lifeguards and which areas dogs can use.\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. Cerys Evans wants laws on students and funeral benefits changed\n\nA student says a flaw in the law means she had to borrow money on a credit card to pay for her father's funeral.\n\nCerys Evans discovered she was not eligible for a special benefit to help cover the costs when her father died unexpectedly.\n\nLyndon Evans was just 51 when he was admitted to hospital in Cardiff in May with sepsis and pneumonia.\n\nUK officials said Funeral Expenses Payments were only available to those on \"qualifying benefits\".\n\n\"It was really unexpected. Dad was diabetic and he'd been unwell before, but he was honestly like a cat with nine lives, he came out of anything,\" said Ms Evans, from Caerphilly.\n\n\"When he went into hospital, we were told he can be treated, you know, he should come out the other side, and it went downhill so quickly and then he passed away.\"\n\nThe 20-year-old, who is studying criminal justice and psychology at the University of South Wales, said as next-of-kin it was up to her to make the funeral arrangements.\n\nShe had heard of the funeral expenses benefits payments, but told BBC Wales it quickly became clear she would not be eligible, even though she had a severely limited income as a student.\n\n\"It absolutely crushed me,\" she said.\n\n\"I had a credit card before. I had to use that and another one and borrow money from family members, it was just a nightmare. It was horrible.\"\n\nShe said her only other source of income was a part-time weekend retail job, with savings of just a few hundred pounds and \"everything went towards the funeral\".\n\nThe family say they struggled to grieve while focusing on funeral costs\n\nMs Evans said the reality of having to find about £4,000 from \"virtually nowhere\" was incredibly stressful for the family, including her younger 14-year-old sister and an older 27-year-old sister.\n\n\"I don't feel like any of us - especially my younger sister - none of us have taken time to grieve because we've all been focused on: 'Oh my god, there's money, there's this'.\n\n\"And Dad really wouldn't have wanted that either.\n\n\"We've all been focused on money and how we're going to sort everything out. Everyone has been lovely but it's been awful mentally, to tell you the truth.\"\n\nThe funeral took place in June, and Ms Evans said they could only afford \"the bare minimum\" for their father.\n\nShe has now started a petition to try and change the system, to allow students to apply for help towards funeral costs.\n\n\"People don't realise how much we do,\" said Ms Evans.\n\n\"I cared for my Dad beforehand. I did his shopping.\n\n\"I didn't have a day for myself, and in between that I was helping Dad.\"\n\nShe said if the UK government wanted to encourage individuals to go to university, they should also realise \"we are deserving of this fund just as much as anyone else\".\n\nA UK government official responded: \"Losing a loved one is incredibly distressing and our hearts go out to anyone experiencing bereavement.\n\n\"The financial assistance we offer is targeted at those on qualifying benefits to ensure that the most vulnerable are supported with these costs.\"", "Jewellery and an Audi RS6 were taken in the raid, police say\n\nLiverpool midfielder Fabinho's home was burgled as the footballer celebrated the team's Premier League win.\n\nThieves broke in to the Brazilian's home on the day the Reds were presented with the trophy for their first top flight win in 30 years.\n\nItems of jewellery and an Audi RS6 were stolen during the raid in Formby, Merseyside Police said. The car was later recovered in Wigan.\n\nThe burglary was discovered when the occupants returned.\n\nFabinho (right) celebrated the Premier League victory with Roberto Firmino and Alisson Becker\n\nPolice said thieves targeted the footballer's home sometime between 15:00 BST on Wednesday and 04:00 on Thursday.\n\nOn Wednesday evening Sir Kenny Dalglish presented the Premier League trophy to Liverpool after a 5-3 home win over Chelsea.\n\nFabinho joined the Reds in 2018 in a deal worth more than £40m.\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.", "About 80 firefighters are tackling the blaze at a shop in Park Royal\n\nA large fire at a bakery and restaurant is sending huge plumes of black smoke over west London.\n\nThe blaze, on Minerva Road in Park Royal, has prompted 50 calls from local residents, firefighters have said.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said \"a lot of black smoke\" was coming from the building, and advised those living nearby to close doors and windows.\n\nAbout 80 firefighters and 15 fire engines were sent to the scene at 18:20 BST. No injuries have been reported.\n\nThe blaze is over two storeys of a bakery and restaurant\n\nAssistant Commissioner Graham Ellis said: \"This is a severe, complex and highly visible fire.\n\n\"Due to the layout of the building and access to pockets of fire that remain we will be at the scene throughout the night.\n\n\"Thankfully there are no reports of any injuries.\"\n\nNo injuries have been reported\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK aid is distributed with the aim of protecting public health and alleviating global poverty\n\nBritain is to cut its global aid budget by £2.9bn this year due to the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, the government has announced.\n\nIt said a review of aid projects has prioritised the most vulnerable countries for assistance.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK would still meet its commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) on international development.\n\nBut MPs criticised the announcement's timing as Parliament breaks for summer.\n\nLabour MP Sarah Champion, chairwoman of the Commons International Development Committee, said it was \"poor practice\" to announce the move on the final day of Parliament before the summer, preventing MPs from asking questions about it.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Champion, Mr Raab said the UK was \"experiencing a severe economic downturn as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nDespite the reductions, Mr Raab said money spent this year \"remains prioritised on poverty reduction\".\n\nHe added that aid would also focus on \"tackling climate change and reversing biodiversity loss, championing girls' education, UK leadership in the global response to Covid-19, and campaigning on issues such as media freedom and freedom of religious belief\".\n\nSpending on Official Development Assistance (ODA) was set to be £15.8bn this year, before the Covid-19 crisis emerged.\n\nMr Raab said spending on ODA would remain at 0.7% of GNI.\n\nThe foreign secretary suggested the cuts were in anticipation of \"potential shrinkage\" in the UK economy in the coming months.\n\nHe said a £2.9bn package of reductions in the government's planned foreign aid spending had been identified \"so we can proceed prudently for the remainder of 2020\".\n\n\"The package I have agreed with the prime minister maintains our flexibility and enables the government to manage our ODA spend against an uncertain 0.7% position,\" he added.\n\nBoris Johnson has described UK aid spending as a \"giant cashpoint in the sky\"\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the Department for International Development (DFID) would be merged with Mr Raab's department.\n\nThe PM said at the time that UK aid spending had \"been treated as some giant cashpoint in the sky that arrives without any reference to UK interests\".\n\nMs Champion said Mr Raab's announcement on the last day of Parliament before the long summer recess raises more questions than it answers\" and queried the timescale of the cuts.\n\n\"If it is with immediate effect, do the projects know or will they find out via the media as DFID staff did about the merger? Is there an overarching strategy in place?\" she wrote.\n\nShe added: \"Clearly there has been no consultation, but to release this news literally as Parliament rises so there can be no scrutiny by MPs is poor practice.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat international development spokesperson Wendy Chamberlain said assurances over foreign aid were not \"worth the paper they were written on\".", "A Windrush campaigner who was nearly deported despite having lived in the UK for nearly 50 years has died.\n\nPaulette Wilson came to the UK as a child and was one of thousands of people affected by the Windrush scandal which made headlines in 2018.\n\nShe died aged 64 on Thursday morning, her daughter Natalie Barnes confirmed.\n\n\"She was an inspiration to many people. She was my heart and my soul and I loved her to pieces,\" her daughter said in a statement.\n\nMs Wilson arrived in Telford from Jamaica in 1968 aged 10 - but in August 2015 her benefits were stopped and was later sent to a detention centre.\n\nShe was later told by the Home Office she could stay.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC about the experience last year, Ms Wilson said: \"I couldn't sleep. It was terrible. It's been like that since I came out. I still can't eat like I used to.\"\n\nIn a statement, Ms Wilson's daughter Natalie Barnes said: \"My mum was a fighter and she was ready to fight for anyone. She was an inspiration to many people. She was my heart and my soul and I loved her to pieces.\n\n\"She was widely loved and respected; her laugh was infectious and she loved to see people smile; she will be missed by us all.\"\n\nMany people have been paying tribute to her following her death.\n\nImmigration lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie tweeted: \"Saddened to hear of today's death of Paulette Wilson who arrived in the UK in 1968, aged 10, but became a victim of the Windrush scandal - told she had no rights of residency, she was detained in an IRC.\n\n\"Paulette took on the fight for justice for others. May she rest in peace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nZubaida Haque, the interim director of the think tank the Runnymede Trust, said it was \"incredibly upsetting and sad\".\n\nShe said Ms Wilson was \"one of the most selfless and bravest victims of the Windrush scandal\".\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry expressed her condolences, and said Ms Wilson \"fought back with incredible strength and campaigned for justice for all the victims\" of the scandal.\n\nMs Wilson, who lived in Wolverhampton, was looked after by her grandparents in Wellington, Telford, when she first arrived in Britain.\n\nShe remained in the country all her life, never visited Jamaica, and had 34 years of National Insurance payments. She also had a British daughter and grandchild.\n\nIn October 2017, she was detained in the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, where she was held for a week before being released.\n\nThe following year, she gave evidence to MPs about the scandal.\n\nThe Windrush scandal broke in 2018, when it emerged many children of Commonwealth citizens had been threatened with deportation.\n\nDespite living and working in the UK for decades, many were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at life when the Windrush generation arrived in the UK\n\nThe Windrush generation is the name given to those who arrived in UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries. In 1971, Commonwealth citizens already living in the UK were given indefinite leave to remain.\n\nAfter the scandal broke, the government apologised. Since then, reports and compensation schemes have been launched, but some people are concerned that not enough has been done.\n• None Who are the Windrush generation?", "Cory Hewer died at a track after falling from his bike\n\nThe death of a 13-year-old who fell from his motorbike at an off-road circuit is being investigated by a council.\n\nCory Hewer, from Ebbw Vale, was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales with serious head injuries but died on Tuesday.\n\nGwent Police said the crash happened at about 15:30 BST on Sunday at Aberbeeg Motorcross track in Cwm, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nBlaenau Gwent council said it was aware of the \"tragic accident\".\n\n\"The council is investigating the circumstances of the incident and enquiries are ongoing at this stage,\" a spokesman said.\n\nCory's parents said on Wednesday their lives would \"never be the same\" without their son.", "People working from home have been eating more ice cream but neglecting their grooming habits, consumer goods giant Unilever has suggested.\n\nThe firm said ice cream sales leapt 26% in the three months to June, but demand for shampoo and deodorant fell.\n\nIt said it had seen strong \"growth in home consumption of foods, ice cream and tea\" during lockdown.\n\nBut there had been \"fewer personal care occasions from going to work or socialising\".", "Rishi Sunak said he had the \"right policies\" for the crisis.\n\nMPs say the chancellor has \"effectively drawn a line\" under helping more than a million people excluded from government virus support packages.\n\nLast week, the Treasury Committee published an interim report into gaps in support to firms and workers hit by the virus.\n\nHowever, Rishi Sunak mounted a strong defence of his aid packages.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Mel Stride, said on Thursday it appeared Mr Sunak was turning his back on people in need.\n\nLast week's report stressed that more than a million people had not received support from the government and called on the Treasury to \"do whatever it takes\" to protect people and businesses.\n\nHowever, the chancellor defended the current system of business loans and job retention schemes after reading the committee's initial findings.\n\nIn a letter, Mr Sunak admitted to MPs on the committee that it \"is correct that some people have not been eligible\" for furlough or self-employment scheme funding, while others, such as PAYE freelancers, do not have a specific scheme.\n\nBut he said that these \"were the right policies for the first phase of the crisis\".\n\nMr Sunak also stressed that the Treasury was unable to allow returns for the 2019-20 tax year to be used by people to secure self-employment support as that would create an opportunity for an \"organised criminal gang to file fake or misleading returns to claim the grant\".\n\nIn response, Mel Stride said: \"The chancellor has effectively drawn a line under helping the million-plus people who have been excluded from support for four months.\n\n\"Despite stating that he will not pick winners and losers when it comes to sectors and businesses that need support, the chancellor has done this when it comes to households and individuals.\n\n\"The chancellor said that the schemes were designed to be open and accessible to as many people as possible, but the committee remains to be convinced that more people could not have been helped.\"\n\nApprentices can be furloughed and continue their training\n\nMr Stride pointed out that the chancellor initially told people at risk of losing their livelihoods that they would not be forgotten.\n\nHe said: \"While the government is clear that it is moving on to the next phase of its recovery plan, it cannot just turn its back on those who are suffering.\"\n\nMr Stride said the committee \"urges the government to re-think its position\".\n\nHowever, Treasury spokesperson said on Thursday that the scale of its support packages had been \"unmatched\" by any schemes in recent history and they had helped millions of companies and individuals.\n\n\"We have kept nine-and-a-half million people in work, supported the incomes of 2.6 million self-employed people and helped businesses across the UK get through the outbreak - acting quickly to deliver one of the most generous and comprehensive packages of support in the world worth an initial £160bn.\n\n\"As part of the next phase of our economic plan to rebuild and recover the UK, we recent announced Our Plan for Jobs. We have made up to £30bn available to support, protect and create jobs, helping ensure people and businesses can come back from this crisis stronger,\" the Treasury said.", "Indoor performances, with socially distanced audiences, can resume in England from 1 August\n\nThe government has been too slow to respond to the \"existential threat\" faced by live theatre, music and other culture, a committee of MPs has said.\n\nMinsiters \"consistently failed to recognise\" the challenges Covid-19 posed to the arts, the House of Commons culture select committee said.\n\nChair Julian Knight MP said a £1.57bn support package was \"nothing more than an Elastoplast over a gaping wound\".\n\nThe government insisted it had \"worked with urgency\" to provide support.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) disagreed that it had been too slow, saying thousands of organisations and hundreds of thousands of jobs in the sector had been saved by its furlough and loan schemes.\n\nThe DCMS also pointed to the \"largest ever one-off cash injection into culture\", which was welcomed by many figures in the arts when it was announced earlier this month.\n\nHowever, the national advisory body for theatres has warned that a \"significant proportion\" of theatres are expected to close due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn written evidence to the committee, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group confirmed it was losing more than £6 million a week in box office sales, with shows including London productions of Cinderella, Evita and The Phantom Of The Opera, all cancelled or postponed since lockdown.\n\nMr Knight, Conservative MP for Solihull, told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz: \"The reality is we are facing a cataclysm in the arts and cultural space.\"\n\nWhat is needed is \"not just a bailout\" but a \"long-term plan\" that would enable the sector to \"come out the other side\", he said.\n\n\"What we've seen is a lack of joined-up thinking across government,\" he went on, suggesting \"huge swathes of our cultural infrastructure\" are at risk.\n\nThe committee said the cultural industries were likely to face mass redundancies. There could be a lasting impact on diversity, opportunities for audiences and workers, and the UK's position as a cultural world leader, it said.\n\nThe help available was hampered by the \"lack of spending power\" at the DCMS, and \"a fundamental misunderstanding\" of what is needed, the committee said.\n\nMr Knight said: \"Our report points to a department that has been treated as a 'Cinderella' by government when it comes to spending, despite the enormous contribution that the DCMS sectors make to the economy and job creation.\"\n\nShakespeare's Globe in London was among the venues that submitted evidence\n\nThe committee cited evidence that 70% of theatres and production companies could go out of business by the end of 2020, with more than £300m lost in box office revenue in the first 12 weeks of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIt also pointed to figures suggesting that 93% of grassroots music venues faced permanent closure and that 90% of all festivals would be cancelled this year.\n\nThe report recommended a \"sector-specific recovery deal\", \"clear, if conditional, timelines for reopening\", and \"long-term structural support\".\n\nIt also called for continued support for workers and freelancers, and help for those who had fallen through the gaps in the current schemes.\n\nAnd it said VAT relief on ticket sales should be extended until 2024 and that Theatre Tax Relief should be halved for the next three years.\n\nThe Old Vic and Shakespeare's Globe were among those to submit evidence to the committee's inquiry.\n\nLast week it was announced that indoor performances with socially distanced audiences can resume in England from 1 August.\n\nYet the report said the announcement did not take into account \"the lead times for performance, the challenges of social distancing or the concerns about audience behaviours\".\n\nResponding to the report, a DCMS statement said: \"We have worked with urgency, day-in-day-out since the start of the pandemic in providing support for our sectors and on plans to reopen them safely.\n\nIt added: \"Our £1.57 billion investment is the largest ever one-off cash injection into culture in this country. We have also worked with our arms length bodies on additional emergency packages and provided billions in support to charities to help those most in need.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "We're closing our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic for today but we’ll be back tomorrow.\n\nIn the meantime, here's a look back at some of the biggest developments we've been bringing you from the UK and around the world:\n• Nearly four million cases of coronavirus infections have now been reported in the US, according to the Johns Hopkins University pandemic tracker\n• Less than 12 hours before face coverings become mandatory in England's shops, the government released new guidelines\n• Nicola Sturgeon announced that people who have been advised to stay at home and shield in Scotland will be allowed to visit shops, pubs and restaurants from Friday\n• Brazil has registered a record number of new coronavirus cases - more than 67,000 over the course of the past day. The health ministry also reported almost 1,300 deaths in that period\n• More than 10,000 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)\n• Uganda has recorded the country's first coronavirus death, according to a tweet from the ministry of health\n• Dyson announced it is cutting 600 jobs in the UK and a further 300 worldwide as the coronavirus impact speeds up the company's restructuring plans\n\nYou can follow all the latest news on the BBC News website, or for coronavirus news head here.\n\nToday's live page was written and edited by Andreas Illmer, Sophie Williams, Flora Drury, Katie Wright, Alex Kleiderman, Jo Couzens, Victoria Bisset, Joshua Cheetham and Max Matza.", "Last updated on .From the section St Mirren\n\nOnly one of the seven St Mirren staff members who tested positive for Covid-19 actually has the illness.\n\nThe Paisley side said on Thursday that the individuals - none of whom are players - had been identified after tests analysed by a private lab.\n\nHowever, after further NHS screening, it has emerged that six staff members returned 'false positives'.\n\nThe other is in \"strict isolation\" and has not been in contact with any player or other staff member since Saturday.\n\n\"The club will continue to support and look after this staff member to ensure a full recovery,\" added chief executive Tony Fitzpatrick, who confirmed Saturday's friendly with St Johnstone remains cancelled.\n\nFitzpatrick said St Mirren had \"complied robustly\" with testing protocols \"to the letter\" and are \"undertaking an urgent review of the private testing arrangement\".\n• None Podcast: What does this mean for season?\n\nAs a consequence of the results, Scottish Premiership clubs have had to reintroduce twice-weekly testing for the first time since 8 July.\n\nThe news comes after the Scottish FA wrote to Rangers, Motherwell and Hibernian to ask them to explain delays in receiving test results.\n\nThe Ibrox side have also been asked whether they breached protocols by fielding players who had not received up-to-date results against Dundee United on Wednesday.\n\nThe rules state players cannot take part in matches unless a negative test has been returned, with another Rangers friendly later that day against Motherwell delayed for two hours while both sides waited for results.\n\nHibs' friendly with Ross County was cancelled at short notice on Saturday for the same reason.\n\nThe governing body had already reminded clubs of the importance of adhering to the protocol, with the Premiership season scheduled to start on 1 August.\n\nAt this stage, there remains no suggestion that is in any doubt.\n\nSt Mirren, who are due to begin their competitive campaign at home to Livingston in little over a week, last played Hamilton Academical in a friendly on Saturday.\n\nAll Hamilton players and staff were tested two days after that, with no positive tests returned.\n\nThe club also confirmed that the area of FOYS Stadium used by St Mirren was segregated, then cleaned and disinfected afterwards.\n\nScottish football's coronavirus joint response group (JRG) informed the Scottish government of the tests before demanding clubs \"revert to twice-weekly testing protocols until further notice\".\n\nHowever, SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: \"There can be no complacency, but we are heartened by the rigorous way that clubs, players and officials have responded to Covid-19 since March.\n\n\"With such regular testing being carried out by SPFL clubs, it is inevitable that several players or coaching staff will have tested positive. This has happened, as it has also happened in leagues around the world.\n\n\"What is vital is that clubs manage those very few confirmed positive tests such that the virus does not spread. So far, the rigorous work that our clubs have carried out has ensured that this is the case.\"", "The UK and EU have said they still remain some way off reaching a post-Brexit trade agreement, following the latest negotiations in London.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said a deal looked \"at this point unlikely\" given the UK position on fishing rights and post-Brexit competition rules.\n\nHis UK counterpart David Frost said \"considerable gaps\" remained in these areas, but a deal was still possible.\n\nThe UK has ruled out extending the December deadline to reach a deal.\n\nThis was the second official negotiation round to be held in person since the coronavirus crisis, after both sides agreed to \"intensify\" talks in June.\n\nThe two sides' chief negotiators are due to meet informally in London next week, with another round of official talks scheduled for mid-August in Brussels.\n\nSpeaking after the talks, Mr Barnier said the UK had not shown a \"willingness to break the deadlock\" over fisheries and post-Brexit rules on competition.\n\n\"By its current refusal to commit to conditions of open and fair competition and to a balanced agreement on fisheries, the UK makes a trade agreement at this point unlikely,\" he told reporters.\n\nHe said there was a risk of no deal being reached unless the UK changed course on the topics, which were \"at the heart\" of the EU's trade interests.\n\nHe added that an agreement would be needed by October \"at the latest\" so it could be ratified before the current post-Brexit transition period ends in December.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Frost said fisheries and the rules on competition - known as \"level playing field\" provisions - remained the \"most difficult areas\".\n\nHe said he still believed a deal could still be reached in September, but the government must \"face the possibility\" one will not be struck.\n\nBut he added the EU had shown a \"pragmatic approach\" over British demands to limit the role of the European Court of Justice after the transition period ends.\n\nIf the last four years, or even 40 years, have taught us anything about negotiations and the European Union, it is that they go on a bit and rarely are they concluded without the deadline being not just imminent, but, well...pretty much now.\n\nAnd this is not that point, yet.\n\nIt was always very unlikely this would be the moment where a document would be pulled triumphantly from the inside of a suit pocket, a deal done.\n\nWhen Michel Barnier says a trade agreement between the UK and the EU is \"at this point unlikely\", your eye is drawn towards that word \"unlikely\".\n\nBut \"at this point\" matters too.\n\nBoth sides are still talking and compromise likes to turn up fashionably late.\n\nNone of this guarantees there will be a deal - there may not be.\n\nBut both sides want one, if they can find one they can live with.\n\nAnd remember, whatever happens between now and New Year's Eve, things will be different next year.\n\nLegally, Brexit happened at the end of January this year.\n\nIn practical terms, it happens at the start of January next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Frost said the UK, which has so far insisted on a series of separate deals in different areas, was also willing to consider a \"simpler\" structure for an agreement.\n\nHowever he conceded previous UK demands for an \"early understanding\" on the principles of a deal by this month would not be reached.\n\nHe said EU offers to break the deadlock had so far failed to honour the \"fundamental principles which we have repeatedly made clear\".\n\nEach side says the other needs to make a move. And if there is to be a deal, it will probably come at the eleventh hour.\n\nThat means compromises will have to emerge in September before a deal is agreed in October - leaving both sides just enough time to ratify an agreement before the end of the year.\n\nThere have been suggestions of potential progress this week - on the role of the European Court of Justice and on the overall structure of a future agreement.\n\nBut differences between the two sides are substantial, and go to the heart of what the Brexit process is all about: how closely aligned will the UK be with the EU in the future?\n\nFor the UK sovereignty is key; for the EU the priority is to protect the integrity of its single market.\n\nAnd for now, the two sides often seem to be talking past each other in public.\n\nMr Barnier said that to agree a deal, the EU would require \"robust\" guarantees from the UK over its future rules for providing state support to companies.\n\nHe criticised the UK for providing \"no visibility\" on its future regime in this area, and called for it to share more details of its plans.\n\nThe UK is due to stop following EU \"state aid\" rules at the end of the transition period, and has not unveiled details of its subsequent regime.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said he wants to make it easier for the UK government to provide assistance to struggling firms.", "NI shoppers could be legally obliged to wear face coverings from 20 August\n\nFace coverings in Northern Ireland shops could become mandatory from 20 August if most people do not use them voluntarily.\n\nThe NI Executive announced that it will be legislating to have the power to make masks mandatory.\n\nHowever, first it will launch a public information campaign to encourage the use of coverings\n\nThe executive said it will consider the impact of the campaign by 20 August and then potentially enforce the measure.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said face coverings \"are effective if everybody uses them\".\n\nThe announcement was part of a raft of changes to Covid-19 rules announced on Thursday.\n\nIn addition to the decision on face coverings, Stormont ministers agreed that swimming pools, spas; community centres; bowling alleys and funfairs can reopen from Friday 24 July.\n\nSwimming pools in leisure centres, hotels and private facilities can reopen from Friday\n\nThe Stormont Executive also agreed to request urgent talks with the UK and Irish governments to discuss Covid-19 travel issues.\n\nIt follows controversy earlier this week after Sinn Féin called for a 14-day quarantine for travellers arriving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, while the DUP said people travelling from the Republic of Ireland posed an infection risk.\n\nThe executive has now agreed to write to both governments calling for an urgent summit of the British-Irish Council to discuss the Common Travel Area arrangements in relation to the pandemic.\n\nThey also agreed that updated travel advice will be published on the NI Direct website.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster tweeted that the guidance will be updated \"to remove reference to travel overseas having to be essential travel\".\n\nMrs Foster \"What we're essentially saying now, because we do accept there was confusion around this, is that you should if possible staycation - have your holiday at home.\n\n\"But if you do decide to go away to the continent for your holidays, make sure that you consider carefully all of the advice in relation to that country, make sure that you don't have to quarantine when you come back from that country.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he was pleased that the executive had supported his recommendation around face coverings, which was \"in line with the expert advice provided to ministers by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser\".\n\n\"We need to promote every available measure to stop the spread of Covid-19 in our community.\n\n\"The evidence in support of face coverings in shops and other enclosed spaces has become increasingly compelling.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health said the lead-in period before 20 August will allow time for \"public education and engagement to promote the benefits of face coverings\".\n\nEmployees, children under 13 and those who cannot wear coverings on health grounds will not have to wear them.\n\nFace coverings are already mandatory in shops in Scotland and will become compulsory in England from Friday 24 July.\n\nOther decisions taken by the executive on Thursday include the easing of restrictions on outdoor sporting events and on social gatherings in private homes.\n\nFrom Friday 24 July the following changes will take effect:\n\nChanging room and shower facilities in pools, leisure centres and gyms, which the executive had previously advised people to refrain from using, will be able to open again from Friday.\n\nThe executive has also agreed an indicative date of 10 August for the reopening of indoor pubs and bars that only sell alcohol.\n\nThis move will be confirmed at a later date, depending on the prevalence of Covid-19 in the community.\n\nPubs that only sell alcohol in the Republic of Ireland are also due to reopen on 10 August - a later date that expected after the new Irish government paused its Covid-19 roadmap to recovery.\n\nFollowing Stormont's announcement that spectators can attend outdoor sporting events, the Irish Football Association confirmed it plans on having a limited number of fans at next week's Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the Department of Health revealed a coronavirus contact tracing app for Northern Ireland will be launched next week", "Television channels and streaming apps like Netflix have seen their viewing figures soar during lockdown\n\nRestricting television viewing to two hours a day could prevent or delay poor health, according to a new study.\n\nHealth risks associated with screen time, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, were at their lowest when daily TV time was two hours or less.\n\nThe study from the University of Glasgow, followed almost 500,000 participants aged 37-73 over a 12 year period between 2006 and 2018.\n\nResearchers said the findings mean adults should minimize exposure.\n\nIf all participants limited television time to two hours a day, potentially 5.62% of all deaths and 7.97% of deaths due to cardiovascular disease could have been prevented or delayed.\n\nIt was not just the traditional television screen that was included in the study, watching videos on a mobile phone counted too.\n\nCurrent physical activity guidelines in UK encourage 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous activity a week\n\nDr Hamish Foster from the University of Glasgow's Institute of Health and Wellbeing led the study.\n\nHe said that the latest research backed the current evidence that watching too much TV - and living a sedentary lifestyle more generally - could lead to poor heath.\n\n\"Our study suggests limiting TV time could delay or prevent a lot of adverse health\", Dr Foster said.\n\n\"However, there is still more work to be done before we can make firm TV time recommendations.\n\n\"Further research is needed to understand all these factors and inform future advice and guidelines.\"\n\nHe added that unhealthy snacking and lower socioeconomic status are linked to both TV time and poor health.\n\nResearchers also looked at the potential benefits of substituting television time with healthier activities such as walking.\n\nThey found people who would benefit most from replacing longer periods at a screen with more time exercising are those who only spend very small amounts of their day doing those healthier activities.", "The PAC said the Treasury did not announce plans for \"significant\" support for businesses and individuals until 11 March\n\nThe government's failure to plan for the economic impact of a pandemic is \"astonishing\", a committee of MPs says.\n\nThe Commons Public Accounts Committee said the economic reaction to Covid-19 had been rushed and the impact could be \"long-term\".\n\nIt added the Treasury had waited until mid-March before deciding on economic support schemes to put in place.\n\nBut the government said it regularly tested its pandemic plans, which enabled a \"rapid\" response.\n\nLabour accused ministers of being \"incompetent\" in dealing with coronavirus.\n\nLast month, official figures showed that the UK economy shrank more than first thought between January and March, contracting 2.2% in the joint largest fall since 1979.\n\nIn its report, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said the government needed to \"learn lessons\" and \"ensure it doesn't repeat its mistakes again in the event of a second spike in infections - or another novel disease outbreak\".\n\n\"We are astonished by the government's failure to consider in advance how it might deal with the economic impacts of a pandemic,\" it said.\n\nThe report noted the government undertook at three-day pandemic simulation in 2016 known as Exercise Cygnus.\n\nBut the committee said the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy \"was not even aware of the exercise\", saying: \"It is astounding that the government did not think about the potential impact on the economy.\"\n\nAnd it said the Treasury did not announce plans for \"significant funding\" to support businesses and individuals until the Budget on 11 March \"and it did not become clear to the Treasury until the following week that a furlough scheme would be needed\".\n\nThe first reported cases of coronavirus confirmed by the chief medical officer in England was on 31 January.\n\nThe committee said a \"lack of prior thinking on the types of schemes that may be required led to a delay in implementation... particularly in relation to the self-employed scheme where it lacked sufficient, reliable information\" on recipients.\n\nThe report called for more transparency in government decision making and that the Cabinet Office should review crisis command structures to \"ensure longer-term decision making\".\n\nLast month, official figures showed that the UK economy shrank more than first thought between January and March\n\nThe committee was also critical of how the issue of personal protective equipment (PPE) was handled, saying there were \"fundamental flaws in the government's central procurement and local distribution of vital goods and equipment\".\n\nThe report also warned of the pandemic's impact on children, saying: \"It will be a huge task to ensure lengthy school closures do not have long-term or irreversible effects on children and young people's future health and education.\"\n\nThe committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Meg Hillier, said: \"Pandemic planning is the bread and butter of government risk planning, but we learn it was treated solely as a health issue, with no planning for the economic impacts.\n\n\"This meant that the economic strategy was of necessity rushed and reactive, initially a one-size-fits-all response that's leaving people - and whole sectors of the economy - behind.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"As the public would expect, we regularly test our pandemic plans, allowing us to rapidly respond to this unprecedented crisis and protect the NHS.\n\n\"It was clear that coronavirus would affect all areas of the country, that's why we immediately put in place an unprecedented initial economic support package for jobs and business worth £160bn.\"\n\nThe spokesman said the next stage of the economic response will make a further £30bn available, including more than £100m \"to support children to learn at home\".\n\nThe government has committed almost £28bn to support councils, businesses and communities in local areas, he said.\n\nFor Labour, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Bridget Phillipson said: \"It is a sorry catalogue of government failure. Their planning was incompetent and their response has been slow.\n\n\"We urgently need the prime minister to get a proper grip on tackling the pandemic.\"", "Guitars are in demand, big amplifiers not so much\n\nLife under lockdown has seen a surge in amateur musicians and podcasters, says the UK's biggest online retailer of instruments and sound equipment.\n\nIn the April-to-June period, Gear4music saw the value of UK sales rise 80% on the same time last year to £21.2m.\n\nAmong the big sellers were electric and acoustic guitar starter bundles, which contain all the accessories required for a budding player to get picking.\n\nDigital pianos also sold particularly well, said chief executive Andrew Wass.\n\n\"People are interested in having a really good hobby that they can get into,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Maybe they played music at school and have found themselves indoors and decided to come back to it.\"\n\nMr Wass said home studio equipment, including microphones and recording software, was popular as well.\n\n\"It seems everybody wants to be a podcaster and they're buying into really professional set-ups at home,\" he added.\n\nFounded in 2003 and based in York, Gear4music employs 460 people and exports all over the world.\n\nIncluding international sales, its quarterly figures were up 68% year-on-year to £37.3m.\n\nAndrew Wass of Gear4music says more people have turned to music as a hobby\n\nMr Wass said the first three weeks of lockdown had been \"the most difficult weeks of my business life\", as the firm adapted its working environment to the new coronavirus conditions.\n\n\"But the staff were very keen to continue and it's thanks to them we've been able to do so,\" he said.\n\nMr Wass said that sales rises had come \"across the range of what we do\".\n\nThe only items that have not been so popular during lockdown have been PA systems and speakers for gigs - \"anything to do with live performance in a venue,\" he said.\n\nWith live music events falling victim to quarantine, demand for ear-blasting amplifier stacks has dried up, but Mr Wass is hopeful that things are about to change as restrictions ease.\n\n\"That's coming back a little bit now, but it's been very difficult,\" he added. \"Fortunately, we've made up for it in other areas.\"\n• None Coronavirus: Are more of us turning to music?", "Firefighters are battling out of control forest fires in Greece.\n\nLocals and tourists have been evacuated as fires continue to rage near the city of Corinth in the eastern Peloponnese for a second day.\n\nThe city's mayor says the flames are out of control and has called for a state of emergency to be declared in the region.\n\nMore than 260 firefighters are currently tackling the blaze, with 10 helicopters and 10 planes assisting.\n\n\"Despite the fact that almost all the aerial firefighting equipment is operating in the area, the situation is not under control,\" Mayor Vassilis Nanopoulos told local media.\n\nNo injuries or fatalities have been reported yet.", "Kim Kardashian West has publicly addressed her husband Kanye's mental health issues following a series of erratic statements in recent days.\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"As many of you know, Kanye has bipolar disorder.\n\n\"Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand.\"\n\nHe is a \"brilliant but complicated person\" whose \"words sometimes do not align with his intentions\", she said.\n\nThe rapper is one of America's biggest music stars, and is currently attempting to run for US president. But his first campaign rally and a number of recent Twitter messages have sparked confusion and concern.\n\nKim and Kanye married in 2014 and have four children together.\n\nIn her message on Wednesday, the TV personality and model said she had not previously spoken publicly about how his mental health had affected the family \"because I am very protective of our children and Kanye's right to privacy when it comes to his health\".\n\nShe wrote: \"But today, I feel like I should comment on it because of the stigma and misconceptions about mental health.\n\n\"Those that understand mental illness or even compulsive behaviour know that the family is powerless unless the member is a minor.\n\n\"People who are unaware or far removed from this experience can be judgemental and not understand that the individual themselves have to engage in the process of getting help no matter how hard family and friends try.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kanye West cried as he told the rally his father had wanted to abort him - and he \"almost killed\" his own daughter\n\nKardashian West went on to say her husband was \"subject to criticism because he is a public figure and his actions at times can cause strong opinions and emotions\", but asked for greater empathy and understanding.\n\n\"He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, and has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bipolar disorder,\" she added.\n\n\"Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words sometimes do not align with his intentions.\n\n\"Living with bipolar disorder does not diminish or invalidate his dreams and his creative ideas, no matter how big or unobtainable they may feel to some.\n\n\"That is part of his genius and as we have all witnessed, many of his big dreams have come true.\n\n\"We as a society talk about giving grace to the issue of mental health as a whole, however we should also give it to the individuals who are living with it in times when they need it the most.\n\n\"I kindly ask that the media and public give us the compassion and empathy that is needed so that we can get through this.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The US ambassador to the UK has denied reports he made \"insensitive\" remarks about race and gender to embassy staff.\n\nCNN said Woody Johnson had been investigated by US officials after making \"generalisations about black men\" and \"cringeworthy\" comments about women's looks.\n\nBut the diplomat tweeted that the claims were \"totally inconsistent with my longstanding record and values\".\n\nMr Johnson was named ambassador to the UK by President Donald Trump in 2017.\n\nCNN also reported Mr Johnson had sought to promote the president's business interests in the UK by asking politicians if the Open Championship golf tournament could be played at Mr Trump's Turnberry course.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who is part-owner of NFL team the New York Jets, denied that claim too.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I have followed the ethical rules and requirements of my office at all times,\" he wrote on social media.\n\nAsked about the allegation at a White House press conference on Wednesday, President Trump said he had never spoken to Mr Johnson about the matter.", "Actress Amber Heard has accused her ex-husband Johnny Depp of throwing around 30 bottles at her \"like grenades\", the High Court in London has heard.\n\nShe said the incident happened during what she previously called a \"three-day hostage situation\" in 2015.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that labelled him a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper insists it was accurate.\n\nMs Heard, 34, was giving evidence in court for a third day.\n\nIt is the 12th day of the libel action by her ex-husband.\n\nMs Heard said in court on Wednesday that she was not to blame for the tip of Mr Depp's finger being severed while the couple were in Australia in March 2015. He has previously claimed that his ex-wife caused the injury by throwing a vodka bottle at him.\n\nMs Heard, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017, has accused Mr Depp of repeatedly assaulting her during the Australia trip, fuelled by drink and drugs, which he denies.\n\nShe told the court on Wednesday: \"I got angry at times but not into a rage that would cause me to throw anything at him.\"\n\nShe said she had taken a bottle from him on the night of the alleged incident as she did not want him to drink any more and smashed it on the floor.\n\n\"He started picking [bottles] up one by one and throwing them like grenades. One after the other after the other, in my direction, and I felt glass breaking behind me, I retreated more into the bar and he didn't stop.\"\n\n\"I was too scared to look behind me. He threw all the bottles that were in reach.\"\n\nMs Heard said she remembered that only \"a celebratory magnum-sized bottle\" was not smashed by Mr Depp \"out of 30 or so\" bottles.\n\nMr Depp's lawyer, Eleanor Laws QC, put it to Ms Heard that Mr Depp's fingertip was severed as a result of the actress throwing a bottle in his direction. Ms Heard replied: \"No.\"\n\nMs Laws said: \"According to you, Mr Depp sliced his finger off all on his own ... and then carried on attacking you.\"\n\nMs Heard said: \"Yes, he did. I don't think he meant to sever the finger but yes he did continue the attack.\"\n\nThe lawyer also asked about a photograph showing a mark on Mr Depp's face and accused Ms Heard of stubbing a cigarette out on his cheek.\n\nMs Heard denied the claim, saying: \"No, Johnny did it right in front of me, he often did things like that.\"\n\nThe lawyer then turned to an alleged incident of domestic violence in Los Angeles in December 2015, which Ms Heard has described in her first witness statement as \"one of the worst and most violent nights of our relationship\".\n\nMs Heard alleges that Johnny Depp slapped her, dragged her by the hair through their apartment - pulling clumps of her hair out - and then repeatedly punched her in the head.\n\nShe told the court: \"I had bruised ribs, bruises all over my body, bruises on my forearms from trying to defend the blows. I had two black eyes, I had a broken nose, I had a broken lip... the really bad ones (bruises) were in my hairline, on my scalp.\"\n\nThe actress, who appeared on James Corden's The Late Late Show the following night, described the moment when she says Mr Depp headbutted her.\n\n\"He clenched his fists, leaned back and slammed his head directly into mine.\"\n\nQuestioning Ms Heard about her injuries, Ms Laws referred to medical notes made by a nurse, Erin Boerum, who saw Ms Heard shortly after the alleged incident and recorded that the actress was \"actively bleeding on her lip\".\n\nMs Laws suggested that Ms Heard's list of injuries were \"nonsense\", adding: \"She (Ms Boerum) didn't see any bruising... you had just bitten your lip because there was fresh blood on it. Had you just done that for her benefit?\"\n\nMs Heard replied: \"Of course not.\"\n\nMs Laws put it to Ms Heard that a photograph of her with bruises on her face taken after the alleged December 2015 incident was \"completely set up\", which Ms Heard denied.\n\nA short clip of Ms Heard's appearance on The Late Late Show was then played to the court, following which Ms Laws said: \"That is what you looked like on the show, there is no injury, is there?\"\n\nMs Heard replied: \"I had tonnes of injuries.\" She then said she had makeup on covering the injuries and added: \"You can tell by the size of my lip alone.\"\n\nMs Heard's friend, make-up artist Melanie Inglessis, told the court that the pair had \"many conversations\" about Mr Depp and Ms Heard's relationship.\n\nShe said she had planned to go bowling with Ms Heard the night before The Late Late Show appearance, but that Ms Heard did not turn up and later texted Ms Inglessis to say Mr Depp \"beat on me\".\n\nMs Inglessis said Ms Heard told her that Mr Depp \"tried to suffocate her with a pillow ... those were her words\". She added Ms Heard was \"erratic, upset, you know, in between being sad and upset and furious\".\n\nThe court also heard that Mr Depp \"was jealous\" of other actors with whom Ms Heard filmed intimate scenes, and that Mr Depp wanted her to do fewer nude scenes.\n\nJoshua Drew, the ex-husband of Ms Heard's friend Raquel \"Rocky\" Pennington, said in a written witness statement: \"Rocky told me, based on her conversations with Amber, that Johnny had a particular issue with James Franco because he and Amber had some intimate scenes in a project they were filming, which Johnny did not want her doing.\"\n\n\"His name came up often and it would cause fights between them. They were arguing about it very regularly.\"\n\nThe hearing also covered the events surrounding the actress facing criminal proceedings in Australia for taking the couple's two Yorkshire Terriers, Pistol and Boo, into the country in 2015 without the proper paperwork.\n\nShe told the court she \"took the blame\" for illegally bringing the couple's dogs into Australia because his lawyers had said it would make her ex-husband 's job \"less threatened than it already was\".\n\nShe said it wasn't her decision to take the dogs, adding: \"Johnny's the boss.\"\n\nMr Depp's lawyer suggested Ms Heard \"was the boss\" and she had tried to get members of her staff to \"take the blame\". This was denied by Ms Heard, who said: \"I had already pleaded guilty.\"\n\nThe libel case centres on an article published on the Sun's website in April 2018 headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe article related to allegations made by Ms Heard, which Mr Depp denies. Her evidence was initially due to conclude on Wednesday but will now continue until Thursday.", "Sir Thomas Picton defended his right to obtain confessions by torture while governor of Trinidad\n\nThe statue of a \"brutal\" slave owner - convicted over the torture of a girl - is to be removed from a \"Welsh heroes\" gallery in Cardiff's City Hall.\n\nSir Thomas Picton's statue had stood for more than a century, remembering him as the highest ranking officer to die in the Battle of Waterloo.\n\nCardiff council noted Picton's \"abhorrent behaviour\" as Governor of Trinidad in the 19th Century and on Thursday voted to remove the monument.\n\nThe statue will now be covered up.\n\nCalls to remove the statue followed Black Lives Matter protesters toppling a similar statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.\n\nThe statue of Sir Thomas Picton (left) is in a gallery of Welsh heroes at City Hall\n\nWhile governor of the-then British colony Trinidad, Picton authorised the illegal torture of a 14-year-old girl, which caused public outrage at the time. He was found guilty but was never sentenced.\n\nA statue of Picton was placed in City Hall in 1916, as part of the Heroes of Wales collection.\n\nCouncillor Saeed Ebrahim proposed the motion to the full council to remove the statue.\n\n\"The behaviour of Picton as governor of Trinidad was abhorrent, even in his own era, and not deserving of a place in the Heroes of Wales collection,\" the motion read.\n\n\"Heightened awareness about the history of slavery must include a reassessment of the regard in which we hold Picton, and many others who were actors and beneficiaries of slavery.\n\n\"In hindsight it was an error to have included Picton as an option in the 1916 public vote, and an error that he had not been removed sooner.\n\n\"A democratic decision, by the representatives of the people of Cardiff, to remove the statue will send a message to Black people in Cardiff and across the world that the city recognises the role people like Picton played in slavery, and that we must seek to address the systemic racism that still exists due to slavery and empire.\n\n\"Black lives matter, and none of us are equal until all of us are equal.\"\n\nFifty seven councillors voted for the statue's removal from the Marble Hall of Heroes, five voted against that and there were nine abstentions.\n\nNow Cardiff council will seek permission from the Welsh Government and Cadw - which protects historic monuments in Wales - to remove it from the civic centre building, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nFollowing the vote, council leader Huw Thomas said: \"Whilst gestures such as this are important, they cannot deflect us from the harder task of trying to address the challenges still experienced by black communities today.\"\n\nCardiff council has said it will set up a taskforce to explore how to tackle racial inequality in the Welsh capital.", "Ailsa went from a council estate to working in banking - but says it's now hard for young people to move into London\n\nFor Ailsa, the big \"should I stay or should I go?\" decision came at a Gateshead bus stop.\n\n\"I thought 'this is not for me,'\" she said, thinking about a future of unsecured jobs in a time and place where \"industry was dead\".\n\nSo she became the first in her family to go to university and then moved to London and left her home town behind.\n\nBut the decision whether to chase better-paid jobs in the capital has become a widening social divide.\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission has published a report showing \"stark inequalities\" between those who can afford to move to London and the south east of England and those who stay behind in other parts of the UK.\n\nThose \"movers\" who typically arrive in London in their twenties on average earn 33% more than \"stayers\", says research from the Institute for Employment Studies, published by the commission.\n\nWhen people from disadvantaged areas do move, it is four times more likely to be to another deprived area, rather than moving somewhere wealthier, says the research.\n\nResearchers found that family ties could stop people from moving far from home\n\nAilsa Weymes, now in her early fifties, bucked the trend and went from a council estate in the North East to university and then a job in banking in London, before teaching and then the civil service.\n\n\"It wasn't the norm,\" she said and remembers people in her home town thinking her university ambitions in the 1980s were \"a bit uppity\".\n\nHer dad had been unemployed and she says if she'd decided to stay, she might have got a job as a secretary, but the options would have been narrow.\n\n\"I didn't see a future,\" she said of her old home town - and her school had \"no expectations for people from the council estates\".\n\n\"I felt the burning injustice of that,\" she said.\n\nNow living in London she sees how hard it is for the next generation to move to get better-paid jobs in the capital.\n\nWhether renting or buying, it's very expensive to live in London - and entry points to jobs, such as unpaid internships, can depend on young people having someone else to support them.\n\nLocation makes a big difference to potential jobs - but it's not easy to move to an expensive area\n\nShe gives talks in schools encouraging children to think about a wide range of careers, as part of the Inspiring the Future project, run by the Education and Employers charity.\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Nick Chambers, highlights an unexpected opportunity raised in the social mobility report - that the increase in working from home during the coronavirus pandemic could lead to long-term changes in how people work.\n\n\"Many more employers are embracing flexible working arrangements and this will make it much easier for young people to access a wider range of jobs without relocating,\" said Mr Chambers.\n\nIt means a \"London\" job could be accessible beyond the range of a daily commute.\n\nBut the Social Mobility Commission research shows how much upwards mobility currently depends on starting out with an advantage.\n\nAmong those moving to London and the South East, 56% are graduates and 60% have a parent in a well-paid job.\n\nJustine Greening remembers the moment when she realised she was going to leave her home in Rotherham\n\nBut there are downsides to the move to London, says the study - with a higher cost of living and the risk of a weaker sense of community.\n\nIt means the move to get better opportunities might come at the cost of friends and family.\n\n\"We are all very close,\" said a mother who was one of the \"stayers\" interviewed by researchers.\n\n\"So the thought of not having that community around you to look after the kids… or even just get together as a family, was massive for me.\"\n\n\"You're so used to a certain area, and then you just go somewhere else, you'd feel a bit lost. I know I would, because I don't like being out my comfort zone,\" a young person told researchers.\n\nCould the location of an office become irrelevant if there is a long-term shift to working from home?\n\nThere were also those who thought family priorities were more important than money.\n\n\"I feel the job I'm in just now suits my circumstances, in the sense that I've got a good work-life balance. Could I strive to do better? I could, but I wouldn't,\" a parent told researchers.\n\nFor one affluent man in his thirties, moving was almost an inevitability.\n\n\"I just kind of assumed, to be honest. Both of my parents are graduates and nearly all my friends' parents are graduates - we always knew we'd move away. You will leave because that's what you do.\"\n\nJustine Greening, former education secretary, is now running the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, which gets businesses to widen opportunities.\n\nFor her, the big fork in the road that meant she was leaving her home town of Rotherham was when, in a phone box, she got her A-level results and knew she was going to university.\n\nShe said she was \"completely aware\" of the significance of the moment - and that having seen her dad being unemployed, she knew the seriousness of such an opportunity.\n\nGrowing up, she said she had wanted to know why their family couldn't move to an area where there were more jobs, and had been told by her dad that they couldn't afford the house prices.\n\nBut Ms Greening says she wishes that people didn't have to leave their own areas to get ahead.\n\n\"I would have liked to have had the chance to stay local,\" she said, and still thinks of Rotherham as \"home\".\n\nBut at present opportunities can be hard to come by in some parts of the country - and a sense of unfairness can be \"very corrosive,\" said Ms Greening.\n\n\"Advantage accumulates - and so does disadvantage,\" she said.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson lifted the Premier League trophy on the Kop at a near-empty Anfield to mark the club's first top-flight triumph for 30 years.\n\nHenderson received the trophy from Reds legend Sir Kenny Dalglish, who was manager when Liverpool last won it in 1990, during a spectacular ceremony after the champions beat Chelsea 5-3.\n\nLiverpool were confirmed as champions on 25 June with seven games to spare, when nearest rivals Manchester City lost at Chelsea, but they had to wait until their final home game of the season to be presented with the trophy.\n\nThey did so in front of their families, who were given special permission to attend the trophy presentation.\n\n\"We've been waiting a long time,\" said Henderson, who is recovering from a knee injury. \"Walking up there was amazing, the lads deserved the moment and thankfully the families were watching.\n\n\"To crown it off like that was really special.\"\n\nThere were no supporters in their 53,000-capacity Anfield home after the Premier League season resumed on 17 June behind closed doors following a three-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMerseyside Police had warned fans not to repeat the widespread gatherings that took place on the city's waterfront after the club's title win last month - amid fears of a spike in infections - and Reds boss Jurgen Klopp urged them to celebrate at home.\n\nA small group of fans, some with red flares, greeted the team coach when it arrived at the ground before kick-off, and fireworks were set off outside Anfield throughout the match.\n\nDuring the game, Merseyside Police announced they had put in place a dispersal order between 21:30 BST on Wednesday and 21:30 BST on Friday as they anticipated large crowds gathering.\n\nDalglish, who scored 172 goals in 515 appearances as a Liverpool player between 1977 and 1990, handed out medals during a ceremony which involved a light show and pyrotechnics.\n\nKlopp and his players sang the club's famous anthem You'll Never Walk Alone on the pitch after lifting the trophy.\n\nAsked if he had a message for fans, Klopp said: \"If you don't see that we do it for you, I can't help you.\n\n\"You made us happy, we all should celebrate at home. Prepare for a party and when this virus has gone we will have a party.\"\n\nAfter 30 years of near misses, some dark days and even mid-table finishes, Liverpool finally ended the club's long wait to be champions of England for the 19th time.\n\nIt started on 9 August 2019 when they beat newly promoted Norwich 4-1 in the opening match of the 2019-20 Premier League season.\n\nThat result set the tone for what was to come.\n\nHaving finished one point behind champions Manchester City in 2018-19, the Reds were relentless, winning their first eight league games.\n\nDespite travelling to Qatar for the Fifa Club World Cup in December, they finished 2019 with a 13-point lead.\n\nThat had grown to 25 points when the Premier League was suspended in March because of Covid-19.\n\nKlopp later admitted he was \"worried\" about the season being declared null and void during the enforced shutdown. As it turned out, Liverpool's tally of 82 points from 29 games when football was stopped was enough to win the title. Manchester City, who are guaranteed to finish second, can only reach 81.\n\nWednesday's victory over Chelsea means Liverpool are on 96 points - 18 ahead of City - with one game, at Newcastle on Sunday (16:00 BST), to go.\n\nOn 1 May 1990, Liverpool's players paraded the league trophy around a packed and joyous Anfield.\n\nIt was the last time they would celebrate such a success for three decades.\n\nWednesday's celebrations come after Klopp's side have spent the season rewriting the history books.\n\nAt one stage the Reds had a 25-point lead, the biggest ever in English top-flight history.\n\nBy claiming the title with seven matches to spare, Liverpool beat the mark set by Manchester United in 2000-01 and Manchester City in 2017-18, who both became champions with five matches remaining.\n\nWhen Liverpool reached 61 points from their opening 21 matches, it was the most a team had ever accumulated at that stage in any of Europe's top five leagues.\n\nHowever, there is one record Klopp's side have missed out on.\n\nManchester City's record of 100 points in a single season set in 2017-18 remains as the most the Reds can reach is 99.\n• None The black experience in the UK", "Christian B has been named as the suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance\n\nPortuguese police are investigating whether a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case may also be linked to a rape in the Algarve three years prior.\n\nChild sex offender Christian B is being investigated over possible links to an attack on an Irish woman.\n\nHazel Behan, 37, waived her right to anonymity to speak about the assault near Praia da Luz in 2004.\n\nOfficers say they will pass on any evidence to their German counterparts probing the disappearance of Madeleine.\n\nA police source told BBC Europe correspondent Gavin Lee they have \"credible information\" that 43-year-old German man Christian B may be linked to the rape of Ms Behan, who was working in the region as a holiday rep in 2004.\n\nNo suspect was ever identified in her case and forensic evidence is understood to have been destroyed.\n\nHowever, it has since come to light that a year after her alleged attack, Christian B was convicted of a similar rape in Praia da Luz.\n\nMs Behan said she felt physically sick when she learned about Christian B, following a police appeal for information.\n\nThe Guardian reported that detectives in Portugal collected the archived case file on her assault last week, quoting a source in the public prosecutor's office.\n\nRape cases that took place more than 15 years ago cannot be tried in Portugal.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nChristian B, who is currently in prison in Germany, was revealed as the main suspect in Madeleine's disappearance, as German and UK police made a fresh appeal for help in the case in June.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Praia da Luz with her parents and siblings.\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. But German prosecutors have said she is \"assumed\" to be dead.", "The app will assist with the ongoing contact tracing programme\n\nA coronavirus contact tracing app for Northern Ireland will be launched next week, the health committee has been told.\n\nDan West from the Department of Health said the release of Stop Covid NI was supported by the executive.\n\nThe app will supplement the phone-based contact tracing programme already in place.\n\nNorthern Ireland will be the first part of the UK to have a contact tracing app.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's app launched earlier in July.\n\nBoth apps have been designed by the company Nearform.\n\nMr West, a chief digital information officer at the Department of Health, said the NI app would notify close contacts automatically.\n\nIt would also identify people at risk of infection who would be impossible to trace through the traditional method.\n\nThe app could launch as soon as 29 July.\n\nIt comes as the Northern Ireland Executive announced a further easing of lockdown restrictions from Friday.\n\nAfter a positive Covid-19 test result, a person will receive a unique code by text message.\n\nThat message will invite the person to enter the code if they use the app.\n\nEntering the code will trigger a \"Bluetooth handshake\", allowing the app to notify any other user who has been nearby for long enough to be at risk of infection.\n\n\"There will be some people who won't be able to or won't want to use the app, and that's okay,\" Mr West said.\n\n\"The more people who do use it, the more protection this will provide to the whole community. We can say that for sure.\"\n\nThe app will be intended for over-18s initially, because of a conflict between data protection laws and the need for identifiable safeguarding consent.\n\nDr Eddie O'Neill from the Health and Social Care Board is meeting the children's commissioner, the information commissioner's office and the Children's Law Centre to find a way through that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann wants a system that can work with the Republic of Ireland's app\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann previously said his department was working with its counterpart in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe ambition was to have the two systems work in tandem, so information about contacts who need to be traced can be shared by both governments.\n\nThe contact tracing programme has been operational in Northern Ireland since mid-May.\n\nIt involves people with a positive test result being contacted by phone.\n\nThe people they have been within 2m of for 15 minutes or more are called and advised about isolating or being tested if they have symptoms.\n\nThe app is an add-on to that, to help with contact tracing, and alert those who may not be easily contacted.\n\nThe UK government is working on an app using the Google Apple toolkit\n\nMr West said the development and operation of the app in Northern Ireland \"is orders of magnitude cheaper than the efforts in England to develop their app so far\".\n\nHe said it would cost less than £1m to build and operate.\n\nThe UK government is working on developing an app for use in the rest of the country.\n\nIn England an NHS team spent four months and nearly £12m developing an app which was trialled on the Isle of Wight but did not work as planned.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock then announced the new focus would be on a decentralised app using the Google Apple toolkit - but that was unlikely to be ready for months.", "Hollywood actor Clint Eastwood is suing a host of cannabis companies that he says have falsely used his name to endorse their goods.\n\nThe 90-year-old accuses the firms of spreading fake articles and tagging their websites with his name to make it look like he had backed their products.\n\nNearly 20 firms are named in the suits, accused of trademark infringement and defamation among other violations.\n\nOne firm, Sera Labs, said it had stopped the fake ads \"immediately\".\n\nAll of the companies sell goods with CBD, an extract from the marijuana plant that does not have psychoactive properties. It is used in products such as creams, oils and food.\n\nHowever lawyers for Mr Eastwood - who has starred in films such as Dirty Harry, as well as directing features including Mystic River - said he \"does not have and never has had\" any association with CBD.\n\nOne of the fake articles was headlined \"Big Pharma In Outrage Over Clint Eastwood's CBD\" and quotes the actor saying he is stepping away from his acting career to promote a new line of CBD products, according to one of the two lawsuits, which were filed in a federal court in California.\n\nBut Mr Eastwood's lawyers say he never gave such an interview.\n\nThe other lawsuit concerns an \"internet scam\", in which the firms tagged their websites with Mr Eastwood's name, a move that made it look like he had backed the products, while also making it easier for people searching online to find their products.\n\n\"Like many of his most famous characters, Mr Eastwood is not afraid to confront wrongdoing and hold accountable those that try to illegally profit off his name,\" the court papers say.\n\nThe lawsuits say it is standard practice for Mr Eastwood to reject licensing deals and reserve his celebrity to advertise his films and other personal interests.\n\nOne of the CBD firms in the lawsuit, Sera Labs, said it had been unaware that its products were being falsely linked with the actor.\n\nIt said it had \"worked for a limited time with a publisher and gave them specific advertisements they could use which follow our very strict guidelines\".\n\nIt added that it \"shut down the ads immediately after learning that they used Mr Eastwood's name and likeness\".", "Fourteen houses were evacuated after the explosion\n\nNeighbours of a family whose home was destroyed in an gas explosion are trying to raise £50,000 to rebuild the uninsured house.\n\nJess Williams, 31, and her sons aged two and five, were injured in the blast in Church Road, Seven Sisters in Neath Port Talbot, on 24 June.\n\nMs Williams remains in hospital and the boys are recovering with family.\n\nUp to 18 neighbours helped pull the family from the wreckage.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the cause was most likely ageing LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) equipment and environmental conditions.\n\nNeath Port Talbot councillor Stephen Hunt said: \"I realised that the house that exploded wasn't insured.\n\n\"I then realised two of the three houses affected by the blast were also uninsured.\"\n\nSo far almost £22,000 has been raised.\n\nThe boys were flown to Southmead Hospital in Bristol and their mother was taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea\n\nMr Hunt said builders had also offered to carry out construction work for free.\n\nHe said: \"The family feel so hurt by what has happened but also humbled by all the support they have received.\n\n\"They cannot come to terms with the kindness or the support that has been shown right across the country. They had support from as far as Leeds. They are incredibly grateful.\"", "Taylor Swift has announced she is to release a \"surprise\" eighth studio album, called Folklore, at midnight.\n\nThe 16-track album was written and recorded in isolation during the Covid-19 lockdown, she said on social media.\n\n\"Most of the things I had planned this summer didn't end up happening,\" added Swift, who was set to headline Glastonbury's Pyramid stage in June.\n\n\"But there is something I hadn't planned on that DID happen,\" she told fans, before revealing the new album.\n\nFolklore is made up of \"songs I've poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into,\" she continued, and sees her collaborate (remotely) with \"musical heroes\" inclduing The National's Aaron Dessner, Bon Iver and Jack Antonoff.\n\n\"Before this year I probably would've over-thought when to release this music at the 'perfect' time, but the times we're living in keep reminding me that nothing is guaranteed,\" said Swift.\n\n\"My gut is telling me that if you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world. That's the side of uncertainty I can get on board with.\"\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\nShe also revealed that a fresh music video, which she has written and directed, for a track called Cardigan, would be released alongside the album.\n\n\"The entire shoot was overseen by a medical inspector, everyone wore masks, stayed away from each other, and I even did my own hair, makeup, and styling,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nSwift had been due to play her seventh album, Lover, at a string of festivals this summer, before the coronavirus pandemic put paid to live music.\n\nIn February, the star directed a video for her single The Man, in which she played a man-spreading, cigar smoking, strip-club-going businessman.\n\nThe satirical video took aim at male music executives - in particular Scooter Braun, who purchased her back catalogue last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Improvements are being promised on congested sections of the route near Leeds\n\nLong-awaited improvements to rail services in the north of England will get a £589m kick-start, the government has announced.\n\nMost of it will go on electrifying the line between Manchester and Leeds, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.\n\nThe Transpennine route upgrade was first announced in 2011 and a modified £2.9bn scheme was confirmed in 2019.\n\nA new body to speed up transport investment across the north is also being set up, the DfT added.\n\nThe improvements include electrification and a doubling of the number of tracks on the most congested sections around Leeds and Huddersfield, allowing faster trains to overtake slower ones.\n\nMayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said the additional funding was a \"welcome sign of intent\" from the government.\n\nTransport Secretary and Northern Powerhouse Minister Grant Shapps said people in the north \"rightly expect action, progress and ambition\".\n\n\"This government is determined to accelerate improvements as we invest billions to level up the region's infrastructure,\" he added.\n\nThe upgrade will increase capacity and cut journey times\n\nHe said full electrification, improved digital signalling and doubling of tracks elsewhere on the line were under consideration as part of an Integrated Rail Plan.\n\nThis would allow all-electric services between Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, York and Newcastle, offering increased service frequency and capacity.\n\n\"The north has long argued for the existing scheme to be upgraded to bring the full range of passenger and freight benefits and we are glad that the government has listened to this,\" Mr Burnham said.\n\nHowever Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Hull North, said she was concerned there was no mention of rail connections to Hull.\n\n\"I think the government and the Northern Powerhouse are missing a massive trick by not making sure that we are included and at the heart of plans around investment in rail infrastructure,\" she said.\n\n\"We have one of the biggest port complexes in the country and yet we can't get our rail lines upgraded.\"\n\nMr Shapps said the Humber region had not been forgotten and he was focusing on every part of the region.\n\n\"I've been speaking to leaders across the north and we're finding out exactly what the concerns are and I am very familiar with what the concerns are in the Humber region and we're going to deliver on them.\"\n\nPassenger group Transport Focus said the government must keep travellers informed about what disruption caused by the upgrade work would mean for rail users and their journeys.\n\n\"How this work is managed over the coming years will be key to passengers' trust in the rail industry,\" the group's director David Sidebottom said.\n\nMr Shapps said the new Northern Transport Acceleration Council would hold its first meeting in September.\n\n\"This new council will allow us to engage collectively and directly with elected northern leaders to build the vital projects the region is crying out for,\" he said.\n\nMr Burnham welcomed the new body, saying it felt like a \"gear change\" from the government in delivering transport improvements in the north.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The next Mulan is a live action remake of the animated hit movie\n\nWalt Disney has delayed and postponed the release of three major films, dealing a fresh blow to cinema operators struggling amid the pandemic.\n\nThe new Avatar and Star Wars films have been delayed by a year, while Mulan has been removed from schedules completely.\n\nMulan, already delayed because of cinema closures, had been scheduled for release at the end of August.\n\nA rise in virus cases in the US and the impact globally on film production forced the change.\n\n\"It's become clear that nothing can be set in stone when it comes to how we release films during this global health crisis,\" a Disney spokesman said. \"Today that means pausing our release plans for Mulan as we assess how we can most effectively bring this film to audiences around the world.\"\n\nA rise in virus cases in the US and the impact globally on film production forced the change.\n\nNews that the release of three major Walt Disney films will be delayed or postponed is a fresh blow to cinema operators struggling amid the pandemic.\n\nIt had been hoped that Mulan might spark a late-summer rebound in cinema-going. The Avatar sequel is now set to debut in theatres in December 2022, and the next Star Wars movie in December 2023.\n\nOn Thursday, the AMC and Cineworld cinema chains pushed back the reopening date for their US outlets until at least mid-August, from the end of July.\n\nNew York City and Los Angeles, the two biggest markets in the US, have no concrete plans for reopening cinemas.\n\nWhile cinemas in England were allowed to reopen from 4 July - as long as social distancing guidelines were followed - the picture across North America is much more uncertain.\n\nIn China, the world's second largest movie market, cinemas started to reopen this week after being closed for six months due to social distancing measures.\n\nOne film expert said the delay in Mulan was a \"blessing in disguise\" for Disney given the rising tensions between the US and China.\n\nChris Fenton is the author of Feeding the Dragon, a book about the power struggle between China and American business, particularly Hollywood film studios.\n\n\"No film based on Chinese mythology, set in China, and full of Chinese faces would perform well in America given the current state of anti-Chinese sentiment,\" Mr Fenton said.\n\n\"And in China, the same underperformance would be reciprocated due to hostility towards the US and American-made products, of which, Mulan is one.\"\n\nThe Mulan delay follows Warner Bros' decision to postpone the August release of Christopher Nolan's thriller Tenet. Cinema owners were pinning hopes on the two films to salvage part of the lucrative summer season.\n\nAvatar 2 would have been one of next year's biggest films. It is the follow-up to James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster, which is the second highest-grossing film of all time.\n\nAnother delayed Disney film is Ridley Scott's historical thriller The Last Duel, which stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. That has been shifted from December of this year to October 2021.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe UK and the US have agreed to amend an \"anomaly\" that allowed Harry Dunn death suspect Anne Sacoolas to claim diplomatic immunity.\n\nMrs Sacoolas - the wife of a diplomat at RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire - was able to leave the UK thanks to the \"secret agreement\".\n\nShe has been accused of killing the 19-year-old in a crash near the base.\n\nMr Dunn's mother said the change, which is not thought to be retroactive, was a \"huge step in the right direction\".\n\nCharlotte Charles told the BBC: \"We now need Dominic Raab to work with us to make sure that we get her back to the UK to face justice at some point soon.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I hope as a mum she will do the right thing'\n\nThe foreign secretary has said relatives of US staff at the air base can face prosecution under the amended rules where they may have previously been immune.\n\nMr Raab said the new arrangements had \"closed the anomaly that led to the denial of justice in the heartbreaking case of Harry Dunn\".\n\nHe said he appreciated the changes \"won't bring Harry back\" but hoped they may \"bring some small measure of comfort\" to his family.\n\nUnder the amended rules, relatives of US staff at RAF Croughton can face prosecution\n\nMs Charles vowed to continue the family's campaign to bring Mrs Sacoolas before a UK court.\n\n\"We always live with hope that one day she might just decide of her own accord to put herself on a plane and come back over here,\" she said.\n\n\"We definitely will keep the pressure up.\"\n\nMs Charles said she wanted Mrs Sacoolas to \"see what her own country has agreed to with the anomaly they've now amended\".\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it understood the changes would not be retrospective but welcomed the move.\n\nDowning Street said the change meant \"in relation to the level of offence Anne Sacoolas is accused of, she could have been arrested by the police once they had obtained a warrant from the court\".\n\nAnne Sacoolas, the alleged killer of Harry Dunn, is never going to be extradited from the US because Washington is standing firm that she is entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nThis claim of immunity was the product of a legal loophole that needed to be fixed - a loophole that nobody spotted until tragedy struck.\n\nOfficials of foreign governments who are officially operating in another country have immunity from prosecution under long-standing international law. This legal principle of immunity has long been accepted by states as necessary to help foster good relations between them.\n\nBut limits can be imposed by agreement. In the case of RAF Croughton, a deal between the two states allowed the potential prosecution of US staff for crimes committed beyond their duties - but their families had greater protections.\n\nIn short, had a US official, rather than his or her spouse, been behind the wheel of the car that was involved in a crash, they may have had to face police questioning and potential criminal charge. This sad and bizarre legal mistake has now been corrected - and officials appear confident there are no other similar anomalies elsewhere that could stand in the way of justice.\n\nThe US State Department said the amendment was a \"reflection of our especially close relationship\" with the UK.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it would continue working with British prosecutors to ensure Mrs Sacoolas was returned from the US to face court proceedings.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said that Labour would \"push for a full inquiry\" into the case.\n\nShe said: \"The foreign secretary has still not come to Parliament to explain how failings in his department allowed a US citizen to leave the country while their immunity was still in question.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nA Home Office extradition request was refused by US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in January, and American officials said the decision was final.\n\nIt is believed Mrs Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road when Mr Dunn was killed.\n\nThere have been reports of other vehicles spotted driving on the wrong side of the road near the base, including one which was shown in a YouTube video in February.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland are to receive £100m in government investment.\n\nThe Scottish and UK governments are to each to provide up to £50m in investment as part of the Islands Growth Deal.\n\nTourism, infrastructure, innovation, energy and skills will be targeted for funding.\n\nThere are already regional deals for areas including Ayrshire, Moray and the south of Scotland.\n\nWestern Isles, Orkney and Shetland local authorities have been campaigning since 2013 for greater support for their communities.\n\nIn response, the Scottish government produced the Islands Bill and National Islands Plan.\n\nTransport, Infrastructure and Connectivity Secretary Michael Matheson said money from the growth deal would be used to improve the quality of life in island communities over the next 10 years.\n\nHe said: \"This significant investment will support islanders' ambitions to create world-class visitor destinations, lead the way to a low carbon future, support growth and future industries.\"\n\nMr Matheson said it would also help communities to attract and retain younger people.\n\nIn the Western Isles, the local authority has long been trying find ways to encourage young islanders to stay rather than move away to live and work.\n\nMr Matheson added: \"It is important that all deals take account of the unprecedented economic challenges created by coronavirus and we are working with partners, to understand how best to move forward and respond to current circumstances.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said: \"The City Region and Growth Deals will be crucial to our economic recovery from coronavirus.\n\n\"(This) announcement means that every corner of Scotland will benefit from these and takes the UK government's investment in growth deals across Scotland to more than £1.5bn.\n\n\"These deals are just part of the unprecedented support that the UK government is providing to people and businesses in Scotland during this time.\n\nMr Jack added: \"We have supported 900,000 jobs in Scotland with our furlough and self-employed schemes, including 11,600 across the islands. \"\n\nThe funding was announced as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepared to make a series of visits in Scotland.", "The single biggest use of plastics is in packaging and it tends to be used just once before being thrown away\n\nAn estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic is destined for our environment - both on land and in the ocean - by 2040, unless worldwide action is taken.\n\nThat's according to a global model of the scale of the plastic problem over the next 20 years.\n\nDr Costas Velis from the University of Leeds said the number was \"staggering\" but that we had \"the technology and the opportunity to stem the tide\".\n\nThe report is published in the journal Science.\n\n\"This is the first comprehensive assessment of what the picture could be in 20 years' time,\" Dr Velis explained. \"It's difficult to picture an amount that large, but if you could imagine laying out all that plastic across a flat surface, it would cover the area of the UK 1.5 times.\n\n\"It's complex [to calculate] becayse plastic is everywhere and, in every part of the world, it's different in terms of how it's used and dealt with.\"\n\nBeach plastic may be a very small fraction of the waste out there\n\nTo turn this complex problem into numbers, the researchers tracked the production, use and disposal of plastic around the world. The team then created a model to forecast future plastic pollution. What they called a \"business as usual\" scenario - based on the current trend of increasing plastic production and no significant change in the amount of reuse and recycling - produced the 1.3 billion tonne estimate.\n\nBy adjusting their model, the researchers were able to project how much different interventions would affect that number; they tweaked their model to increase recycling, reduce production and replace plastic with other available materials.\n\nWinnie Lau from the US-based Pew Charitable Trusts, which funded the research, told BBC News that it was vital to put in place every possible solution. \"If we do that,\" she said, \"we can reduce the amount of plastic that goes into the ocean - by 2040 - by 80%.\"\n\nBut even if \"all feasible action\" was taken, Dr Velis explained, the model showed there would be 710 million extra tonnes of plastic waste in the environment in the next two decades.\n\nThere is no \"silver bullet solution\", for the plastic problem. But an often overlooked issue that this study highlighted was the fact that an estimated 2 billion people in the Global South have no access to proper waste management. \"They have to just get rid of all their rubbish, so they have no choice but to burn or dump it,\" said Dr Velis.\n\nAnd despite playing a major role in reducing global plastic waste, the roughly 11 million waste pickers - people who collect and sell reusable materials in low-income countries - often lack basic employment rights and safe working conditions.\n\nDr Velis said: \"Waste pickers are the unsung heroes of recycling - without whom the mass of plastic entering the aquatic environment would be considerably greater.\" He added that policies to support them and make their work safer were a vital part of solving this problem.\n\nDr Ian Kane, from the University of Manchester, who was recently part of a team that calculated the amount of micro-plastic in the seabed, described the picture the researchers had painted as \"horrifying\".\n\n\"The authors are clear that there are large uncertainties in the data and analysis but regardless of the exact figures, the increasing rate of plastic production to meet increasing global demand has pretty dire consequences for the environment,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens to microplastics in the ocean?\n\nProf Jamie Woodward, also from the University of Manchester, pointed out the irony in this scenario being laid out during the pandemic.\n\n\"Plastic has kept many frontline workers safe through this,\" he said. \"But PPE waste over the next decade could be horrendous.\n\n\"There are parallels with the climate change problem in that business as usual will be disastrous. We need to radically change our behaviour.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe response to the coronavirus pandemic has shown the \"sheer might\" of the UK union, Boris Johnson has said during a visit to Scotland.\n\nMr Johnson was in Orkney and the north of Scotland one year on from the day he took office as prime minister.\n\nHe said the work of the military and Treasury job retention schemes had proved the \"merits of the union\".\n\nBut the SNP said the visit showed Mr Johnson was \"in a panic\" about rising support for Scottish independence.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon did not meet Mr Johnson during the trip but said she would continue to work with his government on the \"immediate priority\" of tackling coronavirus.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she did not think anyone should be \"championing and celebrating a pandemic that has taken thousands of lives\" to make a constitutional argument.\n\nMr Johnson said he \"pledged to be a prime minister for every corner of the United Kingdom\" when he entered Downing Street one year ago, adding that the response to the pandemic had shown his government's commitment to the whole of the UK.\n\nThe UK government has coordinated much of the country's economic response to the virus, including the coronavirus job retention furlough scheme.\n\nBut devolved governments have had control over most public health measures and have been able to set more local timetables and messaging.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"always happy to meet the prime minister\"\n\nAlthough the whole of the UK entered lockdown in the same week, each constituent part has eased restrictions at a different rate.\n\nPhase 3 of Scotland's \"route map\" out of lockdown began last week, as pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and barbers were allowed to reopen.\n\nThey were allowed to reopen in England slightly earlier on 4 July, along with holiday accommodation - including hotels, B&Bs, cottages, campsites and caravan parks.\n\nBoris Johnson must have found recent opinion polls conducted in Scotland to be awkward reading.\n\nSurveys suggesting rising support for Scottish independence and a significant gap between his approval ratings and those of Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, appear to have prompted him to make his first visit to Scotland since last year's general election.\n\nThe prime minister wants to use the trip to remind people in Scotland just how much cash the UK treasury has spent in response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHe is stressing that it is the Westminster government that has supported 900,000 people who might have otherwise lost their jobs and produced billions of pounds in extra spending for the NHS.\n\nThe SNP don't look too worried about a prime ministerial trip denting support for their cause.\n\nOn her 50th birthday, on Sunday, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that a visit for Boris was the best birthday pressie she could hope for.\n\nEvery time the PM tells voters that it is only as part of the UK that Scottish businesses and public services could afford to cope with the pandemic, the SNP will reply that they are sick of being told that Scotland is \"too wee, too poor and too stupid\" to be independent.\n\nSpeaking in Orkney, where he met local fishermen, Mr Johnson said the \"merits of the union\" had been \"proved throughout this crisis\", citing the work of the military and the Treasury's support for workers and firms.\n\nThe UK government says the furlough and self-employment schemes have supported 900,000 jobs in Scotland, and that £4.6bn of additional funding was being provided to the Scottish government.\n\nThe prime minister also said not enough time had passed for another independence referendum to be held, saying the 2014 vote was a \"once in a generation\" event.\n\nHe said: \"What I'm saying is that the union is a fantastically strong institution. It's helped our country through thick and thin.\n\n\"It's very, very valuable in terms of the support we've been able to give to everybody throughout all corners of the UK, and we had a referendum on breaking up the union a few years ago - I think only six years ago. That is not a generation by any computation and I think what people really want to do is see our whole country coming back strongly together, and that's what we're going to do.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted that the prime minister's visit to Scotland \"highlighted the argument for Scottish independence\".\n\nHowever she said politicians should remain focused on tackling the coronavirus pandemic and \"not use it as a political weapon\".\n\nAt her coronavirus briefing on Thursday, Ms Sturgeon said she had \"worked very hard to have a collaborative approach to the other governments of the UK\".\n\nShe said financial support from the Treasury was \"very welcome\", but said it should be clear that \"this is borrowed money\" which would have to be repaid by Scottish taxpayers too - \"it's not some kind of favour that has been done\".\n\nThe first minister said UK-wide actions by Mr Johnson's administration were a reflection of where powers lie, saying that \"if we held the powers we would be doing these things ourselves\".\n\nShe added: \"I just don't think any of us should be championing and celebrating a pandemic that has taken thousands of lives as some example of the pre-existing political cases we want to make.\n\n\"This has been a heart-breaking crisis that we are not out of yet. Too many people people have died and all of us have a really solemn responsibility to focus on and get our countries through, and that's what I'm going to continue to do.\n\n\"Campaigning right now is not my priority. Boris Johnson has every right to be on a campaign visit but in his shoes it's not what I would do.\"\n\nMr Johnson was greeted by a small group of protestors during his visit to Orkney\n\nMr Johnson also announced £50m of funding from the UK government for Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles - the latest in a series of \"city and region deals\" which see Scottish and UK ministers each pledge cash to various areas for spending on new infrastructure and local development schemes.\n\nThe Scottish government has also committed £50m to the \"Islands growth deal\", which will target sectors including tourism, energy and skills.\n\nThe timing of Mr Johnson's visit comes amid a \"perfect storm\" over Scottish independence, according to Sir Tom Devine, an emeritus professor of Scottish history at Edinburgh University.\n\nSir Tom told BBC Two's Newsnight the union is in its most fragile condition since 1745, and that opinion polling suggesting increasing support for independence in Scotland has been consistent for some time.\n\nNewsnight's political editor Nick Watt added that a senior SNP source had told him they believed the party's moment \"is at last arriving\".\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Mr Johnson was visiting due to recent polls suggesting support for independence was on the rise.\n\nMr Blackford told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the prime minister's message would go down \"particularly badly\" in Scotland.\n\n\"I think what we've demonstrated over the course of the last few months [is] that in the areas of devolved responsibility, in the areas of public health, the leadership that's been shown by our first minister is in sharp contrast to the bluster that we've seen from Boris Johnson,\" he said.", "The duke and duchess met four representatives from organisations that will benefit from the fund\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's charity has donated £1.8m to mental health charities and to help front-line emergency workers.\n\nTen charities will receive grants, including Hospice UK which will offer individual grief trauma counselling to all front-line staff.\n\nCatherine said the coronavirus pandemic \"will have a lasting impact\" on emergency responders' mental health.\n\nThe money will also help provide mental health support to schools.\n\nThe charity, the Royal Foundation, was initially set up in 2009 by Prince William and Prince Harry, and has focused on causes close to the princes' hearts, including the armed forces, conservation and mental health.\n\nCatherine joined the charity after she became Duchess of Cambridge in 2011 and Meghan joined shortly before she and Harry were married in May 2018. Last year, Prince Harry and Meghan split from the foundation to forge their own charity.\n\nThe couple met two emergency responders and two mental health counsellors earlier this the week at Sandringham\n\nIn May, Prince William warned of a potential mental health impact over hailing NHS workers as \"heroes\"\n\nDuring the coronavirus lockdown, the duke and duchess have been vocal about the need to look after people's mental health.\n\nThe £1.8m \"Covid-19 Response Fund\" will include grants to 10 charities: Mind, Hospice UK, the Ambulance Staff Charity, Campaign Against Living Miserably, Best Beginnings, The Anna Freud Centre, Place2Be, Shout 85258, The Mix, YoungMinds.\n\nThe ways the money will be used include:\n\n\"Over recent months we have all been in awe of the incredible work that frontline staff and emergency responders have been doing in response to Covid-19, but we know that for many of them, their families, and for thousands of others across the UK, the pandemic will have a lasting impact on their mental health,\" said Catherine earlier this week, during a visit to speak to front-line workers and mental health counsellors.\n\nKate previously said the pandemic has \"been anxious and unsettling for everyone\"\n\nWilliam told them: \"It's great to hear how The Royal Foundation is supporting you and many others to build resilience and give you the networks you need through its Covid-19 Response Fund, which will help ten leading charities continue their crucial work.\"\n\nIn May, during the lockdown, William warned of a potential mental health impact over hailing NHS workers as \"heroes\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said the praise could deter workers from seeking support as they feel pressure to appear \"strong\".\n\nIn a separate interview with the BBC, the couple said the lockdown is \"stressful\" for many people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spoke to the BBC via video link\n\nPsychiatrists have previously warned of a \"tsunami\" of mental illness from problems stored up during lockdown. They were particularly concerned that children and older adults are not getting the support they need because of school closures, self-isolation and fear of hospitals.\n\n\"We are already seeing the devastating impact of Covid-19 on mental health, with more people in crisis,\" said Prof Wendy Burn, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, at the end of May.\n\nIf you need support or help - you can also find resources on the BBC Action Line website.", "Sir James Dyson is Britain's richest man, according to The Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nDyson is cutting 600 jobs in the UK and a further 300 worldwide as the coronavirus impact speeds up the company's restructuring plans.\n\nThe firm, best known for the invention of the bag-less vacuum cleaner, said the pandemic was changing consumer habits as more people shopped online.\n\nDyson was founded by inventor Sir James Dyson, who in May topped the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nThe company has a global workforce of 14,000, with 4,000 in the UK.\n\nMost of the jobs will be lost in retail and customer service roles.\n\nDyson uses its own people to sell in department stores, for example at John Lewis, but the shift to online has cut necessity for a High Street presence. The jobs being lost overseas, where the company operates in 80 countries, involve similar roles.\n\nA Dyson spokesman said: \"The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated changes in consumer behaviour and therefore requires changes in how we engage with our customers and how we sell our products.\"\n\nHe said the company would try to avoid compulsory redundancies where possible, and emphasised that it had not furloughed any staff nor drawn on any public money to support jobs anywhere in the world during the pandemic.\n\nMost Dyson products are designed in the UK, where it has two technology campuses in Wiltshire, but manufactured in Asia.\n\nEarlier this year the company joined the fight to produce medical ventilators for the NHS, amid fears it would be overwhelmed by coronavirus.\n\nThe company also tried to diversify into making electric cars.\n\nBut last year, it said that although its engineers in the UK had developed a \"fantastic electric car\", it would not hit the roads because it was not \"commercially viable\".\n\nSir James, a Brexit-backing entrepreneur, launched his first vacuum cleaner in 1993. He had previously, in 1974, invented a wheelbarrow which used a spherical wheel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of supporters descended on the ground outside the stadium\n\nNine people were arrested as Liverpool fans ignored police advice and crowded the streets following the club's trophy-lifting final home game.\n\nThousands of supporters gathered on Wednesday night as Sir Kenny Dalglish presented the trophy in an empty stadium after the team beat Chelsea.\n\nPolice had issued a dispersal order to clear about 3,000 fans from Anfield.\n\nNine arrests were made on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly, drink and drug driving, affray and assault.\n\nThe club said in a statement it was \"disappointed\" with the scenes outside Anfield overnight and with supporters who \"did not heed the celebrate at home advice\".\n\nIt thanked supporters who stayed at home \"protecting their loved ones and our city\" from the \"threat of this pandemic\" as well as those who helped clean up Anfield after large crowds gathered around the stadium.\n\nThe Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson has also tweeted his thanks to those involved in the clean-up operation.\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\nThe dispersal order had been set up to try to prevent a repeat of the widespread gatherings seen last month, when Liverpool clinched their first Premier League title.\n\nMerseyside Police said the order was put in place at 21:30 BST \"following increased numbers of people gathering near the ground\".\n\nThe imposition of a dispersal order gives police the power to direct people suspected of causing crime, or those seen as likely to cause crime, nuisance or anti-social behaviour, to leave an area for up to 48 hours.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, captain Jordan Henderson and former player and manager Dalglish had called on fans to stay away because of the risk of spreading coronavirus.\n\nA number of streets were closed in the area around Anfield\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Natalie Perischine, from Merseyside Police, said \"the vast majority of the crowd were good natured and had dispersed by 02:00 BST\".\n\n\"Thankfully we didn't see the sort of incidents of disorder and criminal damage we saw at the Pier Head on 27 June, the investigation into which has seen more than 20 arrests made to date,\" she added.\n\n\"We would like to thank the overwhelming majority of Liverpool fans who listened to that advice and celebrated their team's success at home,\" she said.\n\nThe club previously condemned the behaviour of some fans in the days after the title was secured on 25 June.\n\nThirty-four people were injured - three seriously - as thousands of people congregated at the city's waterfront despite coronavirus restrictions, while other celebrations were held outside Anfield and in the city centre.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "More than 40,000 calls and contacts were made to the National Domestic Abuse Helpline during the first three months of lockdown, most by women seeking help, new figures show.\n\nIn June, calls and contacts were nearly 80% higher than usual, says the charity Refuge, which runs the helpline.\n\nAnd as restrictions ease, there is a surge in women seeking refuge places to escape their abusers, the charity says.\n\nThe government says it prioritised help for domestic-abuse victims in lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, the Home Office said it had recognised early on the risks of a nationwide lockdown for victims of domestic abuse and focused on ensuring vital support services remained available.\n\n\"From our ground-breaking legislation in the Domestic Abuse Bill, to additional financial support and regular engagement with charities throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the government remains resolute in combating this vile crime,\" said the Minister for Safeguarding, Victoria Atkins.\n\nAs well as a near doubling in the number of women contacting the helpline, Refuge says, the figures also show more needing to flee their abusers.\n\n\"We've seen in the last couple of weeks an increase of 54% of women wanting to access emergency accommodation,\" spokeswoman, Lisa King said.\n\nTanya was among those who fled her abusive husband during the lockdown.\n\n\"When we were on lockdown, things became much worse,\" she says.\n\n\"Before, he was drinking only in the early hours of the evening.\n\n\"Then, when Covid happened, he started drinking in the early hours of the morning.\n\nLockdown has cut off escape routes such as the school run\n\n\"And he started getting very aggressive.\n\n\"When he was hitting me, mentally it was affecting me more.\n\n\"He threw me against a wall.\n\nMeanwhile, Claire, separated from her ex-partner, continues to receive support from Refuge, as the lockdown has meant fresh emotional abuse in that he has breached custody arrangements - at one point, refusing to hand back their young daughter.\n\nWith no court hearing in sight, because of the pandemic, Claire says she feels powerless.\n\n\"It's like I am in lockdown with him,\" she says.\n\n\"It's difficult to feel like I'm handing over my daughter, knowing that potentially I might not get her back.\"\n\nAs well as calling Refuge, women have sought help online.\n\nDuring the lockdown the charity set up a live chat service, allowing women too frightened to make a call to tap in and describe in message form what they were going through.\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse Helpline can be contacted online as well as by phone\n\n\"We've been able to talk to women even when their perpetrators are at home with them,\" one support worker said.\n\n\"It can be easier to grab 10 minutes in the bathroom on your phone, doing something that is silent.\"\n\nThe helpline deals with complaints from women only.\n\nMen reporting abuse are directed to other specialist services.\n\nThe Men's Advice Line says it received nearly 8,500 calls over the first three months of the lockdown, significantly higher than during the same period last year.\n\nDuring the lockdown, the government announced about £30m in extra funding.\n\nBut Refuge and other charities say as restrictions ease, a longer-term funding strategy is needed.\n\nThe lockdown proved particularly difficult for migrant women, who are frequently not entitled to financial help from the state, according to the charity Southall Black Sisters.\n\n\"As we come out of the lockdown, we are afraid that we are going to see a surge in demand, particularly migrant women with no recourse to public funds,\" director Pragna Patel says.\n\n\"They would have been the ones feeling most entrapped in situations of abuse because they would have thought, 'There's nowhere for me to go.\n\nTanya found herself in exactly this position when she left her husband with £4 in her pocket before going to Southall Black Sisters for help.\n\n\"If I had stayed in that house, I don't know whether I would be here today,\" she says.\n\n\"I was in a situation where I wanted to finish my life completely.\n\nMs Patel said the Domestic Abuse Bill, currently going through Parliament, had failed to address the plight of women such as Tanya, unable to access state help.\n\n\"Women have put up with really coercive controlling environments, particularly Asian women who live in households with multiple members of a family, which can often translate into multiple perpetrators of abuse,\" she said.\n\n\"We had a case just two weeks ago of a woman who took her own life because she felt that was the only way out of the abuse.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it had committed £1.5m \"to pilot work later this year to better understand needs in this area\".\n\nIt urged anyone in immediate danger and fearing for their life to contact the police.\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.", "The RAF has continued to target IS fighters in 2020, the defence secretary told MPs\n\nThe Islamic State group (IS) remains the \"most significant\" threat to the UK, the defence secretary has warned.\n\nBen Wallace said the militant group's \"poisonous ideology\" endures despite it having lost territory it once held in Syria and Iraq - and a possible resurgence \"should concern us all\".\n\nBritish aircraft have struck 40 targets as part of the fight against IS in the past year, Mr Wallace told MPs.\n\nThe \"hard fight\" to beat IS, or Daesh, was \"by no means done\", he said.\n\nMaking a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Wallace said RAF strikes had hit 40 targets since July 2019. Targets ranged from caves in remote parts of northern Iraq, to weapons bunkers and training camps, he said.\n\n\"RAF aircraft have continued to patrol the skies on an almost daily basis,\" he said.\n\nMembers of the group have \"nowhere to hide\", he said, but added that the group's \"poisonous ideology\" still endures.\n\n\"Daesh retains its intent to carry out and inspire attacks against us, and remains the most significant terrorist threat to the United Kingdom and our interests,\" he said.\n\n\"Conflict, economic collapse and inequality is creating new opportunities that they will continue to exploit, to grow and recruit.\"\n\nAbout 900 people who joined the group as fighters during the conflict came from the UK, MPs were told.\n\nMr Wallace said of those, about 20% had been killed and around 40% remain in the area, either at large or in detention.\n\nThe remaining 40% - an estimated 360 people - have returned to the UK, \"where they have been investigated and the majority assessed now to pose no risk or a low security risk\", he said.\n\nThe UK continues to provide training, mentoring, and air support to Iraqi security forces, Mr Wallace said.\n• None RAF carries out four air strikes on IS in May", "The US and UK have accused Russia of testing a weapon-like projectile in space that could be used to target satellites in orbit.\n\nThe US State Department described the recent use of \"what would appear to be actual in-orbit anti-satellite weaponry\" as concerning.\n\nRussia's defence ministry earlier said it was using new technology to perform checks on Russian space equipment.\n\nThe US has previously raised concerns about new Russian satellite activity.\n\nBut it is the first time the UK has made accusations about Russian test-firing in space. They come just days after an inquiry said the UK government \"badly underestimated\" the threat posed by Russia.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-proliferation, Christopher Ford, accused Moscow of hypocrisy after it said it wanted arms control to be extended to space.\n\n\"Moscow aims to restrict the capabilities of the United States while clearly having no intention of halting its own counter-space programme,\" he said.\n\nThe head of the UK's space directorate, Air Vice Marshal Harvey Smyth, said he was also concerned about the latest Russian satellite test, which he said had the \"characteristics of a weapon\".\n\n\"Actions like this threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends,\" he said. He urged Russia to be \"responsible\" and to \"avoid any further such testing\".\n\nRussia, the UK, the US and China are among more than 100 nations to have committed to a space treaty that stipulates that outer space is to be explored by all and purely for peaceful purposes.\n\nThe treaty adds that weapons should not be placed in orbit or in space.\n\nThe US said the Russian satellite system was the same one it raised concerns about in 2018 and earlier this year when the US accused it of manoeuvring close to an American satellite.\n\nIn this latest incident, Gen Jay Raymond, who heads US space command, said there was evidence Russia \"conducted a test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon\".\n\nGen Raymond added: \"This is further evidence of Russia's continuing efforts to develop and test space-based systems and [is] consistent with the Kremlin's published military doctrine to employ weapons that hold US and allied space assets at risk.\"\n\nThis Russian test of what the Americans say is an anti-satellite weapon is part of a pattern of recent Russian space activity. In February, the US military said that two Russian satellites manoeuvred close to an American one, and in April Moscow test-fired a ground-based satellite interceptor.\n\nOnly four countries - Russia, the US, China and India - have demonstrated an anti-satellite capability over the past decades. Anti-satellite warheads have been carried aloft by aircraft or rockets, and satellites have also been illuminated by lasers.\n\nBut Moscow is also clearly looking at using one satellite to kill another. Interest in such weapons is growing given our reliance upon satellites for a variety of purposes such as intelligence gathering, communications, navigation and early-warning.\n\nThere is no treaty banning or limiting such weapons though a number of countries have argued for some kind of agreement to do just this.\n\nBut in military terms, space has already become the new frontier with several countries organising specific commands in their armed forces to deal with both the defensive and offensive aspects of protecting their essential space-based systems.\n\nA test of a new Russian satellite took place on 15 July with the aim of performing checks on the country's space equipment, Russia's defence ministry said at the time.\n\n\"During testing of the latest space technology, one of the domestic satellites was examined close up using the specialised equipment of small space craft,\" the ministry said, according to Interfax news agency.\n\nIt added that \"valuable information about the technical condition of the object under investigation\" had been recorded.", "Boris Johnson became prime minister exactly one year ago\n\nBoris Johnson must have found recent opinion polls conducted in Scotland to be awkward reading.\n\nSurveys suggesting rising support for Scottish independence and a significant gap between his approval ratings and those of Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, appear to have prompted him to make his first visit to Scotland since last year's general election.\n\nThe prime minister wants to use the trip to remind people in Scotland just how much cash the UK treasury has spent in response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHe is stressing that it is the Westminster government that has supported 900,000 people who might have otherwise lost their jobs and produced billions of pounds in extra spending for the NHS.\n\nThe SNP don't look too worried about a prime ministerial trip denting support for their cause.\n\nOn her 50th birthday, on Sunday, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that a visit from Boris was the best birthday pressie she could hope for.\n\nEvery time the PM tells voters that it is only as part of the UK that Scottish businesses and public services could afford to cope with the pandemic, the SNP will reply that they are sick of being told that Scotland is \"too wee, too poor and too stupid\" to be independent.\n\nScotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon will not be meeting the prime minister during his visit\n\nIt's a line from the 2014 referendum that seems to have developed extra resonance at a time when people seem to have far more confidence in Nicola Sturgeon's handling of the crisis than Boris Johnson's.\n\nRising support for the uncertain path of independence is not what you might expect at a time of deep economic uncertainty.\n\nOpinion polls have been suggesting more people in Scotland have been turning towards \"Yes\" for many months.\n\nLong before the coronavirus crisis, Brexit was driving Remain voters in to the nationalist camp.\n\nIt will take more than arguments about the deep pockets of the UK exchequer to win back hearts and minds in Scotland.\n\nWhich is why that the PM says that the UK is more than \"simply a lifeboat to which our four nations can cling in times of peril\".\n\nThe emotional case for keeping the UK united is something government ministers will need to work on if they are planning many more Scottish visits.\n\nBoris Johnson has clearly stated that he will not allow another Scottish referendum.\n\nAnd the Scottish government would need agreement from Westminster to make the process legally watertight.\n\nSo what is the PM worrying about?\n\nWell, he may find it much harder to refuse another independence vote if the SNP win a majority in the Scottish elections due in May 2021. And the same polls that are suggesting growing support for independence are predicting a very good result for Nicola Sturgeon's party next year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeeds United have defended the decision to parade the Championship trophy from an open-top bus in front of fans after previously telling people to stay away.\n\nThousands were at the club's ground on Wednesday night to celebrate its return to the top flight. Four people were arrested for public order offences.\n\nOfficials had urged fans to stay away but the team made a brief appearance after the 4-0 win over Charlton.\n\nOne fan group described the move as \"a dreadful own goal\" by the club.\n\nHundreds of Leeds fans gathered at Elland Road to celebrate the club lifting the Championship trophy\n\nThe club's chief executive had earlier urged them to stay home, saying they would \"celebrate when the time was right\"\n\nChief executive Angus Kinnear had urged fans to stay away from the game, saying when the time was right \"we will celebrate in style\".\n\nBut in a later statement the club said: \"Following consultation with the Safety Advisory Group and council, Leeds United arranged for a bus to be parked outside the East Stand reception as a contingency to assist dispersal should a crowd congregate at Elland Road, despite a month-long campaign from the club and supporter groups to encourage supporters to stay at home.\n\n\"The safety group believed that a brief appearance from the players with the Championship trophy would help to signal an end to proceedings, encouraging fans to head home safely.\n\n\"In challenging circumstances, fan safety has always been our priority.\"\n\nFans cheered the team from outside the ground as they beat Charlton 4-0\n\nSupt Jackie Marsh from West Yorkshire Police said four people had been arrested for public order offences and one officer received a minor injury but did not require hospital treatment.\n\n\"While most of those who gathered did so with good intentions, there were some missiles thrown which resulted in officers having to wear protective equipment,\" she said.\n\nPeople of all ages came along to mark the occasion\n\nFlares were set off as fans celebrated\n\nThe Leeds United Supporters' Trust called on the club to apologise to those fans who heeded its original advice to stay at home.\n\nThe trust said: \"We have received many messages from members outlining their anger, frustration and disappointment at being asked to stay at home and then missing out on the events that unfolded at the ground.\n\n\"We completely understand that frustration. We also empathise with those that made a personal decision to attend the ground last night to feel part of a shared moment.\n\n\"We do, however, feel that the use of such a potent symbol of celebration, the open-top bus, was a dreadful own goal by the club\".\n\nThe trust said the presence of the open-top bus begged the question of whether the club's intention was to secure \"powerful video footage\" rather than anything safety-related in respect of the fans.\n\nLeeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police had also urged fans to stay away over concerns about coronavirus.\n\nIn a statement, the council confirmed it was aware of the plan, but claimed the measures were \"effective\", as fans left \"within 40 minutes\" of the event finishing.\n\nA spokesperson told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \"All parties involved recognise the difficulties around this decision, which was made only as a method of ensuring the fans dispersed if significant numbers gathered, and would wish to thank all those fans who adhered to the requests to stay safe and stay away.\"\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\nThat came after supporters gathered outside the ground on Friday to celebrate the club's return to the Premier League for the first time in 16 years.\n\nOn Sunday, about 7,000 fans packed the city's Millennium Square.\n\nThousands of fans left piles of rubbish after they celebrated promotion to the Premier League\n\nA number of fans arrived at the ground on Thursday morning to help in the clean up operation after piles of litter were left behind.\n\nOne supporter, Chris, said: \"It's nice to just come down and do my bit really.\"\n\n\"By the time we'd got here, the council had cleared most of it already. They've done a cracking job, full credit to them.\"\n\nChris and other fans helped to clean up litter at Elland Road\n\nIn contrast to the scenes outside the ground, the trophy was presented inside an almost empty stadium.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Funding gap from coronavirus could see further council cuts\n\nCouncil services in Cornwall could see further cuts as a funding gap emerges due to coronavirus. The council has estimated the cost of Covid-19 and the accompanying lockdown measures at £74m, and has so far received about £40m from central government to cover the losses. \"We may see further cuts to services which obviously we don't want to do,\" said Cornwall Council's deputy leader, Adam Paynter. \"We've already had 10 years of austerity - the government has said that austerity is over and that they will support councils, but we don't know yet the full details of how they will guarantee the incomes that we usually receive,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 500 cars were parked along the roads in Snowdonia\n\nMotorists are being warned they could be towed away if they park illegally at the foot of Snowdon.\n\nIf follows chaotic scenes at Pen-y-Pass below the mountain last weekend, where vehicles turned the main road into a car park in places.\n\nIt led to 180 vehicles being given penalty fines.\n\nCar parks at Pen-y-Pass will now be closed at the weekend, and only available for buses and taxis to drop-off hikers heading on to the peak.\n\n\"This is a 60mph area, and the irresponsible and dangerous parking we saw last weekend not only risked lives but also would have prevented emergency vehicle access,\" said Supt Neil Thomas, from North Wales Police.\n\n\"Anybody found to be parked on the clearway or causing an obstruction will have their vehicle removed at their own expense. Please heed the warning.\"\n\nPen-y-Pass sits on the main A4086 road between Llanberis and Capel Curig, and is where the Pyg Track path takes walkers to the top of Snowdon, making it one of the most popular destinations in the national park.\n\nHowever, all access to Snowdon and other popular peaks in the national park was closed in March, as part of coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nWalkers and hikers were allowed back on the mountains when the \"stay local\" lockdown restrictions were eased on 6 July, while last weekend marked the start of the official school holidays for many visitors.\n\nTraffic enforcement officers will be out in force again at the weekend\n\nLocal residents accused visitors of treating the region with \"lack of respect\" after an estimated 500 cars lined verges and the roadside all down the pass.\n\nIn addition to closing the pass car parks over the weekend, extra park-and-ride bus services will be put in place, running from nearby Llanberis and Nant Peris.\n\nSnowdon Sherpa buses will be running every 15 minutes between 06:45 in the morning and 18:40 in the evening.\n\nThe buses link all the various Snowdon car parks with summit paths.\n\n\"These urgent measures will help to tackle the immediate challenge and we will continue to monitor and adapt as matters progresses,\" said Emyr Williams, chief executive of the Snowdonia Park Authority.\n\nThe leader of Gwynedd council Dyfrig Siencyn added: \"We want people to be able to enjoy our stunning mountain ranges safely.\n\n\"Those who ignore the message by parking illegally on the highway on Snowdonia's mountain passes will face an on-the-spot fine or even being towed away by police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "OneWeb has a factory in Florida with the capacity produce two satellites a day\n\nMPs have launched an inquiry into the government's $500m (£400m) investment in bankrupt satellite firm OneWeb, amid disclosure that a top civil servant warned that taxpayers could lose out.\n\nThe government took a stake in the satellite broadband company as part of a post-Brexit space strategy.\n\nIt emerged on Wednesday that an acting permanent secretary raised concerns, warning that the deal was \"unusual\".\n\nMr Jones, chairman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, said in a statement that news of the permanent secretary's worries \"heightens concerns around this investment\" and \"prompts further questions about how the government… came to plump for this largely US-based bankrupt satellite company\".\n\nHe went on to say that \"using nearly half a billion pounds of taxpayer money to gamble on a 'commercial opportunity' whilst still failing to support manufacturing jobs with a sector deal is both troubling and concerning.\"\n\nOneWeb is creating a satellite network to deliver broadband connections. But the firm collapsed in March, blaming the Covid crisis for not being able to raise more financial support.\n\nEarlier this month, a joint offer from the UK government and India's Bharti Global mobile operator won a bidding war for the firm.\n\nBut it was disclosed on Wednesday that Sam Beckett, the top civil servant in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), said all the money put forward could be lost.\n\n\"While in one scenario we could get a 20% return, the central case is marginal and there are significant downside risks, including that venture capital investments of this sort can fail, with the consequence that all the value of the equity can be lost,\" she wrote.\n\nThe comments were part of a letter for \"ministerial direction\", an avenue for civil servants to register a stronger than usual opinion. Ministers are obliged to formally overrule the official's objections to instruct the spending to go ahead. The contents of the letter must also be made public.\n\nMs Beckett said that an assessment by the UK Space Agency had identified \"substantial technical and operational hurdles\" that OneWeb would need to overcome in order to become a \"viable and profitable business\" and there was a high likelihood that further taxpayer funding would be necessary.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Alok Sharma overrode Ms Beckett's concerns and the government went ahead with the bid.\n\nMr Sharma said Chancellor Rishi Sunak had agreed to the purchase, and other private sector investors were involved in the bid for OneWeb.\n\nThe government hopes that London-based OneWeb, can take the place of the EU's Galileo programme, which the UK left when Brexit took effect in January this year.\n\nMs Beckett said: \"I completely understand your, the Prime Minister's and the Chancellor's interest in wider benefits such as the potential long-term geopolitical advantages for foreign policy and soft power that would come with sovereign ownership of a fleet of satellites.\n\n\"Moreover, I do not underestimate the potential opportunity that this investment represents for UK interests globally.\n\n\"It would be the first mega-constellation operator, if it succeeds, and would have the potential to connect millions of people, in particular those in remote, rural locations without broadband access.\"\n\nHowever she wrote that she could not be sure that the investment met Whitehall's strict value-for-money requirements and so requested the formal order from Mr Sharma to proceed.\n\nOneWeb, which has its headquarters in London and a manufacturing base in Florida, is aiming to complete the construction of a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites.\n\nThe UK government sees satellites as a way to meet commitments on the roll-out of super-fast broadband and believes OneWeb's constellation could also deliver a precise satellite navigation system.\n\nSeventy-four satellites in an initial network of 648 had been launched when the company announced it was seeking bankruptcy protection. Most experts believe a further $3bn at least is needed to bring the full constellation into use.", "As the nation gradually unlocks, nightclubs and soft play centres still don't know when it will be their turn to reopen.\n\n\"On Friday there was the devastating news that everybody else apart from ourselves and nightclubs could open,\" says Janice Dunphy, owner of the Web Adventure Park indoor play centre in York.\n\n\"We've been closed now 133 days so it's really difficult to accept,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money.\n\nIndoor play centres, along with nightclubs, have not yet been given permission to reopen and so far no date has been set for them to work towards.\n\nThat's leaving business owners such as Janice unable to plan for a return of their customers and the financial boost that would provide.\n\nRecent weeks have seen non-essential shops, theme parks and outdoor play areas reopen and at the start of August it will be possible for bowling alleys, casinos and ice rinks to welcome customers back.\n\nBut as Boris Johnson announced the lifting of those restrictions, as well as a return to full services for beauticians, he added: \"Nightclubs and soft play areas will sadly need to remain closed for now - although this will be kept under review.\"\n\nJanice says: \"My financial director told me we have to lose £200,000 off our wage bill over the next 18 months. Some of the staff that we've had to let go have families.\"\n\nFor the Web Adventure Park that meant significant redundancies, as they could not afford for furloughed staff to continue accruing holiday pay.\n\n\"We used to have 65 staff but I've just made nine redundant and had to lay 20 off temporarily. Then we have 20 staff working in the nursery, which is still open.\n\n\"The ones we have had to lay off are mostly the younger workers, the 18-year-olds.\"\n\nJanice is not just a business owner, she also sits on the management committee for the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions.\n\nIt claims that up to two-thirds of soft play centres could close by October if they don't receive support that reflects their extended lockdown.\n\n\"We have supported everything that we've been asked to do,\" says Janice. \"I actually produced the reopening protocol that was approved by [the Health and Safety Executive] so we've ticked every box as far as we've been asked.\n\n\"We would remove ball pits and anything that was a potential hazard would be taken out. Our members have foggers that they can clean surfaces with.\"\n\n\"However there's been no clarity, nothing has come back from government. There's questions as to why certain industries that are indoors that have large numbers like inflatables parks, like trampoline parks can open but we can't.\n\n\"If we had some idea of why, if we could speak to the government and ask why we could answer some of the questions but we've had no communication at all.\"\n\nThe nightclub sector is another that remains locked down despite the easing of restrictions elsewhere.\n\n\"I think what's really frustrating with our nightclub is we just have no idea when we might be able to reopen and it's really hard to plan that way,\" says Charlie Gilkes, a nightlife entrepreneur and the co-founder of Inception Group, which includes a nightclub.\n\n\"We understand that nightclubs are quite hard to operate with any social distancing in place, they are social environments, but we just need to have some sort of clarity of when they think it will be, even if that's next year.\n\n\"And we need some sort of promise that the furlough scheme will be extended for nightclubs so that our staff can remain on that and there can be some specific support for the businesses which aren't allowed to open.\"\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesman said: \"We recognise the frustration of businesses which have had to remain closed because of the pandemic and we are working to help them reopen as soon as it is safe.\n\n\"We are also providing businesses and their employees with an unprecedented package of support during this national emergency including £330bn worth of government backed and guaranteed loans and the Coronavirus Job Retention scheme.\"\n\nYou can hear more of these interviews by downloading the Wake Up To Money podcast.", "Elton John and Renate Blauel got married in 1984 and divorced four years later\n\nSir Elton John's ex-wife, Renate Blauel, is seeking an estimated £3m in damages amid claims the singer broke the terms of their divorce deal.\n\nThe sound engineer, who was married to the star for four years, is suing over passages in Sir Elton's 2019 memoir Me, and the hit movie Rocketman.\n\nMs Blauel claims these revealed details of the marriage, breaking an agreement they made when they divorced in 1988.\n\nThe disclosures triggered long-standing mental health problems, her claim said.\n\nIn response, Sir Elton's defence acknowledged the existence of the divorce agreement, which both parties signed, but denied any breaches or causing \"psychological harm\".\n\nAccording to papers filed at the High Court in London, Sir Elton agreed to remove certain passages from his autobiography before it was published last year, and in the final draft, Ms Blauel only appears on eight pages.\n\nSir Elton describes her in positive terms throughout the book, calling her \"dignified\", \"decent\" and \"someone I couldn't fault in any way\".\n\nMs Blauel has never spoken publicly about her marriage to Sir Elton\n\nHowever, Ms Blauel claims some of the remaining passages \"seriously misrepresented the nature of their relationship\".\n\nFor instance, Sir Elton claimed in his book that he did not enter their marriage with the intention of starting a family. Ms Blauel contests that they \"did attempt to have children during their relationship but were unable to do so\".\n\nA request to have this passage removed was rejected, according to court documents.\n\nShe also claimed not to have been consulted about her appearance in Rocketman, in which she was played by Celinde Schoenmaker - although the marriage took up less than five minutes of screentime.\n\nMs Blauel also said that, following the release of the movie and the memoir, a journalist had \"been trying to locate her in her local village\", causing her \"great anxiety\".\n\nHer lawyer, Yisrael Hiller, told the BBC that Sir Elton had \"ignored\" his promise to keep the details of their marriage private.\n\n\"Renate is particularly upset by the film,\" he added.\n\n\"In her mind, the film seeks to portray their marriage as a sham, which she wholeheartedly disputes and considers a false and disrespectful portrayal of their time together.\n\n\"Renate wants the privacy that was promised to her - that is why she is seeking an injunction. Any claim for monetary relief is secondary, and would just cover damages and future expenses caused by Elton's breaches.\"\n\nHer court filing does not suggest a figure for the damages, but the £3m sum is referred to in Sir Elton's defence, as a figure that had been disclosed in previous correspondence between the two parties.\n\nA source close to the singer told the BBC: \"Elton is shocked and saddened by Renate's claim after 30 years of a mutually amicable and respectful divorce, especially as he has only ever praised her publicly.\"\n\nThe pair met in 1983, as Sir Elton recorded his comeback album Two Low For Zero at London's Air Studios, where Ms Blauel worked as an engineer.\n\nThe couple married the following year in Australia, with Ms Blauel telling United Press International: \"He's the nicest guy I've ever met\".\n\nHowever, they divorced four years later. Sir Elton, who had told Rolling Stone magazine in 1976 that he was bisexual, subsequently told the same publication he was \"quite comfortable being gay\".\n\nThe star went on to marry filmmaker David Furnish in 2005, and the couple have two children.\n\nMs Blauel has kept a low profile since the divorce, but Sir Elton has previously spoken of his \"huge guilt and regret\" over the hurt he caused her.\n\nDetails of their legal dispute first emerged last month, when Ms Blauel filed for an injunction at London's High Court. Further details emerged after Sir Elton's team filed a response this week.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police were called to reports of a shooting in Rochford car park on Willan Road\n\nA man and two teenagers have been injured in a triple shooting in north London. The man is now critically ill.\n\nThey were targeted on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham at about 00:45 BST, the Met Police said.\n\nOfficers believe the gunmen arrived in a car, carried out the shooting and then left in the same vehicle.\n\nDetectives say a 19-year-old man is in a critical condition and two 15-year-old boys are also in hospital with serious injuries.\n\nOne of the 15-year-old's injuries have been described as \"life changing\" while the other is not thought to be in a life-threatening condition.\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\nCommander Paul Brogden said: \"This was another appalling crime, where three young black males have become victims in our capital city, two of whom are actually children.\n\n\"The Metropolitan Police will leave no stone unturned to bring to justice those responsible, but we need the help of Londoners to break this cycle of violence.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Treena Fleming said there will be extra police in the Tottenham area in order to investigate the shooting and reassure the community.\n\n\"I fully understand how frightening this will be,\" she added.\n\n\"These incidents cannot be tolerated, a society cannot be indifferent to the plight of young people who are being injured and killed on our streets.\"\n\nA BBC analysis of homicides across the capital show there have been more than 70 murder investigations started in the capital this year.\n\nNine of them have been as a result of fatal shootings - six of them have happened since the start of June.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People working from home have been eating more ice cream but neglecting their grooming habits, consumer goods giant Unilever has suggested.\n\nThe firm said ice cream sales leapt 26% in the three months to June, but demand for shampoo and deodorant fell.\n\nIt said it had seen strong \"growth in home consumption of foods, ice cream and tea\" during lockdown.\n\nBut there had been \"fewer personal care occasions from going to work or socialising\".\n\nHowever, it said sales of some cleaning products, such as hand sanitiser, had soared as people stepped up efforts to battle Covid-19.\n\nThe firm's Magnum and Ben and Jerry's brands benefited the most as people bought more ice cream to eat at home.\n\nThe company - which makes the deodorant Lynx and Dove soap - had warned about shrinking personal care sales at its last trading update in April.\n\nIt said that as more people worked from home, they were washing their hair less often, putting off shaving and even ditching deodorant.\n\nFour months on, it said personal care sales had continued to slump.\n\nBut it reported increased demand for household cleaning products, such as Cif surface cleaners and Domestos, which campaigned to educate consumers about targeted cleaning of high-touch surfaces in the home to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nUnilever - which owns brands such as Marmite and PG Tips tea - posted a 4% climb in first-half pre-tax profits to €4.5bn (£3.5bn) after people stockpiled toilet rolls and other consumer goods at the start of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"In North America and parts of Europe, there was a positive impact from household stocking in March,\" it said.\n\n\"Consumption patterns then normalised in the second quarter with heightened levels of demand for hygiene and in-home food products.\"\n\nBoss Alan Jope said the results \"demonstrated the resilience of the business\", as demand from the hospitality industry for its products slumped after hotels, restaurants, cafes and bars closed.\n\nBut with people buying more food to eat at home, the company saw double-digit growth in its retail foods business, with Knorr soups and Hellmann's sauces performing strongly.\n\nUnilever also confirmed plans to spin off its tea business, which includes other household brands such as Lipton and Brooke Bond.\n\nIt said it would retain its tea businesses in India and Indonesia and partnership interests in ready-to-drink tea joint ventures.\n\n\"The balance of Unilever's tea brands and geographies and all tea estates have an exciting future, and this potential can best be achieved as a separate entity,\" it said.\n\n\"A process will now begin to implement the separation, which is expected to conclude by the end of 2021.\"", "Care home residents in England can begin to be reunited with one of their loved ones, the government has said, as it publishes new guidance.\n\nVisits will resume in care homes once local authorities and local public health directors say it is safe.\n\nResidents will be limited to seeing the same one visitor, where possible, the guidance says.\n\nSome providers began allowing outdoor, socially-distanced visits in June, in the absence of government guidelines.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was now possible to \"carefully and safely\" allow visits to care homes, while taking into account \"local knowledge and circumstances for each care home\".\n\nPeople in registered residential care and those in nursing homes for people with learning disabilities, mental health or other disabilities in England will also be able to welcome visitors under the same guidance.\n\nThe government said visits could resume after the rate of community transmission of coronavirus had fallen, but staff, residents and visitors should observe its guidance to minimise the risk of spreading the virus.\n\nIt says care providers should consider whether visits could take place outside, without people having to go through a shared building, and visitors should stick to social distancing guidance and avoid hugs or handshakes.\n\nAd hoc visits should be discouraged and providers should collect contact details of visitors to support NHS Test and Trace, the guidance says.\n\nVisitors should also be encouraged to wear a face covering and risk assessments must be carried out before homes reopen.\n\nGifts for residents should be easy to clean by care home staff. \"It is unlikely that they will be able to bring flowers but a box of chocolates that could be sanitised with wipes would be allowed,\" the guidance says.\n\nCare England, the country's largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, said it was \"disappointed\" the guidance had come so late.\n\nChief executive Professor Martin Green said: \"This guidance should have been with care providers last month.\n\n\"We are at a loss to understand why the Department of Health and Social Care cannot act quickly in a crisis or why it is deaf to the comments and input from the sector.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded the deaths of another 79 people who tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths to 45,501.\n\nLesley Lightfoot says not being able to be with her mum Blumah, who has Parkinson's dementia, during lockdown has been \"the most painful thing I've ever been through\".\n\nFor months, she stood outside her mum's north London care home, talking to her through a ground floor window. In recent weeks, the home has allowed some outdoor visits.\n\nBut Ms Lightfoot wants clarity on whether the latest guidelines mean she'll be able to see her mum indoors.\n\n\"To be able to see her outside doesn't solve my problem. I need to get in and be with her in her room,\" she says, adding that her mum's mental state has deteriorated with the isolation of lockdown. \"She needs the reassurance, the love, the affection, the looking at things with her, the going through things with her.\"\n\nThe government said it will be down to individual care homes, working with public health officials, to decide whether visits can take place inside people's rooms.\n\nIn Scotland, visits to virus-free homes resumed earlier this month. In Wales, outdoor visits are allowed and in Northern Ireland, one person can visit a resident, with a second person accommodated \"where possible\".\n\nSue Parker from Ovingham, Northumberland, who has a 29-year-old son with autism and OCD, welcomed the guidance but said it would not help in her case as it isn't an option to visit her son in his residential care home.\n\nShe explained he would not tolerate relatives visiting his care home and would only accept leaving to his family home - something he did most weekends before the pandemic.\n\n\"It seems throughout that it has been a blanket one-size-fits-all policy [for social care], with a focus on the elderly and frail,\" she said, adding that the new guidance seemed to be \"disproportionate\" for her son, given that he is young and physically fit.\n• None How are the care home visiting rules changing?", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nA Premier League club came close to losing £1m during a transfer deal because of cyber hackers.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was only the intervention of the unnamed club's bank that stopped the theft.\n\nIt was one of several incidents highlighted as evidence that sport needed to improve its cybersecurity.\n\n\"The impact of cybercriminals cashing in on this industry is very real,\" said the NCSC's Paul Chichester.\n\nA new report from the NCSC says the email address of a Premier League club's managing director had been hacked during a transfer negotiation, leading to the attempt to steal the £1m.\n\nThe report also says that a Football League club was targeted by hackers who cut off its security systems, blocking turnstiles and almost resulting in a fixture postponement.\n\nAnd it added that in one incident a member of staff at a racecourse lost £15,000 after attempting to buy groundskeeping equipment from a fake version of eBay.\n\nSir Hugh Robertson, chair of the British Olympic Association, said in the report: \"This report is a crucial first step, helping sports organisations to better understand the threat and highlighting practical steps that organisation should take to improve cybersecurity practices.\"", "Swab tests are used to look for the presence of the virus\n\nA network of coronavirus-testing walk-in centres is to be set up across England in an attempt to persuade more people to come forward for testing.\n\nSeveral hundred walk-in units will be up and running by the end of October, in time for winter, when there is concern cases could start to rise.\n\nThey will complement the existing drive-through centres, mobile testing units and home-ordering service.\n\nIt comes amid concern people are still not coming forward for testing.\n\nThe government's weekly random test of 30,000 people, run by the Office for National Statistics, suggests there are about 1,700 new infections a day.\n\nBut the testing service is picking up only about a third of those.\n\nSome of that will be because people are not showing symptoms when they are infected, but bosses at the NHS Test and Trace service said they wanted to see more people come forward for testing.\n\nMeanwhile, Public Health England has released its weekly report into local infection rates.\n\nIt shows Blackburn has had the most positive cases per 100,000 people over the past week at nearly 80 - as the BBC reported earlier this week.\n\nMass testing in Blackburn began at the weekend following a spike in infections\n\nLeicester, which was placed into local lockdown earlier in the month, has seen cases fall.\n\nExtra measures have been introduced in Blackburn, including tougher guidance on household mixing.\n\nBut a full local lockdown is not on the cards yet.\n\nLuton has also been designated an area for intervention alongside Leicester and Blackburn.\n\nIt means some of the restrictions being eased nationally from this weekend, including the re-opening of gyms, will not now happen there.\n\nOther areas among the top 10 are Kirklees, Sandwell, Rotherham and Bradford.\n\nThese are all being closely watched, with local public health teams encouraging those who have been in close contact with confirmed cases to self-isolate.\n\nOverall, there are signs the contact tracing service - NHS Test and Trace - is beginning to improve on some measures.\n\nSome 80% of people who tested positive over the past week provided details of close contact.\n\nOf those close contacts provided 78% were reached and asked to isolate, up from 72% last week.\n\nNHS Test and Trace head Baroness Harding said she was pleased with the performance.\n\nBut she said the \"most important lever\" in keeping the virus at bay was to get more people to come forward for testing, which was why a network of walk-in centres was being created.\n\n\"NHS Test and Trace relies on everyone playing their part,\" she said.\n\n\"We all need to get a test if we have symptoms, share details of our contacts if we test positive and self-isolate when asked to do so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Walk-in centres will be able to test 500,000 people for Covid-19 each day, says Baroness Dido Harding\n\nBaroness Harding said by the end of October no-one in urban areas should be further than a 30-minute walk away from one of the new walk-in centres, which have been piloted in a handful of places over recent weeks.\n\nAnd the capacity to process tests is also being increased, with a new mega-lab opening in Newport, Gwent.\n\nThe ambition is that by the end of October 500,000 tests a day will be able to be processed.\n\nCurrently, the figure stands at just over 300,000.\n• None NHS test and trace- how it works - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The University of York is one of those institutions affected\n\nAt least 10 universities in the UK, US and Canada have had data stolen about students and/or alumni after hackers attacked a cloud computing provider.\n\nHuman Rights Watch and the children's mental health charity, Young Minds, have also confirmed they were affected.\n\nThe hack targeted Blackbaud, one of the world's largest providers of education administration, fundraising, and financial management software.\n\nThe US-based company's systems were hacked in May.\n\nIt has been criticised for not disclosing this externally until July and for having paid the hackers an undisclosed ransom.\n\nIn some cases, the data was limited to that of former students, who had been asked to financially support the establishments they had graduated from. But in others it extended to staff, existing students and other supporters.\n\nThe institutions the BBC has confirmed have been affected are:\n\nAll the institutions are sending letters and emails apologising to those on the compromised databases.\n\nIn some cases, the stolen data included phone numbers, donation history and events attended. Credit card and other payment details do not appear to have been exposed.\n\nBlackbaud, whose headquarters are based in South Carolina, declined to provide a complete lists of those impacted, saying it wanted to \"respect the privacy of our customers\".\n\n\"The majority of our customers were not part of this incident,\" the company claimed.\n\nIt referred the BBC to a statement on its website: \"In May of 2020, we discovered and stopped a ransomware attack. Prior to our locking the cyber-criminal out, the cyber-criminal removed a copy of a subset of data from our self-hosted environment.\"\n\nThe statement goes on to say Blackbaud paid the ransom demand. Doing so is not illegal, but goes against the advice of numerous law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, NCA and Europol.\n\nBlackbaud added that it had been given \"confirmation that the copy [of data] they removed had been destroyed\".\n\nSeveral Blackbaud clients listed on its site have confirmed they were not affected, including:\n\n\"My main concern is how reassuring - impossibly so, in my opinion - Blackbaud were to the university about what the hackers have obtained,\" commented Rhys Morgan, a cyber-security specialist and former student at Oxford Brookes University, whose data was involved.\n\n\"They told my university that there is 'no reason to believe that the stolen data was or will be misused'.\n\n\"I can't feel reassured by this at all. How can they possibly know what the attackers will do with that information?\"\n\nOxford Brookes University is among those contacting students about the hack\n\nBlackbaud has said it is working with law enforcement and third party investigators to monitor whether or not the data is being circulated or sold on the dark web, for example.\n\nBarrister blogger Matthew Scott was also sent an email about the hack.\n\n\"I doubt that my university has many details that aren't pretty easily available, but I am more concerned about giving in to the blackmail and blithely accepting the word of the blackmailer that all the data has now been destroyed,\" he told the BBC.\n\nUnder General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), companies must report a significant breach to data authorities within 72 hours of learning of an incident - or face potential fines.\n\nThe UK's Information Commissioner's Office [ICO], as well as the Canadian data authorities, were informed about the breach last weekend - weeks after Blackbaud discovered the hack.\n\nAn ICO spokeswoman said: \"Blackbaud has reported an incident affecting multiple data controllers to the ICO. We will be making enquiries to both Blackbaud and the respective controllers, and encourage all affected controllers to evaluate whether they need to report the incident to the ICO individually.\"\n\nLeeds University said, in a statement: \"We want to reassure our alumni that, since being informed by Blackbaud of this incident, we have been working tirelessly to investigate what has happened, in order to accurately inform those affected. No action is required by our alumni community at this time, although, as ever, we recommend that everyone remains vigilant.\"", "People in Blackburn have been urged to follow tougher control measures for a month to bring infection rates down\n\nResidents in Luton and Blackburn have been told lockdown measures set to be eased this weekend will not be lifted in the towns.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) data released on Thursday showed both had been marked as \"areas for intervention\" due to a spike in cases.\n\nLeaders of both town councils said they would postpone the planned lifting of certain restrictions.\n\nGyms and leisure centres in the rest of England are due to re-open on Saturday.\n\nThe leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council said it had already decided to keep leisure facilities closed.\n\nHealth officials in the Lancashire town had said a phased lockdown could happen if the virus rise was not halted by Monday.\n\nA testing site was set up at Downside Primary School in Luton after residents were urged to get screened\n\nCouncil leader Mohammed Khan said: \"We feel that accelerating our control measures in this way will assist us to move out of having higher Covid-19 rates even faster- we are grateful for the government's help in our local plans on this\"\n\nMr Khan added that the decision to delay the reopening of council leisure facilities would run alongside new \"localised prevention measures\".\n\n\"We feel that accelerating our control measures in this way will assist us to move out of having higher Covid rates even faster - we are grateful for the government's help in our local plans on this,\" he said.\n\nThe steps being taken in Blackburn and Luton should come as no surprise - there has been growing concern about the rising number of cases in each area.\n\nBut these are still relatively low levels of infection - Leicester had twice the rate of Blackburn at the point a local lockdown was announced there.\n\nAnd we should expect to see more of this sort of thing in the coming months.\n\nThe widespread availability of testing means in the fight against the virus authorities should be able to spot local flare-ups early and take action to prevent them spiralling out of control. Similar measures are being taken in other parts of Europe.\n\nIt is short-term pain for long-term gain.\n\nLuton council leader Hazel Simmons said: \"The safety of the public is the priority for us. Not opening the the gyms is part of our ongoing work to tackle coronavirus.\n\n\"Better not to open or delay opening than open and then having to close.\n\n\"Fighting coronavirus is everyone's responsibility. Too many families and friends have lost loved ones and we must do everything we can to ensure more lives aren't wasted unnecessarily.\n\n\"There has been too much heartache in the town for us to risk further anguish, pain and suffering.\"\n\nA mobile testing centre has been set up at Witton Park High School in Blackburn\n\nEarlier, Luton Borough Council sent residents in certain postcode areas an \"urgent message\" urging them to get tested for coronavirus due to a rise in cases in the town.\n\nThe National Covid-19 Surveillance Report said an area of intervention was one \"where there is divergence from the measures in place in the rest of England\".\n\nIt said these areas have a \"detailed action plan in place\" because of \"the significance of the spread\" of coronavirus.\n\nThe report said Leicester and nearby Oadby and Wigston continued to be areas of intervention.\n\nMeanwhile Pendle, near Blackburn, has been described as an area of enhanced support, while Calderdale, Northampton and Rotherham have become \"areas of concern\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace chief Baroness Dido Harding told the BBC there were still concerns surrounding northern towns including Blackburn, Bradford and Leicester.\n\nShe said Bradford had been in the \"enhanced support\" category - one level below an area of intervention.\n\nA drop in cases saw its alert level lowered to an \"area of concern\", she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four of the suspects were pictured in this handout from Italy's financial police corps\n\nA group of Carabinieri military police have been arrested and their police station closed after investigators uncovered a raft of alleged crimes taking place in the barracks.\n\nThe Carabinieri in the northern city of Piacenza are suspected of drug-trafficking, blackmail and torture.\n\nThe case has shocked prosecutors and residents in the northern Italian city.\n\n\"We are untouchable,\" one of the suspects is alleged to have told a colleague on a police wiretap.\n\nAccounts of the team's exploits were front-page news in Italy on Thursday, and local prosecutor Grazia Pradella said \"nothing that went on in that barracks was legal - they were out-and-out criminals\".\n\nThe allegations read like the pages of a crime novel, and many of the offences took place in the weeks when Italy went into pandemic lockdown, even though the police operation began in 2017.\n\nOne picture showed a man who had clearly been mistreated in custody\n\n\"While the city of Piacenza was counting so many coronavirus deaths, these Carabinieri supplied drugs to the drug dealers who were stuck at home without drugs under anti-Covid rules,\" the prosecutor said. Piacenza is in the northern region of Emilia Romagna and suffered one of the highest death rates in Italy.\n\nShe compared what went on at the barracks to the practices of organised crime syndicates.\n\nSuspects who were brought in for questioning were mistreated and even tortured. One photo released to the media showed a detainee in handcuffs and bare feet with a bloody nose.\n\nAccording to one wiretap, one member of the corps was heard saying they would never be caught. \"I've made a criminal gang, guys! In short, we've built a pyramid. We stand on top - me you and him - we're untouchable ok?\"\n\nThe prosecutor said Carabinieri in the Levante barracks were suspected of drug dealing, receiving stolen property, extortion, illegal arrest, embezzlement and abuse of office. While 12 people were under investigation, five people were detained and a sixth placed under house arrest.\n\nThe military prosecutor in Verona, who has jurisdiction in the case, said he had opened an investigation and was working in close contact with his colleagues in the civil judiciary.\n\nThe revelations risked tarnishing the image of 110,000 men and women who did their best every day to uphold the values of the military police force, Italy's defence minister said.\n\nHowever, reports also emerged of a young Carabiniere who refused to join in the beatings, drugs and other alleged illegal activities.\n\nThe most recent arrival at the barracks, identified in Italian reports as having the initials RB, was recorded complaining to his father about what was going on. According to Italian media, his father told him to move to a department where he would feel more comfortable\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We risked everything to survive\" - Naples resident Filomena", "Twitter has revealed that hackers viewed private direct messages (DMs) from 36 of the accounts involved in last week's hack.\n\nIt did not disclose who they belonged to beyond saying one was owned by an elected official in the Netherlands.\n\nBut the Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders has told the BBC that this was a reference to his account.\n\nTwitter has said that it does not believe any other former or current politicians had their DMs accessed.\n\nIt is not clear how many of the accounts overlap with the 45 that tweeted a Bitcoin scam.\n\nLast week, Mr Wilders' profile image was replaced with that of a cartoon of a black man, and his account's background image was changed to that of the Moroccan flag.\n\nMr Wilders' Freedom Party is the second biggest party in Netherland's House of Representatives. In the last Dutch election it campaigned to ban Muslim immigration and shut mosques.\n\nMr Wilders told the BBC he had used Twitter's direct message tool for about 10 years\n\n\"I was informed by Twitter last night... that my Twitter account was not only hacked for some days and the hacker also posted tweets on my account and sent DMs in my name, but indeed also got full access to my DMs, which of course is totally unacceptable in many ways,\" Mr Wilders said.\n\n\"People critical of Islam or regimes in the Middle East [including those] from within countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria [have sent me DMs over 10 years] and I do hope they will not be in danger if their identity would be exposed because of this hack.\n\n\"I had deleted most of them but maybe some were left there for the hacker to see and copy.\"\n\nTwitter also commented further about the incident as it released its latest earnings.\n\n\"We've implemented safeguards to improve the security of our internal systems and are working with law enforcement as they conduct their investigations,\" it said.\n\n\"We understand our responsibilities and are committed to earning the trust of all our stakeholders with our every action, including how we address the security issue.\n\n\"We will continue to be transparent in sharing our learnings and remediations.\"\n\nOn 16 July, the accounts of several high profile business leaders, celebrities and politicians accounts posted a bogus get-rich-quick scheme, including:\n\nIt is believed victims sent about $120,000 (£93,600) in Bitcoin to the perpetrators, and the sum would have been larger if a crypto-currency exchange had not blocked further transfers.\n\nTwitter has said a total of 130 accounts were targeted in the attack, which exposed personal information including email addresses and telephone numbers.\n\nIt previously revealed that eight non-verified accounts had all of their Twitter data downloaded, including DMs. The firm has not said if any of these coincide with the ones whose DM inboxes were looked at.\n\nThe US Senate Commerce Committee has demanded Twitter brief it about the wider incident by 23 July.\n\nThe senior Republican on the House of Representatives' Judiciary committee has also called on its chair to ask Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey to attend a separate hearing on Monday, at which Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon's chief executives are already scheduled to give testimony.\n\nHowever, political watchers say it is unlikely that a formal invitation will be made as the focus of that event is anti-competitive behaviour, and Twitter is a much smaller company than the others.", "Andriy Yarmolenko's last-gasp winner settled an eventful London derby with Chelsea and delivered a huge boost to West Ham United's hopes of avoiding relegation.\n\nIn a topsy-turvy game, which saw West Ham infuriated when Tomas Soucek's first-half goal was ruled out by VAR, substitute Yarmolenko made the decisive contribution when the finished off a superb counter attack with a classic left-foot finish.\n\nIt looked like both sides would have to settle for a point but that late twist not only provides a huge morale lift to David Moyes' side, putting them three points clear of the relegation places, but also completed a good 24 hours for Manchester United in the race for Champions League places after their win at Brighton and third-placed Leicester City's loss at Everton.\n\nMoyes was angry when Soucek saw a first-half goal ruled out because Michail Antonio was adjudged to be offside and in Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga's line of vision.\n\nChelsea then took the lead through Willian's penalty but battling West Ham levelled through Soucek's header right on the stroke of half-time.\n\nMan-of-the-match Antonio bundled West Ham in front six minutes after the interval but this eventful affair looked to be heading for a draw when Willian's superb free-kick with 18 minutes left drew Chelsea level.\n\nAnd yet, with injury-time looming, West Ham broke and the tireless Antonio set up Yarmolenko for a crisp finish that gave Moyes' men what could be a priceless three points.\n\nWest Ham manager Moyes needed a big performance to turn around their fortunes in an increasingly fraught battle to avoid the drop.\n\nAnd when he was needed, Antonio stepped up with a performance of determination and quality as he led from the front to see off the challenge of Chelsea as they chase a place in the top four.\n\nAntonio was a potent mix of skill and power, a central figure as he was controversially adjudged to be in Kepa's eyeline when West Ham's first goal was disallowed, then scoring their equaliser before leading the counter that led to Yarmolenko's winner.\n\nWest Ham needed a reaction after losing at home to Wolves and away to Spurs since the Premier League kicked into action again - and there will be no better tonic for Moyes and his players than a win over their arch-rivals from west London.\n\nWith a visit to Newcastle United and a home game against Burnley on the horizon, with both teams in form, it was vital West Ham gained full reward and Antonio was the driving force behind this vital victory.\n\nIt is hard to escape the sense that Kepa still faces a fight to secure his future at Stamford Bridge after an uncertain season that even saw the £71m signing dropped for Willy Caballero shortly before the season went into hiatus.\n\nAnd he did nothing to dispel doubts here. When Chelsea came under pressure in the first half, he failed to command his area and they were fortunate to see Soucek's goal chalked off by VAR before the Czech rose to head West Ham in front from another corner.\n\nHe still has much to prove and Chelsea boss Frank Lampard will expect better as he tries to cement a season of improvement with a place in the top four and another season in the Champions League.\n\nThis was a real disappointment for Chelsea, especially as the force appeared to be with them after William's second goal and they looked the most likely winners.\n\nBut they were caught out by a lightning break that ended in Yarmolenko's goal and the chance to close even further on fading Leicester City and maintain the gap between themselves and in-form Manchester United was lost.\n\n'Everything was going against us' - what they said\n\nOn VAR decision: \"At that moment I thought everything was going against us. The first goal is vital and when you lose it you think here we go again but great credit to the players, they kept at it and I thought we got the reward. The equaliser was deserved.\"\n\nOn the winning goal: \"We had to counter because they had pinned us right back. We were always waiting for a moment or a chance. We hoped luck would change for us, we felt it had not been with us in some games, we worked harder and deserved that luck.\n\n\"We need him (Antonio) so much. He led the line really well. You have to win a game people have not been expecting. I think it was a shock after we saw the performance of Chelsea at Manchester City. Chelsea played a lot of good football. We've done well but our football has to get better.\"\n\n\"We dominated the game in terms of possession, but make mistakes and teams will hurt you. I'm not happy with any of the goals. You don't get given victories for scoring two goals, you have to be better than that.\n\n\"There were moments they counter-attacked, which we knew they would. There were details in the game which we knew but we lost because we didn't get them right. Against West Ham you have to make recovery runs. That is the bit we got wrong.\n\n\"It is why we are fighting for top four not one or two, because we don't get things right as much as the big boys do. I am not happy but at the same time we are two points ahead of Manchester United, who have been going great for some time.\n\n\"If you don't get details right in big games, you're going to drop points. At times we have played really well this season. As a group we need to find more consistency.\"\n\nWillian in the goals all year round - the stats\n• None West Ham ended a 20-game losing run when conceding the first goal in Premier League fixtures, with this the first time they avoided defeat after conceding first in the competition since February 2019 - a 3-1 win over Fulham.\n• None Only opponents West Ham (22) and Aston Villa (19) have dropped more points from leading positions in this season's Premier League than Chelsea (18).\n• None This was West Ham's sixth Premier League win over Chelsea after conceding the first goal; only against Southampton (seven) have the Hammers come from behind after conceding first to win more times in the competition, while only Arsenal (seven) have beaten Chelsea more after conceding first to them in the division.\n• None This was Chelsea's 10th Premier League defeat of the season; only in 2015-16, when they finished 10th, have they suffered more in a single campaign in the Roman Abramovich era (12).\n• None West Ham have now won three of their seven home league games under David Moyes since his return to the club (D2 L2), one more than they won in their nine Premier League matches at the London Stadium under Manuel Pellegrini this season (W2 D1 L6).\n• None Chelsea's Willian became the first player in Premier League history to score in all 12 calendar months in the competition.\n• None Willian has scored in back-to-back Premier League appearances for Chelsea for only the second time, and the first since October 2015. The Brazilian was the first player to score both a direct free-kick and a penalty in the same Premier League game since Cesc Fabregas also did so for Chelsea against West Ham back in March 2016.\n• None All 29 of Michail Antonio's Premier League goals for West Ham have been scored inside the penalty area. Among current Premier League players, only Gabriel Jesus (37) has scored more goals with 100% coming inside the box.\n\nChelsea host Watford in the Premier League on Saturday, 4 July (20:00 BST), while West Ham travel to Newcastle the following afternoon (14:15).\n• None Tomas Soucek (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Christian Pulisic.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 3, Chelsea 2. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Michail Antonio following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Mason Mount with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcos Alonso with a cross.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Angelo Ogbonna tries a through ball, but Aaron Cresswell is caught offside.\n• None Willian (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Leicester will not join the rest of the UK in seeing restrictions eased on Saturday\n\nPolice in Leicester were not issued a map of the area affected by the UK's first local lockdown until \"well after the announcement\", the county's police and crime commissioner has said.\n\nLord Willy Bach said the information \"has now been issued\" but law enforcement had \"received minimal guidance\" on the tighter restrictions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock announced the lockdown at 21:15 BST on Monday.\n\nNon-essential shops have shut and schools will be closed to most pupils.\n\nThe tightening of restrictions in Leicester will last until at least 18 July and apply to the city centre and a number of suburbs.\n\nMr Hancock said the measures would be enforced by police \"in some cases\".\n\nLord Bach said: \"Amazingly we were not even provided with a map of the area until well after the announcement.\n\n\"That has now been issued, but, unfortunately, we received minimal guidance regarding practical implementation at the time the measures were imposed.\n\n\"I have a great deal of sympathy with the agencies charged with delivery. They needed clarity from the start, and I am astonished that it is being drip-fed as the day progresses.\"\n\nLord Willy Bach said law enforcement had \"received minimal guidance\" on the tighter restrictions\n\nAnnouncing measures for the lockdown, Mr Hancock said Leicester had \"10% of all positive cases in the country over the past week\".\n\nThe Department of Health said as of 17:00 on Monday, 43,730 people had died in hospital of coronavirus in the UK, an increase of 155 on the day before.\n\nLeicester's mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, has urged people in the city to \"stick together\" and stay at home.\n\nSir Peter said he was glad the health secretary had introduced measures that went beyond just extending the current level of restrictions.\n\n\"What we got was more wide-ranging than we'd anticipated and I'm really grateful for that,\" he said.\n\n\"Because while it is a pain and a nuisance for us in the city to be subject to that level of restriction and to have the clock, as it were, turned back, it is nonetheless something that has some realistic prospect of being effective.\"\n\nThe loosening of restrictions in England which are due on Saturday, including the reopening of bars, restaurants and hair salons, will also not be taking place in the city.\n\nThe relaxation of shielding measures on 6 July - which will allow the most clinically vulnerable to spend more time outside - has been cancelled in Leicester.\n\nThe Bishop of Leicester said no weddings or funerals would take place in church buildings as a result of the local lockdown.\n\nMr Hancock said advice on people not travelling in or out of Leicester was a \"recommendation for now\", but laws could be put in place to enforce the lockdown.\n\nHe said the lockdown was \"profoundly in the interest of people in Leicester, and across the country that we get this virus under control\".\n\nHowever, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the government had left people in the city \"anxious and confused\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer echoed calls for a government press conference, saying the people of Leicester were \"crying out for answers to perfectly legitimate questions\".\n\nDowning Street said legislation already existed to allow the government to enforce the local lockdown but it needed to be signed off by the health secretary.\n\nA spokesman said there were no plans for a news conference, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would \"stay in close contact\" with Leicester's mayor \"as we monitor the situation\".\n\nSir Peter also criticised the government and Public Health England for being too slow to share testing data with the city's officials.\n\nHe said local leaders had tried to get figures from the government \"for weeks\".\n\n\"I wish they had taken a more speedy decision rather than leaving it 11 days from the secretary of state's first announcement,\" he said.\n\n\"That's a long gap, and a long time for the virus to spread.\"\n\nMr Hancock said Leicester's seven-day infection rate was 135 cases per 100,000 people - three times that of the next highest city.\n\nBradford, Barnsley and Rochdale have all seen 45 or more cases per 100,000 people in the last week.\n\nDave Stokes, chairman of Leicestershire Police Federation, called on the government to provide more detail on what the public can and cannot do during the lockdown.\n\n\"As we have seen over recent weeks and months, if the guidance and messaging from government is confusing for the public, then it will be almost impossible for our colleagues to police,\" he said.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said officers could fine visitors from Leicester who they suspected had travelled to Nottingham for a \"night out\".\n\nThe force said it would work with British Transport Police to ensure people were not coming to the city on trains from Leicester to shop or visit pubs.\n\nTeresa Lander is worried about \"a massive gap\" in her daughter's education\n\nTeresa Lander, 51, whose daughter goes to Launde Primary School in Oadby said the local lockdown was \"a surprise and a bit upsetting\" for parents and pupils.\n\n\"It's worrying how much school they are missing, it's a massive gap in their learning if they're not in from March to September,\" she said.\n\n\"They were having fun being back at school, it's disappointing for them, but you've got to respect it.\"\n\nRead more reaction from local parents here.\n\nThe local lockdown has also affected Leicester residents who had made holiday plans.\n\nTracy Jebbett, 50, was due to travel to Pentewan Sands in Cornwall with her husband and daughter on 11 July.\n\nBut the campsite the family had booked put up a Facebook post on Tuesday, saying they would not allow anyone from Leicester to visit the site.\n\n\"I feel like a Leicester leper,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand why, but I think they should've contacted the holiday goers from Leicester privately by email.\"\n\nTracy Jebbett, her daughter Jessica and husband Martin were due to go on holiday\n\nBusinesses also said they had been left reeling by the abrupt nature of the announcement.\n\nBlake Edwards, owner of Flappers and Gentlemen salon, said he was \"devastated\" by the news as he was due to reopen on Saturday and had bookings for the next five weeks.\n\n\"Time is running out [for the business], we're going to need more support,\" he said.\n\n\"Even though the staff is being furloughed, rent still needs to be paid, all the other bills still need to be paid.\"\n\nBlake Edwards said his salon was fully booked for the next five weeks\n\nThe government has confirmed businesses that have been forced to shut their doors because of the local lockdown can re-furlough staff.\n\nRestaurant owner Shaf Islam said: \"I had a spring in my step getting ready for the reopening on the fourth of July.\n\n\"To say the news is a big disappointment is an understatement. We'd spent a lot of money and I'd called staff back from furlough.\"\n\nLeicester City said it hoped its home games could go ahead despite the stricter lockdown.\n\nThe club is due to host Crystal Palace on Saturday, and said the Premier League remains \"completely satisfied\" with its \"Covid operations plan\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live, work or run a business in the area? How will this affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Christina Adane's campaign over free school meals was backed by Marcus Rashford\n\nChanges in young people's eating habits, tracked during the lockdown in England, show both increases in snacking and families eating together.\n\nResearchers found 60% of young people thought more shared family meal times were positive for health and wellbeing.\n\nYoung people in the study said they wanted to keep having meals together.\n\nThe research, from the Guy's and St Thomas's Charity and the Bite Back 2030 healthy eating charity, studied over 1,000 14-19 year olds.\n\nThe youth co-chair of Bite Back 2030 is Christina Adane, the 16-year-old Londoner who set up the petition for free school meals over the summer holidays, which footballer Marcus Rashford supported.\n\n\"I don't want us to be the victims of endless fast food advertisement and celebrities endorsing stuff that everyone knows is bad for us,\" said Ms Adane.\n\n\"I want to be part of a world where our health is the priority of the food industry.\"\n\nThe study of lockdown eating found contrasting trends for more unhealthy snacks, such as \"grazing\" on crisps and chocolate, but also more shared meals as families spent more time at home together.\n\nIt also found a widening social divide in healthy and unhealthy eating.\n\nThe report describes snacking as the \"biggest negative consequence\" in eating habits during the pandemic, with a 40% increase in snacks.\n\nYoung people in poorer families were \"more likely to snack, less likely to eat fresh fruit and vegetables\" than their wealthier counterparts.\n\n\"Some days I don't eat a lot at all as I'm not hungry, but others I snack more on things like chocolate, which I didn't do as much before,\" a 16-year-old girl told researchers.\n\nBut there was also a trend for more home-cooked food and families eating together in a way that was not usually possible.\n\n\"Food during this period allowed me to reconnect with members of my family, we've been cooking together and enjoying meals together. I'd love to continue doing it,\" said a 19-year-old young woman in the study.\n\n\"I think I want to continue to eat together with my family, really make an effort of that, as we didn't normally do that, and it's nice to sit together and eat,\" an 18-year-old told researchers.\n\nThis rise in shared meal times during the lockdown was greater among better-off families - although there was also an increase among disadvantaged families too.\n\nAnd most young people saw this as healthier and more sociable.\n\nSarah Hickey, the childhood obesity programme director at Guy's and St Thomas' Charity, said it showed the social divide in nutrition getting worse during the lockdown.\n\n\"Even before the pandemic, families' food options were strongly shaped by where they lived, and their socio-economic background,\" she said.\n\n\"This research shows that the inequality gap around access to nutritious food has been further widened by the Covid-19 lockdown.\"", "People testing negative for coronavirus antibodies may still have some immunity, a study has suggested.\n\nFor every person testing positive for antibodies, two were found to have specific T-cells which identify and destroy infected cells.\n\nThis was seen even in people who had mild or symptomless cases of Covid-19.\n\nBut it's not yet clear whether this just protects that individual, or if it might also stop them from passing on the infection to others.\n\nResearchers at the Karolinksa Institute in Sweden tested 200 people for both antibodies and T-cells.\n\nSome were blood donors while others were tracked down from the group of people first infected in Sweden, mainly returning from earlier affected areas like northern Italy.\n\nThis could mean a wider group have some level of immunity to Covid-19 than antibody testing figures, like those published as part of the UK Office for National Statistics Infection Survey, suggest.\n\nIt's likely those people did mount an antibody response, but either it had faded or was not detectable by the current tests.\n\nAnd these people should be protected if they are exposed to the virus for a second time.\n\nProf Danny Altmann at Imperial College London described the study as \"robust, impressive and thorough\" and said it added to a growing body of evidence that \"antibody testing alone underestimates immunity\".\n\nThis doesn't necessarily get us any closer to herd immunity, though, according to assistant professor Marcus Buggert, one of the study's authors.\n\nMore analysis needs to be done to understand whether these T-cells provide \"sterilising immunity\", meaning they completely block the virus, or whether they might protect an individual from getting sick but not stop them from carrying the virus and transmitting it.\n\nMuch of the discussion around Covid-19 immunity has focused on antibodies - Y-shaped proteins which act like \"missiles shooting down a target\", assistant Prof Buggert explained.\n\nThey bind to the virus before it can enter your cells, and neutralise it.\n\nIf antibodies fail to neutralise the virus, it can enter your cells and turn them into virus-making factories.\n\nT-cells, on the other hand, target already-infected cells and completely destroy them, stopping them from spreading to other, healthy cells.\n\nLike antibodies, T-cells are part of the bit of your immune system that has a memory. Once it recognises a particular virus, it can quickly target cells infected with it and kill them.\n\nA drug called interleukin 7, known to boost T-cell production, is being trialled in the UK to see if it can aid patients' recovery.\n\nResearchers from the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital noticed a group of 60 severely ill patients appeared to experience a crash in their numbers of T-cells.\n\nThis was not observed in the Karolinska study, which found the sicker the patient, the higher the level of antibodies and T-cells they appeared to produce.\n\nThe team said more research was needed.\n\nWhile theirs is the biggest T-cell study done so far, it still involved a relatively small group of patients.\n\nT-cells are very complex and much harder to identify than antibodies, requiring specialist labs and small batches of samples being tested by hand over the course of days.\n\nThis means mass testing for T-cells is not a very likely prospect at the moment.", "Tesla has become the world's most valuable carmaker, overtaking Japan's Toyota, after its stock hit a record high.\n\nShares in the electric carmaker touched $1,134 on Wednesday morning before falling back, leaving it with a market value of $209.47bn (£165bn).\n\nThat is roughly $4bn more than Toyota's current stock market value.\n\nHowever, Toyota sold around 30 times more cars last year and its revenues were more than 10 times higher.\n\nShares in Tesla have surged since the start of 2020 as investors have begun to feel more confident about the future of electric vehicles.\n\nThat is despite its founder Elon Musk having wiped $14bn off Tesla's value in May after tweeting that its share price was too high.\n\nAfter years of losses, the Californian firm has also delivered three profitable quarters in a row and maintained that momentum during the first three months of 2020 despite the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nToyota, however, remains a far larger business in terms of sales.\n\nThe Japanese company sold 10.46 million vehicles in the year to March and posted revenues of 30.2 trillion yen ($281.20bn).\n\nTesla ended 2019 with sales of just $24.6bn, having delivered 367,200 vehicles last year.\n\nHowever, investors are excited by the US firm's potential, believing it could dominate the future electric car market.\n\nAnalysts at the stockbroker Jefferies said the firm remained \"significantly ahead of peers in product range, capacity and technology\".\n\nIn a reflection of that, the firm is also now worth around three times the combined value of US rivals General Motors and Ford.\n\nMr Musk has said Tesla will deliver at least 500,000 vehicles in 2020, a forecast the company has not changed despite the coronavirus pandemic.", "Thousands of people celebrated the end of coronavirus in the city of Prague on Tuesday\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) warned this week that the pandemic was not even close to being over, but in the Czech Republic, a party has been held to give the coronavirus a \"symbolic farewell\".\n\nThousands of guests sat at a 500 metre-long (1640ft) table on the Charles Bridge in Prague on Tuesday sharing food and drinks they had brought from home.\n\nGuests were encouraged to share with their neighbours and there was no social distancing, something people in countries under lockdown will find hard to relate to.\n\nThere have been fewer than 12,000 infections in the Czech Republic, a country of 10 million. About 350 people have died.\n\nThe event's organiser said the celebration was possible due to a lack of tourists in the famously charming city.\n\nSpaces for the event, which had to be reserved, were fully booked\n\nGuests were entertained by local musicians during the party\n\nOndrej Kobza, organiser of the party and owner of a cafe in the city, told the AFP news agency: \"We want to celebrate the end of the coronavirus crisis by letting people meet and show they are not afraid to meet, that they are not afraid to take a piece of a sandwich from their neighbour.\"\n\nSpaces for the event, which had to be reserved, were fully booked.\n\nThe celebration comes as the Czech Republic continues to loosen its lockdown restrictions\n\nOne attendee, Galina Khomchenko-Krejcikova, said she found the event on Facebook and \"thought it was interesting\".\n\n\"I just finished a night shift so I didn't have time to prepare anything,\" she said. \"But we brought some wine and snacks we found at home.\"\n\nPeople were told to bring food and drinks from home and share them with people around them\n\nThe Czech Republic was quick to enforce a lockdown and has managed to avoid the worst of the pandemic.\n\nLast week, the government permitted public gatherings of up to 1,000 people. Swimming pools, museums, zoos and castles can now open without limits on the number of visitors.\n\nRestaurants, bars and pubs have been allowed to serve people indoors for a month now.\n\nAbove the music and the clinking of cutlery one heard a most unusual sound for this iconic landmark: people speaking Czech.\n\nLargely free of foreign tourists, Charles Bridge was transformed on this gloriously sunny evening into one long dining table - as people gathered to mark what organisers described as the end of a period of crisis, although everyone here freely admitted that such celebrations might well turn out to be premature.\n\nCertainly however there is a sense here that through swift and decisive action Czechs have dodged a bullet.\n\nRelaxing the lockdown has not sent the numbers soaring; there are several local outbreaks far from Prague, which is only recording around 15 infections a day. There was a palpable sense of optimism on the bridge this evening as people remembered what it was like… to live again.", "China has passed a controversial security law giving it new powers over Hong Kong, including criminalising sedition and effectively curtailing protests.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, pro-democracy supporters say they are concerned the new law takes away the 'one country, two systems' form of government.\n\nHowever those supporting the new law hope it brings greater security to Hong Kong, which has seen widespread unrest and instability from the pro-democracy movement.", "Public concern over coronavirus 'has risen' in Britain\n\nMost of Britain is preparing for an easing of lockdown restrictions. But public concern at the risks from coronavirus has risen to the highest level since the end of April, a new poll conducted by Ipsos Mori this week suggests. However, the survey also says the public is becoming more comfortable about returning to work and sending children back to school. A month ago, 37% of those surveyed said they were ‘very concerned’ about the risks to the country. This new poll suggests that has risen to 50%. Concern about the risks to individuals has also risen from 24% to 29%. The survey asks people whether they would feel comfortable in a range of situations if lockdown measures were lifted. The proportion of parents who said they would be comfortable sending their children to school has risen to 49%, up from 38% a month earlier. Two-thirds of people would be comfortable meeting friends or family outside their household, also a rise from six weeks before. But the poll suggests around six in 10 people would be anxious going to bars or restaurants, using public transport or lavatories and only 15% said they would be comfortable going to large sport or music events. Ipsos MORI interviewed a representative sample of 1,078 British adults aged 18-75 online between 26-29 June 2020. Data are weighted to match the profile of the population. All polls are subject to a wide range of potential sources of error.", "The Prime Minister is fond of talking about a whack-a-mole strategy to knock coronavirus on the head. The thing is with the whack-a-mole game, it requires speed and co-ordination to succeed.\n\nMany are wondering in Leicester why it has taken so long to take action when authorities knew there was a surge in Covid-19 cases in early June.\n\nIndeed, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock called it an outbreak about a fortnight ago.\n\nWhy the delay? Leicester City Council had been waiting to be given the data from the upsurge in positive Covid-19 tests. They only received it ahead of last weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking before the official announcement, Leicester residents already had mixed feelings about stricter lockdown measures\n\nLocal health officials analysed it and found the virus was spreading among the younger, working age population and predominately east of the city centre.\n\nSir Peter Soulsby, conscious no doubt about the knock-on effect to business in the city by a delayed easing of lockdown, was initially reluctant to extend restrictions. He was sceptical. Why, he wondered, is Leicester being treated differently to other parts of the country?\n\nAnd surely the increase in cases is inevitable because they've had increased localised testing.\n\nAccording to Public Health England data, Barnsley, Bradford and Rochdale all had a higher incidence of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people than Leicester until new figures were announced by the health secretary in the Commons on Monday night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock says the extended lockdown measures are \"profoundly in the national interest\"\n\nMr Hancock said Leicester accounted for \"10% of all positive cases in the country over the past week\". And the number of positive coronavirus cases in Leicester were \"three times higher than the next highest city\".\n\nWe have had days of confusion, briefings to national newspapers, and delays throughout Monday to a decision which has caused anxiety to business owners, hoping to reopen at the weekend.\n\nIt wasn't until after 21:00 BST on Monday that we learned Leicester would have to have an increased lockdown. Non-essential shops like clothing stores are not allowed to open again. That's not much notice.\n\nPeople have been getting tested at the Spinney Hill test centre in Leicester\n\nThose who are vulnerable and shielding won't be allowed new freedoms, and from Thursday schools will close again to all but the children of key workers.\n\nThis is the first big local community lockdown in the UK. But it has taken a long time to make that decision and there is still confusion over who enforces it.\n\nIt was not until about 09:30 BST on Tuesday we had an accurate map to show us the boundaries of the lockdown.\n\nConservative MPs with constituencies nudging the Leicester boundaries were having to go on social media to say they were still awaiting the information, late on Monday night.\n\nThe hope has to be that testing and tracing people through the data can be speeded up so communities where the virus surges can be targeted quickly.\n\nThey also need to speed up the communication with local authorities.\n\nThen it will make it possible to be ready for the next appearance of the virus and whack it as it pops up again. Quickly.\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.", "People in Bradford are being warned to \"stay vigilant\" after figures revealed it has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 infection in England.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, Bradford has 69.4 cases per 100,000 population. In Leicester, where a localised lockdown has been imposed, the figure was 140.2\n\nThe leader of Bradford Council, Susan Hinchcliffe, says the number of people testing positive for the virus \"is still too high\".\n\nShe said: \"We continue to work hard with all our partners to prevent infection spreading as no one wants a second lockdown.\n\n\"As we take more and more steps towards returning to a more normal life, it’s easy to believe Covid-19 is less of a threat to our health and the health of our family and friends. This is simply not the case.\n\n\"We urge all residents to continue to follow the guidelines around staying at home as much as possible, social distancing, washing hands frequently and ensuring they self-isolate and get tested if they, or anyone in their household, develop any symptoms.\n\n\"We must all stay vigilant, we don’t want to see a second spike of cases that inevitably would mean more deaths. Don’t be conned into thinking it’s all OK now, it’s not.\"", "John Lewis has warned it could close shops as a plunge in profits forced it to cut staff bonuses to their lowest level in almost 70 years.\n\nThe retailer, which also owns Waitrose, has launched a review of the business which it said would involve \"right sizing\" its stores across both brands.\n\nThe review would involve store closures \"where necessary\" as well as space reduction in existing stores, it said.\n\nThe conclusions of the review are expected to be announced in September.\n\nNew chairwoman Sharon White - who took over last month - said the changes would kick-start a \"vital new phase\" for the partnership, and said she had \"no doubt\" the business would be stronger as a result.\n\n\"We need to reverse our profit decline and return to growth so that we can invest more in our customers and in our partners.\n\n\"This will require a transformation in how we operate as a partnership and could take three to five years to show results.\"\n\nThe group announced that three Waitrose stores would close later this year at Helensburgh, Four Oaks and Waterlooville as part of the overhaul.\n\nJohn Lewis also said as fears about coronavirus continued to spread, it had see increased demand \"particularly this week\" for some food items as well as things such as hand sanitiser, soap and loo roll.\n\nJohn Lewis's finance director, Patrick Lewis, said it was working \"very hard with suppliers on an hourly basis\" to keep up with demand.\n\nSharon White took the helm at John Lewis last month\n\nThe John Lewis Partnership is owned by its staff - known as partners - who usually receive a bonus each year.\n\nThis year, staff bonuses have been set at 2%, the lowest since 1953 when it paid no bonus.\n\nProfits at the partnership dived by 23% last year to £123m - the third year in a row that profits have fallen - as it continued to struggle with the slowdown in consumer spending.\n\nThe John Lewis department stores saw \"significantly reduced profitability\" following weaker sales of home and electrical goods, although profits rose at Waitrose after a \"solid performance\", the company said.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said the fall from grace for John Lewis had been \"spectacular\", and warned that if Ms White could not turn around the business \"the fallout could be much worse\".\n\n\"Once the envy of the retail industry, the company has suffered dismal trading performances over the past few years, demonstrating that the retail race is so fast that even those seemingly on an unstoppable march one year can be vulnerable the next.\n\n\"This goes to show that no retailer is safe.\"\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, the chief executive of retail analysts Savvy, said store closures appeared inevitable.\n\n\"I think the business is going to have to be slimmed down,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's very difficult to close some of the department stores down because they're on really long leases, but certainly I think where there are opportunities to close stores that aren't performing they will look at that.\"\n\nShe added that Ms White did not have much time to turn the business around.\n\n\"She's talking about changes taking three-to-five years, I don't think there are three-to-five years in retail at the minute where there isn't going to be an enormous amount of change. She hasn't got that much time on her side. John Lewis have been 'strategically reviewing' things for quite a while - we need some action.\"\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman told the BBC the firm's staff bonus scheme was an \"absolutely fundamental\" part of its ethos.\n\n\"The key competitive edge John Lewis has is customer service, that is delivered by its staff. If you take away part of their remuneration then your customer service levels are likely to be impacted.\n\n\"And I think that over the past few years as that bonus has gone down we've been seeing a bit of that. It's a really difficult dilemma they have.\"", "England's most senior police officer has urged people to \"be calm, be sensible\" when pubs reopen on Saturday.\n\nThe commissioner of the Met Police, Dame Cressida Dick, said police had been preparing \"for some time\" and had \"extra resources in place\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it had planned a \"significant\" operation, while night marshals will be deployed to support officers in Leeds.\n\nPubs in England have been closed since March to slow the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last Tuesday that they - as well as bars and restaurants - would be able to reopen on 4 July, with certain restrictions.\n\nDame Cressida said that she was \"not predicting\" violence but that there would be \"a lot\" of officers on the streets, with \"more ready... should people get violent\".\n\n\"My message is, if you're coming out on Saturday, be calm, be sensible,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday.\n\n\"Look after yourself, look after your family. We are still in a global pandemic which is affecting this country very obviously.\"\n\nHer warning comes after officers were attacked as they tried to break up unlawful gatherings in London last week, with at least 22 officers injured during unrest in Brixton.\n\nOther parts of the UK have announced moves in a bid to ensure a smooth reopening of businesses this week.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has said it has planned a \"significant\" operation across the region's cities and towns.\n\nLeeds City Council has announced it will provide \"night marshals\" to help police to \"keep things running smoothly\".\n\nAnd police in Suffolk plan to increase enforcement around road safety amid concerns around drink-driving.\n\nSome people have criticised the government's decision to allow pubs to reopen on a Saturday - which some MPs and newspapers have dubbed \"Super Saturday\" - instead of a quieter midweek day.\n\nTim Clarke, from the Metropolitan Police Federation, said the weekend could be as busy as policing New Year's Eve.\n\nHe added that he feared it could be \"anything but a 'Super Saturday' for police officers\".\n\nThe chairman of West Yorkshire Police Federation, Brian Booth, said he hoped people would \"maintain their common sense\" as the country continues to live \"under the cloud of Covid\".\n\n\"Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, local A&Es on Friday and Saturday nights were at times akin to a circus full of drunken clowns. We do not need this once again,\" he added.\n\nJohn Apter, the head of the Police Federation which represents rank-and-file officers in England and Wales, told the BBC last week that the government's announcement had created \"a countdown to carnival\" that could lead to \"big problems\".\n\nThe West Midlands police and crime commissioner, Labour's David Jamieson, has described the decision to reopen pubs in England on Saturday as \"pure madness\".\n\nSacha Lord, Greater Manchester's night time economy adviser, said many bars were already \"on their knees\" but would not be opening on Saturday due a lack of time to prepare.\n\nBut Mr Lord said: \"It makes more sense to open up on a Wednesday in the middle of the week so staff have got time to get used to this new normal before things get too crowded.\"\n\nHe predicted most drinkers would stay away from the city centre and stay local, while others would \"sit back for the next couple of weeks to see how things pan out\".\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association, which represents the industry, said it welcomed the move to reopen businesses but called on pub goers to support staff \"to ensure everyone can enjoy the return of our pubs safely\".\n\nOther parts of the UK have announced later dates for restrictions to be eased.\n\nIn Scotland, beer gardens and outdoor restaurants will be allowed to reopen from 6 July, and indoor areas can be used from 15 July, while in Northern Ireland, pubs and restaurants can open from 3 July.\n\nNo date has so far been announced for pubs to reopen in Wales, where ministers say work is \"ongoing\".", "Prince Harry has paid tribute to young people tackling racial inequality in a surprise message.\n\nAlso speaking on behalf of his brother, Prince William, he praised recipients of the Diana Award on what would have been their late mother Diana, Princess of Wales's 59th birthday.\n\nThe prince said those working on race issues gave him the \"greatest hope\" amid divisions in the world.\n\nHis wife, Meghan, recently spoke to her old school about George Floyd's death.\n\nIn a video message, the Duke of Sussex said he was \"incredibly proud\" to be part of the awards, which \"honour\" his mother's legacy, telling recipients that she would have been \"fighting your corner\".\n\nHe praised the \"incredible work\" young people were doing in making a \"positive mark\" on the world during a time of \"great uncertainty\".\n\nHe said situations were arising around the world where \"division, isolation and anger\" were dominating as \"pain and trauma come to the surface\".\n\nBut he said he saw \"the greatest hope\" in people like them, adding he was \"confident about the world's future and its ability to heal\" because it was in their hands.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe charity was set up in memory of the princess who was killed in a car crash in 1997 when Harry was just 12 and William 15.\n\nDiana, Princess Of Wales, visited Thorpe Park with sons Prince William And Prince Harry in 1993\n\nThe duke singled out the work of some of the 184 children and young adults presented with the accolade this year for their social action or humanitarian efforts.\n\nOne of them was James Frater, a young black boy of Caribbean descent from London who had had 300 detentions and exclusions from school before being mentored by four teachers.\n\nNow 24, he is training to become a doctor and has focused on creating initiatives to increase the representation of black students at university, particularly those in the prestigious Russell Group.\n\nAnother award winner praised by Prince Harry included 23-year-old Nasra Ayub, from Bristol, an activist at Integrate UK, a youth-led charity that works towards gender and racial equality.\n\nShanea Kerry Oldham, 19, from London, was also praised. She developed the Operation Inspire mentoring programme for young boys that were excluded internally and founded Your Life More Life, which creates safe spaces for young people impacted by violence.\n\nThe Vamps star James McVey hosted this year's award event, which included virtual messages from celebrities including singers Liam Payne and Bastille's Dan Smith, actor Will Poulter, and actress Dame Emma Thompson.\n\nThis 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\nLast month, the Duchess of Sussex gave a personal speech to students at her old high school in Los Angeles following the death of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, in the USA, telling students his life \"mattered\".\n\nMr Floyd died after a white police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes on 25 May. His death sparked a wave of global Black Lives Matter protests, including in the UK.\n\nHundreds of anti-racism activists gathered for demonstrations in cities including London, Coventry and Newcastle, despite the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now living in Los Angeles with their son Archie after stepping back as senior working royals earlier this year.", "Fox News has fired one of its leading anchors over claims of \"wilful sexual misconduct\" involving a colleague several years ago.\n\nEd Henry co-presented the America's Newsroom programme, which is broadcast mid-morning every weekday.\n\nHis former co-host Sandra Smith gave viewers the news on air on Wednesday.\n\nFox News said it received a complaint last week and fired Mr Henry after hiring a law firm to investigate. He has not yet commented.\n\nThe 48-year-old's profile has already been deleted from the network's website, and the page for America's Newsroom now lists Smith as the sole anchor.\n\nFox News said the complaint was made on 25 June by the lawyer of a former employee.\n\nMr Henry was suspended the same day and has now been fired based on \"investigative findings\" from the law firm, according to an internal memo provided to the Reuters news agency.\n\nOn Wednesday's programme, Smith read a statement from Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace, saying they had taken the decision as part of an \"effort to bring full transparency\" to the matter.\n\n\"We strive to maintain a safe and inclusive workplace for all employees,\" they added.\n\nSmith said rotating anchors would co-host the programme with her until a replacement is named.\n\nFormer anchor Gretchen Carlson has called for employees to be released from non-disclosure agreements\n\nThe former employee has not been identified. Mr Henry joined Fox News from CNN in 2011. He has served as the network's chief national correspondent and previously hosted several weekend shows.\n\nHe is not the first Fox News figure to face allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nFormer chairman Roger Ailes resigned in 2016 after being accused by former employees of sexual harassment.\n\nThe case against him was made into a 2019 Hollywood film, Bombshell, which starred Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.\n\nAfter Mr Henry's departure, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson called for the network to release former employees from non-disclosure agreements.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "EasyJet says it has begun consultations on plans to close bases at Stansted, Southend and Newcastle.\n\nIt follows an announcement by the airline that it may need to reduce staff numbers by up to a third because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Unite union said nearly 1,300 UK crew members faced losing their jobs.\n\nPilots' union Balpa said it had been told by EasyJet that 727 of its UK-based pilots were also at risk of redundancy.\n\nThat is equivalent to one in three of its pilots, Balpa said.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said: \"The lower demand environment means we need fewer aircraft and have less opportunity for work for our people.\n\n\"We are committed to working constructively with our employee representatives across the network with the aim of minimising job losses as far as possible.\"\n\nHowever, Balpa general secretary Brian Stratton said the job cuts were \"an excessive over-reaction\".\n\n\"EasyJet won't find a supply of pilots waiting to come back when the recovery takes place over the next two years.\"\n\nAnd Unite said the plan to make 1,290 cabin crew redundant was a \"massive blow\" for a \"battered industry\".\n\n\"There is no need for this announcement at this time, especially since Easyjet has taken a multi-million pound government loan which it ought to be putting to use defending UK jobs,\" said national officer for civil aviation Oliver Richardson.\n\nEasyjet currently has 11 bases in the UK, with 163 aircraft, serving 546 routes.\n\nEven though it is looking at closing the Stansted, Southend and Newcastle bases, it said the airports would remain part of its route network.\n\nThat means it will continue to fly in and out but will not have aircraft and crew based permanently at the airports.\n\nEasyjet has seven aircraft based at Stansted, with 335 crew. At Southend, there are 183 crew and four aircraft. And there are three aircraft based in Newcastle, with 157 crew.\n\nThe job cut proposals are not limited to the bases that may close, a Unite spokesman said.\n\nNewcastle Airport said it was \"saddened to hear of possible job losses and the significant impact this would cause.\"\n\n\"This is very disappointing for the airport, airline and the North East as a whole and we sympathise with everyone affected by this announcement.\"\n\nEasyJet said in May that it planned up to 4,500 job cuts as it struggled with the collapse in air travel due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt has started to fly passengers again, but does not expect 2019 levels of demand to be reached again until 2023.\n\nAirlines have been hit hard by lockdowns and travel restrictions around the world, with many announcing job cuts.\n\nReuters reported on Tuesday that Air France/KLM would present a plan to unions on Friday to cut more than 6,500 jobs over the next two years as the airline deals with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn June Lufthansa said it planned to cut 22,000 jobs, and British Airways said in April that it could cut up to 12,000 jobs from its 42,000-strong workforce.\n• None EasyJet plans up to 4,500 job cuts as virus hits", "Garrett Rolfe (left), who is charged with killing Rayshard Brooks. Devin Brosnan, the other officer at the scene, is on the right\n\nA judge has granted bail for an ex-Atlanta police officer charged with killing an African-American man in a restaurant car park earlier this month.\n\nGarrett Rolfe, now free on a $500,000 (£403,000) bond, faces 11 charges, including murder, for the death of Rayshard Brooks, 27, on 12 June.\n\nMr Brooks' widow implored the judge not to grant bail, arguing Mr Rolfe was a danger to the community.\n\nMr Brooks' death fuelled anti-racism protests across the US.\n\nHe was shot while fleeing Mr Rolfe and another white officer. Mr Brooks had just failed a sobriety test. As the officers tried to arrest him, he punched Mr Rolfe, snatched his partner's Taser and then appeared to fire the stun gun towards Mr Rolfe as he gave chase, according to footage.\n\nRayshard Brooks, 27, the father of three daughters and a stepson, was killed on 12 June\n\nTomika Miller, Mr Brooks' widow, spoke at the bond hearing on Tuesday via video.\n\nThrough tears, she told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jane Barwick that Mr Rolfe \"has already shown he's a danger to the community\".\n\n\"My husband did not deserve to die, and I should not live in fear while waiting for the man who killed my husband to be tried in court.\"\n\nMs Miller said Mr Brooks was a loving father, and that he had died on her daughter's birthday and a day before the couple's anniversary.\n\nJudge Barwick thanked Ms Miller for her bravery but said Mr Rolfe was not a flight risk and that she did not believe he posed a danger to the community.\n\nProsecutors had requested a $1m bond plus conditions: the passcode to Mr Rolfe's phone, his passport and firearms, as well as instating a curfew, requiring an ankle monitor and prohibiting contact with Atlanta police, witnesses or victims.\n\nMr Rolfe's lawyers, who argue he acted in self-defence, had asked for a $50,000 bond. They also denied prosecutors' allegation that Mr Rolfe kicked Mr Brooks as he lay on the ground.\n\nMr Rolfe will not have had to pay half a million dollars to walk free. Bail in the US typically costs about 10-15% of the total bond amount.\n\nJudge Barwick denied the request for the passcode, but approved the other conditions set by prosecutors.\n\nMr Rolfe also appeared during the hearing via teleconference but did not speak.\n\nThe officers were responding on 12 June to a call from a Wendy's fast food restaurant employee that an apparently intoxicated customer, Mr Brooks, had fallen asleep in his car, blocking a drive-through lane.\n\nFootage from police body cameras showed Mr Brooks complying with officers for over 40 minutes before he fought to break free as they tried to handcuff him.\n\nThe other officer at the scene, Devin Brosnan, faces several charges including aggravated assault for allegedly standing on Mr Brooks' shoulder after the shooting.\n\nLast week a woman referred to by Mr Brooks during the arrest as his girlfriend was charged with an arson attack on the Wendy's.\n\nThe night after Mr Brooks was shot, the restaurant was burned down in alleged retaliation for the 911 call that led to his death.\n\nNatalie White, 29, did not enter a plea during her court appearance and was placed under house arrest on a $10,000 bail bond.", "The new law is seen as wide-reaching, and several elements have left Hong Kongers – even those outside the territory – deeply concerned.\n\nArticle 38 of the law specifies that the law applies to offences committed outside of Hong Kong – including by people who are not Hong Kong residents.\n\nOne British Hong Konger, who asked not to be identified, said she had started deleting posts critical of the government on social media, as she feared she could be targeted next time she travelled to Hong Kong.\n\n“With the new law I feel I have to self-censor everything now. The law is written quite subjectively – you don’t have any idea of what you may do that may break the law.”\n\n“It feels more oppressive than it used to be – especially because my family members are still in Hong Kong and I’m afraid it may affect them as well.”\n\nMeanwhile, a Hong Kong American told me: “I decided to change my Facebook name and switch to Signal after reading the details of the new law.”\n\n“Since it was written in such a way that could apply to my actions abroad, I feel like it was wise to make it more difficult for people to trace my criticism of China and the Hong Kong government back to me, particularly if I were to return to Hong Kong to visit.”\n\nHundreds have been arrested at protests in Hong Kong - and many abroad are now also fearful Image caption: Hundreds have been arrested at protests in Hong Kong - and many abroad are now also fearful", "Local authorities are to be given access to postcode-level data about the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in their areas after it was agreed with the Department of Health.\n\nIt comes after Leicester became the first city to have a local lockdown imposed following a rise in cases.\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer said there had been a \"lost week\" due to city officials not having full testing data.\n\nThe prime minister said the figures had been shared with all local authorities.\n\nBut, at Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, Sir Keir said officials in Leicester had only received full figures on Thursday.\n\nUntil now local authorities have not routinely had full access to the data on people who are tested for the virus in the community.\n\nBut the agreement, signed individually with councils over the past week, now gives them access to a digital dashboard which shows test results down to a postcode level.\n\nDr Jeanelle De Gruchy, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, welcomed the news and said \"timely, high quality and consistent data\" would be key to combating local outbreaks.\n\nBut Prof Azeem Majeed, from Imperial College London, said the country had been slow in areas of its Covid-19, response and said the data-sharing agreement \"should have been in place some time ago\".\n\nOn Monday, it was revealed Leicester's seven-day infection rate was 135 cases per 100,000 people - three times that of the next highest city.\n\nThe local authorities in England with the next highest rate in the week to 21 June was Bradford with 69 cases per 100,000 people, followed by Barnsley and Rochdale with 55 and 53 cases per 100,000 respectively.\n\nThe city's mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, also criticised the government and PHE for being slow to share testing data - saying city officials had been trying to get figures \"for weeks\".\n\nThe British Medical Association, which represents doctors in the UK, said providing local leaders with up-to-date information was \"vital\" in containing outbreaks, particularly as a contact-tracing app was not yet in place.\n\nOfficials are also keeping a close eye on Bedford, Blackburn with Darwen, Kirklees, Oldham, Rotherham and Tameside which seen 30 to 44.9 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nImperial College London's Prof Neil Ferguson, who used to advise the government before he resigned for breaking lockdown rules, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"inevitable\" there would be further local outbreaks adding that high rates of the virus in Bradford and Doncaster were \"clearly of concern\".\n\nThe BMA's Dr Chaand Nagpaul said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's \"whack-a-mole strategy\" to tackle local outbreaks would be no use if the people leading the response were \"not given the most accurate up-to-date data\".\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper tweeted it was \"incomprehensible\" that health authorities in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, had also been trying to get hold of local data on swab test results of the wider population but had not been able to.\n\nSir Keir also criticised the speed of the government response in Leicester, saying it took 11 days from the announcement that cases were rising for the lockdown to be tightened.\n\nMr Johnson said the government had started taking action on 8 June, but \"unfortunately it did not prove possible to get the results seen elsewhere\", referring to another localised outbreak at a meat plant in West Yorkshire.\n\nAcross the rest of England, the lockdown is set to ease further on Saturday with the reopening of bars, restaurants and hair salons, but the BMA said it wanted the government to set metric \"trigger points\" for when action will be taken to reintroduce local and national restrictions.\n\nThe BMA said this metric should consider not only the regional reproductive number or R rate - the number of people that one infected person, on average, will pass the virus on to - but also the proportion of the population currently infected.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had been working closely with local partners, providing the resources and tools needed to take swift action to deal with any new local spikes in infection.\n\nIt remains one of the most baffling aspects of the current approach.\n\nLocal authorities have not routinely been given information about their residents who test positive.\n\nEven though they are intrinsically involved in the system as the local arm of the contact tracing service, councils have only been getting what the national system deems appropriate.\n\nThey have been asked to chase up the so-called complex cases - where people test positive in care homes, prisons or schools - so they get that information quickly.\n\nBut they have not been given real-time information about individual residents who test positive.\n\nLocal directors of public health say it has hampered their ability to look for patterns and clusters developing. In theory, the national system should do this, but why not have a second pair of eyes? Especially one that knows the local situation much better?\n\nThis is beginning to change - data sharing agreements have just been signed with local authorities and Public Health England has now set up a system that should do this in a comprehensive and speedy manner from now on.\n\nBut the fact it has not already and the experience of those on the ground in Leicester - where cases were going up for a number of weeks - suggests local outbreaks developing in the community may not yet have been spotted as quickly as they should.\n\nUnder the local lockdown, announced on Monday evening, non-essential shops in Leicester have been forced to shut and schools have closed, except for vulnerable pupils and children of \"critical workers\". People are also being advised not to travel in or out of the city.\n\nThe measures will last until at least 18 July and apply to the city centre and a number of suburbs.\n\nNew laws are not planned \"at this stage\" to stop people entering or leaving Leicester, Downing Street said, as local police weigh options for enforcing the lockdown.\n\nLeicestershire Police Chief Constable Simon Cole said people would have to be \"pretty daft\" to leave the lockdown area for a pint of beer when pubs reopened elsewhere.\n\n\"This is a serious public health risk. Do you want to bring that illness into contact with your mates or your family?\" he asked.\n\n\"Certainly I wouldn't want to do that. We do work really closely with all the neighbouring forces - we've been communicating with them so they can understand.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'd really implore people - some of the leading health experts in the country are saying stay at home and that seems pretty shrewd advice to me.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the UK death toll rose by 176, to 43,906, according to the latest figures from the Department for Health and Social Care.\n\nHow have 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.", "Sayagi Sivanantham was found with fatal knife wounds at a property in Mitcham\n\nA five-year-old girl who died after being found with knife wounds at a flat in south London has been named as Sayagi Sivanantham.\n\nSayagi was found alongside a 35-year-old woman who also had knife injuries on Monarch Parade in Mitcham at about 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA murder investigation has begun. Police are not looking for anyone else and said Sayagi knew the woman.\n\nNeighbours described Sayagi as a \"smart kid\" who was \"always smiling\".\n\nElsa Gonzales, who has lived on Monarch Parade for 12 years, described hearing screaming and crying coming from the flat next to hers.\n\nThe 47-year-old, who used to work in an emergency department, said she found the woman and child in the bedroom.\n\nPolice were called to a flat on Mitcham Parade, in Merton\n\n\"I saw the woman lying on the floor in a pool of blood,\" she told the PA news agency.\n\n\"There was blood everywhere.\n\n\"She was a cheeky little girl, always playing with the neighbourhood kids. To see her so lifeless, it's like my heart is bleeding.\"\n\nThe woman is being treated in hospital for life-threatening injuries\n\nBoth Sayagi and the woman were taken to hospital. The woman is being treated for life-threatening injuries.\n\nSayagi's next of kin have been informed and post-mortem tests are due to take place.\n\nA 15-year-old neighbour, who wanted to remain anonymous, said her family were friends with Sayagi.\n\nShe described her as \"playful and talkative\".\n\n\"We feel sad hearing the news,\" she said.\n\nSiobhain McDonagh, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, tweeted: \"Truly tragic events in Mitcham over the last [two] days. My sincere condolences to family and friends.\n\n\"My thoughts are also with neighbours & residents who have witnessed such tragedy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jack Leslie played for Plymouth Argyle in the 1920s\n\nA campaign is being launched to erect a statue of a footballer dropped by England when selectors found out he was black.\n\nPicked in 1925, Jack Leslie would have been the first black player to play for England, 53 years before Viv Anderson.\n\nBy the time he died, in 1988 at the age of 88, there were many more black players at top levels of the game.\n\nLeslie was born in Canning Town, in London's docklands, in 1900, to an English mother and a Jamaican father.\n\nA gifted athlete, he played for Barking Town, where his prolific scoring record attracted the attention of Plymouth Argyle, then a third-division club.\n\nJack Leslie (third from right) was Plymouth Argyle's top goal scorer\n\nHe joined them in the 1921-22 season and stayed for 14 years, making 401 appearances and scoring 137 goals, a feat made all the more impressive because of the racial abuse he experienced at the hands of both crowds and opponents.\n\nHe is remembered as a great attacking inside left but also a utility player who could fill in as a central defender.\n\nIn 1925, Argyle's manager, Bob Jack, called his star striker into his office and gave him some thrilling news - Jack Leslie had been selected to play for England against Ireland.\n\nIt was a great achievement for the player and an honour for third-division Plymouth.\n\nHis selection was the talk of the club and the town - but some days later, when the newspapers published the team, Billy Walker, of Aston Villa, was in the starting line-up and Leslie was named as a travelling reserve.\n\nHe never did travel with the England team to Belfast.\n\nInstead, while England struggled to a 0-0 draw, he scored twice, as Plymouth trounced Bournemouth 7-2 at home.\n\n\"I believe that the manager sent in his request, saying: 'I've got a brilliant player here, he should play for England,'\" his granddaughter, Lesley Hiscott, said.\n\nLesley Hiscott (left) and Lyn Davies have fond memories of their grandfather\n\n\"So then someone came down to watch him.\n\n\"They were looking at the colour of his skin.\n\n\"And because of that, he was denied the chance of playing for his country.\"\n\nLeslie later suggested finding out he was black, for the selectors, must have been \"like finding out I was foreign\".\n\nBut he accepted what had happened and, according to his granddaughters, never expressed any bitterness.\n\nThey remember him as a kind and loving grandfather.\n\nHe had married their grandmother, Lavinia, in 1925, at a time when it was unusual for a black man to marry a white woman.\n\nAnd as a consequence, some of the family, and Lavinia in particular, experienced racial abuse.\n\nLyn Davies said: \"If I walked down the street with my friends and he was coming the other way, he would cross to the other side of the road so I could pretend that I didn't know him, so I didn't suffer.\n\n\"But I'd run across and say, 'Hello Granddad.'\"\n\nDespite helping Plymouth gain promotion, a top-four finish in division two, captaining the club and, in 1931-32, scoring 21 goals in 43 games, Leslie was never again picked for England.\n\nViv Anderson was picked for England in 1978\n\nAnderson, picked to play for England against Czechoslovakia at Wembley in 1978, went on to win 30 caps.\n\n\"I'd never heard of Jack Leslie until up to two weeks ago,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"And that's a crying shame, because what he achieved and what he did should be paramount in every black person's mind.\n\n\"It's a crying shame but hopefully the statue they are trying to get erected will carry on his legacy.\"\n\nArgyle have already honoured Leslie with a mural and renamed their boardroom after him.\n\nAnd now a group of fans are campaigning for a statue.\n\n\"At a time when some statues are being pulled down, we want to put one of Jack Leslie up to commemorate his amazing achievements and to remember the injustice that he suffered,\" campaign co-founder Greg Foxsmith says.\n\nJack Leslie is already honoured in a mural at the club\n\nThe campaign hopes to raise £100,000.\n\nAnd supporters include Anderson and the club itself.\n\n\"Having a statue promoted by our fans and funded by fans is a statement by them that they are joining the fight against racism in football,\" Plymouth chairman Simon Hallett told BBC News.\n\n\"History has been written by the winners and I think we are now trying to pay more attention to some of the victims of those victories.\"\n\nBill Hern co-author of the upcoming book Football's Black Pioneers said: \"Jack Leslie should have been a major figure in the history of British football and society.\n\n\"Everyone needs a role model and young black footballers didn't have that major role model in the 30s, 40s and 50s.\n\n\"Had he played for England, as he should have, he would have fired the aspirations of generations of young black players.\"\n\nLeslie's playing days came to an end after he sustained an injury when a lace from a leather ball flew into his eye.\n\nHe and his family returned to east London and he resumed his trade as a boilermaker.\n\nFollowing his retirement and with time on his hands, Lavinia urged him to go to West Ham and ask the club if there was any work he could do.\n\nHe met manager Ron Greenwood, who immediately recognised and remembered him as a great player.\n\nGreenwood offered him a job in the boot room, where, somewhat poignantly, he cleaned mud from the boots of England stars Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, and Trevor Brooking.\n\nIn a further ironic twist to his story, Leslie also cleaned the boots of West Ham's black striker Clyde Best, who, in the late 1960s and 1970s, was still one of only a tiny number of black players in top-flight English football.\n\nLeslie loved the work and being around footballers but it was hardly fitting for a man who should have occupied a unique place in football history - and now, perhaps, will.\n\n\"Stories like this are incredibly sad. Discrimination in the game, in any form or from any time period, is unacceptable,\" said FA chairman Greg Clarke, adding that English football had made \"huge strides\" in diversity, although there was still more to do.\n\nHe said the FA backed the campaign for a statue to recognise Leslie as a pioneer.\n• None How many statues of black people does the UK have?", "The statue of Edward Colston was pushed into the harbour after being toppled by protesters\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nA bronze memorial to the 17th Century slave merchant was torn down in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June and was dumped in the harbour.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it would review footage of a \"small group of people\" filmed pulling down the statue with ropes.\n\nA 24-year-old has been held on suspicion of criminal damage.\n\nThe statue was pulled from its plinth on 7 June\n\nOfficers previously appealed for the public's help to identify 15 people they wanted to speak to.\n\n\"In the eyes of the law\", the force said, a crime had been committed and the force was \"duty-bound to investigate without fear or favour\".\n\nThe statue was pulled from its plinth in the city centre and was rolled into the harbour.\n\nIt was later recovered from the water and is due to be given a new home in a city museum displayed with placards from the Black Lives Matter protest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A five-year-old boy who had both of his legs amputated has raised more than £1m for the hospital that saved his life.\n\nTony Hudgell, from Kings Hill in Kent, needed the surgery because he was abused by his biological parents as a baby.\n\nHe walked every day in June on his new prosthetic legs, reaching his target of 10km.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Cheng says he was blindfolded and beaten in China\n\nA former employee of the UK's Hong Kong consulate who alleged he was tortured in China has been granted political asylum in Britain.\n\nSimon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen, was detained on a business trip to mainland China for 15 days last August.\n\nHe denied the charges, telling the BBC he had been beaten and forced to sign false confessions while in custody.\n\nUK government sources said at the time they believed his claims were credible.\n\nMr Cheng, a supporter of the pro-democracy movement, says he believes it is too dangerous for him to return to Hong Kong, fearing he may be arrested and taken to mainland China once more.\n\nIn June, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said China had still not provided \"an adequate response\" to the UK's questions over the incident.\n\nMr Cheng was granted asylum on 26 June. In a press conference on Wednesday, he said he believed he was the first Hong Kong holder of the British National (Overseas) passport, known as a BNO, to receive political asylum.\n\nMr Cheng believed his life would be in danger if he returned to Hong Kong\n\n\"I am grateful for the determination and courage shown by the UK government to rescue British nationals,\" he wrote on Facebook. \"I also hope my case can be a precedent for other HongKongers to seek for protection.\n\n\"Leaving means not an end but a beginning. We will continue the fight against the expanding totalitarianism, and be back to our hometown with true democracy and freedom.\"\n\nThe UK government confirmed on Wednesday that up to three million Hong Kong residents would be offered the chance to settle in the UK and ultimately apply for citizenship in the wake of Beijing imposing a controversial new national security law.\n\nCritics say the law, brought in on Tuesday, will erode the added freedoms granted to the region under the \"one country, two systems\" policy agreed after the UK handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds have been arrested as Hong Kong's national security law kicks in\n\nThe Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.\n\nMr Cheng was working for the UK embassy in Hong Kong, charged with generating interest in investing in Scotland among the Chinese business community.\n\nBut as the 2019 protests began to grow, he also volunteered to collect information on the status of the protests for the consulate - for the purposes of observation.\n\nHe went missing on 8 August after being detained at the border on the way back from the Chinese city of Shenzhen.\n\nThe detention centre where Mr Cheng alleges he was held\n\nMr Cheng says he was held for 15 days during which time he was \"shackled, blindfolded and hooded\", held in stress positions and beaten if he moved.\n\nThe questioning focused on his role in the protests. He also said he saw other Hong Kong protesters during his time in custody.\n\nLater, after he had been released, China's state-run broadcaster ran a video showing Mr Cheng confessing to soliciting prostitutes. Mr Cheng says he was forced into making the confession.", "The old emblem for the Finnish Air Force Command (left) featured a swastika, but the current emblem of the force does not\n\nIt was long a rather surprising choice of imagery for Finland's Air Force Command - a swastika and pair of wings.\n\nThe symbol will always be intrinsically linked with Nazi Germany and its crimes, even though its roots go back many thousands of years.\n\nBut now it has been confirmed the Air Force Command has quietly stopped using this unit emblem.\n\nThe change was first observed by University of Helsinki academic Teivo Teivainen.\n\nHe had previously questioned whether the continued use of the symbol was helpful for the Finnish armed forces.\n\nFinland's air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918, shortly after the country became an independent nation and long before Nazism devastated Europe.\n\nUntil 1945 its planes bore a blue swastika on a white background - and this was not intended to show allegiance to Nazi Germany, though the two nations were aligned.\n\nWhile the symbol was left off planes after World War Two, a swastika still featured in some Air Force unit emblems, unit flags and decorations - including on uniforms, a spokesperson for the Finnish air force told the BBC.\n\nThis veteran DC-2 plane has been restored and shows the wartime insignia of the Finnish air force\n\nSince January 2017 the emblem for Air Force Command has been similar to the Air Force service emblem - a golden eagle and a circle of wings, the air force said.\n\n\"As unit emblems are worn on uniform, it was considered impractical and unnecessary to continue using the old unit emblem, which had caused misunderstandings from time to time,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe geometric symbol takes the form of a cross with further arms coming off at right angles. The word swastika comes from the Sanskrit for well-being or luck.\n\nIt has been used for thousands of years in Indian cultures and worldwide, and became a fashionable motif in the West in the early 20th Century.\n\nHowever, in 1920 Adolf Hitler adopted the swastika for his National Socialist party, which came to power the following decade in Germany. The genocidal crimes of the Hitler regime mean that the swastika symbolises Nazism and anti-Semitism for most Westerners.\n\nProf Teivainen told the BBC that swastikas could be seen in Finland on buildings dating from the 1920s.\n\n\"In Finland there's this idea that it's a random decorative sign - which to some extent it is,\" he said.\n\nThe famed Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela first used the symbol in a painting in 1889.\n\nThe Romantic painter went on to use a swastika as part of his designs for the insignia of the Order of the Cross of Liberty. He used a cross with much smaller hooks, so the visual similarity to Nazi symbolism is much less pronounced. It also features on the official flag of the Finnish president.\n\nThe Finnish president's flag features the Cross of Freedom in the top left corner\n\nBut the swastika became associated with the Finnish air force via a very different man - a Swedish nobleman called Count Eric von Rosen.\n\nThe count used the swastika as a personal good luck charm. When he gifted a plane to the nascent air force of Sweden's newly independent neighbour in 1918 he had had a blue swastika painted on it. This Thulin Typ D was the first aircraft of the Finnish air force and subsequent planes all had his blue swastika symbol too, until 1945.\n\nSupporters of a continued use of the symbol point out that there were no Nazis in 1918 so the air force's use of the swastika has nothing to do with Nazism.\n\nHowever, while Eric von Rosen had no Nazi associations at the time of his 1918 gift, he did subsequently become a leading figure in Sweden's own national socialist movement in the 1930s. He was also a brother-in-law of senior German Nazi Herman Göring, and, according to Prof Teivainen, a personal friend of Hitler.\n\nThis vintage training aircraft performed at an air show to mark the 100th anniversary of the Finnish air force in 2018\n\nThe Finnish air force said that, having been von Rosen's symbol, the swastika remains in some Air Force unit flags and decorations, albeit no longer that of the central Air Force Command.\n\nProf Teivainen told the BBC he had never argued that the swastika should be banned in Finland (as it is in Germany).\n\nBut he said the military's duty \"is to defend the nation - not to defend an old symbol given by a Swedish count in 1918\".\n\nHe was concerned that it could affect young Finns' attitude to the military (at a time when male citizens are still conscripted). Finland's huge neighbour Russia might see the symbol as a sign that its neighbour remains an enemy, he thought - and, crucially, could it impact on Western neighbours' attitudes to supporting Finland if the non-aligned nation ever came under threat again?\n\nWhile the emblem of the Finnish Air Force Academy still features a swastika - superimposed with a propeller - the unheralded move away from the old insignia of the central Air Force Command suggests that the military top brass are ready to move on from Count von Rosen and his blue and white swastika.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Couch to 5K: Get running half an hour in just nine weeks\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown has spurred thousands to put on trainers and run.\n\nMore than 858,000 people downloaded the NHS-backed Couch to 5K app between March and the end of June.\n\nThe figures represent a 92% increase over the same period in 2019, when it was downloaded 448,000 times.\n\nThe NHS has urged people to keep going if they started exercising during the lockdown and hailed running as good for physical and mental health.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week described the UK as fatter than its European neighbours and as he considers policies to get Britain moving.\n\nThe app, known as One You Couch to 5K on the Apple App store and Google Play store, aims to equip people who have never run consistently before with the stamina to tackle a 5000m (3.1 mile) circuit over nine weeks.\n\nA roster of coaches - including radio DJ and Sport Relief participant Jo Whiley, comedians Sarah Millican and Sanjeev Kohli, and former US Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson - help motivate beginners.\n\nRunners can choose between four famous faces to guide them through the programme\n\nThere is also the option to listen to Laura, a less well-known narrator who is also the voice of the Couch to 5K podcast.\n\nTheir voices guide runners every step of the way, imparting wisdom and tips.\n\nBristolian Rob Bryher, 36, marked his completion of Couch to 5K with a celebratory tweet on Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Bryher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said: \"I downloaded the app in mid-April and in the beginning I just didn't think I'd complete it. I'm one of these people who starts lots of things and can be put off if something doesn't go right.\n\n\"I went with Jo Whiley because I used to listen to Radio 1 in the 90s - she was comforting and had a bit of humour to her.\n\n\"Because of the lockdown I couldn't, you know, go to the pub,\" he laughed. \"I just wanted to do something that got me out.\"\n\nJames Sharp, 33, from Essex, described his progress after five weeks of using the app.\n\n\"It's going really well,\" the NHS marketing manager said. \"For me I was thinking I should practise what I'm preaching. I've also been diagnosed with blood pressure hypertension and I was looking for things to reduce that and one of them is exercise.\n\n\"I'm not a sporty person at all, six weeks ago I couldn't run more than 60 seconds and now I'm at seven and eight minutes without stopping.\"\n\nNHS manager James Sharp said sticking with the app was crucial\n\nHe added that people should just trust the programme. \"Stick with it, it does work,\" he said, adding he's found the exercise has also improved his mental health.\n\nAmateur rugby player Louise Banks, 44, from Kent, said her teammates set up a Couch to 5K group during lockdown - and now she can run 5.6 km in half an hour.\n\n\"I wanted to do something that had a long-lasting impact. I'd never properly run - in rugby you stop and you start.\"\n\nLouise Banks said the app challenge was quite different to playing amateur rugby\n\n\"I've got asthma and fibromyalgia and I thought it would only be good to improve my health in the long run,\" she added.\n\n\"The first couple of weeks were a nice introduction and then suddenly it ramps up. I found myself having to repeat a week before moving on. I used Jo Whiley and found the things she says really resonate with me.\"\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, NHS national director for primary care, who has also been running more during lockdown, said: \"We have all coped differently during lockdown, and for me, running and taking some time out to exercise with my children has been really important - we've seen huge benefits physically, mentally and for our general wellbeing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anybody can run - the inside story of Couch to 5K\n\nRosanna O'Connor, acting director for health improvement at Public Health England, said: \"Lockdown has been challenging for us all but it's hugely positive to see so many people using this opportunity to get more active and using Public Health England's app, part of its Couch to 5K campaign.\n\n\"Keeping active is not only good for our physical health but also crucially at this time helping us look after our mental health. And staying fit and healthy means we're also playing our part in supporting the NHS.\"", "The house was destroyed by the blast and neighbouring properties were badly damaged\n\nA house explosion that left a mother and her two sons seriously hurt was \"most likely\" caused by \"ageing LPG gas equipment and environmental conditions\", police say.\n\nJessica Williams, 31, was injured in the blast in Seven Sisters in Neath Port Talbot last Wednesday, along with her sons aged two and five.\n\nEngineers believe the blast \"appears not to be gas network related.\"\n\nPolice investigated and said there \"was no criminal cause of the explosion\".\n\nUtilities engineering firm GTC has now said it had found no evidence a gas leak caused the blast.\n\nSouth Wales Police, meanwhile, said the \"cause of the explosion has not been deemed suspicious and the most likely explanation is a combination of ageing LPG gas (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) equipment and environmental conditions\".\n\nMs Williams' sons were flown to Southmead Hospital in Bristol and are both in serious but stable conditions after the explosion on Church Road.\n\nPolice said Ms Williams was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea and she remains in a critical but stable condition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeff Davies was one of the first at the scene\n\nA total of 14 neighbouring properties had to be evacuated following the explosion.\n\nAround 18 neighbours helped to free the family from the badly damaged house on 24 June.\n\nA spokeswoman for the utilities company said: \"GTC engineers worked with the emergency services following last week's incident to make the area safe and undertake an investigation in to the cause.\n\n\"As a result of GTC's investigation, it appears not to be gas network related.\"\n\nNeath MP Christina Rees has thanked residents who have \"come together\" to support those affected by the explosion \"after a difficult week\" for the community.\n\nNearby properties had undergone structural surveys and some residents have been able to return to their homes, Ms Rees said.\n\n\"The most severely affected properties remain under constant reassessment as the council's building control team seek to remove debris, reclaim personal items, and make the site safe,\" she said.\n\n\"All my thoughts continue to be with those who have been injured in this tragic incident - we are all willing you on to make a full and speedy recovery.\"\n\nMs Rees added an emergency fund had been set up by the Dovecote Day Nursery, which the two children attend.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wigan Athletic have gone into administration, becoming the first English professional club to do so since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nThe English Football League has said Wigan will be deducted 12 points.\n\nThe sanction will be applied at the end of this season if the Latics, 14th in the Championship, finish outside the bottom three after 46 games.\n\nShould Wigan finish in the relegation zone, the penalty will be applied during the 2020-21 season instead.\n\nWigan have won all three of their league games since the resumption of the Championship season on 20 June and are eight points clear of the drop zone with six matches left to play.\n\nAdministration one month after change in ownership\n\nUntil 2018, the club was owned by Dave Whelan, who steered them from the fourth tier of English football to the Premier League in 2005, and they also won the FA Cup in 2013.\n\nWhelan sold the club to Hong Kong-based International Entertainment Corporation in November 2018 and there was a further change of ownership in May when Next Leader Fund took control.\n\nPaul Stanley, Gerald Krasner and Dean Watson of Begbies Traynor have been appointed as joint administrators.\n\nKrasner said in a statement that the suspension of the Championship season because of the coronavirus pandemic has had a \"significant impact on the recent fortunes of the club\".\n\nHowever, when asked by BBC Radio Manchester how big an impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the situation, Stanley said: \"I don't think it's played a massive part in terms of the way the club's been run, because the club's been run very well.\n\n\"The funding that was due to come in from the owners didn't come in. I've had no contact with the owners and I don't know why the funding didn't come in. It might be coronavirus-related, I just don't know.\"\n\nStanley also confirmed that the administrators have control over Wigan's DW Stadium and training ground as well as the club itself.\n\nMeanwhile, former Leeds United chairman Krasner told BBC Sport he is \"optimistic\" that the situation will be resolved.\n\nHe said: \"We are dealing with some proper people here and I have a lot more information on the situation than I did this morning.\n\n\"There are two objectives; firstly to make sure we get to the end of the season, otherwise the club is finished, then to find a buyer.\n\n\"All I can really say at this moment is that we have spoken to the EFL and the PFA (Professional Footballers' Association). We intend to speak to the local MP and also the supporters, who we have not managed to speak to yet. I have spoken to the manager (Paul Cook).\n\n\"I have been involved at other clubs - Leeds, Bournemouth and Port Vale - although I didn't have the additional problem of a pandemic.\n\n\"We need some money really quickly to deal with the situation. I think I have organised that, which will give us some breathing space.\n\n\"I have put my neck on the block a few times, particularly at Leeds, but I have not lost a club yet and I am optimistic we will resolve the problem.\"\n\nThe administrators say there have been expressions of interest, while Whelan has said he will see if he can \"help in any way\".\n\nHe told Talksport: \"I'll have to stick my nose in a little and have a look, to see if I can find out what's caused it.\n\n\"I'll have to just try because the people of Wigan will be in absolute shock, because I am.\n\n\"Wigan is Wigan and I built the stadium, so I am going to have to see if I can help in any way, shape or form.\"\n\nIn May, EFL chairman Rick Parry told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee that clubs were facing a £200m financial hole by September and were \"stacking up creditors\".\n\nEFL matches were suspended in March and, while Championship fixtures resumed on 20 June, League One and Two clubs voted to curtail their seasons early, with many pinpointing financial implications as one of the reasons against returning.\n\n'Wigan may not be alone' - analysis\n\nWigan are the first, but the big question is how many more clubs will enter administration when the full financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic starts to be felt?\n\nWhen I interviewed Huddersfield owner Phil Hodgkinson in May, his bleak assessment was that \"50 or 60\" clubs could go bust.\n\nThat view was felt to be extreme. However, the brutal truth is football is being played without fans at present. That means clubs such as Manchester United are losing £5m worth of income per game. They, at least, have a massive TV deal to support them.\n\nAs you go down the pyramid, the TV income reduces massively. Can League One, League Two and the National Leagues really play to no fans? These are all full-time clubs, many of whom used the government's furlough scheme to shield themselves.\n\nBut that option will not exist shortly. Wigan may not be alone.", "The lockdown has added to delays to court cases (stock image)\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown has added thousands more cases to the backlog faced by courts in England and Wales. It could take up to 10 years to clear this backlog, a new report says. So how does this affect people already tied up in the criminal justice system?\n\nEmma describes herself as stubborn. She says it's the reason why she hasn't given up on the justice system.\n\nIt's been nearly three years since she went to the police to allege she'd been raped. The suspect was arrested soon afterwards but it would be another two years before he was charged.\n\nShe says the police have been incredibly supportive throughout but she still doesn't understand why the investigation has taken so long. \"It's never been explained. Just that they're very busy.\"\n\nHer trial, which was finally due to start in June, has now been adjourned as a result of the pandemic, and she's been warned it might not start for another year. \"It's really difficult. How are we supposed to move on when it's never finished? And it's not just me, it's my family and friends. It affects others.\"\n\nThrough it all Emma has been supported by the charity Solace Women's Aid. They say there's nothing unusual about the delays she has faced. Even before the pandemic, government figures show that it's been taking, on average, 511 days to complete a case. For rape, robbery and fraud it's been taking on average even longer.\n\nWhen asked what she would like to say to those who might be in a position to do something to speed up the system, Emma starts to cry and says: \"Please don't forget about us.\"\n\nJohn describes himself as a composed, professional person. But after three years of being tangled up in the courts system, he says he felt battered and calls the system broken. John's barrister nicknamed his case \"the zombie case\".\n\nJohn was charged with actual bodily harm in 2016. Having never been in trouble with the law before, he was desperate to get to court and clear his name.\n\nHe was told to be on standby for a trial in March 2017. It didn't happen. Then he was put on standby for a trial the following month. Again it didn't happen. Then it got postponed for a whole year but it didn't happen in 2018 either.\n\n\"I asked my barrister, is this normal? And he said, 'sadly, yes'. It was astonishing really,\" he says.\n\nThe delays in John's case caused him so much stress that he thought about pleading guilty to a lesser offence. \"I seriously considered it, even though I was innocent, just to end the matter.\"\n\nHe was finally acquitted late last year, three years after the legal process began. In total his trial was postponed eight times. On seven occasions it was because of a lack of court time. He says each time he would build himself up for a court date. \"There is anxiety, as you can imagine, and to have to do that nine times over, it brings unnecessary stress upon yourself and your family.\"\n\nThe pandemic has exacerbated existing delays in the courts - even before it struck there were some 37,000 cases waiting to be heard in the crown courts and nearly 400,000 were in the queue for the magistrates' courts.\n\nThousands more trials than usual have been delayed since the UK went into lockdown on 23 March. And a report by the watchdog, Her Majesty's CPS Inspectorate, says social distancing measures in courtrooms \"will not allow\" the existing backlog to be reduced. \"Some estimates show that the current scale of increase in the backlog would take 10 years to clear at pre-pandemic rates,\" the report adds.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association, which represents criminal barristers, says that some trial delays have been caused by government cuts to the court budget which forced court rooms to stay shut last year.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice points out that the court backlog is not exceptional and has fallen markedly in the crown courts over the past 10 years. They also say that they planned before the pandemic to increase the number of days the courts sit.\n\nMatthew hasn't been able to go to work in his public-sector job for the last three years because he's being investigated for allegedly committing a serious offence.\n\nHe was arrested in 2017 but rather than being released on bail, which is time limited, he was released under investigation or RUI, which isn't. He then waited two-and-a-half years before being charged. He says that his mental health has drastically suffered as a result of what he calls an abusive process. The government is currently reviewing the use of RUIs.\n\nMatthew's lawyers fear that his trial, due in the autumn, will get postponed to next year as a result of the pandemic.\n\nBut he is desperate to clear his name and get back to work. \"Prior to the false allegation, my life was built around helping others in any way I could. During the pandemic, I have felt as if I'm hiding at home whilst my colleagues battle on the front line to beat this virus.\"\n\nNames in this article have been changed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gemma Sutton, Clive Rowe and Tameka Empson in Aladdin at the Hackney Empire in 2018\n\nOh yes it is. Oh no it isn't. The big question facing many theatres at the moment is - is panto season cancelled?\n\nNorwich Theatre Royal became one of the first to call off its pantomime this week, saying the risk was \"too great\" after three months with no income.\n\nVenues in Buxton and Welwyn Garden City have also cancelled, while Leicester Curve has scrapped its festive musical.\n\nPantos are crucial to theatre earnings, and this Christmas could prove to be make or break for some venues' futures.\n\nConservative MP Giles Watling, a former actor and panto dame, warned of the impact if festive shows are scrapped. \"I think many provincial theatres will go to the wall, frankly, because that's the time they can make the money,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It puts money in the coffers to support the rest of the cultural offer. I can see massive problems ahead if something isn't done and soon.\"\n\nNorwich Theatre said more than half of its workforce is at risk of redundancy\n\nTheatres have been shut since March because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the government hasn't given a date for the return of live performances.\n\nThe UK's biggest pantomime producer Qdos has set a deadline of 3 August to decide whether its 34 shows - in cities from Bristol to Birmingham and Bradford - can go ahead.\n\nQdos managing director Michael Harrison told BBC News there could be \"a lot of redundancies\" in regional theatres if Aladdin, Snow White and Dick Whittington fall victim to live entertainment's extended lockdown.\n\n\"If Christmas is cancelled - or if pantomime is cancelled - then the theatres will be left with no choice,\" he said.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that if it gets to 3 August and we haven't got clarity from the government, we will then have to begin the process of unravelling the season.\"\n\nTheatres are waiting for a timetable for reopening\n\nHe wants an official date for the theatres to reopen, but said pantos will only be able to go ahead if social distancing is put behind us.\n\n\"Commercial theatre can't operate on anything less than 100% capacity. It's no good saying you can sell every other row,\" he said.\n\n\"How can you social distance actors on stage? How can you social distance dancers who have to touch each other? How do you social distance somebody who has to do a quick costume change? There's all of those things to take into consideration.\n\n\"We can adapt if we have some clarity about what the position might be. But we do need to know in advance to set those ideas and plans in motion.\"\n\nJohn Barrowman is due to star in Snow White at the Bristol Hippodrome\n\nAlthough social distancing in the audience may make shows unviable, The Elgiva theatre in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, recently switched from Snow White to Sleeping Beauty to reduce the number of performers backstage.\n\nManager David Cooper said: \"Sleeping Beauty means fewer people backstage, as there won't be any dwarfs, so we can ensure the cast has the proper social distancing.\"\n\nLast week, the government published a five-step roadmap for restarting live performance, but were widely criticised for not attaching a timetable or financial support.\n\nEarlier this month, Julian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, told MPs that Christmas shows were economically \"vital\" for theatres.\n\nHe said: \"It is the time when theatres, being blunt, make the most profit, and that profit they need for the rest of the year to invest in everything they do and all the other types of productions.\"\n\nJohn Barrowman, who is due to star in Snow White at Bristol Hippodrome this winter, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that if Christmas shows are scrapped, \"70% of theatres around the UK are going to be gone\".\n\nNot all theatres stage traditional pantos - seasonal musicals are also under threat. Last week, Leicester Curve called off The Wizard of Oz, saying such productions \"take months of preparation\".\n\nIn the US, Broadway theatres have confirmed they will stay shut until 2021.\n\nOn Wednesday, Norwich Theatre, which runs the city's Theatre Royal, Playhouse and Stage Two, announced that 113 of its 217 jobs are at risk, with a further 59 employees on zero hours contracts told they won't get any more work.\n\nChief executive Stephen Crocker said: \"I remain shocked and angry that the government is standing idle as an industry that has delivered so much to this country and is so vital to its recovery is being allowed to fade into dust.\"\n\nMr Watling, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Theatre, has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson pointing out how vital theatres are, \"not just for the arts offer, but for UK plc\".\n\nHe said: \"I used to tour the world, taking the theatre to every corner of the world, and we are highly regarded because of our massive and very important theatre offer.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are clear that 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\nThey said the government was also \"considering ways in which we may be able to support\" the theatre industry on top of the \"unprecedented financial assistance\" from the loans, grants and furlough scheme open to businesses, plus a £160m Arts Council England emergency package.\n\nMr Watling called for more information and help before more theatres are forced to cancel Christmas.\n\nHe said: \"Theatre Royal Norwich losing its pantomime is indicative of the way the whole thing could go like a pack of cards.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mystery surrounds the \"completely unprecedented\" deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months.\n\nDr Niall McCann said colleagues in the southern African country had spotted more than 350 elephant carcasses in the Okavango Delta since the start of May.\n\nNo one knows why the animals are dying, with lab results on samples still weeks away, according to the government.\n\nBotswana is home to a third of Africa's declining elephant population.\n\nWarning: Some people may find the following images upsetting\n\nDr McCann, of the UK-based charity National Park Rescue, told the BBC local conservationists first alerted the government in early May, after they undertook a flight over the delta.\n\n\"They spotted 169 in a three-hour flight,\" he said. \"To be able to see and count that many in a three-hour flight was extraordinary.\n\n\"A month later, further investigations identified many more carcasses, bringing the total to over 350.\"\n\n\"This is totally unprecedented in terms of numbers of elephants dying in a single event unrelated to drought,\" he added.\n\nBack in May, Botswana's government ruled out poaching as a reason - noting the tusks had not been removed, according to Phys.org.\n\nThere are other things which point to something other than poaching.\n\n\"It is only elephants that are dying and nothing else,\" Dr McCann said. \"If it was cyanide used by poachers, you would expect to see other deaths.\"\n\nDr McCann has also tentatively ruled out natural anthrax poisoning, which killed at least 100 elephants in Bostwana last year.\n\nBut they have been unable to rule out either poisoning or disease. The way the animals appear to be dying - many dropping on their faces - and sightings of other elephants walking in circles points to something potentially attacking their neurological systems, Dr McCann said.\n\nEither way, without knowing the source, it is impossible to rule out the possibility of a disease crossing into the human population - especially if the cause is in either the water sources or the soil. Dr McCann points to the Covid-19 pandemic, which is believed to have started in animals.\n\n\"Yes, it is a conservation disaster - but it also has the potential to be a public health crisis,\" he said.\n\nDr Cyril Taolo, acting director for Botswana's department of wildlife and national parks, told the Guardian they had so far confirmed at least 280 elephants had died, and were in the process of confirming the rest.\n\nHowever, they did not know what was causing the animals' deaths.\n\n\"We have sent [samples] off for testing and we are expecting the results over the next couple of weeks or so,\" he said.", "Wales' \"stay local\" guidance on travel is in place until Monday, 6 July\n\nRyanair flights will proceed at Cardiff Airport despite pleas to wait until the end of Wales' five-mile travel guidance.\n\nThe airline said flights to and from Spain and Portugal would go ahead on Friday despite ministers' objections.\n\nIt said \"hundreds of Welsh people\" would be returning from nations with 'R' rates lower than the UK's.\n\nCardiff Airport is owned by the Welsh Government, whose \"stay local\" rules end on 6 July.\n\nA spokesman for the administration said: \"We don't believe these flights should be going ahead.\"\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said he expected a \"vast proportion\" of passengers would not turn up for flights.\n\nHe acknowledged some people will be travelling on compassionate grounds or for work, but said otherwise \"stay local\".\n\n\"Everybody needs to be continuing to contribute to the national effort and it is for individuals to take responsibility now,\" he said.\n\n\"We know that a huge proportion of the tickets sold for these flights were sold up to 12 months ago.\n\n\"We don't know how many passengers will actually turn up at the airport.\"\n\nSophie, from Cardiff, blasted the communication between the two sides, saying passengers had been left \"in limbo\" and will lose hundreds of pounds.\n\nShe and her partner had been due to fly to Faro, in Portugal, on Friday but decided against it because he has health problems.\n\nSophie said Ryanair wanted an extra £280 to change the date, and she added: \"They're expecting us to break the law just to get to the airport.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government does not want people travelling to go on holiday\n\nCardiff Airport said airlines would \"slowly re-start flying passenger services, increasing in August\".\n\nConservative Senedd member, Andrew RT Davies, said the position the Welsh Government was taking on the matter was \"pretty pathetic\".\n\nPeople in Wales have been asked to stay local, within five miles, as a guideline.\n\nThese restrictions are expected to be lifted from Monday, 6 July, so people can \"travel as far as they like for all purposes.\"\n\nTourism in Wales is not due to re-open until the following week on 13 July.\n\nCardiff Airport was bought by the Welsh Government in 2013\n\nFrom 6 July people in England can travel to some European countries without having to spend 14 days in quarantine on their return, but no decision has been made on this in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh Government said to slow the spread of coronavirus, the law in Wales requires people to \"stay local and not to travel further than five miles unless they have a reasonable excuse\".\n\nIt said: \"While there are legitimate reasons why flights can operate, the onus is on individuals to obey the rules.\"\n\nIt said all travellers entering Wales from overseas need to self-isolate for 14 days to prevent the further spread of the virus.\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\nCardiff Airport said it had remained open throughout the pandemic to support essential flying including critical cargo and medical flights.\n\nIt said: \"During July our airlines will slowly re-start flying passenger services, increasing in August.\n\n\"All airlines are making decisions about reinstating flights on a global basis and the situation remains fluid.\n\n\"We continue to follow government guidance and work closely with Public Health Wales to keep the safety of our team and customers as our number one priority.\"\n\nCardiff Airport was sold to the Welsh Government for £52m in 2013.\n\nMr Davies accused Welsh Government ministers of \"blaming Ryanair and the management at Cardiff Airport after the embarrassment of being caught out\".\n\n\"You bought the airport, fund it, you even run the country and could stop this if you really wanted to,\" he said.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock first mentioned an \"outbreak\" in Leicester on 18 June\n\nThere is no obvious source for a recent surge in coronavirus cases in Leicester, a report has found.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) found \"no explanatory outbreaks in care homes, hospital settings, or industrial processes\".\n\nIts analysis of cases showed more \"young and middle-aged people\" in the city had tested positive for Covid-19 than in other parts of the Midlands.\n\nBut the spread did not appear to be \"unconstrained\", it found.\n\nThe report was released on the evening before schools in the city were due to close to all but a handful of children as part of local lockdown measures.\n\nThe preliminary investigation said the increase in reported cases could partly be due to a \"growth in availability of testing\" in Leicester.\n\nIt confirmed a concentration of new cases in the North Evington ward of the city.\n\nThe report said hospitals in Leicester were currently treating 80 patients with Covid-19, 10 of whom required ventilation.\n\nPatient numbers had \"decreased rapidly\" since a surge in early April but new admissions had \"remained steady\" at between six and 10 per day throughout June.\n\nSchools and non-essential retail have closed in Leicester as a result of the local lockdown\n\nThe report said the increase in positive cases was \"most marked\" among the under-19 year group.\n\nWhile there had been \"good provision of primary school access for children\" since the beginning of June, researchers said, they could find no \"analytical link\" between this and \"any real or apparent rise in new infections\".\n\nHowever, they said it would \"seem sensible to investigate\" in order to exclude a link between this and an increase in young people testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nFive schools in the city closed as a result of positive coronavirus tests, it added.\n\nFrom Thursday, all schools in the lockdown area will be closed to all but children of key workers and pupils deemed vulnerable or having educational or health needs.\n\nThe rapid response investigation found 3,216 Covid-19 cases had been confirmed in the city since the start of the epidemic in March, and the majority of positive cases were found through Pillar 1 tests - those conducted in hospitals.\n\nBut since May the bulk of Leicester's infections have been discovered under Pillar 2 tests done outside of hospital.\n\nBetween 11-24 June, 944 were reported, 71 were in hospital, 873 were in the community.\n\nThe report said the increase in positive Pillar 2 tests is \"probably linked, in part, to the availability of testing to the general public\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live, work or run a business in Leicester? Have you been affected by coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Opening the doors to the UK to as many as around 3 million people from Hong Kong is a big step.\n\nNo one in Westminster tonight would expect anything like that number will move here, to escape the increasingly fraught reality of life in Hong Kong. But the decision is important, and not just for those to whom the UK may now provide sanctuary.\n\nIt reflects immediate concern in the government about what has been happening on the streets in that packed, throbbing territory.\n\nBut the decision was also fuelled by the legacy of British control there. This kind of citizenship was not offered, despite some calls to do so, at the time when Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.\n\nRemember that handover took place on the basis that its partial democracy and market economy would be respected. But that's been eroded so visibly in recent years.\n\nIt was notable not one MP in the House of Commons spoke against the next phase of Britain and Hong Kong's story being to offer a home to islanders here. Government's decisions are still affected by choices made decades ago.\n\nThe decision also reflects a souring of the atmosphere around relations between the UK and China.\n\nIt's not that long ago that former Prime Minister David Cameron rolled out not just the red carpet, but the Queen's golden carriage to welcome the Chinese Premier.\n\nWe rarely saw the then Chancellor George Osborne happier than on visits to China extolling the virtues of trade.\n\nThe balance between the opportunities of doing business and objecting to China's human rights policy was awkward then.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping with Queen Elizabeth II at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace in 2015\n\nBut the dilemma is more acute, not least because a group of Tory MPs, including some up and coming key figures on the backbenches, have joined forces with some of the more traditional 'awkward squad' to oppose close links with China regularly and loudly.\n\nMost prominently they have been concerned about whether the UK government should allow the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei a place in building the 5G phone network.\n\nSeveral of those involved in trying to change the government's minds are increasingly confident that Number 10 will soon find a way of rolling back the firm's participation in the project.\n\nAs a group they have organised, and they have some strength in numbers, as a previous rebellion suggested.\n\nOne of those involved in the manoeuvrings suggested the government had to be pushed to act on Hong Kong.\n\nChina is a vast economic power that can't be ignored. There are areas, such as trade and climate where ministers are keen to cooperate.\n\nAnd the prime minister, asked just yesterday about it, said that: \"The position is very, very simple: I'm not going to get drawn into Sinophobia because I'm not a Sinophobe.\"\n\nBut the characteristics of the relationship between the two countries have definitely changed.\n\nIn the words of one government source today, the UK approach has not hardened, but \"China's more aggressive preferences have been revealed.\"\n\nA group of Conservative MPs have put pressure on the UK government about allowing the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei a place in building the 5G phone network\n\nThe government's promise to Hong Kongers comes at a junction in our immigration policy.\n\nIt was only yesterday that MPs backed the Immigration Bill that ends freedom of movement - the product of a referendum that was fought on the concept of controlling immigration which, for many voters meant getting the numbers down.\n\nIsn't it a contradiction therefore that the government has sent out this message to potentially several million to come to our shores?\n\nA clash for many perhaps, depending how and when people from Hong Kong arrive here.\n\nBut for ministers, the decision is a testament of the principle that the UK out of the EU can make its own decisions about who arrives and who leaves.", "\"I'm going to follow the doc's orders,\" Mr Biden said\n\nUS Democrat Joe Biden has said he will not hold presidential campaign rallies during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"This is the most unusual campaign, I think, in modern history,\" Mr Biden said at a press conference in Delaware.\n\nHis rival, President Donald Trump, saw lower-than-expected turnout for a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June and his campaign has announced no new rallies.\n\nOpinion polls show Mr Biden with an almost double-digit lead over Mr Trump as the 3 November election looms.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Biden told reporters: \"I'm going to follow the doc's orders - not just for me but for the country - and that means that I am not going to be holding rallies.\n\nThe former US vice-president under Barack Obama also said he has not yet been tested for Covid-19, which has killed almost 130,000 people in the US.\n\nCiting the pandemic, Mr Biden has limited his public appearances, conducting interviews from a makeshift TV studio in his basement, leading the Trump campaign to dub him \"Hidin' Biden\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Biden took aim at the president for his handling of the pandemic.\n\n\"Month after month, as other leaders and other countries took the necessary steps to get the virus under control, Donald Trump failed us,\" Mr Biden said, before mocking Mr Trump's declaration that he was a \"wartime president\".\n\n\"It seems like our wartime president surrendered, waved the white flag and left the battlefield,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nThe Democrat's announcement comes as top disease researcher Dr Anthony Fauci told the US Senate that he \"would not be surprised\" if new virus cases in the country reach 100,000 per day.\n\n\"Clearly we are not in control right now,\" Dr Fauci testified, warning that not enough Americans are wearing masks or social distancing.\n\nOn Tuesday, cases rose by more than 40,000 in one day for the fourth time in the past five days.\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'", "Liam Gallagher, Dua Lipa and Sir Paul McCartney are among 1,500 artists who have signed an open letter calling for support for the UK's live music scene.\n\nEd Sheeran, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay also signed the letter to the culture secretary warning of the impact of Covid-19 on venues and musicians.\n\nIt says the music industry faces \"mass insolvencies\", with gigs and festivals unlikely to return until 2021.\n\nThe organisers said there had already been \"hundreds of redundancies\".\n\nJob losses, across a range of connected professions, have been reported by venues, agencies and promoters, they said.\n\nThe letter to Oliver Dowden reads: \"With no end to social distancing in sight or financial support from government yet agreed, the future for concerts and festivals and the hundreds of thousands of people who work in them looks bleak.\"\n\nIt calls for a \"clear, conditional timeline\" for reopening venues without social distancing, as well as financial support and a VAT exemption on ticket sales.\n\nSkepta was also among the signatories\n\nEric Clapton, Beverley Knight, Little Mix and Skepta are among the other stars to have added their names to the campaign, entitled Let the Music Play.\n\nIn an accompanying statement, Dua Lipa said she was \"proud\" to have worked her way up through small clubs, theatres, arenas and festivals.\n\nShe said: \"But the possibility for other emerging British artists to take the same path is in danger if the industry doesn't receive much needed government support in the interim period before all the various venues, festivals and promoters are ready and able to operate independently again.\"\n\nFormer Oasis frontman Gallagher added: \"Amazing gigs don't happen without an amazing team behind the stage, but they'll all be out of jobs unless we can get back out there doing what we love.\"\n\nIn response, a spokeswoman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said the government was \"already providing unprecedented financial assistance which many music organisations and artists have taken advantage of\", pointing to loans and the job retention scheme.\n\n\"We recognise that this pandemic has created major challenges for the sector and are working closely with them to develop comprehensive guidance for performances and events to return as soon as possible,\" she said.\n\nMusic venues have been closed since mid-March, and the government has not given a date for the return of live performances.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the culture secretary said he was looking to provide the music industry with a \"clear roadmap back\" and fixed dates for when venues could reopen.\n\nMr Dowden added: \"These involve v difficult decisions about the future of social distancing, which we know has saved lives.\"\n\nResearch carried out by Media Insight Consulting and published alongside the open letter suggested the UK music industry contributed £4.5bn to the UK economy in 2019 and supported 210,000 jobs.\n\nBen Lovett of Mumford & Sons, who also runs the Omeara and Lafayette venues in London, told BBC News that music \"defines our culture\".\n\nThe multi-instrumentalist said: \"When people think about Britishness I hope that they're talking these days about Stormzy through to the Beatles.\n\n\"People kind of assume it is a just a self-fulfilling industry that doesn't really need much help - rock and grime and pop - but actually it needs help sometimes and right now it really does.\"\n\nAs well as being in the Brit Award-winning band, Lovett is chief executive of the Venue Group, which employs 210 people.\n\nHe said he was \"sad\" and \"shocked\" to have already had conversations with people who have now decided \"they're not going to be a musician any more\".\n\nYoung British artists will have less chance to forge their careers, as potential future Glastonbury headliners, if they can't gain experience and earn money playing in small venues, he warned. As the likes of Stormzy, Sheeran, Florence + the Machine, and his own band did.\n\nHe said: \"Losing 2020 and not giving them support and not finding a way to protect the industry means that you fast forward to 2023, and I really think we're going to be scratching our heads being like, 'Oh, isn't this the same as we saw last year?'\n\n\"There won't be anyone coming through. There won't be any new talent.\"\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. Airbus: \"Most people who live in the area, work here\"\n\nWhen the fortune of a town is so inextricably linked to one employer, any threat to jobs will have a \"devastating\" effect on the local community.\n\nAirbus is to Broughton what Hoover once was to Merthyr Tydfil, Ford to Bridgend and Tata Steel still is to Port Talbot.\n\nMore people are employed at the Airbus factory than live in Broughton itself.\n\nSo it is little wonder jobs losses are seen as a \"hammer blow\" to the area.\n\nThe company said it planned to cut 15,000 jobs in total, including 1,700 in its UK sites at Flintshire and Bristol, as it dealt with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"The majority of people living in the area work there so [job losses] are going to be a great shame to a lot of people. I have family working there, everyone is going to impacted,\" said one resident.\n\n\"I thought I had a job for life, I'm devastated,\" said worker Ross Leeding\n\nAnother added: \"It's a big part of the community, one of the main sources of jobs around here. So if anything happens it would have a big blow - devastating.\n\nOn the shop floor, the mood has been \"sombre\" since the news broke.\n\n\"People are shocked and the uncertainty over numbers is only adding to that,\" said worker Daz Reynolds, of the Unite union.\n\n\"People have families to feed and they want to know what their future looks like at Airbus. It's simple.\n\n\"This is going to have a devastating effect. There are highly-skilled workers here but also thousands of people in the supply chain in towns and villages across north-east Wales and Cheshire. Everyone knows someone who works with Airbus.\"\n\nAgency worker Ross Leeding, already on furlough, added: \"I wish they would tell us if we're being made redundant or not - not maybe. It's frustrating not to know.\n\n\"I'm devastated. I was happy here and thought I had a job for life here. I'm 60 years old now, so where am I going to get a job like this?\n\n\"There are others with kids, mortgages, loans who are worse off than me. It's the bread and butter for Broughton.\"\n\nAirbus employs more than 6,000 people at its site in Broughton\n\nThe aftershocks from job losses are likely to ripple out across the entire region, to suppliers and the local economy that has been built around the success and size of Airbus.\n\nBen Francis, policy chairman at the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"extremely worrying news\".\n\nHe added: \"The importance of Airbus to the north Wales economy cannot be overstated. There are families, communities, and small businesses who rely on Airbus, as does the wider regional economy.\"\n\nThomas Smith runs the nearby New Glynne Arms inn that relies on Airbus staff for trade.\n\n\"We rely on passing trade so if you take away thousands of people, it's terrifying to think what might happen,\" he said.\n\n\"It's going to affect the local economy big time because so many work there. You just don't know what the future is.\"\n\nLocal businesses will also be badly affected, said local pub landlord Thomas Smith\n\nWrexham MS Lesley Griffiths said the effects would be felt \"throughout\" the local supply chain and Flintshire council leader Ian Roberts said the factory was of \"immense\" importance for the county.\n\n\"It's devastating for Flintshire and the wider region - 50% of the workers come from outside the county,\" said Mr Roberts.\n\nThere is concern that job losses will not only affect current staff, but young people in the area.\n\nColeg Cambria in Connah's Quay offers engineering students an undergraduate apprenticeship with Airbus.\n\nThousands more people are employed in the supply chain around the Broughton site\n\nDavid Jones, a former chief executive of the college, said the scheme was the biggest of its kind in the UK with 150 new apprentices joining each year.\n\n\"With older people and other workers that receive training, around 1,000 people are linked with Airbus training in Coleg Cambria and other colleges and universities,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"The goal now must be to win the contract to build a new type of wing that will be developed over the next five years.\n\n\"There are huge developments in the aerospace sector, meaning that wings will be produced in completely different ways to today.\n\n\"Whoever manages to secure that next contract, it will be hugely important regarding the long term future of wing building in north east Wales.\"", "The pub has asked for suggestions for a new name\n\nA pub named after 17th Century slave trader Edward Colston has covered over its sign amid plans for a name change.\n\nThe Colston Arms in Kingsdown, Bristol, has hung up a temporary banner calling it \"Ye olde Pubby Mcdrunkface\" and asked people to suggest new names.\n\nThe sign outside the pub reads \"We are listening. Black Lives Matter.\"\n\nA statue of Colston in the city centre was torn down and thrown into the harbour during anti-racism protests last month.\n\nThe pub's banner reads: \"The Clearly Temporarily Named Ye olde Pubby Mcdrunkface. Suggestions welcome (Obviously).\"\n\nLandlord Paul Frost said it was \"just a bit of fun to draw attention to the issue\".\n\n\"It's not me that's keen to make the name change, I just want to make sure the debate happens,\" he said.\n\n\"The point I'm making is that it's not my voice that needs to be heard. I'm a white middle aged man, it's the people, the community around Bristol.\n\n\"It is a serious issue, however the banner suggests a little levity about the matter. It's just get engaged, learn about the whole era and make suggestions on Facebook really.\"\n\nAdmiral Taverns, which owns the pub, said it was supporting Mr Frost.\n\n\"We will be listening carefully to the feedback from the local community before deciding on the pub's new name,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nSince the Colston statue was pulled down there have been several other protests calling for monuments celebrating controversial figures in the UK to be taken down or amended.\n\nBristol's Colston Hall removed his name from the building last month ahead of a name change later this year.\n\nThe Diocese of Bristol has also formally applied to remove a plaque and part of a stained glass window in the north transept of Bristol Cathedral that commemorates Colston's life.\n\nParts of the window, which was installed in 1890, were covered up last month.\n\nThe Colston Arms name has been covered over\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The total number of people who are dying in Scotland has returned to normal levels, according to official figures.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland (NRS) said a total of 1,006 people died between 22 and 28 June.\n\nThis was actually slightly lower than the average of 1,026 deaths recorded in the same week over the past five years.\n\nThe figures reflect the continuing fall in the number of coronavirus deaths in Scotland.\n\nThere were 35 deaths linked to the virus last week - the lowest number since the middle of March.\n\nThis was a decrease of 14 on the previous week, and means the country's coronavirus death rate has now fallen for nine weeks in a row.\n\nDeaths linked to coronavirus accounted for just 3% of all deaths registered during the week. The figure was 36% at the height of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the first time since the start of the pandemic that the total number of deaths from all causes was below Scotland's five-year average for the time of year.\n\nHowever, the figures also showed that 2,417 more people have died at home in Scotland during the pandemic than would have been expected based on the average of the past five years\n\nThe total number of deaths where coronavirus is known or suspected to have been a factor now stands at 4,155.\n\nSeparate figures released on Tuesday showed the number of deaths across the UK as a whole has also fallen below the five-year average.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the statistics showed the \"real and sustained progress\" that Scotland is making in tackling the virus.\n\nBut she stressed that the numbers still \"speak of heartbreak for many of our fellow citizens\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said a cross-border cluster of cases spread between Dumfries and Galloway and the northwest of England was a \"sharp reminder\" that the virus is still a threat.\n\nThe \"small but complex\" cluster is thought to include fewer than ten cases, and efforts are under way to trace the contacts of those who have tested positive.\n\nA cross-border incident management team has also been established to ensure appropriate measures are being put in place.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she hoped the current containment measures would be sufficient, but that \"other interventions might become necessary\" - drawing a comparison to the local lockdown measures recently imposed in Leicester.\n\nThe first minister has previously said Scotland was \"not far away\" from eliminating coronavirus.\n\nBut she has warned people not to let their guard down and become complacent as the country begins to open up again, and has said \"unpopular decision\" could still need to be taken to prevent a resurgence.", "The number of deaths registered in the UK over one week has fallen below the five-year average for the first time since mid-March.\n\nMore than 80% of local authorities in Great Britain have also seen death rates fall to normal levels.\n\nThe decrease reflects a decline in coronavirus-related deaths, official data shows.\n\nOf 10,681 deaths registered in the week up to 19 June, 849 (8%) mentioned coronavirus.\n\nThis is the lowest number of coronavirus deaths registered since the week lockdown was announced.\n\nThe total number of deaths registered in the week up to 19 June was eight below the five-year average for that week and the lowest figure since the week of 13 March.\n\nBBC analysis of the figures shows that more than four out of every five local authorities in Great Britain have seen death rates fall back to or below normal levels.\n\nAt the peak of the epidemic in mid-April, only 10 of 187 local authorities were in this range, with nearly 160 seeing registered deaths significantly above the five year average in that area.\n\nWhile the figures are not yet down to the levels seen in the weeks before the coronavirus epidemic started, nearly every local authority in Great Britain has seen the number of deaths fall substantially from the epidemic's peak in mid-April.\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average:\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many cases and deaths in your area? Enter a full UK postcode, English, Welsh or Northern Irish council name, or Scottish health board name to find out are death registrations where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. Source: ONS, NRS and NISRA – updated weekly. Although the numbers of deaths per 100,000 people shown in the charts above have not been weighted to account for variations in demography between local authorities, the virus is known to affect disproportionately older people, BAME people, and people from more deprived households or employed in certain occupations. include positive tests of people in hospital and healthcare workers (Pillar 1) and people tested in the wider population (Pillar 2). Public health bodies may occasionally revise their case numbers. Northern Ireland only publish new figures on weekdays. Source: UK public health bodies - updated daily.\n\nPublic Health England figures on coronavirus cases include people tested in hospitals and healthcare workers. Figures for the rest of the UK also include people in the wider population.\n\nFigures for England and Wales show deaths in care homes and hospitals were also below their five-year average - 49 and 782 deaths lower, respectively.\n\nBut the number of deaths at home was 827 higher than the five-year average, only 52 of which were registered as coronavirus deaths.\n\nThe total number of excess deaths in the UK since the coronavirus outbreak began stands at just over 65,000 in the UK: 57,000 in England, nearly 5,000 in Scotland, 2,300 in Wales, and 900 in Northern Ireland.", "The worldwide economic impact of the coronavirus has been seismic and the job losses are starting to crash on the shores of the UK with increasing frequency and severity.\n\nThe 1,700 job losses at Airbus had a grim inevitability to them, given the destruction of demand in the aviation industry.\n\nDemand for air travel in April and May was down more than 90% and normality is not expected to return for up to three years - maybe never for the more lucrative business class travel.\n\nBA, Easyjet, Ryanair and Rolls Royce have already announced 20,000 job losses between them, so Airbus was never going to emerge unscathed.\n\nThe travel wipeout has seen SSP, the owner of stalwart transport hub tenants Upper Crust and Café Ritazza, cut 5,000 posts.\n\nWe already know that the number of workers on UK payrolls shrank more than 600,000 between March and May, according to the ONS.\n\nThat looks like the thin end of a very big wedge as the government's unprecedented job support scheme tapers off, with employers being asked to share the burden of the cost from the end of July to its withdrawal at the end of October.\n\nThe European head of a large investment bank told me this morning that one of their key concerns was the \"fraying of the social fabric in the UK\", thanks to a toxic cocktail of mass redundancies which will hit the low-wage jobs the UK has excelled in creating.\n\nEmployers are discovering that with increased use of technology, they can do many things with fewer people.\n\nThe march towards a more automated world has been accelerated by the virus - and the UK, with its high levels of employment in lower-skilled work, has further to fall compared to others, he said. The divide between the digital skills \"haves\" and \"have-nots\" will widen.\n\nThe chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, has provided some relief to the gloom by saying the hit will not be as bad as expected and the recovery faster, but it's fair to say that his is not a mainstream view.\n\nThe reason the government has thrown tens of billions of pounds at trying to hold back the waves of unemployment is they realise that it does long-lasting damage to demand in the economy.\n\nThere is no doubt that the furlough scheme helped delay the impact, but this barrage of job cut announcements suggests the government is now struggling to turn the tide.\n\nBoris Johnson described the virus as \"still circling like a shark in our waters\". It was an odd metaphor to use, considering the PM has previously praised the Mayor in Jaws for keeping the beaches open.\n\nOne thing seems certain: to combat the huge economic shock whose repercussions are being felt in airlines, factories and now High Streets, the government will need a bigger boat than the £5bn of previously announced spending accelerated yesterday.\n\nThe pressure is now on Captain Sunak.", "Airbus has two UK sites, in Flintshire in Wales and Filton near Bristol\n\nAerospace giant Airbus says it plans to cut 15,000 jobs as it deals with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt will cut 1,700 jobs in the UK, along with thousands more in Germany, Spain and elsewhere.\n\nThe move is subject to talks with unions which have opposed compulsory redundancies.\n\nThe Unite union said the Airbus announcement was \"another act of industrial vandalism\" against the UK aerospace sector.\n\nSome 134,000 people work for Airbus worldwide, with around a tenth of them in the UK.\n\nThe firm said the UK cuts would fall only on the commercial aircraft division at its two sites at Broughton in Flintshire and Filton, Bristol.\n\nMore details of the job losses and how they will break down between the two giant factories will come at the end of the week after talks with unions.\n\nHowever, Unite said it expected 1,116 manufacturing jobs and 611 office-based jobs to go, shrinking Airbus's UK workforce by 15%.\n\nThese cuts were inevitable. The only question was just how severe the pain would be.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has been little short of catastrophic for the airline industry. At one point in April, global air traffic was down by more than 90%.\n\nWhen planes aren't flying, they aren't earning money. Yet they still need to be maintained and leasing costs or loans still need to be paid.\n\nThe result? Airlines are struggling to survive and simply can't afford to take on new planes right now. And that, of course, means Airbus has had to curb production.\n\nAirbus has delayed these cuts and has made full use of support from governments. But ultimately it had little choice.\n\nAnd the pain being felt in places such as Broughton, Toulouse and Hamburg will echo through the entire supply chain.\n\nThe firm expects to make the cuts by summer 2021, but hopes the majority of redundancies will be voluntary or through early retirement of staff.\n\nThe company warned in April that it was \"bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed\" as it struggled with the impact of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said on Tuesday that production had dropped by 40% in recent months, and that it did not expect air traffic to get back to pre-pandemic levels until 2023 at the earliest.\n\n\"Airbus is facing the gravest crisis this industry has ever experienced,\" said chief executive Guillaume Faury. \"The measures we have taken so far have enabled us to absorb the initial shock of this global pandemic.\n\n\"Now, we must ensure that we can sustain our enterprise and emerge from the crisis as a healthy, global aerospace leader, adjusting to the overwhelming challenges of our customers.\"\n\nNews of the cuts comes as the international aviation industry reels from the impact of the pandemic. On Tuesday, EasyJet said it would close three UK bases and cut about 2,000 staff.\n\nAnd Reuters reported that Air France/KLM was targeting more than 6,500 job cuts over the next two years.\n\nJim McMahon, Labour's shadow transport secretary, called for more government support in the UK.\n\n\"Labour has consistently called for an extension to the furlough in the most impacted industries, and a sectoral deal that supports the whole aviation industry including securing jobs and protecting the supply chain, while continuing to press for higher environmental standards.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We understand this will be a difficult time for Airbus's employees and their families, and we stand ready to support anyone affected in any way we can.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with the sector to ensure firms are able to rebuild as the civil aviation market recovers.\"", "Artist and activist Ai Weiwei has warned lawyers and activists could be \"disappeared or sentenced\" after China passed a controversial security law giving it new powers over Hong Kong.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping signed the law and it is being placed in Hong Kong's mini-constitution, criminalising sedition and effectively curtailing protests.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson says the new law \"violates Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy\"\n\nUp to three million Hong Kong residents are to be offered the chance to settle in the UK and ultimately apply for citizenship, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said Hong Kong's freedoms were being violated by a new security law and those affected would be offered a \"route\" out of the former UK colony.\n\nAbout 350,000 UK passport holders, and 2.6 million others eligible, will be able to come to the UK for five years.\n\nAnd after a further year, they will be able to apply for citizenship.\n\nBritish National Overseas Passport holders in Hong Kong were granted special status in the 1980s but currently have restricted rights and are only entitled to visa-free access to the UK for six months.\n\nUnder the government's plans, all British Overseas Nationals and their dependants will be given right to remain in the UK, including the right to work and study, for five years. At this point, they will be able to apply for settled status, and after a further year, seek citizenship.\n\nThe PM said Tuesday's passing of a new security law by the Hong Kong authorities was a \"clear and serious breach\" of the 1985 Sino-British joint declaration - a legally binding agreement which set out how certain freedoms would be protected for the 50 years after China assumed sovereignty in 1997.\n\n\"It violates Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy and threatens the freedoms and rights protected by the joint declaration,\" he said.\n\n\"We made clear that if China continued down this path we would introduce a new route for those with British National (Overseas) status to enter the UK, granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the UK and thereafter to apply for citizenship. And that is precisely what we will do now.\"\n\nForeign Office permanent secretary Sir Simon McDonald expressed the government's \"deep concern\" about the new law to China during a meeting with the country's ambassador Liu Xioming.\n\nThe UK government has been raising concerns about the national security law and very publicly trying to pressure Beijing into a change heart.\n\nThat has clearly failed - so ministers are now fulfilling their promise to allow some three million British Overseas Nationals to come to the UK. This is a significant move and the government wants to send a strong message.\n\nBut there will be more pressure now to rethink other elements of our relationship with China - not least the deal to allow Huawei to build parts of the UK's 5G structures.\n\nMany Tory MPs have been lobbying against that for some time - and this will only add to their concern.\n\nUpdating MPs on the details, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there would be no limit on numbers or quotas and the application process would be simple.\n\n\"This is a special, bespoke, set of arrangements developed for the unique circumstances we face and in light of our historic commitment to the people of Hong Kong,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Peston programme, Mr Raab acknowledged there \"would be little we could do to…cohesively force\" China to allow British Overseas Nationals to come to the UK.\n\nDowning Street said further details of the scheme will be detailed \"in due course\".\n\nIn the meantime, British National Overseas Passport holders in Hong Kong will be able to travel to the UK immediately, subject to standard immigration checks, the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThey will also will not face salary thresholds to gain their visas, he added.\n\nHong Kong's new national security law, which targets secession, subversion and terrorism with punishments up to life in prison, came into effect on Tuesday.\n\nI was born in Hong Kong before 1997, the year when Hong Kong was handed back to Chinese rule. That means I had a British National Overseas (BNO) passport as a child.\n\nWhen the news broke that BNO passport holders were eligible for British citizenship after living and working in the UK for five years, and after spending another year of being granted settled status, many of my friends were excited. They say at least there's a way out for Hong Kongers after the national security law came into force.\n\nBut many questions remain. Currently there are 350,000 BNO passport holders, but about three million Hong Kong residents are eligible for BNO passports - and that doesn't appear to include dependants born after 1997.\n\nWill the UK be ready to take in so many Hong Kong residents? Will there be enough jobs? Will BNO passport holders have recourse to public funds? And will they be covered by the NHS?\n\nSome also say it's good that there's a lifeboat, but do they really want to leave their home?\n\nSeveral people have already been arrested under the new powers, including a man carrying a pro-independence flag as police used pepper spray to disperse some protesters gathered to mark 23 years since British rule ended.\n\nCritics say it effectively puts an end to the \"one country, two systems\" principle enshrined in the Joint Declaration. China has rejected criticism of its actions, saying they are internal matters.\n\nBritish National Overseas Passports do not confer nationality or the automatic right to live and work in the UK\n\nThe UK government has come under growing pressure to take a firm line with Beijing from MPs, who are worried about China's increasingly assertive role regionally and the security implications of Chinese firm Huawei's involvement in the UK's 5G network.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Raab said he wanted a positive relationship with China but Beijing had \"broken its promise\" to the people of Hong Kong through its \"flagrant assault\" on freedom of speech and right of peaceful assembly.\n\nLabour said it welcomed the government's action but said there must be no discrimination on those allowed into the UK on the basis of income or other factors.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the UK also had a responsibility to consider the welfare of those who were not able to re-locate or who wished to stay in Hong Kong.\n\nShe urged the government to work with its international partners, through the UN, to force an inquiry into police brutality in Hong Kong and also called for the UK to re-examine its commercial relationship with China.\n\n\"For too long in relation to China we've had no strategy at home and no strategy abroad. I hope he can give us a commitment today that this marks the start of a very different era,\" she said.\n\nAre you a Hong Kong resident with a British National Overseas passport? Share your views, plans and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "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\nLockdown has added thousands more cases to the backlog already faced by courts in England and Wales, with a suggestion it could take up to 10 years to clear. The BBC has spoken to people tied up in the criminal justice system about how they've been affected. Emma, John and Matthew describe what it's like to be left in limbo.\n\nThe lockdown has added to delays to court cases (stock image)\n\nMichelle Geraghty-Carns says the future of her business is hanging in the balance\n\nYoung people in England have been snacking more during lockdown, but also enjoying more meals together with their families, a survey suggests. Researchers found 60% of young people thought more shared meal times were good for their health and wellbeing, and something they want to keep doing.\n\nWe might be snacking a lot but it seems we're more active too. More than 858,000 people downloaded the NHS-backed Couch to 5K app between March and the end of June - that's a 92% increase on the same period in 2019. The NHS has urged people to keep going if they started exercising during the lockdown. Read more on how Couch to 5K works and find your perfect coach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Couch to 5K: Get running half an hour in just nine weeks\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via our live page.\n\nPlus, what does Covid-19 do to the brain? Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh investigates.\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 three-year-old boy has died after a car crashed into a charity shop in Edinburgh.\n\nThe boy and a 37-year-old woman were hit by a red Kia car which is understood to have mounted the pavement on Morningside Road at 14:30.\n\nThe vehicle crashed into the St Columba's Hospice charity shop.\n\nPolice confirmed the two pedestrians were taken to hospital, where the toddler died and the woman was treated for her injuries.\n\nThe road was closed from Morningside Library to the M&S food shop.\n\nInspector Roger Park from the Edinburgh road policing unit said: \"The heartfelt thoughts of my colleagues and I remain with the families involved in this absolutely tragic incident.\n\n\"We are providing support to the family and I would ask that the privacy of those involved are respected at this time.\"\n\nHe said inquiries would continue to establish the full circumstances of the collision and appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision or who has dashcam or CCTV footage to contact police.\n\nMelanie Main, Green councillor for Morningside, said: \"My thoughts and hopes are with the family affected.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wings for all the Airbus commercial planes are made in Wales\n\nPlans to cut 1,700 UK Airbus jobs have been described as \"utterly devastating\" by a Welsh minister.\n\nEconomy, Transport and North Wales Minister Ken Skates called on the UK government to take \"decisive action\" to support the flight sector.\n\nMr Skates said a \"significant share\" of the job losses were expected at Broughton, in Flintshire.\n\nThe company said it planned to cut 15,000 jobs in total as it dealt with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe site in Broughton makes wings for the Airbus A380, which is the world's largest passenger plane.\n\nMr Skates said \"compulsory action\" at the Broughton site, which employs 6,000, could not be ruled out.\n\nHe said within the next three weeks he would be convening a high level summit to discuss the future of the aerospace, automotive and manufacturing sector and he would be pressing the UK government to take part.\n\nThe minister added it was \"vital\" the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak \"takes the lead\", calling for an \"evolution\" of the furlough scheme to support a shorter working week.\n\nKen Skates called on the UK government to take \"decisive action\" to save jobs at Airbus in Broughton\n\n\"Nobody should be under any illusion about the impact covid is having on aerospace, a critical part of the Welsh economy,\" Mr Skates said.\n\n\"The sector is in crisis and the UK government needs to take swift and decisive action now to save the industry and its supply chain.\n\n\"The alarm bells have been sounding for weeks and we need urgent steps at a UK level to prevent this crisis becoming even worse.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart told Radio Wales: \"There's this idea that there hasn't been much UK government involvement, but there has been £10bn worth so far [in the aviation industry] and we'll keep doing that because we want it to survive…\n\n\"I spoke to [Airbus] yesterday or the day before and I have done throughout this crisis….\n\n\"There is a role for Welsh Government in this too, don't forget they protect their devolved areas very carefully… I'm looking forward to hearing what the first minister is going to do, what Ken Skates is going to do and what their role is in this rather than complain about the UK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, at Prime Minister's Questions in Westminster, Cardiff South and Penarth MP Stephen Doughty asked what Boris Johnson was doing to help workers who \"don't want to hear slogans\".\n\nThe prime minister said there was a \"£600bn plan for investment\" in jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Airbus: \"Most people who live in the area, work here\"\n\nAt the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Mr Skates said ministers would not \"abandon\" Airbus workers and would do all they could to help.\n\n\"This cannot - and will not - be the beginning of the end for Airbus at Broughton,\" he added.\n\nFlintshire council leader Ian Roberts said he would \"like to hear assurances that there will be a two-government approach to this\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"Too often governments blame each other.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford responded, saying he would \"definitely agree that all levels of government will need to work together very closely\".\n\nHe said it was what happened when Ford announced it was closing its engine plant in Bridgend last year.\n\n\"We will need to mobilise exactly the same sort of effort,\" he said.\n\nUnite Wales Regional Secretary Peter Hughes urged the UK government to act: \"If the UK government does not step in now to ensure the support is there for Airbus to get through this crisis, the consequences for Wales could be catastrophic.\"\n\nHe said the union would \"not accept any proposal that involves compulsory redundancy for our members\".\n\nHe called on Airbus to \"hold their nerve and step back from implementing their plan\".\n\nMore details of the job losses and how they will break down between the two giant factories will come at the end of the week after talks with unions.\n\nThe firm expects to make the cuts by summer 2021, but hopes the majority of redundancies will be voluntary or through early retirement of staff.\n\nMr Skates said his thoughts were with workers and their families.\n\n\"As a Welsh Government we will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the company, its workforce, the unions and the communities impacted by this,\" he said.\n\nAirbus employs more than 6,000 people at its site in Broughton\n\nPlaid Cymru's Llyr Gruffydd warned two-thirds of the 1,700 job losses could be in Broughton.\n\nThe Member of the Senedd for North Wales said workers had told him that they expected to potentially lose 1,100 jobs.\n\nHe said Airbus supported another three local jobs for every one at the firm.\n\n\"We are talking about 25,000 dependent on Airbus in Broughton for their work,\" he said.\n\nIn a joint statement, a group of Conservative MPs with constituencies in north Wales said the announcement was \"immensely worrying for local employees\".\n\nWrexham MP Sarah Atherton, Clwyd South MP Simon Baynes, Ynys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie, Vale of Clwyd MP James Davies, Clwyd West MP David Jones, Aberconwy MP Robin Millar and Delyn MP Rob Roberts said: \"We have spoken to Airbus and will continue to work closely with the company, trade unions and both the UK and Welsh governments to do everything we can to support Airbus' workers, their families and the wider community.\"\n\nThey said the UK government had provided \"significant support to help Airbus face the challenges that have emerged as a result of this pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michelle O'Neill: 'I believe in the regulations'\n\nNorthern Ireland's deputy first minister has said criticism of her presence at the funeral of republican Bobby Storey is \"political point-scoring\".\n\nEarlier First Minister Arlene Foster called for Michelle O'Neill to apologise for her actions.\n\nMs O'Neill was one of several senior Sinn Féin politicians who was present, along with hundreds of other mourners.\n\nOn Wednesday two other parties in the NI executive said she should resign.\n\nCurrent coronavirus regulations state a maximum of 30 people are allowed to gather together outdoors.\n\nThere has been widespread criticism of Ms O'Neill and her party colleagues, including leader Mary Lou McDonald and former leader Gerry Adams, who attended the funeral of Mr Storey, who was considered the head of intelligence of the IRA for a period from the mid-1990s.\n\nAll of the other parties which make up Northern Ireland's devolved government along with Sinn Féin - the DUP, UUP, SDLP and Alliance - have criticised Ms O'Neill, with the UUP and Alliance calling for her to resign.\n\nMrs Foster said she had \"undermined\" the executive.\n\nMs O'Neill said a picture taken at the funeral happened in the \"blink of an eye\" and should not have happened\n\nMrs Foster, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said on Wednesday: \"It is quite intolerable now that people think that there are some people to whom the law doesn't apply and that indeed there are some politicians who are saying: 'Do as I say but not as I do'.\n\n\"That undermines everything that we have been trying to do.\n\n\"She needs to apologise, she needs to recognise the wrong that has been done and she absolutely needs to make amends for what has happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking to the Executive Committee at Stormont on Wednesday, Ms O'Neill said: \"I am satisfied that my actions are within the regulations and the public health guidance. My actions I stand over.\n\n\"I think it is unfortunate that a lot of the charges being levelled towards me are political point-scoring, as opposed to actually being about the rules.\"\n\nThe Sinn Féin vice-president added that she would encourage \"anybody to stick within the regulations and the guidance as we have set out.\n\n\"We are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHowever, she did say a photograph that was taken of her and two others at the funeral \"shouldn't have happened\".\n\n\"I'm absolutely okay to say that,\" she said\n\nShe said it happened in the \"blink of an eye\".\n\nA large number of mourners turned out for the funeral\n\nEarlier, she told the Irish News the cortege had a \"maximum of 30 people in it\" and that the service at St Agnes's Church had been \"exemplary\" in relation to social distancing and hygiene.\n\nInside the church only three mourners shared a pew, she said.\n\nThe BBC understands about 120 mourners were inside the church\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said on Tuesday it would review footage of the funeral and \"consider any suspected breaches of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) Regulations NI 2020\".\n\nStormont's Finance Minister Conor Murphy and Northern Ireland Assembly members (MLAs) Gerry Kelly and Martina Anderson also attended the funeral.\n\nSources within the local churches have expressed concern about the deputy first minister's claim that the arrangements for the funeral service for Bobby Storey within St Agnes's Church in West Belfast were \"exemplary\".\n\nIt's understood that in a call last Wednesday with the chief medical officer, chief scientific adviser and two junior ministers, church representatives were told that the change in rules enabling social distancing at regular religious services did not apply to funerals, weddings and baptisms.\n\nA letter published on the executive website summarised the latest guidance on social distancing for places of worship passed on to the faith leaders.\n\nHowever the letter states that \"weddings, baptisms and funerals are not covered by the advice below. The executive will consider this further early next week.\"\n\nIt's understood the churches then advised other families planning funerals for this week that the maximum attendance for funerals of 10 people remained in place.\n\nAfter the TV pictures of Bobby Storey's funeral emerged, it's believed the Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor sought clarity from the executive.\n\nIt's believed church leaders were sent new guidance last night, marked \"draft\" which extends the social distancing rule to funeral services.\n\nHowever this guidance was not communicated to the churches prior to Bobby Storey's funeral and its status remains uncertain.\n\nGerry Kelly and Gerry Adams (centre and second from right) carried Mr Storey's coffin\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long, leader of the Alliance Party, said on Wednesday: \"In any other system of government the deputy first minister's position would be untenable.\n\n\"She should reflect on her position, as she has undermined the authority of her office by doing huge damage to the respect people have for the rules.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NI Health Minister Robin Swann said no-one was exempt from the regulations.\n\nMr Swann said he hoped \"this isn't the Dominic Cummings effect in Northern Ireland because quite frankly our health service can't afford it to be\".\n\n\"There is no person, or position, or point of privilege that is above the guidance we had laid down, no one is immune from it,\" he said.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said: \"Today's [Tuesday's] display showed a blatant disregard for the sacrifices made by so many.\"\n\nIn the assembly, Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said the executive's credibility had been undermined by the appearance of the deputy first minister and other MLAs \"in flagrant breach, it would appear, of some of those regulations\".\n\nThere have been a number of events which have been criticised for attracting crowds during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn May, a senior police officer said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nBobby Storey was previously chairman of Sinn Féin and a close friend of Gerry Adams\n\nMr Storey died at the age of 64 following a period of illness.\n\nSecurity sources linked him to several major incidents, including the £26m Northern Bank robbery in 2004.", "Charities tackling period poverty said the lockdown had \"exacerbated\" the issue\n\nThe number of women and girls facing period poverty has risen sharply during the coronavirus lockdown, according to charities working to help them.\n\nWomen unable to afford or access sanitary products have resorted to using items including newspaper, pillow cases, or tea towels.\n\nOne charity said the number of packs it gave out had risen about five-fold.\n\nPoverty left some struggling to afford products and schools and community centres that distribute them have shut.\n\nThe government said its scheme launched in January to give out free period products in schools was still in operation.\n\nNational charity Bloody Good Period said it usually distributed 5,000 packs a month but had handed more than 23,000 in the three months since lockdown began in England on 23 March.\n\nTina Leslie, who set up Freedom4Girls in 2016, said period poverty was affecting people's mental health\n\nLeeds-based Freedom4Girls said it had seen an even larger five-fold increase in the number of free sanitary products it supplied in and around the city.\n\nTina Leslie, who runs the charity, said it normally delivered about 500 packs of pads, tampons and liners a month. But since the start of lockdown it had distributed more than 7,500 packs.\n\n\"If you can't manage your periods your emotional mental health is just plummeting,\" she said.\n\n\"You feel awful, you feel dirty - you just need to have that protection so you can go about your daily life.\n\n\"Corona has exacerbated the issue over lockdown. Community centres weren't open, schools were closed.\"\n\nShe said the charity had received requests from schools for products because they had \"run out\".\n\n\"The level of deprivation and poverty and people not able to afford products has been growing slowly but this has just exacerbated the issue and I don't think it's going to get better any time soon.\"\n\nAjmal Said distributes sanitary products received from Freedom4Girls in the community with the help of her mother\n\nAjmal Said, 14, who lives in Leeds, said she and her friends were normally given sanitary products by the school nurse, but \"it's hard to access products when you're not at school\".\n\n\"Getting your period isn't a choice, so it's not really fair we have to pay this amount of money to get something we need and if we don't have that money we can't get it,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Hull woman is offering to make pads for those struggling to buy during the lockdown\n\nAlison Gordon said she had set up a \"free shop\" in her garden on the Hawksworth estate in Leeds during lockdown, providing clothes, toys and period products to local families.\n\n\"It's been really difficult getting hold of these kind of things,\" she said.\n\n\"We have people who really struggle because the food banks aren't as accessible.\n\n\"We have a woman up the road using nappies, toilet paper, newspaper - anything she can get her hands on.\n\n\"If you can't afford your food, your priority is not going to be getting a period product, it's feeding yourself and your children.\n\n\"So if you don't have the money for food you're not going to have the money to look after yourself in your period.\"\n\nThe Leeds charity makes sanitary products available at food banks, as well as distributing them out in the community\n\nMandu Reid, leader of the Women's Equality Party and a candidate in the election for Mayor of London - delayed until next year - said the pandemic had highlighted the issue of period poverty.\n\n\"You've got a situation where something that was starting to be recognised, gradually kind of being under control, has now taken several steps back,\" she said.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We introduced the period product scheme so that students are able to access to these products when they need them at school or college.\n\n\"The scheme remains in operation and schools and colleges are still able to order a range of period products through the online portal and distribute them to students, whether they are learning from home or at school or college.\"", "Labour leader Keir Starmer said three quarters of people with Covid-19 are not being reached by test and trace teams .\n\nHe said that there were 22,000 weekly cases in England but only 5,000 were asked to provide details.\n\nBut his first number is drawn from a survey.\n\nEach week the Office for National Statistics tests a sample of people and then forms an estimate for the population as a whole based on the percentage who are positive.\n\nIt is an estimate and not people who have actually been tested, so therefore the teams could not trace that many people.\n\nIn reality, the latest week in the figures (11-17 June) saw 6,100 people actually test positive for coronavirus.\n\nOf these, the government was able to reach 4,869 people.", "Six couples are taking a landmark challenge to the High Court next week in a bid to get legal recognition for humanist weddings in England and Wales.\n\nCurrently, humanist ceremonies are not recognised in law, so couples must also have a civil ceremony.\n\nLawyers for the six couples say the current law discriminates against them because of their humanist beliefs.\n\nIn Scotland and Northern Ireland, the law is different and humanist ceremonies are legally recognised.\n\nHumanist weddings are non-religious ceremonies which are conducted by a humanist celebrant.\n\nCurrently in England and Wales, non-religious weddings are only legal if they are carried out by a registrar.\n\nBut humanist weddings became legal in Scotland in 2005 and in Northern Ireland in 2018, and since then the number of couples opting for such weddings in both nations has soared.\n\nThe legal challenge to ask the UK government to change the law was lodged at the High Court last November, and will be heard on 7 and 8 July.\n\nIt is being supported by the charity Humanists UK, which has campaigned on the issue for decades.\n\nThe organisation says a change in law could help deal with \"the huge backlog\" of demand for marriage services due to the pandemic.\n\n\"Couples who have humanist weddings see that day as the epitome of their love and commitment to each other, and all they want is the same legal recognition for that as is given to every religious person in our country,\" said the head of Humanists UK, Andrew Copson.\n\n\"We have tried for decades to address this glaring double standard. Government has dragged its heels and that's why it's been left to these couples to bring this case.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it wants to \"give couples more choice in how they celebrate their commitment to each other\" and has asked for a review from the Law Commission to make recommendations \"for a simple, fair and consistent system for all\".\n\n\"We believe that the act of getting married is profoundly personal and having a humanist ceremony is central to our identities as humanists,\" said Kate Harrison and Christopher Sanderson from Lincolnshire.\n\n\"We are very happy to be taking a case that will help to create a fairer law,\" said Christopher and Kate\n\nThe retired couple have been together for 14 years and are in their sixties, and say they will not get married until humanist marriages are recognised.\n\n\"It is highly discriminatory that if you have a religion you can get married in a way of your choosing which is compatible with your beliefs, but if you are non-religious, the state has a complete monopoly over how you get married,\" they said.\n\nMeanwhile, Jennifer McCalmont and Finbar Graham from Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, said: \"We come from two separate religious backgrounds which neither of us practises and so we didn't want to be hypocritical in having a religious ceremony.\"\n\nCivil servant Jennifer and landscape gardener Finbar say humanism resonates with them\n\n\"Living in Northern Ireland we could simply have a legally recognised humanist marriage here but Northam Beach in Devon is special to us as it was the first place we holidayed together.\n\n\"Not being able to have the ceremony we want will undoubtedly undermine the significance of the day and devalue our beliefs. The current law discriminates against us as humanists.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Victoria Hosegood and Charli Janeway from Kent have postponed their wedding until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic but intend to have a humanist ceremony.\n\nCharli and Victoria say the humanist ceremony \"is the most important part\" of their wedding day\n\n\"Marriage laws need to reflect the make-up of modern-day society, including the growing numbers of humanists, which is why we think this case is so important,\" they said.\n\nCiaran Moynagh, a solicitor representing some of the claimants, suggested \"momentum is on our side\" following the law change in Northern Ireland in 2018.\n\nTory MP Crispin Blunt, who chairs the all-party Parliamentary Humanist Group, said it was \"understandable\" that the six couples had \"given up waiting\" and chosen the legal route.\n\n\"The government has been considering bringing about legal recognition of humanist marriages for some seven years now, over three different reviews.\"\n\nLabour's faith and belief spokeswoman, shadow minister Janet Daby, said: \"It's time for the government to recognise the thousands of humanists across the country who are simply asking for a legally recognised wedding that is reflective of their beliefs and values.\"\n\nHumanists UK say more than 1,000 couples a year already have a humanist ceremony and then must have a separate civil marriage - usually at a registrar's office - for it to be legally recognised.", "The main production for Walkers is at the site in Beaumont Leys, Leicester\n\nWalkers has confirmed 28 staff at its factory in Leicester have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe crisp giant, which employs 1,400 at its Beaumont Leys site, said it had seen a \"steady increase\" in confirmed cases in June.\n\nA local lockdown has been announced in Leicester after the number of infections in the city rose.\n\nWalkers said its products were unaffected, and transmission of the virus was \"not in our factory\".\n\n\"The advice from DEFRA and the Food Standards Agency is clear - it is very unlikely that people can catch Covid-19 from food,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\n\"We do not anticipate any disruption to the supply of our products.\"\n\nThe firm said the increase in confirmed cases reflected the situation in the local community.\n\nIt was \"in regular contact\" with health authorities and the government, the spokeswoman said, and was \"reassured\" it had the correct measures in place to protect employees.\n\nShe said employees with a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19 were self-isolating on full pay and Walkers continued to \"maintain the highest level of vigilance\".\n\nWalkers said its products were unaffected as a result of the confirmed cases\n\nThe company said health authorities supported their view the cases reflect transmission in the community and therefore there was \"not a transmission issue on site\".\n\nOn Monday, Matt Hancock said Leicester accounted for \"10% of all positive cases in the country over the past week\" and the number of positive coronavirus cases in Leicester was \"three times higher than the next highest city\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government must set out plans for an inquiry into its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the health service ombudsman has said.\n\nThis was not about blaming staff but about \"learning lessons\", he said.\n\nOmbudsman Rob Behrens said patients were reporting concerns about cancelled cancer treatment and incorrect Covid-19 test results.\n\nMinisters have not committed to holding an inquiry, but have accepted there are lessons to be learned.\n\nThe Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) stopped investigating complaints against the NHS on 26 March, to allow it to focus on tackling the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nBut people had continued to phone in with these concerns, Mr Behrens said.\n\nAnd cancelled treatment and wrong coronavirus test results have emerged as major themes.\n\n\"Complaining when something has gone wrong should not be about criticising doctors, nurses or other front-line public servants, who have often been under extraordinary pressure dealing with the Covid-19 crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"It is about identifying where things have gone wrong systematically and making sure lessons are learned so mistakes are not repeated.\"\n\nMr Behrens said he had written to the government on 19 May asking for information about the scope of any future inquiry, but had not received a response.\n\nHearing the real experiences of people who used NHS services during the pandemic should form part of any future review of the government's handling of the pandemic, he added.\n\nAnd an \"independent, swift and urgent\" review could have an impact on policies should there be a second wave of infections.\n\nHe said while the government still needed to focus on the current crisis, there were already themes \"that we can learn from\".\n\n\"You can do both things,\" he said.\n\nLast month a group of leading scientists and medical experts wrote to the government, demanding an urgent public inquiry into the response to Covid-19. They warned that without it more lives could be lost if there was a second spike in cases.\n\nRelatives of 450 people who have died in the pandemic have also demanded an immediate public review to minimise the continuing effects of the virus, ahead of a full inquiry.\n\nAnd a number of MPs have said they will form a cross-party parliamentary group in support of an urgent inquiry into the government's handling of the crisis.\n\nDuring an evidence session to MPs on Tuesday, patients described problems they had had because of cancelled care.\n\nKnee-surgery patient Rob Martinez said he had not heard anything from his doctors.\n\n\"It just went so silent. I was so close to having it and then it got cancelled and it was absolutely devastating,\" he said.\n\nDaloni Carlisle said: \"My doctors told me that I needed some chemotherapy. I then fell into a hole where I was absolutely in limbo.\n\n\"I'd had absolutely no communication about when this chemotherapy might start. So for most of the lockdown I've been sitting here at home knowing that all the cancer is growing, knowing that the tumours in my lung, in my liver, in my spine are all busily growing and absolutely no word from the hospital about when some treatment might start.\n\n\"I can't tell you how difficult that limbo period has been.\"\n\nMr Behrens said people should report their complaints to the PHSO office if they had not been resolved by the local service's own complaints process, \"otherwise other people may experience the same failings\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock on Tuesday tweeted that the Nightingale hospitals, set up to care for coronavirus patients if existing hospitals overflowed, would be converted into cancer-testing centres.", "The outbreak involves the Annan and Gretna areas Image caption: The outbreak involves the Annan and Gretna areas\n\nThe cross-border \"cluster\" of coronavirus cases around Dumfries and the north west of England \"continues to illustrate the challenge we face with this virus\", according to Scotland's national clinical director.\n\nProfessor Jason Leitch goes on to tell Radio Scotland: \"This will be, unfortunately, the new normal, for a little while, of these outbreaks and containing them.\"\n\nNHS Dumfries and Galloway confirmed there had been nine new cases of Covid-19 in the Gretna and Annan areas since Monday.\n\nProf Leitch says if the group of positive cases can be contained and contact and trace works as it should, then \"you can close down that cluster without too much more trouble\".\n\nThe danger is if the contacts can't be traced then potentially something more severe might have to be done, he adds.\n\nProf Leitch hopes that will not happen and he says the incident management team on both sides of the border is meeting now and he is confident the process will work.\n\nThe national clinical director stresses that people must organise a test if they have the symptoms and tell the truth regarding their movements, so that their contacts can be traced to close down the chain of transmission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA cross-border \"cluster\" of coronavirus cases has been identified across south west Scotland and north west England.\n\nNHS Dumfries and Galloway confirmed there had been nine new cases of Covid-19 in the Gretna and Annan areas since Monday.\n\nIt said everyone was self-isolating and work was taking place to identify any recent contacts.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, described it as a \"complex but small cluster\".\n\nHe stressed that the last positive cases in the Dumfries and Galloway health board area had come on 22 June.\n\n\"This is a complex but small cluster captured in different testing areas; in a hospital testing site, in a mobile testing unit and in a drive-through testing unit,\" he added.\n\nHe said the number of cases was in \"single figures\" and stretched across the Scotland-England border.\n\n\"That adds a complexity because some of the testing will have been done in England and some of the testing will have been done in Scotland,\" he said.\n\nA cross-border incident management team has been put together with Health Protection Scotland and Public Health England.\n\nJohn Pagani said all you could do was stick to guidance\n\nJohn Pagani, who runs the Café Royal in Annan, only recently reopened his business after it was shut for seven weeks. He has strict hygiene and social distancing measures in place, such as temperature checks for staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is a very worrying development.\n\n\"I have noticed an increase in the number of customers from England over the last week or so and customers say Carlisle is pretty much business as usual now.\n\n\"We obviously don't know where the outbreak started, and the last thing I want to say to any customer is you're not welcome, but it shows you how complicated this is.\n\n\"All we can do is stick to our own plan for social distancing and hygiene and hope they can trace all the cases.\"\n\nProf Leitch said contact tracing had \"already begun\".\n\n\"Incidents like this reinforce the importance of our test and protect model quickly identifying potential clusters and identifying contacts,\" he said.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that the public should \"take some assurance\" from the news that clusters of coronavirus outbreaks had been detected.\n\nShe said she understood the anxiety caused by the virus but the systems to deal with the situation were \"kicking in\" when they needed to.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People on the streets of Annan react to the new \"cluster\" of coronavirus cases.\n\nNHS Dumfries and Galloway said it was monitoring the situation \"very closely\" and would provide updates as the situation developed.\n\nIt said a mobile testing unit would be made available for anyone experiencing symptoms\n\nA health board statement said the region had been \"very fortunate\" to have a relatively small number of cases in recent weeks.\n\nValerie White, interim director of public health, said: \"These new cases are a clear reminder of the challenges we face in learning to live with Covid-19.\n\n\"As we move out of lockdown we are very likely to see areas of localised outbreak.\n\n\"Our test and protect system is designed to identify cases and their contacts and provide advice and support to individuals in relation to self isolating for the required period.\n\n\"That is why everyone must continue to stay alert, get a test if they have symptoms, and self isolate.\"\n\nHenry McClelland said it showed the virus had not gone away\n\nAnnandale South councillor Henry McClelland said he had first heard about five cases on Tuesday.\n\n\"We are absolutely horrified, we have been doing so well here in Dumfries and Galloway keeping the numbers really low,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it is a very timely reminder. We are so close to Carlisle and I am seeing so many notices on social media about people going to Carlisle this weekend for a drink, the pubs are reopening.\n\n\"This is surely a timely reminder that we have got to take this seriously - it hasn't gone away.\"", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nAn 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering two sisters in a park in London.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found at Fryent Gardens in Wembley on 7 June, two days after a birthday party in the park.\n\nTheir family has been told in person about the arrest, the Met said. The arrested man from south-London was taken into custody where he remains.\n\nThe sisters had met friends in the park at about 19:00 BST on 5 June to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday.\n\nThe group had been in an area of Fryent Gardens which was about a five-minute walk from the Valley Drive entrance.\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 and Ms Henry are thought to have ended up alone by about 12:30 on 6 June.\n\nPolice said they were in \"good spirits\" and \"taking selfie pictures, listening to music and dancing with fairy lights\" until at least 01:13.\n\nCalls to them from family at 02:30 went unanswered, police said.\n\nExtensive forensic work has finished at the park but smaller searches in outer areas continue, police said.\n\nMore than 1,000 exhibits including property belonging to Ms Smallman and Ms Henry have been recovered and hours of CCTV collected, the Met said.\n\nExtensive forensic work in the park has concluded, though smaller searches will continue\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding, said: \"Given the significance of this development, we visited the family in person today to inform them of the arrest.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with them at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe arrest comes after two Met Police officers were suspended after \"inappropriate photos\" were taken of the crime scene.\n\nNicole Smallman's body was found by her boyfriend after she was reported missing\n\nThe unnamed officers were arrested by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on 22 June and have since been bailed.\n\nTalking to the BBC last week, the girls' mother Mina Smallman said the pictures \"dehumanised\" her children.\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\nThe police watchdog 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says Britain must \"build, build, build\" to bounce back from the coronavirus crisis\n\nBoris Johnson has said now is the time to be \"ambitious\" about the UK's future, as he set out a post-coronavirus recovery plan.\n\nThe PM vowed to \"use this moment\" to fix longstanding economic problems and promised a £5bn \"new deal\" to build homes and infrastructure.\n\nPlans set out in the Tory election manifesto would be speeded up and \"intensified,\" he added.\n\nLabour and the CBI said he was not focusing enough on saving jobs.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said there was \"not much of a deal and not much that's new\".\n\nThe BBC's economic editor, Faisal Islam, said there was \"nothing really new\" in the plans, but was a pledge from the Treasury to \"speed up capital investment that has already been announced and tolerate higher levels of debt\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak later confirmed he would deliver an economic update on 8 July \"setting out the next stage in our plan to secure the recovery\".\n\nThe PM's speech came as new figures showed the UK economy shrank faster than at any time since 1979 between January and March.\n\nIn a wide-ranging speech in Dudley, in the West Midlands, Mr Johnson vowed to \"build, build, build\" to soften the \"economic aftershock\" of coronavirus.\n\nHe said the government wanted to continue with its plans to \"level up\" - one of its main slogans of last December's election - as \"too many parts\" of the country had been \"left behind, neglected, unloved\".\n\nInfrastructure projects in England would be \"accelerated\" and there would be investment in new academy schools, green buses and new broadband, the PM added.\n\nOther projects announced in the government's Spring Budget, which will now be accelerated, include:\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged jobs might be lost because of the economic hit from the pandemic, but said a new \"opportunity guarantee\" would ensure every young person had the chance of an apprenticeship or placement.\n\nAsked whether the plans went far enough for those who end up unemployed, the PM said the strategy was for \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" and there would not be a return to austerity.\n\nBut he could not put a figure on how many roles would be created through his plan, adding: \"We don't yet know what the full economic impact is going to be... [but] we will do everything we can to get this economy moving.\"\n\nHe is a keen student of Winston Churchill - and has even written a book about him.\n\nOver the last few days, the comparisons the government has sought to draw have been with former American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his \"New Deal.\"\n\nAs my colleagues at Reality Check point out, the plan set out today is a tiddler compared to what FDR did, and a fair chunk of it is re-announcing what we already knew the government was planning.\n\nBut Boris Johnson is attempting to set out in a broader context the government's vision - and his pride in saying he wants to spend a lot to revitalise the economy and haul it out of the doldrums.\n\nUnder what Mr Johnson dubbed \"project speed,\" planning laws would also be streamlined to encourage building.\n\nPubs, libraries, village shops will be protected from the changes as they were \"essential to the lifeblood of communities,\" the government said.\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged the planning changes might meet resistance in traditional Tory-voting areas, but said: \"Sometimes you have got to get on with things.\"\n\nThe government believes their existing plans for boosting infrastructure spending are already a significant fillip to the economy, and they want to see what happens as it re-opens.\n\nOne set of figures released today shows household savings increased during lockdown, but will people have the confidence to spend?\n\nThe scale of government support for businesses and employees in recent months probably does justify New Deal-style rhetoric. Extending support at that level may yet be required, and is far from ruled out.\n\nBut for now, they are holding fire as they assess the permanent scars to the UK economy.\n\nMr Johnson also attempted to calm Tory fears that he had shifted to the left, saying: \"I am not a communist\".\n\nInstead, he claimed he had been inspired by US president Franklin D Roosevelt, who led America out of the Great Depression with his New Deal in the 1930s.\n\nIn the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, President Roosevelt launched one of the largest, most expensive US government programmes which included building schools, hospitals and dams.\n\nYouth Worker Lisa Williams is worried young people will be hit hard\n\nIn the former \"red wall\" seat of Rother Valley - which the Conservatives won from Labour for the first time at last year's general election - there has been a mixed reaction to the announcement from employees and business owners.\n\nDavid Shaw, operations manager for a manufacturing company, said the investment announcement was \"positive\" and praised the government's furlough scheme during the crisis for saving businesses.\n\nBut Lisa Williams, manager of a youth and community centre in Dinnington, said of the promised investment that \"we've yet to see that happen\".\n\n\"Year-on-year, successive governments have made promises, and these areas have yet to see that,\" she said, adding she was concerned about the economic impact on young people.\n\nAnd Jayne Maxwell, a shop owner in Maltby, said she was sceptical about how much investment would go into high streets, saying more short-term help was needed.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"We're facing an economic crisis, the biggest we've seen in a generation and the recovery needs to match that. What's been announced amounts to less than £100 per person.\n\n\"And it's the re-announcement of many manifesto pledges and commitments, so it's not enough.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer says more focus is needed on jobs\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"We're not going to argue against a recovery plan, but the focus has to be on jobs.\"\n\nCBI Director General Carolyn Fairbairn said the prime minister had set out the \"first steps on the path to recovery\" but added that \"the focus on rescuing viable firms cannot slip\".", "Families of children with special educational needs have felt \"utterly abandoned\" during school closures, an MPs' committee has been told.\n\nWitnesses told the education committee those with extra educational, physical or emotional needs had seen support \"fall off a cliff\" amid lockdown.\n\nRisk assessments linked to Covid-19 had been used by some schools to prevent SEND pupils attending, it heard.\n\nThere was also concern national catch-up plans do not mention SEND children.\n\nWitnesses from the special educational needs and disability (SEND) world painted a bleak and disturbing picture of life for pupils with additional needs.\n\nAli Fiddy, chief executive of the Independent Provider of Special Education Advice, said her organisation was seeing families \"who are very clearly struggling\".\n\nThere was definitely not enough support being offered for parents, she said, with many families feeling \"utterly abandoned\".\n\nChildren with special needs plans were part of the group of children who were invited to continue schooling.\n\nBut Ms Fiddy said, in some cases, the risk assessment process tied to the coronavirus outbreak was being used as an excuse to offer no services and keep pupils out of school.\n\nShe gave the example of a parent of a Reception child with SEND being told they could not attend because they would need to be reminded to wash their hands.\n\nChildren and young people are not vulnerable by virtue of having SEND, they are vulnerable because of the way the system treats them, Ms Fiddy said.\n\nAmanda Batten, chair of the Disabled Children's Partnership, said families feel \"very much forgotten\" and that most families had seen their support reduced if not withdrawn.\n\nShe said overall the picture was one of exhaustion and stress among the families she had heard from, with children's physical and mental health deteriorating.\n\nFamilies were left to fend for themselves as they struggled with home schooling, nursing in some cases and no therapeutic support at all, she said.\n\nPhilippa Stobbs, policy vice-chair at the Special Educational Consortium, said many families and young people had been hit hard by the waiving of the legal duty on schools to provide support for SEND pupils.\n\nThis was replaced when schools closed with the requirement for schools and councils to make \"reasonable endeavours\" with children on education health care plans.\n\nAll the witnesses agreed they wanted to see these temporary \"watered down\" regulations come to an end.\n\nThe problem was that many families had received no information about what might replace their regular support.\n\n\"The impact of that is absolutely devastating,\" she said.\n\n\"So the pre-existing inequalities have been exacerbated because so little has been done in some places for children who already experience difficulties in their education.\"\n\n\"The difficulty for a family left to home educate their child with a lack of any provision from a school or local authority is almost unimaginable, and the impact of that is going to be deep and long-lasting.\"\n\nShe also highlighted the structural issues within the SEND system which has form many years been be-set with delays and difficulties.\n\nChair of the committee, Robert Halfon, said: \"This is very, very depressing what you're telling us this morning, I have to say.\n\n\"I'm glad we have you here, but it is incredibly depressing, what we're hearing.\"\n\nAll witnesses agreed there was a need for a specific catch-up plans for children with special educational needs, involving extra emotional and therapeutic support.\n\nAnd there was a warning of a spike in school refusal and exclusions next term, if substantial support was not offered and manifestations of emotional needs were treated as disciplinary matters.\n\nConcerns were also raised about practical issues such as transport for SEND children come September.\n\n\"You will need more buses, not fewer and you will need to potentially plan them for slightly different timetables and so forth in order that we don't have everyone arriving by bus at the same time,\" said Ms Stobbs.\n\n\"There are all sorts of considerations that really need to be part of a comprehensive local plan.\"", "E-scooters are a common sight in cities like LA - but are illegal in the UK until the weekend\n\nThe UK's blindness charity says e-scooters remain a \"real and genuine threat\" ahead of their legalisation.\n\nThe Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) said that the government's safeguards, announced this week, had failed to assuage its fears.\n\nOther witnesses at a parliamentary transport committee hearing said the top speed and weight of the e-scooters were higher than they should be.\n\nIt will become legal to ride e-scooters on Great Britain's roads from Saturday.\n\nThe change, which comes amid pressure on the public transport system from social distancing requirements, applies only to rentals. Private scooters will remain illegal.\n\nEarlier this week, the government revealed that the speed limit would be 15.5mph (25km/h), and that users would need a driving licence to take part.\n\nEleanor Southwood, chair of the RNIB board, told the committee: \"It's really clear that even with all of the safeguards… we do consider e-scooters to be a real and genuine threat to the ability of blind and partially sighted people to move around independently and safely.\"\n\nShe said the RNIB was \"really surprised to see the 15mph speed limit yesterday, which is a lot faster than we had anticipated\".\n\nElectric scooters are much quieter than cars, she said. And she added that evidence of pedal bikes being used on pavements suggested that \"without robust enforcement\", e-scooters would probably be used on pedestrian walkways.\n\nUndocked e-scooters left on the street could also be a trip hazard.\n\n\"We were hoping that speeds would be limited, ideally to as close to walking as possible, but if not, to an absolute maximum of 12.5mph,\" Ms Southwood said.\n\n\"So we are really shocked by the speed limit.\"\n\nPhilip Darnton, director of the Bicycle Association, told politicians his group had no set view on e-scooters, because some of its members were fiercely against them while others sold them.\n\nBut he said that the power and weight allowed by the government went far beyond what was expected.\n\n\"The power, again, was very surprising - 500 watts,\" he said, referring to the motor.\n\n\"Most scooters in the world, and all the most popular brands are rated up to 250 watts. 500 watts will give you formidable acceleration, much, much faster than any cyclist or e-bike - which is also rated at 250 watts - could possibly do.\"\n\nThat acceleration increased the risk to riders, he said.\n\nHe added that the Bicycle Association had recommended a maximum weight of 20kg (44lb). But the government had approved more than twice that - 55kg - to accommodate bigger batteries and lower the cost of constant recharging by the commercial operator.\n\n\"The combination of speed, power, and weight has to be looked at,\" he warned.\n\nRachel Lee, of the Living Streets walking group, said she was concerned about the speed - and also about people using them while drunk.\n\nBut the broader problem was that \"our infrastructure currently is not up to the job\", she said - pointing to a lack of segregated cycleways as an example.\n\n\"At the moment I just fear that people who are using these for the first time, are getting scared on our busy roads, and then jumping up on the pavement - and then before you know it someone who's vulnerable, elderly, maybe can't see - or even children - are being knocked over.\"\n\nTwo academics, however, spoke about the potential positive impact e-scooters could have.\n\n\"I can see the benefits in terms of environment, and health, and also social inclusion,\" Graeme Sherriff from the University of Salford said.\n\n\"It depends on the rest of the system in a way, but they could very much encourage people away from cars.\"\n\nJillian Anable, a transport expert from the University of Leeds, echoed the positive sentiments.\n\n\"If we can't do some bold things now, then when can we do them, with respect to the transport sector?\" she said.\n\nShe also questioned the need for users to have a driving licence.\n\n\"Its greatest merit is for those who do not have a driving licence, and don't aspire to have one,\" she said.", "Upper Crust owner SSP Group says up to 5,000 jobs could be cut across its UK outlets and head office, as it struggles with the reduction in passenger travel.\n\nThe firm said global sales in April and May were 95% below the previous year's.\n\nSSP operates 580 food and drink outlets across the UK, mostly at railway stations and airports, but fewer than 10 are currently open.\n\nThe company expects only one-fifth of its UK stores to be open by the autumn.\n\nSSP employs around 39,000 staff worldwide across 2,800 outlets. Last month, it said it had suffered \"extremely low sales\" after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to shut branches.\n\nAs well as Upper Crust bakeries, the company also owns the Caffè Ritazza chain, deli operator Camden Food Co. and luxury bar chain Cabin.\n\nSSP joins a growing list of companies slashing jobs as the UK economy suffers its worst contraction in 41 years.\n\nIn the past few days, a number of firms have announced UK job cuts:\n\n\"Covid-19 continues to have an unprecedented impact on the travel industry and on SSP's businesses in all geographies,\" said SSP Group chief executive Simon Smith.\n\n\"We are beginning to see early signs of recovery in some parts of the world and are starting to open units as passenger demand picks up. However, in the UK the pace of the recovery continues to be slow,\" he said.\n\nThe company added: \"If the pace of the recovery continues at the current level, this could lead to up to c. 5,000 roles becoming redundant from within the head office and UK operations.\"\n\nWhile SSP operates across more than 30 countries, including the US, India and China, the job cuts are only being made at its UK business.\n\nAt this time of year, the company would normally employ about 9,000 people across the UK. Staff have been enrolled on the government-paid furlough scheme throughout the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe company said it had planned to reopen UK outlets as passenger demand returned, adding: \"The reality is that passenger numbers still remain at very low levels.\"\n\nMr Smith said the firm would swiftly reopen UK units if there were improved sales over the summer.\n\nIn a statement, the company said it had access to around £750m in liquidity and it was confident it had sufficient funds to allow it to operate \"throughout even its most pessimistic scenario\".", "Cynthia Erivo and Eva Longoria are among the new invitees\n\nThe latest batch of actors and film-makers to be invited to vote for the Oscars has been unveiled, exceeding the diversity target that was set for 2020.\n\nAfter the #OscarsSoWhite movement of 2016, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences promised to double the number of female and BAME members.\n\nEva Longoria and Cynthia Erivo are among those who have been invited to join the organisation this year.\n\nOf the 819 people invited, 45% are women and 36% are non-white.\n\nFigures including Ana de Armas, Zendaya, Awkwafina, Constance Wu and Roma star Yalitza Aparicio have also been invited.\n\nBritish stars on the list alongside Erivo include 1917 star George MacKay and Little Women's Florence Pugh.\n\nThe Academy said 49% of the new invitees were from outside the US. If all 819 accept, it will bring the organisation's total membership to 9,412.\n\nCuban actress Ana de Armas, who starred in Knives Out, is among the new invitees\n\nThey will vote for next year's Oscars, which will take place two months later than usual as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Very excited to be a new member of The Academy with so many brilliant minds,\" tweeted The Farewell director Lulu Wang.\n\n\"Though there is still much work to be done, this class looks more like an actual jury of our PEERS than ever before, so that's a step in the right direction.\"\n\nAcademy president David Rubin said in a statement: \"We have always embraced extraordinary talent that reflects the rich variety of our global film community, and never more so than now.\"\n\nBefore the latest invitees were unveiled, The Academy's overall membership was 32% female, up from 25% in 2015.\n\nAwkwafina, one of the new invitees, won a Golden Globe in January for her performance in The Farewell\n\nThe number from \"underrepresented ethnic/racial communities\" had also increased, from 8% in 2015 to 16% in 2018.\n\nDiversity at the Oscars has improved in recent years, with films such as Parasite and Moonlight winning best picture in 2019 and 2017 respectively.\n\nSeveral Parasite actors, including Jang Hye-Jin, Jo Yeo-Jeong, Park So-Dam and Lee Jung-Eun, are among those who have received invitations.\n\nThose on the list also include Nigerian actress and director Genevieve Nnaji, who starred and directed in Lionheart, which was disqualified from the race for best international feature film in 2019.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Genevieve Nnaji MFR This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Academy said it would now launch a new scheme, Aperture 2025, to further increase its diversity over the next five years.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A child tries to cool himself in a heatwave in Gaza\n\nThe World Meteorological Organisation says there's a growing chance that global temperatures will break the 1.5C threshold over the next five years, compared to pre-industrial levels.\n\nIt says there's a 20% possibility the critical mark will be broken in any one year before 2024.\n\nBut the assessment says there's a 70% chance it will be broken in one or more months in those five years.\n\nScientists say that keeping below 1.5C will avoid the worst climate impacts.\n\nThe target was agreed by world leaders in the 2015 Paris climate accord accord.\n\nThey committed to pursue efforts to try to keep the world from warming by more than 1.5C this century.\n\nThis new assessment, carried out by the UK's Met Office for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), says there's a growing chance that this level will be breached.\n\nResearchers say that the Earth's average annual temperature is already more than 1C higher than it was in the 1850s - and will probably stay around this level over the next five years.\n\nPrevious studies had put the short-term chances of going above 1.5C at 10% - that's now doubled say the climate modellers, and it's increasing with time.\n\nThere are likely to be more storms hitting Europe\n\nSome parts of the world will feel this rising heat more than others, with the scientists saying that the Arctic will probably warm by twice the global average this year.\n\nThey also predict that over the coming five years there will be more storms over western Europe thanks to rising sea levels.\n• None 70%chance 1.5°C threshold broken in one or more months by 2024 World Meteorological Organization (assessment does not take into account fall in CO2 emissions due to coronavirus pandemic)\n\nThe assessment considers natural variability as well as the impact of carbon emissions from human activities - however the models don't take account of the fall-off in CO2 emissions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe WMO says this is unlikely to affect temperatures in the early 2020s.\n\nFires in Siberia are said to be linked to the very warm conditions being experienced there\n\n\"The WMO has repeatedly stressed that the industrial and economic slowdown from Covid-19 is not a substitute for sustained and co-ordinated climate action,\" said Prof Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary general.\n\n\"Due to the very long lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere, the impact of the drop in emissions this year is not expected to lead to a reduction of CO2 atmospheric concentrations which are driving global temperature increases.\n\n\"Whilst Covid-19 has caused a severe international health and economic crisis, failure to tackle climate change may threaten human well-being, ecosystems and economies for centuries. Governments should use the opportunity to embrace climate action as part of recovery programmes and ensure that we grow back better,\" he said.\n\nIf the 1.5C threshold is broken in one of the coming years, the experts stress it won't mean the targets are invalid.\n\nHowever it will, once again, underline the urgency of significant emissions cuts to prevent a long-term move to this more dangerous, warmer world.", "Mike and Sally Stuart are full of joy after saving £8,000 on stamp duty\n\n\"When I found out that we were going to have a stamp duty holiday, I jumped for joy,\" says Sally Stuart.\n\nThe Salford-based university lecturer reckons the chancellor's announcement on Wednesday will save her and her husband about £8,000.\n\n\"We're in the middle of buying our £346,000 dream home and have agreed a completion date of 30 July.\n\n\"it means we'll have some money to use when we move in. The house needs some work doing to it, so we can use it there.\"\n\nSally and husband Mike - a software developer - have both been working from home during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThey started home hunting in February and quickly found the house they wanted.\n\n\"But then Covid happened and we were at the stage of searches which meant everything stopped. It was really frustrating,\" Sally says.\n\nIt was only when the lockdown started easing, and estate agents were allowed to start showing people around again, that it started moving again.\n\n\"We're having to think twice about how we'll work in the future, but we'll use some of the extra money to make a little office to work from home.\n\n\"It's something I never would have considered before coronavirus times, but the stamp duty holiday has proved to come at just the right time for us.\"\n\nThe timing of the stamp duty holiday - it started on Wednesday 8 July - has angered James Davies.\n\n\"We're almost £10,000 out of pocket, because we completed a week ago,\" he says.\n\n\"It should be backdated to help the ones that didn't pull out of their house purchase.\"\n\nJames Davies is angry that the stamp duty holiday has not been backdated\n\nIn March, all looked rosy for James and his wife, who lived in Preston.\n\n\"I had a nice job, my wife had recently got a new job in the tourism industry and we rescued two golden retrievers.\n\n\"We all know what happened next.\"\n\nThe couple decided to continue with their purchase of their new home in East Riding of Yorkshire despite lockdown: \"We just didn't want to let the coronavirus win!\" James says.\n\nThey paid the deposit on their new home last Wednesday, 1 July, and paid £9,750 in stamp duty tax.\n\nOn the same day, James was made redundant from his job in the food industry, where he was an account manager in the airline and restaurant/foodservice sector.\n\n\"Our new situation means we could really do with that money now and it would make a huge difference to us.\n\n\"We carried on paying solicitors, the mortgage broker, surveyors, van rental guys, a storage unit, spending thousands of pounds believing in our government to do right by us if there was a stamp duty holiday.\n\n\"Now we feel let down. It feels like we've been penalised. If they backdated it to the beginning of the month, we would qualify for the holiday.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a temporary holiday on stamp duty on the first £500,000 of all property sales in England and Northern Ireland until next March.\n\nHe said the move would save the average house buyer £4,500.\n\nThere has been a mixed reaction to the news.\n\n\"The chancellor's announcement should give a welcome boost to the housing market and in turn, have positive knock-on effects for the wider economy,\" said Eric Leenders, managing director of personal finance at UK Finance.\n\n\"The stamp duty holiday might have a positive indirect impact on a long list of related industries, such as house builders, conveyancers, estate agents, finance and insurance providers, house movers and furniture and garden retailers,\" said Jamie Ward, head of stamp taxes at PwC.\n\nBut critics said the temporary move needed to be longer.\n\n\"It gives little opportunity for house builders to use the reduction to inform strategic decisions on construction plans beyond the next nine months,\" said Chris Denning, partner at MHA MacIntyre Hudson.\n\n\"Making the stamp duty cut temporary is a gamble,\" warned David Westgate, group chief executive at Andrews Property Group.\n\n\"Cliff-edge deadlines completely distort the market and rarely benefit the consumer.\"\n\nHe warned of \"a boom scenario\" between now and April next year, \"when a disproportionate number of people are buying at higher prices\".\n\nSarah Ryan, head of conveyancing at law firm Simpson Millar, called on the government to make the scheme retrospective to help people like James Davies.\n\n\"For people who have managed to complete on the purchase of their home either during lockdown, or in the immediate aftermath, this will come as a bitter blow,\" she said.", "Rishi Sunak presented his summer statement in the Commons on Wednesday\n\nThe Welsh Government will get an extra £500m as a result of the chancellor's summer statement, the UK government has said.\n\nRishi Sunak announced measures to help hospitality, tourism and young people in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nMeasures include cuts to VAT and discounts for eating out.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said the announcement did not pull the \"levers needed to support\" the recovery from coronavirus.\n\nThe UK government says it has provided Welsh ministers, who run many of Wales' public services including the NHS, with a total of £2.8bn during the pandemic.\n\nBoth measures will apply in Wales, as will a £2bn 'kickstart' scheme to create more jobs for young people.\n\nThe decision to give employers £1,000 per staff member they take back from the furlough scheme is also UK-wide.\n\nBut a temporary stamp duty holiday on the first £500,000 of all property sales applies to England and Northern Ireland. In Wales stamp duty is devolved.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said through the crisis the UK government has \"supported hundreds of thousands of people in Wales, putting in place one of the largest and most comprehensive economic responses in the world\".\n\nThe measures led to calls from the UK government for ministers in Cardiff to go further in relaxing lockdown.\n\nUK government Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said: \"The opportunities we are creating and the new routes into employment are great news for young people in Wales, while VAT cut for tourism and hospitality will be a huge boost for that sector.\n\n\"It is now absolutely essential that Wales' world-class tourism and hospitality industry can properly open for business.\"\n\nCurrently no date is set for pubs, cafes and restaurants to reopen indoors in Wales, although plans are for them to use outdoor spaces from 13 July.\n\nOutdoor attractions have been allowed to reopen with the lifting of travel restrictions last Monday, and self-contained accommodation is also expected to open from 13 July.\n\nA cut to the Welsh version of stamp duty has not been ruled out\n\nThe UK government announcement on stamp duty prompted requests for the same in Wales, where the charge is called land transaction tax (LTT).\n\nIt is not levied for properties sold in Wales worth £180,000 and lower.\n\nEstate agent Morris, Marshall and Poole with Norman Lloyd, said such a cut would \"stimulate the local market\", while the Home Builders Federation said cutting LTT would \"increase industry confidence and encourage investment\".\n\nWales' finance minister Rebecca Evans did not rule out matching the stamp duty holiday, saying she would consider the implications of the announcements over the \"next day or so\".\n\nMs Evans said it was \"really surprising that the chancellor had very little to say today about public services, health, social care\" and local government, calling for more cash to \"reopen healthcare more widely\".\n\nShe added the youth employment scheme looked \"very much indeed\" like the Welsh Government's part-EU funded Jobs Growth Welsh scheme, which she said had helped 20,000 into employment since 2012.\n\nThe 'kickstart' fund will subsidise six-month work placements for people on Universal Credit aged between 16 and 24, who are at risk of long-term unemployment, while Jobs Growth Wales offers firms subsidies for six-month job opportunities.\n\nMs Evans denied that the restaurant discount would put more pressure on the Welsh Government to reopen indoor hospitality. \"I think what we really want to see is the evidence which tells us that it is safe to increase the opportunities for those hospitality businesses to open,\" she added.\n\nRebecca Evans has called for more flexibility in how the Welsh Government spends money\n\nThe UK government said the summer statement confirmed \"an additional £500m of Covid-19 funding for the Welsh Government through the Barnett formula\".\n\nThe Welsh Government has seen its budgets rise since the Covid-19 crisis began - the UK government said it has now provided £2.8bn extra cash.\n\nUnder the Barnett system, public spending in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland increases or decreases according to how spending in England rises or falls.\n\nWelsh public services are mostly funded by UK governments grants, with a small amount of revenue from Welsh Government taxation in Wales added on.\n\nThe last Welsh Government supplementary budget in May for coronavirus said ministers in Cardiff were spending £22bn in 2020/21.\n\nPlaid Cymru said the UK government had not learned the lessons from the start of the coronavirus crisis, and did not announce any measures to support the next stage of the pandemic, such as local lockdowns.\n\nBrexit Party Senedd leader Mark Reckless welcomed the chancellor's statement: \"We would encourage Welsh Government to cut stamp duty here too, but there is not much point while they still ban most property viewings. It's time for a UK wide approach.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it is awaiting \"full clarity on what this announcement means for Wales but we do know that it did not pull the macro levers needed to support the recovery\".\n\n\"It ignored the joint calls from devolved nations to ease the rigid fiscal rules that limit our response and made only a passing reference to public services\".\n\nWelsh Finance Minister Rebecca Evans, together with counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland, has called for the rules to be loosened so devolved governments can borrow more.", "Swimmers may have to arrive in their costumes and the number of people in lanes be limited when pools reopen, to allow for social distancing.\n\nFor the time being indoor and outdoor pools must remain shut, despite the easing of some lockdown restrictions,\n\nIt's thought chlorine in swimming pools will kill coronavirus but Swim England has warned a \"stricter regime\" will still be needed when they do reopen.\n\nThe body has warned 500 pools in England could close permanently.\n\nPools in England cannot reopen before 4 July under the government's current plan for lifting lockdown restrictions and the advice also says people should not swim at the beach without a lifeguard present.\n\nIn Scotland, indoor leisure facilities will not be able to open until the country moves to phase three of its plan for easing the lockdown and they will be subject to physical distancing and hygiene measures.\n\nA provisional date for reopening pools is also yet to be given in Wales and Northern Ireland, where indoor leisure centres will remain closed until step four of its lockdown plan.\n\nBut as the weather has warmed up, people have headed to beaches, with three people seriously injured while jumping off a cliff into the sea at Durdle Door in Dorset on Saturday.\n\nIn London, the Serpentine Lido in Hyde Park was forced to close after attempting to reopen last week because it became too crowded.\n\nChlorinated water should kill the virus, but preventing it from spreading in changing rooms and other areas around pools remains a concern.\n\nSwim England chief executive Jane Nickerson said guidance was still being finalised but that people might be asked not to use changing rooms, and pools could be told to limit how many people could be in the water at a time.\n\nShe told The Times people might have to arrive \"beach ready\" in their costumes.\n\nOlympic gold-medallist Duncan Goodhew, who is president of the Swimathon charity, told Radio 4's Today programme there were 5,000 public pools in England, 10% of which might not be able to reopen with social-distancing measures as they were \"old, inefficient and expensive to run\".\n\nHe said: \"A little like a restaurant, it becomes very difficult economically to make it work because you're just not getting the volume of people through.\"\n\nSwim England has called for financial support from the government to help ensure pools are financially viable as the lockdown eases.\n\nMs Nickerson said: \"We know there will be major financial challenges for pool operators, all of whom saw their income disappear overnight, and who will be faced with the dilemma of opening pools against the backdrop of less footfall and increased environmental costs.\"\n\nMr Goodhew, who won gold at 100m breaststroke in Moscow in 1980, added: \"It's really important the pools open because there are many, many people out there, some people who are disabled or have bad hips, etc, who cannot do any other exercise.\n\n\"From a point of view of quality of life, we've got to get them open.\"\n\nThea Paraskevaides, 33, is one of those who is desperate to get back in the pool.\n\nShe started swimming 18 months ago after a bad ankle injury and relies on the activity as her main form of exercise.\n\n\"Aside from the fitness element, it's really important for mental health,\" she said.\n\n\"For me I feel like I need that exercise to help my wellbeing, especially now at such a difficult time.\"\n\nWhile she feels confident she would be able to maintain social distancing while swimming, Thea said she would still have some concerns about hygiene around the pool.\n\n\"I would have to take hand sanitiser and wipes and clean everything before I touched it,\" she added.\n\nLouise Zecevic, who used to swim regularly with her children before the lockdown, said she would be happy to put up with any restrictions needed when pools are allowed to reopen.\n\n\"If numbers were restricted I would accept that and it might make the swimming experience more pleasant in some ways as the pools near me in London can be massively overcrowded,\" the 39-year-old said.\n\n\"We all love swimming and my kids are constantly asking when we can go back to the pool.\n\n\"We've had a paddling pool in the back garden but it's not an activity you can really replicate.\"\n\nLouise and her family have been missing swimming during the lockdown\n\nProf Keith Neal, emeritus professor of epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham, said chlorine was \"very easily able to inactivate most viruses including Covid-19\", but \"the main problem will be the social distancing, mostly the changing rooms\".\n\nSwim England is working with Public Health England on advice for pools reopening, which will be published on 15 June.\n\nAmong the issues which will be covered are water treatment, air circulation and social distancing.\n\nThe Swimming Teachers' Association is also liaising with the government on measures for after the lockdown.\n\nChief executive Dave Candler said there was no \"one-size fits all\" answer to personal hygiene and social distancing measures for the industry - which would \"most likely mean smaller classes in the interim\".", "Record numbers of nurses, midwives and nursing associates have registered in the UK, figures show.\n\nBy the end of March, there were 716,600 nurses, midwives and nursing associates on the register, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.\n\nDespite this the NMC is worried coronavirus will hit the ability to recruit and retain overseas staff.\n\nThe rise is driven by those joining and staying from the UK and from countries outside of Europe.\n\nThere has been a significant increase in those from the Philippines and India in particular.\n\nBut those coming from Europe have dropped by 5% to just over 31,000.\n\nThe NMC report includes the results of a survey of more than 6,000 people asking why they had left the profession.\n\nThe main reason given was too much pressure leading to stress and poor mental health. This was before the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe NMC also revealed more than 14,000 had joined the temporary register set up to boost numbers during the pandemic. This includes staff who have come out of retirement to help out.\n\nNMC chief executive Andrea Sutcliffe said: \"It's great to celebrate record numbers of people on the register.\"\n\nBut she predicted there would be \"stormy waters ahead\".\n\n\"As a result of the pandemic and subsequent travel restrictions, we may no longer be able to rely on the flow of professionals joining our register from overseas in the same way.\"", "The Welsh Government said the £29m would target disadvantaged pupils and those studying for exams\n\nNine-hundred extra teaching posts are to be created as part of a £29m support package to help pupils catch up when they return to school.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would pay for the equivalent of 600 teachers and 300 teaching assistants for a year.\n\nIt will target disadvantaged pupils and those taking exams, and could include extra coaching and learning resources.\n\nHead teachers' union NAHT welcomed the announcement, saying it was vital to invest in the next generation.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams will later reveal whether pupils will return to full-time education in September.\n\nThe Welsh Government said newly qualified teachers and supply teachers would take up the majority of the posts, and will be on one-year contracts.\n\nIn secondary schools, support will be focused on pupils studying for exams in Years 11, 12 and 13, as well as pupils of all ages who receive free schools meals, have additional learning needs or who are identified as being vulnerable.\n\nLearning resources are promised to help new and current teachers deliver support to pupils studying for exams, which could include personalised learning programmes and additional lessons.\n\nA range of teaching approaches will be used, the government said, including \"blended learning\" - a mix of learning from home and limited face-to-face teaching.\n\nDetails are to follow about how the money will be shared between schools, it added.\n\nMs Williams said the government was supporting schools in the \"recovery phase\" and would continue to raise standards.\n\n\"This extra investment and targeted support will ensure that the impact of time away from school over recent months is minimised,\" she said.\n\n\"This is not a short-term fix. I am guaranteeing this money, extra staff and support for the whole of next year.\"\n\nThe announcement comes as Ms Williams is due to set out plans for how schools will operate in the new term.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams says she wants to \"maximise\" face-to-face contact between pupils and teachers\n\nShe told a Senedd committee on Tuesday that her goal was to \"maximise\" face-to-face contact between pupils and teachers.\n\nIt suggests the minister could adopt similar plans to those proposed in other parts of the UK planning for the full-time return of pupils after the summer.\n\nSo far the government has said that blended learning would continue for some time.", "Leicester's local lockdown is not due to be reviewed until 18 July\n\nThe first city in the UK to be put in local lockdown will not receive special financial support from the government.\n\nBusinesses in Leicester had expected extra help after they were ordered to close on 30 June following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut a letter from Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi said there were no plans to change or extend any current schemes.\n\nLabour MP Liz Kendall said she was \"so angry\" at the development.\n\nChris Hobson, from East Midlands Chamber of Commerce, said not giving extra help was a \"massive mistake\".\n\nThe latest weekly figures from Public Health England, released on Thursday, showed 116 new cases per 100,000 people in the city in the week up to 5 July.\n\nThis is down from 141 per 100,000 the week before, but still far ahead of any other area of England.\n\nBusinesses in Leicester were ordered to close on 30 June following a spike in Covid-19 cases\n\nShadow social care minister Ms Kendall, who released a letter from Mr Zahawi about the government's stance, said it was \"a warning for future local lockdowns\".\n\n\"People in Leicester have made huge sacrifices and everybody is hanging on in there,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it is wrong the government isn't saying 'you're in lockdown for longer, you'll get the help for longer'.\"\n\nMs Kendall, the MP for Leicester West, urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Prime Minister Boris Johnson to \"think again\".\n\nMr Hobson said there were businesses \"which are fundamentally sound but are struggling with cash flow through no fault of their own\".\n\n\"You have lots of businesses which have picked themselves up again and again and some will not be able to continue to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"This is going to put Leicester at a long-term disadvantage, there is a danger of seeing a two-tier recovery.\"\n\nRestaurant owner Dharmesh Lakhani said many in the community felt \"betrayed\"\n\nDharmesh Lakhani, owner of Bobby's restaurant in the city, said they had been led to expect more help.\n\n\"It was a bit of a hammer blow, we felt betrayed,\" he said.\n\n\"We were looking forward to 4 July and had put in a lot of preparation, so it was a shock to be told we couldn't open.\n\n\"And then we, businesses and councillors, were quite certain there would be more help and without that, I can see some of the smaller, independent businesses going under.\"\n\nStuart Fraser said the Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre had launched an appeal to raise money\n\nStuart Fraser, manager of Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre, said the lack of extra funding was \"a blow\" and called for clarity on when the lockdown would be lifted.\n\n\"We have already had to cancel the first week of our holiday scheme,\" he said.\n\n\"And we have staff putting pressure on, saying they may have to look elsewhere for work, and this is trained staff who, if we lose them, will affect our ability to reopen at all.\"\n\nMr Fraser said the centre, a registered charity, had launched a fundraising campaign to \"help it survive\".\n\nLeicester Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said he was \"absolutely furious\" the expected funds had not materialised and described the lack of extra measures as \"brutal\".\n\nWeekly figures released by Public Health England show there were 116 new cases per 100,000 people in the week ending 5 July.\n\nThis is down from 141 cases per 100,000 people the week before, but still at more than three times more than the next highest in England.\n\nThe rate of cases in Bradford has fallen faster than Rochdale, which was second highest after Leicester.\n\nNew cases of coronavirus in Leicester came quickly during June, having previously started falling the month before.\n\nSo far, 24 June has seen the highest number of positive tests in Leicester of any day since the pandemic started with 97 confirmed results.\n\nThe data combines tests in hospitals and those done in the community, the latter of which has only recently been added to the local figures and showed for the first time how Leicester really compares with other areas.\n\nAs of Wednesday, the city has the highest rate of confirmed coronavirus per head of population in England with 1,136 cases per 100,000 population. The next highest is Bradford with nearly 792 per 100,000.\n\nLast week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC there would be extra financial support for Leicester businesses affected by the local lockdown.\n\n\"We have given support to both the county council and the city council to make sure they have discretionary funds available to support businesses, if that's what's needed,\" he said.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Zahawi claimed the city council had spent less than £500,000 of a £3.5m discretionary grant awarded to it.\n\nHe went on to write: \"I hope the lockdown is temporary and that affected businesses in Leicester are able to re-open soon.\"\n\nBut Ms Kendall added: \"I don't think you can tell people one thing one day and tell them something else the other. It is just not right.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The circumstances of individual lockdowns will continue to be carefully assessed before appropriate action is taken.\"\n\nOn Wednesday it was revealed a county-wide lockdown was considered.\n\nCounty council leader Nick Rushton said that during discussions over where to put the edge of the lockdown zone, \"there was even an argument that the boundary could have included the whole of Leicestershire\" but it would have \"created even more angst\".\n\nNewly released data shows, since the beginning of the pandemic, Leicester had a positive test rate of 1,116 per 100,000 of population, compared to 294 in nearby Melton, 475 in neighbouring Charnwood and a national average of 440 per 100,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "John Lewis has warned it could close shops as a plunge in profits forced it to cut staff bonuses to their lowest level in almost 70 years.\n\nThe retailer, which also owns Waitrose, has launched a review of the business which it said would involve \"right sizing\" its stores across both brands.\n\nThe review would involve store closures \"where necessary\" as well as space reduction in existing stores, it said.\n\nThe conclusions of the review are expected to be announced in September.\n\nNew chairwoman Sharon White - who took over last month - said the changes would kick-start a \"vital new phase\" for the partnership, and said she had \"no doubt\" the business would be stronger as a result.\n\n\"We need to reverse our profit decline and return to growth so that we can invest more in our customers and in our partners.\n\n\"This will require a transformation in how we operate as a partnership and could take three to five years to show results.\"\n\nThe group announced that three Waitrose stores would close later this year at Helensburgh, Four Oaks and Waterlooville as part of the overhaul.\n\nJohn Lewis also said as fears about coronavirus continued to spread, it had see increased demand \"particularly this week\" for some food items as well as things such as hand sanitiser, soap and loo roll.\n\nJohn Lewis's finance director, Patrick Lewis, said it was working \"very hard with suppliers on an hourly basis\" to keep up with demand.\n\nSharon White took the helm at John Lewis last month\n\nThe John Lewis Partnership is owned by its staff - known as partners - who usually receive a bonus each year.\n\nThis year, staff bonuses have been set at 2%, the lowest since 1953 when it paid no bonus.\n\nProfits at the partnership dived by 23% last year to £123m - the third year in a row that profits have fallen - as it continued to struggle with the slowdown in consumer spending.\n\nThe John Lewis department stores saw \"significantly reduced profitability\" following weaker sales of home and electrical goods, although profits rose at Waitrose after a \"solid performance\", the company said.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said the fall from grace for John Lewis had been \"spectacular\", and warned that if Ms White could not turn around the business \"the fallout could be much worse\".\n\n\"Once the envy of the retail industry, the company has suffered dismal trading performances over the past few years, demonstrating that the retail race is so fast that even those seemingly on an unstoppable march one year can be vulnerable the next.\n\n\"This goes to show that no retailer is safe.\"\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, the chief executive of retail analysts Savvy, said store closures appeared inevitable.\n\n\"I think the business is going to have to be slimmed down,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's very difficult to close some of the department stores down because they're on really long leases, but certainly I think where there are opportunities to close stores that aren't performing they will look at that.\"\n\nShe added that Ms White did not have much time to turn the business around.\n\n\"She's talking about changes taking three-to-five years, I don't think there are three-to-five years in retail at the minute where there isn't going to be an enormous amount of change. She hasn't got that much time on her side. John Lewis have been 'strategically reviewing' things for quite a while - we need some action.\"\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman told the BBC the firm's staff bonus scheme was an \"absolutely fundamental\" part of its ethos.\n\n\"The key competitive edge John Lewis has is customer service, that is delivered by its staff. If you take away part of their remuneration then your customer service levels are likely to be impacted.\n\n\"And I think that over the past few years as that bonus has gone down we've been seeing a bit of that. It's a really difficult dilemma they have.\"", "Investigations are under way after a woman was shot by police in Toxteth\n\nA woman has been shot by police in a street.\n\nOfficers were called to reports of a woman armed with a knife in Cairns Street, Toxteth in Liverpool, at about 13:50 BST.\n\nShe suffered an injury to her upper body and has been taken to hospital for treatment. Her condition is unknown.\n\nMerseyside Police said it was an \"isolated incident\" and the shooting had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nNorth Hill Street remains cordoned off and there will be an increased police presence in the community in the next few days, the force said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cordon was put in place at the scene by police\n\nSupt Diane Pownall said: \"I know that people in the Toxteth area and the wider communities of Merseyside may feel shocked by the incident that has taken place today.\n\n\"This was an isolated incident in which officers responded to a number of members of the public reporting a woman in possession of a knife in the Toxteth area.\"\n\nPolice are not looking for anyone else.\n\nThe police watchdog is investigating the shooting\n\nA woman who lives near the police cordon said she had been asleep after working a night shift when she was woken by a gunshot.\n\n\"I heard a bang. I didn't know what had happened until my daughter told me she had seen it on the news,\" she said.\n\nA neighbour, who did not want to be named, heard two loud bangs.\n\nShe said: \"It sounded like something had blown up.\"\n\nAnother resident said: \"People are sad and mad about it but obviously we don't know who she is or what's happened yet.\n\n\"A lot of people are going to be angry that a police officer has felt the need to shoot a bullet into somebody.\"\n\nNorth Hill Street remains cordoned off after the shooting\n\nAn IOPC spokesman confirmed an investigation had begun.\n\nHe said: \"The incident was referred to us, as is mandatory in these circumstances, at 2:45pm.\n\n\"Our investigation is in its very early stages and we have investigators attending the scene and the post incident procedures to begin gathering evidence. The woman is currently being treated in hospital.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this incident.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chancellor has said he is \"sorry\" for not helping \"everyone in exactly the way they would have wanted\".\n\nRishi Sunak said the government was \"throwing everything\" at stemming job losses with a £30bn stimulus package.\n\nBut he told the BBC he will not be able to protect \"every single job\" as the UK enters a \"severe recession\".\n\nHe also admitted that some of the £1,000 bonuses being offered to take back furloughed staff would go to firms that were already keeping workers on.\n\nLabour has called for a more targeted approach to saving jobs, saying the government will \"waste billions at a time when others are crying out for support\".\n\nIn his summer statement on Wednesday, Mr Sunak said the \"jobs retention bonus\" could cost as much as £9bn if every worker currently furloughed is kept on.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged the most senior civil servant at HM Revenue and Customs did not back two of the key policies in Mr Sunak's summer statement over uncertainty about their value for money.\n\nIn letters to the chancellor, Jim Harra, HMRC's permanent secretary, said advice received by HMRC \"highlights uncertainty around the value for money\" of the job Retention Bonus and Eat Out To Help Out scheme - which gives diners money off some meals in August.\n\nSelf-employed curtain fitter Mark Whittaker told BBC Breakfast he cannot \"get his head round how the chancellor expects any citizen of this country to get by on zero income\".\n\n\"If he can manage it, please tell me how to do it,\" Mr Whittaker said. \"I don't want a handout… I want parity.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. “I don’t want a handout… I want parity and that’s it.”\n\nMr Whittaker started his own business in Stockport, Greater Manchester, towards the end of 2018 and fell short of earnings requirements to receive support during the crisis.\n\nHe said people in his situation have children, mortgages, rent and bills to pay.\n\nResponding to Mr Whittaker's comments, Mr Sunak said more than 2.5 million people who are self-employed will receive support from a \"generous\" scheme of government funding.\n\nHe added: \"Have we been able to help everyone in exactly the way they would have wanted? I'm sure not and I've said previously that we haven't been able to do that and for that I am sorry.\"\n\nMr Sunak warned the UK was \"entering one of the most severe recessions this country has ever seen\".\n\n\"If you're asking me 'can I protect every single job' of course the answer is no,\" he said.\n\n\"'Is unemployment going to rise, are people going to lose their jobs?' Yes, and the scale of this is significant.\"\n\nIt comes as figures released by the Treasury reveal that public spending on the battle against coronavirus has risen to nearly £190bn.\n\nAnd the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned the UK was not in a \"normal recession\" but \"the deepest in history\".\n\nThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that unemployment in the UK will reach \"record highs\" of up to 11.7% by the end of 2020, without a second wave of coronavirus.\n\nWith a second wave, it says UK unemployment could reach near 15%.\n\nThe chancellor announced a series of measures to help the economy on Wednesday, including a VAT cut for the hospitality and tourism sectors, a bonus scheme for employers and an eating out money off scheme for August.\n\nMr Sunak said the £1,000 bonus being offered to businesses that keep furloughed staff in jobs until January would be a \"dead weight\" cost, as some employers who intend to retain workers anyway would benefit.\n\nThe Chancellor told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Throughout this crisis I've had decisions to make and whether to act in a broad way at scale and at speed or to act in a more targeted and nuanced way.\n\n\"In an ideal world, you're absolutely right, you would minimise that dead weight and do everything in incredibly targeted fashion.\n\n\"The problem is the severity of what was happening to our economy, the scale of what was happening, and indeed the speed that it was happening at demanded a different response.\"\n\nHe said that \"without question there will be dead weight - and there has been dead weight in all of the interventions we have put in place\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Bridget Philipson said: \"The chancellor should be targeting support on those who need it, not handing it out aimlessly to those who don't.\n\n\"It's not brave to admit the government plans to waste billions at a time when others are crying out for support.\"\n\nSome 9.3 million workers are having 80% of their salaries paid for by the government - up to £2,500 a month - under the furlough scheme, which was originally due to end in July, before being extended to October, with employer contributions.\n\nFrom August, employers must pay National Insurance and pension contributions, then 10% of pay from September, rising to 20% in October.\n\nWe are looking to speak to people who used previous unemployment schemes to get work - is that you? Did the 'Future Jobs Fund' in 2009 help you get a job? How useful was it for you in developing your career? 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 Chancellor has said his package of measures aimed at limiting the economic impact of coronavirus are \"absolutely vital\" for Scotland.\n\nRishi Sunak said many rural areas of Scotland would particularly benefit from a cut to VAT for the hospitality and tourism sector.\n\nAnd he said Scotland would now receive a total of £4.6bn in additional Barnett funding from the UK government.\n\nThe figure had been put at £3.8bn by the UK government before his statement.\n\nThe Scottish government welcomed parts of Mr Sunak's announcement, but accused him of showing a lack of ambition by not introducing the £80bn stimulus package it had called for.\n\nMany of the measures unveiled by Mr Sunak will apply in Scotland, including the \"job retention bonus\" that will pay firms a £1,000 bonus for every staff member kept on for at least three months when the furlough scheme ends in October.\n\nVAT on food, accommodation and attractions will be cut across the UK from 20% to 5% from next Wednesday.\n\nThe cut will apply to eat-in or hot takeaway food from restaurants, cafes and pubs, accommodation in hotels, B&Bs, campsites and caravan sites, attractions like cinemas, theme parks and zoos.\n\nMr Sunak also unveiled a scheme to give 50% off to people dining out across the UK in August.\n\nAnd he announced a £2bn \"kickstart\" scheme to help create more jobs for young people which will cover Scotland, England and Wales.\n\nThe chancellor's speech, as expected, was all about jobs with billions of pounds to stem looming unemployment.\n\nFor a Conservative government these are big spending interventions, perhaps more natural territory for Labour or the SNP.\n\nIt's certainly no easy balancing act for a relatively new chancellor. He wants to give people hope but he certainly isn't sugar-coating it.\n\nDespite calls to extend the furlough scheme, it was a no. An admission some jobs will never come back, shifting the focus on getting employers to hire people who have been furloughed through bonuses.\n\nThe chancellor was also keen to flash his unionist credentials early on. The UK government will be aware of a series of polls suggesting support for independence growing during the pandemic.\n\nSo the chancellor stressed the \"special bond\" of the union and the support people in devolved nations received.\n\nHowever, his announcement of a temporary stamp duty holiday in England to stimulate the property market will not apply in Scotland unless the Scottish government matches the move through its equivalent Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.\n\nThe Chancellor told the Commons that the UK government remained \"absolutely committed\" to its goal of \"levelling up in every part of the country\".\n\nHe added: \"I am pleased to tell the House that the sum total of Barnett funding for Scotland as a result of all the interventions through this crisis now totals £4.6bn, which is going to support similar measures in Scotland as we are providing elsewhere.\n\n\"The measures I announced today - the jobs retention bonus for furloughed employees, the Kickstart scheme, the VAT cut, the eat out to help out discount - are all incredibly significant interventions and all of them benefit the entire United Kingdom.\"\n\nMr Sunak also stressed the importance of tourism to the Scottish economy, particularly in rural and coastal areas, and said that the VAT and eating out measures would be \"absolutely vital in driving the growth of Scotland going forward again\".\n\nHe added: \"Again, they are a reminder to everyone - we are stronger together, one United Kingdom\".\n\nThe UK government says measure it has previously introduced, such as the furlough scheme, have \"protected more than 620,000 jobs, thousands of businesses and paid £425m to self-employed people\" in Scotland.\n\nKate Forbes says she needs additional borrowing powers to help Scotland's economic recovery from the pandemic\n\nThe Scottish government had called on the Chancellor to show \"greater ambition in the level of investment in our economy\" by introducing an £80bn stimulus package.\n\nIts finance secretary, Kate Forbes, said that Mr Sunak's commitment to economic recovery \"appears to be less than half of that with no apparent increase in capital infrastructure\".\n\nShe added: \"We called for an £80bn stimulus package to build a strong, green and inclusive economic recovery and while there are elements in this announcement to be welcomed, in particular the measures on VAT for tourism and hospitality, overall this package is a huge opportunity missed.\n\n\"It falls well short of delivering what is needed to boost the economy and protect jobs.\n\n\"There is no new capital spend, no extension to the furlough scheme for hard-hit sectors and no further support for households in financial difficulty. A half-price meal out does not help those struggling to put food on the table.\"\n\nMs Forbes made a request to be allowed to borrow £500m this year and to be given the flexibility to reallocate any unused capital funding on day-to-day spending in a letter to the Treasury two weeks ago.\n\nShe has argued that the \"relatively limited\" changes would \"ease some of the immense pressures on our budget\" caused by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said at the time that he would consider the request - but there was no mention of it in the Chancellor's statement.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nBruno Fernandes inspired Manchester United to another impressive Premier League victory and deepened Aston Villa's relegation worries.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side continued their impressive recent run, extending their unbeaten streak to 17 games in all competitions, and closed to within a point of fourth-placed Leicester.\n\nThey had to repel a sharp start from the hosts at Villa Park as Mahmoud Trezeguet's low strike cannoned off the foot of the post.\n\nThe miss proved vital as the excellent Fernandes converted from the penalty spot after being tripped by Ezri Konsa, although it appeared to be a foul by the Portuguese international on the Villa defender.\n\nUnited controlled the possession and tempo of the contest and doubled their advantage through teenager Mason Greenwood, who further highlighted his ruthless finishing ability by firing in his 16th of the campaign.\n\nPaul Pogba stroked in a delightful third and Anthony Martial smashed against the crossbar, with the heavy defeat leaving Villa second bottom, four points adrift of safety with four games remaining.\n\nUnited continue to move in the right direction and have not suffered defeat since a feeble home defeat at the hands of Burnley in January. They have not lost in 10 Premier League games - currently the longest unbeaten run in the top flight.\n\nMidfielder Fernandes was brought in from Sporting Lisbon at the end of that month and he has completely revitalised the side from being a slow, ponderous team to one full of attacking intent and dynamism.\n\nA clever operator in the final third, Fernandes drives the team forward with his incisive passing and it was his crafty spin on the ball which earned the penalty, although Villa will be aggrieved by the decision made by Jon Moss and supported by VAR.\n\nFernandes, who has contributed seven league goals, took his assist tally to six by setting up Pogba's side-footed finish, with the Frenchman continuing to improving and looking settled in the side after a long injury lay-off.\n\nGreenwood's smashing 20-yard strike leaves him one short of George Best, Brian Kidd and Wayne Rooney's joint-record of most goals in a season by a United teenager, one which will surely be beaten by the end of the campaign.\n\nWith better finishing they could have had more but Greenwood and Martial had low shots kept out by Pepe Reina, while Fernandes and Aaron Wan-Bissaka both wasted headed opportunity.\n\nFree-scoring United's victory means they become the first team in Premier League history to win four consecutive games by at least a three-goal margin.\n\nIf United are on the up, Villa are going in the opposite direction and are running out of time to avoid an immediate return to the Championship.\n\nDean Smith's side have collected just two points from their past 10 games, a run that includes eight defeats, and they concede just too many goals.\n\nThe three shipped against United means they have let in 65 from 34 games, the most in the division, and have conceded two or more goals in 21 Premier League games this term.\n\nRelegation will leave them with a big task of holding on to Jack Grealish, who has been linked with a move to United, but the captain could not conjure up any sort of threat to worry the opposition.\n\nHad his early volley, which sailed over the crossbar, found the net or Trezeguet's strike sneaked in, it may have been a different story but Villa have now won just one of their past 43 meetings against the Red Devils.\n\nUnited goalkeeper David de Gea became United's leading appearance maker from overseas with 399 games, surpassing the legendary Peter Schmeichel, but the Spaniard was called into action just once, a comfortable save from John McGinn's long range drive.\n• None Manchester United are the first side in Premier League history to win four consecutive games by a margin of 3+ goals, with the last team to do so in the English top-flight being Liverpool in October 1987.\n• None United are the first team to beat an opponent on every day of the week in the Premier League, with this match against Aston Villa making it the sixth fixture to be played on all seven days of the week in the competition.\n• None Aston Villa have conceded 65 goals in the Premier League this season; the same number they had after 34 games when they were last relegated in 2015-16 and finished 20th.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 21 Premier League away games against Aston Villa (W14 D7) - the longest unbeaten away run one team has had against another in English top-flight history.\n• None Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in 13 goals in his first 10 Premier League games for Manchester United (seven goals, six assists); the joint-most of any player in their first 10 appearances in the competition, along with Mick Quinn (13).\n• None Mason Greenwood is only the second teenager to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances for Manchester United (18y 282d), following on from Wayne Rooney back in February 2005 (19y 125d).\n• None Greenwood is the fourth player aged 18 or younger to score in three consecutive Premier League appearances, after Danny Cadamarteri (1997), Michael Owen (1997 & 1998) and Francis Jeffers (1999).\n• None Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side have won 13 penalties in the Premier League this season; no team have ever won more in a single campaign in the competition (also Leicester in 2015-16 and Crystal Palace in 2004-05).\n• None United named the same starting XI in four consecutive Premier League games for the first time since November 2006.\n\nAston Villa host Crystal Palace on Sunday (kick-off 14:15 BST), while Manchester United are at home to Southampton on Monday (20:00).\n• None Easy exercises to do from home\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a through ball.\n• None Fred (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Douglas Luiz.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Marvelous Nakamba (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel James (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Paul Pogba. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Frank Ludlow had a genuine belief his cure could \"take out all viral infections\", the court heard\n\nA man has pleaded guilty to selling fake coronavirus cure kits to people in France and the United States.\n\nFrank Ludlow, 59, was caught by City of London Police trying to send dozens of parcels of fake remedies in a post office near his West Sussex home.\n\nJudge William Mousley said father-of-two Ludlow contacted national governments and \"took advantage of an international crisis\".\n\nLudlow was given a suspended 10-month sentence at Portsmouth Crown Court.\n\nAmerican custom officials had intercepted Ludlow's fake kits at Los Angeles International Airport, with his \"Trinity Covid-19 SARS Antipathogenic Treatment\" labels attached, the court was told.\n\nHis address was also found by the officials who alerted City of London Police on 23 March.\n\nHours later, officers went to a post office in Petersfield, Hampshire, to ask for a description of the person who had been sending the packages.\n\nPolice seized chemicals and labels when they raided Ludlow's home in March\n\nThe court heard while officers were talking to staff Ludlow walked in with more packages addressed to France, Shoreham and New York.\n\nProsecutor Steven Hopper said: \"Mr Ludlow admitted to making the product and had been making it for 17 years.\n\n\"Despite saying his cures had had not been officially tested, Mr Ludlow told police he was confident it took out 'all viral infections'.\"\n\nLudlow \"made elaborate claims\" about wanting to make 1,000 kits a week and he sent a message to a friend saying \"Thank god for Covid-19\", Mr Hopper added.\n\nLudlow admitted three medical product offences but denied fraud charges which were to lie on file, Judge Mousley said.\n\n\"You were exposing customers, attempting to bypass the regulatory body and take advantage of an international crisis\" the judge told him.\n\nDefence barrister Ben Smitten said Ludlow had spent time in custody and while in lockdown was only allowed out one hour a day.\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, Det Ch Supt Clinton Blackburn warned criminals were \"preying on people's fears and anxieties\" around coronavirus.\n\n\"The kits produced by Ludlow were unlawful and untested,\" he said.\n\n\"They gave false hope to vulnerable people and their families, offering no medical benefit.\"\n\nHundreds of packages were seized by City of London Police in March\n\nLudlow is still facing prosecution in the United States.\n\nUS officials said people who bought the kits were instructed to \"add 18 ounces of water, say a prayer, drink half of the solution, take a probiotic along with bee pollen, and then ingest the remainder of the solution\".\n\nBetween May 2017 and March 2020, Ludlow sold a connection in Utah between 300 and 400 of these \"treatments\" for $50 per kit, many of which she gave away, but some of which she sold for as much as $200, an affidavit stated.\n\nLudlow has been charged with one count of introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, a felony offence that carries a maximum sentence of three years in federal prison.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Imagine being a teenager and finding Stormzy in your house when you get home from school.\n\nThat’s what happened to 15-year-old Ishae from Croydon.\n\nThe rapper was there to help decorate his bedroom as part of a “give back” scheme run by decorating company The Good Guys.\n\nThe musician also talked about why he'd been cheering at the recent Black Lives Matter protests in London, saying: \"One thing I really want this movement to do is show what it means to be black.\"\n\nHe said the protests showed a real pain, adding: \"This ain't some sort of trend, this is real life and this has been our reality for hundreds, thousands of years.\"", "The vast majority of emissions cuts from electric cars will be wiped out by new road-building, a report says.\n\nThe government says vehicle emissions per mile will fall as zero-emissions cars take over Britain’s roads.\n\nBut the report says the 80% of the CO2 savings from clean cars will be negated by the £27bn planned roads programme.\n\nIt adds that if ministers want a “green recovery” the cash would be better spent on public transport, walking, cycling, and remote-working hubs.\n\nAnd they point out that the electric cars will continue to increase local air pollution through particles eroding from brakes and tyres.\n\nThe calculations have been made by an environmental consultancy, Transport for Quality of Life, using data collected by Highways England.\n\nThe paper estimates that a third of the predicted increase in emissions would come from construction - including energy for making steel, concrete and asphalt.\n\nA third would be created by increased vehicle speeds on faster roads.\n\nAnd a further third would be caused by extra traffic generated by new roads stimulating more car-dependent housing, retail parks and business parks.\n\nIts authors say history shows that building roads almost always generates more traffic.\n\nThe report says even with the government’s most optimistic estimate of the adoption rate for electric vehicles, emissions from trunk roads and motorways in England are not on track to meet “net zero“ by 2050.\n\nA government spokesperson told BBC News the report is based on old data.\n\n“This assessment is wholly incorrect and doesn’t take into account the benefits from the massive surge in electric vehicles,\" he said.\n\n\"The Road Investment Strategy is consistent with our ambition to improve air quality and decarbonise transport.\"\n\nThe report’s lead author, Lynn Sloman, said the electric car revolution would happen too slowly for transport to achieve the UK's carbon-cutting goals.\n\n“If we are to meet the legally-binding carbon budgets, we need to make big cuts in carbon emissions over the next decade,\" she said.\n\n\"That will require faster adoption of electric cars - but it will also require us to reduce vehicle mileage by existing cars.\n\n“Unfortunately, the Government’s £27 billion road programme will make things worse, not better.”\n\nThe government accepts that overall mileage should be cut.\n\nBut it says the impact of the new roads programme on emissions will be a fraction of the report’s predicted figure.\n\nThe AA president, Edmund King, supports some road-building. He told BBC News said: “We believe post-lockdown that more people will continue to work from home, drive less and cycle and walk more.\n\n“But even with investment in broadband and active travel, we will still need road investment - particularly to overcome the congestion hotspots to help get our goods to market.”\n\nMs Sloman, who works regularly as a consultant for the Department for Transport, responded: “More roads just mean more cars. Decades of road investment have not solved congestion.\n\n“Sustained lobbying for more money for roads, leaving less for public transport, cycling and walking, is one of the reasons we now face a climate emergency. We can’t afford any more to indulge this Toad of Toad Hall model of mindless road-building.”\n\nShe also says the government can't ignore the continuing air pollution that will be caused by particles from the brakes and tyres of electric cars.\n\nThis pollution could actually be increased if the fashion for heavy battery-powered SUVs continues.\n\nMs Sloman said: \"This is an institutional problem. There are people in the Department for Transport and Highways England who have built their careers on big road building budgets, and they won't easily give them up.\n\n“But there are also some officials - and perhaps some politicians - who are starting to recognise that the climate emergency means we need a radically different approach to transport.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport is currently consulting on a decarbonisation strategy, and will publish its plan later in the year.", "A vote will take place on Thursday to determine whether offensive words will be banned\n\nLeaders of the Scrabble tournament community in North America are voting on whether to ban the use of racial and homophobic slurs.\n\nThe vote will decide whether the words will be removed from the North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA) list of accepted words.\n\nThe NASPA manages competitive Scrabble tournaments and clubs in North America.\n\nThe decision is due after weeks of anti-racism protests in the US and around the world.\n\nHasbro, owner of the rights to Scrabble in North America, told The New York Times on Tuesday that the NASPA had \"agreed to remove all slurs from their word list for Scrabble tournament play, which is managed solely by NASPA and available only to members.\"\n\nHasbro has not allowed slurs in its dictionary since 1994. However the association has still permitted them.\n\nThe NASPA advisory board is set to vote on Thursday. The removal of the words from its vocabulary list could affect online versions of the game. The association licenses its list of words to software developers, according to Mashable.\n\nNASPA Chief Executive John Chew told the BBC: \"The vote is at this point a necessary formality, and we will be removing all offensive words from our lexicon. We will be reviewing our candidate list of 236 such words carefully to make sure that they all need to be deleted, which may take an additional week or two after the decision.\"\n\nAddressing members in a letter, Mr Chew said: \"When we play a slur, we are declaring that our desire to score points in a word game is of more value to us than the slur's broader function as a way to oppress a group of people.\n\n\"I don't think that this is the time for us to be contributing divisively to the world's problems.\n\nHe told Reuters news agency that he was worried people were put off from joining the association due to offensive language in the association's dictionary.\n\nAbout 1,000 people took part in the association's poll on whether to remove the words, he said.\n\nThe survey asked respondents whether they wanted the \"N-word\", or all slurs, or all offensive words removed from the association's vocabulary.\n\nMr Chew said members were split over removing the \"N-word\" and the public were in favour of its removal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDaniel Tunnard plays competitive Scrabble in Spanish and has written a novel about the game, Escapes. He told the BBC that there are some words in the English language that are so offensive and so inflammatory that it's understandable for players to question whether they should be using them in a game.\n\n\"There are hundreds of thousands of words valid for play in Scrabble, we're not going to miss some 80 words that might cause offence.\n\n\"Slurs account for something like 0.0004% of the word list, it isn't going to make a tremendous difference. And new, non-offensive words are being added all the time, like OK, which got lots of press last year. There is no shortage of words.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course, there will inevitably be a situation if slurs are banned where a world championship final hinges on one player's inability to play a now-banned word. That's bound to happen.\"", "BT and Vodafone have said their UK customers would face mobile phone signal blackouts if they are given three years or less to strip Huawei's equipment out of their 5G networks.\n\nExecutives from the network providers told MPs that they wanted at least five years, and ideally seven, if such an order were made.\n\nThe government is expected to announce new curbs on the use of the Chinese firm's kit within the next two weeks.\n\nHuawei has urged it to take more time.\n\n\"There isn't a burning bridge,\" said Huawei's UK vice president Jeremy Thompson, adding that it was too soon to determine what impact new US sanctions would have.\n\nThe company also denied claims it would ever act against its clients' interests, even if told to do so by the Chinese government.\n\nTestimony was given via video link because of the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe Science and Technology Committee hearing represents a last chance for companies to make their cases before government ahead of a decision being taken.\n\nIn January, the government put a cap on Huawei's 5G market share, but decided that suggested security risks raised by allowing the Chinese firm to supply the country's telecoms providers could be managed.\n\nSince then, however, Washington has announced fresh sanctions designed to prevent the company from having its own chips manufactured.\n\nAs a consequence, Huawei faces having to source other companies' chips for use in its equipment.\n\nGCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre is believed to have told the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport that this means it can no longer assure the security of Huawei's products.\n\nWhile it now seems likely the government will opt for a ban of some sort, the question is when it will come into effect.\n\nSome Tory backbenchers are urging a deadline to be set before the 2024 general election - and there has been speculation that it could be as soon as 2023.\n\nBut Vodafone and BT - which both use Huawei's products in their networks - said this would be hugely disruptive.\n\n\"To get to zero in a three-year period would literally mean blackouts for customers on 4G and 2G, as well as 5G, throughout the country,\" said Howard Watson, BT's chief technology and information officer.\n\nHe explained the logistics involved in bringing in cranes and shutting off streets to replace masts, base stations and other Huawei equipment meant that the only way to meet the timespan would be to switch over multiple sites in an area at the same time.\n\n3G signals would not be affected as the EE network uses Nokia kit to provide that service.\n\nVodafone made a similar case - it uses Huawei's kit in its 2G, 3G. 4G and 5G networks.\n\n\"[Customers] would lose their signal, sometimes for a couple of days, depending on how big or how intrusive the work to be carried out is,\" said Andrea Dona, Vodafone UK's head of networks.\n\n\"I would say a five-year transition time would be the minimum,\"\n\nMr Watson added: \"A minimum of five years, ideally seven.\"\n\nEarlier in the hearing, Huawei made the case that it was too soon to decide on any new restrictions.\n\nReplacing Huawei's 5G equipment will often involve simultaneously swapping out its 4G base stations and antennas\n\nExecutives said that the US had yet to confirm some of the details about the sanctions, adding they would subsequently need time to see if they could mitigate the impact.\n\nThe company has built up stockpiles of its chips, and believes it could keep providing equipment based on them for some time to come.\n\n\"We can supply our customers with their orders and support the existing network with spares,\" said Mr Thompson.\n\n\"And in terms of who the alternative [chip] suppliers are, they're not just Chinese. There are European companies who are also in this space.\n\n\"We will be able to share those [details] with you, but that will take a few more weeks.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for DCMS said she could not reveal whether the department had already handed over its recommendations to the prime minister.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to convene a meeting of the National Security Council within the coming days to discuss the possibility of a ban, which could also extend to the country's broadband infrastructure.\n\nThe warnings from Vodafone and BT about disruption to customers if Huawei is removed swiftly sound stark - but, in fact, both firms have softened their stance.\n\nLast year they seemed determined to battle against any plan to exclude Huawei from the UK's 5G networks.\n\nNow they seem resigned to the fact that this is going to happen.\n\nIndeed, BT accepts that the threatened US sanctions could mean that within a couple of years, it won't be able to get hold of reliable Huawei equipment.\n\nTheir emphasis now is on timing - they want to make sure the government does not proceed as rapidly as many Conservative backbenchers would like in stripping out the Chinese firms' kit.\n\nThey understand how the political mood has changed, but will be warning ministers that disrupting mobile reception, or abandoning the target to get gigabit broadband to everyone by 2025, would also be bad politics.", "Probationary officer Benjamin Hannam has been charged with being a member of far-right group National Action\n\nA probationary Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with being a member of a banned neo-Nazi group.\n\nBenjamin Hannam, 21, has been charged with five offences following an investigation by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nScotland Yard says he has been suspended from duty.\n\nMr Hannam, from North London, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court next month.\n\nCharges include possession of an indecent photograph of a child in 2018 and possession of a prohibited image of a child in 2016.\n\nIn relation to far-right activity, it is alleged that between December 2016 and January 2018 Mr Hannam belonged or professed to belong to a proscribed organisation, namely National Action, contrary to section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nHe is also accused of falsely representing in his application to join the Met Police that he had not been a member of an organisation similar to the BNP, namely National Action, intending to make a gain for himself.\n\nHe is further charged with falsely representing in his vetting form to join the Met that he had not been a member of National Action.\n\nDet Supt Ella Marriott said: \"These are extremely serious charges for anyone to face, and I fully understand and appreciate how deeply concerning it might be for the public, and particularly local communities here in north London, that the charges are against a serving police officer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The city of Bergamo in northern Italy was one of the worst-hit areas by Covid-19 in the country.\n\nBut now, after 137 days, the intensive care unit in the city's main hospital, Papa Giovanni XXIII, has no positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nDr Luca Lorini is the head of the intensive care unit and emergency department at the hospital.\n\nHe's been speaking to BBC OS on World Service radio.\n\n\"When we started, in the first week, we didn't expect so many patients. But it was clear at the end of the first week that a lot of patients in the region were infected with Covid-19.\n\n\"We worked so hard in March, April and May. We used more than 100% of our capability, starting early in the morning trying to find materials, beds, ventilators. It was three months of very hard work.\n\n\"But at the end of April I observed a downward curve, so we have been expecting this.\"\n\nDr Lorini says that the ICU now has just 72 patients, none of them Covid-positive, and looks like it did before the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It's incredible because you don't have to use so much protection. So you feel free. You can drink coffee... the atmosphere is much more comfortable.\"\n\nHowever, he says they still need to be alert for a possible second wave.\n\n\"We have to prepare for the future, because we don't know what will happen. No science, no doctor, nobody knows.\"", "California and Texas each reported more than 10,000 new daily cases on Tuesday\n\nMore than three million people in the US have now tested positive for Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOver 131,000 deaths have been reported, and on Tuesday the US broke its record for most new cases reported in one day.\n\nDespite the rise, the White House wants to press forward on some reopenings, including for schools.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence, who leads the White House Coronavirus Taskforce, argued rules should not be \"too tough\".\n\nCases were flattening out, he said, while President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that America was \"in a good place\" regarding the pandemic.\n\nOver 60,000 new cases were reported Tuesday, shattering the previous highest tally of 55,220 new cases on 2 July.\n\nThe latest figures came as the states of California and Texas each reported more than 10,000 new daily cases.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert and adviser to the White House on the coronavirus, said the country was still \"knee-deep\" in only its first coronavirus wave.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at the US Department of Education on Wednesday, Mr Pence defended the Trump administration's response to the pandemic.\n\n\"While we mourn with those who mourn, because of what the American people have done, because of the extraordinary work of our healthcare workers around the country, we are encouraged that the average fatality rate continues to be low and steady,\" he said after lowering his face mask.\n\nHe added that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will issue new guidelines on reopening schools after Mr Trump criticised a plan put forward by the expert body as \"very tough and expensive\" and threatened to cut off funding to schools that don't open in the autumn.\n\n\"The president said today we just don't want the guidance to be too tough,\" Mr Pence said. \"That's the reason why, next week, CDC is going to be issuing a new set of tools, five different documents that will be giving even more clarity on the guidance going forward.\"\n\nSchools in the US normally begin for the year in either August or early September.\n\nThe CDC's guidelines suggest pupils and staff all wear face coverings and stay at home if necessary. They also suggest schools should implement staggered timetables and socially distanced seating arrangements, and close communal spaces.\n\nIn Oklahoma, health officials in the city of Tulsa said President Trump's campaign rally there last month and the protests that took place at the same time \"likely contributed\" to a spike in cases locally, the Associated Press reported.\n\n\"In the past few days, we've seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,\" Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr Bruce Dart said. The Trump campaign has not yet commented.\n\nMeanwhile, two prestigious universities in the US are taking legal action against the government over an immigration rule they say will force international students to leave the country.\n\nUnder the rule, introduced by the Trump administration, foreign students would be barred from staying in the country if their colleges don't hold in-person classes this autumn. Much university teaching is shifting online during the pandemic.\n\nHarvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - two of the highest-ranking universities in the world - have now asked a federal court to block the rule.\n\nHarvard President Lawrence Bacow said in an email to the Harvard community: \"We will pursue this case vigorously so that our international students - and international students at institutions across the country - can continue their studies without the threat of deportation.\"\n\nIn other US virus-related news:", "A £15bn bill for PPE has helped to push the cost of the coronavirus outbreak to £190bn\n\nPublic spending on the battle against coronavirus has risen to nearly £190bn, according to latest Treasury figures.\n\nIt comes after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced another £30bn of support in his summer statement on Wednesday.\n\nThe extra money is worth nearly £3,000 for every person in the UK - and more than the entire planned health budget for 2020-21.\n\nBut despite the soaring cost of supporting the economy, some sectors said they had been \"ignored\".\n\nAlthough Mr Sunak said his priority was getting people back to work, he acknowledged that the extra support would not be enough to save every job and prevent further economic hardship.\n\nDirect spending on the crisis, excluding the latest £30bn package, has risen to £158.7bn, Mr Sunak revealed on Wednesday.\n\nIncluding the new measures, it means the cost of the crisis has risen by more than 40% since last month, when the government's spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, estimated it at £133bn.\n\nThis extra spending is likely to push the gap between what the government spends and what it raises in taxes - the deficit - above the OBR's latest estimate of around £300bn, according to the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank.\n\nBefore the coronavirus outbreak began, the government was expecting a deficit of £55bn.\n\nThe extra public spending figure includes £15bn to buy personal protective equipment such as gloves and masks. It also includes £10bn for the testing and tracing of infected persons, taking the total extra spending on health services to £32bn.\n\n\"There is a huge public services additional spending that we didn't really know about that was announced (on Wednesday). It was kind of skated over, but £15bn for PPE for frontline workers is an enormous sum,\" Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, told the BBC.\n\nHe said the chancellor's strategy was to spend money now, to minimise long-term damage to the economy, which would ultimately cause more harm overall.\n\n\"I don't think the chancellor is desperately worried about the size of the deficit this year. What will concern him is the size of the deficit the year after, and the year after, and the year after that,\" he said.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, said the financial cost of the crisis, at £190bn so far, was \"approaching the amount we spend on the day-to-day running of our NHS, schools and colleges each year\".\n\nHe welcomed the focus on supporting young people and sectors most affected by lockdown, but added: \"The scale of support... risks falling short of what will be required. The chancellor is taking quite a gamble on the strength of the recovery in the months ahead.\"\n\nThere are some things no chancellor can prepare for - such as what to do if your economy wipes out 18 years' gains in two months of lockdown.\n\nHis solution was to temporarily deep freeze the economy, and pump money into crisis response. And the thawing process needs more funds, to prevent long term damage.\n\nNow economists are talking about a deficit, a shortfall of way more than the £300bn previously expected. It's equivalent to a bigger slice of the economy than at any time since the Second World War.\n\nAnd it could get bigger; if more is needed to support the recovery - or in the event of a severe second wave.\n\nBut it's a cost worth bearing if it carries the economy through a devastating crisis, safeguard the damage to output and jobs - and ensure taxes get paid.\n\nFor at some point, there will have to be a discussion about how we pay this back.\n\nThe government is currently borrowing record amounts on the financial markets to plug the gap - but that may not be enough. There may have to be tax hikes, possibly less generous rises in pensions.\n\nBut it may be a while until the economy is robust enough to bear that.\n\nConcern that the chancellor did not go far enough was underlined by the aviation industry.\n\nThe Airlines UK trade body criticised the decision not to extend the furlough scheme beyond October, saying flights were likely to continue to be restricted during the winter.\n\nIt would mean more jobs lost in addition to the tens of thousands of redundancies already announced \"if the government continues to ignore aviation\", a spokesman for the trade body said.\n\nOf the policy measures announced in Wednesday's summer statement, the biggest was the plan to pay employers £1,000 for every furloughed worker they retain past January. The total bill could rise as high as £9.4bn, but only if every furloughed worker keeps their job.\n\nBut Charlie Mullins, founder of Pimlico Plumbers, wondered if it was money well spent, as he thought some firms would only retain staff until they get the cash.\n\n\"Firms will either want their staff back, or they won't. I just feel some employers will take advantage of this scheme,\" he told the BBC.\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?", "New cases down in Leicester but still way ahead\n\nThe latest weekly report from Public Health England shows the rate of new coronavirus cases in Leicester was 116 per 100,000 in the week to 5 July, down from 141 per 100,000 the week before. Rochdale is now a distant second in England as Bradford's rate of new cases has fallen faster, putting it in third place. The figures now include both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 tests. Pillar 1 tests are those done in hospitals or involving healthcare workers and until last week were the only ones where the data was broken down locally. Pillar 2 tests are those done in the community and it was these that surged in Leicester during June, leading to the local lockdown.", "Taxpayers face a day of reckoning when the government's massive coronavirus support measures have to be paid off, experts warn.\n\nThe Institute of Fiscal Studies think tank says the economy will remain in a \"support and recovery\" phase for some time, but higher taxes are inevitable.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chancellor unveiled another £30bn of support, bringing the total cost to £190bn.\n\nBut it was revealed the UK's tax authority queried its value for money.\n\nThe most senior civil servant at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) wrote to Chancellor Rishi Sunak about the value of two measures in his summer statement - the Job Retention Bonus and the eating out support.\n\nWednesday's additional spending announced by Mr Sunak is worth nearly £3,000 for every person in the UK - and more than the entire planned health budget for 2020-21.\n\nIt also means that the cost of the crisis so far has risen by more than 40% since last month, when the government's spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, estimated it at £133bn.\n\nOn Thursday, in its analysis of the latest measures, the IFS predicted that government borrowing would surge to about £350bn this year. In March, the government forecast a deficit of about £50bn to £60bn this year.\n\nThe IFS said it expected further spending support in the autumn Budget, perhaps through targeted tax cuts.\n\nHowever, IFS director Paul Johnson said: \"Let's hold in the back of our minds that a reckoning, in the form of higher taxes, will come eventually.\n\n\"This is no normal recession. It's the deepest in history,\" Mr Johnson said. The IFS said annual borrowing as a share of the economy was on course to be its highest outside wartime in more than 300 years.\n\nMr Sunak has given few details about how he intends to pay for the huge public spending, but has previously refused to rule out tax rises.\n\nThere are some things no chancellor can prepare for - such as what to do if your economy wipes out 18 years' gains in two months of lockdown.\n\nHis solution was to temporarily deep freeze the economy, and pump money into crisis response. And the thawing process needs more funds, to prevent long term damage.\n\nNow economists are talking about a deficit, a shortfall of way more than the £300bn previously expected. It's equivalent to a bigger slice of the economy than at any time since the Second World War.\n\nAnd it could get bigger; if more is needed to support the recovery - or in the event of a severe second wave.\n\nBut it's a cost worth bearing if it carries the economy through a devastating crisis, safeguard the damage to output and jobs - and ensure taxes get paid.\n\nFor at some point, there will have to be a discussion about how we pay this back.\n\nThe government is currently borrowing record amounts on the financial markets to plug the gap - but that may not be enough. There may have to be tax hikes, possibly less generous rises in pensions.\n\nBut it may be a while until the economy is robust enough to bear that.\n\nOf the policy measures announced in Wednesday's summer statement, the biggest was the plan to pay employers £1,000 for every furloughed worker they retain past January. The total bill could rise as high as £9.4bn, but only if every furloughed worker keeps their job.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said there was a \"value for money issue\" about the scheme.\n\n\"A lot, probably a majority, of the job retention bonus money will go in respect of jobs that would have been, indeed already have been, returned from furlough anyway,\" he said. And he said much of the planned cuts in VAT and stamp duty \"will be deadweight\".\n\nIt has also emerged that the UK tax authority had some doubts. Jim Harra, HMRC's permanent secretary, wrote to the chancellor earlier this week about the Job Retention Bonus and Eat Out To Help Out policies.\n\nOn both, he said, advice received by HMRC and the Treasury \"highlights uncertainty around the value for money\" of the proposals.\n\nHowever, the correspondence showed the chancellor said the plans should go ahead because there was a \"compelling case\".\n\nBusinessman Charlie Mullins, founder of Pimlico Plumbers, also questioned if the job retention bonus was money well spent, as he thought some firms would only retain staff until they get the cash.\n\n\"Firms will either want their staff back, or they won't. I just feel some employers will take advantage of this scheme,\" he told the BBC.\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\nMeanwhile, Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, said the financial cost of the crisis, at £190bn so far, was \"approaching the amount we spend on the day-to-day running of our NHS, schools and colleges each year\".\n\nHe welcomed the focus on supporting young people and sectors most affected by lockdown, but added: \"The scale of support... risks falling short of what will be required. The chancellor is taking quite a gamble on the strength of the recovery in the months ahead.\"", "Two schemes unveiled by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to stem coronavirus job losses may not be value for money for taxpayers, a top official has warned.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs boss Jim Harra wrote to Mr Sunak to express concerns about paying firms a £1,000 bonus to retain furloughed staff.\n\nHe also questioned the value for money of a discount scheme offering 50% off restaurant meals.\n\nThe chancellor rejected his concerns, saying action was needed to save jobs.\n\nThe exchanges are revealed in letters between the pair during a standard procedure for assessing the effectiveness of policy decisions.\n\nThey show Mr Sunak issued so-called \"ministerial directions\" to instruct officials to go ahead with both programmes.\n\nA Treasury official said a decision to press ahead with a policy in such a manner was a \"normal part\" of government business.\n\nA number of other emergency coronavirus measures have been approved in the same way where officials have been unable to sign off on cost-effectiveness.\n\nUnder plans outlined on Wednesday, firms will be offered a one-off £1,000 \"job retention bonus\" for every furloughed employee kept to the end of January 2021.\n\nThe UK-wide scheme, which will apply to workers earning over £520 per month, has been estimated to cost up to £9.4bn.\n\nTreasury sources have told the BBC that they have not modelled the likely take-up of the job retention bonus scheme, but hope that it will protect as many as nine million jobs.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said: \"We're not even 48 hours out from the Summer Statement and it's already unravelling fast. Yesterday we said the job retention bonus was a poorly targeted scheme that was made up on the hoof. Reports that the Treasury hasn't even modelled how many jobs the scheme will protect suggest we were right.\n\n\"We now urgently need more information from the head of HMRC on his decision to require a ministerial direction before implementing the job retention bonus.\"\n\nThe government's furlough scheme - currently paying the 80% of the wages of 9.4m employees - will be pared back from next month and end in October.\n\nThe chancellor says ministers are \"throwing everything\" at stemming job losses after UK companies announced thousands of cuts in recent weeks.\n\nBut he has admitted some firms will claim the bonus who would be keeping staff on in any case, saying there would be a \"dead weight\" cost to the policy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"In an ideal world... you would minimise that dead weight and do everything in incredibly targeted fashion.\n\n\"The problem is the severity of what was happening to our economy, the scale of what was happening, and indeed the speed that it was happening at demanded a different response.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the bonus scheme \"should be targeted in the areas which most need it, not across the piece\".\n\nShadow chief secretary to the Treasury Bridget Phillipson has written to Mr Harra asking him to publish HMRC's modelling of the job bonus scheme.\n\n\"Given the huge amount of public money involved, we need to know if public spending on this scale is achieving value for money,\" the Labour MP said.\n\nMr Harra also questioned the plan to offer diners a 50% discount for every meal, up to £10 a head, from Monday to Wednesday throughout August, and which is set cost £0.5bn.\n\nIn his letters, sent before Wednesday's announcements, Mr Harra said there was \"sound policy rationale\" behind the aims of both programmes, but it had been hard to estimate their effectiveness.\n\nOf the jobs programme, he wrote: \"It has proved difficult to establish a counterfactual for this scheme, which depends on the overall cost of the scheme and the number of extra jobs it would protect, both of which are currently highly uncertain.\"\n\nHe added that he had been unable to conclude the policy \"represents value for money\" to the standards expected in the public spending guidebook.\n\nThe chancellor hasn't done anything wrong here.\n\nMinisterial direction is designed to allow political choices to be made - even if officials don't agree with them.\n\nBut these letters from Jim Harra highlight the uncertainty around the key policies in the summer statement.\n\nQuite simply, the government doesn't know how effective they will be, how many jobs they will save, or whether they will provide value for money when we look back on these decisions in a year or so.\n\nClearly this unprecedented crisis requires some 'out of the box' thinking.\n\nBut the chancellor will be judged on the success of his novel policies.\n\nMr Harra expressed reservations about the plans for meal discounts, saying: \"There is insufficient time to gather further evidence and wider external opinions that might enable me to reach a conclusion.\n\n\"By nature, this is a novel scheme meaning there are also particular value for money risks surrounding the level of potential losses that could arise.\"\n\nReplying to the letters from Mr Harra, Rishi Sunak said there were \"broader issues\" to consider outside the normal guidance on public spending, and there were \"compelling reasons\" for the action he has taken.\n\nHe said the jobs bonus scheme would play a \"vital role\" in allowing employers to bring back furloughed staff whose jobs would otherwise be at \"acute risk\".\n\nDefending the meal discount scheme, he said it would make people more likely to visit restaurants and help support up to 1.8m hospitality jobs.", "Johnny Depp told a court his ex-wife Amber Heard told \"porkie pies\" about him\n\nJohnny Depp has accused his ex-wife Amber Heard of severing the tip of his finger, as his libel claim against the Sun newspaper continues.\n\nThe actor told the High Court Ms Heard, 34, threw a vodka bottle at him which cut the top of his finger and \"crushed the bones\".\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing for libel over a Sun article that called him a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper maintains the story was accurate.\n\nThe April 2018 piece by journalist Dan Wootton was about the casting of Mr Depp in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film franchise.\n\nMr Depp's lawyers say the article made \"defamatory allegations of the utmost seriousness\", by accusing him of committing serious assaults on Ms Heard.\n\nOn the third day of proceedings at London's High Court, Sasha Wass QC, representing Sun publisher News Group Newspapers, said Ms Heard had been subjected to a \"three-day ordeal\" during which Mr Depp had \"completely destroyed\" the house they were staying in during a drug-fuelled rage.\n\nMs Wass said Mr Depp had accused the actress of having affairs with her \"leading man\" while the couple were in Australia where he was filming one of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in March 2015. He then threw Ms Heard against a ping-pong table and pushed her up against a fridge, Ms Wass said.\n\nMr Depp denied the accusation, adding: \"After the incident where Ms Heard threw the vodka bottle, the second vodka bottle at me, which severed the top of my finger and crushed the bones, that's when I began what I feel was probably some species of a breakdown, a nervous breakdown or something.\"\n\nMr Depp said he then began to write on mirrors and walls using the injured finger, saying he \"didn't want to live at that time\".\n\nJohnny Depp said his finger was injured when Amber Heard threw a bottle of vodka at him\n\nMs Wass said to Mr Depp: \"At one stage when you were in the kitchen, screaming at Ms Heard, you picked up the wall-mounted telephone.\"\n\nShe said Mr Depp had the phone in his right hand and was \"repeatedly smashing it against the wall\".\n\nHe added: \"I remember ripping the phone off the wall.\"\n\nMs Wass asked: \"By this stage, you were really, really angry, weren't you?\"\n\nMr Depp said: \"I had just lost the top of my finger and as a musician - as a human being and as a musician - it is upsetting.\"\n\nMs Wass asked Mr Depp about previously saying that he had been responsible for losing the top of his finger.\n\nHe said he had said that to \"protect Ms Heard\" when he had to tell the production company he could not work.\n\nMs Heard has previously denied injuring Mr Depp's finger saying he injured it while pulling the phone off the wall.\n\nMs Wass said Ms Heard had come down to a \"state of complete carnage\" in the house with Mr Depp holding up his injured hand and saying \"Look what you made me do.\" He said that was \"incorrect\".\n\nMr Depp admitted he had said their relationship as \"a crime scene waiting to happen\" on several occasions.\n\nThe hearing also focussed on a detox trip Mr Depp and Ms Heard took to his private island in the Bahamas in August 2014.\n\nThe trip is one of 14 occasions on which incidents of domestic violence, all denied by Mr Depp, are alleged to have taken place - and which NGN are using in their defence against the actor's libel claim.\n\nMr Depp was asked during cross-examination if he had \"hit and pushed\" Ms Heard, to which he said: \"I didn't push Ms Heard or attack her in any way, as certainly I was not in any condition to do so.\"\n\nThe court heard medical notes suggesting Ms Heard believed Mr Depp was jealous of her professional work with another actor, James Franco.\n\nShe said one doctor wrote: \"Her movie with JF [James Franco] precipitated a binge that put JD in the hospital. Everyone around J [Johnny Depp] seems to be intimidated by his power and money. No-one stands up to him.\"\n\nMr Depp said: \"I think she was telling porky pies with her psychiatrist.\"\n\nAmber Heard has attended every day of the court case so far\n\nEarlier, Ms Wass read out medical notes by Mr Depp's own doctor, David Kipper, which said the actor \"romanticises the entire drug culture and has no accountability for his behaviour\".\n\nThe doctor also wrote that Mr Depp paid \"lip service\" to people like Sir Elton John \"more for their celebrity than their struggle with sobriety\".\n\nDuring another argument at their Los Angeles penthouse Mr Depp admitted \"accidentally\" headbutting Ms Heard but claimed she was \"flailing and punching\" him.\n\nIn a recorded conversation shortly after the incident, which was played to the the High Court, Mr Depp appeared to say he had headbutted his ex-wife in the forehead and added: \"That doesn't break a nose.\"\n\nHe told the court he had tried to get hold of her \"to stop her flailing and punching me\" and as he did so \"it seems there was a collision\".\n\nMs Heard and Mr Depp were married in 2015 and separated two years later\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\"\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the Pirates of the Caribbean star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.\n\nMr Depp, has been Oscar and Bafta-nominated and won a Golden Globe in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.", "Care homes could face a staffing \"black hole\" because of the impact of the government's immigration bill, care leaders have warned.\n\nThe Cavendish Coalition - which represents UK health and social care groups - says it is gravely concerned.\n\nThe current proposals would not allow enough overseas workers to be recruited, it has warned.\n\nThe government said immigration is \"not the answer to the challenges in the social care sector\".\n\nLeaders of 37 national care organisations, including the NHS Confederation, have signed the letter to the prime minister.\n\nThey say the proposed post-Brexit bill could have a damaging effect on care homes and other social care services, especially as the nation heads towards winter - which could bring further challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Immigration Bill, which has been given initial approval by MPs, repeals EU freedom of movement and introduces a new framework for who can come to live in the UK.\n\nThe legislation will put EU and European Economic Area (EEA) citizens on an equal footing to immigrants from outside the bloc.\n\nIt also paves the way for the government to introduce a new points-based system.\n\nBut the Cavendish Coalition said this points-based system currently does not include social care as the roles do not pass the proposed minimum salary threshold and \"are not classed as a shortage occupation\".\n\nOne in six workers in the sector is a foreign national and earn on average between £16,400 and £18,400 in England, says the coalition. But from next January, under the new bill, foreign workers will have to be on a minimum of £25,000 to be allowed in to the UK.\n\nDanny Mortimer, co-convenor of the Cavendish Coalition and chief executive of NHS Employers, said: \"If adult social care wasn't in a precarious position before coronavirus, it certainly is now.\"\n\nHe said one in five health and care workers have said that they are likely to leave their roles after the pandemic, adding that was \"pretty worrying\" given that the sector had 122,000 vacancies in England alone.\n\nThe coalition is calling on the government to come up with a \"transitional solution\" to \"navigate the gap\" between the new immigration system and a longer term plan and funding settlement for social care.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The Migration Advisory Committee has been very clear in its assertion that immigration is not the answer to the challenges in the social care sector.\n\n\"As we implement the new immigration system, we want employers to focus on investing in our domestic work force.\n\n\"Additionally, the EU Settlement Scheme means that all EU and EAA citizens, and their family members, currently working in social care can stay in the UK and we are encouraging them to do so.\"", "Armed police arrived on the scene within two minutes\n\nThe man who was the first stabbing victim of the Glasgow hotel knife attacker has told the BBC he thought he was going to die.\n\nMax Aubin was among six people stabbed by asylum seeker Badreddin Abadlla Adam at the city's Park Inn in West George Street on 26 June.\n\nHe said he had seen Adam before but had never spoken to him until he called him over and then knifed him twice.\n\nBut although he came close to death, Mr Aubin says he has already forgiven him.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the 20-year-old, who would like to become a criminal lawyer, said that Friday started like any other day.\n\nHe said: \"I was in my room when my friend Dante messaged me saying he needs tobacco. I said I would meet him outside.\n\n\"I was late to meet him so he had started to returned to his hotel. I saw him and shouted him to come back.\n\n\"Then I heard the guy (Adam) say 'hey you' and I was surprised because it was the first time he had talked to me. He didn't talk to anyone. He said 'Can I see you?'\".\n\nMr Aubin said he thought he might need his help. He put his hand out to shake Adam's hand but he blocked it and he slapped him on the head.\n\nHe said: \"It was real quick, he slapped me, I started to panic and he started to stab me - two seconds, so quick.\n\n\"I felt something on my body but I didn't see the knife. I went to go to the ground but he grabbed my t-shirt and tried to stab me again. When I went to run, my t-shirt ripped and I looked to find Dante.\n\n\"He stabbed me on both sides. I didn't feel pain but when I saw the blood I realised he had stabbed me.\"\n\nThe incident sparked a major police operation in the city centre\n\nAfter Mr Aubin was attacked, he said he heard someone screaming, in a stairwell, but he did not see it.\n\nHe remembers looking down and seeing that he was bleeding.\n\n\"When I saw my blood I thought I would die.\n\n\"My eyes wanted to close. But in my mind I thought, if I close my eyes I will die, so I fought to stay awake.\"\n\nBoth men were among 100 asylum seekers moved to the hotel during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Aubin, from the Ivory Coast, had been in Scotland for just 20 days when he found himself at the centre of one of the city's biggest police operations, sparked by reports of \"armed attacks\" at the city centre hotel.\n\nThe 28-year-old Sudanese attacker was shot dead by police, but not before he stabbed PC David Whyte and five other casualties, including two members of hotel staff and three asylum seekers.\n\nPC David Whyte was treated in hospital for serious injuries\n\nMr Aubin says he was well looked after in hospital and although he still feels pain, he says it is improving every day.\n\nBut he keeps reliving the attack in his mind.\n\nHe said: \"When I remember, I take my bible and I start to pray. I am a Christian.\"\n\nMr Aubin said he feels very lucky to be alive and he does not blame Adam for what happened to him.\n\n\"I thank the Lord every morning that I am alive. It was just a bad day.\n\n\"He is dead but I prayed for him. It wasn't him, I think maybe he was sick.\n\n\"We have to forgive him. I am alive and once the doctor said I would be okay, I prayed for him.\n\n\"I forgave him already. I was just worried for the police officer.\"\n\nDespite going through such a traumatic event, Mr Aubin still believes Glasgow is a \"nice city\".\n\nHe said: \"It is not the city, it was the one man. I was unlucky.\"", "There are 11 hectares of workshop space at the Nantgarw site - enough to cover 16 football pitches\n\nGeneral Electric is to cut 369 jobs at its aircraft engine maintenance plant in south Wales.\n\nGE has been consulting with 1,400 staff at its site in Nantgarw, near Caerphilly, as the firm suffers from the drop of numbers in air travel.\n\nThe company, which makes jet engines for Boeing and Airbus, blamed the \"unprecedented impact of Covid-19\".\n\nIt said it remained focused on \"preserving our capability to respond as the industry recovers\".\n\nThe announcement comes on top of 180 posts already lost at the site since the coronavirus crisis began through voluntary redundancies.\n\n\"Today's news from GE is further devastating news for Welsh workers, Welsh manufacturing and the Welsh economy,\" said union leader Peter Hughes, the regional secretary for Unite Wales.\n\n\"Our members at GE and their families will be extremely worried about their futures today.\n\n\"Unite will stand completely behind our members and will not move an inch from our position that compulsory redundancies must be ruled out.\"\n\nThe union called on GE to pause their plans and \"work with us to seek an urgent UK government sector deal for aerospace that could save these jobs\".\n\nWelsh economy minister Ken Skates said his officials would be working to help those affected, but said there needed to be \"immediate and radical action\" from the UK government.\n\n\"We have already called for measures to be taken and I am repeating that once again today. Without action from the UK government, the future of the aerospace sector is at serious risk,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"Other central governments have moved rapidly to protect their industries, the UK government must do the same to safeguard a sector which is vital to our economy.\"\n\nThe UK government has been approached for comment.\n\nGE Aviation employs 1,400 at its aircraft engine maintenance plant in Nantgarw\n\nThe Labour MP for Pontypridd Alex Davies-Jones and her Senedd counterpart Mick Antoniw said it was an \"absolutely devastating\" announcement.\n\nThey said it was \"particularly distressing\" that the majority of GE's UK job cuts would fall on the Nantgarw site.\n\n\"These are highly-skilled, highly-paid jobs and will be extremely difficult to replace,\" they said.\n\nIt follows job cuts at British Airways in south Wales and the announcement of 1,435 redundancies at Airbus in Broughton in Flintshire.\n\nMs Davies-Jones and Mr Antoniw added: \"The UK aerospace industry is in crisis and it is not acceptable for the UK government to simply sit back and shrug its shoulders.\n\n\"We will continue to work with Unite the union and GE management locally to do everything we can to ensure that as many jobs as possible are retained for the future and to support those who have lost their jobs in any way we can.\"\n\nThe Conservative's business spokesman in the Senedd, Russell George, said: \"If these reports are accurate, then it is clearly going to be very worrying news for the employees at the GE Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility in south Wales, during what are already very uncertain times, and it follows similar recent announcements by aviation firms with operations in Wales.\"\n\nHe said his party would do \"all we can\" to deal with the impact, including working cross-party with the Welsh Government.\n\nPlaid Cymru's South East Wales Senedd member Delyth Jewell called on the Welsh Government to look at investing in the \"green economy\".\n\n\"I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg, we will see with job losses over the coming weeks and months, which is why I urge the Welsh Government to heed Plaid Cymru's call for an All-Wales Renewal Fund to help boost sectors that are hardest hit by the crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"In responding to this crisis, our communities need employment solutions that are sustainable.\"", "Leisure facilities and beauty services in England will be allowed to reopen, the government has announced.\n\nPools, gyms, nail bars and tattooists will be able to open their doors again, and team sports - starting with cricket - will be allowed to resume.\n\nAnnouncing the changes at a briefing at No 10, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden urged people to \"work out to help out\".\n\nOutdoor performances will also be able to resume with limited audiences.\n\nIt came as the UK reported the deaths of a further 85 people who tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of deaths to 44,602.\n\nMr Dowden said \"all the data\" was continuing to \"move in the right direction\" despite the reopening of pubs and restaurants last weekend.\n\nHe said normal life was \"slowly returning\" and that this was an important milestone for the country's performers and artists, who had been \"waiting in the wings since March\".\n\n\"I'm really urging people to get out there and to play their part,\" he said. \"Buy the tickets for outdoor plays and musical recitals, get to your local gallery and support your local businesses.\"\n\nBut the culture secretary warned the measures were conditional and reversible, adding that the government would impose local lockdowns if cases started to spike.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dowden: 'We need to get the nation match fit to defeat this disease'\n\nNot all forms of beauty treatment will be able to go ahead, as some are deemed too high-risk. These include face waxing, sugaring or threading services, facial treatments, make-up application and eyebrow treatments.\n\nVanita Parti, chief executive of walk-in beauty chain Blink Brow Bar, said that at first she had welcomed the news but then she received an email from the British Beauty Council telling her no treatments to the face would be allowed.\n\n\"I'm furious. We can't reopen,\" she said. \"This will kill so many businesses.\"\n\nGuidance for the reopening of sports facilities has been published, including on cleaning regimes, social distancing and protection for staff.\n\nMeasures include limiting the number of people using a facility at one time, reducing class sizes and spacing out equipment. Face coverings will not be mandatory in gyms.\n\nSmall numbers of supporters will be able to watch outdoor sports, provided social distancing measures and group size rules are followed.\n\nEach sport will have to submit an action plan to the government of how it will operate safely, with sports where a single ball is used having to show how they can reduce the risk of it transmitting the virus.\n\nThe government said a team led by England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam had been visiting sports sites to see the sector's preparations to reopen safely.\n\nWhen put to him that the restrictions would make exercise \"less fun\", Mr Dowden said people would get used to the new measures.\n\nHe said: \"The judgment we've taken with this [pubs] and swimming pools and elsewhere is it is better to reopen with those restrictions than not reopen at all.\"\n\nActors' union Equity welcomed the reopening of outdoor productions but called for further protection for venues, while Julian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, said more clarity was needed regarding indoor performances.\n\nThe announcements follow the government's pledge of £1.57bn to support the arts industry.", "Amadou Gon Coulibaly had just returned from heart treatment in France\n\nIvory Coast's PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly has died after falling ill at a ministerial meeting.\n\nThe 61-year-old had been chosen as the ruling party's candidate for October's presidential election, after Alassane Ouattara said he would not seek a third term in office.\n\nMr Gon Coulibaly had only just returned from France where he had received two-months' heart treatment.\n\nPresident Ouattara said the country was in mourning.\n\nHe said Mr Gon Coulibaly had become unwell during a weekly cabinet meeting and was taken to hospital where he later died.\n\n\"I pay tribute to my younger brother, my son, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was for 30 years my closest partner,\" the president said. \"I salute the memory of a statesman of great loyalty, devotion and love for the homeland.\"\n\nHe had received a heart transplant in 2012 and had travelled to Paris on 2 May for the insertion of a stent.\n\nHe returned last Thursday saying: \"I am back to take my place by the side of the president, to continue the task of developing and building our country.\"\n\nMr Gon Coulibaly was among the favourites to win the presidential election.\n\nAn article in Le Monde on Monday quoted one foreign observer as saying: \"If Gon Coulibaly were unfit, Ouattara would have no choice but to run as a candidate because there is no plan B.\n\n\"This matter has so far remained taboo because the president has clearly shown his willingness to leave and indicated who his choice was to succeed him.\"\n\nMr Ouattara's decision in March not to run stunned the country.\n\nAt the time, the BBC's James Copnall wrote from the main city, Abidjan, that there was praise from politicians as Mr Ouattara broke the normal mould for the region of trying to remain in power.\n\nEven then it was clear that Mr Gon Coulibaly would be backed as the successor candidate.\n• None PhD in economics and worked for IMF\n• None Sworn in as president on 6 May 2011 after years in opposition\n\nMr Ouattara's supporters say he has brought economic growth, stability and a renewed standing for Ivory Coast on the international stage.\n\nBut opposition politicians - and many Ivorians - say that the president has not done enough to bring the nation together, and heal the wounds of the bitter conflict that divided Ivory Coast and then brought him to power.\n\nAround 3,000 people are thought to have died in the war sparked by candidate Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to accept he had lost the 2010 elections to Mr Ouattara, before troops loyal to the current president arrested Mr Gbagbo in April 2011.\n\nThe long-running political disputes between him, Mr Ouattara and another former president, Henri Konan Bédié, have been disastrous for Ivory Coast.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 20-metre (65ft) crane crashed on to two properties in Gale Street, Bow\n\nAn 85-year-old woman who died when a crane collapsed on to houses and a block of flats in east London has been described as a \"very caring woman\".\n\nJune Harvey was found on the first floor of one home after the 20m (65ft) crane crashed down in Compton Close, Bow, before 14:40 BST on Wednesday.\n\nSam Atkinson, her great nephew, said it was a \"miracle\" he and his mother had also not been killed.\n\nA construction worker still remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nMr Atkinson, 28, was inside one of the damaged houses where he lived with Ms Harvey, his mother Jacqueline Atkinson, 63, and their dog.\n\nPaying tribute to his great aunt, Mr Atkinson said she was \"loyal to her family\" and her relatives were \"devastated by our loss\".\n\n\"The last thing you ever think is going to happen is a crane coming through your roof. It's extremely traumatising,\" he said.\n\nSpecialist urban search and rescue crews took part in the operation to find those injured\n\nHe said the noise of the collapse was \"indescribable\" and he had \"thought it was a plane crash\".\n\n\"As I looked around, the whole house was destroyed and crumbling around me,\" he said.\n\nThe 28-year-old explained how his mother had been sorting clothes with Ms Harvey in a bedroom and had been \"about a metre away from where my aunt was\" when the crane came down.\n\n\"It's just a miracle that we're alive. It was lucky it didn't come straight through and crush me, crush my mum,\" he said.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said specialist firefighters were working to recover her body from the house, with the operation expected to last throughout the day.\n\nThe crane also crashed on to a block of flats which was under development\n\nThe crane collapsed where a block of flats was being built in Watts Grove, falling across the development and on to two adjacent houses.\n\nWitnesses described the collapse as being \"like an earthquake\".\n\nOne woman, who asked not to be named, said her family felt \"so lucky to be alive\" as their home was one of those to be damaged.\n\n\"The way that everything fell - if my brother or sister had been in their rooms which is where it hit directly, I just cannot bear to think about it,\" she said.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it had treated four people, two of whom were taken to hospital with head injuries.\n\nWitnesses described the collapse as being \"like an earthquake\"\n\nThe crane was being used by Swan Housing Association and NU living to build flats on the site of a former electrical substation building.\n\nScotland Yard said a joint investigation had begun \"involving officers from the Met's Central East Command Unit and Specialist Crime, the Health and Safety Executive and the London Fire Brigade\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and \"a scene is expected to remain in place for the next few days\".\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said it was \"likely to be a protracted operation\" to rescue Ms Harvey's body\n\nTower Hamlets Council said 97 residents from 26 households have been temporarily rehoused in hotel accommodation.\n\nThe borough's mayor, John Biggs, said it was unknown when they would be able to return as the site had to be made safe.\n\nSpeaking about the crane, Mr Biggs said he understood it was still being erected at the time it fell.\n\nHe said it was important to \"learn any lessons\" and find out if there were \"any errors\" which led to the collapse.\n\n\"A lot of people will be worried by this and... there's a question of public assurance as well,\" the mayor said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Swan Housing Association and NU living said they were \"deeply saddened by an incident that has occurred at our Watts Grove development site\".\n• None One dead and four injured in crane collapse\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Johnny Depp arriving at the High Court in London on Wednesday morning\n\nJohnny Depp has denied he slapped ex-wife Amber Heard after she laughed at one of his tattoos, as he appeared at a hearing at London's High Court.\n\nHe accused Ms Heard of \"building a dossier\" against him after the court heard she wrote an email describing him as a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde character.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun newspaper over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\".\n\nThe Sun has defended the accuracy of its story.\n\nIt had referred to \"overwhelming evidence\" that Mr Depp attacked Ms Heard, 34, during their relationship - which he strenuously denies.\n\nMr Depp is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) and its executive editor Dan Wootton over the article, published in 2018.\n\nMs Heard claims that Mr Depp first hit her in early 2013 - one of 14 separate allegations of domestic violence, all denied by Mr Depp, which are being relied on by NGN in their defence.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing, NGN's lawyer Sasha Wass QC began by asking Mr Depp about an alleged incident in March 2013 involving one of his tattoos which reads \"Wino Forever\".\n\nIt had originally said \"Winona Forever\" in reference to his relationship with actress Winona Ryder, but he had changed it when they split in 1993.\n\nMs Wass said Ms Heard - who was also in court - had made a joke out of the tattoo at a time when he was drinking heavily after about 160 days of sobriety.\n\nMs Wass said the actor then slapped his ex-wife across the face, a total of three times. He denied this.\n\nThe barrister then put it to Mr Depp that he \"broke down\" after coming to his senses and realising what he had done, to which he said: \"I didn't hit Ms Heard.\"\n\nThe High Court also heard details of the email Ms Heard wrote to the actor - but never sent - saying he lived \"in a world of enablers\".\n\nIt it, she said: \"It's like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Half of you, I love. Madly. The other half scares me.\"\n\nShe wrote that she knew she was \"dealing with the monster\" when he had been drinking.\n\nIn response, Mr Depp, 57, said the \"dossier\" was being built up from early on \"that appears to be an insurance policy for later\".\n\nHe agreed he would describe the allegation he was a serial domestic abuser as a \"hoax\", adding the claims were \"patently untrue\".\n\nAmber Heard was also at the High Court in London for the second day of the case\n\nThe court heard about another alleged incident that month when Ms Heard claims Mr Depp hit her several times after an argument about a painting by her ex-partner, Tasya van Ree, which was hanging in her Los Angeles home.\n\nMs Wass read out part of Mr Depp's witness statement in which he said he had asked Ms Heard to remove the painting \"as a courtesy\" to him.\n\nHe said she hadn't taken it down it but denied allegations put to him by Ms Wass that he tried to remove the painting and to set fire to it, saying each time they were \"not true\".\n\nMr Depp was asked whether he would describe himself as jealous. He responded: \"I am, yes. I can be jealous.\"\n\nMs Wass asked Mr Depp about an alleged incident on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles in May 2014.\n\nThe barrister put it to Mr Depp that he had been \"screaming obscenities\" at Ms Heard on the plane and brought up the subject of fellow actor James Franco - whom Mr Depp \"suspected\" was having an affair with his partner.\n\nMs Wass said Mr Depp threw ice cubes at Ms Heard, and was \"in a blind rage\", becoming so angry he slapped her across the face.\n\nMr Depp denied that happened, or that he called Ms Heard a \"slut\" and a \"whore\".\n\nThe barrister suggested the actor went to the toilet of the plane, where he passed out.\n\nMr Depp said in response: \"As Ms Heard was berating me, screaming at me and whatnot, as is her wont, she began to get physical.\"\n\nHe added that he then \"grabbed a pillow from the couch and slept on the bathroom floor\".\n\nMs Wass asked about an incident in which Ms Heard's dog \"had eaten some hash, some cannabis - quite a lot\".\n\nThe actor replied: \"The puppy got a hold of a little ball of hashish and just scooped it up before I could get to it.\"\n\nThe court has also heard about an alleged incident in which it is claimed Mr Depp held another of Ms Heard's dogs out of a car window, which he dismissed as \"utter falsity\".\n\nAmber Heard and Johnny Depp, pictured in 2015, were married for two years\n\nOn the first day of the libel case the court heard that Mr Depp denied being violent towards his ex-wife and accused Ms Heard of being violent towards him.\n\nNGN previously tried to have the case thrown out, but Mr Justice Nicol ruled last week the case could go ahead.\n\nThe case arose out of the publication of an article on the Sun's website headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\"\n\nThe Sun's original article related to allegations made by the actress, who was married to the Pirates of the Caribbean star from 2015 to 2017.\n\nWitnesses including Mr Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are expected to give evidence via video link, and the hearing is expected to last for three weeks.\n\nMr Depp, has been Oscar and Bafta-nominated and won a Golden Globe in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.", "450 jobs to go at Celtic Manor and ICC\n\nAlmost half of the workforce at Celtic Manor Resort and International Convention Centre Wales in Newport are to be made redundant. Parent group the Celtic Collection said the “devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic” meant it would lose 450 jobs from its permanent workforce of 995. Celtic Manor Resort, which hosted the 2010 Ryder Cup golf tournament and a 2014 Nato summit, reopens next Tuesday, 14 July for the first time since March 23. The company said it would have \"reduced capacities and restricted facilities in line with safety guidelines to mitigate the risk of Coronavirus”. It said the number of job losses was “based on the current restrictions surrounding hospitality and tourism, and the total may reduce significantly should more of our facilities be permitted to reopen during the consultation period”. Staff whose positions are at risk of redundancy have been sent letters advising them of the process.", "The injured man was found in Seeley Drive\n\nA man has died in a stabbing in south London.\n\nPolice and paramedics were called to Seeley Drive, West Dulwich, where they found the man with stab injuries at about 18:30 BST.\n\nThe man, thought to be aged 18, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they were working to find his family.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched. No-one has been arrested and a crime scene remains in place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Diners will get a 50% discount off their restaurant bill during August under government plans to bolster the embattled hospitality sector.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the \"eat out to help out\" discount as part of a series of measures to restart the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe deal means people can get up to £10 off per head if they eat out from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nMr Sunak also said VAT on hospitality and tourism would drop to 5%.\n\nThe reduction, from 20%, will be in place for the next six months.\n\nAs he announced the discount, the chancellor said the UK was facing a \"unique moment\" because of Covid-19, adding: \"We need to be creative.\"\n\nPubs and restaurants reopened on Saturday after more than three months in lockdown, with safety measures in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nMr Sunak sought to reassure the public that it was safe to dine out. \"I know people are cautious about going out. But we wouldn't have lifted the restrictions if we didn't think we could do so, safely,\" he said.\n\nThe discount will not apply to alcohol, but to food and soft drinks up to £10 per person.\n\nThe Treasury said the 50% discount can be used unlimited times during August and applies to participating restaurants, cafés, and pubs across the UK.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by HM Treasury This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sunak said the plan was aimed at getting \"customers back into restaurants, cafes and pubs\" and protecting \"the 1.8 million people who work in them\".\n\nHowever, the scheme prompted criticism from some who questioned subsidising meals out while British people continue to die from the coronavirus and many people are struggling financially.\n\nBusinesses that want to take part in the scheme will have to register through a website that opens on Monday 13 July.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"Each week in August, businesses can then claim the money back, with the funds in their bank account within five working days.\"\n\nHe added that the cut in VAT, from 20% to 5%, would apply to \"eat-in or hot takeaway food from restaurants, cafes and pubs; accommodation in hotels, B&Bs, campsites and caravan sites [and] attractions like cinemas, theme parks and zoos\".\n\nThe lower tax rate will be implemented next Wednesday, 15 July, and will remain in place until 12 January 2021.\n\nCaroline Roylance, owner of The George pub at Fordingbridge, Hampshire, said she would be applying for the \"eat out to help out\" scheme.\n\nThe pub reopened on Wednesday after being closed since 23 March, when the coronavirus lockdown was implemented.\n\nPub-owner Caroline Roylance said the measures will help her business \"through the next few months\"\n\nShe said the discount and the VAT cut \"will help us make it through the next few months, because trade is unlikely to return to pre-Covid levels for some time\".\n\n\"Saying that, it's been surprisingly busy today, which is encouraging, but it's still not July busy,\" said Mrs Roylance. \"It's a start though.\"\n\nUK Hospitality, the trade body which represents the industry, \"warmly\" welcomed the moves, as well as Mr Sunak's plans to stem unemployment through schemes such as creating thousands of job placements for young people.\n\nHowever, UK Hospitality's chief executive, Kate Nicholls, said: \"This doesn't mean we are out of the woods and there are still significant challenges ahead.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK is facing a \"unique moment\"\n\n\"The biggest of these is the spectre of rent liabilities, which many businesses are still facing from their closure period. We are going to need government support on this before too long.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the exclusion of alcohol from the \"eat out to help out\" discount hit some pub groups' share prices.\n\nMitchells & Butler's share price jumped by 7.3% to 175p towards the end of Mr Sunak's statement, when he revealed the VAT cut for the hospitality and leisure industries, as well as the dining out discount.\n\nBut once it became clear it did not include alcohol, Mitchell & Butler's share price fell \"just as quickly as it spiked up\", said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK.\n\nMarston's share price also dropped 6.1% to 48.98p. JD Wetherspoon's share price fell 2% to 986p.", "Planned operations in England fell by 80% in May compared with the same month in 2019, NHS figures show.\n\nThe number of people attending A&E was a third lower in June than in the same month last year.\n\nBut waiting lists for treatment also fell as fewer people are having key tests for cancer and heart disease.\n\nA raft of stats published on Thursday by NHS England show how dramatically use of the health service has been changed by coronavirus.\n\nNon-emergency surgery, including cancer and heart operations, fell from from 296,000 in May 2019 to 55,000 in May this year.\n\nThis is slightly up from the 41,000 planned operations that took place in April, but remains far below normal.\n\nAnd there were about half as many procedures that didn't involve being admitted to a hospital bed in May 2020 - 506,000, compared with 1.1 million in May 2019.\n\nAs services have paused, the number of patients on a waiting list to start treatment has actually fallen -from 4.4 million in May 2019 to 3.8 million patients in May this year.\n\nThis had been expected, since fewer people have been going for tests which could indicate people need procedures - and is likely to shoot back up.\n\nTotal tests - including scans to look for tumours and tests of heart function - fell by almost a third, from 1.2 million in May 2019 to 870,000 May 2020.\n\nGuidance to begin re-opening services for more non-urgent care was issued to trusts in mid-May.\n\nThe tranche of data released on Thursday also included figures on A&E attendances in June. These showed there were 1.4 million A&E attendances in June compared with 2.1 million in June 2019 (though this is slightly up from 1.26m in May).\n\nThis partly reflects there having been fewer accidents as people have stayed away from roads, sports and pubs. But it may also include people who stayed away from hospitals out of fear or because they didn't want to be a burden, despite needing urgent care.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"Despite responding rapidly to the coronavirus pandemic and the need to ensure over 100,000 patients could receive hospital care, NHS staff also provided more than five million urgent tests, checks and treatment in a safe way during the peak of the virus.\n\n\"The overall waiting list has fallen by more than half a million since the onset of Covid, but as more patients come forward local health services continue work to expand services safely.\"", "The spire of Notre Dame cathedral, which was destroyed in a fire last April, will be restored according to the original Gothic design.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron announced the decision, putting an end to speculation that the spire would be rebuilt in a modern style.\n\nMr Macron had previously hinted he was in favour of a \"contemporary gesture\".\n\nHowever he has said he wants the restoration to be completed by 2024, when Paris is hosting the Olympics.\n\nThe Elysée said Mr Macron's main concern was \"not delaying the reconstruction and making it complicated - things had to be cleared up quickly\".\n\nIt added that the process of designing a modern spire, with an international competition for architects, could have caused unnecessary delays.\n\n\"The president trusts the experts and approved the main outlines of the project presented by the chief architect which plans to reconstruct the spire identically,\" the Elysée said.\n\nThe announcement followed a meeting of France's national heritage and architecture commission (CNPA).\n\nWhen the 13th century roof of the Paris cathedral caught fire during restoration works in April 2019 it sparked a vast outpouring of emotion, as well as donations from across the world.\n\nWithin two days about €900m ($1bn; £805m) had been raised for the cathedral's restoration.\n\nThe cathedral's first spire was built in the 13th Century, but due to extensive damage it was removed in the late 18th Century. Its replacement, designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, was built in the mid-19th Century.\n\nOne architects' firm drew up plans for a rooftop pool on the cathedral\n\nSince last year's fire, discussion over how to restore the spire has been tense.\n\nJean-Louis Georgelin, the army general put in charge of the reconstruction effort, wanted a modern alternative. This idea appeared briefly to have President Macron's backing, when he said he would be in favour of a \"contemporary gesture\".\n\nThis sparked a wave of unconventional proposals from architects around the world - including one design with a rooftop pool, and another with a giant park and greenhouse on the roof.\n\nBut the cathedral's chief architect Philippe Villeneuve spoke out strongly in favour of a faithful restoration to the previous, 19th Century design.\n\nIn one particularly heated exchange last November, Gen Georgelin told Mr Villeneuve to \"shut his mouth\" - causing audible gasps in a meeting of the National Assembly's cultural affairs committee.", "\"No one will be left without hope.\"\n\nThat's quite the promise from the Chancellor at a time when fears are rising of a spike in unemployment.\n\nJobs have already been disappearing. As expected, therefore, Rishi Sunak's priority at the despatch box was to find ways to create new jobs, and to protect others.\n\nThe new Jobs Retention Bonus, a cash payment to employers who bring staff back from the taxpayer backed furlough scheme, was the big surprise - it is a significant and potentially very expensive way of trying to get people back to work.\n\nBosses who bring staff back to work after they have been at home on taxpayer funded wages will get £1,000 per employee if they are still on the payroll at the end of January.\n\nHypothetically, it could cost up to £9bn if everyone returns to work. That seems unlikely, and it is impossible to know what the take up will be, but it is another major intervention from this Conservative chancellor.\n\nHe's prepared to spend as much as £30bn by the time you include the other measures he confirmed - cuts to stamp duty, VAT in the hospitality sectors down to 5%, a scheme to create jobs for young people that might have a price tag of £2bn. Spending on infrastructure was accelerated too and don't forget an 'eat out to help out' scheme where customers will get discounts on their social life (although not including alcohol) courtesy of the Chancellor - insert pun here.\n\nDon't let excitement about a few cheap burgers (only Monday to Wednesday) distract you from what this is about.\n\nThe Chancellor has just outlined another hefty chunk of spending to try to prop up the economy, specifically to try to keep millions of people from joining the dole.\n\nMany of the measures run against traditional Tory instincts. And there isn't a whiff of how any of it will be paid for for at least another couple of months.\n\nBut that's against the background of the sharpest decline in the economy in generations, with the fortunes of what will actually happen next dependent on the progress of a deadly disease.\n\nThe opposition parties already suggest that the scale of what the government is proposing falls short of what will be required.\n\nRishi Sunak admitted in his statement \"our plan will not be the last - it is the next\", knowing full well that the profound economic impact of the coronavirus crisis is far from passed.", "Two of the UK's biggest High Street retailers, John Lewis and Boots, have announced 5,300 job cuts.\n\nBoots has said 4,000 jobs will go, while John Lewis is shutting down eight stores, putting 1,300 jobs at risk.\n\nThe moves come amid warnings that new economic support from Chancellor Rishi Sunak will not be enough to stop millions of workers losing their jobs.\n\nMr Sunak admitted that he would not be able to protect \"every single job\" as the UK enters a \"severe recession\".\n\nBoots is consulting on plans to cut head office and store teams and shut 48 of its more than 600 Boots Opticians practices.\n\nIt has not yet said which outlets will close, but about 7% of its workforce will lose their jobs.\n\nJohn Lewis said department stores in Birmingham and Watford will not reopen as the coronavirus lockdown eases. It also plans to shut down its At Home stores in Croydon, Newbury, Swindon and Tamworth and travel sites at Heathrow airport and London St Pancras.\n\nMr Sunak unveiled a series of measures on Wednesday aimed at saving jobs, including a one-off £1,000 payment to employers for every furloughed employee retained to the end of January 2021.\n\nHe also announced measures to benefit the hospitality sector, including giving diners 50% off eating out from Monday to Wednesday in August.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the moves to support restaurants, pubs and cafes could also help retail.\n\n\"We very much hope that when people go to their local pub or their restaurant to eat out, those are often in the centre of towns, hopefully that will encourage the footfall to those areas so we get more people going to our shops as well,\" Mr Dowden said, speaking after announcing the reopening of gyms, indoor pools and outdoor theatres.\n\nJohn Lewis says some of its stores were in trouble before the virus struck, while Boots already had plans for a shake-up.\n\nThe crisis has forced them to speed up efforts to deal with the rise of internet shopping.\n\nAnd just now they face the phasing out of the government-supported furlough scheme, starting next month.\n\nOne by one, retailers are revealing how many staff they will bring back into stores as the job subsidy is withdrawn.\n\nMost Boots outlets remained open throughout the lockdown to provide pharmacy and healthcare services, but the firm said footfall had \"dramatically reduced\".\n\nThe firm said sales across all Boots UK outlets were down 50% in the third quarter, and some 70% at Boots Opticians.\n\n\"Restrictions are beginning to lift, but with an uncertain economic outlook, it is anticipated that the High Street will take considerable time to recover,\" it said.\n\nBoots said last year that it was reviewing the size of its UK operations with the possibility that up to 200 stores could be closed.\n\nThe managing director of Boots UK, Sebastian James, described the latest cuts as \"decisive actions to accelerate our transformation plan\".\n\nJohn Lewis said the eight stores affected were already \"financially challenged\" even before the pandemic struck.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 had caused customers to move more quickly towards online shopping and away from stores.\n\nJohn Lewis Partnership chairwoman Sharon White said: \"Closing a shop is always incredibly difficult and today's announcement will come as very sad news to customers and partners.\n\n\"However, we believe closures are necessary to help us secure the sustainability of the partnership - and continue to meet the needs of our customers, however and wherever they want to shop.\"\n\nMs White said John Lewis would do everything it could to keep on as many people as possible.\n\nJohn Lewis had warned in March it could close shops as a plunge in profits forced it to cut staff bonuses to their lowest level in almost 70 years.\n\nFormer John Lewis boss Andy Street, now mayor of the West Midlands, said the closure of the chain's flagship Birmingham store was \"deeply disappointing\".\n\n\"At this stage the closure is only a proposal, and one which I believe risks being a dreadful mistake,\" he tweeted.\n\nHe added that his belief in its potential was \"unwavering\" and that he would be making the case for it to stay open.\n\nThe planned closure of John Lewis's Watford store has prompted a petition to save it, which has been signed by 4,400 people so far.\n\nOther John Lewis customers took to Twitter to vent their frustrations.\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\nJohn Lewis and Boots are the latest in a long line of companies to have made cuts during the pandemic. Other lay-offs announced include:\n\nUnions and analysts have warned that the virus could mean millions of people end up out of work, warning that government incentives to save jobs were not large enough to persuade bosses to keep workers.\n\nLen McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union, said: \"With no modification to the jobs retention scheme, that dreaded October cliff-edge for businesses and workers has now been set in stone.\n\n\"Our fear is the summer jobs loss tsunami we have been pleading with the government to avoid will now surely only gather pace.\"\n\nVivienne King, chief executive at Revo, which represents the retail property sector, warned that three million retail jobs remained in jeopardy unless the government undertook \"a fundamental review of business rates and direct financial support to underwrite rents\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak himself told BBC Breakfast: \"Is unemployment going to rise, are people going to lose their jobs? Yes, and the scale of this is significant.\n\n\"We are entering one of the most severe recessions this country has ever seen. That is of course going to have a significant impact on unemployment and on job losses.\"\n\nLucy Powell, shadow minister for business and consumers, said the job cuts were \"deeply worrying news for staff at John Lewis and Boots\" and described Mr Sunak's statement as \"a missed opportunity to protect jobs with properly targeted support for the businesses and people that need it\".", "Park Won-soon speaks during an event at Seoul City Hall on Wednesday\n\nPolice in the South Korean capital Seoul have found the body of the city's mayor after he went missing on Thursday.\n\nPark Won-soon's daughter reportedly told police he had left a message before leaving the house, leading her to raise the alarm.\n\nHis body was found at Mount Bugak in northern Seoul, near where his phone signal was last detected.\n\nNo cause of death has been officially recorded.\n\nBut police said they were investigating the case as a suicide.\n\nA note was released that was left by Mr Park in his office. It read: \"I apologise to everyone. I thank everyone who was with me in my lifetime. I am so sorry to my family, to whom I have only caused pain. Please cremate my body and scatter the ashes at my parents' grave. Goodbye everyone.\"\n\nIt is reported that a female employee had filed a sexual harassment claim against the 64-year-old on Wednesday, the day before he went missing, thought there has been no official confirmation of the complaint.\n\nMr Park did not show up for work on Thursday, cancelling a meeting with a presidential official at his Seoul City Hall office. A message reportedly left for his daughter led to her raising the alarm, and police began to search a wooded area in the north of the city where his phone signal was last detected.\n\nHe was seen by a security camera at 10:53 near the entrance to the woods. About 600 police and fire officers using drones and dogs searched the area for hours on Thursday.\n\nHis body was found in the woods on Mount Bugak at 00:01 (16:01 BST) on Friday. His body was moved to the Seoul National University hospital, where crowds gathered and politicians visited throughout the day on Friday.\n\nMourners have been paying tribute in Seoul\n\nMr Park was first elected mayor of Seoul in 2011 and elected to an unprecedented third and final term in June of last year.\n\nHe clashed with President Park Geun-hye, openly supporting millions of people who protested against her in 2017 before she was eventually charged and imprisoned on bribery and other charges.\n\nAs a member of President Moon Jae-in's liberal Democratic Party, Mr Park was reportedly under consideration as a potential presidential hopeful in the 2022 elections.\n\nMayor Park Won-soon was well liked for a reason.\n\nAs a lawyer, he had fought to further the cause of women - winning the country's first sexual harassment case. He highlighted this country's many economic inequalities, once even spending a month in a cramped home in a poor part of the city.\n\nHe fought against authoritarian rule in South Korea and was put in prison in the 1970's as a college student, and went on to win an unprecedented third term as mayor of Seoul.\n\nBut his death is now mired in controversy.\n\nWe may now never get to the truth behind the claims of sexual harassment filed against him just hours before his death.\n\nThe investigation has been dropped which means there will be no further inquiry into potentially serious issues within one of the highest political offices in the country. There will also be no justice - either for his alleged victim or for him.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, BBC Action Line has more information.\n\nIn the UK you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information 0800 066 066.In addition, you can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline- 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm). Links for help in South Korea can be found here.", "The government is offering a carrot to businesses if they hang on to their workers.\n\n£1,000 for every worker who returns from furlough who is still employed at the end of January.\n\nThe government says it could cost up to £9bn – a pretty blunt calculation of 9 million furloughed workers multiplied by £1000.\n\nOf course it won’t be that simple.\n\nThe calculation facing business owners is more complicated.\n\nDo they want to start paying 5% of employee wage costs next month, then 14% in September and then over 20% in October – followed by three months of full wages to land a prize of £1,000 during the worst recession in living memory.\n\nA lot of that will be contingent on demand, which the chancellor has tried to stimulate in the worst-affected industries by cutting VAT and offering half-price early bird food, but it is surely wildly optimistic to think that employers will hang on for that long.\n\nWe also learned two other important things today.\n\nFirst, that any idea of extending the furlough scheme – as many have called for in some form - appears dead.\n\nSecond, the government and business are realising just how much they need each other.\n\nThese programmes are big and challenging to deliver.\n\nRishi Sunak said early on that today is not the last intervention but the next intervention.\n\nThe biggest question of all – the question that may determine the future of hundreds of thousands of workers - is whether he’s made his carrot big enough.", "Many councils have defended the rising cost of cremations\n\nThe cost of cremations in the UK has continued to rise despite reduced services on offer during the pandemic.\n\nTwo thirds of councils have continued with price increases of up to 16% from last year, while limited numbers of mourners can attend shorter ceremonies to maintain social distancing.\n\nA quarter of authorities have frozen prices, while seven have cut costs on the grounds of compassion.\n\nOne widower said a lockdown service for his wife was like a \"pauper's funeral\".\n\nCouncils have defended the price rises, saying those decisions were taken before the government's social distancing measures were introduced and that it currently costs more to run ceremonies.\n\nOne authority said the pandemic had also placed increased stress on its crematoria staff, who have had to receive extra training.\n\nThe funeral service time for Doreen Wilson was reduced to 20 minutes\n\nNeville Wilson's wife Doreen died of lung cancer in March and her funeral took place during lockdown.\n\nOnly five mourners could attend under the government guidelines on social distancing.\n\nThe funeral procession was a hearse only, without floral tributes and the family had to go in their own cars.\n\nWhile the service time was reduced from 45 minutes to 20 minutes, the fee charged by Coventry City Council was not.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neville Wilson said he would not wish his wife's funeral \"on his worst enemy\"\n\n\"It felt like a pauper's funeral. It couldn't get any worse if we'd tried.\n\n\"I then started some investigation myself as to which councils were and which councils weren't [freezing costs] and I thought if some councils are doing it, why aren't Coventry council doing it?\"\n\nAndrew Walster, from Coventry City Council, said service times had to be cut to introduce deep cleaning in the chapels between services and to increase the number of service slots in a day to account for the rise in deaths.\n\n\"Unfortunately, that didn't reduce our costs of providing that service to the public, in fact it increased it, by providing those additional facilities for bereaved families,\" he said.\n\n\"We haven't passed on those additional costs.\"\n\nGovernment guidelines issued under lockdown restricted ceremonies to close family and household members only.\n\nYet, as of June, the average cost of a local authority cremation in the UK was £775, up from £752 last financial year, according to BBC analysis.\n\nPrices for 2020-21 range from £392 in Belfast to £995 in Worthing, West Sussex.\n\nThe past 10 years have seen costs at council facilities rise by an average of £200 above the rate of inflation.\n\nThis year, Cornwall Council increased the price of an off-peak cremation by £147.\n\nCampaigners say the rises cannot be justified while the restrictions are in place.\n\nAmong them is Down to Earth, a project by charity Quaker Social Action aimed at tackling \"funeral poverty\".\n\nActing manager Lindesay Mace said: \"What we're seeing here are increases in cremation fees in the last year of as much as six, seven and even 10% in some places.\n\n\"Those kind of price rises are clearly beyond the means of the average person, especially when you bear in mind that incomes haven't risen by nearly as much.\"\n\nCornwall Council said it has offered \"a reduced fee for cremations which take place at certain times of day for several years.\"\n\nSome authorities have meanwhile decided to cut costs as an immediate measure.\n\n\"We know funerals can be expensive and people are suffering financially so we looked at how we could help out and ease the burden,\" Oldham Council said.\n\nThe authority has cut its fees by £144, a measure which will stay in place until September.\n\nCheltenham Council cannot offer a video streaming service outside and only five mourners are permitted to attend a reduced \"graveside-only\" ceremony.\n\nAs a result, it dropped its prices by £490.\n\nCouncil bosses in Coventry said the price rises at Canley Crematorium reflected the increased cost to run a ceremony\n\nChief executive officer of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management, Julie Dunk, said councils have had to invest in environmentally friendly equipment in recent years, which has left them needing to recover costs.\n\nTwo out of the three biggest private crematoria operators, Memoria and Westerleigh, have also increased prices in 2020.\n\nPrivate firms make up around a quarter of the market share in the UK.\n\nWesterleigh said its annual price review took place in January 2020 and it has not increased any prices \"since then, or during the Covid-19 crisis.\".\n\nPeople claiming certain benefits can receive help with funeral costs from the government's Funeral Expenses Payment, although the scheme does not always cover the entire cost.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority is investigating the funeral industry and could recommend tighter regulation or price capping to stop above-inflation increases.\n\nIt is set to report back on its findings in 2021, having called for an extension to the review that will take into account the effect of the pandemic.\n\nWidower Mr Wilson said current costs were heaping extra grief on families during a difficult time.\n\n\"My two sons are still extremely angry. And also so are my wife's family, they're very upset that they couldn't attend. I really wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy,\" he said.", "Attractions could, but might not, pass the VAT cut on to ticket prices\n\nA reduction in VAT might not cut the price of a family trip to the rollercoasters, but venues hope it may give their sector less of a rocky ride.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a temporary drop in the sales tax from 20% to 5% for attractions, meals and accommodation.\n\nA family ticket to the zoo of £144 could, in theory, become £18 cheaper.\n\nBut experts predict many businesses will not cut prices, instead using the money to save their ailing businesses.\n\nThe chancellor said the VAT rate on food, non-alcoholic drink, accommodation and attractions in the UK would be cut to 5% between 15 July and 12 January.\n\nIn theory, the rate change could mean a couple buying a pub meal costing £45 without alcohol would save £5.62, while a £54.50 one-night stay at a hotel in a family room would see a saving of £6.81, according to accountants Deloitte.\n\nIn practice, venues may decide to keep prices the same, but keep the extra money they would have sent to the tax authority. Providers will not refund those who have booked and paid for accommodation later in the summer, because the rate is for when the sale was made.\n\nMany of these businesses find themselves on the brink, given they were closed for months during lockdown, and the Treasury believes that the choice should remain with these operators, rather than the government, on whether to pass on savings.\n\nMinisters may hope to get somewhere close to the reaction of a VAT cut in 2008, when eight in 10 firms said they passed it on, although that was a much more wide-ranging policy.\n\nThis latest cut marks a move towards more targeted support for the worst-hit sectors of the economy.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of trade body UK Hospitality, said: \"This [VAT change] doesn't mean we are out of the woods and there are still significant challenges ahead.\"\n\nThe biggest of these was the rent payments that many of these businesses still needed to pay, despite not having any income for weeks.\n\nThe policy will mean many businesses in the hospitality sector will be operating on three different rates of the sales tax.\n\nAlcohol will see a 20% VAT rate, there is a 0% VAT rate on cold takeaway food, and everything else will now see a temporary 5% rate.\n\nThis would add an extra administrative burden for the sector, said Alison Horner, from accountants MHA MacIntyre Hudson.\n\nThere is concern, too, about the timing of the latest cut.\n\nAlthough the summer holidays mean many families will be free to visit attractions, they still may be nervous in doing so.\n\nThey may be worried about coronavirus. They may not fancy the idea of booking days, or possibly weeks, in advance, as venues have reduced their capacity. They might not like the potential of having to queue at a social distance.\n\nIf the venues themselves could not increase the number of customers owing to virus restrictions, then the VAT would just be a giveaway not targeted at those who were struggling, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.\n\nTax specialist Chas Roy-Chowdhury argued that the chancellor could have delayed any VAT cuts until a vaccine was found and people returned to some kind of normality.\n\nThis would give the UK economy some significant \"momentum\" at that time, he said, rather than a watered-down version now.\n\nOthers, including many venues, would argue that without any stimulus now, many of these restaurants, cinemas or attractions simply would not survive until then.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadine Dorries has apologised to women, calling for a “quicker and more compassionate way” to address harm to patients.\n\nThe health minister has apologised to hundreds of women, and their children and families, failed by healthcare professionals after expressing concerns about medical treatments.\n\nNadine Dorries was giving a statement in Parliament, on the Cumberlege review, published on Wednesday.\n\nThe review, which had heard from about 700 women, focused on vaginal mesh to treat incontinence, an oral pregnancy test and an epilepsy medicine.\n\nIts report was \"harrowing\", she said.\n\n\"I would like to make an apology to those people on behalf of the health and care sector for the time the system took to listen and respond to those women, their children and their families,\" Ms Dorries said at the beginning of her statement.\n\nHowever, she did not commit to any immediate action, saying the government would issue a full response as soon as possible.\n\nWomen said they had been ignored when telling doctors of severe pain after having vaginal mesh fitted.\n\nOthers said their children had been born with defects as a result of two different drugs:\n\nThe review found their concerns had often been dismissed as \"women's problems\".\n\n\"One simple core theme that runs through all of this - two words - 'listening' and 'humility',\" Ms Dorries said.\n\n\"So much frustration and anger from patients and families stems from what they see as an unwillingness to listen.\n\n\"We need to make listening a much stronger part of clinical practice.\"\n\nShe said that women often \"struggle to get their voices heard\", and reading the report had left her \"shocked and incredibly angry and most of all determined to make the changes needed to protect women in the future\".\n\nDr Sue Black OBE says she will never be better after having a vaginal mesh implant, in 2005\n\nDr Sue Black OBE, who had her mesh partially removed in 2018 after years of health problems, said the government needed to take immediate action.\n\n\"The one word that's missing is 'action',\" she said.\n\n\"Action needs to be taken now to set up centres to support and help women whose lives have been damaged by having mesh implanted in the first place, the issues caused by the mesh and then, when they've gone for help, they've been gaslighted and often told they are imagining the pain.\"\n\nDr Black said after having it implanted, in 2005, she had a range of \"strange\" symptoms, including insatiable thirst, problems urinating and purple lumps on her body.\n\nYears later, she discovered the mesh had torn through her urethra.\n\nAnd doctors were unable to remove it completely because it had become embedded in her body.\n\n\"I'll never be completely better,\" she said.\n\n\"And I would say I am a best-case-scenario situation.\"\n\nDr Black belongs to the Sling the Mesh campaign group on Facebook, which has 8,500 members.\n\nIn 2019 she was had to withdraw as a candidate in the London mayoral election, representing the Women's Equality Party, because of her continuing health problems.\n\n\"I realised I didn't have the energy for the campaign,\" she said.\n\n\"I sat at home in tears all day after making the decision.\"\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 20m-high (65ft) crane crashed on to a property in Gale Street, Bow\n\nA woman died and four people were injured when a crane collapsed on to houses and a block of flats which were being built in London.\n\nThe 20m (65ft) crane crashed on to the development and two terrace houses in Compton Close, Bow, before 14:40 BST.\n\nThe woman was found on the first floor of one of the houses and died at the scene. Four others were injured, including two people taken to hospital for head injuries.\n\nOne witness described \"feeling the ground shake\" when the crane collapsed\n\nThe crane collapsed where a block of flats was being built in Watts Grove and crashed on to two adjacent houses.\n\nA woman whose home was one of those damaged said she and her family were \"so lucky to be alive\".\n\n\"The way that everything fell - if my brother or sister had been in their rooms which is where it hit directly, I just cannot bear to think about it,\" she said.\n\nSecuring the properties will be a \"complex rescue operation,\" London Fire Brigade said\n\nThe woman, who asked not to be identified, described the sound of the collapse as being \"like an earthquake\", adding that she had been left \"traumatised\" by what had happened.\n\nAnother witness described \"feeling the ground shake\" when the crane collapsed.\n\nDJ Munro, who lives nearby, said he heard \"the metal of the crane crushing against the scaffolding and then the wood crushing in the house\".\n\nA video posted on social media showed a terrace house with part of the roof collapsed.\n\nEyewitness Bridget Teirney said she believed the crane driver had escaped safely.\n\nTwo people were treated in hospital and another two were treated at the scene\n\nThe crane that collapsed was being used by Swan Housing Association and NU living at the time.\n\nA spokeswoman for Swan Housing Association and NU living said they were \"deeply saddened by an incident that occurred at our Watts Grove development site this afternoon\".\n\n\"Our staff are on site to provide support to the emergency response and the investigation.\"\n\nJerry Swain, national officer for union Unite, said there had to be \"an urgent, full and complete investigation into the circumstances that led to this accident\".\n\nHe added: \"The preliminary findings of which must be released in weeks, rather than months or years, in order to ensure that similar accidents are avoided in the future.\"\n\nThe crane also crashed on to a block of flats under development\n\nLondon Ambulance Service tweeted to say it had \"a number of crews and specialist resources\" at the scene.\n\nLFB assistant commissioner Graham Ellis said securing the house had been a \"complex rescue operation\".\n\nMr Ellis said: \"Our Urban Search and Rescue crews undertook a complex rescue operation and used specialist equipment to search the properties.\"\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan said the collapse was \"a tragedy\" and his \"heartfelt condolences go out to the family of the victim who died\".\n\n\"We must ensure the lessons are learned so an accident like this never happens again,\" he added.\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 culture secretary promised to act to protect theatres and other venues from demolition\n\nOpen-air gigs, festivals and theatre shows can resume in England from this weekend, as long as they have \"a limited and socially distanced audience\", the government has said.\n\nOutdoor performances can go ahead from Saturday, 11 July.\n\nA number of small indoor test events will also take place to help plan how and when venues can begin to reopen.\n\nThose pilot performances will also be socially distanced, and guidelines for indoor venues have been published.\n\nThe test events will feature the London Symphony Orchestra at St Luke's Church, as well as performances at the London Palladium and Butlin's holiday parks.\n\n\"This is an important milestone for our performing artists, who have been waiting patiently in the wings since March,\" Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said.\n\nThe Minack Theatre in Cornwall was cited as one venue that can reopen\n\n\"Of course we won't see crowds flooding into their venues, but from 11 July our theatres, operas, dance and music shows can start putting on outdoor performances to socially distant audiences.\n\n\"That means theatregoers can experience a live play for the first time in months at places like the stunning Minack Theatre in Cornwall, and music lovers can attend Glyndebourne this summer.\"\n\nCapacities will be reduced and the venues will be asked to use electronic ticketing in order to keep a record of visitor details in case they are needed by the test and trace system, he said.\n\nThe announcement means 11 July will mark the start of stage three of the government's roadmap for reopening the live entertainment industry.\n\nThere are no dates for stages four and five - indoor performances with a limited audience, and indoor performances with a fuller audience. However the government has said dance studios can reopen from 25 July.\n\nNew guidelines for future performances in England have also been published, with recommendations including:\n\nJulian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, said the guidance was \"welcome\", but urged the government to provide more clarity regarding indoor performances.\n\nThe government has also commissioned a scientific study on the risks associated with singing and brass instruments.\n\nAnd Mr Dowden said planning rules would be changed to prevent empty venues from being demolished or redeveloped.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "UK airlines have said they are being \"ignored\" by the government after not being included in a fresh wave of economic stimulus to counter the effects of coronavirus.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK warned of further job losses after tens of thousands of job cuts.\n\nGyms also said they were ignored, and retailers called for tax breaks.\n\nThe government had earlier said it had put in place \"one of most comprehensive economic responses in the world\".\n\nThe UK aviation sector has repeatedly called for more aid from the government as it grapples with the plunge in travel caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe industry has announced many thousands of job losses over the past months. Traffic in April and May fell more than 90% as airlines were hit by global lockdown measures and travel restrictions.\n\nDemand is not expected to pick back up to its previous level for three years, but airlines still face costs, such as leasing aircraft, that they have to pay.\n\nThe fresh set of measures Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday to help the UK economy included diners getting 50% off their restaurant bills during Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in August to stimulate the hospitality sector, and a reduction in stamp duty to aid the housing sector.\n\nHowever, Airlines UK reacted angrily to the plans, saying its members had been left out.\n\n\"Tens of thousands of jobs lost in aviation and a winter season where we're likely to see connectivity slashed,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Now the Prime Minister has said the furlough scheme will end in October. Something needs to give and if the government continues to ignore aviation we're going to see our regional airports with fewer connections and more jobs lost across aviation and aerospace.\"\n\nThe expectation that the government's furlough scheme will end in October in part helped to drive the timing of thousands of job cuts last week, many of which fell in the retail sector.\n\nThe retail industry said it had hoped for aid like the tax break Mr Sunak announced on Wednesday for the hospitality sector.\n\nThe government lowered VAT on hospitality and tourism to 5%. The reduction, from 20%, will be in place for the next six months.\n\n\"It was disappointing that the Chancellor did not extend this measure to the retail industry and the three million people it employs,\" the British Retail Consortium said.\n\n\"It was a missed opportunity and we hope that the government will reconsider this ahead of the autumn Budget.\"\n\nHowever, the BRC said it welcomed the Chancellor's \"huge support\" for employment and training, which included a Job Retention Bonus of £1,000 per furloughed employee still employed at the end of January.\n\nAlthough businesses such as pubs have been allowed to reopen, other firms such as gyms have not.\n\nPure Gym employs just over 1,500 workers across 265 sites, as well as providing work for 3,500 self-employed personal trainers.\n\nHumphrey Cobbold, the chief executive of PureGym, said that the gym and fitness sector \"has been forgotten and ignored.\"\n\n\"It is all very well opening pubs and restaurants - and now subsidising their trade with massive VAT discounts and unlimited meal vouchers - but to be honest it beggars belief that thousands of hard working gym and fitness operators are being left high and dry with no specific support.\"\n\n\"And let's remember, unlike pubs and restaurants, many of whom have been able to earn revenue from off sales and takeaways, gym and fitness operators have had zero revenue for 110 days.\"\n\nEarlier, Chancellor Rishi Sunak responded to a question in the House of Commons saying he hoped the government could make progress on reopening gyms, and that airlines and aviation \"are experiencing a difficult period.\"\n\n\"I remain in close contact with the industry and with individual companies to understand what is happening, and if there are things that we can and should do, of course we will,\" he said.\n\nLater, in a speech laying out the latest government stimulus plans, he said:\n\n\"While we can't protect every job, one of the most important things we can do to prevent unemployment, is to get as many people as possible from furlough back to their jobs.\"\n\nHe then laid out details of the jobs retention bonus, saying: \"Our message to business is clear: if you stand by your workers, we will stand by you.\"", "Speaking at a special Coronavirus news conference in Downing Street Oliver Dowden announced gyms will reopen from 25 July. Safety measures to include timed entry, extra cleaning and smaller class sizes.", "The boss of Burger King UK has warned that economic damage triggered by the coronavirus pandemic may push the fast food chain to permanently shut up to 10% of its restaurants.\n\nThose closures could lead to more than 1,600 lost jobs, Alasdair Murdoch said.\n\nGovernment schemes to help the restaurant industry do not do enough to overcome the combination of fixed costs and lost sales, he said.\n\n\"I don't think you can ever get over the top of this problem,\" he said.\n\nBurger King has reopened about 370 of its 530 restaurants in the UK, Mr Murdoch told the BBC's Newscast\n\nOn Wednesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government would subsidise 50% of restaurant bills up to £10 per person in August, in an effort to jumpstart consumer spending.\n\nMr Murdoch said that it was an \"innovative approach\" and that Burger King expected to participate.\n\nBut despite that scheme and other government support, he said the chain could close 5% to 10% of its stores as a result of costs such as rent and \"taking absolutely no money\".\n\nSuch closures would lead to between 800 to 1,600 job losses, he said. The chain has more than 16,500 UK staff, he said.\n\n\"If we can possibly avoid it, we will,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't want to lose any. We try very hard not to, but one's got to assume somewhere between 5% and 10% of the restaurants might not be able to survive,\" he told the BBC's Newscast.\n\n\"It's not just us - I think this applies to everyone out there in our industry,\" he said.\n\nThe firm has been pushing to re-negotiate rents, but he said: \"Some of these High Streets - they're not coming back.\"\n\nMr Murdoch, who has previously said Burger King would withhold its payments, called rents the \"decisive issue\". He said he hoped the government would consider more proactive support on the matter.\n\nHe added that the government's furloughing scheme and VAT cut for restaurants was already aimed at avoiding job losses.", "Face coverings are becoming more fashionable Image caption: Face coverings are becoming more fashionable\n\nDon't rely on just one mask or face covering, NHS Grampian's divisional general manager of public health told BBC Radio Scotland earlier today.\n\nFace coverings are already mandatory on public transport in Scotland and the same becomes true tomorrow in shops and other enclosed indoor spaces.\n\nJillian Evans pointed out that, as soon as you take off a face covering, you could potentially contaminate it and it should not be used again until it is washed.\n\n\"There's not a huge point in just having one mask in your bag that you take off and put on throughout the day,\" she says.\n\n\"My advice would be keep the mask on the whole time you are shopping. If you can remain two metres apart during your day, it reduces your need to wear a mask.\n\n\"So plan ahead, make sure you have enough masks, keep socially distant where you can, don't put the same mask on again twice.\"", "People in Scotland will be able to visit other households indoors and stay overnight as the country enters the next phase of easing the lockdown.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said coronavirus had been suppressed to a \"low level\".\n\nPeople will be allowed to meet up in extended groups outdoors, and with two other households indoors, from Friday.\n\nExemptions to the 2m (6ft 6in) physical distancing rule will also be introduced from 10 July, although the use of face coverings in shops will be mandatory.\n\nCouples who do not live together will no longer have to physically distance from Friday onwards, and dates have been set in the coming weeks for the reopening of bars and restaurants, hairdressers and barbers, and the tourist industry.\n\nThe first minister said it was still \"essential that we all take the utmost care and strictly follow all public health advice\", warning that \"we mess with [coronavirus] at our peril\".\n\nThe changes which take effect from Friday will increase the size of gatherings that will be allowed in Scotland, and let people meet up indoors for the first time.\n\nA maximum of 15 people from up to five different households will be allowed to meet outdoors, as long as they stay 2m apart.\n\n\"Limited\" indoor gatherings can also take place, with a maximum of eight people from three different households allowed to meet - again while staying apart physically.\n\nPeople will also be allowed to stay overnight - although Ms Sturgeon described this as \"one of the highest risk changes we have made so far\".\n\nShe said: \"We know that the risk of transmitting the virus indoors is significantly higher than it is outdoors.\n\n\"At all times try to avoid creating bridges that allow the virus to spread from one household to another.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What are the new rules for meeting others?\n\nShopping centres will be able to reopen from Monday 13 July, when dentists and optometrists will be allowed to begin scaling up their work again.\n\nHairdressers and barbers will resume business from 15 July, with enhanced hygiene measures in place, and indoor areas of bars and restaurants can reopen the same day - along with libraries, museums and cinemas.\n\nPlaces of worship can resume services at that point, although numbers will be strictly limited, singing and chanting will be limited, and physical distancing will have to be observed. Restrictions on how many people can attend funeral and wedding services will also be eased.\n\nMs Sturgeon also set a date for the first time for the reopening of personal retail services like beauticians and nail salons, which can happen from 22 July.\n\nUniversities and colleges can implement a phased return to campuses from that date, while Scotland's schools are due to reopen in full from 11 August.\n\nHowever, no date has yet been set for the reopening of \"non-essential\" offices, indoor gyms, entertainment venues like theatres and bingo halls, or the resumption of live outdoor events.\n\nScotland's beer gardens have already reopened, and indoor areas of pubs and restaurants will follow on 15 July\n\nMs Sturgeon said a number of these activities \"present particular challenges\" and \"will take a bit more time to work through\".\n\nThe next review of lockdown restrictions is due on 30 July, but Ms Sturgeon said the current phase \"may well last longer than three weeks\".\n\nShe said all changes \"depend on us keeping the virus under control\".\n\nShe added: \"This is undoubtedly a time for cautious hope. Scotland through our collective efforts has made great progress in tackling Covid-19.\n\n\"But I have a duty to be crystal clear with the country that this is also a time of real danger.\n\n\"We must remember that Covid - although currently at very low levels in Scotland - is still out there.\"", "There were rival student protests over Hong Kong in UK universities last year\n\nUK universities are testing a new online teaching link for students in China - which will require course materials to comply with Chinese restrictions on the internet.\n\nIt enables students in China to keep studying UK degrees online, despite China's limits on internet access.\n\nBut it means students can only reach material on an \"allowed\" list.\n\nUniversities UK said it was \"not aware of any instances when course content has been altered\".\n\nAnd the universities' body rejected that this was accepting \"censorship\".\n\nA spokeswoman said the project would allow students in China to have better access to UK courses \"while complying with local regulations\".\n\nBut in a separate essay published by the Higher Education Policy Institute, Professor Kerry Brown of King's College London cautioned of the risk of universities adopting \"self-censorship\" when engaging with China.\n\nMPs on the foreign affairs select committee have previously warned against universities avoiding \"topics sensitive to China\", such as pro-democracy protests or the treatment of Uighur Muslims.\n\nChinese students have become an important source of revenue for UK universities, representing almost a quarter of all overseas students - and Queen's University Belfast is chartering a plane to bring students from China this autumn.\n\nThe pilot project involves four Russell Group universities - King's College London, Queen Mary University of London, York and Southampton - and is run by JISC, formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee, which provides digital services for UK universities.\n\nChina's internet censorship means that some websites are filtered or blocked - and there have been concerns that students in China could not study online, such as clicking on an embedded link in a scholarly article.\n\nThe technical solution, provided free by the Chinese internet firm Alibaba Cloud, creates a virtual connection between the student in China and the online network of the UK university, where the course is being taught.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for JISC says Chinese students will not have free access to the internet, but will only be able to reach \"resources that are controlled and specified\" by the university in the UK.\n\nAny online information used in these UK university courses will have to be on a \"security 'allow' list, which will list all the links to the educational materials UK institutions include in their course materials\", said JISC.\n\nThis raises questions about academic freedom and free speech - but when asked about whether these principles were being put at risk, the universities have so far referred back to JISC.\n\nJISC, which is an online services provider, says such issues are for the universities - and that \"all course materials have been within regulations. Nothing was altered or blocked\".\n\nUniversities have feared that the pandemic could reduce overseas student numbers\n\nUniversities UK, which is a supporter of the project, said: \"We do not endorse censorship. This scheme is intended to ensure that Chinese students, learning remotely during the pandemic, can access course materials and are able to continue their studies.\"\n\nThe university body said a similar scheme was already operating for Australian universities.\n\nAs well as complying with Chinese regulations, this online link is intended to create a more reliable connection, so that students can more easily watch lectures and follow their courses.\n\nJISC says online students in China face particular barriers with restrictions that \"screen traffic between China and the rest of the world, filtering content from overseas used for delivering teaching and learning and blocking some platforms and applications\".\n\nThe pilot will finish this month and it could be offered more widely from September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak: \"We cannot lose this generation\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is to cut VAT on hospitality as part of a £30bn plan to prevent mass unemployment as the economy is hit by coronavirus.\n\nThe government will also pay firms a £1,000 bonus for every staff member kept on for three months when the furlough scheme ends in October.\n\nAnd Mr Sunak announced a scheme to give 50% off to people dining out in August.\n\nThe chancellor warned \"hardship lies ahead\", but vowed no-one will be left \"without hope\", in a statement to MPs.\n\nHe told MPs he will cut VAT on food, accommodation and attractions from 20% to 5% from next Wednesday.\n\nIt came as the latest death toll for coronavirus, in all settings, increased by 126 to 44,517.\n\nLabour said the chancellor's plans did not go far enough and the job retention money should be better targeted to prevent it going to firms that were already planning to bring staff back.\n\n\"We were promised a 'New Deal', but what we got was a 'Meal Deal',\" the party added.\n\nMr Sunak rejected calls to extend the furlough scheme beyond October, saying it would give people \"false hope\" that they will have a job to return to, and \"the longer people are on furlough, the more likely it is their skills could fade\".\n\nHe conceded that jobs would be lost but said he would \"never accept unemployment as an inevitable outcome\" of the pandemic.\n\nDetails of how the package will be paid for - through borrowing and possible tax rises - are likely to be unveiled in the chancellor's Autumn Budget.\n\n\"Over the medium-term, we must, and we will, put our public finances back on a sustainable footing,\" he told MPs, adding that the jobs plan was merely the next stage \"in our fight to recover and rebuild after coronavirus\".\n\nThe \"job retention bonus\" could cost as much as £9.4bn if every furloughed worker is brought back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak chats to customers and serves a few meals to highlight his VAT rate cut to help the hospitality trade\n\nExplaining how it will work, the chancellor said: \"If you're an employer and you bring back someone who was furloughed - and continuously employ them through to January - we'll pay you a £1,000 bonus per employee.\n\n\"It's vital people aren't just returning for the sake of it - they need to be doing decent work.\n\n\"So for businesses to get the bonus, the employee must be paid at least £520 on average, in each month from November to the end of January - the equivalent of the lower earnings limit in National Insurance.\"\n\nThe VAT cut will apply to eat-in or hot takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks from restaurants, cafes and pubs, accommodation in hotels, B&Bs, campsites and caravan sites, and attractions like cinemas, theme parks and zoos.\n\nRishi Sunak said this \"£4bn catalyst\" would help protect \"over 2.4 million jobs\". The Treasury said it hoped firms would pass the VAT savings on to customers but many had been without income for months so it would be their decision.\n\nThe VAT cut is aimed at boosting theme parks and other attractions\n\nMr Sunak also announced an \"Eat Out to Help Out\" discount, which he said would help protect 1.8 million jobs, at a cost of £0.5bn.\n\nMeals eaten at any participating business, Monday to Wednesday, will be 50% off in August, up to a maximum discount of £10 per head for everyone, including children.\n\nBusinesses will need to register, and can do so through a website, which will open next Monday.\n\nLuke Johnson, former chairman of the Pizza Express, among other restaurant businesses, told BBC Radio 4's PM the chancellor understood the challenges facing the hospitality sector.\n\nAsked if the voucher scheme would work, he said: \"I think a lot of people are still frightened and so every inducement that can be brought to bear to encourage people to get back to their habits of eating and spending and working is good news.\"\n\nThe chancellor also announced a £2.1bn \"kickstart scheme\" to create more jobs for young people.\n\nThe fund will subsidise six-month work placements for people on Universal Credit aged between 16 and 24, who are at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\nA temporary stamp duty holiday, costing £3.8bn, to stimulate the property market was another measure unveiled by the chancellor.\n\nThis will exempt the first £500,000 of all property sales from the tax, from midnight.\n\nA few other pledges released in the build-up to his statement included:\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Annaliese Dodds told the BBC she was \"concerned\" the UK looks \"set to be breaking the previous unfortunate record of three million people unemployed\".\n\nShe said job support should be better targeted to help struggling sectors.\n\nSome 9.3 million workers are having 80% of their salaries paid for by the government - up to £2,500 a month - under the furlough scheme, which was originally due to end in July, before being extended to October, with employer contributions.\n\nFrom August, employers must pay National Insurance and pension contributions, then 10% of pay from September, rising to 20% in October.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI, said: \"The job retention bonus will help firms protect jobs, but with nearly 70% of firms running low on cash, and three in four reporting lack of demand, more immediate direct support for firms, from grants to further business rates relief, is still urgently needed.\"\n\nMike Cherry, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the newly self-employed and company directors had \"once again been overlooked\".\n\nThe National Institute of Economic and Social Research warned that the chancellor's \"badly timed\" measures \"could trigger a rapid rise in unemployment\".\n\nThe think tank said he was ending the furlough scheme too early and the bonuses for employers to bring staff back \"look too small to be effective\".\n\nThe Chancellor has just outlined another hefty chunk of spending to try to prop up the economy, specifically to try to keep millions of people from joining the dole.\n\nMany of the measures run against traditional Tory instincts. And there isn't a whiff of how any of it will be paid for, for at least another couple of months.\n\nBut that's against the background of the sharpest decline in the economy in generations, with the fortunes of what will actually happen next dependent on the progress of a deadly disease.\n\nWill the kickstart scheme benefit you? Are you looking to buy a home, what are your views on the stamp duty changes? Will VAT cut benefit your business? Have you recently become unemployed? Email your thoughts to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his summer economic plan to help the UK economy recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt includes plans to protect jobs, help younger workers and encourage spending with measures such as a VAT cut for leisure activities and a restaurant voucher scheme.\n\nHere is a summary of the main points.\n\nGetting ready to reopen a restaurant in Central London\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I fell through the gap with the furlough scheme\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Mark Sedwill: The decision to stand down was \"amicable\".\n\nThe UK's top civil servant will receive a payout of almost £250,000 when he steps down in September.\n\nSir Mark Sedwill confirmed he was leaving Whitehall last month as Boris Johnson announced plans to split his role as cabinet secretary and national security adviser into two posts.\n\nHis exit follows reports of tensions between him and senior members of Mr Johnson's team in Downing Street.\n\nOn Wednesday, the PM signed off the £248,189 pension contribution.\n\nThe amount was recommended by Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary Alex Chisholm, with advice from Civil Service Human Resources and legal advisers, before being agreed by Mr Johnson.\n\nIn a note from No 10, the PM said the payment was \"likely to be in the form of a pension contribution\" for Sir Mark.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Sir Mark told the National Security Strategy Committee he had not \"resigned\" but left his post \"by agreement\" with the PM.\n\n\"We had concluded it was time to split the jobs again and have a separate security adviser and separate cabinet secretary,\" he added.\n\nSir Mark said the timing was \"at his initiative\", as it was \"never my intention to do that [job] long-term\", but the departure was \"entirely amicable\".\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator in post-Brexit trade talks with the EU, David Frost, will take over as national security adviser as a political appointee.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has published a job advert for the cabinet secretary position, with a salary of £200,000, and the role is open to current and former permanent secretaries.\n\nThe person who gets the position will advise the prime minister on implementing policy and the conduct of government.\n\nDominic Cummings, regarded as the prime minister's most influential political adviser, has long called for an overhaul of the civil service.\n\nSir Mark is a career diplomat who served as Ambassador to Afghanistan during a 20-year career in the Foreign Office, before working alongside former Prime Minister Theresa May as the most senior civil servant in the Home Office.\n\nHe took over as cabinet secretary at short notice following Sir Jeremy Heywood's death in November 2018.\n\nAsked about reports of anonymous briefings from Downing Street against him, Sir Mark told the committee that civil servants had become \"fair game\" and it \"goes with the territory\".\n\nHe added: \"It is never pleasant to find oneself, particularly as an official, in the midst of stories of that kind.\n\n\"I don't think it is ever pleasant in government, whether it is against ministers, between them and particularly against officials, when you have briefings to which you cannot really reply, particularly those that are off the record and sniping away.\n\n\"But it is a regrettable feature of modern politics, I'm afraid.\"\n\nAfter he leaves government service in September, Sir Mark will be made a peer and will chair a new panel on global economic security when the UK assumes the presidency of the G7 economic group of nations.", "Energy companies have criticised proposals by the industry's regulator to cut customers' bills and spend more on green investments.\n\nUnder Ofgem's plans, households could see their bills cut by £20 a year while firms spend £25bn over five years to invest in the UK's energy network.\n\nOfgem said it wanted \"a greener, fairer energy system for consumers\".\n\nHowever, National Grid, SSE and Scottish Power all said that the regulator's plans were flawed.\n\nThe energy regulator sets out price controls which dictate how much money gas and electricity companies can earn, while allowing them sufficient scope to fund new investment from customers' bills.\n\nUnder its latest proposals, which run from 2021 to 2026, they will be allowed to spend £25bn on improving gas and electricity networks and recoup this cost from customers.\n\nSome £3bn will be used to make the electricity network more environmentally friendly, while more than £1bn will go towards green energy research and reducing the networks' own impact on the environment.\n\nIn order to reduce the cost to consumers, Ofgem says, the return energy firms will be allowed to make from their investments will be nearly halved.\n\nThe regulator said this would mean that \"less of consumers' money goes towards network companies' profits, and more towards driving network improvements\".\n\nOfgem estimated that cutting returns would save more than £3.3bn over the next five years, which should cut household bills by about £20 a year.\n\nThe regulator added that investing in the energy network of the UK was low-risk and should be an attractive option to investors.\n\n\"Strong evidence from water regulation and Ofgem's offshore transmission regime shows that investors will accept lower returns and continue to invest robustly in the sector,\" it said.\n\nOfgem also said it would provide firms with additional funding for green projects from its own coffers, with £10bn worth of such schemes already under consideration.\n\nCitizens Advice said the move could put an end to energy firms \"overcharging energy customers by billions of pounds\".\n\n\"Ofgem has struck the right balance between shareholder returns and value for money for energy customers, while making sure networks can continue to attract investment,\" said Dame Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice.\n\nUswitch.com., the comparison website, also welcomed the move.\n\n\"The amount of profit that network companies have been allowed to make in recent years has been a matter of significant controversy, given our energy suppliers have to pass on these charges to our bills.\"\n\nHowever, National Grid said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the plans.\n\n\"This proposal leaves us concerned as to our ability to deliver resilient and reliable networks, and jeopardises the delivery of the energy transition and the green recovery.\"\n\nEnergy firm SSE said the proposal was likely to be challenged through the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).\n\n\"Ofgem's first pass at a settlement resembles a worrying return to austerity,\" Rob McDonald, the managing director of transmission at SSE, said.\n\n\"At present the draft settlement does not strike the right balance for all stakeholders and without significant changes during the consultation period, there is a real risk that the critical investment in Britain's electricity networks will be unnecessarily slowed down by an appeal process via the CMA, which is not in any stakeholders' interests.\"\n\n\"Instead of investing more in creating green jobs and skilled apprenticeships in every community, at a time when the UK needs them most, this is a short-sighted return to austerity politics.\n\n\"Nobody benefits from this half-baked plan. It's bad for jobs, bad for apprenticeships, bad for training and bad for the UK supply chain.\n\n\"Net Zero can be an accelerator of the economic recovery, but only if private companies are given the right conditions for investment. Slamming the door in investors' faces by offering one of the lowest rates of return of any developed country traps the UK in an economic cul-de-sac.\"", "Armed police could be seen patrolling the site\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a member of staff was stabbed at a hospital.\n\nThe 56-year-old victim was attacked at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, at about 08:40 BST.\n\nHis injuries are not life-threatening and he is \"stable and safe\", the hospital trust said.\n\nThe hospital was placed in lockdown as teams of armed police responded before a 30-year-old man was arrested in nearby Wilson Avenue at about 09:40.\n\nAccess to the hospital was restricted for much of the day as police conducted searches.\n\nAt 16:00, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust tweeted that the hospital was \"running normally\".\n\nIt thanked Sussex Police for its \"rapid and professional response\" and hospital staff \"whose performance has been exemplary throughout\".\n\nLocal resident Maureen Bannister witnessed the aftermath of the arrest.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"My grand-daughter came running through saying there's policemen out there with guns. She was absolutely terrified.\n\n\"So we went and looked and there was more police cars than I've ever seen. We counted at least 30 police officers, all armed.\"\n\nForensics officers collected evidence at the scene of the arrest on Wilson Avenue\n\nHospital patient Gareth Cronin, from Hove, told the BBC: \"I was just in having an X-ray and I came out and there were 15-odd armed police in the A&E.\n\n\"I had to wait in there for about two and a half hours. I was quite shocked.\"\n\nSussex Police said the \"apparently isolated and unexplained\" attack was not being treated as terrorism.\n\nIt said officers worked quickly with hospital security staff to ensure nobody else was injured and \"staff and patients were safe\".\n\n\"There is currently nothing to suggest that any other person has been involved or that anyone else is at risk,\" it added.\n\nPolice said they worked hard to ensure staff and patient safety\n\nSussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne called it a \"dreadful event\" and said her thoughts were with \"the injured NHS staff member's family and those police officers and health colleagues at the scene\".\n\nKemptown MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle told the BBC his thoughts were with the worker and his family.\n\nHe added: \"Last year Labour passed (through a back bench Bill) a law to ensure that people who assault NHS workers got double time.\n\n\"This will be no relief to the person who was stabbed but I hope it will ensure justice can be delivered when the person is brought to book.\"\n\nHove and Portslade MP Peter Kyle tweeted that it was \"shocking news\" but thanked police for a \"swift arrest\" and wished the staff member a \"speedy recovery\".\n\nThere was a heavy police presence at the hospital all day\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Hamilton moved into the world championship lead for the first time this season with a dominant victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix.\n\nThe Mercedes driver pulled out an eight-second lead in three wet laps at the start of the race before switching to dry tyres, and controlled the race from there.\n\nHamilton even had time to stop for fresh tyres with three laps to go to grab the extra point for fastest lap.\n\nValtteri Bottas failed in an attempt to pass Red Bull's Max Verstappen for second, giving Hamilton a five-point championship lead over his team-mate after three races.\n\nVerstappen's second place was extraordinary, for he crashed on the laps to the grid and damaged both his front wing and suspension.\n\nThe Red Bull mechanics worked wonders to change his left front push-rod on the grid in the time permitted and get him into the race and he then drove a superb race to hold off Bottas at the end.\n• None Listen: Even Hamilton gets confused sometimes\n\nIt was Hamilton's second consecutive victory in the third race of the season, and it came after another anti-racism protest from the drivers before the race.\n\nIt ended up slightly chaotic, as it had in the Styrian Grand Prix a week ago, with the drivers rushing to take part. But as in the first two races, most of the drivers 'took the knee' alongside Hamilton, while a few chose to remain standing for their own reasons.\n\nHamilton's win was never in doubt once he shot away from the field at the start, while Bottas may be considered lucky to get away with an apparent jumped start.\n\nThe Finn moved before the lights went out and then stopped again, saying he had reacted to a light on his dashboard. The subsequent slow getaway dropped him to sixth place on the first lap.\n\nRace director Michael Masi said the movement had not been enough to trigger the sensors that determine what is a jumped start.\n\nHamilton took advantage to show off his renowned wet-weather skills in the opening laps, moving six seconds clear of the Racing Point of Lance Stroll in two laps and adding a further two seconds before pitting at the end of the next lap as the initially wet track quickly dried.\n\nBy the time the other front-runners had all stopped a lap later, Hamilton was 7.8secs clear and in a position to control the race, and he simply moved further and further away as the laps ticked by.\n\nIt was his eighth win in Hungary - and he now shares the record for most wins at a single circuit with Michael Schumacher.\n\nVerstappen and Red Bull had had a difficult weekend, the Dutchman qualifying only seventh in what he said was a difficult car. But after the scare on the grid, a brilliant first lap put him up to third behind Hamilton and Stroll, and he was second by lap five after the pit stops for dry tyres.\n\nThere will be questions as to how Bottas was not penalised for moving before the lights - just as there were with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in a similar incident in Japan last year.\n\nOnce the Finn got going, he drove patiently and by mid-race was up to fourth, taking third from Stroll when they pitted for fresh tyres.\n\nBottas caught Verstappen with 25 laps to go and then Mercedes pulled the same strategy as they had to win the race with Hamilton last year, pitting him again for fresh tyres with the idea of catching and passing Verstappen before the end of the race.\n\nBut while Hamilton managed it in 2019, Bottas did not catch Verstappen until the final lap, and it was too late to pass the Dutchman.\n\nIt was a three-point boost for Hamilton and the sort of missed opportunity for which Bottas might pay this year, when the title fight seems to be a private one between the Mercedes.\n\nStroll was a strong fourth for Racing Point, while Red Bull's Alexander Albon twice took advantage of unforced errors from Vettel - once early in the race and once close to the end - to take fifth ahead of the second Racing Point of Sergio Perez.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc could manage only 11th, out of the points, after a decision to put him on the unloved 'soft' tyres at his first pit stop. Most teams avoided them, as they were prone to 'graining' and Leclerc struggled with a lack of grip before being forced into an earlier-than-ideal second stop, which left him on old, slow tyres in the closing laps, when he lost out to McLaren's Carlos Sainz.\n\nAfter the race, both Racing Point cars were protested by Renault, as they had been at the previous race, on the claim that they have not designed their brake ducts themselves.\n\nThe stewards ruled that as the ducts were identical to those used in Austria a week ago, there was no need to impound the parts, and the two protests would be dealt with as one once a date has been set for the hearing.\n\nVerstappen takes it for his controlled management of the race and cool recovery from his error on the treacherous surface before the grid. Splitting the Mercedes will feel almost like a win for the Dutchman when they have an advantage like this. An honourable mention for Kevin Magnussen, who hung on for two points for Haas in ninth after the team gambled on stopping for dry tyres after the formation lap.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nA weekend off and then the British Grand Prix, the first of two weekends at Silverstone. Mercedes are looking unstoppable and Hamilton will be determined to add to his record tally of home wins.", "England's contact tracers have only reached about 50% of people who have been in close contact with someone with Covid-19 in an area of Lancashire where new cases are rising.\n\nThe figure was revealed by Prof Dominic Harrison, public health director of Blackburn with Darwen Council.\n\nHe warned of \"exponential growth\" of new infections if the system did not become more efficient.\n\nThe government said the NHS scheme had helped identify thousands of cases.\n\nIt is not clear why the contacts provided were not able to be reached.\n\nThe government's most recent statistics reveal that of the people in England who tested positive for Covid-19 between 2-8 July, 17.1% could not be reached and a further 4.1% did not provide their phone number.\n\nIt said 71.1% of the contacts provided were reached, but 21.8% of those who originally tested positive said they had not been in close contact with anyone during the required time frame.\n\nA leaked report, seen by the Independent, suggested that fewer than half of contacts were reached in Oldham, St Helens, Manchester and Rochdale.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, Prof Harrison said that Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire, which he oversees, faces a \"rising tide\" of infections.\n\n\"The key issue here is that 40% of people who are infected by someone with Covid-19 who goes for tests because they have symptoms, will be infected by them before they have those symptoms,\" said Prof Harrison.\n\n\"So, there's a 48 hour window which is critical to get the contacts of the first case contacted, and if we don't get them contacted, and if they don't then get tested and self-isolated, and they then have symptoms, we do risk the spread progressing.\"\n\nIt later emerged that the Jamia Ghosia mosque in Blackburn said it is being investigated by the police and public health officials after holding a funeral on 13 July, attended by 250 people.\n\nThe Imam has since tested positive for coronavirus and is recovering.\n\nThe mosque has emailed its congregation advising everybody to self-isolate and said it \"made a mistake\" in allowing more than the officially-permitted 30 mourners to attend.\n\nProf Harrison called for testing and tracing to be carried out at a local rather than national level, and for Public Health England to share more data with local authorities.\n\nProf Harrison said PHE had only begun sharing data about the postcode areas in which new infections were being registered on 29 June.\n\n\"That has made a great difference in three weeks for us in being able to identify what our local outbreak issue is,\" he said.\n\n\"Had we had that data much earlier in this pandemic, I think we could have made progress much more rapidly.\"\n\nIn response the Department for Health and Social Care said the NHS test and trace scheme had so far \"helped test and isolate more than 180,000 cases\".\n\n\"The service is working closely with local authorities across England to help manage local outbreaks and data is shared daily,\" it added.\n\nIt also urged anyone with coronavirus symptoms to seek a test and self-isolate immediately.\n\n\"The service relies on everyone playing their part - please book a test if you have symptoms, self-isolate and help us trace anyone you've been in contact with.\"\n\nThe NHS test and trace scheme is a crucial part of the government's plan for managing the spread of the virus.\n\nIt began on 1 June and Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed it would be \"world beating\".\n\nSage, a committee of medical experts which advises the government, has said that at least 80% of contacts would need to isolate for the test and trace system to be effective.", "Property website Rightmove and catering giant Compass have said they will reject the offer of millions of pounds in payouts from the government's job retention bonus scheme.\n\nThey follow Primark and John Lewis in shunning the bonus, which pays firms £1,000 for each furloughed worker they keep on past January.\n\nIt is meant to help stop a spike in joblessness when wage support programmes end in October.\n\nBut some firms say they do not need it.\n\nIt comes as MPs and economists warn that job retention bonus money could be claimed for staff that would have been returned from furlough anyway.\n\nRightmove, which furloughed 160 employees after the coronavirus crisis hit, would have been eligible to claim £160,000 in bonus payments had it applied.\n\nHowever, it said: \"Now that the housing market has reopened across all parts of the UK we're in a fortunate position that by the end of July all of our furloughed employees will be back at work, and therefore we will not need to make use of the furlough bonus scheme.\"\n\nSome 21,000 Compass staff are currently on furlough - around half of its workforce - meaning it could have claimed up to £21m.\n\nEarlier this month, fashion retailer Primark promised to sacrifice a £30m payout after saying the bonus was unnecessary under \"current circumstances\".\n\nFashion retailer Asos, holiday park operator Center Parcs and retailer John Lewis are among others to have said they will not use the scheme.\n\nSome 9.4 million workers are currently having 80% of their wages, up to £2,500 a month, paid under the government's furlough scheme. However, there are fears unemployment could top 11% after the programme is wound down.\n\nEarlier in July, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the bonus scheme as part a package of measures designed to prevent this outcome. However, if every furloughed worker returned to their jobs, it could cost the public purse more than £9bn in bonus payments - something that has fuelled scrutiny of the policy.\n\nThe most senior civil servant at HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, wrote to Mr Sunak this month, raising doubts over whether the policy offered value for money.\n\nAnd MPs on the Treasury select committee last week echoed warnings from economists that the scheme could risk funnelling money to already-rich companies.\n\nMr Sunak rejected the criticisms, saying he believed the bonus would \"serve as a significant incentive\" to preserve jobs amid the pandemic.\n\nA Treasury spokesman told the BBC: \"It's great to see employers getting their staff back to work and protecting jobs without needing to draw on the extra support the job retention bonus offers, and we welcome the decision of businesses to do so.\n\n\"For those who do need further support, the £1,000 bonus will represent a significant benefit to them and make a difference to those people in the nine million jobs currently furloughed who can be brought back to their jobs.\"", "The officer found the Nazi symbol etched on their belongings\n\nA police officer's belongings have been vandalised with a swastika by a colleague.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the officer found the Nazi symbol on their items when they began their shift earlier on Sunday.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain said he was \"appalled that one of our employees felt that this behaviour was acceptable\".\n\nThe force has launched an internal investigation.\n\nGMP said the \"disgraceful and disgusting act\" had been declared a hate crime and said its professional standards team was treating it \"incredibly seriously\".\n\n\"A colleague has been subjected to a hate crime and there is no place for behaviour like this in GMP or policing nationally, and it's being treated incredibly seriously,\" Mr Hussain said.\n\n\"We serve one of the most culturally diverse areas in the United Kingdom and we're incredibly proud to have a diverse workforce to serve and represent our communities.\n\n\"It is absolutely unacceptable that an officer has been faced with such an atrocity during their shift and we're urging any officers or staff with any information to report it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The crown prince of Kuwait has taken on the role of partial ruler after the country's emir was hospitalised.\n\nSheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, 91, was admitted for \"routine\" medical tests on Saturday, the country's national news agency said.\n\nThe report added he was in \"good health\" but gave no further details.\n\nHis half-brother and crown prince, 83-year-old Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, will \"temporarily\" take on a number of functions.\n\nLast summer, the emir was reported to have suffered a health \"setback\" while in Kuwait.\n\nThe following month, he was hospitalised for medical tests during a visit to the US.\n\nSheikh Sabah has been credited with shaping the Gulf nation's foreign policy and spent decades as foreign minister before becoming emir in 2006.", "Brazil's coronavirus outbreak is one of the world's most severe, with more than 2m cases recorded since March.\n\nIn fact, it is the second worst affected country behind the US. More than 74,000 people have died with the virus there and, owing to a lack of testing, the true figures are believed to be even higher.\n\nHere, we illustrate how the pandemic has played out in the South American country.\n\nThe outbreak took some time to reach Brazil and it was the Amazonas region which was badly hit by the first wave of cases.\n\nIn the state capital Manaus, a man can be seen arranging coffins at a funeral parlour.\n\nOfficials warned that the stock of coffins in the region was likely to run out. They were forced to dig large burial sites as deaths spiked, and poverty and malnutrition made tackling the virus in the heart of the Amazon rainforest a major challenge.\n\nIndigenous communities have been among the worst affected by the virus and Manaus is home to a large proportion of them.\n\nMany of their homes are situated far away from health facilities. On the outskirts of the city, nurse Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos, responded to the crisis by volunteering to care for her indigenous community of 700 families.\n\nAnd here, people can be seen moving a coffin in a rural community in the northern state of Pará. It was later buried in a cemetery at the mouth of the Amazon river.\n\nBut it was not long before the virus spread to major cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Cases then began to rise sharply.\n\nIn May, São Paulo's mayor warned that its underfunded health system was on the verge of collapse as it became a new hotspot for Covid-19. He said demand for hospital beds had skyrocketed.\n\nThis hospital, built inside a sports gym in the city, is one of many makeshift facilities that opened up.\n\nBut despite the rise in cases there was still no national lockdown. States and cities adopted their own measures, but these were met by protests and data later showed that compliance lessened as time went on.\n\nStay-at-home orders and other restrictions were criticised by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who denounced them as \"dictatorial\". He even joined anti-lockdown protests in the capital, Brasilia.\n\nThis image shows supporters of the president at a separate demonstration in Rio de Janeiro.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has repeatedly played down the risks of what he calls \"little flu\" and his response to the pandemic has been heavily criticised.\n\nHe has argued that regional lockdowns are having a more damaging effect than the virus itself, and accused the media of spreading panic and paranoia.\n\nThe president has also been spotted meeting supporters while not wearing a mask, such as here in Brasilia.\n\nAnd while many people share his concerns about the economic impact of lockdowns, health officials have disagreed with his approach. In fact, two doctors have left their posts as health minister since the pandemic began, one was sacked, one resigned.\n\nMr Bolsonaro also said he would not be seriously affected by the virus. \"I'm not going to be brought down by a little flu,\" he said in March. That's been put to the test, as earlier this month he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThis image shows the president meeting the US ambassador Todd Chapman the day before he said he started to feel symptoms. The pair were seen shaking hands, and Mr Chapman later went into quarantine.\n\nOn 20 June, Brazil became only the second country to pass one million cases and that number has continued to rise steadily. Experts say it is likely much higher due to a lack of testing.\n\nBut lockdowns were lifted even as cases surged. In Rio and São Paulo, restaurants and bars were reopened despite the continued increase in transmissions.\n\nThe rise in cases and the relaxation of lockdown measures left some Brazilians feeling as though they needed to take matters into their own hands.\n\nAnd one couple took extreme measures to keep safe.\n\nA chronic lung disease means that accountant Tercio Galdino, 66, is at high risk from Covid-19. He and his wife wear special outfits when out and about in Rio de Janeiro. And, as an added bonus, the outfit lets him celebrate his love of space.\n\nThere is some hope, however, two major vaccine tests, in partnership with the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Sinovac, will soon begin final phase testing on thousands of Brazilian volunteers.\n\nThe hope is that a breakthrough on this front could help Brazil reverse its worrying rise in cases and deaths. This striking image shows a cemetery in Manaus where new graves have been dug during the pandemic.", "Ruth Morrissey and her husband Paul, of Monaleen, County Limerick\n\nThe Irish cervical cancer campaigner Ruth Morrissey, who was awarded €2.1m (£1.8m) in damages over the alleged misreading of smear tests, has died aged 39.\n\nMrs Morrissey had claimed that if tests in 2009 and 2012 had been correctly interpreted and reported, she could have avoided developing cancer.\n\nShe sued the Health Service Executive (HSE) and two laboratories in 2018.\n\nIn a statement, her husband Paul said she never received an apology.\n\nHe added that it was now \"too late\" for either the HSE or the state to say sorry.\n\nMrs Morrissey died at Milford Hospice in County Limerick on Sunday morning.\n\nDuring her legal action, the High Court heard that Mrs Morrissey was not told until 2018 that a review four years earlier had showed the tests carried out under the CervicalCheck screening programme had been reported incorrectly.\n\nThe HSE admitted it owed a duty of care to Mrs Morrissey, while the laboratories denied all the claims.\n\nIn February 2018, she was diagnosed with a recurrence of her cancer and given a prognosis of 12 to 24 months.\n\nGiving evidence in court in July 2018, Ms Morrissey said she had to have the \"most difficult conversation\" she ever had to with her then 7-year-old daughter.\n\nShe told the court she did not want to die.\n\nIt was the first case of its kind to be heard in full in the Republic of Ireland and considered in a High Court judgement.\n\nIn July 2020, the Irish Supreme Court heard the family had received the full amount of money awarded to them.\n\nPaul Morrissey said his wife showed \"courage and determination\" during the trial and is an \"enduring inspiration of strength and determination that should help many others through difficult times in the future\".", "Ten temporary courts are being set up to help clear a backlog of hearings caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new venues, in England and Wales, include a medieval chamber and the Ministry of Justice's headquarters.\n\nFrom next week, they will hear civil, family and tribunals work as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the new \"Nightingale Courts\" would help with \"reducing delays and delivering speedier justice for victims\".\n\nThe introduction of the new courts means there will be more room in current courts for hearings where cells and secure dock facilities are needed, including jury trials where the defendant is in custody.\n\nThe new cases will will include jury trials dealing with non-custodial cases.\n\nAll 10 will be running next month, with the first court at East Pallant House in Chichester expected to hear cases on Monday.\n\nMr Buckland, also the Lord Chancellor, said: \"They will help boost capacity across our courts and tribunals - reducing delays and delivering speedier justice for victims.\n\n\"But we won't stop there. Together with the judiciary, courts staff and legal sector, I am determined that we must pursue every available option to ensure our courts recover as quickly as possible.\"\n\nWork will continue to identify more potential locations for temporary courts, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nThe pandemic exacerbated existing delays in the courts. Even before it struck there were some 37,000 cases waiting to be heard in the crown courts and nearly 400,000 waiting for slots in magistrates' courts.\n\nNew figures released by the MoJ have shown that as of 31 March - a week after the introduction of lockdown measures in the UK - 354 murder cases were waiting to be dealt with in crown courts, with 76 outstanding in magistrates' courts in England and Wales.\n\nThe same figures show 1,159 rape cases were outstanding in crown courts and 1,911 in magistrates' courts. An additional 2,424 cases of robbery were outstanding across the criminal justice system.\n\nLast month, Mr Buckland warned work to clear a backlog in court cases caused by the coronavirus pandemic could continue into next year.\n\nHe said at the time that using public buildings as courtrooms could help reduce the caseload.\n\nAlmost half of all courts were closed in March 2020, with jury trials paused to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Other hearings were able to take place with the use of remote technology, with the courts prioritising which cases to hear.\n\nSome jury trials in England and Wales resumed in May, after almost two months on hold. Nearly all courts are now open to the public again, with 54 hearing jury trials as of next week.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, said: \"These 10 extra court buildings are a start but just that - now let's get serious and open up 50 more buildings and focus on criminal trials.\"\n\nShe said the criminal justice system had been \"promised dozens of extra buildings two months ago... and four weeks ago, told 10 of these were imminent\".\n\n\"Time is of the essence,\" she added. \"Two months of delay getting these 10 on stream just piles on the human suffering to get trials on that have already been delayed for between one and three years, impacting tens of thousands of those left waiting involved in the trial backlog of over 26,000, let alone a total crown court case backlog of over 41,500 and rising by the week.\"\n\nData released by the Ministry of Justice in June showed that magistrates' courts faced a backlog of more than 480,000 cases, with the backlog in crown courts standing at about 41,000 cases last month.\n\nLast week, Mr Buckland set out measures including extending court opening hours and continuing to use video calls to hear cases, where appropriate.", "Photographs from Princess Beatrice's wedding to property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have been released by Buckingham Palace.\n\nFour official pictures have been issued after their small ceremony at The Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor.\n\nOne shows the beaming couple leaving the chapel through its flower-covered archway.\n\nIn another they are outside the entrance with Beatrice's grandparents, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nBeatrice's parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, did not appear in either of the released photos, though the palace confirmed her father walked her down the aisle. It comes as Prince Andrew continues to keep a low profile following the arrest of his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking offences, which she denies.\n\nThe Queen loaned Beatrice a vintage dress for the occasion, as well as a diamond fringe tiara which the monarch wore on her own wedding day in 1947.\n\nThe newlyweds decided to hold a private ceremony with their parents and siblings after they postponed their wedding in May due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBuckingham Palace sent out two pictures taken by Benjamin Wheeler, the day after Friday's wedding. Two further images by the Oxfordshire-based photographer - showing the couple holding hands in the grounds outside the chapel after they were married - were issued on Sunday.\n\nIn a statement the couple said they were so \"touched by the warm wishes they have received since their wedding\" they decided to share two more photographs from their \"happy day\".\n\nWhen the national lockdown began on 23 March, weddings in England were banned under almost all circumstances. However, since 4 July, ceremonies of up to 30 people have been allowed to take place.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said the wedding was held within government guidelines.\n\nIt is believed to be the first time the Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, have attended a family gathering since lockdown began.\n\nFor the ceremony, Beatrice wore a vintage Peau De Soie taffeta dress, in shades of ivory by Norman Hartnell, on loan from the Queen, and trimmed with duchess satin and encrusted with diamante.\n\nThe dress appears to be a modified version of the one the Queen wore to the world premiere of Lawrence Of Arabia at the Odeon cinema Leicester Square in December 1962\n\nThe dress was remodelled and fitted by the Queen's senior dresser Angela Kelly and designer Stewart Parvin, according to Buckingham Palace.\n\nBeatrice, who is ninth in line to the throne, also wore the Queen Mary diamond fringe tiara loaned to her by her grandmother.\n\nThe Queen wore the same tiara when she married Prince Philip in November 1947\n\nBeatrice, 31, and Mr Mapelli Mozzi, 35, had originally planned to marry on 29 May this year at the Chapel Royal, St James Palace, in London.\n\nThe new venue of Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park - a short drive from Windsor Castle - is Beatrice's childhood home. Her parents still live at the property.\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi's son Wolfie was best man and pageboy.\n\nBeatrice and her husband began dating in autumn 2018 and got engaged last September.\n\nThe couple are said to have started a relationship after meeting again at Beatrice's sister Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank.\n\nAfter Friday's ceremony, Beatrice's wedding bouquet was placed on the tomb of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey, as is tradition for royal brides.\n\nThe bouquet was fashioned out of trailing jasmine, pale pink and cream sweet peas, royal porcelain ivory spray roses, pink O'Hara garden roses, pink wax flower, baby pink astilbe and, in keeping with royal tradition, sprigs of myrtle.\n\nThe Reverend Canon Anthony Ball laid the bouquet with Toby Wright, the son of the sub-dean of the Chapel Royal, Reverend Paul Wright.", "TikTok's plan to base its international HQ in the UK has been thrown into doubt following pressure by Washington over the Chinese firm's future in the US.\n\nByteDance, owner of the video sharing app, has had talks with the government about basing its HQ in London.\n\nBut the US is considering banning TikTok and may only allow it to keep operating if it splits from China and becomes an American company.\n\n\"We remain fully committed to investing in London,\" said a ByteDance spokesman.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for International Trade said: \"ByteDance's decision on the location of their global HQ is a commercial decision for the company.\"\n\nIt comes as tensions mount between the UK and China over the government's recent decision to order the removal of Huawei's 5G equipment from Britain's mobile networks by 2027.\n\nThere are fears it could prompt a tit-for-tat economic war between the two countries.\n\nChinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, told The Andrew Marr Show: \"We are still evaluating the consequences. This is a very bad decision.\"\n\nAsked whether China would punish UK companies operating in China, Mr Liu said: \"We do not want to politicise the economy. That is wrong.\"\n\nBut he said: \"It is wrong for the United Kingdom to discriminate [against a] Chinese company because of pressure from the United States.\"\n\nThe US has already implemented a number of sanctions against China's Huawei.\n\nThe Trump administration claims that the Chinese telecoms firm provides a gateway for the state to spy on and potentially attack countries that use its equipment.\n\nGeorge Magnus, research associate at University of Oxford China Centre, said it was \"hard to predict\" how the Chinese government would retaliate for the Huawei decision.\n\n\"But we expect British companies will be in the crosshairs of all of this,\" he said.\n\nChina is an important market for British business.\n\nJaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, sells its vehicles to China. Last month it borrowed £560m from five Chinese banks after sales dried up because of the coronavirus.\n\nChina is also a major investor in the UK, in particular the nuclear industry. China General Nuclear Power Corporation has invested around £3.6bn in the UK, including the Hinkley Point nuclear power project in Somerset.\n\nJosh Hardie, deputy director general of the Confederation of British Industry, said: \"Post-Covid, promoting trade will be an important plank of our recovery, so we must think carefully about a future relationship that balances UK global competitiveness with wider interests. \"\n\n\"We do not want to politicise the economy,\" Chinese ambassador Liu Xiaoming claimed to the BBC about potential repercussions for UK businesses based in China after the government U-turn on Huawei.\n\nBut given how trade is being used as a political weapon by both sides, it's impossible to see how this could not be the case.\n\nChina has form in targeting companies as a proxy for the countries that it is rowing with.\n\nTake Australia, which has blocked Huawei from its national infrastructure since 2012.\n\nChina has recently banned some of its beef businesses and put tariffs on barley, designed to hit the country's important agricultural sector.\n\nOn the other hand, China is sinking vast sums of money into major infrastructure in the UK, such as nuclear power plants.\n\nHuawei alone is investing £1bn in developing chips in a new facility in Cambridge.\n\nThese projects are just part of the deep economic interdependence between the UK and China - which could just still prove to be the glue holding an ever frostier relationship together.\n\nAs Emily Taylor of Chatham House's International Security Programme argues: \"Mutual dependence creates stability and if that's hacked away at, global stability will suffer.\"\n\nTikTok currently employs around 1,000 people in Europe, with the majority of those based in the UK and Ireland.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that a decision by TikTok to build its headquarters in the UK has the potential to create 3,000 jobs.\n\nThe Chinese video-sharing platform is hugely popular and the app has been downloaded two billion times.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - who is visiting the UK this week - has previously said Washington is considering banning TikTok.\n\nTikTok has already been banned in India\n\nBut last week President Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow appeared to change course and said: \"As has been reported in some places I think TikTok is going to pull out of the holding company which is China-run and operate as an independent American company.\n\n\"That's a much better solution than banning [or] pushing away.\"\n\nMr Pompeo claims that America's TikTok users are at risk of their data ending up \"in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party\".\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok said: \"We have never provided user data to the Chinese government, nor would we do so if asked.\"\n\nIndia has already blocked TikTok as well as other Chinese apps. Australia, which has already banned Huawei and telecom equipment-maker ZTE, is also considering banning TikTok.\n• None Could TikTok be banned in the US?", "The funeral of a man shot dead by police after stabbing six people in Glasgow was delayed after more than 100 people turned up to the ceremony.\n\nThe funeral for Badreddin Abadlla Adam was due to start at Linn Cemetery at 14:00 but police were called when a crowd breached Covid-19 rules.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Sudan was shot by officers after wounding six people.\n\nPC David Whyte, 42, was among those injured during the attack at the Park Inn Hotel on 26 June..\n\nThe Scottish government's current rules allow for a maximum of 20 guests at funeral services.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said officers were in attendance \"assisting staff with social distancing regulations\".\n\nAt the time of his knife attack, Adam was being temporarily housed in the hotel that was being used as accommodation for asylum seekers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe was described as a \"quiet and polite and decent guy\" by asylum seekers who were also residing at the city centre hotel.\n\nThe burial ceremony took place in Glasgow\n\nFellow resident, Andrew, said: \"One way or the other we have been affected mentally, physically and otherwise.\n\n\"I (was not) around when it took place but I happened to gather some information from my other asylum seekers.\n\n\"They described him as a quiet and polite and decent guy - they were surprised that he acted the way he acted.\n\n\"There must be something that pushed him to behave in that ugly manner which honestly I strongly condemned because it is abnormal, but definitely something must have pushed that guy into that level of disastrous act.\"\n\nPC Whyte, one of the attacker's six injured victims, paid tribute to police and medical staff after being discharged from hospital a week after the attack.\n\n\"There is no doubt that I face a long road to recovery but I am absolutely determined to be back on duty as soon as I possibly can,\" he said.\n\n\"I would like to thank the medical staff at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for saving my life and getting me back to where I am today.\"\n\nAt the time of his discharge on 2 July four other men remained in hospital, three in a stable condition while one was still critical.\n\nThe funeral has now reportedly taken place after it was delayed for about an hour.", "Privacy campaigners say England's test and trace programme has broken a key data protection law.\n\nThe Department of Health has conceded the initiative to trace contacts of people infected with Covid-19 was launched without carrying out an assessment of its impact on privacy.\n\nThe Open Rights Group (ORG) says the admission means the initiative has been unlawful since it began on 28 May.\n\nThe government said there is no evidence of data being used unlawfully.\n\nThe test and trace system involves people being asked to share sensitive personal information. This can include:\n\n\"In no way has [there] been a breach of any of the data that has been stored,\" said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"I think your viewers will understand that if we are to defeat this virus, we do need to have a test and trace system and we had to get that up and running at incredible speed.... Are you really advocating that we get rid of a test and trace system? I don't think you are.\"\n\nORG had threatened to go to court to force the government to conduct a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) - a requirement under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for projects that process personal data.\n\nA letter from the Department of Health to the group confirmed that a DPIA was a legal requirement and had not been obtained.\n\nORG's executive director, Jim Killock, said the government had been \"reckless\" in ignoring this legally-required safety step and had endangered public health.\n\n\"A crucial element in the fight against the pandemic is mutual trust between the public and the government, which is undermined by their operating the programme without basic privacy safeguards,\" he added.\n\nEngland's Test and Trace initiative is run by Baroness Dido Harding, and is the responsibility of the Health Secretary Matt Hancock\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all carry out parallel contact-tracing schemes of their own but have not been accused of the same failing.\n\nThe government has told the ORG it is working with the Information Commissioner's Office to make sure that data is processed in accordance with the requirements of the law.\n\nThe ICO confirmed this and told the BBC it was providing guidance as \"a critical friend\".\n\nBut the regulator added that, while it recognised the urgency in rolling out the programme, if the public were to have confidence in handing over their data and that of their friends, \"people need to understand how their data will be safeguarded and how it will be used\".\n\nThe watchdog is already investigating the Test and Trace programme after the Sunday Times reported last week that some contact tracers had posted private patient data to WhatsApp and Facebook groups.\n\nA Department of Health spokeswoman said: \"NHS Test and Trace is committed to the highest ethical and data governance standards - collecting, using, and retaining data to fight the virus and save lives, while taking full account of all relevant legal obligations.\"\n\nThe ORG's complaint stems from work carried out on its behalf by Ravi Naik, a lawyer at the AWO data rights consultancy.\n\nHe said the legal requirements for data processing were more than just a tick-box exercise.\n\n\"They ensure that risks are mitigated before processing occurs, to preserve the integrity of the system,\" he explained.\n\n\"Instead, we have a rushed-out system, seemingly compromised by unsafe processing practices.\"\n\nMr Naik added the ORG had already won a concession from the government. It had originally planned to keep data for 20 years but has now cut that to eight years.\n\nSince the test and trace programme was launched, its 27,000 staff have contacted more than 155,000 people, who may have been infected with the virus, and asked them to go into isolation.\n\nAre you a contact tracer? Have you been contacted by NHS Test and Trace? 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.", "When you have picked your jaw up from the floor after the revelations hackers working for the Russian state are believed to have been trying to steal research into a vaccine that could combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus, it's worth knowing that attempts at interference do not stop there.\n\nThose actions - described as \"despicable\" by the government - are believed to have targeted, not just UK scientists, but those from Canada and the US as well.\n\nAnd it's clear, even from the rather technical public statements from security leaders, that the UK government believes the Kremlin itself was involved.\n\nThis is not a group of hackers working out of their parents' garage. The group thought to be responsible - APT29 - is one of those previously linked to hacks on the US Democrats in 2016.\n\nAnd the UK government is confident the attacks were known about at the highest level of the Russian state.\n\nMinisters also chose today, though, to confirm already widely held suspicions that Russian \"actors\" separately tried to interfere in the UK election last year.\n\nThis accusation is not explicitly against the Russian state, but those shadowy figures who \"amplified\" leaks of government documents during the 2019 campaign, which were then used by the Labour Party to make claims against the Tories.\n\nIt seems a lifetime ago, but one of Labour's central mantras against Boris Johnson was that the NHS would be \"up for sale\" in a trade deal with the Americans. You might remember hearing the chant at numerous events - \"Not for sale! Not for sale!\"\n\nAt one of those campaign events, Jeremy Corbyn dramatically unveiled leaked documents that he alleged proved this to be the case.\n\nLabour supporting doctors and nurses wearing scrubs even handed out the reams of paper.\n\nThe papers did show that the US wanted access to the NHS, but they did not categorically prove that the Tories would go along with it.\n\nIn any case, there was widespread suspicion about where the hundreds of pages had come from, after they had first appeared on the website Reddit.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has not claimed today that Russian influences stole the documents.\n\nBut he has accused them of \"amplifying\" the claims online, condemning these attempts at interfering in the UK's democratic process as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nIt's important to say too that Labour has also slammed the Russians' apparent role.\n\nIt's not a secret that there have been attempts by Russia to interfere in what happens on UK soil - most dramatically, of course, with the Novichok attacks.\n\nAnd the culture select committee found some evidence of media aligned with the Kremlin spreading anti-EU messages during the EU referendum.\n\nRumours and allegations have swirled about Russian attempted influence for years, although the extent of what has gone on has never been clear.\n\nDespite many suspicions of attempts at meddling in the referendum and other campaigns, significant concrete evidence is in short supply.\n\nThat's one of the reasons why, until today, UK ministers have stopped short of saying that political interference has happened here.\n\nSo, it matters that this is the first time a UK minister has made an explicit link to Russia, in one way or another, trying to meddle in elections in the UK.\n\nBut the timing of that statement creates its own intrigue too.\n\nNext week, at long last, the powerful group of MPs who monitor UK intelligence will publish a report on the Russian threat to the UK - a report that has been anticipated for a very long time and may perhaps set the record straight on all of this.\n\nIt's been produced by an independent committee who are able to access and interrogate intelligence information.\n\nThe report was completed many months ago, and while No 10 has continually denied there is anything fishy, it has been sitting on the prime minister's desk for a long time.\n\nThe Tories' attempts to install a loyal chairman of the committee backfired spectacularly yesterday, which you can read about here.\n\nNow, the report itself, which looks at the spectrum of the threat that Russia may pose to the UK - the financial influence of wealthy Russians in the country, what happened in Salisbury, attempts at meddling in political campaigns and more - will be published next week.\n\nIs it politically convenient for ministers to acknowledge the threat themselves just before others may make embarrassing claims about it?\n\nLabour politicians have frequently accused the Conservatives of ignoring Russian interference because of their relationship with Tory Party donors.\n\nDid it suit the government to publicise the claims that material used by Labour was also manipulated by Russia?\n\nIt seems, as one former UK ambassador to Moscow said this afternoon, a \"remarkable coincidence\" that the government decided at this moment to admit explicitly, for the first time, that Russia has tried to stick its nose into our politics - especially when there is a running criminal investigation into who obtained the documents to start with.\n\nBut Downing Street denies that there is any link in the timing at all.\n\nWhatever shenanigans there may have been about the timing of these announcements, it is clear there is cause to be anxious about Russia's attitude to the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson once hoped, as foreign secretary, that he could reset the UK's relations with Vladimir Putin.\n\nToday's evidence suggests that what he did get right was his own later admission that he was wrong.", "There were 666 cases of coronavirus recorded when lockdown was introduced in Wales\n\nWales should have been better prepared when coronavirus arrived in February, according to the chair of the Senedd's health and social care committee.\n\nDai Lloyd said Wales \"did not have\" appropriate coronavirus testing capacity and did not have enough personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nThe first minister said it would have been difficult to persuade people in Wales to introduce lockdown earlier.\n\nBut Dr Lloyd, who is also a GP, said: \"We could have done more.\"\n\nCoronavirus was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 30 January and Wales' first coronavirus case was confirmed on 28 February.\n\nThe first death with coronavirus in Wales was on 16 March and lockdown began on 23 March by which time there had been 16 deaths and 666 positive cases reported by Public Health Wales (PHW).\n\n\"We knew it was coming, we knew in January that there was a pandemic and pandemic means an epidemic everywhere so we should have been preparing,\" Dr Lloyd told Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"We didn't have the testing capacity at the start and governments at all levels didn't recognise the importance of testing despite the WHO saying test, test, test and contact trace.\n\n\"We should have had the PPE stocks ready - and we were nowhere near that.\"\n\nA report said Wales had fewer deaths per person than other parts of the UK at the start of the pandemic\n\nAt least 2,470 people in Wales have died of coronavirus and at its height in April, 43 deaths were being recorded a day in Wales with 164 people with the virus in Welsh intensive care units.\n\n\"Lots of people thought it would be just like the flu and we'd heard of Sars and we should have regarded Covid as like Sars, particularly nasty and particularly lethal,\" added Dr Lloyd, the Plaid Cymru MS for South West Wales.\n\n\"Governments hadn't really treated the possibility of a pandemic with any seriousness and as a society we have forgotten how serious infectious diseases can be. We think we've got antibiotics, let's get on with it. This is certainly a wake-up call.\"\n\n\"We saw what was happening in other countries and saw the horror, if nothing else that was a warning to us,\" said Angela Burns, the Welsh Conservatives' new spokeswoman for government resilience and efficiency.\n\n\"The organ of government is slow to gear up, it's like a great big machine and we were not fast enough at the beginning.\n\n\"We needed to be far more alert and have resource planning in place with really good contract management in place to get the stuff we needed.\"\n\nPlanes arrived in Wales carrying PPE after the initial shortage\n\nThe number of patients with coronavirus in intensive beds has fallen to 10, and in the last week there have been no Covid-19 deaths recorded by PHW in four of the seven days.\n\nMark Drakeford said he started lockdown on 23 March \"more because of the circulation of the virus in London... than because we thought that the virus was already in rapid circulation in Wales\".\n\n\"I think that at the point we did it, it was possible to convince people of the need to do it,\" the first minister told BBC Politics Wales.\n\n\"Had we done it much earlier, I think it would have been more difficult to have persuaded people in Wales, at least, that the virus was in such rapid circulation, that such a drastic set of decisions was needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 500 cars were parked along the roads in Snowdonia\n\nMore than 500 cars have been parked along roads in Snowdonia, police say.\n\nParking tickets have been issued to some vehicles which forced traffic into single file along the A4086 around Pen-y-Pass - the closest car park to the summit of Snowdon.\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority warned visitors that many car parks were full and urged visitors not to park on roadsides.\n\nGwynfor Coaches said its services were struggling to get through.\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 Gwynfor Coaches This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nResident Yasser Ali Mahmood, of Llanberis, said: \"The lack of respect and consideration for everyone, this includes the local community, commuters, other tourists and the national park itself, is abysmal.\"\n\nAnother local worker said: \"People who live in a city think we'll go up a mountain, it'll be quieter than where we are.\n\n\"But when thousands of people have the same idea that goes out the window.\"\n\nTickets have been issued to some cars\n\nIt said officers had been to Nant Peris Pass to help council workers deal with \"in excess of 500 vehicles\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, has denied reports that China is carrying out a programme of sterilisation of Uighur women in the western Xinjiang region.\n\nReports and eyewitness accounts have accused China of trying to reduce the Uighur population in Xinjiang by forced sterilisation.\n\nMr Liu was also confronted with drone footage that appears to show Uighurs being blindfolded and led to trains. He said he \"did not know\" what the video was showing.", "Nicola Sturgeon has said the campaign for Scottish independence could learn from her \"show not tell\" leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe first minster said people had seen the Scottish government's decision making with the powers it had.\n\nShe was speaking in an interview for Scotland on Sunday marking her 50th birthday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said devoting her attention to the Covid crisis was \"liberating\" from the usual party politics.\n\n\"I have tried in a way that I have never had to do with other issues, to strip the traditional rules of politics out of my decision-making,\" she told interviewer Dani Garavelli.\n\n\"I haven't at any point during the coronavirus weighed up decisions on the basis of: 'Does this make independence more or less likely?\"\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said recent opinion polls suggesting a rise in support for Scottish independence showed her government's actions could have an indirect influence.\n\n\"The Yes movement possibly has something to learn about the fact that - as we have stopped shouting about independence, and shouting to ourselves about how we go about getting independence, and just focused on [dealing with the crisis] - it has allowed people to take a step back and say: 'Well, actually that's the benefit of autonomous decision-making' and also 'perhaps things would be better if we had a bit more autonomous decision-making,' and to come to their own conclusions.\"\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\nHer comments, as she prepared to mark her 50th birthday on Sunday, follow criticism from some sections of the 'Yes' movement that her approach is overly cautious and that a \"Plan B\" is required in the face of the UK government's opposition to another referendum.\n\nFormer SNP MSP Dave Thompson has announced plans to launch a new independence party which would stand only for the regional list seats in next year's Holyrood election, in an attempt to increase the number of pro-independence MSPs in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted that she wants the SNP \"united\" ahead of the 2021 election and said: \"History is littered with examples of political parties that start talking to each other as opposed to the public. I don't think that's where the SNP is generally.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she had been \"fully immersed\" in dealing with the Covid crisis\n\nAsked about other pro-independence groups standing against her party, Ms Sturgeon said: \"You can take it as read that, come the election, I will be saying to people: 'Vote SNP with your first vote, and vote SNP with your regional vote as well,' and I will be pointing to the fact that the one time we did win a majority was when we maximised the constituency and the regional vote.\"\n\nIn the wide-ranging interview, Ms Sturgeon also spoke of her apprehension at approaching the menopause which she agreed still remained a \"taboo\" subject in society.\n\nAsked if she was worried that any symptoms could be perceived as a \"weakness\", she replied: \"Yes, I think that's part of the stigma.\n\n\"For me, there's still a sense that I'm not sure what it's going to be like over the next few years. It shouldn't be as big a mystery to those of us about to go through it, but it is.\"\n\nOn reaching her milestone birthday she said: \"I am a bit perplexed as to how, suddenly, I'm 50.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said the one request she has made to her husband and SNP chief executive Peter Murrell was to have a walk on the South Ayrshire coast in her father's hometown.\n\n\"The only thing I have said to Peter I really want to do is go for a walk along the beach in Dunure. I spent a lot of my childhood there because it's where my dad grew up and where my grandparents lived until they died,\" she said.\n\nOn Sunday Ms Sturgeon posted on Twitter: \"To say I'm overwhelmed by all the cards, flowers and good wishes I have received from across the country for my (ahem) 50th birthday, would be an understatement...so I just wanted to pop on here briefly (before hopefully staying away for the rest of the day!) to say thank you.\"\n\nOn Sunday morning, her husband posted a picture of a large, helium-filled balloons shaped in the number 50, captioned \"Wakey Wakey NicolaSturgeon\".", "Khloemae Loy died from a single stab wound to the neck\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a woman who was stabbed to death at a hotel.\n\nKhloemae Loy, 23, was pronounced dead at the Holiday Inn on Bugsby's Way in Greenwich, south-east London, on 5 July.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she died from a single stab wound to the neck, the Met Police said.\n\nTaye Francis, 39, has been charged with her murder and will appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nPolice were called to the hotel at about 10:00 BST to reports that a woman had been stabbed.\n\nOfficers and paramedics found Ms Loy, who had suffered serious injuries, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nMs Loy was pronounced dead at the hotel\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sitel said it was \"urgently investigating\" the outbreak with Public Health Scotland\n\nSix people have tested positive for coronavirus in an outbreak at a test and trace call centre in North Lanarkshire.\n\nSitel, which carries out contact tracing for NHS England, said it was aware of a \"local outbreak\" at its Motherwell site.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland the call centre has been closed.\n\nHe said \"extensive contact tracing\" was under way.\n\nSitel said it was \"urgently investigating\" the outbreak with Public Health Scotland.\n\nThe company said it had requested that all staff who have been working at the site undergo testing within the next 24 hours.\n\nA spokeswoman for NHS Test and Trace said everyone at the site is currently working from home while a deep clean takes place.\n\nNHS Test and Trace is a service operated by the NHS in England to track and help prevent the spread of Covid-19 south of the border.\n\nMr Swinney told the BBC that the situation came to light at 08:00 on Sunday and since then a number of contacts of the people who tested positive have been identified.\n\nIt was a \"pretty realistic conclusion\" that there had been transmission of the virus in the office, he added - but an investigation into how it spread is being carried out.\n\nMr Swinney also said work would need to be undertaken to \"get an understanding\" of how guidance was being followed within the facility.\n\nWhen asked if penalties could levied against Sitel, Mr Swinney said: \"These are all issues that will be explored, but what our primary focus is on is to make sure that we interrupt any transmission of the virus.\n\n\"The virus is at a very low level within Scottish society today, the compliance efforts of members of the public have successfully reduced the prevalence of coronavirus, but we have to keep it that way.\"\n\nMr Swinney added that actions being taken by NHS Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire Council were \"reassuring\".\n\nThe outbreak involves a call centre which carries out coronavirus contact tracing\n\nConcerns had been raised after 23 new cases of Covid-19 in Scotland were announced on Sunday, although only three of these were in the Lanarkshire health board area.\n\nThis followed 21 cases being confirmed on Saturday, with both of these figures the highest recorded since mid-June.\n\nHowever the number of new positive test results dropped back to seven on Monday, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcoming \"a reduction compared to recent days\".\n\nShe said all cases \"will still be closely examined and contract tracing undertaken as appropriate\".\n\nDr David Crome, a consultant in public health medicine at NHS Lanarkshire, said the health board was investigating the situation and putting measures in place to reduce risk.\n\nThe Scottish government said contact tracing is under way following the detection of \"a small number of potentially linked cases in North Lanarkshire\".\n\n\"Where potential clusters of cases develop we must find them and act quickly to prevent further spread and we are grateful to local partners for their swift response,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman said \"a small increase in the number of cases is not unexpected as lockdown is lifted\", adding that it highlights the importance of the public co-operating with contact tracers as well as following guidelines on social distancing and wearing face coverings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population and said sanctions against those responsible cannot be ruled out.\n\nReports of forced sterilisation and wider persecution of the Muslim group were \"reminiscent of something not seen for a long time\", he told the BBC.\n\nThe UK would work with its allies to take appropriate action, he insisted.\n\nChina's UK ambassador said talk of concentration camps was \"fake\".\n\nLiu Xiaoming told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the Uighurs received the same treatment under the law as other ethnic groups in his country.\n\nShown drone footage that appears to show Uighurs being blindfolded and led to trains, and which has been authenticated by Australian security services, he said he \"did not know\" what the video was showing and \"sometimes you have a transfer of prisoners, in any country\".\n\n\"There is no such concentration camps in Xinjiang,\" he added. \"There's a lot of fake accusations against China.\"\n\nIt is believed that up to a million Uighur people have been detained over the past few years in what the Chinese state defines as \"re-education camps\".\n\nChina previously denied the existence of the camps, before defending them as a necessary measure against terrorism, following separatist violence in the Xinjiang region.\n\nThe authorities have recently been accused of forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in an apparent attempt to limit the population, prompting calls for the UN to investigate.\n\nAsked whether the treatment of the Uighurs met the legal definition of genocide, Mr Raab said the international community had to be \"careful\" before making such claims.\n\nBut he said: \"Whatever the legal label, it is clear that gross, egregious human rights abuses are going on.\n\nAccording to recent research by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the rate of population growth in the two largest Uighur prefectures in Xinjiang fell by more than 80% between 2013 and 2018.\n\nChina does not accept the findings and pressed on the figures, China's ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming said that the Uighur population in Xinjiang stood at four to five million 40 years ago and had now grown to 11 million.\n\n''People say we have ethnic cleansing, but the population has doubled,'' he added.\n\nDemographic research, which draws on Chinese official data and media reports, doesn't go back as far as 40 years.\n\nBut it suggests there was a rapid rise in the growth rate of the population in Xinjiang between 2005 and 2015, followed by a sharp fall over subsequent years.\n\n\"It is deeply, deeply troubling and the reports on the human aspect of this - from forced sterilisation to the education camps - are reminiscent of something we have not seen for a very long time.\n\n\"We want a positive relationship with China but we can't see behaviour like that and not call it out.\"\n\nThere are growing calls for the UK to impose sanctions, such as asset freezes and travel bans, on Chinese officials responsible for the persecution of the Uighurs.\n\nA petition backing the move has amassed more than 100,000 signatures, meaning it will be considered for debate in Parliament.\n\nThe UK recently took action against senior generals in Myanmar who orchestrated the campaign of violence against the Rohingya and against North Korean bodies behind forced labour camps.\n\nMr Raab said this showed that the UK was prepared to take action unilaterally, as well as through bodies like the UN, but it was \"not as simple as deciding you can willy nilly sanction X or Y\".\n\n\"You have to, as we have done with the Rohingya and North Korea, build up an evidence base and that takes a long time to do because you have got to identify accurately and responsibly those involved,\" he said.\n\nBBC News diplomatic correspondent James Landale said: \"The risk for Britain is that it gets caught in the crossfire between Washington and Beijing.\n\n\"The price for defending human rights could be less trade with China - and that could prove costly in a post-Covid economic downturn.\"\n\nConservative MPs are also pressing for action against senior officials in the Hong Kong government following the imposition of a new security law which the UK says violates international agreements protecting freedoms.\n\nThe foreign secretary is due to update Parliament on Monday on the UK's response, amid speculation it will scrap the UK's existing extradition treaty with the former British colony.\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, the Chinese ambassador said if the UK - which has also offered residency rights to three million Hong Kongers eligible for British passports - targeted its officials, his country could retaliate.\n\n\"If the UK goes that far to impose sanctions on any individuals in China, China will certainly make a resolute response to it,\" he said.\n\nHe dismissed claims of \"ethnic cleansing\" of the Uighurs as baseless, saying they \"enjoy peaceful, harmonious coexistence with other ethnic groups of people\".\n\nHe said figures suggesting population growth in Uighur areas had fallen by 84% between 2015 and 2018 were \"not correct\", claiming the number of Uighurs in the whole of Xinjiang had \"doubled\" over the past four decades.\n\n\"There is no so-called pervasive, massive forced sterilisation among Uighur people in China,\" he added. \"Government policy is strongly opposed to this kind of practice.\"\n\nWhile he \"cannot rule out single cases\" of sterilisation, he insisted \"we treat every ethnic group as equal\".", "Alexandrovskaya competed for her adopted country at the 2018 Winter Olympics\n\nEkaterina Alexandrovskaya, who was born in Russia but competed for Australia in figure skating at the Olympics, has died in Moscow at the age of 20.\n\nThe cause of her death on Friday has not yet been disclosed. Alexandrovskaya retired in February due to injury.\n\nShe was granted Australian citizenship to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics with indigenous Australian pairs skating partner, Harley Windsor.\n\nWindsor, who won the world juniors with her in 2017, said he was devastated.\n\n\"The amount we had achieved during our partnership is something I can never forget and will always hold close to my heart,\" Windsor wrote on Instagram.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by h_d22 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\nHer coach, Andrei Khekalo, said Alexandrovskaya was diagnosed with epilepsy earlier this year.\n\n\"She was fearless. She was like a fish in the water,\" he told AFP.\n\nIan Chesterman, the Australian Olympics team chief in Pyeongchang in 2018, said: \"Katia... was a vibrant and talented person and an incredible athlete.\"\n\nAlexandrovskaya broke barriers with Windsor, who became the first indigenous Australian to qualify for the Winter Olympics.\n\nHe had flown to Moscow to meet Alexandrovskaya, saying: \"The first time we skated together we matched really well.\"\n\nIt is the second death of an Australian Winter Olympian in 10 days.\n\nAlex Pullin, a two-time world champion snowboarder and three-time Olympian, drowned while spearfishing last week on Australia's Gold Coast.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ\n\nA volunteer detained for questioning over a fire at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes has been released without charge.\n\nThe blaze tore through the cathedral early on Saturday morning, destroying stained glass windows and the grand organ inside.\n\nThe detained Rwandan refugee, 39, was in charge of locking up the building the day before the fire.\n\nThe Nantes public prosecutor said the man was freed on Sunday evening.\n\nPierres Sennès said the authorities had wanted to clear up any inconsistencies and that the questioning was a \"normal procedure\".\n\nThe volunteer has not been named.\n\nMr Sennès said the fire is believed to have been arson. Three fires were started at the site and an investigation is now under way.\n\nQuentin Chabert, the lawyer for the refugee, said at the time of detention there was \"nothing at this stage to link my client to the fire\" and that the investigation must go on \"with respect for everyone's rights and in particular those of my client\".\n\nJean-Charles Nowak, a clerk at the cathedral, told French newspaper Le Figaro the volunteer was \"a man of duty\" who had \"suffered a lot in Rwanda\" - a country he left several years ago. The refugee had been discussing extending his visa with local officials, he said.\n\n\"I don't believe for a second that he could have set the cathedral on fire. It's a place he adores,\" Mr Nowak said.\n\nAbout 100 firefighters managed to stop the flames from destroying the main structure at the cathedral on Saturday. French Prime Minister Jean Castex praised their \"professionalism, courage and self-control\".\n\nThe fire comes over a year after a blaze nearly destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.\n\nEarlier this month, French President Emmanuel Macron announced its iconic spire would be rebuilt exactly as it was, ending speculation it would be changed to a more modern style.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside Notre Dame, now missing its roof and medieval spire", "The filly foal, pictured with mother Ruby, was born using sex-sorted sperm\n\nA Suffolk Punch foal is the first in the UK to have been born using technology to determine its sex.\n\nThe filly, born in Whitchurch in Shropshire, was conceived using sex-sorted sperm.\n\nThere are fewer than 72 female Suffolk Punches remaining in the UK and fewer than 300 in the world.\n\nThe new method could be used to save the breed, which has been described as \"rarer than the panda\", from extinction.\n\nThe technology makes it possible to select female foals to increase the breeding population more quickly.\n\nTullis Matson and Dr Gareth Starbuck, from Nottingham Trent University which owns the mare\n\nTullis Matson, owner and managing director of Stallion AI Services where the foal was born. said it was \"fantastic news\" for all rare breeds.\n\n\"Last year, I think there were about 35 born, 19 were male and 14 female, so it always tends to be more gender male heavy and we need more females on the ground so they can breed more,\" he said.\n\n\"These are the horses that ploughed our fields during the war, they are the ones that put food on the table.\n\n\"For me we have got to keep our heritage going and so we've got to find a way of getting more females on the ground. There is a glimmer of hope at the end for them, there really is.\"\n\nChristopher Price, chief executive of the Rare Breed Survival Trust, said: \"This is tremendous news for anyone concerned with the conservation of our native equines.\"\n\nDr Gareth Starbuck, head of animal and equine sciences at Nottingham Trent University, which owns the mare that gave birth to the foal, added: \"The birth of this foal marks a major step towards securing the future of the Suffolk horse and all other rare animal breeds.\"\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. Andrei Kelin: \"We do not see any point in interference\"\n\nRussia's ambassador to the UK has rejected allegations that his country's intelligence services tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research.\n\n\"I don't believe in this story at all, there is no sense in it,\" Andrei Kelin told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nHowever, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it is \"very clear Russia did this\", adding that it is important to call out this \"pariah-type behaviour\".\n\nMr Kelin also rejected suggestions that Russia had interfered in UK politics.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Raab said Russians almost certainly sought to interfere in the 2019 UK election through illicitly-acquired documents.\n\nThe papers, which emerged online, detailed UK-US trade discussions and were used by Labour in its election campaign.\n\n\"I do not see any point in using this subject as a matter of interference,\" Mr Kelin said.\n\n\"We do not interfere at all. We do not see any point in interference because for us, whether it will be [the] Conservative Party or Labour's party at the head of this country, we will try to settle relations and to establish better relations than now.\"\n\nThe interview comes days before a report into allegations of wider Russian interference into UK democracy is due to be published by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.\n\nOn Thursday, UK, US and Canada security services said a hacking group called APT29 had targeted various organisations involved in Covid-19 vaccine development, with the likely intention of stealing information.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was more than 95% certain that the group, also known as The Dukes or Cozy Bear, was part of Russian intelligence services.\n\nAsked whether that was true, Mr Kelin did not directly answer but said: \"I learned about their existence from British media.\"\n\n\"In this world, to attribute any kind of computer hackers to any country, it is impossible,\" he said.\n\nMr Raab responded on Sunday, saying the UK government does not just \"throw out allegations\" and accused Russia of denying the claims in the same way they \"denied responsibility for the 2018 nerve agent attack on Salisbury\".\n\n\"It is very clear that as the world was coming together and we were trying to drive vaccine collaboration to get a vaccination for this terrible virus, Russia has been trying to sabotage it,\" said the foreign secretary.\n\nMr Kelin dismissed suggestions that it would be an \"advantage\" for Russia to know about vaccines being developed. He said Russian pharmaceutical company R-Pharm had already entered a partnership with AstraZeneca to manufacture the coronavirus vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford, should it prove effective.\n\nElsewhere in the BBC interview, Mr Kelin said Russian officials studying the country's recent constitutional referendum discovered \"several cyber-attacks\" originating from UK territory.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Russia voted in favour of a wide-ranging set of constitutional changes, which included clauses banning same-sex marriage and making it possible for President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036.\n\nMr Kelin stressed that Russia was not \"accusing the United Kingdom as a state\" of being involved in the cyber-attacks and did not give further details as to their nature.\n\nAndrew Marr also asked Mr Kelin whether he had seen the recent BBC miniseries, The Salisbury Poisonings, which dramatised the poisoning of former spy and MI6 informant Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\n\"I saw part of them,\" he said, adding that it was \"so dull\" he could not watch the three-part series to the end.\n\nThe UK has accused two Russian military intelligence officers of being behind the poisonings but the ambassador indicated Moscow was keen to move on from the incident, saying: \"We still do not understand why some spy story should disrupt these important business relations which will be very helpful to Britain... when it is exiting from the European Union.\n\n\"We are prepared to turn the page and we are prepared to do business with Britain.\"\n\nThe interview with Andrei Kelin was shown on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One at 09:00 BST on Sunday.", "China is forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in Xinjiang in an apparent attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uighurs, according to new research.\n\nThe report, by China scholar Adrian Zenz, has prompted international calls for the United Nations to investigate.\n\nChina denies the allegations in the report, calling them \"baseless\".\n\nThe state is already facing widespread criticism for holding Uighurs in detention camps.\n\nIt is believed about one million Uighur people have been detained over the past few years in what what the Chinese state defines as \"re-education\" camps.\n\nChina previously denied the existence of the camps, before defending them as a necessary measure against terrorism, following separatist violence in the Xinjiang region.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on China to \"immediately end these horrific practices\".\n\nIn a statement, he urged \"all nations to join the United States in demanding an end to these dehumanizing abuses\".\n\nChina has faced mounting global scrutiny over its treatment of Uighurs in recent years. An investigation by the BBC in 2019 suggested that children in Xinjiang were being systematically separated from their families in an effort to isolate them from their Muslim communities.\n\nMr Zenz's report was based on a combination of official regional data, policy documents and interviews with ethnic minority women in Xinjiang.\n\nIt alleges that Uighur women and other ethnic minorities are being threatened with internment in the camps for refusing to abort pregnancies that exceed birth quotas.\n\nUighur women have faced a \"ruthless\" birth control programme, the author of the report said\n\nThe report also says that Uighur women with more than the legally permitted number of children - but also many women who had not exceeded birth quotas - were involuntarily fitted with intra-uterine devices (IUDs), while others were coerced into receiving sterilisation surgery.\n\n\"Since a sweeping crackdown starting in late 2016 transformed Xinjiang into a draconian police state, witness accounts of intrusive state interference into reproductive autonomy have become ubiquitous,\" the report says.\n\nAccording to Mr Zenz's analysis of the data, natural population growth in Xinjiang has declined dramatically in recent years, with growth rates falling by 84% in the two largest Uighur prefectures between 2015 and 2018 and declining further in 2019.\n\n\"This kind of drop is unprecedented, there's a ruthlessness to it,\" Mr Zenz told the Associated Press. \"This is part of a wider control campaign to subjugate the Uighurs.\"\n\nFormer detainees in internment camps in Xinjiang said they were given injections that stopped their periods, or caused unusual bleeding consistent with the effects of birth control drugs.\n\n\"Overall, it is likely that Xinjiang authorities are engaging in the mass sterilization of women with three or more children,\" the report said.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, the Interparliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), an international cross-party group of politicians including Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, and US senator Marco Rubio, called on the UN to \"establish an international, impartial, independent investigation into the situation in the Xinjiang region\".\n\n\"A body of mounting evidence now exists, alleging mass incarceration, indoctrination, extrajudicial detention, invasive surveillance, forced labor, and the destruction of Uyghur cultural sites, including cemeteries, together with other forms of abuse,\" the statement said.\n\n\"The world cannot remain silent in the face of unfolding atrocities. Our countries are bound by solemn obligations to prevent and punish any effort to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group 'in whole or in part'.\"\n\nAccording to a report by the Associated Press published on Monday, women in Xinjiang have faced exorbitant fines and threats of internment for breaching childbearing limits.\n\nGulnar Omirzakh, a Chinese-born Kazakh, was ordered to get an IUD inserted after having her third child, the AP reported. Two years later, in January 2018, four officials in military camouflage knocked at her door anyway and handed Omirzakh, the penniless wife of a detained vegetable trader, three days to pay a 17,5000 RMB (£2,000) fine for having more than two children.\n\nShe was reportedly warned that she would join her husband in an internment camp if she refused to pay.\n\n\"God bequeaths children on you. To prevent people from having children is wrong,\" Omirzakh told the AP. \"They want to destroy us as a people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC meets Uighur parents who say their children are missing in China\n\nResponding to the report on Monday, China's foreign ministry said the allegations were \"baseless\" and showed \"ulterior motives\".\n\nForeign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian accused media outlets of \"cooking up false information on Xinjiang-related issues\".\n\nFor decades, under China's one-child policy, urban minorities were instead allowed two children, or three for rural families. A 2017 policy change, under President Xi Jinping, removed the ethnic distinction, permitting Han Chinese to have the same number of children as minorities, while preserving the urban-rural distinction.\n\nBut according to the AP, Han Chinese have been largely spared the abortions, sterilisations, IUD insertions and detentions implemented against minority populations, including the Uighurs.\n\nMr Zenz's report characterises the alleged campaign of coercive birth control in Xinjiang as part of a \"demographic campaign of genocide\" against the Uighurs.\n\n\"These findings provide the strongest evidence yet that Beijing's policies in Xinjiang meet one of the genocide criteria cited in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,\" he writes.", "Rats and mice seem to have been on the move to different parts of the city\n\nRats have become more of a problem in the affluent areas of Cardiff since the start of lockdown, according to the council.\n\nThe local authority's pest control department has responded to a \"significant rise\" in calls for help, with rodents the biggest problem.\n\nCouncil workers have seen a \"marked shift\" from rental areas with a high number of takeaways.\n\nInstead, there have been calls to more affluent areas of the city.\n\n\"We've never had a problem before, but one night we saw a mouse in the living room, running around under our legs,\" a Pontcanna resident said.\n\n\"I laid down traps and caught four mice on the first night, and one more after that.\"\n\nA cat is one way of getting rid of the presence of rodents\n\nSince getting a family cat, the mice have disappeared, but the resident added: \"Our neighbours have had worse problems than us, unfortunately.\n\n\"On our street, we've seen a lot of poisoned rodents out on the pavement.\n\n\"There are loads around. But we're confident the mice are staying away from us now.\"\n\nThe city council's pest control department said it had received more calls for help at a time when they have less workers.\n\nThere are usually six technicians working on pest control, but two are currently shielding due to coronavirus.\n\nIn June, the team was booked to deal with 304 incidents of rats, compared with 184 during the same month in 2019.\n\nThe number of online inquiries for help with pests has also gone up with 206 inquiries in June this year, compared with 84 in the same month in 2019.\n\nThe team said the true number of people needing help with pests was much higher, with people calling private pest control companies directly.\n\nRats rarely leave an area if they find a food source\n\nRentokil said that rodent-related inquiries in the UK had increased by 22% between April and June compared to the same period last year.\n\nTraffic to rodent advice pages on their website has also increased by 80%.\n\nPest control experts believe the rise in the number of people working from home may be contributing to the increase in the calls for help with pests.\n\nOne theory is that rodents and seagulls have been able to breed undisturbed in empty offices and car parks, with a Cardiff council spokesman saying about 80% of the incidents of rats seen in residential areas was connected to feeding birds in the garden.\n\nThey pointed out that anyone noticing a pest problem was obliged to intervene to try and get rid of them.\n\nPest experts said once rodents find a food source, they are unlikely to leave of their own accord, and early intervention is the best remedy as they may multiply quickly.\n\nCardiff council gives tips, including never leaving food in the garden, looking under sheds for nests, sealing bags of pet food in sheds and washing materials before placing them in recycling bags so seagulls do not rip them open.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta outmanoeuvred his mentor Pep Guardiola as the Gunners reached the FA Cup final with victory at Wembley.\n\nArteta, who left his job as Manchester City assistant manager to succeed Unai Emery at Arsenal in December, now has a chance to mark his first season in charge with major silverware when they face Chelsea or Manchester United in the final on 1 August.\n\nThe match-winner was Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the world-class striker Arsenal are desperate to secure on a new long-term contract, as he ruthlessly exposed City's defensive deficiencies.\n\nAubameyang had already shot straight at Ederson with one clear chance but there was no escape for City after 19 minutes when he showed great technique to steer home Nicolas Pepe's cross with the outside of his foot at the far post.\n\nCity dominated possession after the break but squandered their opportunities and Aubameyang made them pay once more in the 71st minute when he raced away on the angle to slide a composed finish under the keeper.\n\nThis was a personal triumph for Arteta and completes a superb week after the victory over Premier League champions Liverpool at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday.\n\nAnd there was so much to admire about Arsenal's willingness to adopt a courageous gameplan, happy to patiently keep possession - often in their own area - with one such passage of play leading to Aubameyang's opener.\n\nAs against Liverpool, Arsenal were well-organised and resilient at the back, willing to throw bodies on the line to repel the wave of City attacks in the second half as the holders tried to hold on to the FA Cup.\n\nDavid Luiz had the sort of nightmare many believed would end his Arsenal career when they played City in their first post-lockdown game at Etihad Stadium, making a mistake leading to a goal then being sent off after conceding a penalty.\n\nThis was the other side of the maverick Brazilian defender, a rock at the heart of Arsenal's defence and a central figure in this victory.\n\nThe spearhead, however, was the 31-year-old Gabon striker Aubameyang, who was a huge threat throughout and illustrated exactly why he is among the game's elite group of strikers.\n\nAn ever-present menace, his two finishes were of the highest quality and demonstrated his big-match temperament.\n\nThis is why Arsenal are so keen to get his signature on a lucrative new deal - and why they will have a chance of winning the FA Cup no matter who they face in the final.\n\nManchester City rightly receive plaudits for their classic purist style - but there is a faultline running through this team that manager Guardiola simply must address.\n\nThis is a side that can defeat anyone but also has a soft centre that makes them eminently beatable - there is a reason why they have lost nine times in the Premier League this season.\n\nGuardiola's side can be cut and carved open, as they were twice by Aubameyang here, and this must surely be central to their summer transfer activity.\n\nAs at Southampton recently, they had plenty of the ball after going behind but could not find a cutting edge. This is where master finisher Sergio Aguero is missed, especially as this was one of those rare occasions when Kevin de Bruyne's radar was faulty.\n\nCity romped to a 6-0 victory in last season's final against Watford, but there will be no repeat this year and that is because there are faults in this team that Arsenal - led by Arteta - were able to exploit.\n\n'An incredible week' - what they said\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta to BBC Sport: \"We've had an incredible week to beat the best two teams in Europe, it doesn't happen every day.\n\n\"I don't care who plays, I can trust them - we made changes and everyone was ready.\n\n\"We had to suffer in many moments. We had to be really well-organised and minimise the spaces.\"\n\nOn seeing Pep Guardiola after the game: \"I high-fived him after the game and wished him luck. I love him like yesterday or this morning the same way.\"\n\nOn Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's contract talks: \"Hopefully it will help him to be more convinced we are going in the right direction.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola to MOTD: \"We didn't make a good performance, we were not ready enough. If you don't play for 90 minutes in a semi-final this can happen. We didn't play good, we are human beings. The opponent played good, sometimes it happens.\n\n\"The only regret is that we didn't play the first half like we played the second one. We had to change the set-up but we couldn't do it.\"\n\nCity's cup run comes to an end - the stats\n• None Arsenal have reached the FA Cup final a record 21 times, with the Gunners also winning the competition more than any other side (13).\n• None Manchester City have been eliminated from a domestic cup tie (League Cup and FA Cup) for the first time since February 2018 (FA Cup 5th Round v Wigan), with this their 22nd such tie since that game.\n• None Arsenal have eliminated the holders of the FA Cup on each of the last six occasions they've faced them.\n• None All four of Arsenal's shots in this match were on target - indeed they had more shots on target in this match than they'd had in their previous three meetings with Manchester City combined (3).\n• None Manchester City had just one shot on target in this match, their fewest in a game since April 2018 in the Champions League against Liverpool (0).\n• None Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang became the fourth Arsenal player to score a competitive brace at Wembley Stadium, after Reg Lewis (1950 FA Cup final), Charlie Nicholas (1987 League Cup final) and Alexis Sanchez (2015 FA Cup semi-final).\n• None Nicolas Pepe has been involved in 17 goals in all competitions for Arsenal this season (8 goals, 9 assists) - only Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (27) has been involved in more.\n\nBoth sides return to Premier League action as City face Watford at Vicarage Road on Tuesday, 21 July (18:00 BST), before Arsenal travel to Aston Villa later that evening (20:15).\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Benjamin Mendy.\n• None Joseph Willock (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Arsenal. Rob Holding replaces Shkodran Mustafi because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rodrigo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rodrigo with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 2, Manchester City 0. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Tierney. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester United goalkeeper David de Gea endured a Wembley nightmare as Chelsea strolled to victory and set up an FA Cup final date with Arsenal.\n\nUnited manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ditched his usual FA Cup keeper Sergio Romero to keep faith with De Gea - but the experienced Spain international produced two horrendous errors either side of half-time to gift Chelsea two goals.\n\nDe Gea made a flimsy attempt to deal with Olivier Giroud's flick in first-half stoppage time then weakly fumbled Mason Mount's tame 20-yard shot into the net moments after the restart.\n\nChelsea's excellent performance fully merited this victory and United's abject misery after a dreadful performance was complete when captain Harry Maguire diverted Marcos Alonso's cross into his own net at the near post with 16 minutes left.\n\nFrank Lampard's side were in complete control from first to last as they comprehensively ended Manchester United's 19-match unbeaten run in all competitions.\n\nBruno Fernandes pulled a goal back from the penalty spot late on after Callum Hudson-Odoi fouled Anthony Martial but it could not even be described as a consolation as Chelsea closed out the win.\n• None 'Solskjaer says De Gea is best in world - he's not even best in Manchester'\n• None How you rated the players\n\nLampard is now in position to make his first season in charge a highly satisfactory one as they contemplate a place in the FA Cup final and lie third in the Premier League, in position to reach next season's Champions League.\n\nAnd no-one can question their right to this win as they dominated from start to finish, particularly in midfield, where they were able to subdue the influence of the talented Fernandes.\n\nOnce again 33-year-old Giroud demonstrated his influence, leading the line selflessly and being rewarded with that crucial first goal, even though it received a large helping hand from De Gea.\n\nChelsea were more energetic, dangerous and aggressive and while they were thankful to those mistakes from De Gea, the margin of victory was no more than they deserved.\n\nLampard's side cut off any supply line to United's forwards and it will be an intriguing final on 1 August back here at Wembley, when he pits his wits against another rookie manager in Arsenal's Mikel Arteta.\n• None More to come from Chelsea, says Lampard\n\nUnited went into this semi-final high on optimism on that long unbeaten run and with the sense that Solskjaer was starting to get to grips with the big rebuilding job.\n\nThat continues and United are still in decent shape to reach next season's Champions League, either via the Premier League or Europa League, but this was a savage setback.\n\nAnd the main culprit was De Gea, who gives the impression of a goalkeeper either in permanent decline or going through a very long slump.\n\nDe Gea changed the face of this FA Cup semi-final with those mistakes, allowing Chelsea to transform their dominance into a two-goal lead.\n\nFernandes was overpowered in midfield and United had no punch in attack, where Solskjaer decided to leave the potency of Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood on the bench, along with Paul Pogba.\n\nIt was perhaps a sign that Solskjaer knew all was not well when he introduced Martial for defender Eric Bailly when he sustained a first-half head injury while Greenwood and Pogba were only introduced in desperation when the game was gone.\n\nBailly suffered a cut to the back of his head and Solskjaer said the Ivorian had been taken to hospital for \"routine checks and protocols\".\n\nIn defence they were also vulnerable, Victor Lindelof losing Giroud too easily for Chelsea's opener and captain Maguire ending any hopes with that own goal.\n\nUnited complained they should have had a penalty when Martial went down under Kurt Zouma's first-half challenge but this was a miserable experience for Solskjaer and his players.\n\nSolskjaer's side have had many good days in recent months. This was a very bad one.\n• None Chelsea have reached their 14th FA Cup final. Only Arsenal (21 including this season) and Manchester United (20) have made the final on more occasions.\n• None Manchester United have been eliminated from the FA Cup by Chelsea for a sixth time (including three of the last four seasons) - only Arsenal (seven) have knocked the Red Devils out of the competition on more occasions.\n• None This was Chelsea's first victory against Manchester United since the 2018 FA Cup final - the Blues were winless in six matches across all competitions against the Red Devils prior to today (D2 L4).\n• None Chelsea are the first side to beat Manchester United since Burnley in the Premier League back in January, ending United's 19 game unbeaten run in all competitions.\n• None Mason Mount became the first Englishman to score for Chelsea at Wembley since John Terry in the 2015 League Cup final versus Tottenham.\n• None No player has scored more goals for Frank Lampard in his managerial career than Mason Mount (18 - level with Harry Wilson).\n• None Since his Manchester United debut in February, no Premier League player has been involved in more goals across all competitions than Bruno Fernandes (17 - nine goals and eight assists).\n• None Manchester United have both taken (19) and scored (15) more penalties than any other Premier League side this season in all competitions.\n• None Go Ask Your Mother:\n• None Attempt missed. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Tammy Abraham.\n• None Reece James (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Nemanja Matic tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Chelsea 3. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) header from very close range is just a bit too high. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Crowds of people were waiting to leave the park after the stabbing\n\nA man has been seriously injured in a stabbing at Thorpe Park following an altercation between two groups.\n\nThe man in his 20s was slashed in his stomach on a footbridge near the exit of the resort in Surrey shortly before 17:00 BST.\n\nThe theme park said on-site medical staff were at the scene \"within minutes\".\n\nSurrey Police said two men in their 20s had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nVisitors were locked down inside the park while police attended, with pictures on social media showing crowds building up as the bridge was cordoned off.\n\nPolice said two groups of people were involved in an altercation on the bridge close to the park's exit.\n\nOne man was treated for a slash wound to his stomach and is in hospital in a serious condition, the force added.\n\nDet Insp Andy Greaves appealed for witnesses and said officers were tracing \"all those believed to have been involved\".\n\n\"I'm keen to hear from anyone who saw what happened or who has video footage of this assault,\" he said.\n\n\"The two groups of people were close to the exit inside the park on the bridge when the assault took place.\"\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance Service said it was called to the park at about 16:50 following reports of a person with an abdominal injury.\n\nParamedics treated one person who was taken to a London hospital.\n\nThorpe Park said its on-site medical staff provided emergency first aid and said it was helping police with inquiries.\n\n\"The health, safety and security of our guests is our primary objective. We have an excellent security track record and have never had any incidents of this kind in over 40 years,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThorpe Park reopened on 4 July after being shut due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The committee is looking into Moscow's alleged influence on UK votes\n\nA long-awaited report into alleged Russian interference in the 2017 general election and the 2016 Brexit vote is to be published next week.\n\nThe Intelligence and Security Committee voted unanimously for it to be released before Parliament's summer break.\n\nThe delay in publishing the report, which was completed last year, has led to speculation that it contains details embarrassing for the Conservatives.\n\nBut the government denies that political considerations were involved.\n\nThe report is thought to look at a wide range of Russian activity - from traditional espionage to subversion - but the greatest interest is in possible interference in the 2016 and 2017 votes.\n\nDowning Street gave clearance for publication last autumn, but it did not come out before December's general election was called - at which point the old committee's membership was disbanded.\n\nPublication was further delayed by the replacement committee not being set up until this week.\n\nEspionage, subversion and influence: that's what the Russia Report is all about. How far has Russia been carrying out such activities and has enough been done to stop them?\n\nIt is not just about the traditional spy-versus-spy intelligence-gathering to steal secrets, but also Russia's use of new techniques like cyber-espionage and social media campaigns to interfere in political life.\n\nBut it is also about Russian influence, especially though money, which critics argue has seeped into public life and compromised various institutions.\n\nThe information in the report came from the intelligence agencies but also from independent experts. Some of them are believed to have painted a stark picture of a long-term failure to deter Moscow, all the way back to the weak response to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium in 2006.\n\nHow much detail is there and how damning is it? We are about to find out.\n\nThe decision by the nine-member ISC - which meets behind closed doors - to bring out the report follows the election of Julian Lewis as its chairman on Wednesday.\n\nA Tory MP since 1997, he put himself forward for the role, apparently against the wishes of Downing Street, which had preferred former cabinet minister Chris Grayling for the job.\n\nThe three Labour members and one SNP member of the committee supported Mr Lewis, who, immediately after being named chairman, was expelled from the Conservative Parliamentary Party.\n\nChris Grayling had been the PM's preferred choice for committee chair\n\nBut in a statement, Mr Lewis said the 2013 Justice and Security Act had \"explicitly removed the right of the prime minister to choose the ISC chairman and gave it to the committee members\".\n\nHe added: \"It was only yesterday afternoon [Thursday] that I received a text asking me to confirm that I would be voting for the prime minister's preferred candidate for the ISC chair.\n\n\"I did not reply as I considered it an improper request. At no earlier stage did I give any undertaking to vote for any particular candidate.\"\n\nMr Lewis also said the government had denied wanting to \"parachute\" a preferred candidate in to the chair, adding:\"It is therefore strange to have the whip removed for failing to vote for the government's preferred candidate.\"\n\nBut House of Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg accused him of of \"playing ducks and drakes with the Labour Party\" and said that was why he had had the Conservative whip withdrawn.\n\nHowever, Conservative MP Peter Bone said Mr Lewis was \"exceptionally well-qualified\" to become chairman and \"would do and excellent job\", while some in Downing Street had had a \"huge hissy-fit\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"good thing\" the committee had chosen Mr Lewis.\n\nHe added: \"They obviously chose to reject the imposition by the prime minister of his preferred chair on them…They're an independent committee and we should respect the decision they came to.\"", "There are now about 10,000 red kites in the UK\n\nThe reintroduction of red kites to an area of outstanding natural beauty 30 years ago has been a \"true conservation success story\", an expert has said.\n\nNumbers of kites had declined over a 200-year period and by the 1980s they were one of only three globally-threatened species in the UK.\n\nThirteen young birds were brought over from Spain and released in the Chiltern Hills in July 1990.\n\nThey are now \"thriving\", with an estimated 1,800 UK breeding pairs.\n\nThe red kite is one of Britain's most distinctive birds of prey, known for its reddish-brown body, angled wings, forked tail, and \"mewing\" call.\n\nThey used to breed across much of the UK, but persecution over the years saw numbers fall as they increasingly became a target for egg collectors.\n\nAt one point there were just a few breeding pairs in central Wales.\n\nThe Chilterns area was chosen as it met the criteria set out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for the project.\n\nThe birds were brought to the UK from Spain\n\nThirteen young kites were initially released in the Chilterns\n\nThe Chiltern Hills were designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1965 and stretch from Goring in Oxfordshire, through Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, to Hitchin in Hertfordshire.\n\nMore birds were introduced and by 1996, at least 37 pairs had bred in southern England.\n\nRed kites can now be seen in most English counties with an estimated 10,000 birds in the UK, including 1,800 breeding pairs.\n\nTony Juniper, chair of Natural England, said these \"most majestic birds of prey\" had been \"persecuted to near-extinction\", but the \"pioneering reintroduction programme in the Chilterns stands out as a true conservation success story\".\n\nTheir reintroduction has been hailed a \"conservation success story\" by the RSPB\n\nWhile the \"majestic\" red kites have been targeted by hunters and egg thieves, they have also had some bad press themselves as numbers have increased.\n\nReports including the birds swooping on school children as they ate their lunches, and \"sweeping up chickens\", prompting calls for people to stop feeding them as there was plenty of wild food for them to eat.\n\nHowever, Jeff Knott, the RSPB's operations director for Central and Eastern England, said the reintroduction project \"might be the biggest species success story in UK conservation history\", resulting in the \"near-extinct\" species becoming a \"daily sight for millions of people\".\n\nThe UK is now home to almost 10% of the world population of red kites.", "Barcelona has seen a spike in cases Image caption: Barcelona has seen a spike in cases\n\nAs we mentioned earlier, Barcelona is currently under new lockdown restrictions.\n\nCarmen Callizo is the owner of the SlowMov coffee shop and roastery in the city's Gràcia neighbourhood, she described the new lockdown to BBC’s Newshour.\n\nShe said that people who did not follow news were largely unaware of the second lockdown and those that did follow the news had left Barcelona.\n\n“The streets are more empty because those who have homes outside have left Barcelona. They said last Thursday that it was recommended that people should not go outside Barcelona but they did the opposite.”\n\nCallizo had to put her staff on furlough during the last lockdown and had only just started bringing her team back.\n\n“The last two days we have had less people in the coffee shop. We are still selling online and having wholesale customers which is half of our business. We don’t know if we will keep open or not.\n\n“The message from the government is that they are recommendations. We will see next week if we can keep them [staff]. People can’t just go out for a walk, they have to the supermarket so I don’t know if drinking in a coffee shop is considered a business,” she said", "Scotland has seen the biggest daily rise in new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in almost a month.\n\nThe Scottish government said 21 cases had been detected in the last 24 hours - eight of them within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nIt is the biggest daily increase since 21 June.\n\nHowever, Scotland's national clinical director, Jason Leitch, said he expected to see \"day-to-day variation\" in the number of new cases.\n\nIn addition to the Glasgow and Clyde cases, there were five new cases in NHS Lothian with the rest spread around seven other health boards.\n\nMr Leitch told BBC Scotland that he did not believe the new cases were part of a cluster.\n\n\"I expect day-to-day variation and the next thing I look at is the spread around the country\" he said.\n\n\"So 21 in one small town would worry me much more than 21 spread around the country - and these 21 are spread around the country.\"\n\nMr Leitch said he was confident in Scotland's test and protect system and also pointed out that about 16,500 tests had been carried out on Friday and so a rise in the number of positive results could also be expected.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney tweeted that the 21 new positive cases were a reminder of the \"danger still out there\".\n\nThe percentage of tests coming back positive remains low in Scotland and has been under 1% since the end of May.\n\nThe World Health Organisation says that one measure which can indicate whether an epidemic is under control is whether, with a comprehensive testing system, less than 5% of samples return a positive for Covid-19 over two weeks.\n\nThe Scottish government also confirmed that no new deaths were registered in Scotland following a positive test for the virus, meaning that only one death in the last 10 days has been recorded using this measure.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital with confirmed Covid-19 fell from 316 to 305, with just three of them in intensive care units.", "Footage on social media appears to show an officer with his knee on a man's head during an arrest\n\nThe Met Police must formally apologise to a man who was detained while a police officer appeared to kneel on his neck, his lawyer has said.\n\nMarcus Coutain, 48, was filmed telling officers \"get off my neck\" as he was arrested in north London on Thursday.\n\nHis lawyer Tim Rustem said the events \"mirrored almost identically what happened to George Floyd\", who died after being restrained in the US.\n\nOne Met officer has been suspended and another placed on restricted duties.\n\nThe Met \"quickly assessed the incident\" and referred it to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is conducting an investigation.\n\nThe force said it would not be issuing any further statements.\n\nA protest against the arrest was held outside Islington police station on Saturday\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Coutain pleaded not guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court to possessing a knife in public.\n\nPolice said officers were called to reports of a fight in Isledon Road on Thursday.\n\nFootage posted on social media that evening shows two officers holding a handcuffed black man on the pavement.\n\nIn court, Mr Rustem said the police should apologise.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Rustem said the Crown Prosecution Service should review the case, drop the charges and offer a \"formal apology\" to Mr Coutain.\n\nMr Rustem said his client was legally carrying a blade for the purposes of repairing his bicycle.\n\n\"Essentially Mr Coutain was stopped and searched for matters for which he has not been charged,\" he said.\n\n\"It is the use of what I would regard as excessive force, a knee being placed on his neck ... references which mirror exactly what happened to George Floyd in America.\n\n\"A man saying 'I can't breathe' and 'get your knee off my neck', while he was already handcuffed and while he was restrained by two police officers.\"\n\nHe said his client was lucky to have only \"minimal\" injuries to his wrists and neck, adding: \"Fortunately it didn't lead to the tragic consequences that we saw in America.\"\n\nDeputy Commissioner Sir Steve House described footage of the arrest in Islington as \"deeply disturbing\" and said some of the techniques, which were \"not taught in police training\", caused him \"great concern\".\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said it had quickly assessed the incident, including the body worn video footage from the officers and their statements and justification for their use of force, and referred it to the IOPC.\n\nIn Islington, about 30 people gathered outside the police station in protest against how Mr Coutain was arrested.\n\nThe case has been sent to Snaresbrook Crown Court on 17 August.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changing Places have equipment such as a height-adjustable changing bench and a hoist\n\nLarge accessible toilets for severely disabled people - known as Changing Places - will be made compulsory for new buildings in England from 2021.\n\nShopping centres, supermarkets, sports and arts venues will be required to include at least one Changing Place, a government spokesman said.\n\nThe facilities include hoists, changing benches and space for carers.\n\nCampaigner Zack Kerr said the announcement was \"nothing short of life changing\".\n\nA government spokesman said there were more than 1,400 Changing Places toilets in the UK, compared with 140 in 2007, but more were needed to support about 250,000 severely disabled people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC News film last year highlighted the need for the larger toilet areas\n\nMany disabled people have spoken about restricting their drinking to avoid needing the toilet when they were out, risking dehydration and urinary tract infections.\n\nOther issues include sitting in soiled clothing or dirty nappies until they find a suitable toilet or returned home, and carers having to change a disabled person on a dirty toilet floor.\n\nHelen Whately, Minister for Care, said: \"Compulsory Changing Places in new public buildings is a major step in reducing the health inequalities.\n\n\"All public spaces should cater for people with disabilities so they don't have to suffer discomfort, embarrassment, or even injury without access to a Changing Place.\"\n\nThe government's announcement will be a major change for building rules in England which now require Changing Places, which are at about 12 sq m, to be designed for new public buildings.\n\nA £30m fund to install Changing Places in existing premises was also announced in March's Budget.\n\nOn Sunday, the Department for Transport and Muscular Dystrophy UK announced a £1.27m fund to install 37 more Changing Places at service stations across England.\n\nIt means 87 of England's 118 service stations will have the facilities in the next few years.\n\nZack Kerr, who has cerebral palsy, launched a campaign for more Changing Places after a \"distressing\" journey from his Lancashire home to south Wales three years ago.\n\n\"We stopped at three service stations on route along the M62, M6 and M5 but none of them had an accessible changing facility,\" he said.\n\nMr Kerr said when he started his service stations campaign \"there were about 10 [Changing Places] in the whole country and none of them were north of Birmingham\".\n\nHe said he was \"especially pleased\" there would be more facilities in northern England.", "Numbers had dwindled by Sunday morning from the thousands police said were at the scene overnight\n\nPolice say they did not have the manpower to stop an illegal rave near Bath which attracted more than 3,000 partygoers through the night.\n\nThe event, at the former RAF Charmy Down airfield about three miles from the city, began late on Saturday.\n\nPeople living as far away as Bristol complained they had been kept awake.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said despite officers arriving at the scene within minutes of being alerted there were already \"many people at the site\".\n\nCh Supt Ian Wylie said the force was aware a major gathering was likely this weekend, but it was unable to pinpoint where it might take place.\n\nOnce officers were called to the former RAF station, he said, it was too late.\n\n\"We got the call just after 23:00 (BST) and we were there within 10 minutes but all the stages were set up and all the music was already going with many, many people at the site,\" he said.\n\n\"It became impossible for us to do anything... because of the safety of those partygoers, many of whom were drunk, many of whom were on drugs, and the safety of the officers attending.\"\n\nHe said it was not possible to gather enough officers to disperse such a large number of people at that time of night.\n\n\"We don't have a standing army waiting to deal with these issues,\" he added.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Avon and Somerset Police said despite closing off approach routes, officers were still turning vehicles away on Sunday morning.\n\nCh Supt Wylie said the music was stopped just after 13:00 on Sunday and the site was eventually cleared three hours later.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police closed the event down at 4pm on Sunday\n\nLocal resident Dulcie Walpole said as well as the noise issue, the arrival of huge numbers of cars had also caused disruption.\n\n\"We had appointments to go to this morning and we couldn't actually get out of the lane, there were cars parked all the way down and it's all blocked off,\" she said.\n\n\"All of our neighbours have called the police and complained and it doesn't seem to have done anything.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam Joinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTanya Rich, who lives in Weston in Bath, said the music from the rave, held close to the A46, woke her up at 05:00.\n\n\"I heard this thumping sound. I thought someone had their car stereo on loud and it would stop, but it kept going,\" she said.\n\nPeople said they could hear the event several miles away\n\n\"I went on my local Facebook group and everyone was talking about it and complaining.\n\n\"People have been saying they can hear it as far away as Longwell Green, even Kingswood.\n\n\"It's so loud. You couldn't have a window open.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Emma Moxham RN QN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCh Supt Wylie said an investigation would take place into how the rave was organised.\n\n\"This is just, frankly, selfish actions of individuals who seemed determined to ignore the Covid-19 legislation, and all of the health advice that has been widely publicised,\" he said.\n\n\"They have caused significant disruption to the people of Bath and the local area.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Technology firm Fujitsu has said it will halve its office space in Japan as it adapts to the \"new normal\" of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt says the \"Work Life Shift\" programme will offer unprecedented flexibility to its 80,000 workers in the country.\n\nStaff will be able to work flexible hours, and working from home will be standard wherever possible.\n\nThe announcement follows a similar move in May by social media platform Twitter.\n\nIn a statement sent to the BBC, Fujitsu said it \"will introduce a new way of working that promises a more empowering, productive, and creative experience for employees that will boost innovation and deliver new value to its customers and society\".\n\nUnder the plan employees will \"begin to primarily work on a remote basis to achieve a working style that allows them to flexibly use their time according to the contents of their work, business roles, and lifestyle\".\n\nThe company also said the programme would allow staff to choose where they worked, whether that was from home, a major corporate hub or a satellite office.\n\nFujitsu believes that that the increased autonomy offered to its workers will help to improve the performance of teams and increase productivity.\n\nSree Sreenivasan, visiting professor of digital innovation at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism, said the announcement underlined the huge long-term impact of the pandemic on the way many of us work.\n\n\"This is yet another sign that everything we know about offices and the future of work is being upended. Thousands of employers and millions of employees are learning the pros and cons of the new normal.\"\n\n\"If they can combine the best of the pros (less commuting, more productivity, less expenses, etc), while minimising the cons (lack of in-person bonding, never being off the clock, etc), millions will be grateful, while frustrating thousands who preferred the old way of life,\" he added.\n\nIn May, Twitter told staff that they could work from home \"forever\" if they wished, as the company looks towards the future after the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe social media platform said: \"The past few months have proven we can make that work. So if our employees are in a role and situation that enables them to work from home and they want to continue to do so forever, we will make that happen.\"\n\nEarlier that month Google and Facebook said their staff could work from home until the end of the year.\n\nGoogle originally said it would keep its work from home policy until 1 June, but extended it for seven more months.\n\nIts announcement coincided with a similar move by social media giant Facebook.", "The government has received a report into Huawei that is likely to change its policy over the Chinese firm's role in the UK's telecoms networks.\n\nDigital Secretary Oliver Dowden said GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre had delivered its findings.\n\nNCSC is believed to have said it can no longer assure the security of Huawei's products because of new US sanctions.\n\n\"We're now examining it and understanding the implications of it,\" Mr Dowden told BBC Radio 4's Today.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has yet to deliver its conclusions to the prime minister, but Boris Johnson said on Monday afternoon that he did not want the country to be \"vulnerable to a high-risk state vendor\".\n\nHuawei has said it remains \"open to discussions\".\n\nBut one of the company's spokesmen took a tougher line over the weekend, following newspaper reports that the government might ban the purchase of new Huawei 5G equipment by the end of the year.\n\n\"UK policy is being dictated by [the] Trump administration... shouldn't the US respect a United Kingdom in the post-Brexit era being in a position to chose its own telecommunication strategy?\" tweeted Paul Harrison, Huawei's head of international media, UK.\n\nChina's ambassador to the UK has warned that if the country got rid of Huawei, it would send out a wider message about its openness to foreign investment.\n\nHuawei's role in the UK seemed to have been settled in January, when the government placed a cap on its market share in mobile and full-fibre fixed-line broadband networks, and excluded its involvement in the most sensitive parts of 5G known as the \"core\"'.\n\nHowever, the US subsequently announced fresh sanctions that forbid the Chinese firm and the third parties that make its chips from using \"US technology and software to design and manufacture\" its products.\n\nWashington claims Huawei is backed by the Chinese military and poses a national security risk, claims the company denies.\n\nNCSC has examined the impact of the sanctions, including the fact that they effectively prevent the company from being able to use critical software to design and simulate chips before their fabrication, as well as stopping third-party manufacturers from being able to use equipment needed to produce some of Huawei's most advanced processors.\n\nThe risk is that as a consequence Huawei would have to start sourcing chips from elsewhere, which UK security officials might not be able to properly vet.\n\n\"Clearly the US sanctions will present challenges and that is what that advice is about,\" Mr Dowden told the BBC.\n\nHe said a final decision had yet to be taken, but added: \"We want to diversify away from these so called high-risk vendors, of which Huawei is is the principal one... we want to be in a position where we don't have high-risk vendors in our networks at all.\"\n\nMr Dowden said he aimed to tell Parliament of any policy change before MPs rose for the summer recess on 22 July.\n\nIt remains unclear how far the government will go.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that BT and Vodafone had asked to be given until 2030 to remove Huawei's equipment from their existing 5G infrastructure.\n\nBut ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC: \"The government now must act and make sure that Huawei or any other untrusted vendor is never to be in our telecom system.\"\n\nAnd one of his allies, Bob Seely MP, told the Telegraph: \"2029 is going to be too long for some colleagues, who want to see Huawei out of the system by the end of this parliament.\"\n\nIn theory, the Prime Minister could decide to go further, ordering Huawei's kit to be removed from 3G and 4G networks, and even the tens of thousands of roadside cabinets it is currently sits in providing broadband connectivity.\n\nBut experts have warned that the cost of this would run into \"billions of pounds\" and would cause major delays to the rollout of full-fibre internet.\n\nWhen asked about this, Mr Johnson said: \"We have to come up with the right technological solutions, but also we will have to make sure that we can continue to deliver the broadband that the UK needs.\"\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister added that there was \"no change to [the] broadband 2025 target\".\n\nAmbassador Liu Xiaoming said a rejection of Huawei would send a \"very bad message\"\n\nChina's introduction of a controversial security law giving it new powers over Hong Kong, and the subsequent arrest of some pro-democracy protesters may put the prime minister under further pressure to take a tough stance.\n\nFormer Labour business minister Peter Mandelson said the forthcoming US sanctions - which are due to come into effect in September - provided \"a cover\" for the UK to change its position.\n\n\"President Trump has undoubtedly succeeded in overturning the government's original decision about Huawei equipment in Britain's 5G network,\" he added.\n\n\"This is fundamentally not a question of security. It's a commercial war between the US and China.\n\n\"President Trump said he wanted to demolish Huawei, and he's doing so through very draconian sanctions.\"\n\nBut Nigel Inkster, the former director of operations at MI6, told the BBC that the UK needed to avoid becoming \"collateral damage\" of a clash between the two superpowers.\n\n\"It's going to be very important for the UK to manoeuvre adroitly to ensure that we don't get forced into making a binary choice in this area, in ways that could be very detrimental to our long-term interest,\" he said.\n\nWhen questioned about the issue, China's ambassador to the UK said the wider Chinese business community was watching to see how the UK handled the case.\n\n\"We want to be your friend. We want to be your partner,\" added Liu Xiaoming.\n\n\"But if you want to make China a hostile country, you will have to bear the consequences.\"\n\nOn Thursday, MPs will discuss the issue further at the House of Commons science and technology committee when it questions Huawei, Vodafone and BT about the implications of a potential ban.", "Millions of coronavirus tests are not being recorded, according to new data from the UK government.\n\nSome 10.5 million tests have been \"made available\" since testing began, but only eight million of those have been \"processed\", the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) says.\n\nMore than two million tests, or about one in every five tests, are either not being sent back to laboratories or are being voided.\n\n\"Some members of the public may order a test and then for whatever reason they choose not to return that test,\" the prime minister's official spokesman told reporters.\n\nHe said he had not seen a \"verified number on this\" when the DHSC figures were put to him.\n\nIt comes as Downing Street defends its decision to stop publishing daily figures on the number of people being tested - in favour of the number of tests being done.\n\n\"DHSC will no longer publish the number of people tested daily anymore and will instead publish the number of daily tests processed,\" the PM's spokesman said.\n\n\"This is because the daily people tested statistic only counts new people being tested. For example, someone who is tested in February and then tested again this month will only be counted once.\"\n\nThe testing system in England has been criticised in recent days, after figures showed many people are still waiting more than 24 hours to get their results - despite the prime minister pledging to make this happen by the end of June.\n\nAnd an investigation by BBC Panorama last week found thousands of contact tracers in England failed to trace a single contact in the first three weeks of the test and trace system.", "Nick Cordero, a Broadway and TV actor who spent months in intensive care after suffering complications from coronavirus, has died aged 41.\n\n\"My heart is broken as I cannot imagine our lives without him,\" wrote his wife Amanda Kloots on Instagram.\n\nCordero was nominated for a Tony for his role in Bullets Over Broadway and appeared in Waitress and A Bronx Tale.\n\nWhile in hospital he suffered sepsis infections and mini-strokes and had his right leg amputated.\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 amandakloots This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn May, his wife revealed he had woken from a medically induced coma but remained \"extremely weak\".\n\nIn a post confirming his death, Kloots said: \"God has another angel in heaven now. My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth.\"\n\nKloots remembered her husband as \"a bright light\" who was \"was everyone's friend\".\n\nShe paid tribute to his \"extraordinary\" doctor and thanked everyone for \"the outpour of love, support and help we've received\".\n\nWhile Cordero was in hospital, Kloots regularly sent him videos of her and their one-year-old son, Elvis, and encouraged fans to take part in a daily sing-a-long.\n\nA fundraising page to help pay for medical expenses raised more than $600,000 (£480,000).\n\nActress Viola Davis led the tributes to Cordero on social media\n\nOscar-winning actress Viola Davis led the tributes on Twitter writing: \"My condolences to you Amanda who fought and loved so hard... so sorry for his little one. My heart is with you.\"\n\n\"My heart is broken,\" added actor Josh Gad. \"I feel ill. Along with the entire Broadway community and the entire world, I mourn the loss of the incredible Nick Cordero.\"\n\nPriscilla Presley tweeted: \"I'm so shocked to see the news today that Nick has passed. My heart and soul goes out to Nick Cordero's beautiful wife and family. Rest In Peace, Nick.\"\n\n\"I can honesty tell you I have never met a kinder human being,\" said Scrubs star Zach Braff. \"Don't believe that Covid only claims the elderly and infirm.\"\n\n\"It is so shocking and devastating to see one of your own come down as hard as he did,\" wrote Little Women star Florence Pugh on Instagram.\n\nCordero's TV credits included Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and he had a role in the 2017 film Going in Style, which starred Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The bodies of Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were found by police on New Year's Day\n\nA man has admitted murdering his wife and her new partner on New Year's Day.\n\nHelen Hancock, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, were found stabbed to death at a house in Duffield, Derbyshire, in the early hours of 1 January.\n\nDerby Crown Court heard Rhys Hancock called police at about 04:20 GMT to say he was at his former marital home and admitted murdering the couple.\n\nHancock, of Etwall in Derbyshire, pleaded guilty to both murders.\n\nThe 40-year-old former head teacher will be sentenced at a date to be fixed.\n\nPolice officers found the bodies of mother-of-three Ms Hancock and father-of-two Mr Griffiths in the house.\n\nAn inquest heard both had suffered multiple stab wounds and there was a blunt trauma injury to Ms Hancock's right eye.\n\nA previous court hearing was told Hancock had found out about his wife's new relationship on 26 December.\n\nRhys Hancock will be sentenced at a later date\n\nHancock's mother had called police just after 04:00 warning them he had left the house with two knives after earlier telling her he \"felt like killing them\".\n\nA phone operator tried to call Ms Hancock's mobile number but it went to voicemail.\n\nFollowing the husband's call, a police dog handler was the first to arrive at the scene and ordered Hancock to the floor before arresting him.\n\nBoth victims were found in a bedroom with multiple stab wounds.\n\nMr Griffiths had already died but paramedics battled for more than 15 minutes to resuscitate Ms Hancock before she was pronounced dead.\n\nA pathologist's report quoted at her inquest stated: \"A knife was recovered from the abdomen. The whole of the knife being within the body.\"\n\nMs Hancock and Mr Griffiths were found at a house in Duffield\n\nA close friend of Ms Hancock, who worked as a PE teacher in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, said she had been \"loving life\" in the months leading up to the killings and had climbed Snowdon with her new partner just days before they died.\n\nHer family described her as \"a lovely, beautiful, friendly, bubbly and social person\".\n\nThe family of Mr Griffiths said he was \"a lovely dad, husband, son, brother and uncle who had a passion for adventure, running and a love of animals\".\n\nThe case had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) due to contact between Derbyshire Police and Ms Hancock in the period leading up to the murders.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"We are close to finalising our investigation and we will consider releasing our findings when all associated proceedings, including coronial, have been concluded.\"\n\nThey added the police contact related to \"a number of domestic incidents over a period of time\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The ambulance crew were on a call at a property in Stephens Close, Wolverhampton\n\nTwo paramedics have been stabbed while attending a call to check on the welfare of a man.\n\nThe victims, a man and a woman, were described as stable in hospital after being hurt at a property in Stephens Close, Wolverhampton.\n\nThe crew used their emergency alert shortly after arriving at the scene.\n\nA man who was Tasered by police was also treated for injuries by ambulance staff. Officers said a man aged 52 has been arrested.\n\nHe has been held on suspicion of wounding.\n\nThe paramedics were conducting \"a safe and well check\" at about 12:30 BST when they were attacked.\n\nWest Midlands Police said an officer who had accompanied the crew arrested a man at the scene.\n\nPolice have arrested a man over the attack\n\nThe ambulance staff sustained one stab wound each, one in the chest and one to the side.\n\nAssistant Chief Ambulance Officer Nathan Hudson said: \"Thankfully, our colleagues at [West Midlands Police] saved them from more serious injury.\"\n\nMr Hudson said without the quick response of police, he \"would probably have been telling a very different story today\".\n\nHe reported the paramedics were \"doing well\" in Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and \"stable, without serious life-threatening injuries\".\n\nNeighbour Anita Millard, 65, said a man lived alone at the property and it had been his elderly mother who had first raised concerns for his welfare after he failed to answer the door.\n\nMs Millard described how two paramedics arrived along with two police officers and managed to gain entry by removing a door panel with a screwdriver borrowed from a neighbour.\n\nShe said: \"The police asked the man's mother to step back and then the girl paramedic went in, followed by the other medic.\n\n\"Then all I heard was a blood-curdling scream. He had two knives.\n\n\"The male paramedic then came backwards out the house and he shouted into his radio 'help, help, we've both been stabbed'.\n\n\"Then he pushed the female paramedic backwards towards the side gate, and away from it all.\n\n\"The guy was stood in the porch holding these knives. Then the police came in and shouted 'Taser' and they Tasered him.\"\n\nThe paramedics are in a stable condition with \"serious injuries\"\n\nThree additional ambulances, two Midlands air ambulances and the West Midlands Care Team responded to the stabbing, along with three paramedic officers.\n\nThe victims were treated at the scene in the Ashmore Park area of the city before being taken to hospital.\n\nPolice described the attack as \"a shocking incident\"\n\nNeighbour Anita Millard said a man lived alone at the property\n\nSupt Simon Inglis, from Wolverhampton police, said: \"This is a shocking incident resulting in serious injuries to two of our blue light colleagues.\n\n\"We are treating it as an isolated incident and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\"\n\nThe force said its thoughts were with the paramedic officers and their families.\n\nThanking his staff, Mr Hudson said: \"They did an unbelievable job in very difficult circumstances.\"\n\nSpeaking on Twitter, an acting operations manager for the service said: \"This has made me feel sick... No one should come to work and suffer such harm. Especially when they've come to help people.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Moore #HelpUsHelpYou This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow 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.\n\nBoris Johnson has been accused of trying to shift the blame for coronavirus deaths onto care homes.\n\nThe prime minister said on Monday that \"too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures\".\n\nHis words sparked fury in the care home sector, with one charity boss calling them \"clumsy and cowardly\".\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock said care homes had done \"amazing work\" during the crisis and rejected Labour calls to apologise for the PM's remark.\n\n\"The PM was explaining that because asymptomatic transmission was not known about, the correct procedures were therefore not known,\" Mr Hancock said in the House of Commons.\n\nHe said the government had been been \"constantly learning about this virus from the start and improving procedures all the way through\".\n\nAppearing in the House of Lords, Communities Minister Lord Greenhalgh admitted that the guidance given to care homes during the early stages of the pandemic was \"not as clear as it could have been\".\n\nAnd a No 10 spokesman said the PM would not be apologising for his remarks, and said the government had \"put in place rigorous testing and additional funding\".\n\nBut Mark Adams, who runs the charity Community Integrated Care, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the prime minister's comments were \"cowardly\" and a \"travesty of leadership\".\n\nHe added: \"If this is genuinely his view, I think we're almost entering a Kafkaesque alternative reality where the government sets the rules, we follow them, they don't like the results, they then deny setting the rules and blame the people that were trying to do their best.\"\n\nNearly 20,000 people are confirmed to have died of coronavirus in care homes in England and Wales since the beginning of the outbreak.\n\nThe National Care Forum said Mr Johnson's remarks were \"frankly hugely insulting\" to care workers.\n\nVic Rayner, executive director of the forum which represents 120 social care charities, told BBC Newsnight that care homes followed the guidance \"to the letter\" but the government's attention was focused on hospitals.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth urged the government to apologise for the prime minister's \"crass remarks\".\n\n\"Care providers were sent conflicting guidance throughout this outbreak, staff could not access testing until mid-April and are still not tested routinely, PPE supplies have been inadequate, thousands of families have lost their loved ones in care homes to this disease, care workers themselves have died on the front line,\" he said during an urgent question to Mr Hancock in the Commons.\n\n\"Can he understand why people are so insulted by the PM's remarks when he said too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures?\"\n\nBehind the scenes in the government, there is a frustration the care sector has escaped largely blame free from the crisis.\n\nCare homes are not government-run. On the whole they are owned and operated by private firms.\n\nAs you would expert in a network of more than 14,000 homes there is a variation in performances and practices.\n\nNot all care homes have seen outbreaks - and that, of course, means questions should be asked. But the sector is right to complain that guidance, certainly at the start, was changing all the time.\n\nThe big national effort on PPE was focused on the NHS, leaving some homes severely lacking in equipment as their supply chains dried up or could not cope.\n\nThe roll-out of testing was slow - it is only now that residents and staff are to get regular testing, vital if those who are infected but don't show symptoms are to be spotted.\n\nThis virus is very tricky to contain and the UK is not alone in struggling to protect care homes.\n\nBut no debate would be complete without mention of funding.\n\nThe overhaul of the system has been talked about for years, but nothing has been done, leaving some services in a precarious position. The virus has certainly exploited that.\n\nIt comes as the Care England, the largest body representing independent care homes, accused the government of dragging its feet over issuing new guidance for visitors to care homes.\n\nChief executive Martin Green said: \"We are at a loss to know why the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is incapable of making swift decisions at a time of crisis.\n\n\"As the country unlocks, care providers are in the dark as to what is permissible in terms of visitors to their residents, or indeed residents leaving their homes on visits.\n\n\"This should have been a priority for the DHSC given that care homes are central to fighting this dreadful pandemic\".\n\nImelda Redmond - the national director of Healthwatch England which champions health and social care users - told BBC Radio 4 that \"the issues that underlie all of this have been there for a long time\".\n\n\"There has been underinvestment in social care for many years - and there needs to be quite significant amounts of reform - all those fault lines have been laid bare in this pandemic.\n\n\"We need to get a grip to this before we enter winter and perhaps a second wave.\"\n\nNHS England head Sir Simon Stevens told the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday that coronavirus had shone a \"very harsh spotlight\" on the \"resilience\" of the care system.\n\nAsked on Monday about Sir Simon's comments, Mr Johnson said: \"One of the things the crisis has shown is we need to think about how we organise our social care package better and how we make sure we look after people better who are in social care.\n\n\"We discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they could have but we're learning lessons the whole time.\"\n\nAhead of December's election, the Conservatives pledged an extra £1bn per year for social care in England over the next five years.\n\nThe government has given an extra £3.2bn in emergency Covid-19 funds to English councils, which can be put towards helping with social care costs.\n\nMinisters have also promised an additional £600m for care homes to help with controlling infections.\n\nHow do you think care homes have handled the coronavirus crisis? 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.", "Charlie Elphicke is charged with three counts of sexual assault\n\nA former Conservative MP accused of sexual assault \"groped\" a woman in his home before chanting \"I'm a naughty Tory\", a court has heard.\n\nCharlie Elphicke, the former MP for Dover, faces one count of sexual assault in 2007, and two further counts against a second woman in 2016.\n\nThe 49-year-old's wife, Natalie Elphicke, who is the current MP for Dover, was present for his trial at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nProsecutor Eloise Marshall QC told jurors there were \"striking similarities\" between the two alleged events.\n\nOne involved a woman in her 30s, the other was a Parliamentary worker in her 20s, the court was told.\n\nMs Marshall said both women had rejected Mr Elphicke.\n\nEloise Marshall said the women accusing Mr Elphicke came forward to police following the publication in 2017 of a list of names of MPs alleged to have acted inappropriately.\n\nShe told the court how the 2007 allegation involved a woman who said she was \"flattered\" to be invited to have a drink with Mr Elphicke at his home.\n\nMs Marshall said Mr Elphicke began asking about sexual preferences and whether she liked \"leather\".\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"She says he said something along the lines of, 'he likes bondage and whips'.\"\n\nMs Marshall said the woman was told to come towards Mr Elphicke so he could top up her wine glass.\n\nHe then assaulted her on the sofa, reaching into her top to grope her breast and trying to kiss her, the jurors were told.\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"She immediately shouted: 'No!'\"\n\nShe said: \"He was chanting in a sing-song way: 'I'm a naughty Tory, I'm a naughty Tory', as though it was the school playground.\"\n\nThe woman said Mr Elphicke chased her around the home, trying to smack her bottom.\n\nThe second alleged victim, a parliamentary worker, was said to have been employed in her \"dream job\" when she found herself in Mr Elphicke's company sharing a bottle of champagne in April 2016, the court heard.\n\nMs Marshall said the witness described how Mr Elphicke allegedly assaulted her in Westminster.\n\nThe young woman said: \"He fully came at me, pulled his body towards me.\n\n\"He had his face on (her) face. He had his mouth open, continually trying to kiss me. It was like a disgusting slobbery mess.\"\n\nThe prosecutor said the woman \"clearly rejected\" Mr Elphicke, told him he was married, and that there was a large age gap.\n\nThe prosecutor told the court the former MP allegedly \"grabbed her hands and tried to kiss her again\", adding that the alleged victim \"knew she had to get out of there\".\n\nMr Elphicke then allegedly behaved as if nothing had happened and went on to put his arms inside her coat.\n\nMs Marshall told jurors he said to the woman: \"Oh I'm naughty sometimes aren't I? I can be so badly behaved but I can't help it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The decision to allow the group to disembark follows a week of tension on board the ship\n\nItaly has given permission for 180 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean to disembark from a charity-run ship.\n\nThe decision comes after a stand-off that lasted more than a week.\n\nThe Ocean Viking, operated by rescue group SOS Méditerranée, declared a state of emergency on Friday, citing fears for the safety of both migrants and crew.\n\nThe migrants are set to be transferred to a government vessel in Sicily on Monday and will quarantine for 14 days.\n\nMedics have already tested those on the Ocean Viking for Covid-19. Results are expected on Monday.\n\nThe migrants are from a range of countries including Pakistan, Eritrea and Nigeria. They had fled the coast of Libya when they were rescued in four separate groups between 25 and 30 June.\n\nThey include 25 minors, most of whom are unaccompanied by adults and two women, including one who is pregnant.\n\nThe ship had been awaiting permission to allow the passengers off the vessel in either Italy or Malta.\n\nThe migrants were rescued while fleeing the coast of Libya\n\nAs time went on, those on board had become desperate to reach land - while others, unable to contact friends and family to let them know they were safe, had become distraught, AFP news agency reports.\n\nA doctor for SOS Méditerranée said he had noted \"enormous psychological discomfort on the ship\", where the situation was \"almost out of control, for guests and crew\".\n\nOne crew member said there had been a series of fights and threats of suicide.\n\nAn Italian interior ministry source told AFP that a medical team had been sent to the ship ahead of disembarkation.\n\n\"We're very happy! We've come a long way, Libya was like hell and now at least we can see the end. I need to tell my family that I'm still alive,\" said one passenger, 27-year-old Rabiul from Bangladesh.\n\nSOS Méditerranée wrote on Twitter that the \"unnecessary delay of this disembarkation has put lives at risk\".\n\nMore than 110,000 migrants tried to cross the Mediterranean last year. More than 1,200 died during the attempt, according to the International Organisation for Migration.\n\nThe UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, says that more than 24,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe by sea during the first six months of this year, although it is thought that warmer weather during summer could lead to an increase in the number of attempts.", "A woman who has been shielding since the start of lockdown has finally met her baby grandson for the first time.\n\nDiana Higman, from Allestree, Derby is in the \"extremely vulnerable\" category and has been isolating since the start of lockdown. She had a liver transplant 12 years ago and takes medication to suppress her immune system.\n\nSince the transplant, she has become a champion Team GB transplant cyclist and she has kept herself occupied by continuing training in her back garden.\n\nShe has now formed a support bubble with her daughter Jessica and grandson Louie.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople in Scotland are now able to return to beer gardens and pavement cafes after they opened for the first time in 15 weeks.\n\nBut customers are being warned that al fresco eating and drinking will not be the same as it was before the lockdown.\n\nAs well as following strict distancing and hygiene rules, they will have to leave their contact details so they can be traced in the event of an outbreak.\n\nPubs and restaurants should be able to welcome customers indoors from 15 July.\n\nThat will be part of phase three of the Scottish government's route map out of lockdown, which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is expected to confirm on Thursday.\n\nBusiness owners warned that their biggest hurdle could be persuading customers that it was safe to go out to eat and drink.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had been \"impressed\" with safety precautions that had been put in place at an Edinburgh beer garden she visited, thanking businesses for \"working hard\" to prepare for re-opening.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut she said her \"biggest worry\" was \"complacency\" about coronavirus setting in, and warned: \"This virus has not gone away.\"\n\nShe said: \"If you're out somewhere and there are no clear safety measures in place, you should consider leaving or not going in in the first place.\n\n\"If it feels exactly like it was before this pandemic, then something is wrong and measures are not being properly implemented.\"\n\nDiners will be asked to use their smartphone to scan the QR code to see a menu\n\nAt the Cold Town House in Edinburgh's Grassmarket, customers must make a reservation to secure a table in their outdoor dining area.\n\nParty sizes are limited to six people from two households and they can spend a maximum of one hour and 45 minutes at their table.\n\nOn arrival, staff will take the contact details of everyone in the group and explain various additional health and safety measures.\n\nThey will ask them how they want to be served - perhaps by someone wearing a face guard, or at a distance from the table.\n\nNic Wood spoke to the first minister at his venue in the Grassmarket\n\nAnd they will be able to view the menu on their smartphones after accessing it via a QR code.\n\nNic Wood, the managing director of parent company Signature Pubs, said it was important to show customers that they were open and safe.\n\nBut he said they were facing a \"huge hurdle\" in convincing people to return to the hospitality industry.\n\n\"It's very worrying how quiet Edinburgh city centre, the Grassmarket, is at the moment,\" he added.\n\n\"Trying to persuade people to come back when they have been told to stay at home and not to socialise is the biggest job by far to overcome.\"\n\nThe opening of beer gardens and outdoor cafes comes after a series of lockdown measures were lifted, including the five mile recreational travel rule for all but part of Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nChildren under 11 no longer have to physically distance from each other or from adults, meaning they can now hug their grandparents.\n\nNon-essential shops have also reopened but from Friday it will be mandatory for almost everyone to wear a face covering in stores.\n\nThe first minister has also outlined plans to reduce the 2m distancing rule to 1m in certain circumstances and with safeguards.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she was keen to restart the economy but nervous about relaxing restrictions.\n\n\"All of us want to see the economy moving again, all of us want to see life return to as close to normal as is possible, but that will only be possible if we all act in a way that keeps the virus at bay,\" she said.\n\n\"Because if it starts to run out of control again, then we have to go back to square one.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the outbreak in the area around Annan and Gretna in Dumfries and Galloway showed how infectious the virus was.\n\nShe said people should look out for the new safety measures in beer gardens and cafes and follow the FACTS safety guidance when out in the community.\n\nStaff wore protective visors as they served pints at the SWG3 beer garden in Glasgow\n\nTables were filling up at the Outhouse in Edinburgh on Monday\n\nEmma McLarkin of the Scottish Beer and Pub Association said Monday marked an important milestone, but said most pubs will be waiting until the reopening of indoor areas on 15 July.\n\n\"Things will be a little different with added mitigation measures to help protect customers and ensure they feel safe, but they will still be the same places we all know and love,\" she said.\n\n\"We all have a shared interest in continuing to suppress the virus and the pub sector is definitely ready to play our part in welcoming our customers back responsibly.\"\n\nMeanwhile planning regulations are being temporarily relaxed to allow pubs, restaurants and cafes to use areas such as public footpaths for seating and structures like open-sided gazebos.\n\nPlanning minister Kevin Stewart said the government wanted to ensure the industry could comply with distancing measures and provide a safe and pleasant environment for customers.\n• None Do you still need to take Covid tests?", "A case of a rare brain-eating amoeba has been confirmed in Florida, according to health officials in the US state.\n\nThe Florida Department of Health (DOH) said one person in Hillsborough County had contracted Naegleria fowleri.\n\nThe microscopic, single-celled amoeba can cause an infection of the brain, and is usually fatal.\n\nCommonly found in warm freshwater, the amoeba enters the body through the nose.\n\nThe DOH did not outline where the infection was contracted, or the patient's condition. The amoeba cannot be passed from person to person.\n\nInfections are typically seen in southern US states. They are rare in Florida, where only 37 cases have been reported since 1962.\n\nBut given the potentially deadly consequences of infection, the DOH issued a warning to residents of Hillsborough County on 3 July.\n\nHealth officials urged locals to avoid nasal contact with water from taps and other sources.\n\nThis includes bodies of open water such as lakes, rivers, ponds and canals, where infections are more likely in the warmer summer months of July, August and September.\n\nThose infected with Naegleria fowleri have symptoms including fever, nausea and vomiting, as well as a stiff neck and headaches. Most die within a week.\n\nThe DOH has urged people who experience those symptoms to \"seek medical attention right away, as the disease progresses rapidly\".\n\n\"Remember, this disease is rare and effective prevention strategies can allow for a safe and relaxing summer swim season,\" the DOH said.\n\nNaegleria fowleri infections are rare in the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nBetween 2009 and 2018, only 34 infections were reported in the country. Of those cases, 30 people were infected by recreational water, three after performing nasal irrigation with contaminated tap water, and one person was infected by contaminated tap water used on a backyard slip-n-slide, the CDC said.", "British sprinter Bianca Williams said she had \"never had to experience anything like this\", after being stopped by police in her car in London.\n\nWilliams, 26, and her partner Ricardo dos Santos have accused the Metropolitan Police of racial profiling and acting violently towards them.\n\n\"It's a really sad world that we live in and if it's not one black man, it's another black man,\" a tearful Williams said on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nWilliams said she and Dos Santos - who had their three-month-old son in the car - are considering legal action.\n\nShe added: \"It was just weird that we were treated that way and what hurt me the most was me being dragged away from my son.\"\n\nWilliams and Portuguese 400m record holder Dos Santos, 25, fear they were targeted because they are black and drive a Mercedes.\n• None When can police stop and search you?\n\nPolice say the vehicle had been on the wrong side of the road and the driver sped off when asked to stop.\n\nOfficers were patrolling in the Maida Vale area because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nA police statement said: \"Officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards have reviewed both footage from social media, and the body-worn video of the officers, and are satisfied that there is no concern around the officers' conduct.\"\n\nHowever, Williams - who says she has been left \"really shaken\" by the incident - insists \"at no point did we drive on the wrong side of the road or speed off\".\n\n\"We didn't want to get out of the car because of how their behaviour was, they had batons ready and it is very scary, you worry about your life when the police are acting that way, we had a baby in the car,\" the European and Commonwealth relay gold medallist said.\n\n\"My partner got dragged out of the car, they handcuffed him straight away and pinned him up against the wall... I didn't want to be separated from my three-month-old son and they then put me in handcuffs straight away too.\n\n\"It's just nasty and the police were talking to him [Ricardo] as if he was scum, as if his life didn't matter.\n\n\"The police always say to him you look like someone we're looking for, how can you afford a £60,000 car, you look very suspicious.\"\n\nDos Santos and Williams say police handcuffed them while their son was in the car and carried out a search that lasted 45 minutes.\n\nVideo of the incident showed them protesting that they had done nothing wrong and Williams screaming \"my son is in the car\".\n\nDos Santos, who plans to meet lawyers on Monday, said he had been stopped by police as many as 15 times since they changed their car to a Mercedes in November 2017.\n\nOn Monday, British Athletics released a statement about the incident, saying: \"We are aware of the hugely distressing footage of Bianca Williams and her partner being handcuffed by the police outside their home yesterday.\n\n\"Our staff have been in touch with her and will be on hand for any support required.\"\n\nThe police statement said that at about 13:25 BST on Saturday, officers from the Territorial Support Group \"witnessed a vehicle with blacked-out windows that was driving suspiciously, including driving on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nThe statement added: \"They indicated for it to stop but it failed to do so and made off at speed. The officers caught up with the vehicle when it stopped on Lanhill Road. The driver initially refused to get out of the car.\"\n\nThey searched Williams and Dos Santos, and the vehicle. Nothing was found and no arrests were made.\n\nThe incident was first raised on social media by their coach, 1992 Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who accused the police of abusing their power and institutionalised racism.\n\nWilliams, the fifth-fastest British woman in history over 200m, and Dos Santos said a written report given to them by police did not mention driving on the wrong side of the road, and that where they stopped is a single car-width road.\n\nWhen can the police stop and search you?\n\nIn most cases in England and Wales, police can only stop and search you (or your vehicle) if they have \"reasonable grounds\" that you might be carrying:\n• None Something that could be used to carry out a crime, like a crowbar\n\nReasonable grounds for stopping someone cannot be based on race or whether the person is a known criminal.\n\nInstead, officers must base it on current intelligence (has there been a recent crime in the area, for example) and make balanced judgement calls on the behaviour of the suspect.\n\nIn this case, the Metropolitan Police says there had been an increase in violent crime in the area and that the car in question was driving suspiciously. Bianca Williams denies this.\n\nIf you are stopped, you have a number of rights. This includes being told the reason why you are being stopped, what they expect to find on you and information on how to receive records of the search.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People have been applauding the NHS in a range of locations\n\nThe prime minister has joined a nationwide applause to pay tribute to NHS staff on the 72nd anniversary of the health service.\n\nThe round of clapping was inspired by the weekly Clap for Carers initiative to thank key workers during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson said he celebrated with staff who \"quite simply, saved my life\" after he caught the virus.\n\nIt is hoped the anniversary applause will become an annual tradition.\n\nSpeaking after applauding outside Downing Street, Boris Johnson tweeted: \"Thank you to the whole NHS family and all of our carers for all you have done and continue to do to keep us well and cared for.\n\n\"In these past few months, indeed the past 72 years, you have represented the very best of this country. Our gratitude to you will be eternal.\"\n\nHe later added in a statement that he had marked the occasion with staff from St Thomas' Hospital, who cared for him when he was admitted to hospital with coronavirus in April.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson took part in the clap from outside Downing Street\n\nA World War Two Spitfire plane with the words \"Thank U NHS\" painted on its underside tipped its wings above hospitals and the homes of fundraisers and volunteers, recognising the way people have supported the NHS and local communities during the pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the celebrations were \"very personal for me\" as his late mother was a nurse and later relied on the health service when she became ill.\n\nHe said: \"Many, many times she got gravely ill and it was the NHS that she turned to, and I remember as a boy, a teenager, being in high dependency units, in intensive care units, with my mum, watching nurses and other support staff keep my mum alive.\n\n\"They did that on more than one occasion - it's etched in my memory. For them, it was just the day job. They were doing that every day.\"\n\nLeeds General Infirmary workers joined in to mark the health service's 72nd anniversary\n\nMembers of the public came together - at a safe distance - to share the moment\n\nThe National Health Service was launched on 5 July 1948, with the core principle that it is free at the point of delivery and is based on clinical need.\n\nAs part of a weekend of anniversary events, UK landmarks were lit up blue in celebration and remembrance on Saturday.\n\nDowning Street, the Royal Albert Hall, Blackpool Tower, the Shard and the Wembley Arch were all illuminated and a minute's silence was held to remember those who have died during the pandemic.\n\nThe latest government figures, released on Sunday, showed a further 22 people had died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 44,220.\n\nPeople were also asked to place lights in their windows in a show of remembrance on Saturday night, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, lighting a candle in Canterbury Cathedral.\n\nA World War Two Spitfire plane flew over hospitals in Cambridge\n\nFirst Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon was among officials joining in with the nationwide applause on Sunday evening.\n\nIn a video message she said the country was \"depending more than ever\" on its health and care workers, and thanked them \"from the bottom of my heart\".\n\nFirst Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said NHS staff and social care workers were \"all heroes\".\n\nAnd Captain Tom Moore - who raised more than £32m for the health service by walking laps of his garden during lockdown - shared a video of himself clapping from his armchair at home in Bedfordshire.\n\nThe idea for Sunday's round of applause was inspired by the success of the weekly Clap for Carers, which saw households across the country show their appreciation for the NHS and other key workers during the lockdown.\n\nEarlier, Liverpool FC players applauded key workers ahead of their Premier League match against Aston Villa\n\nPeople clapped in Tredegar in south Wales - the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, the health service's founding father\n\nAnnemarie Plas, who founded the Clap for Carers initiative, joined Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside No 10 for the clap at 17:00 BST.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on Sunday morning, she said: \"We have had this first part of the crisis, we don't know what lies ahead, so if we can have this one moment where we say thank you to each other and recharge our batteries for what may be a heavier time that lies ahead, then I think that is a beautiful moment.\"\n\nShe said the NHS helped her when she arrived in the UK from the Netherlands as a new mother, \"so I feel very happy to be in touch with the NHS this way\".\n\nAnnemarie Plas, who founded the Clap for Carers, clapped alongside the prime minister in Downing Street\n\nSunday's applause (pictured) was inspired by the weekly Clap for Carers which took place at the height of the coronavirus lockdown\n\nMs Plas added that the celebrations were \"not just about the NHS\" but about others who have also \"sacrificed so much\" during the pandemic - such as \"delivery workers, teachers, parents, good neighbours\".\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge praised healthcare workers on a visit to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk.\n\nThe couple chatted to staff and volunteers about how they coped during the first wave of the epidemic.\n\nDuke and Duchess of Cambridge visited a hospital near their home in Anmer, Norfolk\n\nThe Prince of Wales paid tribute to staff working through \"the most testing time in the service's history\".\n\nIn a video message to mark the occasion, Prince Charles spoke of his gratitude and pride for the \"costly sacrifices\" of NHS staff.\n\n\"Despite all that has been endured, there is deep cause for gratitude, and a true reason for pride,\" he said.\n\nThe prince also said the pandemic had brought out the best in people, adding: \"This renewal of our community spirit has been a silver lining during this dark time.\"\n\nTwo dogs outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital were dressed for the occasion\n\nThe Shard in London was one of the many landmarks lit up blue on Saturday\n\nSpeaking at a rally celebrating seven decades of the health service, Labour leader Sir Keir said NHS staff needed a pay rise in the wake of the pandemic.\n\n\"It's very important that we don't just say thanks, but recognise in a meaningful way what the NHS has done,\" he said.\n\nHis comments come after unions representing more than 1.3 million nurses, cleaners, physiotherapists, healthcare assistants, dieticians, radiographers, porters, midwives, paramedics and other NHS employees wrote to the chancellor and the prime minister calling for pay talks to start soon.\n\nMeanwhile, about 100 protesters gathered at Marble Arch in London, calling for the end of racial disparity in the health system.\n\nProtesters gathered at Marble Arch before moving to Downing Street\n\nOne of the organisers, Tyrek Morris, 21, told the crowd: \"We are protesting for black lives and one of the demands we have is to abolish the racial disparity within the NHS, especially towards black women.\n\n\"We need to implement extensive measures to prevent the disproportionate suffering of black women in healthcare and bring to an end the significantly increased black maternal mortality rate.\"\n\nHow are you marking the anniversary of the NHS? 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:", "Nicole Smallman (left) and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nAn 18-year-old man has appeared in court accused of murdering two sisters who were stabbed to death in a park.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found in Fryent Country Park in Wembley on 7 June.\n\nThe sisters had met up with friends in the north-west London park two days earlier to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday.\n\nDanyal Hussein appeared at the Old Bailey via video-link charged with their murders.\n\nHe is also charged with possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMr Hussein, of Blackheath, was remanded in custody ahead of his next court appearance on 21 September.\n\nProsecutor Joel Smith told the court it was an \"unprovoked and random attack on two members of the public involving the use of a knife\".\n\nDanyal Hussein will next appear at the Old Bailey in September\n\nNone of the victims' family attended court for the brief hearing.\n\nPolice previously released pictures of senior social worker Ms Henry, from Brent, and photographer Ms Smallman, from Harrow, dancing with fairy lights before they were killed.\n\nImages recovered from the sisters' phones showed them dancing with fairy lights at the party\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many young people 'no longer advised to shield'\n\nThe vast majority of children will no longer need to shield from the end of this month, England's deputy chief medical officer has said. Dr Jenny Harries has backed guidance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) which says that most young people with conditions such as asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, and kidney disease do not need to continue to shield and could, for example, go back to school. The government has now said the majority of children in England who are currently considered extremely clinical vulnerable to Covid-19 will be able to be removed from the shielded patient list over the summer. Data from NHS Digital shows 92,633 children under the age of 18 were on the shielded list. Dr Harries said: \"As our understanding of this novel virus has developed, evidence shows most children and young people are at low risk of serious illness and will no longer be advised to shield after July.\"", "Joshua Wong became the face of a 2014 protest movement in Hong Kong\n\nHe first rose to prominence as the face of a protest movement that swept Hong Kong in 2014.\n\nBut Joshua Wong wants the world to know he's not gone away. Earlier this month, the pro-democracy activist made a reappearance at the 2019 anti-extradition bill rallies in Hong Kong after an early release from jail.\n\nBut who exactly is this 23-year-old that's become a poster child for political activism?\n\nBorn as a dyslexic child with reading and writing difficulties, Mr Wong overcame these obstacles, with the help of his mother, to enrol in a Political Science and Public Administration degree at an open university.\n\nBut his activism started when he was just 14 - demonstrating against plans to build a high-speed rail link between Hong Kong and the mainland.\n\nTwo years later, he had set up the then pro-democracy student activist group Scholarism, successfully challenged the government and was firmly in the limelight.\n\nIn 2012 he rallied more than 100,000 people to protest against Hong Kong's plans to implement mandatory \"patriotic education\" in schools.\n\nJoshua Wong's political activism started when he was just a young teenager\n\nFaced with the sheer size of the crowds, a few of whom went on hunger strike, then-Chief Executive CY Leung was forced to abandon the idea. It was his first run-in with Mr Wong.\n\nBy 2014 his profile was so high, Joshua Wong held a press conference to announce his university entrance exam results.\n\nMr Wong told reporters the whole event made him \"uncomfortable\".\n\nThough he was only eight months old when Hong Kong's sovereignty was handed to China by the UK, Joshua Wong remains passionate about addressing the strictures Beijing has imposed on his home.\n\nIn late September 2014, Mr Wong led protesters in occupying a forecourt outside government headquarters.\n\nThe next day more than 60 were arrested, among them Mr Wong, who was held for 40 hours. His arrest galvanised the flagging demonstrators and tens of thousands flocked to the area to join the cause.\n\nIt was in 2014 when Joshua Wong really made his name as a pro-democracy activist\n\nIt was these protests - commonly referred to as the Umbrella Movement - that really thrust him into the limelight and cemented his role as a pro-democracy activist.\n\nBut even then Mr Wong questioned his new status as protest leader. In an essay posted on his Facebook page (in Chinese) he wrote: \"Many citizens have said to me that 'Hong Kong relies on you.'\"\n\n\"I feel uncomfortable and even irritated when I hear this praise. When you were suffering pepper spray and tear gas but decided to stay for the protest despite the repression from the government, I was not able to do anything other than stare at a meal box and the blank walls of the detention room and feel powerless.\"\n\nMr Wong was eventually jailed for his role in the Umbrella Movement.\n\nAfter a short stint in prison following a series of appeals, he was released in June this year - in time to join the 2019 protests in Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland China.\n\nJoshua Wong joined the 2019 protests shortly after his release from jail\n\nHe joined thousands of people who hit the streets in protests, saying he was ready to \"join the fight\" against the extradition bill.\n\nBorn into a middle-class family to parents Grace and Roger, Mr Wong has said his family taught him about social injustice but are far from radical.\n\nBut fellow activist Nathan Law, who went on to establish pro-democracy party Demosisto with Mr Wong and others, said there was a rift between Mr Wong and his father.\n\n\"Joshua comes from a very religious family background and is known to be Christian. His father [who is a]... vocal anti LGBT activist... on several occasions he has directly spoken out against his father's position,\" Mr Law told the BBC's Radio 4.\n\n\"But otherwise his father is very supportive of his activism.\"\n\nAccording to Mr Law, who met Mr Wong during the 2014 protests, the latter was mature even from a young age.\n\n\"He was really young [when we met] but I could feel maturity from him and how experienced he [was] in terms of social movements. We always described Joshua as a robot because he [works] from early morning to late [at] night,\" he said.\n\n\"He has unlimited energy and he can always make people feel energetic and hopeful.\"", "Boohoo has said it will investigate one of its suppliers following reports that staff are earning less than the minimum wage amid unsafe working conditions.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that workers at a factory in Leicester making clothes for Boohoo's Nasty Gal brand could expect to be paid £3.50 an hour.\n\nIt also saw little evidence of measures to stop the spread of coronavirus at a time when Leicester is in lockdown.\n\nBoohoo said if the report is true, conditions were \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nIt comes as the National Crime Agency confirmed it was investigating Leicester's textiles industry over allegations of exploitation, although it did not comment on Boohoo specifically.\n\nAn NCA spokesman said: \"Within the last few days NCA officers, along with Leicestershire Police and other partner agencies, attended a number of business premises in the Leicester area to assess concerns of modern slavery and human trafficking.\"\n\nThe factory at the centre of the Sunday Times allegations displayed the sign Jaswal Fashions. However, that firm said it had ceased trading in 2018 and was not a supplier to Boohoo.\n\nBoohoo also said that Jaswal was not one of its declared suppliers and it appeared that a different firm was using Jaswal's former premises.\n\n\"We are currently trying to establish the identity of this company,\" Boohoo said.\n\n\"We are taking immediate action to thoroughly investigate how our garments were in their hands, will ensure that our suppliers immediately cease working with this company, and we will urgently review our relationship with any suppliers who have sub-contracted work to the manufacturer in question.\"\n\nJaswal Fashions has made clothes for Nasty Gal, which is owned by Boohoo\n\nAn undercover reporter for the Sunday Times, who got a job at Jaswal Fashions, was told to expect pay of between £3.50 and £4.00 an hour.\n\nThe national minimum wage for people over 25 years-old is £8.72 an hour.\n\nFew workers at the factory - which was operating during the localised lockdown in Leicester - were found to be wearing face masks to guard against the transmission of the coronavirus.\n\nThere was also no evidence that social distancing measures had been implemented.\n\nBoohoo said that earlier this year it had begun a review of all its garment-makers, including \"a full audit of all of our suppliers' manufacturing facilities\".\n\nBut former MP Mary Creagh, who investigated the UK's fast-fashion garment industry as chairwoman of the Commons' environmental audit committee, said policing the sector was difficult.\n\n\"When you think there are 10,000 workers, there are hundreds of factories and the tendency is when one factory is shut down it just springs up again in a sort of phoenix factory approach,\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"They are shut down by authorities on Friday and they start up in a different building with a different name on Monday morning and this is the problem. It is a really difficult issue to tackle, the problem is the system not just the enforcement.\"\n\nBoohoo's share price tumbled by more than 16% on Monday following the expose.\n\nThe firm is already under fire after Labour Behind the Label, a workers' rights group, claimed that some employees at factories in Leicester that supply the fast fashion firm were \"being forced to come into work while sick with Covid-19\".\n\nAt the time Boohoo said it would \"not tolerate any incidence of non-compliance especially in relation to the treatment of workers within our supply chain\".\n\nLeicester is currently under local lockdown following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nAt the weekend, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"very worried about the employment practices in some factories\" in the city.\n\nSales at Boohoo, which trades exclusively online, has surged during the coronavirus lockdown with particular demand for loungewear and so-called athleisure gear.\n\nThe company recently bought the online businesses of Oasis and Warehouse and earlier this year acquired MissPap, Karen Millen and Coast.\n\nPrior to the Covid-19 outbreak, sales for the year to February rose by 44% to £1.2bn and pre-tax profits grew 54% to £92.2m.\n\nBoohoo's co-founders Mahmud Kamani and Carole Kane were both paid more than £1.3m each for the last financial year.\n\nThey could also share in a bonus of up to £150m if certain performance goals are met by 2023.", "\"I hope that the people I've hurt will heal,\" said the star.\n\nSinger-songwriter Ryan Adams has written a lengthy apology for his past behaviour, a year after he faced allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\n\"There are no words to express how bad I feel about the ways I've mistreated people through my life and career,\" the musician said in open letter.\n\n\"All I can say is that I'm sorry.\"\n\nLast year, seven women told the New York Times that Adams had offered to help them with their careers before things became sexual.\n\nOne of them, identified only as \"Ava\", showed reporters more than 3,000 explicit texts she said she exchanged with the star when she was 15 and 16.\n\nThe story also contained accusations of psychological abuse from the musician's former wife, Mandy Moore, who told the paper: \"Music was a point of control for him.\"\n\nAdams' initial response was to threaten legal action, in a tweet that said the newspaper was \"going down\".\n\nHe quickly deleted that message and apologised to anyone he had hurt, \"however unintentionally\"; while his lawyer said Adams \"unequivocally\" denied exchanging inappropriate messages with someone he knew to be underage.\n\nAdams said his new apology was prompted by an extended \"period of isolation and reflection\" during lockdown.\n\n\"I've gotten past the point where I would be apologising just for the sake of being let off the hook and I know full well that any apology from me probably won't be accepted by those I've hurt,\" he wrote, in a letter published by the Daily Mail.\n\n\"I get that and I also understand that there's no going back.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that many people would view his statement as \"the same empty apology\" he'd used in the past but added, \"this time it's different\".\n\n\"Having truly realized the harm that I've caused, it wrecked me, and I'm still reeling from the ripples of devastating effects that my actions triggered.\n\n\"No amount of growth will ever take away the suffering I had caused,\" he continued. \"I will never be off the hook and I am fully accountable for my harmful behaviour, and will be for my actions moving forward.\"\n\nAdams also said he was trying to give up alcohol.\n\n\"In my effort to be a better man, I have fought to get sober, but this time I'm doing it with professional help,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Sobriety is a priority in my life, and so is my mental health. These, as I'm learning, go hand in hand.\"\n\n\"I hope that the people I've hurt will heal,\" he concluded. \"And I hope that they will find a way to forgive me.\"\n\nMandy Moore married Adams in 2009, but the couple separated six years later\n\nHowever, Mandy Moore said she was surprised by Adams' public apology, because she had never received one in person.\n\n\"It's challenging because I feel like in many ways I've said all I want to say about him and that situation, but I find it curious that someone would make a public apology but not do it privately,\" she told NBC's Today programme.\n\n\"I am speaking for myself, but I have not heard from him, and I'm not looking for an apology necessarily, but I do find it curious that someone would do an interview about it without actually making amends privately.\"\n\nHer comments were echoed by Courtney Jaye, who appeared in the New York Times story last year, and model / actress Karen Elson, who subsequently described a \"traumatising experience\" with Adams.\n\nIn a series of tweets, Elson said that while she \"believe[s] in redemption and amends even for him,\" Adams \"has not reached out to me since 2018 to apologise for his terrible behaviour.\"\n\n\"In fact back then he called me a liar which added more pain and made me disillusioned with the entire music industry,\" she added.\n\n\"I would like to hope he would contact women he has hurt via his representatives to apologise privately and give us the opportunity to speak our truth on all the ways his actions caused suffering and for him to listen and try to make amends.\"\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\nA prolific and mercurial musician, Adams received multiple Grammy nominations for his second album Gold, and reached the UK Top 10 with the records Ashes & Fire, Prisoner and the self-titled Ryan Adams.\n\nHe has worked with rock legends including Willie Nelson and Elton John, who dubbed him the \"fabulous one\", and famously covered Taylor Swift's album 1989 in full, putting a country-Americana twist on her big pop statement.\n\nAfter the allegations against him surfaced last year, Blue Note cancelled the release of Adams' 18th album Big Colors. He has not released any new music since.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "\"Urgent\" support is needed to prevent \"widespread devastation\", the hospitality sector has warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nAround 120 hospitality and tourism bosses have signed an open letter calling for aid and investment.\n\nThe industry wants to see VAT reduced, tax bills further deferred and some rent debt covered through grants.\n\nBosses say parts of the sector will not survive because some businesses remain closed, despite the easing of lockdown.\n\n\"Hospitality businesses operate with very high fixed costs and labour costs are the only flexible point to absorb this suppressed demand,\" the letter said.\n\n\"Many parts of the late night and leisure economy, as well as activities such as events and conferencing in our hotels, have no provisional date for reopening and this is impacting confidence and undermining job security.\"\n\nLabour is calling for the government to create a £1.7bn \"fightback fund\" to prevent firms in the hospitality industry and on High Streets from going under.\n\nIt wants ministers to give councils more flexibility to tailor support for their local economies and better focus funds on struggling businesses, such as hotels and cafes in coastal communities, as well as conference centres and music venues in towns and cities.\n\nThe Treasury said the government's job retention scheme had protected 9.2 million jobs, adding that the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, had announced a business rates holiday specifically for businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors.\n\nBosses claim that the hospitality and tourism industry have been hardest hit by the crisis, compared to other sectors. They also argue that the impact is likely to last longer than in other sectors, due to social distancing rules, restrictions on business events and lower demand from international tourists.\n\n\"Sales across the sector are expected to be 56% lower than last year, reducing revenues by £73.4bn and half of businesses do not expect to reach break even until the end of next year,\" the hospitality industry warned.\n\nThe hospitality industry says it is confident it can recover and operate safely and responsibly, but it needs help from the government to get there\n\nTrade group UK Hospitality says it is \"confident\" that the industry can return to full strength and still be able to operate safely and responsibly, but it will require help from the government to enable businesses to \"restart and begin to recover\" over the remainder of 2020 and into 2021.\n\nTo that end, bosses have outlined a set of recommendations for the government, which include:\n\nThe hospitality industry stressed in the letter that the sector has a record of creating new jobs following a crisis, and that it can be trusted to do it again, with help from the government.\n\n\"In the decade that followed the financial crisis hospitality consistently created around one in six new jobs thanks in part to the VAT cuts and investment in youth employment and training introduced in the immediate aftermath,\" hospitality bosses wrote.\n\n\"We can do so again. Physical hospitality cannot be replicated digitally online, in the same way that some form of retail can be. We therefore urge you and your colleagues across government to work with us to stimulate demand and support the sector's recovery.\"", "Police officers went to Heol Trelai in Ely, Cardiff following a report of a disturbance\n\nA 15-year-old boy is being treated in hospital after he was stabbed in Cardiff.\n\nThe victim was found after officers responded to a report of a disturbance Heol Trelai, Ely, just before 19:00 BST on Sunday, South Wales Police said.\n\nHis injuries are not life-threatening, the force confirmed.\n\n\"Understandably there is shock... within the community when an incident such as this happens,\" it said, adding tackling knife crime was a priority.\n\nNo arrests have been made and inquiries are ongoing.\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 look back at some of Ennio Morricone's most famous scores\n\nEnnio Morricone, the Italian composer whose credits include the \"spaghetti\" Westerns that made Clint Eastwood a star, has died in Rome aged 91.\n\nAccording to Italian news agency Ansa, he died in hospital having fractured his femur in a fall some days ago.\n\nThe prolific composer also wrote music for Once Upon a Time in America, The Untouchables and Cinema Paradiso.\n\nHaving received an honorary Oscar in 2007, he went on to win one in 2016 for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.\n\nMorricone, who was simply known as \"Maestro\" in his home town of Rome, scored more than 500 films over seven decades.\n\nHe won an Oscar after scoring Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight\n\nYet he remains best known for the haunting melodies he wrote for the trilogy of 1960s westerns Sergio Leone made with the then little-known Eastwood.\n\nA Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly centred around Eastwood's taciturn gunslinger, known as \"The Man With No Name\".\n\nLeone called the composer's contributions \"indispensable\" and would have him write the score before shooting so he could design his shots around Morricone's contributions.\n\nEastwood went on to direct Westerns himself, including the Oscar-winning Unforgiven, but Morricone did not write music for them out of loyalty to Leone.\n\nIn a 2014 interview with the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz he expressed regret for his decision, admitting he had missed out on \"a great opportunity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking in 2014, Ennio Morricone told the BBC he declined to work with Clint Eastwood out of loyalty to Sergio Leone\n\nBefore his win for The Hateful Eight, Morricone received Oscar nominations for Days of Heaven, The Mission, The Untouchables, Bugsy and Malena.\n\nHis death was marked by Italian health minister Roberto Speranza, who tweeted: \"Adieu maestro, and thank you for the emotions you gave us.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on Monday, fellow composer Hans Zimmer said Morricone was \"one of a kind\" and \"an icon\".\n\n\"His music was always outstanding and done with great emotional fortitude and great intellectual thought,\" he continued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Composer Hans Zimmer reflects on the impact that Ennio Morricone had on his career\n\nAccording to director Edgar Wright, Morricone \"could make an average movie into a must see, a good movie into art, and a great movie into legend\".\n\nAuthor Joanne Harris also paid tribute, remembering an encounter with him at the Baftas when all she had been able to utter was \"Sono una fan\" (\"I'm a fan\").\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. Jess Green from Lighthouse Kitchen: \"We could have opened today but chose not to as I think that's the right thing\"\n\nA number of pubs in England have shut after customers tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAt least three establishments announced they had shut their doors again just days after reopening at the weekend.\n\nThey were among hundreds of venues that welcomed customers after three months as lockdown measures were eased - most apparently with no problem.\n\nBut crowds descending in some towns and cities prompted fears social distancing was being disregarded.\n\nThe Lighthouse Kitchen and Carvery in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, said it was \"slowly\" working through a list of customers who had left details at the weekend and that all staff had tested negative for the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The closures come after large crowds of people visited pubs across England, including London's Soho district\n\nIn Batley, West Yorkshire, the Fox and Hounds said a customer had phoned to say they had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile the landlord of the Village Home Pub in Alverstoke, Hampshire, said his team were awaiting test results after someone in a member of staff's \"family bubble\" tested positive.\n\nJess Green, manager of the Lighthouse Kitchen, told BBC Points West she decided to close to \"put everyone's health and safety first\".\n\n\"I felt I had to keep my customers and my staff safe which is why I chose to shut the pub. I'm gutted, but safety comes first.\n\n\"We could have opened today but chose not to as I think that's the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Fox and Hounds in Batley, West Yorkshire, said a customer phoned to say they had tested positive for coronavirus\n\nSaagar takeaway in Burnham will be closed until Friday\n\nIndian takeaway Saagar, also in Burnham, said it would be closing until Friday to undergo a deep clean after one of its drivers had been to the Lighthouse Kitchen, along with bar the Vape Escape, which has also closed for a full clean after a customer's positive test.\n\nLeanne Underhill, owner of the Vape Escape, told burnham-on-sea.com all staff tests had been negative and customers in the bar on Saturday have been contacted, in accordance with government advice.\n\nSomerset County Council said it was not treating the case as an \"outbreak\" and asked people to keep to social distancing guidelines and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe Fox and Hounds said staff had taken tests and the venue would be deep-cleaned prior to reopening.\n\nThe Batley pub said it had taken a number of measures ahead of Saturday's reopening, including limiting numbers allowed inside, a one-way system around the building and a one-in one-out policy on use of toilets.\n\nGeorgia Gosling visited the Fox and Hounds over the weekend and said it had \"all the right procedures in place\" but called the news a \"wake-up call\".\n\n\"We were told to get a test and luckily everyone I know has come back negative,\" she said.\n\nDespite saying she was \"a bit scared to go out now\", Ms Gosling said she would return to the pub once it reopened.\n\n\"I've been going there for years and once they've done a deep clean it's not like it's contagious forever. I'll definitely will go back.\"\n\nThe Lighthouse Kitchen and Carvery in Burnham said it was contacting customers\n\nCustomers of the Village Home who had visited at the weekend have been told there was \"no need to isolate\" unless they showed symptoms or were contacted by tracers.\n\nLandlord Robby Roberts said: \"A member of staff, one of my barmaids, has someone in her family bubble who has tested positive.\"\n\nHe said she was on shift on Saturday when the pub was open for 11-and-a-half hours and about 150 customers visited.\n\n\"All five staff who were on shift on Saturday have now been tested and we are waiting for the results,\" he said.\n\n\"The pub is being deep cleaned and I have contacted the council. I am awaiting advice from them.\"\n\nA second pub in Alverstoke, The Fighting Cocks, has announced it will also close temporarily despite \"having no suspected or confirmed cases\".\n\nThe pub said on Facebook it \"cannot guarantee that someone who has been in contact with a confirmed case has not been in the pub, nor will they come in over the coming days\".\n\nThe Village Home Pub in Alverstoke hopes to reopen on Saturday but the decision will depend on advice from the council\n\nCrowds were seen across England on \"Super Saturday\", as thousands flocked to enjoy a pint.\n\nThere were reports of arrests and early venue closures around the country, but police said a majority of people had acted responsibly.\n\nUK pub and hospitality trade bodies have published guidance for bars and restaurants on how to operate contact tracing.\n\nContact details only need to be taken from one person in a group and must be kept for 21 days.\n\nOwners are also asked to note the arrival times of customers and how long they stay. People can refuse to give information, but owners can choose not to serve them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theatres have been unable to open since the UK went into lockdown in March\n\nThe arts industry has largely welcomed the government's announcement of with a £1.57bn support package.\n\nIt followed several weeks of lobbying from theatres, music venues, art galleries and other cultural institutions, many of which said they were on the brink of collapse.\n\nWhile the funding has been warmly welcomed, many venues are sounding a note of caution as they await further details on how the money will be allocated and news of when venues will be allowed to re-open.\n\nCulture secretary Oliver Dowden said the package is all \"new money\" and has two broad aims - to preserve \"crown jewel\" venues like the Royal Albert Hall and national galleries, while also helping local institutions across the UK.\n\nHere's how the arts sector has reacted to the government's support package.\n\nFreelance theatre director Ian Rickson said: \"First and foremost, we must ensure that this package helps the freelance community. This isn't just famous actors, but stage managers, set builders, wig makers, in fact all the teams who put together the shows. Artists in the theatre need safe ground in order to take risks.\n\n\"What people don't know is that a high proportion of these freelancers live below the poverty line or at least with very unstable incomes. Before the pandemic this was difficult enough but freelancers can't be furloughed and a significant proportion don't qualify for SSEIS (the self-employed income support scheme).\"\n\nThe funding was well-received by composer Lord Lloyd-Webber, who said the news is \"truly welcome at a time when so many theatres, orchestras, entertainment venues and other arts organisations face such a bleak future\".\n\nTheatre impresario Cameron Mackintosh said the news \"was most welcome\" but \"it is now critical that we are given immediate guidance when social distancing will be phased out so we can make firm plans to re-open as soon as practical.\"\n\nDame Judi Dench told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We all have been anxiously waiting for something and it has come and it is wonderful.\n\n\"It will probably be spread very thinly, but nevertheless we are all incredibly grateful that it has come at this time.\n\n\"Now we have got to hope that things don't go to the wall.\"\n\nThe Royal Albert Hall's chief executive Craig Hassall described the news as \"an absolute life saver for all of us\".\n\nA string of theatres have already announced plans to make staff redundant in recent weeks, after being closed since the coronavirus pandemic took hold earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How theatre can reopen during the pandemic\n\nAdrian Vinken, the chief executive of the Theatre Royal in Plymouth told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"impossible to say\" if the announcement would be enough to prevent up to 100 job losses there until more detail is released.\n\n\"Until the whole sector knows when we can reopen without social distancing and start trading again... there is no security in the sector whatsoever but hopefully what the government is doing here is giving us that lifeline to keep going until that point is discernible.\"\n\nNicholas Hytner, former director of the National Theatre and the founder of London's Bridge Theatre, said: \"It's a much better plan than anyone expected. It's the result of joined up, tenacious and detailed lobbying going on under the radar which was listened to with great attention.\n\n\"The only proper response is to congratulate them and thank them for the size of the package.\"\n\nGavin Barlow, chief executive and artistic director of the Albany performing arts centre in Deptford, London, said: \"As an arts centre with deep roots in our local community in south east London, we see first-hand the difference arts and creativity make to people's lives.\n\n\"Although this financial support is welcome, our future remains far from certain. As we emerge from this crisis we believe we have a big part to play in aiding the recovery of the sector as well as supporting people's wellbeing and hope to see more details on how this announcement will support the vital work of arts centres such as the Albany.\"\n\nHow much do theatres contribute?\n\nEquity, the performers' union, welcomed the support but its general secretary, Christine Payne, said it was important that the funding didn't just prop up venues.\n\n\"If this investment does not reach creative workers - the actors, dancers, stage management, singers, variety artists, directors, designers, choreographers and many other highly skilled workers in our talent base, we risk the diversity and success of the wider creative industries - worth £112bn to the economy.\n\n\"These workers have campaigned for this deal; they can't be left behind.\"\n\nThis was echoed by the fears of a freelance worker on Twitter:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPhilippa Childs, head of the Bectu union which supports workers across the media and entertainment industry, said the support package was overdue.\n\nShe added: \"At long last the government have woken up to our warnings and those of the whole creative sector, that without support, we stood to lose a huge amount of our world-beating creative industries.\n\n\"We will now be scrutinising the details of this package to make sure it lives up to the real needs of our sector.\"\n\nJulian Bird, chief executive of The Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, said it \"hugely welcomed\" the funding.\n\nThe chief executives of The National Theatre, Rufus Norris and Lisa Burger, said they \"feel very positive that this major investment will reach and sustain the vital talent and infrastructure\".\n\nKwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of The Young Vic, told Times Radio that he and his colleagues are \"relieved\".\n\nJulia Fawcett, chief executive of The Lowry in Salford, said: \"The announcement of £1.57bn of emergency investment in the UK's culture sector is welcome news, but we are fast running out of time.\n\n\"This lifeline will come too late for some organisations who have already been forced to close their doors for good or made valued employees redundant.\"\n\nJon Morgan of The Theatres Trust said: \"It remains to be seen whether this amount will be sufficient to replace the furlough scheme, as it begins to taper from August and ends in October, at a time when we still do not have timescales for theatres reopening.\"\n\nNeil Constable, CEO of Shakespeare's Globe, said the news meant they \"now have the opportunity to plan to reopen fully by early 2021. We will of course be taking opportunities, if social distancing allows, to reopen earlier\".\n\nFiona Allan, president of UK Theatres and the artistic director of The Birmingham Hippodrome, said the venue \"was overjoyed\" at the investment.\n\n\"We are now able to turn our focus to rebuilding what we have lost and planning for the future.\"\n\nMuseums are starting to re-open after lockdown but some - like Birmingham's Museum and Art Gallery remain closed.\n\nArts Council chairman Sir Nicholas Serota told BBC News the funding was \"a very good result\".\n\nHe said: \"Now it's up to the arts organisations and the Arts Council to make best use of this money and bring the arts back into communities across the county. This announcement gives us the tools to help build a recovery.\"\n\nThe chief executive of the Arts Council of Wales said he was \"absolutely delighted\" by the announcement, adding the funding was \"an absolute lifeline\".\n\nAndy Eagle, chief executive of Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre, said: \"It provides enormous security, enormous hope for the sector.\"\n\nThe Arts Council of Northern Ireland said it was \"delighted\" with the \"lifeline support\"\n\nThe Tate, The Science Museum Group, The Natural History Museum and The National Gallery were among those who also welcomed the funding.\n\nSir Ian Blatchford, chair of the National Museums Directors Council said: \"This is welcome news for the museum sector, both in the scale of funding and as a strategic commitment to our role in the life of the country.\"\n\nKully Thiarai, creative director & CEO of Leeds 2023, said: \"Across Leeds and West Yorkshire, the workers and performers in our region's great cultural institutions and the independent artists and venues embedded in communities, are waking up to some positive news. After months of anxiety and uncertainty, the Government has thrown a much needed life-line that will help many stay afloat and plan for the future.\n\nThe Royal Opera House said the funding announcement was \"a catalyst\".\n\nMusic Venue Trust chief executive Mark Davyd said it \"warmly welcomes this unprecedented intervention into Britain's world class live music scene\".\n\nHe added: \"This fund provides the opportunity to stabilise and protect our vibrant and vital network of venues and gives us the time we need to create a plan to safely reopen live music.\"\n\nGeoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI & Brit Awards, said: \"We are delighted that the government has recognised the special importance of the arts and creativity to our national life.\n\n\"We look forward to further details on how the funds will be allocated, but naturally warmly welcome specific references from the PM and the Chancellor to a lifeline for our cherished music venues, and to support for the arts, which should assist our classical music sector.\"\n\nSir Simon Rattle, director of the London Symphony Orchestra, called for the money to be \"distributed as fast as possible\".\n\nThe Royal Opera House said in a statement that \"the package of support will be a catalyst for unlocking the extraordinary creativity embedded in the UK's world-renowned creative industries\".\n\nStephen Gilchrist, who runs Brixton Hill Studios, a music rehearsal and recording facility in south London, said the support was \"very important\", but that it doesn't mention companies that support the music industry.\n\n\"The nearest thing that would come to what we would do says 'basement venues',\" he said. \"So that shows that really important grassroots venues are covered, but it doesn't cover the parts of the sector that may look, on the outside, like they are commercial - the hire companies and the touring travel companies and people like us, the rehearsal and recording studios. So there is a possibility that we'll have another fight on our hands.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government is pledging to provide 30,000 new traineeships to get young people in England into work, as fears about mounting unemployment increase.\n\nTraineeships provide classroom-based lessons in maths, English and CV writing, as well as up to 90 hours of unpaid work experience.\n\nUnder the £111m scheme, firms in England will be given £1,000 for each new work experience place they offer.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive £21m for similar schemes.\n\nThe additional funding for traineeships is set to be announced by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday when he will unveil an economic plan to deal with the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nEmployers are not required to pay trainees for a work placement, unlike apprenticeships where the minimum wage rate is £4.15 per hour.\n\nOn an apprenticeship, a person is employed to do work while studying for a formal qualification, usually for one day a week, either at a college or training centre over a number of years.\n\nBusinesses have been hit hard since the UK went into lockdown on 23 March, and even though restrictions are gradually being eased, consumer demand remains depressed.\n\nAs a result, companies with a presence across the UK have revealed thousands of staff cuts in the past week.\n\n\"Young people's employment prospects are expected to be disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of coronavirus,\" the Treasury said in a statement announcing plans to expand the traineeship programme.\n\nTraineeships are intended to get people into their first job after education. They last from six weeks to six months and they are open to people aged between 16 and 24.\n\n\"Expanding traineeships will be part of a wider package to support young people and to ensure they have the skills and training to go on to high quality, secure and fulfilling employment,\" the Treasury said.\n\nEmployers must currently offer a minimum of 100 hours of work experience. But the Treasury statement refers to \"a high-quality work placement of 60 to 90 hours\", which could suggest a new, lesser, commitment for providers.\n\nThe expanded scheme will be in place in England from September 2020.\n\nThe Treasury said that three quarters of young people who completed a traineeship moved on to employment or further study within a year. In contrast, three quarters of 18-24 year-olds who are not in education, employment or training for three months will continue to be out of work and out of education for a full 12 months, according to government figures.\n\nThe number of people starting traineeships has, however, been declining gradually, from a high of 24,100 in 2015-16 down to 14,900 in 2018, according to figures from the Department for Education.\n\nDavid Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, told the BBC's Today programme: \"We know that young people get treated very badly in recessions and will be at the back of the queue for jobs.\n\n\"What we want is a whole range of actions that the government can take: put money into colleges to give them a chance, incentivise employers to take on trainees, but also take on apprenticeships as well.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need really bold action now on both the labour market and on skills.\"", "It is the fifth year in a row targets for recruiting new trainee teachers has been missed\n\nTargets for recruiting trainee teachers in Wales were missed for the fifth year in row, the latest figures have shown.\n\nThe Welsh Government wanted to see 1,621 new students start in 2018.\n\nBut there was a shortfall of nearly 600 applicants, with 1,065 starting an Initial Teacher Education (ITE) course.\n\nThe Welsh Government said teacher vacancy rates remain \"comparatively low\", though it was \"not complacent\" and recognised there were some local recruitment issues.\n\nAccording to Statistics for Wales, the largest shortfall was in recruiting potential secondary school teachers.\n\nA target of 851 students had been set for the sector, but just 480 enrolled for the 2018-19 academic year - a shortfall of 44%.\n\nThe recruitment rate was down a further 9% on the previous year.\n\nWhile entries for primary school teaching performed better, they still missed their target by 22%.\n\nThe Welsh Government wanted to see 750 individuals signing-up for the primary sector training, but only 585 enrolled.\n\n\"We are extremely concerned about the reduction in the number of trainee teachers year after year,\" stressed Rebecca Williams, deputy general secretary of the Welsh teaching union UCAC.\n\n\"Part of the problem is that there has been complacency about workforce planning over many years - a hangover from a period when there were plenty of teachers in the system, and plenty more coming through.\n\n\"This has not been the case for many years, and the government has been slow to get to grips with the implications.\"\n\nThe union said there were worrying shortfalls in recruiting for certain subjects in Wales, and a growing concern for Welsh-medium provision.\n\nThe 2018 figures revealed just 75 students applied to train to teach in Welsh in the secondary sector.\n\nAnother issue highlighted by the latest report is the number of students studying to become a teacher in England, with just over 60% of all ITE students from north Wales enrolled on courses across the border.\n\nPrior qualifications to begin a course in England are marginally lower - for example, in Wales you must have a minimum of a B grade or equivalent in GCSE maths - in England, it is a C grade.\n\nHowever, Statistics for Wales said this did not necessarily lead to a teacher shortage issue in Wales, as \"many return to their home country to start teaching\".\n\nThere were warnings in previous years that problems in recruiting teachers was bordering on a crisis, and these latest figures suggest it's getting worse.\n\nA campaign to attract people to the profession and incentives to study some subjects seem to have had little impact on the overall figures, at least up to 2018-19.\n\nNew teacher training courses started in September 2019, but we'll have to wait until the next round of data to see what impact those changes may have had.\n\nThe drop in numbers of those training in Welsh - steeper than the overall reduction - will be a particular worry.\n\nAnd the numbers choosing to study in England raises questions about the higher grades required for ITE in Wales - some see that as a barrier.\n\nThe Covid-19 crisis could impact recruitment for this year and next in different ways.\n\nOn the one hand, applicants may be put off taking up places in September, but it has also highlighted the key role of the profession and it may be attractive as a relatively secure career path.\n\nBut we won't be able to gauge the impact of the current situation on the data for some time yet.\n\nThe latest figures follow a series of reviews on recruiting and retaining teachers in Wales.\n\nIt has seen an advisory panel of experts established by education minister Kirsty Williams, and some fundamental shifts in how would-be teachers can access the profession.\n\nFor example, from this year, students have been able to enrol with the Open University for paid training programmes in a school that sponsors them, or take a part-time flexible route into the classroom.\n\nA new programme of training was introduced last September, with new university partnerships to deliver the courses, overseen by the Education Workforce Council.\n\nThe council regulates the profession in Wales and was also asked to take responsibility for the 'Discover Teaching' recruitment project in October 2018.\n\nOfficials are currently working to \"update and develop content\" for the project, which provides online tools and job searches for those considering a teaching role.\n\nThere have been reviews of how teachers can access the profession, and the training they need in Wales\n\nResponding, Welsh Government officials said: \"In late 2019, we published a new and widely welcomed Workforce Development Plan to support teaching, to attract and retain high-quality individuals, including Welsh-medium teachers.\n\n\"Our new ITE programmes support and attract students to become a teacher in Wales and is part of our strategy to improve recruitment and retention of teachers.\"\n\nThey said initial feedback on recruitment for new courses in September 2020 indicated some subjects, in particular science-related, had not been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, with student applications levels increasing.\n\nThe government also said it had introduced several initiatives to encourage more Welsh medium teachers to enter the profession, especially in the secondary sector.\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\nMuseums, music venues, galleries and theatres are to receive £1.57bn in government funding to help them deal with the effects of the pandemic. Many venues have been laying off staff, with some warning they could be bankrupt within weeks. Independent cinemas and heritage sites will also be eligible for grants and loans. The announcement has been welcomed, but the BBC's arts editor says it's not yet clear how the money will be split between competing art forms or regions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Will Gompertz: \"The experience is going to be very different\"\n\nDelays to diagnosis and treatment due to coronavirus could cause between 7,000 and 35,000 additional cancer deaths in the UK within a year. That's the scenario suggested by research from eight hospital trusts and shared exclusively with BBC Panorama. Watch Britain's Cancer Crisis on Monday 6 July at 7:30pm on BBC One, or afterwards on BBC iPlayer. You can also find extra content on the You, Me & the Big C podcast.\n\nTenby is among the places expecting an influx of visitors as restrictions end\n\nNicola Sturgeon visited an outdoor cafe ahead of the nationwide easing\n\nBefore the coronavirus lockdown a lot of us didn't really know what our partner did at work all day, but now our eyes have been opened - as many couples now work from home together, albeit in totally different jobs. Samar Small, a manager at Royal Mail, says her husband previously saw her only in \"mum-mode\". \"I'm probably a bit brainier than he thought I was - dare I say it!\" she told our business reporter Lucy Hooker.\n\nSamar Small says her job isn't what her family expected\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest from our live page.\n\nPlus, from air pollution and A&E to cream teas and gardening gear, we highlight eight ways lockdown has changed life in the UK.\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 ban on killers using the \"rough sex defence\" in England and Wales is set to become law after MPs supported an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe bill now rules out \"consent for sexual gratification\" as a defence for causing serious harm.\n\nThe wide-ranging legislation will also place a duty on councils in England to provide shelter for victims of abuse.\n\nIt has been broadly welcomed by campaigners but some said it failed to protect groups such as migrant women.\n\nThe bill, which covers England and Wales, has passed its final stage in the Commons and will now be debated in the House of Lords.\n\nIt was introduced with cross-party support by Theresa May's government in July last year but its passage was delayed by December's general election.\n\nThe government said the bill would ensure that children who saw, heard or experienced the effects of domestic abuse would be treated as victims under law.\n\nIt would also introduce the first legal government definition of domestic abuse, including economic abuse and coercive or controlling non-physical behaviour.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Home Office minister Victoria Atkins said one of the most \"chilling and anguished\" developments in recent times had been the increased use of the \"so-called rough sex defence\".\n\nMoving a new clause which would ban the defence in England and Wales court proceedings, she said: \"We've been clear that there is no such defence to serious harm which results from rough sex.\n\n\"But there is a perception that such a defence exists and that it is being used by men, and it is mostly men in these types of cases, to avoid convictions for serious offences or to receive a reduction in any sentence where they are convicted.\"\n\nWelcoming the move, Labour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, paid tribute to Natalie Connolly, who died in 2016.\n\nThe 26-year-old's partner left her for dead with 40 separate injuries - he admitted manslaughter but was cleared of murder after claiming she was hurt during consensual sexual activity.\n\n\"Natalie Connolly's name and story has rung out around this chamber, been told in many newspapers and the bravery of her family will see this law changed,\" Ms Phillips said.\n\n\"Today, I don't want to remember her for how she died, or to allow a violent man to get to say what her story was.\n\nMs Phillips paid tribute to Natalie Connolly in the Commons\n\nCampaign group We Can't Consent To This, which wants to make it the expectation that murder charges will be brought against those suspected of killing a person during sex, has hailed the amendment as a \"victory\".\n\nThe current law says that if someone kills another person during sexual activity they could be charged with manslaughter alone, while 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\nHarriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women's Justice, described the bill as \"a landmark piece of legislation\".\n\nHowever, she said there were \"some very important omissions\", including protections for victims of domestic violence who committed crimes in the context of being in an abusive relationship.\n\nOther campaigners have said the legislation needs additions to better protect migrant women.\n\nGisela Valle, director of the Latin American Women's Rights Service, said the bill had no provision for safe reporting mechanisms, meaning migrant women who reported abuse to police could be questioned about their immigration status and even detained.\n\nAdditionally, some immigrants with an insecure status cannot currently access public funds or housing and refuge support.\n\nMs Phillips also raised the issue of victims of domestic abuse who are migrants and have no recourse to public funds.\n\nShe told the Commons \"it cannot be right\" that \"humans, who when they have been raped, beaten, controlled and abused, before we ask them how we can help, first we ask what stamp is in their passport\".\n\nMs Atkins said the government was launching a £1.5m pilot fund to support migrant victims of domestic abuse who are unable to access public funds.", "Three teenagers remain in hospital in a serious condition\n\nA 17-year-old girl has died and three other teenagers were seriously injured in a car crash in Kent.\n\nA Suzuki Swift carrying six teenagers hit a tree in a garden in Mundy Bois Road in Egerton, near Ashford, at about 20:20 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe police watchdog has been informed because a Kent Police vehicle was \"in close proximity at the time of the collision\", the force said.\n\nTwo teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of driving offences.\n\nKent Police said officers were in the area due to reports an illegal rave was taking place in nearby Pluckley.\n\nHowever, the force found no such event was being held.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said \"police on patrol in a marked vehicle saw a vehicle containing six people that then headed off at speed\".\n\nThe police car then \"turned around to follow the vehicle and found it had crashed\", the IOPC said.\n\nThe 17-year-old girl died while being taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nTwo men - aged 19 and 18 - and a second 17-year-old girl remain in hospital in a \"serious but stable condition\", a force spokesperson said.\n\nA 19-year-old man from Ashford and a 17-year-old girl from Maidstone, who have been discharged from hospital, have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nOfficers have asked for anyone who saw the silver hatchback to contact them.\n\nKent Police said it had \"made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct due to a police vehicle being in close proximity at the time of the collision\".\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said it had begun an investigation, adding: \"Part of our investigation will be to establish whether or not the police were actively pursuing the vehicle.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK is imposing sanctions on 49 people and organisations behind the most \"notorious\" human rights abuses of recent years.\n\nIndividuals implicated in the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 will have their UK assets frozen and banned from entering the country.\n\nAnd Saudi Arabian officials involved in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi are also being targeted.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the move sent a \"clear message\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, the foreign secretary said the UK was taking action against the \"thugs of despots and henchmen of dictators\" as well as stopping those trying to launder their \"blood-drenched ill-gotten gains\".\n\nRussia has threatened to retaliate with reciprocal measures and said the sanctions were \"pointless\".\n\n\"Russia reserves the right to respond to today's unfriendly decision by the UK on the basis of reciprocity,\" the Russian embassy in London said in a statement, adding that the move \"will not improve Russian-British relations\".\n\nThe sanctions are the first taken independently by the UK outside the auspices of the UN and EU.\n\nThose individuals and organisations subject to immediate sanctions are:\n\nMr Raab said those targeted had been involved in extra-judicial killings, including political assassinations, torture, degrading treatment, forced labour and servitude.\n\nThose on the list, which includes a former minister in the Russian interior department and the former deputy head of the Saudi intelligence services, will be stopped from entering the UK, channelling money into the country or profiting from the British economy, through property or other assets they own.\n\n\"Today this government and this house sends a very clear message on behalf of the British people that those with blood on their hands, the thugs of despots, the henchman of dictators will not be free to waltz into this country,\" Mr Raab told Parliament.\n\n\"The powers enable us to target a wider network of perpetrators including those who facilitate, incite, promote or support any of these crimes and this extends beyond state officials to non-state actors as well.\"\n\nThe UK's new sanctions' regime is significant. It marks the first time Britain has had its own independent scheme focused entirely on tackling human rights abuses.\n\nUntil now, it has almost always had to act in concert with the EU. The government wants the UK to be seen as a leading defender of international rules and human rights. These sanctions are a central part of that policy.\n\nOne key test will be whether it can get support from other countries. The United States and Canada have similar schemes, the EU is working on its own version. Sanctions are always more powerful if imposed collectively.\n\nWhat was announced today was merely the first wave of UK sanctions. More are to come and MPs are keen to see some Chinese names on the list.\n\nThe sanctions may well come at a cost to trade and investment if countries object to seeing their nationals targeted.\n\nWhat is also unclear is how effective they will be in actually deterring human rights abuses. Many of those 47 individuals and two organisations named in the first listing are already subject to US sanctions.\n\nWe don't know what assets they actually have in London or how often they have come to the UK. But London is a hub of international travel and finance, and officials hope the restrictions will have an impact in the long term.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC the list would be kept under \"constant review\", and the government was \"working already on the on further designations that can be made in due course\".\n\nAsked about if it could damage the UK's trading relationship with Saudi Arabia, the foreign secretary said it was \"a matter of moral duty\", adding: \"We can't turn a blind eye to gross violations of human rights.\n\n\"We will apply these designations in the countries which we've designated today… for countries where we have a relationship, whether it's an ally or other countries that we need to engage with, because that's the world we live in.\"\n\nBut asked if he was avoiding another clash with China by excluding them for the list, Mr Raab said: \"It's pretty clear… that we are willing to stand up for our vital national interests. But the regime that we have set out is evidence based.\n\n\"If we want a positive relationship with China… the real issue here is one of trust and whether China can be trusted to live up to its international obligations, and its international responsibilities.\n\n\"And that's a message that we're telegraphing, along with many of our allies and indeed, many international partners around the world to Beijing, particularly in relation to what we've seen in Hong Kong.\"\n\nMagnitsky's widow and mother took up the human rights case initially filed by him in Strasbourg\n\nMany MPs have long been pushing for a tougher domestic sanctions regime against foreign states accused of human rights abuses, based on the 2013 US Magnitsky Act.\n\nMagnitsky, a Moscow lawyer and auditor, died in police custody after accusing Russian tax officials of defrauding Hermitage Capital Management, a British investment firm he was advising.\n\nMagnitsky spent 11 months in police custody, during which he sustained injuries which human rights campaigners say were consistent with him being beaten and tortured.\n\nHis maltreatment has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights, which found in 2019 that he had been deprived of important medical care and the authorities had not complied with their duty to protect life.\n\nRussian officials subject to sanctions include Aleksey Vasilyevich Anichin, a former interior minister and Oleg Silchenko, a member of the ministry's investigative team who was involved in questioning Magnitsky and who is accused of forced him to retract his allegations of corruption.\n\nMr Raab said he would be meeting Magnitsky's widow Natalia and two children later on Monday to express the UK's \"solidarity\" with them and the nightmare they had been through.\n\nBill Browder, co-founder and chief executive of Hermitage Capital, said the action represented \"a huge milestone in our 10 year campaign for justice\".\n\nSaudi officials involved in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi are among those targeted\n\nMr Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government, was killed by a team of Saudi agents in what the Saudi authorities described as a \"rogue operation\" that went wrong.\n\nIn December 2019, a court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death and jailed three others but the process was condemned by foreign governments and the UN, which said it represented \"the antithesis of justice\".\n\nAmong those targeted by the UK, include Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Al Asiri, a former deputy head of the Saudi intelligence services and Saud Abdullah Al Qahtani, a former advisor to Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud, who is said to have \"planned and directed the killing\".\n\nAlso on the list is Salah Muhammed Al Tubaigy, a government doctor present at the time of the killing and a number of intelligence officers also present in Istanbul said to have concealed evidence about the killing.\n\nLabour, which has been critical of the UK's relationship with Saudi Arabia, particularly in relation to the war in Yemen, said it welcomed action against those responsible for the \"appalling\" murder.\n\nThe UK is also taking action against two senior generals in the Myanmar army, over the state's suppression of the minority Muslim Rohingya population in Rakhine state, a campaign of violence in 2017 and 2019 that campaigners have said amounts to attempted genocide.\n\nThey are Min Aung Hlaing, Commander in Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces and his deputy Soe Win, who the UK says carry ultimate responsibility for unlawful killings, torture, forced labour and systematic rape.\n\nThe North Korea organisations targeted are the Ministry of State Security Bureau 7 and the Ministry of People's Security Correctional Bureau, which have responsibility for running prison camps.\n\nThe Foreign Office said its new sanctions regime, underpinned by legislation passed in 2018, could be extended in future to encompass individuals and governments guilty of corruption.\n\nThe UK is required by law to enforce existing EU sanctions it is a party to until the end of the transition period on 1 January 2021. The government has said it will maintain these after that date and also existing UN sanctions.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nA US woman who says she was brought to Britain aged 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew has said he \"should be panicking\" following the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell.\n\nVirginia Roberts Giuffre, one of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, says she was trafficked to London by Epstein in 2001.\n\nShe spoke to Australia's Channel Nine 60 Minutes programme following the arrest of Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was arrested on charges of helping Epstein's sexual exploitation of girls and young women, and also perjury.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell both deny allegations made against them.", "Sandwich chain Pret A Manger is to close 30 outlets and is expected to cut at least 1,000 jobs at other shops as part of a post-pandemic restructuring.\n\nThe company said the impact of coronavirus on trading meant it had to make a \"difficult decision\".\n\nPret said it needed to reduce headcount across its UK shops to \"reflect lower footfall, rental costs and new safety measures\".\n\nIt did not say how many jobs would go, but a source confirmed more than 1,000.\n\nAbout 330 jobs will be lost with the closure of the 30 shops. Pret said 339 of its 410 shops have so far reopened following the easing of lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut trading remains slow, with sales down 74% from a year earlier, the company said. Pret is thought to be losing about £20m a month.\n\nChief executive Pano Christou said: \"It's a sad day for the whole Pret family, and I'm devastated that we will be losing so many employees. But we must make these changes to adapt to the new retail environment.\n\n\"Our goal now is to bring Pret to more people, through different channels and in new ways, enabling us to grow once more in the medium term.\"\n\nPret is reliant on sales from commuters and lunchtime office workers, which are sources of revenue acutely affected by the lockdown.\n\nThe company is broadening its sales with a retail coffee initiative with Amazon and a delivery partnership with Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats. There are also click and collect trials in five shops in London.\n\nPret said sales across these digital channels have already grown 480% year-on-year, and now represent over 8% of total UK sales.\n\nThe company is in talks with landlords about reducing its rent bill. In May, it appointed advisory firms to help restructure the business, and in April it raised €100m (£90m) in emergency funding from its banks.\n\nPret, which owns 550 outlets globally employing 13,000 staff, including 8,000 in the UK, is the latest High Street food chain to announce cuts.\n\nLast week, SSP Group, which runs Upper Crust and Ritazza, said it would cut 5,000 staff, more than half its UK workforce.\n\nIn addition, The Restaurant Group, which runs Frankie & Benny's and Wagamama, and Cafe Rouge-owner Casual Dining Group, have announced more than 4,500 job cuts between them.", "The coronavirus crisis could \"level down\" the UK economy with London and the South East expected to bounce back more quickly than Hull and Bradford.\n\nSectors such as finance and construction will be worst affected by the pandemic, a report from the Social Market Foundation think tank warned.\n\nInitially, that means London and the South East would be worst hit, but other areas face a slower recovery.\n\nThe Treasury said it was committed to \"levelling up\" every region of the UK.\n\nThe worst-affected areas in the short-term:\n\n\"After the financial crisis, London recovered quickly because of a concentration of jobs in banking and insurance,\" the Social Market Foundation (SMF) report said.\n\n\"Whilst these jobs will face the biggest initial blow from coronavirus, evidence suggests the capital is more economically resilient and the labour market will recover quicker than the rest of the country.\"\n\nBut that is not the case in areas where unemployment rates were above the UK's average of 3.8% last year, according to the SMF, a centrist think tank.\n\nIt said those areas, which include Manchester and Peterborough, face the slowest recovery.\n\nThe areas that will find it hardest to bounce back:\n\n\"Policy makers need to recognise that national or even regional data can conceal the local realities of this recession and should not rely on it when making important decisions for the recovery from coronavirus,\" said Amy Norman from the SMF.\n\n\"The economic severity of coronavirus will be felt across many places, but we must remember that this recession does not occur in isolation,\" she said.\n\n\"Many people and places outside of the capital will be particularly vulnerable due to the lasting hardships of the past decade.\"\n\nThe report also found that young people were more vulnerable to the economic impacts of the virus crisis.\n\nIt said people between the ages of 20 and 24 were least likely to work in sectors like education, health or public administration, which have seen fewer people furloughed or made redundant.\n\n\"Young people's jobs are most at risk, but a quarter of older workers also face job instability,\" Ms Norman said.\n\n\"Politicians have announced the guaranteed youth opportunity but are light on support for those in older categories who will find themselves out of work.\"\n\nA Treasury spokeswoman said: \"As we recover from the outbreak we remain committed to levelling up every region and nation of the UK - helping ensure they return to growth, jobs and prosperity in a way that is safe.\n\n\"Alongside our generous package of economic support that has protected millions of jobs and businesses, we're supporting communities up and down the country. At Spring Budget 2020, we allocated more than £6bn for local transport in towns and cities across England, £5bn to support the rollout of the fastest broadband, and committed to a £2.5bn skills fund to help our communities thrive.\"\n• None Why North-South is not England's only divide", "That's a wrap: The National Theatre in London\n\nEmpty theatre buildings nationwide have been covered in colourful messages of support, as they remain closed due to Covid-19 concerns.\n\nThe National Theatre in London has been wrapped in bright pink barrier tape, which reads \"Missing Live Theatre\".\n\nThe project, led by stage designers group Scene Change, also includes the Manchester Royal Exchange and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.\n\nAs well as the Lyric Belfast, the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff and Theatre Royale Plymouth.\n\nVenues have been shut since March, with many warning that they will go out of business in the coming months without support.\n\nThe art intervention was unveiled on the same day that the National Theatre confirmed 400 casual staff will soon lose their jobs.\n\n\"We have committed to paying our casual staff until the end of August, but very sadly due to the changes in the government Job Retention Scheme, we simply cannot afford to offer financial support beyond that point, when we won't be back performing as usual,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\nShe added they hoped \"additional financial support from government may be forthcoming\" to allow performing again \"in a limited way\" but said \"it is set to be many months before it will be possible to perform to audiences at usual capacities, so regrettably a proportion of job losses are unavoidable\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News on Friday, Oscar-winning actor, writer and theatre director Sir Mark Rylance warned that 70% of venues could be closed by Christmas, meaning 290,000 jobs in the sector are at risk, with redundancies being made already.\n\nSir Mark, who also revealed he will reprise his role in Jerusalem next year at some point, stressed that theatres can't go back to usual, and they are going to have to change how they operate and what stories they tell in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"They are devastatingly badly affected,\" said Rylance.\n\n\"We have discovered that what the pandemic has brought to the surface too, is that 70% of the workers in theatre are freelance,\" he added. \"They've not benefitted from any furlough scheme or any of the job retention schemes that the buildings and the permanent staff have benefitted from, so people are really in trouble, and they're going to be in more trouble in August and September.\"\n\nA close-up of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester\n\nIn a statement, Scene Change declared: \"This is a moment of reset in our industry and we believe the design community can be an essential part of the transformation that will see theatre buildings being reopened and the ways in which theatre can be reimagined,\"\n\n\"As shapers of theatrical space through the use of people and place, our work is pivotal in connecting an entire ecosystem within the theatre industry. We are ideally positioned to be at the heart of any discussions about how theatre operates in the future.\"\n\nThe tapes will stay up for a week and then be taken to envelop other theatres.\n\nVenues throughout London's West End will join in on Saturday, while The RSC, Sadler's Wells, Theatr Clwyd and Theatre Royal Stratford East will take part the following week, along with Sheffield Theatres, and the Ambassador Theatre Group.\n\nTom Piper, one of the team behind the campaign, told the BBC's Colin Paterson the design was \"inspired by the fact that the National Theatre was sort of wrapped with hazard warning tape it looked like a toxic sort of waste site\".\n\n\"And we know that theatres are not toxic places, they are places of great healing, where people will come together with a sense of community and that's what we're all missing at the moment,\" added Piper, who also who helped create the 2014 sea of ceramic poppies outside the Tower of London.\n\nHe encouraged people to go along and see the outdoor \"guerrilla\" artwork for themselves, from a safe distance.\n\n\"It's a gesture of love for these buildings really and to highlight that they're empty, they need to be full of people,\" he said.\n\nLast week, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published a five-stage plan for a \"phased return\", which will initially let performances take place outdoors, with indoors performances to follow later.\n\nHowever, the roadmap for the return of live theatre and music was met with calls for financial support and a timetable for reopening, with many dismissing the plan as inadequate.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Politicians criticised the protestors, who encouraged people on the road from England to \"stay out\" of Scotland Image caption: Politicians criticised the protestors, who encouraged people on the road from England to \"stay out\" of Scotland\n\nNicola Sturgeon has asked people not to protest on the Scotland-England border, saying it is not \"sensible or helpful\".\n\nThe first minister said protestors who displayed a \"keep Scotland Covid free\" banner at the border with England on Saturday \"do not speak for me\".\n\nMs Sturgeon has refused to rule out a quarantine system for people coming to Scotland from other parts of the UK.\n\nHowever, she stressed this was \"about public health\", not \"whether people in England are welcome in Scotland\".\n\nThere are currently no plans to impose quarantine or any other kind of restrictions on travellers from the rest of the UK into Scotland, and there has been no formal discussion on whether they should be introduced.\n\nBut there has been an escalating row between the Scottish and UK governments over the issue, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying \"there is no such thing as a border between Scotland and England\" and Ms Sturgeon hitting out at \"absurd and ridiculous political statements\".", "Vogue Portugal has pulled a recent magazine cover, which mental health experts criticised as \"outdated\" and in \"bad taste\".\n\nThe Madness Issue featured a woman in a bathtub in a hospital setting with a nurse pouring water over her head.\n\nVogue Portugal said the image was intended to \"start a discussion\".\n\nBut it has since changed the cover, saying that it now realises \"the subject of mental health needs a more thoughtful approach\".\n\n\"Vogue Portugal deeply apologises for any offence or upset caused by this photo shoot,\" the company said in an Instagram post, which showed a new cover image of a person holding a human heart.\n\nThe photo of the woman in the bath generated huge controversy on its release. Vogue Portugal, however, initially refused to back down, insisting in a statement posted on Twitter that the cover story explored \"the historical context of mental health and is designed to reflect real life and authentic stories\".\n\n\"Inside the issue features interviews and contributions from psychiatrists, sociologists, psychologists and other experts,\" the statement added.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by vogueportugal 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 woman featured in the bathtub, Slovak model Simona Kirchnerova, wrote in an Instagram post on Friday that it was a \"career highlight\" because those standing either side of her were family members.\n\n\"Made it to Vogue cover with my mum and my grandma,\" she wrote.\n\nBut London-based clinical psychologist Katerina Alexandraki told the BBC that she considered the cover to be \"unethical\".\n\n\"For those with experience of the psychiatric system, seeing a fashion magazine cover presenting a woman in such a vulnerable state can be a reminder of a very challenging time in their lives,\" she said.\n\n\"This image reinforces the idea of women being vulnerable and helpless during a mental health breakdown. It does not show us the effort those with mental health put in to overcoming their struggles, their strengths and resistance to overcome adversity,\" she added.\n\nPortuguese model Sara Sampaio said images like the one portrayed on the Vogue Portugal cover \"should not be representing the conversation about mental health\".\n\nMs Sampaio, who said she had suffered with mental health issues herself, said she considered it \"very bad taste\".\n\n\"It looks like it's in an [outdated] mental hospital\" that used to \"torture\" patients, she said in a video posted on social media.\n\nShe added that the image came at a particularly sensitive time \"because of Covid and the way that mental health has been dealt with\", with many people having been isolated or directly affected by the pandemic.\n\nPortuguese model Sara Sampaio said the magazine cover image was in \"very bad taste\"\n• None Coronavirus: How to protect your mental health", "The number of private tenants in England who have fallen behind on rent has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, new research suggests.\n\nPolling for housing charity Shelter estimated 226,785 are now in arrears despite having been up to date in March, out of a total of 442,403.\n\nIt said the figures showed the need for action before a ban on new evictions ends next month.\n\nThe government said those hit hardest would get \"appropriate protection\".\n\nA ban on new evictions of social or private tenants in England and Wales has been extended for two months and is currently due to end on 23 August.\n\nBut the charity Shelter is warning that the winding down of the government's furlough scheme could leave people even more exposed to eviction if they lose their jobs.\n\nA Shelter poll of 1,058 private renters in England conducted by YouGov estimated 442,403 of the country's 8.7m renters - roughly 5% - were in arrears in early June.\n\nOf them, 226,785 said they were up to date with payments in March, before the height of the pandemic.\n\nOf those who had contact with their landlord or letting agent since March, around 6% of those surveyed said they had been threatened with eviction.\n\nAround a third of respondents said they feel more depressed and anxious about their housing situation, with 30% also experiencing sleepless nights.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Polly Neate said thousands of renters were at risk of homelessness unless the government changed the law on evictions.\n\n\"We know people have been doing whatever they can to pay their rent and keep their home safe,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite this, the minute the evictions ban lifts, the 230,000 already behind with their rent could be up for automatic eviction if they've built up eight weeks-worth of arrears,\" she added.\n\nShe called on ministers to make \"small changes\" to eviction law to ensure no renter is automatically evicted, and the impact of Covid-19 is \"always considered\".\n\nThe Scottish government has amended legislation to prevent new evictions for up to six months for those struggling with arrears.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a requirement for a 12 week notice to quit period for all tenancies became law in May.\n\nResponding to Shelter's polling, Labour said emergency legislation was needed to protect renters from eviction.\n\nShadow housing secretary Thangam Debbonaire said: \"The government seems to be more interested in protecting landlords' incomes than preventing families from losing their homes in the middle of a deadly pandemic.\n\n\"Rough sleeping had more than doubled under the Tories before coronavirus.\n\n\"If we go back to business as usual, many thousands of people will find themselves sleeping on the streets this winter.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said it had taken \"unprecedented action to support renters during the pandemic\".\n\n\"We have introduced the furlough scheme to protect jobs, provided over £6.5bn to strengthen the welfare safety-net,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThey added the government had also made the housing benefit system more generous by increasing it to cover 30% of the average market rent in each area.\n\n\"We're working with the judiciary to provide appropriate protection to those who have been particularly affected by coronavirus when proceedings start again.\"\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association said it had produced guidance for tenants and landlords on how to best address rent arrears.\n\nIts policy director Chris Norris said eviction \"should not be seen as the inevitable outcome of getting behind with rent payments\".\n\n\"Our surveys show that the vast majority of landlords have been doing all they can to keep people in their homes,\" he added.", "TV presenter Kate Garraway says her husband, who was put into an induced coma in March, is now able to open his eyes.\n\nDerek Draper, a former political aide, was taken to hospital in March after contracting coronavirus.\n\n\"I really believe he can hear,\" the Good Morning Britain presenter has now told Hello! magazine..\n\n\"We're keeping positive and doing everything we can to bring him round.\"\n\nShe continued: \"When medical staff say: 'Good morning, Derek,' he sometimes opens his eyes. We and the doctors are doing everything we can so that he can start to recover.\"\n\n\"The children and I communicate with him every day on FaceTime, while a nurse holds his iPad.\"\n\nThe presenter and her family have not been able to visit Draper due to current hospital regulations.\n\nDraper is now coronavirus-free, but Garraway has previously said his body has been significantly damaged and may never recover.\n\nThe presenter confirmed to Hello! magazine that she now plans to return to work in an effort to bring structure back to her children's lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I have to get on with life whilst we are waiting for him to get better,\" she explained.\n\n\"They've told me that I need to go back to work and create a routine in our lives again. The children and Derek are all I've thought about and they're the most important people in my life, but I must create structure and normality for the children.\"\n\nLast month Garraway said it was \"a miracle\" her husband was still alive after his \"extraordinary\" battle with coronavirus.\n\n\"The fight with the virus has been won but it's wreaked extraordinary damage to his body,\" she said.\n\n\"It's affected him from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.\"\n\nGarraway and Draper married in 2005 and have two children.\n\nGarraway is a 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\nAt the end of March, Garraway 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.\n\nDraper 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\nDraper has remained in hospital since, and Garraway says doctors have told her he will not be out before September, when their son Billy starts secondary school.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "No new deaths of people with coronavirus have been reported by Public Health Wales (PHW).\n\nThis is the first day since March that PHW has not announced any additional deaths.\n\nHowever, deaths may be added or removed in future due to delays in reporting and currently figures show no deaths occurred on 18 June or on 3, 4 or 5 July.\n\nIn total, 1,531 people in Wales have died with the virus.\n\nMonday's update also showed eight new cases reported, meaning 15,898 people have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMonday's figures showed to date, 148,903 people have been tested for coronavirus in Wales, with 133,005 testing negative.\n\nA total of 198,875 tests have been carried out, with some people having been tested more than once.\n\nPHW publishes daily statistics of deaths, mostly occurring in hospitals, but only when the virus has been confirmed by laboratories.\n\nThey do not include deaths of residents from Powys in hospitals over the border in England.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics also publishes figures but on a weekly basis.\n\nThese include all registered deaths, including those in care homes and at home, where Covid-19 is suspected, as well as laboratory-confirmed cases.\n\nDr Phil White, from the British Medical Association in Wales, gave a cautious welcome to the announcement.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Gareth Lewis programme, he said he believed it was due to stricter lockdown measures in Wales.\n\n\"What we need to look at now is the trend over the next few days and weeks to see if this is maintained,\" he said.\n\n\"Scotland has maintained it for several days and hopefully Wales can do the same. It's a reflection of how well the policy has worked and the test and trace has been working in Wales.\n\n\"We've had stricter lockdown and its reflected in the zero death rate, similarly in Scotland, and because of this we've seen a more rapid improvement in the situation.\"\n\nIt is certainly very encouraging news that, for the first time since the middle of March, a daily update from Public Health Wales has recorded no newly reported deaths.\n\nHowever, given the way the figures are compiled there have been previous days where the statistics show no Covid-19 deaths occurred in Wales.\n\nPHW statistics, based on those who tested positive, show no deaths occurred on 18 June and also on 3, 4 and 5 July - although any deaths reported in coming days may be added to those most recent dates.\n\nAnd the more complete Office for National Statistics figures, based on death registration, also show no deaths occurred on 18 June.\n\nWith very small numbers, the statistics are always likely to bounce around a bit.\n\nBut a key point will be when the figures show no new deaths over a longer period of time.\n\nFind out how many people have confirmed cases in your area:\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many cases and deaths in your area? Enter a full UK postcode, English, Welsh or Northern Irish council name, or Scottish health board name to find out are death registrations where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. Source: ONS, NRS and NISRA – updated weekly. Although the numbers of deaths per 100,000 people shown in the charts above have not been weighted to account for variations in demography between local authorities, the virus is known to affect disproportionately older people, BAME people, and people from more deprived households or employed in certain occupations. include positive tests of people in hospital and healthcare workers (Pillar 1) and people tested in the wider population (Pillar 2). Public health bodies may occasionally revise their case numbers. Northern Ireland only publish new figures on weekdays. Source: UK public health bodies - updated daily.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The band have headlined Glastonbury and T In The Park\n\nKasabian star Tom Meighan is stepping down from the band after 23 years.\n\nThe singer behind hits like Fire, LSF and Empire is leaving \"by mutual consent\", the band said in a statement.\n\n\"Tom has struggled with personal issues that have affected his behaviour for quite some time,\" they said.\n\nThe 39-year-old \"now wants to concentrate all his energies on getting his life back on track\", the Leicester band added, before concluding: \"We will not be commenting further.\"\n\nMeighan was a founding member of the band in 1997 alongside guitarist Serge Pizzorno, naming themselves after Linda Kasabian, a member of the Charles Manson cult.\n\nThey went on to become one of England's biggest rock bands, with five of their six albums going to number one. They headlined the Glastonbury Festival in 2014 and won best British band at the 2010 Brit Awards.\n\nLast month, the group were due to play Solstice II - a huge homecoming gig at Leicester's Victoria Park - which was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMeighan opened up about his mental health in 2017, saying he had gone through a rough patch after separating from his partner Kim James, with whom he has a daughter, and the death of a close friend.\n\n\"Basically my life changed. I'm by myself. Because I lost myself,\" he told Q Magazine.\n\n\"I had to sort my head out. My attitude. Stuff I was doing. People I was associating with. Not bad people. I was the one that was bad.\"\n\nHe added: \"I was making myself ill, I ain't gonna lie, my mind was jolted. I wasn't taking responsibility and it affected everyone around me, horrendous.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nMaking Kasabian's next album For Crying Out Loud \"probably saved my life\", Meighan later admitted to the NME.\n\n\"It was just an escape for Tom to go, 'This is my band and these tunes are exciting,'\" said his bandmate Pizzorno. \"Being in the studio made him realise the good things that were going on.\"\n\nJust a couple of weeks ago, Meighan said work had commenced on Kasabian's seventh album.\n\n\"We need a seventh baby,\" he told Sky News. \"We're going to try and make a new record as soon as we can but we can't really do anything while we're restricted.\"\n\nThat interview suggests Meighan's departure from the band has been relatively abrupt. There is no indication on whether they will continue as a three-piece or hire a new frontman.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The frog has been nicknamed \"Asda\" after he was found among bananas in the store in Llanelli\n\nA stowaway exotic frog has ended up in a supermarket in Carmarthenshire after a 5,000-mile trip from South America.\n\nStaff at Asda in Llanelli spotted the thumb-sized amphibian among bunches of bananas and called the RSPCA.\n\nIt is thought the frog, nicknamed Asda, arrived from Colombia, where hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the fruit are produced and sent to the UK each year.\n\nIt is being cared for by specialists in Pembrokeshire where he is feasting on crickets and flies, rescuers say.\n\nRSPCA Cymru was alerted after an eagle-eyed member of staff spotted the frog while on shift at the Murray Street store on 29 June.\n\nAmphibians are capable of slowing down their metabolism under different environmental conditions, which is thought to be how the frog survived the long journey without food or water into a cooler climate.\n\nThe RSPCA has thanked Asda staff for spotting and caring for the frog\n\nAsda has now been transferred to Silent World Zoo To You, a marine life specialist centre in Haverfordwest where he will now live in a planted, humid environment.\n\nStaff at Silent World believe he is a banana tree frog.\n\n\"I thought I'd seen everything working for the RSPCA - but this banana-drama was a new one for me,\" said RSPCA inspector Gemma Cooper.\n\n\"This adventurous frog has travelled more than 5,000 miles amid a bunch of bananas, splitting from his native Colombia before ending up at a Llanelli superstore.\n\n\"It's certainly a long old journey for the weekly shop.\"\n\n'Asda' is now settling into his new home at a specialist centre in Pembrokeshire\n\nMs Cooper thanked staff at the Asda store for spotting the frog and caring for him until he could be rescued.\n\nFinding frogs among bananas is not a rare occurrence, according to Ginny Spenceley, from Silent World.\n\n\"With fruit deliveries no longer sprayed or treated, it isn't uncommon for a frog or spider to hitch a ride,\" she said.\n\n\"Fortunately, he's doing really well and, funnily enough, got very comfortable in a banana skin as we helped settle him into his new, less familiar surroundings.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singer Charlotte Church is among those saying there is \"no time to waste\" to save the arts Image caption: Singer Charlotte Church is among those saying there is \"no time to waste\" to save the arts\n\nThe £59m pledged for the arts in Wales from the UK government must be spent on the sector, a letter backed by singer Charlotte Church and scores of others in the creative sector demands.\n\nThe letter from Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price and culture spokewoman Sian Gwenllian calls on the Welsh Government to use the money \"in full\" on arts in Wales.\n\nThe money comes to Wales as part of a £1.5bn package for the industry from the UK government, to help organisations decimated by coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Welsh Government has welcomed the announcement, but said it does not commit extra cash arising from new spending in England until it has been considered by cabinet.\n\nHarpist Catrin Finch, comedian Kiri Pritchard-Mclean and the national poet of Wales Ifor ap Glyn are among 70 artists to have signed the letter.\n\n\"There is really no time to waste,\" it stated.\n\n\"If no action is taken immediately the industry is likely to collapse within a month.\n\n\"Thousands of jobs will be lost and the fallout will be irreversible.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said it wanted to see an emergency taskforce established to advise the Welsh Government, investment in the economy, and a \"clear plan to recovery\".", "Delays to cancer diagnosis and treatment due to coronavirus could cause thousands of excess deaths in the UK within a year, research suggests.\n\nScientists suggest there could be at least 7,000 additional deaths - but in a worst case scenario that number could be as high as 35,000.\n\nThere are concerns routine screenings, urgent referrals and treatments have been delayed or cancelled.\n\nNHS England said it was working hard to restore services.\n\nScientists examined data from eight hospital trusts and shared their findings exclusively with BBC Panorama.\n\nThe study, conducted by DATA-CAN, the Health Care Research Hub (HDR UK) for Cancer, modelled different outcomes depending on how long services take to get back to normal levels.\n\nIn a worst case scenario, if delays continue, there could be 35,000 additional cancer deaths within a year.\n\nProf Mark Lawler, Scientific Lead of DATA-CAN, told BBC Panorama: \"Initial data that we got was very worrying to us.\n\n\"Anecdotally, people have been telling us there were problems, but I think the critical thing was being able to actually have routine data from hospital trusts.\n\n\"Obviously scientists like to be right in terms of their analysis, but I hope I'm wrong in relation to that,\" he said.\n\nIt was the job of Peter Johnson, the National Clinical Director for Cancer NHS England, to draw up the guidelines on cancer treatment during Covid-19.\n\n\"We're working as fast as we can to put the services back together again, to restore the capacity and indeed to build more, so that we can deal with the people that have not been diagnosed during the time when the services have been running below 100%,\" he told BBC Panorama.\n\n\"I'm hoping that we will get back to where we need to be by the end of the year.\"\n\nNHS figures show there was a 60% drop in people visiting their GP and being referred for tests in April.\n\n\"There is a significant cohort of people who are very worried about coming anywhere near the NHS, because coming near the NHS means 'I'm going to get Covid, and therefore I'm going to get very, very ill,'\" said NHS GP Dr Gary Marlowe.\n\nThe rates of urgent cancer referrals were 45% below pre-emergency levels at the end of May, the most recent HDR UK research, shared with Panorama, showed.\n\n\"The guidelines for radiotherapy and Covid-19 advised people to delay and avoid radiotherapy in some circumstances,\" clinical oncologist Prof Pat Price told BBC Panorama.\n\n\"I think it was a very high risk strategy,\" she said.\n\nProf Price said there were radiotherapy machines in some hospitals \"lying idle which could have saved lives\".\n\n\"It has been safe to give radiotherapy during Covid-19, we know that now,\" she said.\n\n\"The machines are here but we haven't been allowed to switch them on properly.\n\nMr Johnson, from NHS England said: \"What we were concerned to do, when the virus was increasing very rapidly in the population, was to make sure that we could get the right balance between the risk of catching the virus, and the risk of having people's cancer get worse.\n\n\"And in particular, the risks and benefits of things like chemotherapy where, if the chemotherapy isn't absolutely crucial but it might be dangerous in terms of increasing your risk of coronavirus.\n\n\"This wasn't a kind of attempt to police who should have treatment and who shouldn't, it was more an attempt to try and help people think very clearly.\"\n\nYou can watch BBC Panorama's 'Britain's Cancer Crisis' on Monday 6 July at 7:30pm on BBC One, or afterwards on BBC iPlayer. You can also find extra content on the You, Me & the Big C podcast.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSouthampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl said Che Adams' first goal for the club was \"so important for him\" as the forward's spectacular strike earned Southampton victory over Manchester City in a lively encounter at St Mary's.\n\nAdams, who joined Saints from Birmingham City for £15m a year ago, lobbed goalkeeper Ederson with a first-time strike from 40 yards out after Oleksandr Zinchenko had surrendered possession in midfield.\n\nIt has taken 30 appearances for 23-year-old Adams to open his account for the Saints, after registering 22 goals in 46 Championship games last season.\n\n\"When you hear how much the guys were celebrating him as he went into the dressing room, then you know how happy they are he scored,\" Hasenhuttl said.\n\n\"He has always been working hard. He showed the trust we had in him to start him today was the right one.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola made six changes to the side which thrashed champions Liverpool 4-0 at Etihad Stadium on Thursday, with key playmaker Kevin de Bruyne among those initially rested.\n\nAdams' goal drew an intense reaction from City, as Fernandinho hit the post and the in-form Alex McCarthy kept out David Silva's header in the aftermath.\n\nThe visitors rarely let up thereafter but were repeatedly left frustrated by Saints goalkeeper McCarthy, whose one-handed save from Gabriel Jesus in the second half was the pick of several superb stops.\n\nSouthampton had chances of their own amid the increasing City pressure but neither Nathan Redmond nor Danny Ings could convert rare opportunities, while Ederson was alert to Stuart Armstrong's swerving shot.\n\nThere was to be no repeat of City's comeback to win the reverse fixture 2-1 in November and defeat leaves Guardiola's side 23 points behind Liverpool, who beat Aston Villa 2-0 earlier on Sunday.\n\nSouthampton welcomed Manchester City to St Mary's with 40 points already secured - a tally which saw them a reassuring 13 points clear of the relegation places prior to kick-off.\n\nThat return, with six games remaining, had already bettered their total haul in each of the past two seasons and allowed Hasenhuttl's side to approach Sunday's fixture without fear.\n\nAlthough City settled into the mesmerising passing that has hypnotised many other opponents, Southampton once again demonstrated the desire and determination which has seen them admirably recover from their humiliating 9-0 defeat by Leicester in October.\n\nAdams has had to wait for his opportunities in his first season at Southampton but his first goal in 456 days was one to savour as Stuart Armstrong robbed Zinchenko and the striker punished the wandering Ederson emphatically.\n\nThe hosts could have led after just six minutes but Nathan Redmond was unable to convert after Adams had gathered an uncharacteristic miskick by Aymeric Laporte.\n\nIngs went close from Kyle Walker-Peters' excellent cross, but it was in defence where Southampton supplied the heroics as the returning Jack Stephens led by example with brave blocks and vital clearances in front of the unbeatable McCarthy.\n\nEpitomising the commitment to the cause despite there being little to play for, striker Ings - unable to add to his tally in the race for the Golden Boot - was among those throwing their body in the way as Saints held on for a rare home victory. They have now taken 17 points from 17 home games this season.\n\nHasenhuttl's side were staring at a relegation fight halfway through this campaign, but in 13th with five matches to go they have officially secured their Premier League status for another season.\n\nManchester City's immediate response to officially being dethroned as Premier League champions was to dismantle Liverpool at Etihad Stadium.\n\nRaheem Sterling ominously claimed \"next season starts now\" after that result but, as Sunday's team news suggested, City's priorities now lie with the FA Cup and Champions League in a season in which they have already dropped more league points than in the previous two combined (33).\n\nA return to the consistency which had delivered back-to-back league titles is the task for Guardiola, given the sheer brilliance his team can produce on any given day - yet Sunday's defeat demonstrated that may take some work.\n\nZinchenko's error was typical of the momentary lapses in concentration that have cost City so dearly this campaign, though the visitors had ample opportunities to turn the game in their favour as they fired 26 shots at goal.\n\nJesus, with six of those attempts, was once again unable to provide the clinical touch in Sergio Aguero's absence, while De Bruyne and Phil Foden were unable to unlock a dogged Southampton defence following their second-half introductions.\n\nThe desire to recover a result was certainly evident in City's performance with Riyad Mahrez and Sterling both also going close, but with second place all but secure an FA Cup semi-final meeting with Arsenal on 18 July is where attentions surely now lie.\n• None Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has lost three consecutive away league games for the first time in his managerial career\n• None Southampton have ended a run of six consecutive Premier League defeats against Manchester City, with their first league victory against them since May 2016\n• None City have lost nine Premier League games this season, last losing more in a single campaign in 2015-16 under Manuel Pellegrini, when they lost 10\n• None Southampton have won 11 points against 'big six' sides in the Premier League this season - only Wolves (12) have won more outside of those 'big six' sides\n• None Che Adams' first goal for Southampton was the longest-range Premier League goal so far this season (39 yards). It arrived in his 25th appearance, with his 22nd shot in the competition\n• None Man City had 26 shots in this game. That's their highest tally in a Premier League match without scoring since March 2016, recording the same number against Manchester United\n• None This was the fifth time City have made six or more changes for a Premier League match this season. With 120, they have made 33 more changes than any other side during this campaign, ahead of Arsenal and Chelsea (87 each)\n\nManchester City host Newcastle on Wednesday (18:00 BST), while Southampton travel to Everton on Thursday (18:00).\n• None Binge on all three series of the hit comedy from BBC Three\n• None New versions of Alan Bennett's classics starring Jodie Comer, Martin Freeman and many more\n• None Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Nathan Redmond. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Most universities have seen their finances harmed by the pandemic\n\nThirteen universities face \"a very real prospect\" of insolvency following the coronavirus crisis unless they receive a government bailout, a study suggests.\n\nHigh-ranking universities with large numbers of international students face the largest immediate drop in income, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nBut the least prestigious universities are at the greatest risk, says the IFS.\n\nThe IFS does not name the universities, but says a targeted government bailout would be the most cost-effective plan.\n\nThe fallout from Covid-19 \"poses a significant financial threat\" across UK higher education, with most institutions left with reduced net assets, says the analysis.\n\nThey say the total size of the sector's losses is \"highly uncertain\" - anywhere between £3bn and £19bn, or between 7.5% and almost half the sector's annual income.\n\nThe researchers' central estimate is an £11bn loss, amounting to a quarter of the sector's annual income.\n\nIn addition, universities which are running pension scheme deficits will see them widen during the pandemic as investments stagnate.\n\nBut there are big variations between institutions, says the study.\n\nUniversities with many international students which also have substantial pension obligations are often also higher-ranking institutions, with \"large financial buffers\" and the option of alleviating losses by admitting more UK-based students.\n\nBut this behaviour could harm less selective universities, which could see their potential students recruited by higher-ranking institutions.\n\nWithout significant redundancies, which would impact on teaching quality, universities are unlikely to be able to claw back much of the losses through cost savings, the researchers warn.\n\nSome universities went into the crisis with far stronger finances than others, they add.\n\n\"Our analysis shows it is not the universities with the greatest losses, but the institutions in the weakest financial positions before the crisis, that are at the greatest risk of insolvency,\" they conclude.\n\nThe researchers do not name names but, under their central estimate, suggest 13 universities, out of the UK's 165 higher education institutions, would end up with negative reserves \"and thus may not be viable in the long run without a government bailout or debt restructuring\".\n\nLess selective universities may face tougher competition for UK-based students\n\nThe analysis, which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation, suggests a targeted bailout aimed at \"keeping these institutions afloat could cost just £140m\".\n\nIFS research economist Elaine Drayton said a targeted bailout would be by far the cheapest option.\n\n\"However, rescuing failing institutions may weaken incentives for others to manage their finances prudently in future,\" she warned.\n\n\"General increases in research funding avoid this problem, but are unlikely to help the institutions that are most at risk, as few of them are research active.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students said the crisis had \"exposed many of the flaws inherent in running our education like a market\".\n\n\"When funding is so unstable, it's no wonder that our universities and the jobs of thousands of academic and support staff are now at risk,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are of course especially concerned about the risk to students that this instability poses.\"\n\nThe University and College Union's general secretary, Jo Grady, called on the government \"to step in and guarantee lost funding for universities so they can weather this crisis and lead our recovery on the other side\".\n\n\"We need a comprehensive support package that protects jobs, preserves our academic capacity and guarantees all universities' survival,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said a government package announced in May, allows UK universities to access business support and job retention schemes, while the sector will also benefit from the pulling forward of £2.6bn in tuition fee payments to ease cash flow problems.\n\nAdditionally, research focused universities across the UK will see 80% of fees lost from international students covered by government, alongside £280m in extra research funding.\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, said the body had been working closely with government on proposals to support universities.\n\nNicola Dandridge, chief executive of the universities watchdog for England, urged all registered higher education providers to inform the Office for Students if they encountered financial difficulties.\n\n\"In these circumstances, we will be proactive in ensuring students' interests are protected, including helping make sure that students can find an appropriate course elsewhere should any provider close,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere is no shortage of websites that, for the right fee, will help you trace your ancestry. Some even offer step-by-step instructions on how to complete a DNA test to pinpoint the global region you may belong to.\n\nJust pop a small sample of saliva into a container in a prepaid envelope, send it off to be analysed against hundreds of thousands of genetic markers, and a couple of months later, voila.\n\nI know I'm Afro-Caribbean, born in Bolton to parents who came to the UK from Jamaica in the 1960s.\n\nI know my grandmother on my mum's side spent a few years in Panama as a child, when her father, my great-grandad, worked on the building of the Panama Canal.\n\nBeyond that, I have no clue who I am.\n\nThat's because, like virtually all British West Indians, my lineage extends back to Africa and the transatlantic slave trade.\n\nI know I'm likely to have come from somewhere in West Africa, but which country? I haven't the foggiest.\n\nDoes this matter to me? Yes, it does. We all want to feel rooted with a clear connection to the past.\n\nDeep roots help steady us, give us confidence, hold us upright. When those roots aren't there, when the branches of the family tree are broken, there's a sadness and a sense you're almost floating through life, untethered to the ground.\n\nThis is one of the toxic legacies of empire, and part of the debate currently raging about the veneration of men - and they're overwhelmingly men - whose likenesses in statues dot the British landscape in towns and city centres.\n\nThese are people whose lives and achievements were - shall we say - complicated, and the people who raised the money to erect their statues chose to focus on the \"good\" they did in life, not the bad.\n\nTake Edward Colston, 17th Century Bristol merchant and deputy governor of the Royal African Company, which held a monopoly on the English trade in African slaves.\n\nHe made a fortune out of human bondage, but you wouldn't know it to read the words at the base of his statue in Bristol city centre - \"Erected by citizens of Bristol as a memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons… AD 1895.\"\n\nOn the west-facing relief, Colston is depicted dispensing charity to poor children; on the north he is shown at the harbour; on the east is a scene with marine horses, mermaids, and anchors.\n\nBut nowhere to be seen is any depiction of the more than 80,000 slaves he helped to put in chains and send to the plantations of the British Caribbean territories - that's if they managed to survive the terrible Atlantic voyage at all.\n\nThe people who erected Colston's statue in the late 19th Century decided their version of this man's history was more palatable and more valid. It was his philanthropy that won the day, not his slave trading.\n\nBut a new generation isn't willing to absolve Colston any longer.\n\nHis statue was pulled down by a large crowd of people in front of the world's media, and now an updated city-wide school curriculum for primary and secondary pupils is due to come into force in Bristol in September.\n\nThat curriculum will provide a more comprehensive analysis of Bristol's role in the Atlantic slave trade, and context for the life of men like Edward Colston.\n\nA protester kneels on the neck of the bronze statue of Colston\n\nAsha Craig is the deputy mayor of Bristol and the descendant of Jamaican immigrants. She's one of the driving forces behind the new curriculum and she told me it had been a key objective of councillors to look at the legacy of the city, because we all have to know our own history.\n\n\"Education,\" she says, \"is what will help eliminate racism.\"\n\nChildren need to understand early on that history has many perspectives, that memory can be multidimensional.\n\nYes, the UK had a great empire, but there was a dark side to that supremacy, and racism was the rocket fuel of conquest.\n\nIn the weeks since the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, there has been a global soul-searching over racism and its causes.\n\nThere has been much discussion of the \"othering\" of individuals and whole peoples, and how to tackle discrimination and unequal treatment of some in society.\n\nGreater knowledge and awareness of history is a good first step.\n\nThe protesters in Bristol, after pulling down the statue of Edward Colston, dragged him through the city centre and dumped him in the harbour, near where his ships set sail for West Africa with goods that would be traded for slaves.\n\nI managed to track down where the statue eventually ended up, in a warehouse covered in mud after having been fished from the water.\n\nCouncil conservation workers are now trying to preserve the various pieces of graffiti that the protesters spray-painted on Colston in red.\n\nI peered down on Colston's oversized face and reflected on the irony of me, a second-generation immigrant of Jamaican parents, now looking down on the man who may even have helped ship my ancestors into slavery, having branded into their backs the letters RAC - for Royal African Company.\n\nHe was beneath my gaze, not the other way round.\n\nAt some point, he'll be placed back on his plinth, probably in a museum with a plaque outlining not just his philanthropy, but also his slave trading.\n\nA reminder that, ultimately, history and memory belong to us all, not just the victors.\n\nRead more stories about the legacies of British colonial rule and how it is still affecting people today:", "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.", "Historian David Starkey has said using comments denounced as racist during a discussion about slavery were \"a bad mistake\" for which he is \"very sorry\".\n\nHe apologised \"unreservedly\" for the offence his \"deplorably inflammatory\" words had caused, saying he had spoken \"with awful clumsiness\".\n\nThe academic and author told an online show that slavery was not genocide as \"so many damn blacks\" had survived.\n\nHis comments were widely condemned and saw him lose several university posts.\n\nCambridge University's Fitzwilliam College, Canterbury Christ Church University and The Mary Rose Trust were among the organisations to cut ties with him.\n\nStarkey made the offensive remarks in an episode of Darren Grimes's Reasoned, entitled \"Dr David Starkey: Black Lives Matter Aims To Delegitimate British History.\"\n\nGrimes, a conservative commentator, also distanced himself from his guest's remarks, saying he rejected what Starkey said on his YouTube show \"in the strongest possible terms\".\n\nIn a statement released on Monday, Starkey said he had \"paid a heavy price for one offensive word with the loss of every distinction and honour acquired in a long career\".\n\nSpeaking about his use of the phrase \"so many damn blacks\", he said: \"It was intended to emphasise, in hindsight with awful clumsiness, the numbers who survived the horrors of the slave trade. Instead, it came across as a term of racial abuse.\n\n\"This, in the present atmosphere, where passions are high and feelings raw, was deplorably inflammatory. It was a bad mistake.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am very sorry for it and I apologise unreservedly for the offence it caused.\n\n\"Moreover, this misunderstanding of my words in no way reflects my views or practice on race.\n\n\"I have lived and worked happily and without conflict in multicultural London for almost 50 years and I spent much of the podcast discussing bi-culturalism as a key to the success of Britain's multicultural society.\"\n\nStarkey's original interview sparked a backlash, including from former chancellor Sajid Javid, who said Starkey's \"racist\" comments were a \"reminder of the appalling views that still exist\".\n\nPublisher HarperCollins said he had expressed \"abhorrent\" views and added it would no longer publish any of his books.\n\nDuring the original discussion, Starkey said slavery \"was not genocide\" because \"otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.\"\n\nStarkey said he had spoken \"with awful clumsiness\"\n\nHe also claimed that the Black Lives Matter protests, following the death of George Floyd, had been characterised by \"violence\", \"victimhood\" and the \"deranged\" pulling down of statues.\n\nHe continued: \"As for the idea that slavery is this kind of terrible disease that dare not speak its name, it only dare not speak its name, Darren, because we settled it nearly 200 years ago.\n\n\"We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.\"\n\nIn his statement, Starkey said free speech was \"central\" to British history and that he feared his \"blundering use of language\" would \"restrict the opportunities for proper debate\".\n\n\"For it is only open debate that will heal the divisions in our society that the Black Lives Matter movement has both exposed and expressed,\" he concluded.\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 Athletics\n\nBritish sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner have accused the Metropolitan Police of racial profiling and acting violently towards them.\n\nEuropean and Commonwealth relay gold medallist Williams, 26, and Portuguese 400m record holder Ricardo dos Santos were stopped in a vehicle in London.\n\nThey fear they were targeted because they are black and drive a Mercedes.\n\nPolice say the vehicle had been on the wrong side of the road and the driver sped off when asked to stop.\n\nOfficers were patrolling in the Maida Vale area because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nA police statement said: \"Officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards have reviewed both footage from social media, and the body-worn video of the officers, and are satisfied that there is no concern around the officers' conduct.\"\n\nWhen can the police stop and search you? In most cases in England and Wales, police can only stop and search you (or your vehicle) if they have \"reasonable grounds\" that you might be carrying:\n• None Something that could be used to carry out a crime, like a crowbar Reasonable grounds for stopping someone cannot be based on race or whether the person is a known criminal. Instead, officers must base it on current intelligence (has there been a recent crime in the area, for example) and make balanced judgement calls on the behaviour of the suspect. In this case, the Metropolitan Police says there had been an increase in violent crime in the area and that the car in question was driving suspiciously. Bianca Williams denies this. If you are stopped, you have a number of rights. This includes being told the reason why you are being stopped, what they expect to find on you and information on how to receive records of the search.\n\nWilliams and 25-year-old Dos Santos, who are training for next year's Tokyo Olympics, told the Times they plan to formally complain at being pulled from their car for a weapons search when returning home from a training session.\n\nThey say police handcuffed them while their three-month-old son was on board and carried out a search that lasted 45 minutes.\n\nDos Santos, who plans to meet lawyers on Monday, said that he had been stopped by police as many as 15 times since they changed their car to a Mercedes in November 2017.\n\nVideo of the incident showed them protesting that they had done nothing wrong and Williams screaming \"my son is in the car\".\n\nThe police statement said that at about 13:25 BST on Saturday officers from the Territorial Support Group \"witnessed a vehicle with blacked-out windows that was driving suspiciously, including driving on the wrong side of the road\".\n\nThe statement added: \"They indicated for it to stop but it failed to do so and made off at speed. The officers caught up with the vehicle when it stopped on Lanhill Road. The driver initially refused to get out of the car.\"\n\nAfter searching Williams and Dos Santos, and the vehicle, nothing was found and no arrests were made.\n\nThe incident was first raised on social media by their coach, 1992 Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who accused the police of abusing their power and institutionalised racism.\n\nWilliams, the fifth-fastest British woman in history over 200m, and Dos Santos said that a written report given to them by police did not mention driving on the wrong side of the road, and that where they stopped is a single car-width road.", "About 10,000 patients who have had the disease are expected to take part in the study\n\nFour Scottish universities will take part in a new UK research study into the long-term health impacts of Covid-19 on hospitalised patients.\n\nThe Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Glasgow are among 25 UK organisations in the PHOSP-COVID study.\n\nThe £8.4m project is one of a number of Covid-19 studies given urgent public health research status by the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nAbout 10,000 patients are expected to participate in the next year.\n\nMore than 1,000 of the patients in the study are expected to come from Scotland.\n\nThe study is being led by the National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre.\n\nIt will attempt to understand why some people recover more quickly than others and why some patients develop subsequent health problems.\n\nThe study will also identifying the most effective treatments received in hospital or afterwards and how to improve patient care after they are discharged.\n\nPatients on the study will be assessed using techniques such as advanced imaging, data collection and analysis of blood and lung samples.\n\nThe PHOSP-COVID team will then develop trials of new strategies for clinical care.\n\nProf James Chalmers of Dundee University is the Scottish lead on the study.\n\nHe said: \"Many of my patients feel forgotten because all of the focus has been on treating and preventing the immediate effects of the virus.\n\n\"The message today is that you have not been forgotten and those patients still struggling weeks and months after Covid are going to get the support and research they need.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: 'It's not going to be easy... but it needs to be done'\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spoken to young leaders about equal rights - with Harry saying the wrongs of the past need to be acknowledged.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan dialled into the Queen's Commonwealth Trust weekly video call, which focused on responding to the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nHarry, president of the QCT, told them: \"There is no turning back now, everything is coming to a head.\"\n\nHis wife Meghan added that equality is a fundamental human right.\n\nThe duchess, vice president of QCT, said on the call: \"We're going to have to be a little uncomfortable right now, because it's only in pushing through that discomfort that we get to the other side of this and find the place where a high tide raises all ships.\n\n\"Equality does not put anyone on the back foot, it puts us all on the same footing - which is a fundamental human right.\"\n\nThe couple, speaking from their Los Angeles home, said they had discussed the issues many times in the past weeks.\n\nThe call took place last week but details about it have just been released\n\nThe duke said on the 1 July call: \"When you look across the Commonwealth, there is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past.\n\n\"So many people have done such an incredible job of acknowledging the past and trying to right those wrongs, but I think we all acknowledge there is so much more still to do.\n\n\"It's not going to be easy and in some cases it's not going to be comfortable, but it needs to be done, because, guess what, everybody benefits.\"\n\nHe added that \"all of us have been educated to see the world differently\" but that it was important to acknowledge unconscious bias exists and then \"do the work to become more aware\".\n\nOn the call, they joined Chrisann Jarrett, co-founder of We Belong, which is led by young people who migrated to the UK; Alicia Wallace, director of Equality Bahamas; Mike Omoniyi, founder of The Common Sense Network, and Abdullahi Alim, who leads the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers.\n\nPrince Harry joked he was \"ageing\", as a 35-year-old - prompting his wife to retort \"that's not ageing!\" - but that he felt optimistic about change when speaking to the young people.\n\n\"This change is needed and it's coming,\" he said. \"The optimism and the hope that we get is from listening and speaking to people like you, because there is no turning back now, everything is coming to a head.\n\n\"Solutions exist and change is happening far quicker than it ever has done before.\"\n\nQCT has been running weekly discussions with young people, looking at different forms of injustice.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan kept their roles with the trust after stepping down as senior working royals earlier this year. As part of that move, he stepped down from his position as Commonwealth Youth Ambassador.", "Bianca Williams won European and Commonwealth gold in the 4x100m relay in 2018\n\nMet Police bosses say they want to speak to a Team GB sprinter who is accusing officers of racially profiling her in a stop and search.\n\nBianca Williams and Ricardo dos Santos, a Portuguese 400m runner, were stopped in Maida Vale, west London on Saturday.\n\nMs Williams, whose three-month-old son was in the car at the time, called it an \"awful experience\".\n\nCdr Helen Harper said she was \"really keen\" to speak to the couple \"to discuss... the concerns they have\".\n\nThe Met had said that officers were patrolling the area in which Ms Williams was stopped because of an increase in youth violence.\n\nBut the European and Commonwealth Games gold medallist believes the couple were targeted because they are black and were driving a Mercedes.\n\n\"They [the officers] said there's a lot of youth violence and stabbings in the area and that the car looked very suspicious,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"They see a black male driving a nice car, an all-black car, and they assume that he was involved in some sort of gang, drug, violence problem.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter after being posted by former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, who questioned why the vehicle had been targeted\n\nIn a statement on Sunday evening the Met said the Mercedes was stopped after it was seen driving suspiciously, including being on the wrong side of the road, and that the driver had sped off when asked to stop.\n\nBut this was rejected by Ms Williams, who said: \"That is false, we were never on the wrong side of the road. We were driving down through single-width roads.\n\n\"We only found out about us driving on the wrong side of the road once they tweeted.\n\n\"This isn't the first or fourth or fifth time, it must be about the 10th. It's getting ridiculous.\n\n\"We are planning on taking it down the legal route. I feel very hurt by their actions, and to witness my partner being taken away and for me to be taken away from my son, my heart hurts.\"\n\nMr Dos Santos and Ms Williams say police handcuffed them while their son was in the car\n\nThe Met said officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards had reviewed footage from social media and officers' bodycams and were satisfied there was no concern around the officers' conduct during the stop and search of the two athletes.\n\n\"That does not mean there isn't something to be learnt from every interaction we have with the public,\" Cdr Helen Harper said.\n\n\"We want to listen to, and speak with, those who raise concerns, to understand more about the issues raised and what more we can do to explain police actions.\n\n\"Where we could have interacted in a better way, we need to consider what we should have done differently and take on that learning for the future.\"\n\nSocial media clips of police incidents must be treated with great care.\n\nOften what you see is a short segment of an event that has gone on for some time; background information and context are seldom provided.\n\nIn this case, there are conflicting accounts as to what happened and why - which only an investigation is likely to resolve.\n\nNevertheless, the incident has reignited claims stop and search is being targeted at black people, particularly young men, and has given rise to concerns that handcuffs are being deployed unnecessarily, despite police guidance saying they should not be.\n\nIt appears the tactic, which Scotland Yard says has helped to reduce knife violence in London, remains as controversial and divisive as it's always been.\n\nSpeaking at a remote hearing of the House of Commons Human Rights Committee earlier, Baroness Lawrence said it was \"ludicrous\" that black people could not drive around in expensive cars.\n\n\"Stop and search will continue to be an element young people go through on a day-to-day basis,\" said the campaigner, whose murdered son was failed by an \"institutionally racist\" Met Police.\n\n\"And when they are stopped, it is not just one officer or two officers, you have six or seven officers standing around one individual, a young person who is probably frightened to death because he doesn't know what is going to happen to him.\n\n\"So if now people have mobile phones and start recording what is happening to them, we have the issues where police say it is one thing and the individual says it's another, and the authority believes the police over the individual.\n\n\"That is something that continues to happen.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The mother of Stephen Lawrence described being stopped by police while driving home after midnight\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he took allegations of racial profiling \"extremely seriously\" and he had raised the case with the Met.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Complaints said it has not yet received an official complaint.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A senior fire engineer did not think putting cladding on Grenfell Tower would pose any \"issues\" for safety, the inquiry into the disaster has heard.\n\nThe hearing was also told Clare Barker was under \"huge time pressure\" when a safety strategy was produced in 2012.\n\nSitting for the first time since March, the inquiry is looking at how cladding came to cover the west London building.\n\nThe inquiry has concluded that cladding fuelled the fire in June 2017 that killed 72 people.\n\nWarrington-based Dr Barker said she was involved with the refurbishment project only between July and August 2012, and that she then passed on the project to her London-based colleague, Terry Ashton, who was off ill during her involvement.\n\nDr Barker, the former principal fire engineer at materials testing company Exova, told the inquiry she did not raise the need for any proposed cladding system to have a separate fire safety assessment during a meeting in July 2012.\n\nThe inquiry's chief lawyer, Richard Millett QC, asked Dr Barker: \"Given that you knew Grenfell Tower would be overclad, although not the details, did you raise the need to carry out a fire assessment specifically in relation to the proposed cladding system as the proposal then stood?\"\n\nMr Millett also asked: \"At the time, did you consider that cladding this building would present any particular issues or problems with regard to fire safety?\"\n\nAn early fee proposal by Exova for a fire assessment of Grenfell Tower in 2012 also assumed a \"detailed appraisal\" of the building's fire compartmentation was unnecessary because it was a \"concrete building\", she told the hearing.\n\nExova has previously said criticism of it is \"unjustified\" because it was not consulted about the flammable materials that eventually coated the building in North Kensington.\n\nThe firm's counsel, Michael Douglas QC, has told the inquiry the company had been \"left out\" of planning discussions and had been effectively sidelined after Rydon became the main contractor in 2014.\n\nDr Barker's evidence came as a group representing victims, survivors and the bereaved called for the inquiry to \"investigate the extent of institutional racism as a factor\" in the tragedy.\n\nThe Grenfell Next Of Kin group also called for \"inclusive and full participation\" in plans for the memorial site and a \"proper and independent recovery and support plan\" for those directly affected by the disaster.\n\nAfter considering the night of the fire during the initial stage of the inquiry, the second phase is looking at the refurbishment of the building.\n\nThe hearings were resuming after being halted in March over coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBut survivors and those bereaved by the blaze have criticised the inquiry for holding limited attendance hearings to comply with social distancing, with only witnesses, some lawyers, and panel members allowed in the inquiry building.\n\nNabil Choucair, who lost six relatives in the tragedy, said: \"We should be allowed to see their faces.\n\n\"We are the families that have had our families taken from us.\"", "Rebekah Vardy says the row with Coleen Rooney made her a \"scapegoat\"\n\nRebekah Vardy felt \"suicidal\" following her row with Coleen Rooney last year, new court documents reveal.\n\nColeen Rooney, 34, claimed on social media that fake stories she posted on her private Instagram account were then published in the tabloids.\n\nShe said she deliberately made stories only viewable to Vardy - which then made it into The Sun.\n\nRebekah Vardy, 38, denies all allegations against her and is currently suing Rooney for defamation.\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 documents, written by Rebekah Vardy's lawyers, say the fallout from the claim affected her mental and physical health - and the health of her family too.\n\nThey say \"she suffered from severe panic attacks and anxiety which manifested in being scared to leave the house\".\n\nVardy, who was seven months pregnant at the time of Rooney's post, \"was taken to hospital three times while pregnant as she suffered anxiety attacks as a result of the post and the repercussions of it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rebekah Vardy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther details included say her husband, Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, was targeted with verbal abuse at games that took place after the post with chants like \"Becky Vardy's a grass\".\n\nRebekah Vardy says she was at some of the games where the chants could be heard and found the situation \"horrific and extremely distressing\" because she was there with her children.\n\nColeen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy were pictured together at Euro 2016\n\nRebekah Vardy's lawyers say she was made to feel like a \"scapegoat\" and they also claim Rooney posted \"in a calculated and deliberate manner that was designed to cause very serious harm and enormous distress.\"\n\nThe original post by Rooney, who is married to former England International Wayne, has nearly 300,000 likes on Twitter and 200,000 on Instagram.\n\nEvidence presented also includes screenshots of some of the comments Rebekah Vardy has received on social media after Coleen Rooney's post and states she \"suffered and continues to suffer severe and extreme hostility and abuse as a result of the post\".\n\nVardy's lawyers say the accusations made against her have caused \"serious harm\" to her reputation, \"personality, integrity and honesty\".\n\n\"She has been targeted by online trolls and attacked on social media platforms including but not limited to Twitter and Instagram; as well as via readers' comments on articles relating to the post,\" they say.\n\n\"The abuse was so extreme that the claimant was forced to use filters on her Instagram account to prevent certain words from being published under her posts.\"\n\nNewsbeat has approached Coleen Rooney's lawyers for comment on Rebekah Vardy's new claims.\n\n\"It is disappointing that Mrs Vardy has chosen to issue court proceedings,\" Coleen's lawyer, Paul Lunt of Brabners, said in June, before the case began.\n\n\"Coleen feels that the time and money involved could be put to better use; her offer to meet face to face still stands.\n\n\"Mrs Vardy's decision to issue court proceedings does at least mean that Coleen's evidence can be made public when the time is right.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police made Hari an honorary child police officer before he left for home\n\nA four-year-old boy has been given a special send off after spending 28 months in hospital.\n\nHari Jones from Caernarfon in Gwynedd has myotubular myopathy, which means the muscles he uses to breathe and swallow do not work.\n\nMerseyside Police gave him a guard of honour as he left on Tuesday.\n\nHis father Michael Jones said he had spent so much time at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool he had developed a Scouse accent.\n\nLater the family were met by a police biker and a roads policing BMW and escorted home with blue lights.\n\nHe has also been made an honorary child police officer.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme Mr Jones said: \"It was a hard and long time.\"\n\nAt one point both Hari and his father were in intensive care in separate hospitals after Mr Jones suffered a clot in his liver.\n\nThe family lost their home as Mr Jones was too unwell to work.\n\nHari needs to continually be on oxygen\n\nMany with Hari's condition do not survive their first year of life.\n\nMr Jones said of his son's condition: \"It's life limiting, he'll never get better.\n\n\"He's on life support 24/seven. A lot needs to be learned about the condition. There are only 17 cases, I think, in Britain.\"\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has meant Hari has had to go home to an unsuitable house as building work had to stop on a new home being built that can accommodate his wheelchair.\n\nHis father said: \"It was important to get him out of the hospital. He was isolated in the hospital in one room.\"\n\nHis parents had to take it in turns to see him.\n\n\"He now has a temporary bedroom in the living room but he can't get in and out of the house. There's no room in the house but we make it work.\"\n\nPC Scott Martin from North Wales Police's roads policing unit said: \"We know that Hari loves the emergency services so we were only too happy to oblige.\n\n\"It was lovely to see his face light up today when we turned up to welcome him back home. We wish him and his family all the best with settling back at home and we hope to see him again very soon.\"", "Jordan Sinnott played for Matlock Town and his previous clubs included Huddersfield Town, Altrincham, Halifax and Chesterfield\n\nA man accused of hitting a footballer with a \"haymaker\" punch before he died told a court he \"could never be any more sorry\".\n\nKai Denovan, 22, denies the manslaughter of Jordan Sinnott during a night out in Retford, Nottinghamshire.\n\nAfter Mr Denovan hit Mr Sinnott, the defendant's friend continued punching him, Nottingham Crown Court heard.\n\nMr Denovan had denied common assault and affray but admitted the charges while giving evidence.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Denovan did not strike the fatal blow on 25 January, but did \"drive\" the attack on the 25-year-old which led to his death.\n\nMr Sinnott was found unconscious by emergency crews at about 02:00 GMT on 25 January\n\nThe court was told there was a \"scuffle\" in The Vine Pub where Mr Denovan, of Collins Walk, Retford, punched Mr Sinnott.\n\nThe Matlock Town footballer and his two friends then left while Mr Denovan and his friends Cameron Matthews and Sean Nicholson followed shortly after.\n\nIn evidence, Mr Denovan, who admitted he was drunk and has a \"blurred\" memory of the night, said: \"As far as I was concerned, what had happened in there was done and it was time to go. I was leaving as it was closing.\"\n\nWhen he saw Mr Sinnott and his friends again he wanted to \"resolve the situation\" and had \"no intention\" of fighting, the court heard.\n\nHowever, the court was told the defendant hit Mr Sinnott with \"haymaker punch\" and was then pulled away, but Matthews punched Mr Sinnott three more times.\n\nMr Denovan said after leaving the pub, he went over to Mr Sinnott to try to \"resolve\" the situation and ask \"what his problem was\"\n\nMr Denovan said when he left the scene he did not know Mr Sinnott was seriously injured.\n\nHe told the court when he learned that Mr Sinnott was in intensive care and later died, he did not realise he \"had owt to do with it\".\n\nHe said: \"I did not see anything that could have caused death from what I remembered.\"\n\nWhen he realised what had happened, he said: \"It was the worse day of my life. I was heartbroken. Heartbroken for everyone involved - for his [Mr Sinnott's] family and for him.\"\n\nMatthews, 21, of Denman Close in Retford, has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Nicholson 22, of Beechways, Retford, has admitted affray.\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.", "Small business owners in Edinburgh said they cannot afford to keep giving NHS worker discounts\n\nSmall business owners in Edinburgh said they cannot afford to keep giving NHS worker discounts and have asked workers to stop asking for them.\n\nSome business owners said they had been asked up to 100 times for deductions on food bills by NHS staff over the four-month lockdown period.\n\nSome larger retailers have advertised discounts to NHS staff.\n\nNHS Lothian said it was \"not appropriate or acceptable to request free or discounted foods\".\n\nMohammed Alam, manager of Morningside Spice on Edinburgh's Morningside Road, said he had never seen business so bad in the 17 years he had been working in the restaurant.\n\nHe said: \"I have had about 100 NHS staff asking for discounts over the last four months.\n\n\"I have been happy to give NHS staff discounts when they have asked for it during the lockdown but now it is becoming more difficult for us.\n\n\"There is a big mental health hospital and a nursing home near here and that's where they have been coming from to ask for discounts.\n\n\"Business is not going in the right direction because of the lockdown situation so we can't keep giving the discounts like we have been doing.\n\n\"I also voluntarily gave Marie Curie in Fairmilehead 25 meals during the lockdown so I have been doing every thing I can to help but now we are struggling.\n\n\"Before the lockdown I would have about 80 people sitting in the restaurant on Friday nights and the same on Saturdays but now I'm down to between two to eight people on weekend nights, so business is very much down.\"\n\nMohammed Alam, manager of Morningside Spice in Edinburgh, said he had never seen business so bad in the 17 years he had been working in the restaurant\n\nMohammed Parvez, 55, who is the owner of the Indian restaurant Rannaghor in Edinburgh's Currie area, said he had been receiving three to four requests a week from NHS workers asking for discounts.\n\nHe said: \"I've just been giving it to them because they have been asking me but the business hasn't been doing so well so it is very hard to give discounts.\n\n\"I have helped the NHS with the discounts and now I'm asking everyone to support us so we can survive.\n\n\"The situation is getting worse and worse and I am just a little businessman so it is very hard.\"\n\nMohammed Parvez owner of the Rannaghor in Edinburgh's Currie area said it was very hard to give discounts at the moment\n\nAn Edinburgh fish and chip owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: \"I had a call from a nurse at a hospital asking for a free meal for her colleagues, it was five suppers and came to about £40.\n\n\"I asked her why and she said because it would help with all the stress they were going through at the moment.\n\n\"A week later two nurses in their uniforms came into my shop and one asked for a discount and when I said no she started arguing with me. I was saying you earn a full wage but she kept asking and asking until her colleague stepped in and said enough and told her to pay.\n\n\"Last night I had a man who said he was a paramedic who asked for an NHS discount but when my staff said no he was fine about it.\n\n\"I like to help everyone but unfortunately there is only so much we can do.\n\n\"NHS staff keep asking and it's not right. It would make our life much easier if they would please stop asking for discounts.\"\n\nJanis Butler, NHS Lothian's director of human resources and organisational development, said: \"We have been humbled by the support of our communities right across Edinburgh and the Lothians during the pandemic.\n\n\"Local business, schools, organisations and individual members of the public made many generous offers of food and supplies to our staff and patients at the height of the pandemic.\n\n\"We offer our thanks again to them all for these extraordinarily generous gestures of their appreciation for the hard work and dedication of our staff.\n\n\"The overwhelming majority of our staff know that it is not appropriate or acceptable to request free or discounted foods and we would expect all our staff to treat traders with courtesy and respect.\"\n\nShe added that they had not received any complaints from local businesses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The disruption to schools could cause economic harm for decades, say researchers\n\nThe school time lost because of the pandemic could harm the UK economy for the next 65 years, research published by the Royal Society suggests.\n\nThe study says the disruption to lessons will have a negative impact on the future skills of the workforce.\n\nThe research group, including academics from Cambridge and Bristol universities, says it will cost billions in a reduced growth rate.\n\nGetting pupils back to school must be a priority, says the study.\n\nThe report is from an inter-disciplinary group of experts, convened by the Royal Society to measure the long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIt says there is a \"huge base of evidence\" showing that earnings are linked to education and skills - and that losing so much time in school will have negative economic consequences.\n\nUnless catch-up lessons are effective, researchers predict a 3% loss in future annual earnings for pupils caught up in the pandemic.\n\nThe year groups currently in school will all have been affected, says the study, which means the impact will be felt throughout the decades of their adult working lives, stretching into the 2080s.\n\n\"Around a quarter of the entire workforce will have lower skills, with a consequently lower growth rate,\" says the research.\n\nEvidence of long-term damage from reduced schooling included studies in Argentina, where year groups affected by prolonged strikes were found to have reduced average earnings into mid-life, of 1.9% for women and 3.2% for men.\n\nThe researchers call for the safe return to school to be a top priority and for clear plans to minimise the risk of any further disruptions.\n\n\"We know how damaging it is for children to miss out on school,\" said Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol.\n\n\"While we have to do all we can to reduce the risk of transmission, we do need to get our children back to school,\" said Prof Burgess.\n\nThis damage will not be evenly spread from the pandemic, says the study, with those already disadvantaged likely to be among those who have missed out most from trying to study at home, rather than face-to-face in the classroom.\n\n\"Children from low-income households in particular are more likely to lack the resources - space, equipment, home support - to engage fully with remote learning,\" said Anna Vignoles, professor of education at the University of Cambridge.", "The single biggest use of plastics is in packaging and it tends to be used just once before being thrown away\n\nAn estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic is destined for our environment - both on land and in the ocean - by 2040, unless worldwide action is taken.\n\nThat's according to a global model of the scale of the plastic problem over the next 20 years.\n\nDr Costas Velis from the University of Leeds said the number was \"staggering\" but that we had \"the technology and the opportunity to stem the tide\".\n\nThe report is published in the journal Science.\n\n\"This is the first comprehensive assessment of what the picture could be in 20 years' time,\" Dr Velis explained. \"It's difficult to picture an amount that large, but if you could imagine laying out all that plastic across a flat surface, it would cover the area of the UK 1.5 times.\n\n\"It's complex [to calculate] becayse plastic is everywhere and, in every part of the world, it's different in terms of how it's used and dealt with.\"\n\nBeach plastic may be a very small fraction of the waste out there\n\nTo turn this complex problem into numbers, the researchers tracked the production, use and disposal of plastic around the world. The team then created a model to forecast future plastic pollution. What they called a \"business as usual\" scenario - based on the current trend of increasing plastic production and no significant change in the amount of reuse and recycling - produced the 1.3 billion tonne estimate.\n\nBy adjusting their model, the researchers were able to project how much different interventions would affect that number; they tweaked their model to increase recycling, reduce production and replace plastic with other available materials.\n\nWinnie Lau from the US-based Pew Charitable Trusts, which funded the research, told BBC News that it was vital to put in place every possible solution. \"If we do that,\" she said, \"we can reduce the amount of plastic that goes into the ocean - by 2040 - by 80%.\"\n\nBut even if \"all feasible action\" was taken, Dr Velis explained, the model showed there would be 710 million extra tonnes of plastic waste in the environment in the next two decades.\n\nThere is no \"silver bullet solution\", for the plastic problem. But an often overlooked issue that this study highlighted was the fact that an estimated 2 billion people in the Global South have no access to proper waste management. \"They have to just get rid of all their rubbish, so they have no choice but to burn or dump it,\" said Dr Velis.\n\nAnd despite playing a major role in reducing global plastic waste, the roughly 11 million waste pickers - people who collect and sell reusable materials in low-income countries - often lack basic employment rights and safe working conditions.\n\nDr Velis said: \"Waste pickers are the unsung heroes of recycling - without whom the mass of plastic entering the aquatic environment would be considerably greater.\" He added that policies to support them and make their work safer were a vital part of solving this problem.\n\nDr Ian Kane, from the University of Manchester, who was recently part of a team that calculated the amount of micro-plastic in the seabed, described the picture the researchers had painted as \"horrifying\".\n\n\"The authors are clear that there are large uncertainties in the data and analysis but regardless of the exact figures, the increasing rate of plastic production to meet increasing global demand has pretty dire consequences for the environment,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens to microplastics in the ocean?\n\nProf Jamie Woodward, also from the University of Manchester, pointed out the irony in this scenario being laid out during the pandemic.\n\n\"Plastic has kept many frontline workers safe through this,\" he said. \"But PPE waste over the next decade could be horrendous.\n\n\"There are parallels with the climate change problem in that business as usual will be disastrous. We need to radically change our behaviour.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The duke and duchess met four representatives from organisations that will benefit from the fund\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's charity has donated £1.8m to mental health charities and to help front-line emergency workers.\n\nTen charities will receive grants, including Hospice UK which will offer individual grief trauma counselling to all front-line staff.\n\nCatherine said the coronavirus pandemic \"will have a lasting impact\" on emergency responders' mental health.\n\nThe money will also help provide mental health support to schools.\n\nThe charity, the Royal Foundation, was initially set up in 2009 by Prince William and Prince Harry, and has focused on causes close to the princes' hearts, including the armed forces, conservation and mental health.\n\nCatherine joined the charity after she became Duchess of Cambridge in 2011 and Meghan joined shortly before she and Harry were married in May 2018. Last year, Prince Harry and Meghan split from the foundation to forge their own charity.\n\nThe couple met two emergency responders and two mental health counsellors earlier this the week at Sandringham\n\nIn May, Prince William warned of a potential mental health impact over hailing NHS workers as \"heroes\"\n\nDuring the coronavirus lockdown, the duke and duchess have been vocal about the need to look after people's mental health.\n\nThe £1.8m \"Covid-19 Response Fund\" will include grants to 10 charities: Mind, Hospice UK, the Ambulance Staff Charity, Campaign Against Living Miserably, Best Beginnings, The Anna Freud Centre, Place2Be, Shout 85258, The Mix, YoungMinds.\n\nThe ways the money will be used include:\n\n\"Over recent months we have all been in awe of the incredible work that frontline staff and emergency responders have been doing in response to Covid-19, but we know that for many of them, their families, and for thousands of others across the UK, the pandemic will have a lasting impact on their mental health,\" said Catherine earlier this week, during a visit to speak to front-line workers and mental health counsellors.\n\nKate previously said the pandemic has \"been anxious and unsettling for everyone\"\n\nWilliam told them: \"It's great to hear how The Royal Foundation is supporting you and many others to build resilience and give you the networks you need through its Covid-19 Response Fund, which will help ten leading charities continue their crucial work.\"\n\nIn May, during the lockdown, William warned of a potential mental health impact over hailing NHS workers as \"heroes\" during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said the praise could deter workers from seeking support as they feel pressure to appear \"strong\".\n\nIn a separate interview with the BBC, the couple said the lockdown is \"stressful\" for many people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spoke to the BBC via video link\n\nPsychiatrists have previously warned of a \"tsunami\" of mental illness from problems stored up during lockdown. They were particularly concerned that children and older adults are not getting the support they need because of school closures, self-isolation and fear of hospitals.\n\n\"We are already seeing the devastating impact of Covid-19 on mental health, with more people in crisis,\" said Prof Wendy Burn, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, at the end of May.\n\nIf you need support or help - you can also find resources on the BBC Action Line website.", "Jewellery and an Audi RS6 were taken in the raid, police say\n\nLiverpool midfielder Fabinho's home was burgled as the footballer celebrated the team's Premier League win.\n\nThieves broke in to the Brazilian's home on the day the Reds were presented with the trophy for their first top flight win in 30 years.\n\nItems of jewellery and an Audi RS6 were stolen during the raid in Formby, Merseyside Police said. The car was later recovered in Wigan.\n\nThe burglary was discovered when the occupants returned.\n\nFabinho (right) celebrated the Premier League victory with Roberto Firmino and Alisson Becker\n\nPolice said thieves targeted the footballer's home sometime between 15:00 BST on Wednesday and 04:00 on Thursday.\n\nOn Wednesday evening Sir Kenny Dalglish presented the Premier League trophy to Liverpool after a 5-3 home win over Chelsea.\n\nFabinho joined the Reds in 2018 in a deal worth more than £40m.\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.", "About 80 firefighters are tackling the blaze at a shop in Park Royal\n\nA large fire at a bakery and restaurant is sending huge plumes of black smoke over west London.\n\nThe blaze, on Minerva Road in Park Royal, has prompted 50 calls from local residents, firefighters have said.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said \"a lot of black smoke\" was coming from the building, and advised those living nearby to close doors and windows.\n\nAbout 80 firefighters and 15 fire engines were sent to the scene at 18:20 BST. No injuries have been reported.\n\nThe blaze is over two storeys of a bakery and restaurant\n\nAssistant Commissioner Graham Ellis said: \"This is a severe, complex and highly visible fire.\n\n\"Due to the layout of the building and access to pockets of fire that remain we will be at the scene throughout the night.\n\n\"Thankfully there are no reports of any injuries.\"\n\nNo injuries have been reported\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Portugal remains off the list of countries that the government has exempted from quarantine restrictions.\n\nIn changes that apply to England, travellers from Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and St Vincent and the Grenadines won't have to isolate.\n\nIt takes the list of countries that do not face travel restrictions into England to 80 nations.\n\nThe government also said it will update guidance weekly, meaning rules could change while people are away.\n\nIt said people should regularly check the advice. Previously, updates were provided every three weeks.\n\nThe Portuguese government expressed \"regret\" at the UK's decision to continue to exclude it from the list of countries that are exempt from quarantine.\n\n\"It is a decision that is neither substantiated nor supported by the facts,\" said Portugal's Ministry of State and Foreign Affairs.\n\nSpain remains on the list of countries that people can return to England from without the need to self-isolate, despite a recent spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nOn Friday, Norway announced that it was imposing a new 10-day quarantine on all travellers arriving from Spain.\n\nAccording to Johns Hopkins University, Spain has recorded270,166 cases of coronavirus and28,429 deaths.\n\nPortugal had recently imposed local lockdowns on the outskirts of its capital Lisbon to stem a rise in new cases.\n\nTourism is a major industry in Portugal and is popular with British holidaymakers, with almost three million UK visitors a year.\n\nAviation data analysts Cirium said there were 2,333 flights due to leave the UK for Portugal before the end of August.\n\nPaul Charles, chief executive of the PC Agency, said it was a badly timed move by the government.\n\n\"The scale of those due to go there before end of August is enormous. The decision today plants huge uncertainty in the minds of those who are booked who will be looking for refunds and changes and most won't have a holiday. It's going to cause uproar for operators and industry.\"\n\nHe added: \"They are not prepared to open Portugal when situation is declining, but cases in Spain are soaring, with rapid rises in their case numbers.\"\n\nJoe Mountain, of villa rental firm Sandy Blue in the Algarve is worried about the continued impact of the pandemic on tourism in Portugal\n\nJoe Mountain of Sandy Blue, a villa rental firm in the Algarve, told the BBC that he is deeply worried about the impact of a sharp drop in tourism on the local industry.\n\n\"The decision is absolutely ridiculous. If you look at the Algarve specifically, we've got exceptionally low rates of coronavirus here. There's only been, as of today's count, 806 [cases],\" he said.\n\n\"The Algarve absolutely depends on tourism - from hotels, to restaurants, to bars, and there will literally be thousands of job losses on the back of this.\"", "More than 16,000 tests were completed in the past 24 hours\n\nA further 20 people in Scotland have tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 18,520.\n\nNo deaths of people who tested positive for the virus were recorded for eight consecutive days, meaning the toll remains at 2,491 under that measure.\n\nThe Scottish government said 16,338 tests had been done since Thursday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said \"we must not drop our guard\", in response to the figures.\n\nThey also showed 278 people with a confirmed case of the disease are currently in hospital, two of them in intensive care.\n\nTen suspected cases in care homes have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe overall proportion of people testing positive remains at 0.4%.\n\nIn a tweet, the first minister said: \"Another day in Scotland with no deaths of confirmed cases, and tests coming back positive still under 1%. But we must not drop our guard.\"\n\nShe urged people to stick to the Scottish government's guidance on suppressing the virus, including on face coverings and social distancing.\n\nThe figures are published as lockdown is further eased for people who are in the shielding category and classed as being particularly vulnerable to the virus.\n\nThey are now able to meet up to eight people from two different households indoors, as well as with four other households outdoors.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Thursday shielding will be able to be \"paused\" from August 1, with those in the category able to follow the guidance for those who are at higher risk from the virus, such as the elderly.", "Owen Jones was attacked during a night out to celebrate his birthday\n\nA man has been jailed for attacking Guardian journalist Owen Jones outside a north London pub.\n\nJames Healy, 40, admitted assaulting Mr Jones, claiming it was because the 35-year-old had spilled his drink.\n\nHowever, a judge ruled that Healey carried out the attack because of Mr Jones's sexuality and political views.\n\nAppearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, he was sentenced to two years and eight months for affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nTwo other men - Charlie Ambrose, from Brighton, and Liam Tracey, from Camden - were given suspended sentences of eight months each, suspended for two years after pleading guilty to affray.\n\nMr Jones suffered cuts, swelling to his back and head, and bruises down his body in the attack outside the Lexington pub on Pentonville Road in Islington, on 17 August last year.\n\nThe Guardian journalist had been drinking in The Lexington in Islington\n\nHealy, from Portsmouth, has a string of convictions for football-related violence.\n\nThe 40-year-old Chelsea FC fan had argued he \"had the hump\" because the victim had bumped into him and spilled his drink.\n\nFollowing his arrest, a search of his home revealed a photograph of him performing a Nazi salute as well as other items connected to far-right ideology.\n\nIn his evidence, Mr Jones told the court he \"absolutely did not\" knock Healy's drink.\n\nHe said he was \"an unapologetic socialist, I'm an anti-racist, I'm an anti-fascist\" and he was \"the subject of an unrelenting campaign [of abuse] by far-right sympathisers\".\n\nRecorder Anne Studd QC said she would sentence Healy on the basis that the attack had been due to Mr Jones's \"widely published left-wing and LGBTQ beliefs\".\n\nFollowing the sentencing, the journalist tweeted that \"prison is not a solution to far right extremism\" as Healy \"will go to a prison a violent far right extremist, and probably leave prison a violent far right extremist\".\n\n\"There is no judicial solution to the far right: it is a political problem,\" he wrote.\n\nIn another tweet he called the attack \"the worst example of a concerted far right campaign of intimidation centring on the fact I'm left-wing, gay and an anti-racist\".\n\n\"Far right extremists have been responsible for murder, attempted murder, terrorist plots and violence.\n\n\"That threat is not taken seriously because it means having to ask searching questions of who is responsible for radicalising them. That must end,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tom, centre, and Joe (right) are pictured with their wives after scooping the Powerball jackpot\n\nLong-time friends Joe Feeney and Tom Cook made a pact in 1992 - sealed with a handshake - that if one of them won the US Powerball lottery they would share it.\n\nNearly 30 years later the numbers came up for Tom - and he honoured the deal.\n\nJoe said he was stunned when his friend called to say they were sharing the $22m (£17m) jackpot.\n\n\"He called me and I said, 'are you jerking my bobber?'\" said the keen fisherman.\n\nThe two men live in the Menomonie area of the US state of Wisconsin.\n\n\"Congratulations to Tom, Joe, and their families,\" Wisconsin Lottery director Cindy Polzin said in a statement. \"The power of friendship and a handshake has paid off. I'm thrilled for them. Their lucky day has arrived.\"\n\nThe odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are estimated to be one in about 292 million.\n\nThe two men decided to take a cash option of about $16.7m which means that - after federal and state taxes - each will take home about $5.7m.\n\nTom decided to retire after learning about the win while Joe was already retired. They say they are looking forward to spending more time with family.\n\n\"We can pursue what we feel comfortable with. I can't think of a better way to retire,\" said Tom.\n\nTom bought the winning $2 Powerball ticket at a shop in Menomonie for the draw on 10 June.\n\nIn March 2019 another Wisconsin man was named as the winner of a $768m Powerball jackpot.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Unused reality TV footage shows a woman asking Whitney Henriquez, \"did you get in a fight?\"\n\nA video which Johnny Depp's lawyers say shows his ex-wife Amber Heard \"attacked\" her sister has been shown to the High Court.\n\nIn the video, which was given to his legal team on Thursday night, friends of Whitney Henriquez suggest her sister had \"beat\" her and appear to inspect her body for bruises.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an online article that labelled him a \"wife beater\".\n\nThe paper insists it was accurate.\n\nIn the video, which was shown to the court on the 14th day of the hearing in London, Ms Henriquez is talking with friends by a pool.\n\nOne friend is heard saying, \"did you get in a fight?\" and then \"I can't believe Amber beat your ass.\"\n\nOne woman appears to inspect Ms Henriquez's cheek and arm, and Ms Henriquez is heard saying she is not going to talk about it.\n\nAmber Heard arrives at the High Court on Friday, after giving evidence the previous day\n\nMr Depp's barrister, David Sherborne, said his team received the video from \"an anonymous source\", after Ms Henriquez said in court that her sister had never attacked her.\n\nHe said the video was captured during the filming of a reality television show in 2006 or 2007 and was not for broadcast, but was \"the rushes\" - the unedited, raw footage.\n\nHe told the court: \"We were contacted to explain that Ms Amber Heard had a history of violence and attacking people and this video, which was attached, of her sister Whitney was taken shortly after Amber Heard had attacked her, and Ms Whitney was filmed with people commenting on the bruises on her face and body.\"\n\nMr Sherborne said the newly disclosed video material \"demonstrates Ms Whitney was lying yesterday\" and that she had \"tailored\" her evidence \"to meet her sister's evidence\".\n\nReturning to the witness stand, Ms Henriquez told the court she had been referring in the video to a verbal argument she had had with her sister and denied it had been physical.\n\nShe said her friends were \"inferring, trying to make a storyline - albeit a bad one - interesting, nothing more\".\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Henriquez said Ms Heard had never hit her and denied being \"frightened\" of her sister.\n\nShe said she had seen Mr Depp punch Ms Heard \"really hard in the head... multiple times\" in Los Angeles in March 2015. Ms Henriquez acknowledged that Ms Heard had punched Mr Depp on that occasion - but said it was only \"in my defence\" because Ms Heard believed Mr Depp was going to push Ms Henriquez down the stairs.\n\nAddressing the court on Friday, Mr Sherborne said Ms Henriquez's evidence about the so-called \"stairs incident\" was \"the only occasion on which any other human being is supposed to have witnessed\" Mr Depp being violent towards Ms Heard.\n\n\"The reliability of Ms Whitney is critical,\" he added.\n\nMr Depp denies allegations he was violent towards Ms Heard\n\nMr Sherborne said Ms Heard's evidence was that \"she was never violent, she (has not) physically attacked Mr Depp... and the only occasion is said to be when she was acting in self-defence\".\n\n\"Evidence that Ms Heard was violent towards her sister is relevant to that issue,\" he said.\n\nSasha Wass QC, who represents the Sun's publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), said she had not been aware of the video until Mr Sherborne told the court about it and argued it was \"meaningless\".\n\n\"This is an undated piece of film footage in circumstances which appear to be some sort of reality TV programme, which is flippant, certainly not serious,\" she told the court.\n\n\"This is a light-hearted exchange, there is no evidence of any injuries and it will take the matter... no further.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Sherborne, representing Mr Depp, argued: \"We say it is quite clear from that video that not only did Ms Amber Heard assault her sister, but it was quite clear also that the injuries that were suffered by Ms Whitney Heard are being examined by the individual that we see on the tape.\n\n\"There is no denial of the fact that Ms Amber Heard 'beat up' Ms Whitney Heard and that there are injuries.\"\n\nMs Heard's acting coach Kristina Sexton has also been giving evidence by video link from Australia.\n\nIn a written witness statement, Ms Sexton said she had met the actress in 2009 and the pair became friends \"quite quickly\".\n\nShe said Ms Heard became a \"nervous wreck\" about choosing film roles because she was \"so worried\" about Mr Depp's reaction.\n\nMs Sexton alleged Mr Depp \"dictated\" his ex-wife's work and told her not to take certain jobs because he did not want her doing \"whore parts\".\n\nGiving evidence, Ms Sexton confirmed to Mr Depp's lawyer, Eleanor Laws QC, that she had not seen the actor \"hit, kick or throw anything\" at Ms Heard.\n\nUnder questioning from NGN's lawyer, Ms Wass, Ms Sexton said she had previously been aware of \"verbal fights\" between the pair but in April 2016, Ms Heard told her Mr Depp had been hitting her and had tried to strangle her.\n\nThe libel case, which is due to finish next week, centres on an article published on the Sun's website in April 2018 under the headline \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe article related to allegations made by Ms Heard, which Mr Depp denies.", "The prime minister is set to announce new measures to curb obesity next week, and they are expected to include a ban on TV junk food adverts before 21:00.\n\nIt comes amid growing evidence people who are overweight or obese are at greater risk from coronavirus.\n\nThe measures are yet to be finalised but are also likely to include a ban on online ads for unhealthy foods, and limits on in-store promotions.\n\nOne food industry leader said it was a \"slap in the face\".\n\nThe move marks a change in stance by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has previously criticised levies on foods high in salt, fat and sugar - and described his views on tackling obesity as \"libertarian\".\n\nMr Johnson's experience in intensive care during his treatment for Covid-19 is thought to have contributed to his changing position.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a GP surgery in east London, he said that while he was not normally one for \"nannying or bossying\", the country did need to lose weight to protect from a second spike.\n\nHe said: \"Obesity is one of the real co-morbidity factors. Losing weight, frankly, is one of the ways you can reduce your own risk from coronavirus.\"\n\nDavid Cameron, backed by NHS leaders, was all set to unveil wide-ranging curbs on food marketing and advertising in England in the summer of 2016. Then he abruptly left office and his successor Theresa May watered down or ditched most of the ideas.\n\nTwo years later she had changed her view, and her Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced plans to ban fast food advertising before the 21:00 TV watershed and prevent supermarkets from promoting unhealthy food products in stores.\n\nThese plans were put out to consultation but were left in limbo when Boris Johnson arrived in Downing Street a year ago.\n\nHis comments about the \"continuing creep of the nanny state\" and the need for a review of \"sin taxes\" were taken to mean he was against further intervention on people's diet choices.\n\nBut he has shifted, and most of the 2018 plan now seems set to be implemented.\n\nIt could have been enacted by now but, whatever the timing, the measures - including sweeping changes to the way food is advertised, are a significant move to tackle one of the biggest health challenges of our times.\n\nMinisters are still finalising the detail of some anti-obesity measures, such as whether to require more prominent labelling of food and drinks with high levels of sugar or salt.\n\nSome restaurants could be required to put calorie labels on menus.\n\nIt is thought Mr Johnson is likely to push ahead with advertising restrictions, and is considering banning in-store promotions of unhealthy foods.\n\nBBC political correspondent Leila Nathoo said: \"Although it goes against his political instincts, Boris Johnson now wants to give the strategy a renewed push.\n\n\"He's previously been sceptical of taxes on unhealthy food and drinks and it's not yet clear how far his proposals will go beyond what's been suggested before.\n\n\"Though obesity is linked to a whole host of health problems, the prime minister has clearly been prompted into action by the coronavirus connection.\"\n\nTim Rycroft, chief operating officer of the Food and Drink Federation, said the rumoured move was a \"slap in the face\" to the food industry, which he said had worked \"heroically\" to keep the nation fed during the pandemic.\n\n\"It is going to ban promotions of food 10 days before the chancellor launches the biggest food promotion the country has ever seen,\" he told Today. \"It is going to put enormous costs on the advertising industry and on broadcasters at a time when the economy is in quite a tenuous situation.\"\n\nA letter from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising sent to the prime minister said a government impact assessment last year showed a 21:00 watershed on high fat, sugar and salt food and drinks would only remove around 1.7 calories per day from a child's diet - the equivalent of half a Smartie.\n\nIn the letter, director general Paul Bainsfair wrote: \"The introduction of such a draconian measure at this time could have deep repercussions for agencies and the advertising sector, generally, in terms of jobs and creative output, for very little end result.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Minister Helen Whately told BBC Breakfast an announcement was due \"imminently\". She said she recognised obesity was \"possibly the greatest health challenge\" the country faced - \"particularly with Covid\".\n\nTam Fry, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he believed the prime minister's experience in St Thomas's hospital had been a \"game changer\" and that it was understood the aim was to get people to lose weight \"prior to the next spike\".\n\nHe said: \"There hasn't been a ban like this but it has got to be given a try - and if after a period of time it is shown not to be so effective, then maybe it will stop.\n\n\"It is indeed a risk but the problem is that the consequence of obesity is so great that risks and daring measures have to be put in place.\"\n\nHe called for the sugar tax on soft drinks to be extended to other products.\n\nThe NHS says most adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9 are overweight, while those with a BMI of 30 to 39.9 are classed as obese. Another measure of excess fat is waist size - men with a waist of 94cm or more and women with a waist of 80cm or more are more likely to develop obesity-related problems.", "Footage from a police patrol car shows the moment an officer gets out of his vehicle before his foot is caught in a tow rope.\n\nPC Andrew Harper died from \"catastrophic\" injuries after he got caught in a tow rope attached to the car in August last year.\n\nHe was dragged for more than a mile and died at the scene.\n\nHenry Long, 19, from Mortimer, Reading, Albert Bowers, of Moat Close, Bramley, and Jessie Cole, of Paices Hill near Reading, both 18, were trying to steal a quad bike from a house in Stanford Dingley on 15 August last year.\n\nLong had earlier admitted manslaughter but was cleared of murder. Bowers and Cole were cleared of murder, but found guilty at the Old Bailey of manslaughter.", "A Windrush campaigner who was nearly deported despite having lived in the UK for nearly 50 years has died.\n\nPaulette Wilson came to the UK as a child and was one of thousands of people affected by the Windrush scandal which made headlines in 2018.\n\nShe died aged 64 on Thursday morning, her daughter Natalie Barnes confirmed.\n\n\"She was an inspiration to many people. She was my heart and my soul and I loved her to pieces,\" her daughter said in a statement.\n\nMs Wilson arrived in Telford from Jamaica in 1968 aged 10 - but in August 2015 her benefits were stopped and was later sent to a detention centre.\n\nShe was later told by the Home Office she could stay.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC about the experience last year, Ms Wilson said: \"I couldn't sleep. It was terrible. It's been like that since I came out. I still can't eat like I used to.\"\n\nIn a statement, Ms Wilson's daughter Natalie Barnes said: \"My mum was a fighter and she was ready to fight for anyone. She was an inspiration to many people. She was my heart and my soul and I loved her to pieces.\n\n\"She was widely loved and respected; her laugh was infectious and she loved to see people smile; she will be missed by us all.\"\n\nMany people have been paying tribute to her following her death.\n\nImmigration lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie tweeted: \"Saddened to hear of today's death of Paulette Wilson who arrived in the UK in 1968, aged 10, but became a victim of the Windrush scandal - told she had no rights of residency, she was detained in an IRC.\n\n\"Paulette took on the fight for justice for others. May she rest in peace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nZubaida Haque, the interim director of the think tank the Runnymede Trust, said it was \"incredibly upsetting and sad\".\n\nShe said Ms Wilson was \"one of the most selfless and bravest victims of the Windrush scandal\".\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry expressed her condolences, and said Ms Wilson \"fought back with incredible strength and campaigned for justice for all the victims\" of the scandal.\n\nMs Wilson, who lived in Wolverhampton, was looked after by her grandparents in Wellington, Telford, when she first arrived in Britain.\n\nShe remained in the country all her life, never visited Jamaica, and had 34 years of National Insurance payments. She also had a British daughter and grandchild.\n\nIn October 2017, she was detained in the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, where she was held for a week before being released.\n\nThe following year, she gave evidence to MPs about the scandal.\n\nThe Windrush scandal broke in 2018, when it emerged many children of Commonwealth citizens had been threatened with deportation.\n\nDespite living and working in the UK for decades, many were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at life when the Windrush generation arrived in the UK\n\nThe Windrush generation is the name given to those who arrived in UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries. In 1971, Commonwealth citizens already living in the UK were given indefinite leave to remain.\n\nAfter the scandal broke, the government apologised. Since then, reports and compensation schemes have been launched, but some people are concerned that not enough has been done.\n• None Who are the Windrush generation?", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have launched legal action in the US after drones were allegedly used to take pictures of their infant son Archie.\n\nA complaint filed in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday claims an unnamed individual photographed 14-month-old Archie at the Sussexes' home during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe royal couple have claimed the pictures were an invasion of privacy.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan are now based in Los Angeles, having stepped back as senior royals at the end of March.\n\nThe couple's lawyer, Michael Kump, said: \"Every individual and family member in California is guaranteed by law the right to privacy in their home. No drones, helicopters or telephoto lenses can take away that right.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are filing this lawsuit to protect their young son's right to privacy in their home without intrusion by photographers, and to uncover and stop those who seek to profit from these illegal actions.\"\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, the duke and duchess are constantly followed by paparazzi, who have tracked them down to their home in Los Angeles, flying helicopters overhead and cutting holes in their security fences.\n\nIt marks the latest example of the Sussexes actions against what they have previously described as \"invasive\" tabloid media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Sussex read the book Duck! Rabbit! to her son\n\nIn a separate legal action, against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online, Meghan is suing for breach of privacy and copyright infringement.\n\nEarlier this month, court documents claimed the duchess felt \"unprotected by the Institution\" of the monarchy and was \"prohibited from defending herself\" against media reports while pregnant.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe 2020-21 Premier League and English Football League seasons will start on 12 September.\n\nIn the top flight, the campaign will end on 23 May, while the Championship, League One and League Two seasons will culminate on 8 and 9 May.\n\nNext season's play-off finals will take place on the final weekend in May.\n\nThe current Premier League season will end on Sunday after it was suspended for three months because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe regular Championship season concluded on Wednesday, with the play-offs finishing on 4 August.\n\nMost League One and League Two teams have not played since March.\n• None Eight days without football - the shortest off-season ever?\n\nThe Premier League said it would \"continue to consult\" with the Football Association and EFL \"regarding the scheduling of all domestic competitions\".\n\nHowever, the start date for teams still playing in European competitions is still under discussion.\n\nIt remains possible they will be given a delayed start, given they could be playing well into August.\n\nLast-16 ties in the Europa League - featuring Manchester United and Wolves - resume on 5 August, with the final scheduled to take place on 21 August.\n\nRemaining Champions League last-16 ties resume from 7 August, with Manchester City and Chelsea still in the competition.\n\nThe final will take place on 23 August.", "Tanya Prime has been waiting more than four months for her documents\n\nDrivers are fuming after being left without crucial documents because of coronavirus-related delays at the DVLA office in Swansea.\n\nThey report waiting months for replacement documents or licence renewals as reduced staff numbers at the DVLA have left it unable to cope.\n\n\"I sent my documents to the DVLA on 10 March,\" Tanya Prime told the BBC.\n\nThe DVLA has blamed the problems on having to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We continue to receive paper applications and while we process these as quickly as possible there are significant delays,\" it said.\n\n\"This is because the two metre social distancing measures in Wales have resulted in a reduced number of staff on site.\"\n\nJames Balls of Durham told the BBC: \"I've been waiting nearly eight weeks for paperwork relating to putting a number plate on retention in order to change my car.\n\n\"The DVLA has literally nothing to say other than wait. They couldn't even tell me how far behind I am in the queue. It's bonkers.\"\n\nThe DVLA said that paper applications have continued to flood into its office throughout the pandemic, with a current average of around 250,000 envelopes received weekly.\n\n\"Our online services are working as normal and we've processed more than 18 million online transactions since March,\" it added.\n\nTo help, the DVLA has automatically extended photocard driving licences that expired between 1 February 2020 and 31 August 2020 for seven months.\n\n\"I may have missed advice on the news about driving licences but I am quite concerned that I have not received my new licence back, having tried to renew it before my 70th birthday,\" Susan Wood of Folkestone in Kent told the BBC.\n\nEarly in May she had tried to process her application online.\n\n\"But I got nowhere so I posted it off to Swansea with the form supplied,\" she said.\n\nSince then she's had an anxious wait.\n\n\"On their website there is no clear advice. I did find a telephone number but on ringing it the number was unobtainable.\n\n\"I then found the email form, completed all the questions, only to be told at the end there is nobody available to answer emails.\n\n\"I cannot understand why so many companies have organised their businesses with people working from home, yet this government department cannot have the technology for the staff to answer emails from home.\"\n\nThe DVLA told the BBC that Susan Wood was issued a new driving licence in March. \"We are writing to her to offer a free replacement if she hasn't received it,\" it said.\n\nTanya Prime of Ilkeston in Derbyshire has been waiting for a response from the DVLA for more than four months and was getting worried about driving because the tax on one of her vehicles is due to expire.\n\n\"I sent five vehicle documents to the DVLA on 10 March to have the address changed on them,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I have received nothing in return. I posted registered, signed for, and have a Royal Mail confirmed signature of receipt.\"\n\nShe complained of not being able to get hold of the DVLA by phone and having to send numerous follow-up letters.\n\n\"Their latest response is that they have never received the documents and I must apply for replacements and pay for each one,\" she said.\n\nAfter an investigation, the DVLA said that Tanya Prime's documents had been received. \"The letter was sent to her in error and we are processing her changes of address application. We're writing to her to let her know,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC has been sent more complaints, while on social media the DVLA is being kept busy apologising to fed-up motorists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DVLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe DVLA said the best way to deal with queries was online through the GOV.UK website as online transactions will be processed more quickly than paper ones.\n\nIt added that it is prioritising transactions that create the biggest impact on the customer, which include those with ID documents.\n\nThe estimated 790,000 drivers over 70 who have applied for a renewal since March may have been hit by the problems, but the DVLA pointed out that some drivers applying to renew their licence may be able to drive while the agency is considering their application.\n\nThey will need to have a current driving licence and not been told by their doctor or optician that they should not drive. More information can be found here.", "\"Oh, better put our masks on,\" a woman says to her friend outside a homeware shop in Camberwell, south London, fishing around in her bag. He shrugs and follows her inside, opting to go without.\n\nIt's the first day that face coverings have been compulsory for customers in England's shops, and most people are complying on this high street. But the exchange sums up the dilemma for some shopkeepers.\n\nOn one side of the road, a mum ushers her two daughters into Lidl - the three of them clad in matching face coverings. On the other, a woman hovers outside a shop front, sussing out with the sales assistant whether she can come in without one.\n\n\"Keep distance please!\" reads a sign in the window of Ragini Patel's stationery shop. She says all she can do is ask customers to wear face coverings but some of the older customers, in particular, don't listen. One customer was even aggressive when she reminded him about social distancing.\n\n\"There's no point saying anything to anybody, you don't want to get in trouble,\" she shrugs.\n\nRagini Patel says all she can do is ask that customers wear face coverings in her shop\n\nA hundred miles away, in Birmingham, another shopper, Laura, told BBC Radio 5 Live she had been in a branch of supermarket Aldi this morning where a couple of people weren't wearing face coverings.\n\nShe didn't approve. \"If there's even a remote possibility that wearing a mask can reduce infection rate then it's worth it. It's not a hardship,\" she added.\n\nMeanwhile, listener Paul said he had been on the receiving end of some \"mask outrage\" this morning in Maidenhead, Berkshire, when he went into Tesco without a face covering after a bike ride.\n\nHe said it was an \"honest mistake\" but a fellow shopper berated him. \"She just went to town on me,\" Paul said. \"I've been rightfully scolded.\"\n\nLike many shopping areas across the country, stores in the Liverpool One complex have put up signs telling customers to wear face coverings.\n\nBut Susan Green, 57, in Liverpool, said: \"I think it is a little bit late to have introduced this and lots of people I've seen this morning are not even wearing one.\n\n\"It won't put me off coming to the shops because I'll be out anyway but it does seem a bit unnecessary.\"\n\nLiverpool One also has a new vending machine selling face coverings in a multitude of styles - and they have sprung up on other high streets too.\n\nVending machines selling face coverings have sprung up across the country\n\nBack in Camberwell, at the Scope charity shop, Dawn Suleyman says only one customer has come in today without a face covering - and was grateful when she handed her a spare.\n\nShe agrees that it might not be wise to challenge customers, since there have been instances when staff have been verbally abused for asking shoppers to use the hand sanitiser pump. Leaning over to tap the counter to her left, she adds: \"So far today, touch wood, we've not had any problems.\"\n\nDawn Suleyman says reopening has been difficult because people haven't been able to try clothes on\n\n\"I wouldn't say to someone, 'You can't come in because you haven't got a mask on,'\" says Dawn, who is exempt when she goes shopping because she suffers from asthma. \"I'd explain to them, 'You do realise that you could possibly get a fine? And if you haven't got a mask I'm happy to give you one.'\"\n\nMelanie Wall from Chloe James boutique in St Albans says there's been a \"great reaction\" among her shop's customers.\n\n\"People are very happy to wear face masks - it sparks conversation and banter when they come in... we talk about the different styles - it's been really well accepted,\" she said.\n\n\"We did have a lady who approached the front door and said, 'I haven't got a face mask but I'm here to buy a face mask'. She obviously couldn't come into the shop... but I served her from the doorstep, so it was a lovely funny moment.\"\n\nMelanie Wall said there had been a \"great reaction\" to the rules among her customers\n\nMeanwhile, one shopper in the city told the BBC she was \"really pleased\" the rules have come in, adding: \"It's given us more confidence to come into town. We've been avoiding it up to now.\"\n\nIn Leicester - the first city in England to have a local lockdown imposed - the new rules on face coverings came in on the same day some non-essential stores were allowed to reopen.\n\nCallum Goodson, 22, a buyer with clothes store Pilot in the Lanes shopping area, said levels of compliance from customers had so far been high.\n\nNon-essential shops started to reopen in Leicester on the same day the new rules came in\n\nMr Goodson said: \"Everyone coming into the store have been wearing masks. If anyone does come in without a mask, we can offer them one.\n\n\"If they refuse it's down to us if we accept that - but we haven't had to do that so far.\"\n\nThere were no problems for forgetful shoppers in Bristol either, where city council staff had bought in 80,000 masks to hand out in the city's shopping areas.\n\nFace masks were handed out to shoppers in Bristol\n\nIn Camberwell, not everyone is quite so worried about enforcing the regulations. In a photo-printing shop, the sales assistant says customers have been compliant. They have a stash of reusable masks they can give out in return for a charity donation, but she doesn't know what she'd do if someone refused. \"I'm sure we could politely tell them to put it on,\" she says.\n\nIn the arcade, a security guard with a face covering stands outside Poundland. Two women browse the \"two for £5\" stands in a nearby clothes shop - both wearing masks, though the shop assistant is barefaced, which is acceptable under the rules.\n\nArjan Patel says most customers have complied\n\nAround the corner in a hardware shop, Arjan Patel says some builders have come in without face coverings but most people have been compliant.\n\n\"What can we say? It's their choice, isn't it?\" he says. The shop needs customers, after all.\n\n\"We can't police it anyway, but maybe a bit more diplomacy might help.\"\n• None New face covering rules in force in England", "The US and UK have accused Russia of testing a weapon-like projectile in space that could be used to target satellites in orbit.\n\nThe US State Department described the recent use of \"what would appear to be actual in-orbit anti-satellite weaponry\" as concerning.\n\nRussia's defence ministry earlier said it was using new technology to perform checks on Russian space equipment.\n\nThe US has previously raised concerns about new Russian satellite activity.\n\nBut it is the first time the UK has made accusations about Russian test-firing in space. They come just days after an inquiry said the UK government \"badly underestimated\" the threat posed by Russia.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-proliferation, Christopher Ford, accused Moscow of hypocrisy after it said it wanted arms control to be extended to space.\n\n\"Moscow aims to restrict the capabilities of the United States while clearly having no intention of halting its own counter-space programme,\" he said.\n\nThe head of the UK's space directorate, Air Vice Marshal Harvey Smyth, said he was also concerned about the latest Russian satellite test, which he said had the \"characteristics of a weapon\".\n\n\"Actions like this threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends,\" he said. He urged Russia to be \"responsible\" and to \"avoid any further such testing\".\n\nRussia, the UK, the US and China are among more than 100 nations to have committed to a space treaty that stipulates that outer space is to be explored by all and purely for peaceful purposes.\n\nThe treaty adds that weapons should not be placed in orbit or in space.\n\nThe US said the Russian satellite system was the same one it raised concerns about in 2018 and earlier this year when the US accused it of manoeuvring close to an American satellite.\n\nIn this latest incident, Gen Jay Raymond, who heads US space command, said there was evidence Russia \"conducted a test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon\".\n\nGen Raymond added: \"This is further evidence of Russia's continuing efforts to develop and test space-based systems and [is] consistent with the Kremlin's published military doctrine to employ weapons that hold US and allied space assets at risk.\"\n\nThis Russian test of what the Americans say is an anti-satellite weapon is part of a pattern of recent Russian space activity. In February, the US military said that two Russian satellites manoeuvred close to an American one, and in April Moscow test-fired a ground-based satellite interceptor.\n\nOnly four countries - Russia, the US, China and India - have demonstrated an anti-satellite capability over the past decades. Anti-satellite warheads have been carried aloft by aircraft or rockets, and satellites have also been illuminated by lasers.\n\nBut Moscow is also clearly looking at using one satellite to kill another. Interest in such weapons is growing given our reliance upon satellites for a variety of purposes such as intelligence gathering, communications, navigation and early-warning.\n\nThere is no treaty banning or limiting such weapons though a number of countries have argued for some kind of agreement to do just this.\n\nBut in military terms, space has already become the new frontier with several countries organising specific commands in their armed forces to deal with both the defensive and offensive aspects of protecting their essential space-based systems.\n\nA test of a new Russian satellite took place on 15 July with the aim of performing checks on the country's space equipment, Russia's defence ministry said at the time.\n\n\"During testing of the latest space technology, one of the domestic satellites was examined close up using the specialised equipment of small space craft,\" the ministry said, according to Interfax news agency.\n\nIt added that \"valuable information about the technical condition of the object under investigation\" had been recorded.", "Lockdown in Wales has been the responsibility of the Welsh Government\n\nUK ministers have announced £1.2bn funding for the Welsh Government.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"like an advance payment\" ahead of announcements to be made in England.\n\nThe Barnett formula is used to decide how much money the other nations receive when the UK government spends in England.\n\nThe Welsh finance minister said it would \"give the NHS the kind of certainty that it needs\" to plan for a potential second wave of the virus.\n\nThe Welsh Government has previously said it was \"not clear how much of this package is wholly new\".\n\nMr Hart told BBC Radio Wales: \"What we're trying to do here as a UK-wide project is make sure all the devolved nations have the money they need during Covid…\n\n\"The sum has gone from 2.3 [billion pounds] to 2.8 last week. With the chancellor's announcement it has now gone up by a further 1.2 so the total the Welsh Government will have received for Covid-related activity will be £4bn since March...\n\n\"It is a consequential of announcements to be made, like an advance payment - still fresh money, still new money...\n\n\"It's like get your money up front, in advance, rather than retrospectively.\"\n\nFinance Minister Rebecca Evans said the additional funding would allow the Welsh Government to announce \"a really significant stabilisation package for the NHS\".\n\nShe added that the money would be used to respond to \"a really wide range of pressures\" such as those faced by local authorities.\n\nBut it would also enable the government to \"give the NHS the kind of certainty that it needs in order to to plan most effectively for a potential second wave of the coronavirus\" and to ensure that it's \"in good shape\" to cope with winter pressures.\n\nThe £4bn figure does not include direct spending by the Conservative UK government in Wales - such as the furlough scheme or VAT cuts for the tourism and hospitality sector.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said the UK government's \"guarantee\" means the Welsh Government can invest to protect jobs\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales ahead of Mr Hart's interview, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"It was reported as being clearly additional money over and above Barnett but we don't think that's the case at all and it's one of the difficult and disappointing things that is just unnecessary...\n\n\"It is difficult and disappointing because I'd like the public to have a straight message where you don't hear Welsh Government politicians disagreeing with UK government politicians about the state of the money being provided.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has called for more freedom to borrow cash\n\nWelsh Government ministers have previously called for their UK counterparts to allow them to borrow more money to help deal with the pandemic.\n\n\"The pressures facing our budget are unrivalled in the post Second World War era,\" a Welsh Government spokesperson said in response to the funding announcement.\n\n\"And while we welcome confirmation of Wales' share of spend in England, it is not clear how much of this package is wholly new.\n\n\"We fully expected to receive funding on major PPE (personal protective equipment) costs and NHS winter funding.\n\n\"We look forward to receiving the full detail on new funding and hope that the UK Treasury will finally lift the restrictions on our ability to access our own savings to address urgent pressures.\"\n\nReacting to the announcement, Plaid Cymru's health and finance spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth told BBC Radio Wales: \"The union can't be sewn together with a bung where you don't even know what's in the brown envelope, where we're expected to trust that somehow it's a lot of money.\n\n\"What we need, and we're in agreement with Welsh Government actually, is we need additional flexibility with the spending powers that we have in Wales.\n\n\"This is the time when we need to be making decisions now on how much money to borrow to get us through this incredibly sticky point in our history... rather than expect to be grateful for somebody filling a begging bowl with money that we don't know how much it is anyway.\"\n\nExpect to hear UK government ministers talk a lot more about the union in months to come.\n\nThe pandemic has led to greater awareness of devolved powers - especially health and education.\n\nWhile Welsh Government ministers have faced scrutiny for their response to the pandemic, like being later to test all care home staff and residents, the UK government equally has faced criticisms for being behind on issues like committing to providing free school meals for eligible children during the summer holidays.\n\nThe prime minister's visit to Scotland, praising the furlough scheme and UK armed forces, and this announcement today send a clear signal: trying to strengthen support for the union is heavily back on the UK government's agenda.\n\nMeanwhile a group of MPs have also set up a new pro-union lobby group to keep it on the agenda in government and Parliament, chaired by Conservative Aberconwy MP Robin Millar.\n\nThe UK government has been in charge of much of the UK's economic response to the virus, including the coronavirus job retention furlough scheme.\n\nBut devolved governments have been responsible for the severe restrictions on day-to-day life, as well as their national health services, and different parts of the UK have come out of lockdown in different ways.\n\nOn a visit to Scotland on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he \"pledged to be a prime minister for every corner of the United Kingdom\", adding that the response to the pandemic had shown his government's commitment to the whole of the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marine experts tried in vain to rescue the stranded shark\n\nA shark which had got stranded in shallow waters on the Yorkshire coast has been put down, according to a marine charity.\n\nThe basking shark was spotted in the water trying to beach itself at Filey in North Yorkshire, on Thursday.\n\nThe beach was closed while a lifeboat crew tried to prevent it from beaching and to get it back out to sea.\n\nMarine charity Sea Watch said it was believed the creature was ill and the decision was made to euthanise it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The shark had attempted to beach itself and could not be persuaded to go back out to sea\n\nSea Watch's Robin Petch said: \"It was in the shallows in Filey Bay trying to beach itself and members of the public, the Coastguard and the RNLI were in attendance trying to stop it and persuade it to go out to sea.\n\n\"There was a vet in attendance and in the end they decided the best thing to do for the animal was to euthanise it.\"\n\nRescuers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue took part in efforts to try and get the animal back into deeper water.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Unfortunately, the shark appeared to be struggling as it was listing consistently over to its right-hand side and circling in the shallows, sometimes needing support from the rescuers.\"\n\n\"Despite attempts to move it into deeper water the shark continued to head back to the beach where it restranded and later in the evening was put to sleep by a vet due to the poor prognosis.\"\n\nThe RNLI's Filey lifeboat was called at about 18:00 BST when the shark was spotted in the water close to the beach\n\nBasking sharks are the second largest fish in the oceans. Despite their size they only feed on zooplankton and are not considered a danger to humans.\n\n\"This one was a little under four and a half metres, so it was a young one, not a juvenile but not quite an adult,\" Mr Petch said.\n\n\"They can grow quite large - the biggest ones recorded are about 10 to 11 metres.\"\n\nHe said they were usually found in deeper waters and it was possible the animal had been ill and come into shore.\n\nIt could also have got trapped in the shallow waters and then been starved of oxygen.\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.", "For some people with certain health conditions or disabilities, wearing a mask can be more difficult.\n\nKerise Vowles-Myners, who has autism, had a particularly bad experience when she tried wearing one to visit the doctor last week.\n\n\"I literally had it on for two minutes and had a panic attack and threw up in public - it was quite embarrassing,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nKerise said she had spoken to her social worker about going shopping for her when she had bad days.\n\n\"I don't like being confronted because I have to explain myself,\" she said.\n\n\"Whenever I go out, a lot of people don't even realise that I'm on the spectrum so they just look at me and think, 'oh she is just a normal person, why is she not wearing a mask?'\"\n\nFace coverings are now compulsory for customers in shops in England.", "As Covid-19 cases surge in Florida, the governor's decision to reopen all brick and mortar schools in August has caused a backlash among teachers.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 17 and 24 July. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs which can be found here.", "More people in Wales could be offered a free flu jab, Vaughan Gething has suggested\n\nWales' largest ever flu campaign will see more people benefit from free vaccination, the health minister announced on Friday.\n\nIt followed news that this would be the case in England in case of a winter coronavirus spike.\n\nThe vaccination programme will include the shielding group and the eligibility age will be lowered from 65 to 50.\n\nThere will also be extra supplies of the nasal spray flu vaccine for toddlers and primary school children.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"This winter more than ever we need to protect the most vulnerable in our community and continue to protect our NHS.\n\n\"By extending the flu vaccine to more people than ever before, we can help prevent people becoming ill and reduce pressure on the NHS this winter.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who is eligible to have the vaccine.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer for Wales Frank Atherton said: \"Everyone who is eligible for a NHS flu vaccine should be confident about having it to protect themselves and those around them this winter.\n\n\"Those already eligible, which include some of the most vulnerable in our community will receive the vaccination first and via a phased approach our programme will be rolled out further to the over 50s and households of those shielding.\"\n\nMr Gething had previously said he could not make any guarantees as he had not been told of the UK government's plans.\n\nHe said it was \"disappointing\" an agreement on broadening the flu programme had not been reached between the four home nations.\n\n\"When it comes to supply of the flu vaccine, there's a UK-wide system,\" Mr Gething told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"The UK government procures flu vaccine for all four UK nations, so there should be enough flu vaccine available in Wales to match the way that other UK countries undertake that.\"\n\nHe said he \"hadn't been aware\" an announcement was being made about England.\n\nThe jab is being rolled out widely there in case the annual seasonal flu coincides with a coronavirus surge.\n\nVaughan Gething said he was not aware an announcement about the plan for England was going to be made\n\n\"I'd expect there to be a consistent set of advice between the four chief medical officers,\" Mr Gething said.\n\n\"If we have assurances about the amount of flu vaccine available, I'd struggle to see why there'd be any reason to be inconsistent.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"The flu vaccination campaign is a key priority for the coming winter and we are planning the largest ever programme in Wales.\n\n\"Details of the programme will be announced shortly\".", "Last updated on .From the section St Mirren\n\nOnly one of the seven St Mirren staff members who tested positive for Covid-19 actually has the illness.\n\nThe Paisley side said on Thursday that the individuals - none of whom are players - had been identified after tests analysed by a private lab.\n\nHowever, after further NHS screening, it has emerged that six staff members returned 'false positives'.\n\nThe other is in \"strict isolation\" and has not been in contact with any player or other staff member since Saturday.\n\n\"The club will continue to support and look after this staff member to ensure a full recovery,\" added chief executive Tony Fitzpatrick, who confirmed Saturday's friendly with St Johnstone remains cancelled.\n\nFitzpatrick said St Mirren had \"complied robustly\" with testing protocols \"to the letter\" and are \"undertaking an urgent review of the private testing arrangement\".\n• None Podcast: What does this mean for season?\n\nAs a consequence of the results, Scottish Premiership clubs have had to reintroduce twice-weekly testing for the first time since 8 July.\n\nThe news comes after the Scottish FA wrote to Rangers, Motherwell and Hibernian to ask them to explain delays in receiving test results.\n\nThe Ibrox side have also been asked whether they breached protocols by fielding players who had not received up-to-date results against Dundee United on Wednesday.\n\nThe rules state players cannot take part in matches unless a negative test has been returned, with another Rangers friendly later that day against Motherwell delayed for two hours while both sides waited for results.\n\nHibs' friendly with Ross County was cancelled at short notice on Saturday for the same reason.\n\nThe governing body had already reminded clubs of the importance of adhering to the protocol, with the Premiership season scheduled to start on 1 August.\n\nAt this stage, there remains no suggestion that is in any doubt.\n\nSt Mirren, who are due to begin their competitive campaign at home to Livingston in little over a week, last played Hamilton Academical in a friendly on Saturday.\n\nAll Hamilton players and staff were tested two days after that, with no positive tests returned.\n\nThe club also confirmed that the area of FOYS Stadium used by St Mirren was segregated, then cleaned and disinfected afterwards.\n\nScottish football's coronavirus joint response group (JRG) informed the Scottish government of the tests before demanding clubs \"revert to twice-weekly testing protocols until further notice\".\n\nHowever, SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: \"There can be no complacency, but we are heartened by the rigorous way that clubs, players and officials have responded to Covid-19 since March.\n\n\"With such regular testing being carried out by SPFL clubs, it is inevitable that several players or coaching staff will have tested positive. This has happened, as it has also happened in leagues around the world.\n\n\"What is vital is that clubs manage those very few confirmed positive tests such that the virus does not spread. So far, the rigorous work that our clubs have carried out has ensured that this is the case.\"", "He is fond of looking on the bright side and moving forward. \"Come on! Come on!\" and \"Fantastic, fantastic!\" are the phrases you hear in public most frequently from his mouth.\n\nEven some of his allies agree privately with his detractors that he is a politician for the good times, a spreader of cheer, rather than seeming like a statesman for a crisis.\n\nThat's one reason why the handling of this terrible epidemic has been a profound political challenge for this prime minister, beyond the enormous strain that coronavirus has put on the government machine and his own health.\n\nHe moved into No 10 a year ago today, taking charge of a country politically divided over Brexit, with protestors at the gate.\n\nBut after chucking veteran Tories out of the parliamentary party and suspending Parliament, the first tumultuous phase of his premiership ended with him being clapped back into No 10 for the second time, and with a thumping majority.\n\nA pugilistic Downing Street was almost punch drunk with the opportunities that lay before them.\n\nBut with unbelievable timing, 31 January 2020 - Brexit day - was also the day that the UK confirmed its first cases of coronavirus.\n\nFar from the first day of Boris Johnson's dream of raw power, it was the first day of a nightmare for the country's health and economy too.\n\nIt is the pandemic, therefore, not his hoped-for policies, that have fundamentally shaped Boris Johnson's premiership so far.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLike other world leaders, he had to take a series of enormous decisions, at huge speed, that have had consequences for each and every one of us.\n\nThe worst of the health crisis has faded; however, Boris Johnson has shown a profound reluctance to admit mistakes that were made.\n\nThe government did expand the capacity of the health service at breakneck speed. The Treasury's interventions in the economy have kept millions of people afloat for now.\n\nUK scientists are ahead in the world in terms of treatments and vaccine research. But a debate has raged about whether the lockdown came too late.\n\nWhy was the government slow to ramp up the testing they now say is vital? Why were protections for care homes not introduced much sooner? Why has the death rate here been so much higher than in nearly every other country?\n\nWhy does the government keep promising 'world beating' this, and 'world beating' that, when the UK's record on handling the pandemic has many flaws?\n\nWhen these questions have come, the prime minister's stock response has been to protest that it is not the right time to look at what went wrong.\n\nTime and again, ministers have repeated the mantra that \"we made the right decisions at the right time\".\n\nBut today, as he reflected on his 366 days in power, Boris Johnson inched towards confronting what went wrong.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over their initial decision to abandon mass community testing.\n\nIn his first full TV interview since the lockdown, and his own time in hospital, he told me that ministers had not understood the disease \"for the first few weeks and months\", unaware that the virus was already here and in circulation before the government fully realised.\n\nAnd what of the timing of the lockdown?\n\nAgain, he took a step towards acknowledging that there could have been mistakes, suggesting the lockdown timing was an \"open question\", and that while the government had stuck \"like glue\" to the advice given by its scientists, maybe that advice had been wrong.\n\nDespite that change in tone, the prime minister's reluctance to go into detail yet about the mistakes the government might have made is still striking.\n\nAdvice from his former close adviser Will Walden, who spoke to us on Newscast, is that he should admit mistakes were made, and get on with a proper inquiry into what went wrong, seems to have fallen largely on deaf ears.\n\nWhile the prime minister always says that he takes full responsibility for what the government does, that's perhaps preaching, not practice.\n\nMr Johnson wants to use the government's experience of what happened during the pandemic to speed up his agenda, to \"double down on levelling up\", as he puts it in his peculiar political jargon.\n\nIn other words, to push ahead with more determination, and less fudge in Whitehall, with the changes that he says will actually improve the lives of voters, particularly those who voted Tory for the first time in 2019.\n\nWhile preparing the NHS for a potential second surge, he clearly wants to concentrate on what's next, not what's gone before.\n\nBut perhaps until the government is really ready to acknowledge what has happened, the questions will continue - and the public may still feel anxious about whether they can really trust ministers to handle a second surge next time round.\n\nJust as 366 days ago, optimism is Boris Johnson's trademark.\n\nBut if the last few months have shown anything, it is that the real challenge of life in power, is that events that can surprise.", "Covid-19 has taken a disproportionate toll on those with underlying health conditions.\n\nSome experts say the crisis has shone a light on the poor state of our health as a nation. But in many communities it has also highlighted the link between ill health and poverty.\n\nSo what lessons has coronavirus taught us - and will ministers and health leaders act upon them?\n\nThose with type 2 diabetes, often associated with being overweight or obese, have been particularly vulnerable to falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAbout a fifth of all those who have died after contracting coronavirus had diabetes.\n\nRoxana Falfara knows that she falls into that dangerous category.\n\nEver since she was a child, Roxana has had a difficult relationship with food.\n\nShe understands that her eating is tied up with her mental health, but says that doesn't make it any easier to manage.\n\nRoxanna Falfara: \"I had this anxiety of going out, especially with knowing I have type 2 diabetes\"\n\n\"Every time you sit at a table you meet your demons. So you meet the addiction every time you have to eat.\"\n\nAs an adult, Roxana became very overweight and developed type 2 diabetes.\n\nNow she's trying to eat more healthily and lose weight ahead of a second bout of surgery.\n\nBut, with her heightened vulnerability to Covid-19, the past few months have been tough for her.\n\n\"I had this anxiety of going out, especially with knowing I have type 2 diabetes,\" she says. \"I'm at a high level of danger so I tried to avoid going out as much as I could.\"\n\nIn her home town of Sheffield, about 60% of the adult population is overweight or obese.\n\nAnd like Roxana, that group was among those at greatest risk of falling seriously ill during the pandemic.\n\nThe coronavirus has exposed the deep inequalities in our health.\n\nWhat happened in Sheffield at the height of the coronavirus pandemic reflects what happened in many towns and cities across the UK.\n\nThe more affluent areas of Sheffield escaped pretty much unscathed. But in the poorer parts of the city, they saw some of the highest mortality rates in the entire country.\n\nFor the director of public health in Sheffield, Greg Fell, that raises some really difficult questions about the underlying state of our public health.\n\nHe describes it as a complex, multi-layered picture.\n\n\"It's the environments in which we live. It's the poverty, it's the poor housing, it's the lack of educational opportunities, it's the job opportunities,\" he says.\n\n\"Economic policy, housing policy, all of those things make a difference to health, far more so than the treatment the NHS can provide.\"\n\nSo what has this coronavirus pandemic told us about the underlying state of our health - and more broadly, our society?\n\nEarlier this year an influential report warned that life expectancy - particularly among the poor - had stalled.\n\nNow the author of that report, Sir Michael Marmot, says coronavirus has reinforced the connection between poverty and ill health.\n\n\"Health and health equity, the fair distribution of health, tell us a great deal about how well society is doing,\" he says.\n\n\"And the fact that health stopped improving, life expectancy has stalled, and inequality in life expectancy is increasing - that told us that over the last decade, society had stopped improving and inequalities in society had been increasing.\n\n\"So when the pandemic came, it just exaggerated, it exposed and amplified those inequalities.\"\n\nFor many public health experts, the coronavirus crisis is the inevitable consequence of decades-long failure to address our unhealthy habits.\n\nProf John Wass has spent much of his professional life studying a pandemic that has been growing steadily for decades - obesity.\n\n\"The fact that we have one of the highest death rates in the world is something which really does need to be understood,\" he says.\n\n\"We are not a healthy nation with regard to, for example, the statistics for obesity, the statistics for diabetes, and so on.\n\n\"This is not a simple thing. It's not just selling fewer McDonalds on the high street.\n\n\"We need a situation where health is linked to education, it's linked to healthy eating and agriculture, it's linked to business.\n\n\"So we need a joined-up approach between all the government departments.\n\n\"It's complicated - but this is a complicated thing that needs a solution.\"\n\nGovernments set the direction of policy, but the job of creating real change on the ground falls to people like Sheffield's director of public health.\n\nAnd despite the challenges posed by coronavirus, Greg Fell is still optimistic that the situation we find ourselves in might present an opportunity.\n\n\"We know that we have neglected the health of the public for many, many years,\" he says. \"Now is a perfect time to start to put some of that right.\n\n\"We know that health is unequally distributed. We know that people who are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds live shorter lives and in poorer health than those of us who are white British.\n\n\"We know that those who are disabled live shorter lives in poorer health. We know those who live in the poorest parts of our towns have shorter lives and poorer health.\n\n\"So now's a perfect time to put that right, there's never been a better time to put that right.\"\n\nAs communities across the UK reflect on their experience of coronavirus, the challenge for political leaders is how to apply the lessons of the pandemic.\n\nIt's hard to draw any conclusion other than a real transformation of our nation's health will need fundamental changes in society.", "One person has been fined for not wearing a face covering in a shop in the first two weeks since it became compulsory.\n\nPolice officers spoke to the man after seeing him without a mask in a supermarket in Jedburgh on 16 July.\n\nHe was advised of the guidelines but refused to comply and was given a £60 fixed penalty notice (FPN).\n\nA spokeswoman confirmed it was the only FPN police had issued since the rule was introduced in Scotland on 10 July.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Gary Ritchie said: \"The chief constable has made it clear that we are asking people to take personal responsibility to do the right thing and remember the purpose of these measures is to aid the collective effort to stay safe, protect others and save lives by preventing the virus from spreading.\n\n\"Our officers will continue to engage with the public, explain the legislation and guidance and encourage compliance. We will use enforcement as a last resort only where there is a clear breach of the legislation.\"\n\nHe added: \"A number of exemptions exist that mean certain people are not required to wear a face covering in a shop.\n\n\"We would encourage people to raise any concerns with business owners or staff in the first instance.\"", "PC Andrew Harper was killed while responding to a report of a quad bike being stolen by masked men\n\nIt was a killing that sparked tributes across the world and an \"outpouring of love\" for a police officer who was killed in the line of duty.\n\nPC Andrew Harper was \"doing no more than his job\" when he was dragged for more than a mile to his death after his feet got caught in a strap trailing behind a suspect's getaway car.\n\nAs news broke of the 28-year-old's death, a wave of grief and love spread across the country for the officer, who had recently married his childhood sweetheart Lissie.\n\nThe newlyweds had been looking forward to their honeymoon in the Maldives.\n\nPC Harper married his childhood sweetheart Lissie four weeks before his death\n\nOn the night of 15 August 2019, PC Harper responded with a colleague to a 999 call about a quad bike theft, despite it being four hours past the end of their shifts.\n\nThe men were on their way home - they didn't have to respond - but they made a decision to go beyond the call of duty. It was a decision that would cost PC Harper his life.\n\nAlmost a year on from his death, three teenagers - Henry Long, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole - have been convicted of the manslaughter of PC Harper. They were cleared of his murder.\n\nAt the time of the killing last year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the officer's death was \"the most powerful reminder that police officers up and down the country put themselves at risk every single day to keep us safe\".\n\nForces up and down the land held a minute's silence for \"Harps\", who was described as a \"dearly loved and respected colleague\", who was a \"hero\".\n\nFootball teams held silences before kick-off and the officer's hometown of Wallingford in Oxfordshire decorated shop windows with ribbons representing the \"thin blue line\".\n\n\"Nobody's been given a script... it just seemed to take hold,\" said PC Harper's friend Andy Ledbury, who put up a blue ribbon outside his plant nursery.\n\n\"It's been really emotional for people that knew him, but we didn't realise how much other people felt the same grief,\" he told the BBC.\n\nIn the weeks following, PC Harper's widow and family members led a \"Ride of Respect\" involving thousands of motorcyclists, while 20,000 epaulettes and badges from around the world were used to create a 55ft (17m) long mural.\n\nMrs Harper said \"the messages, support and kind words\" had been \"overwhelming\".\n\nShe placed his police helmet on his coffin during a funeral service at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, after colleagues and crowds lined the streets of the city to pay their respects.\n\nHundreds of motorbikes packed out RAF Benson to pay tribute to PC Harper\n\nBut while his colleagues mourned the death of one of their own, detectives were required to push emotions aside for the murder investigation.\n\nDet Supt Stuart Blaik, the senior investigating officer in the case, said his team didn't have an \"awful lot to go on in the very early stages\".\n\nThe detective said the \"challenge was always going to be identifying who was in the car at that particular time\", due to it being used by several people.\n\nOfficers lined the streets as the cortege travelled through Oxford\n\nDuring the investigation, police officers and staff took 1,250 statements, visited more than 1,000 homes and pursued 1,122 lines of inquiry.\n\nInitially 10 males, aged between 13 and 30, were arrested at the Four Houses Corner caravan site, before Long, Bowers and Cole went on trial accused of murder at the Old Bailey in March.\n\nThe trio admitted conspiring to steal a quad bike along with Thomas King, 21, from Basingstoke.\n\nFor the first time, jurors heard the details of PC Harper's brutal killing - many of which were too graphic for publication.\n\nHowever, the trial collapsed due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHenry Long, Albert Bowers, and Jessie Cole (l-r), all from travelling families, left school well before they were 16 and had a long history of stealing\n\nAs the retrial began in June, new jurors were placed 2m (6ft 6in) apart, while members of the press and the public followed proceedings on monitors in neighbouring courtrooms.\n\nThis new jury heard how Long, 19, Bowers and Cole, both 18, had hitched a Honda quad bike to the back of a Seat Toledo at a home near Stanford Dingley, Berkshire, and made off into the darkness as the vehicle's owner dialled 999.\n\nThe teenagers soon found themselves face to face with PC Harper and PC Andrew Shaw, who were in an unmarked police BMW.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Wallis dialled 999 to say he could see \"four masked men\" brandishing weapons\n\nAs Long drove around the police car to escape, PC Harper got out of his vehicle and tried to apprehend Cole, who had unhitched the bike and was running behind the Seat driven by Long.\n\n\"Unwittingly\" stepping with both feet into the trailing tow-strap, the officer became \"lassoed\" to the vehicle as it sped off and dragged him just over a mile before he became detached from the vehicle and died in the road.\n\nColleagues only realised it was one of their own who had been killed due to his police uniform, prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC said.\n\nThe strap PC Harper got caught in was attached to a Seat Toledo\n\nThe prosecution's case was that it would have been \"obvious\" to the defendants they were dragging PC Harper behind, but they decided not to stop.\n\nTo drive at such speeds and \"seek to throw the officer free\" was a \"clear indication there was an intention in all three to kill him\", Mr Laidlaw told the jury.\n\nAfter being arrested during raids in the early hours of 16 August, the three teenagers denied being involved, before changing their stories when faced with compelling evidence.\n\nLong, from Mortimer, Reading, pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied murder and said he did not know PC Harper was attached to the vehicle.\n\nBowers, of Moat Close, Bramley, and Cole, of Paices Hill near Reading, confirmed they were passengers in the Seat, but denied ever seeing the police officer.\n\nDet Supt Blaik said the defendants made a \"conscious decision\" \"not to assist the police\" and said their family and friends had tried to \"frustrate\" the investigation.\n\nPC Harper was dragged for more than a mile by the car\n\nSecurity around the first trial into PC Harper's death was stepped up after police uncovered a plot by \"associates of the defendants to intimidate the jury\".\n\nProceedings were halted to discuss measures to safeguard jurors after someone in the public gallery was seen pointing at them.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Edis ruled it necessary to put measures in place to ensure the jury was not intimidated, even though the risk was \"low\".\n\nHe approved measures to provide a private room for jurors to use throughout the trial and ordered that anyone using the public gallery must provide photographic identification.\n\nAfter four weeks of evidence and 12 hours, 22 minutes of deliberations, jurors acquitted all three defendants of murder.\n\nThe jury found Bowers and Cole guilty of manslaughter. Long had previously admitted the same offence.\n\nDet Supt Blaik said PC Harper \"paid the ultimate price\" for going beyond the call of duty, but added \"that is what police officers do up and down the country, day in and day out\".\n\n\"We go towards trouble, we don't run away from it,\" he said.\n\nPC Harper died after his ankles became entangled in a tow-strap attached to a car\n\nMrs Harper said her husband was the \"kindest, loveliest, most selfless person you will ever meet\".\n\n\"I want to be angry that your job took you away from us but I know you loved it and always wanted to keep everyone safe, especially me,\" she said.\n\n\"Our superman, our bodyguard, our light in the dark. My God we will miss you.\"", "Women who have Covid-19 are unlikely to pass on the infection to their babies during childbirth if precautions are in place, a small study suggests.\n\nOf 120 babies born at three hospitals in New York, none tested positive for the disease after being born to infected mothers.\n\nThe results appeared similar two weeks later after some had been breastfed and shared a room with their mothers.\n\nExperts say the results are reassuring but larger trials are needed.\n\nData on the risk of Covid-19 transmission during pregnancy and while breastfeeding is scarce, so recommendations for pregnant women and new mothers vary.\n\nIn the UK, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists suggests mothers should share a room with their babies and breastfeed if they wish, but with appropriate precautions.\n\nTogether with the World Health Organization (WHO), they say the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the potential risks of Covid-19 spread.\n\nMeanwhile, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention suggests considering a temporary separation of the newborn from a mother, to reduce the risk of spreading the virus to the baby. It says mothers in this situation may consider expressing breast milk.\n\nIn this study, mothers and babies were allowed to stay in the same room and mothers could breastfeed - with measures such as wearing face masks and frequent handwashing. Babies had enclosed cribs about 2m (6ft) from the mother's bed.\n\nResearchers acknowledge almost a third of the babies did not have further tests after birth, partly because parents did not want to bring them back to a clinical environment during a pandemic.\n\nNevertheless, Dr Christine Salvatore, who led the study, said: \"We hope our study will provide some reassurance to new mothers that the risk of them passing Covid-19 to their babies is very low.\n\n\"However, larger studies are needed to better understand the risks of transmission from mother to child.\"\n\nProf Marian Knight, who leads the UK's national surveillance of Covid-19 in pregnancy, said the research provided reassurance and supported current guidance.\n\nShe said: \"More than 1,000 mothers with SARS-CoV-2 infection have given birth in the UK, and only 1-2% of their babies have had a positive test for SARS-CoV-2. Infection does not appear to cause severe illness in these babies.\n\n\"This small US study also indicates transmission of infection from mother to baby is uncommon with simple precautions such as the wearing of face masks by mums with Covid-19.\"\n\nThe study is published in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.\n• None Is the risk from Covid-19 higher during pregnancy?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray is set to leave Woman's Hour after 33 years.\n\nDame Jenni is the longest-serving presenter in the Radio 4 show's 74-year history.\n\nDuring her time on the show she conducted memorable interviews with female figures as varied as Bette Davis, Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton; Kate McCann and Margaret Atwood.\n\nShe said it is now \"time to move on\".\n\n\"I've spent nearly half my life with Woman's Hour and it's been a privilege ‎and delight to inform, educate and entertain a loyal and growing audience of women and men,\" said Dame Jenni.\n\n\"Saying goodbye will be very hard to do, but it's time to move on.\"\n\nIn 2011, she received a damehood in recognition of her contribution to broadcasting during a career that also saw her pick up two Sony Awards and be made a member of the Radio Academy Hall of Fame.\n\nOther highlights included interviews with actors Dame Judi Dench, Saoirse Ronan and her own personal favourite singer, Joan Baez.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall described the outgoing presenter as \"remarkable\", adding that \"few have matched her outstanding contribution to the BBC and our audience\".\n\n\"For more than three decades, Jenni has been an unmistakeable and warm voice that has interviewed many of the most well-known women in the world, and helped illuminate issues that matter. The radio airwaves won't be the same without her,\" he added.\n\nDame Jenni announced on-air in 2006 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. On her return to work the following year she spoke about her hair loss and the importance of hair in defining femininity.\n\nMohit Bakaya, Controller of Radio 4, praised her for tackling \"important issues\" and having \"difficult conversations about the experiences of women\".\n\n\"I want to thank her for her wonderful commitment to Woman's Hour, to Radio 4 in general, and for the passion she has shown for the topics explored during her time on the programme,\" said Bakaya.\n\nIn 2018 Dame Jenni pulled out of an Oxford University talk amid a backlash over comments she made about transgender people.\n\nShe was invited to speak at an event called Powerful British Women in History and Society, but the student union's LGBTQ Campaign said she had made \"transphobic comments\" in a 2017 newspaper article for the Sunday Times headlined \"Be trans, be proud - but don't call yourself a 'real woman'\".\n\nThe Oxford University History Society subsequently said she had cancelled her appearance \"for personal reasons\".\n\nDame Jenni wrote \"it takes more than a sex change and make-up\" to \"lay claim to womanhood\" and has previously said she was not \"transphobic or anti-trans\", adding she believed trans people \"should be treated with respect\" and protected from \"bullying and violence\".\n\nDame Jenni's final programme will be broadcast on 1 October, and a new Woman's Hour presenter will be announced in due course.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "More than 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to work as slaves\n\nA major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.\n\nMore than 50,000 people took part in the study, which was able to identify more details of the \"genetic impact\" the trade has had on present-day populations in the Americas.\n\nIt lays bare the consequences of rape, maltreatment, disease and racism.\n\nMore than 12.5m Africans were traded between 1515 and the mid-19th Century.\n\nSome two million of the enslaved men, women and children died en route to the Americas.\n\nThe DNA study was led by consumer genetics company 23andMe and included 30,000 people of African ancestry on both sides of the Atlantic. The findings were published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.\n\nSteven Micheletti, a population geneticist at 23andMe told AFP news agency that the aim was to compare the genetic results with the manifests of slave ships \"to see how they agreed and how they disagree\".\n\nWhile much of their findings agreed with historical documentation about where people were taken from in Africa and where they were enslaved in the Americas, \"in some cases, we see that they disagree, quite strikingly\", he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo creates sculptures of slaves to immerse people in their experience.\n\nThe study found, in line with the major slave route, that most Americans of African descent have roots in territories now located in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nWhat was surprising was the over-representation of Nigerian ancestry in the US and Latin America when compared with the recorded number of enslaved people from that region.\n\nResearchers say this can be explained by the \"intercolonial trade that occurred primarily between 1619 and 1807\".\n\nThey believe enslaved Nigerians were transported from the British Caribbean to other areas, \"presumably to maintain the slave economy as transatlantic slave-trading was increasingly prohibited\".\n\nLikewise, the researchers were surprised to find an underrepresentation from Senegal and The Gambia - one of the first regions from where slaves were deported.\n\nResearchers put this down to two grim factors: many were sent to work in rice plantations where malaria and other dangerous conditions were rampant; and in later years larger numbers of children were sent, many of whom did not survive the crossing.\n\nSome two million people did not survive the horrendous conditions aboard ship\n\nIn another gruesome discovery, the study found that the treatment of enslaved women across the Americas had had an impact on the modern gene pool.\n\nResearchers said a strong bias towards African female contributions in the gene pool - even though the majority of slaves were male - could be attributed to \"the rape of enslaved African women by slave owners and other sexual exploitation\".\n\nIn Latin America, up to 17 African women for every African man contributed to the gene pool. Researchers put this down in part to a policy of \"branqueamento\", racial whitening, in a number of countries, which actively encouraged the immigration of European men \"with the intention to dilute African ancestry through reproduction\".\n\nAlthough the bias in British colonised America was just two African women to one African man, it was no less exploitative.\n\nThe study highlighted the \"practice of coercing enslaved people to having children as a means of maintaining an enslaved workforce nearing the abolition of the transatlantic trade\". In the US, women were often promised freedom in return for reproducing and racist policies opposed the mixing of different races, researchers note.\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 Black Lives Matter movement has shone a light on the damaging legacy of colonialism and slavery on African Americans and other people of African heritage around the world. Statues of colonial-era slave traders have been pulled down as protesters demand an end to the glorifying of symbols of slavery.", "Being obese or overweight puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, experts say after examining existing studies.\n\nThe review of evidence by Public Health England found excess weight put people at greater risk of needing hospital admission or intensive care.\n\nAnd the risk grew substantially as weight increased.\n\nThe release comes ahead of an expected government announcement of new measures to curb obesity.\n\nDr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said the current evidence was clear, that being overweight or obese puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, as well as from many other life-threatening diseases.\n\n\"Losing weight can bring huge benefits for health - and may also help protect against the health risks of Covid-19,\" she said. \"The case for action on obesity has never been stronger.\"\n\nThe UK has one of the highest levels of obesity in Europe. Almost two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese, with similar figures in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe NHS says most adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9 are overweight, while those with a BMI of 30 to 39.9 are classed as obese.\n\nBody mass index is calculated by dividing a person's mass in kilograms by the square of their height in metres.\n\nAnother measure of excess fat is waist size - men with a waist of 94cm or more and women with a waist of 80cm or more are more likely to develop obesity-related problems.\n\nSupporting people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight may reduce the severe effects of Covid-19 on the population, especially among vulnerable groups who are most affected by obesity, the report said.\n\nProf Susan Jebb of the University of Oxford, said we already know that older people, men, those from South Asian and some other ethnic groups, and people living in more deprived areas, are at increased risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"Over and above these things, this review shows that excess weight is another very important risk factor,\" she said.\n\nThere was anecdotal evidence that some people were struggling with their weight during the pandemic, she added, which offered a \"re-set moment\" for everyone to think about their lifestyle.\n\nAccording to the report, while some data suggests that more people have exercised during lockdown, evidence indicates that the nation's exercise levels have not increased overall.\n\nMeanwhile, snack food and alcohol sales from High Street shops have increased.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce new measures soon to combat obesity, including a ban on TV junk food adverts before 21:00.\n\nThe measures are yet to be finalised, but are also likely to include a ban on online ads for unhealthy foods, and limits on in-store promotions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has admitted the government did not understand coronavirus during the \"first few weeks and months\" of the UK outbreak.\n\nThe PM told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg there were \"very open questions\" about whether the lockdown had started too late.\n\nMr Johnson also spoke of \"lessons to be learned\" and said ministers could have done some things \"differently\".\n\nLabour accused the government of \"mishandling\" the crisis.\n\nMore than 45,000 people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus, government figures show, with almost 300,000 cases confirmed.\n\nLast week, Mr Johnson promised an \"independent\" inquiry into the pandemic, but no details have been given of its scope or timing.\n\nPreviously, the prime minister has said he took the \"right decisions at the right time\", based on the advice of scientists.\n\nBut, in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg to mark the first anniversary of his entering Downing Street, he said: \"We didn't understand [the virus] in the way that we would have liked in the first few weeks and months.\n\n\"And I think, probably, the single thing that we didn't see at the beginning was the extent to which it was being transmitted asymptomatically from person to person.\"\n\nMr Johnson wants to use the government's experience of what happened during the pandemic to speed up his agenda, to \"double down on levelling up\", as he puts it in his peculiar political jargon.\n\nIn other words, to push ahead with more determination, and less fudge in Whitehall, with the changes that he says will actually improve the lives of voters, particularly those who voted Tory for the first time in 2019.\n\nWhile preparing the NHS for a potential second surge, he clearly wants to concentrate on what's next, not what's gone before.\n\nBut perhaps until the government is really ready to acknowledge what has happened, the questions will continue - and the public may still feel anxious about whether they can really trust ministers to handle a second surge next time round.\n\nJust as 366 days ago, optimism is Boris Johnson's trademark.\n\nBut if the last few months have shown anything, it is that the real challenge of life in power, is that events that can surprise.\n\nThe prime minister added: \"I think it's fair to say that there are things that we need to learn about how we handled it in the early stages...There will be plenty of opportunities to learn the lessons of what happened.\"\n\nThe UK went into full lockdown in late March, which critics say was too late and cost lives.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Maybe there were things we could have done differently, and of course there will be time to understand what exactly we could have done, or done differently.\"\n\nBoris Johnson was himself diagnosed with coronavirus in March\n\nHe added that these were still \"very open questions as far as [scientists] are concerned, and there will be a time, obviously, to consider all those issues\".\n\nOn Friday, the government announced that 30 million people in England would be offered a flu vaccine this year, to reduce pressure on the NHS in case of a surge in coronavirus infections during the autumn and winter.\n\nMr Johnson said this was in addition to increased testing and tracing and more procurement of personal protective equipment, adding: \"What people really want to focus on now is what are we doing to prepare for the next phase.\"\n\nHe said: \"We mourn every one of those who lost their lives and our thoughts are very much with their families. And I take full responsibility for everything that government did.\"\n\nThe prime minister, who was himself placed in intensive care in April after contracting coronavirus, said he would \"very soon\" set out new measures to deal with obesity, seen as an added risk factor for patients.\n\nIn December, Mr Johnson's Conservative Party pulled off a convincing general election win over Jeremy Corbyn's Labour, after promising to \"level up\" all parts of the UK.\n\nAnd, despite the economic damage caused by coronavirus in the past four months or so, the prime minister promised more nurses, doctors, hospitals and police, saying his government's priorities were \"exactly what they always have been, except more so. We're doubling down.\"\n\n\"The agenda is what it was when I stood on the steps of Downing Street a year ago, but we want to go further and we want to go faster.\"\n\nMr Johnson reminisced about first entering No 10 as prime minister on 24 July 2019, saying it \"was very exciting, and everybody seemed to be in a very good mood\" and \"happy, upbeat\". He added that coronavirus had caused many \"difficulties\" since then.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Psychologically it's been an extraordinary time for the country,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"But I also know that this is a nation with incredible natural resilience, and fortitude and imagination. And I think we will bounce back really much stronger than ever before.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"Boris Johnson has finally admitted the government has mishandled its response to the coronavirus.\n\n\"It was too slow to acknowledge the threat of the virus, too slow to enter lockdown and too slow to take this crisis seriously.\"\n\nThe threat of a second wave of infections was \"still very real\", he added, while it was \"imperative the government learns the lessons of its mistakes so we can help to save lives\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said an \"immediate\" coronavirus inquiry was \"essential\", and that the prime minister had shown \"no remorse\" for his \"catastrophic mistakes\".", "The UK government borrowed a record £127.9bn between April and June as tackling the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the public finances.\n\nThe figure - the difference between spending and tax income - was more than double the £55.4bn borrowed in the whole of the previous tax year.\n\nHowever, borrowing in June was lower than in May at £35.5bn.\n\nThe re-opening of more retailers and other firms saw a drop in furlough scheme spending and a rise in tax take.\n\nNevertheless, June's borrowing figure was still the third highest monthly total since records began in 1993 and about five times more than the same month last year.\n\nThe figure took total government debt to a record £1.98 trillion.\n\nThe director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, told the BBC that the borrowing in the first three months of the financial year was \"the most we would ever have borrowed over a quarter\".\n\n\"It is more than double over this first quarter than we were expecting to borrow over the entire year and we'll be looking to borrow a lot more as a fraction of the size of the economy over this year than we did during the financial crisis.\n\n\"Probably something around 15% of national income, maybe a bit more, which is easily the most we've ever borrowed in a year outside of the first and second world wars.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said debt at the end of June 2020 as a percentage of economic output was 99.6%, the highest debt to GDP ratio since the financial year ending March 1961.\n\nBut the ONS also warned that its borrowing estimates are currently \"subject to greater than usual uncertainty\".\n\nIt has revised down May's borrowing figure by £9.8bn to £45.5bn, mainly because tax receipts and National Insurance contributions were higher than previously estimated.\n\nThomas Pugh, UK economist at Capital Economics said the fact that borrowing fell in June suggested that government support was starting to wind down as the economy reopened.\n\n\"However, government borrowing is still rising at an exceptional rate and we suspect that a slowdown in the recovery and further rise in unemployment later this year will prompt the government to announce additional fiscal spending at the next Budget,\" he added.\n\nAs businesses reopened in June, some were able to wean themselves off state support. But that still meant the deficit for the first quarter of this financial year was more than twice that for last year as a whole.\n\nAnd there's more to come. Economists say the chancellor's Plan for Jobs, the package intended to support firms and workers as the furlough schemes are wound down, won't be enough to stem the spread of layoffs.\n\nWith even Rishi Sunak's own forecasters predicting joblessness could top four million, many expect extra help will have to be unveiled in the Autumn Budget.\n\nThen what? Already, the deficit is likely to top £300bn this year. There is a limit to how much the government can and will borrow cheaply to plug that.\n\nThe chancellor today repeated his vow to get the coffers back on to a sustainable path of in the \"medium term\". With austerity out of fashion, that's code for tax rises when he thinks the economy can bear it. The question is not only when that will be - but how much.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"It's clear that coronavirus has had a significant impact on our public finances, but we know without our response things would have been far worse.\n\n\"The best approach to ensure our public finances are sustainable in the medium-term is to minimise the economic scarring caused by the pandemic.\n\n\"I am also clear that, over the medium-term, we must, and we will, put our public finances back on a sustainable footing.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Sunak launched the 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), which will set out the government's plans for this parliament.\n\nThe Treasury said one of the priorities would be \"strengthening the UK's economic recovery from COVID-19 by prioritising jobs and skills\".\n\nBut it added: \"Given the impact COVID-19 has had on the economy, the chancellor was clear there will need be tough choices in other areas of spending at the review.\"\n\nPwC senior economist Alex Tuckett said June's \"moderately lower borrowing numbers - and a downwards revision to the deficit in May - should not distract from dramatic repercussions for public finances\".\n\n\"After announcing further stimulus measures this month, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will face a delicate balancing act in trying to bring the deficit down to less dramatic levels whilst avoiding pulling the fiscal rug from under the economic recovery,\" he added.\n\nLast week, the government's spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, said the government was on course to borrow £372bn this year to pay for the shortfall between tax revenues and public spending.\n\nThis includes extra borrowing to pay for the chancellor's £30bn package unveiled earlier this month to protect jobs and boost the economy.\n\nWith the UK's debt pile set to grow substantially, Robert Chote, the OBR's outgoing chairman, said policymakers faced tough choices.\n\n\"In practice, no government could allow net debt to persist for long on these explosive paths, as it would find it hard to finance its mounting deficits,\" he said.\n\nHe said getting the UK's debt share back down to around 75% of GDP would require tax rises or spending cuts of about £60bn in today's money every decade for the next 50 years.", "A video shows two teenagers who dragged a police officer to his death laughing as they left court after a previous appearance.\n\nAlbert Bowers, of Moat Close, Bramley, and Jessie Cole, of Paices Hill near Reading, both 18, were filmed ahead of the trial into the death of PC Andrew Harper.\n\nPC Harper died from catastrophic injuries after his ankles got caught in a strap trailing behind a vehicle driven by Henry Long, in August 2019.\n\nLong, 19, had earlier admitted manslaughter but was cleared of murder.\n\nAlbert Bowers and Jessie Cole, both 18, were cleared of murder but found guilty at the Old Bailey of manslaughter", "Footage has been released of the moment two teenagers were arrested following the death of a police officer.\n\nThe body-worn camera video shows Henry Long, 19, from Mortimer, Reading, and Albert Bowers, of Moat Close, Bramley, being arrested in August last year.\n\nIn the video Mr Long asks the arresting officer: \"Does it look like I've done a murder?\"\n\nThe court heard PC Harper, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, died when his ankles inadvertently got caught by the strap used to tow a stolen quad bike from a house in Stanford Dingley on 15 August last year. He was dragged for more than a mile and died at the scene.\n\nFollowing a trial at the Old Bailey, Long was found not guilty of murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter, Bowers was found guilty of manslaughter along with Jessie Cole, 18, of Paices Hill near Reading.", "The UK and EU have said they still remain some way off reaching a post-Brexit trade agreement, following the latest negotiations in London.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said a deal looked \"at this point unlikely\" given the UK position on fishing rights and post-Brexit competition rules.\n\nHis UK counterpart David Frost said \"considerable gaps\" remained in these areas, but a deal was still possible.\n\nThe UK has ruled out extending the December deadline to reach a deal.\n\nThis was the second official negotiation round to be held in person since the coronavirus crisis, after both sides agreed to \"intensify\" talks in June.\n\nThe two sides' chief negotiators are due to meet informally in London next week, with another round of official talks scheduled for mid-August in Brussels.\n\nSpeaking after the talks, Mr Barnier said the UK had not shown a \"willingness to break the deadlock\" over fisheries and post-Brexit rules on competition.\n\n\"By its current refusal to commit to conditions of open and fair competition and to a balanced agreement on fisheries, the UK makes a trade agreement at this point unlikely,\" he told reporters.\n\nHe said there was a risk of no deal being reached unless the UK changed course on the topics, which were \"at the heart\" of the EU's trade interests.\n\nHe added that an agreement would be needed by October \"at the latest\" so it could be ratified before the current post-Brexit transition period ends in December.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Frost said fisheries and the rules on competition - known as \"level playing field\" provisions - remained the \"most difficult areas\".\n\nHe said he still believed a deal could still be reached in September, but the government must \"face the possibility\" one will not be struck.\n\nBut he added the EU had shown a \"pragmatic approach\" over British demands to limit the role of the European Court of Justice after the transition period ends.\n\nIf the last four years, or even 40 years, have taught us anything about negotiations and the European Union, it is that they go on a bit and rarely are they concluded without the deadline being not just imminent, but, well...pretty much now.\n\nAnd this is not that point, yet.\n\nIt was always very unlikely this would be the moment where a document would be pulled triumphantly from the inside of a suit pocket, a deal done.\n\nWhen Michel Barnier says a trade agreement between the UK and the EU is \"at this point unlikely\", your eye is drawn towards that word \"unlikely\".\n\nBut \"at this point\" matters too.\n\nBoth sides are still talking and compromise likes to turn up fashionably late.\n\nNone of this guarantees there will be a deal - there may not be.\n\nBut both sides want one, if they can find one they can live with.\n\nAnd remember, whatever happens between now and New Year's Eve, things will be different next year.\n\nLegally, Brexit happened at the end of January this year.\n\nIn practical terms, it happens at the start of January next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Frost said the UK, which has so far insisted on a series of separate deals in different areas, was also willing to consider a \"simpler\" structure for an agreement.\n\nHowever he conceded previous UK demands for an \"early understanding\" on the principles of a deal by this month would not be reached.\n\nHe said EU offers to break the deadlock had so far failed to honour the \"fundamental principles which we have repeatedly made clear\".\n\nEach side says the other needs to make a move. And if there is to be a deal, it will probably come at the eleventh hour.\n\nThat means compromises will have to emerge in September before a deal is agreed in October - leaving both sides just enough time to ratify an agreement before the end of the year.\n\nThere have been suggestions of potential progress this week - on the role of the European Court of Justice and on the overall structure of a future agreement.\n\nBut differences between the two sides are substantial, and go to the heart of what the Brexit process is all about: how closely aligned will the UK be with the EU in the future?\n\nFor the UK sovereignty is key; for the EU the priority is to protect the integrity of its single market.\n\nAnd for now, the two sides often seem to be talking past each other in public.\n\nMr Barnier said that to agree a deal, the EU would require \"robust\" guarantees from the UK over its future rules for providing state support to companies.\n\nHe criticised the UK for providing \"no visibility\" on its future regime in this area, and called for it to share more details of its plans.\n\nThe UK is due to stop following EU \"state aid\" rules at the end of the transition period, and has not unveiled details of its subsequent regime.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said he wants to make it easier for the UK government to provide assistance to struggling firms.", "We are now - again - one year away from the start of the Olympics in Tokyo\n\nFor some athletes, today was the last chance to take part in the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nThey are too old, too exhausted or too financially stretched to wait for another year, after the pandemic forced its postponement.\n\nOne of them is 35-year-old Tetsuya Sotomura. When I met him on a sweltering afternoon earlier this week he was still hard at it in a converted factory building in a north Tokyo suburb, flying high into the air, spinning and tumbling on a massive trampoline.\n\nBack in 2008 Tetsuya placed 4th at the Beijing Olympics, just missing a bronze medal. Since then he's fought injury that put him out of London in 2012 and Rio in 2016. Tokyo was to be his last hurrah, a hometown Olympics to end his trampolining career on a high. But another year is just too much.\n\n\"Back in 2008, if the Beijing Games had been postponed by a year I would have thought ok, it's another year to train, another year to grow,\" he tells me. \"But now I am 35. A year feels like a very long time. So, I have decided retirement is the only option.\"\n\nTetsuya Sotomura believes retirement is now his only option\n\nBut there is another reason Tetsuya is getting off the trampoline. He thinks Tokyo 2021 may never happen.\n\n\"It's so uncertain. No-one knows the probability. If what awaits us next year is cancellation, I would have lost another year for nothing. So that is another reason to go now.\"\n\nEnthusiasm for the Games has plummeted in Japan since Covid-19 arrived here in January. The Japanese government has closed Japan's borders to most foreigners to protect the country from imported cases, and many Japanese people are in no hurry to see them re-open for athletes or spectators.\n\nAfter retirement, Tetsuya is helping and coaching at his old trampoline gym in the north of Tokyo\n\nTV reporters have been visiting the towns due to host various foreign teams and asking locals how they feel. The residents of a town north of Tokyo due to host the Brazilian team were clearly struggling to maintain any semblance of enthusiasm. An opinion poll by the Kyodo news agency found just 23% of people in Japan now support holding the games if Covid-19 infections are still widespread next year.\n\nThe latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) do not make for happy viewing. More than 15 million infections worldwide, and that number is growing by about a million every four to five days.\n\nFrom the US to Brazil, from India to South Africa, suppression efforts are failing and infections are surging. Of course, a year feels like a long time, but many health experts say it is now very unlikely the pandemic will be contained by next summer.\n\nAt Kobe University Hospital in western Japan, Prof Kentaro Iwata says the only hope for the Olympics is a vaccine.\n\nThe status of the Olympics will remain uncertain without a vaccine, officials fear\n\n\"If a vaccine is available it could be a game changer,\" he says. \"Phase 1 and 2 trials have some promising results. I have not lost hope.\n\n\"But generally speaking vaccines don't eradicate a virus, they lower the incidence by about half. So, I don't think Covid-19 can be eradicated. Instead [even with a vaccine] it will continue into 2021.\"\n\nProf Iwata is particularly concerned looking at what is going on in the US, the country that more than any other pays for the Olympics.\n\n\"The US will suffer from Covid for many months to come,\" he says. \"Can athletes come from the US come here? Can we have the Olympics without Americans? Most likely not. The priority must be the safety of the athletes and of Japanese people.\n\n\"The US TV companies may not like that, but is the Olympics a sports competition or a TV show?\"\n\nThere is one seemingly simple solution: push the Tokyo Games back another year to 2022. It is far more likely the pandemic will have run its course by then. But that has been ruled out by the Japanese government. From his home in Montreal the longest-serving member of the International Olympic Committee, Dick Pound, told me it is now 2021 or bust.\n\n\"What we do know is 2021 is our last chance,\" he says.\n\n\"It's not something we can put off until 2022 or 2023. I don't think it's fair to expect Japan to keep the balls in the air any longer. To the extent that it's safe for the athletes to come, every effort will be made for the Games to go forward.\n\n\"That said, if public health authorities in Japan and around the world conclude that it's not safe enough, there is probably no alternative but to say, 'oh well, the pandemic is the new war'.\"\n\nThe only occasions the Olympic Games have been cancelled was during the two World Wars, and one of those was - you guessed it - Tokyo, in 1940.\n\nA ceremony was held to reset the clock\n\nSo how about one final idea: a much-simplified Games, with foreign athletes going through quarantine before arrival but foreign spectators kept away?\n\nAccording to Dick Pound, this is a non-starter.\n\n\"In the North American phrase - you either have the fish or cut bait,\" he says. \"Japan would have to decide, do they want the Games to go ahead or are the risks too much? In which case Japan would probably propose, and the IOC would accept, cancellation.\"\n\nOn Thursday night inside the Olympic stadium they held a ceremony to reset the clock, one year until the opening ceremony. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe insists the Games must go on but Covid-19 is almost certainly not listening.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘I couldn’t compete at Tokyo 2020 – but I can in 2021’", "The next Mulan is a live action remake of the animated hit movie\n\nWalt Disney has delayed and postponed the release of three major films, dealing a fresh blow to cinema operators struggling amid the pandemic.\n\nThe new Avatar and Star Wars films have been delayed by a year, while Mulan has been removed from schedules completely.\n\nMulan, already delayed because of cinema closures, had been scheduled for release at the end of August.\n\nA rise in virus cases in the US and the impact globally on film production forced the change.\n\n\"It's become clear that nothing can be set in stone when it comes to how we release films during this global health crisis,\" a Disney spokesman said. \"Today that means pausing our release plans for Mulan as we assess how we can most effectively bring this film to audiences around the world.\"\n\nA rise in virus cases in the US and the impact globally on film production forced the change.\n\nNews that the release of three major Walt Disney films will be delayed or postponed is a fresh blow to cinema operators struggling amid the pandemic.\n\nIt had been hoped that Mulan might spark a late-summer rebound in cinema-going. The Avatar sequel is now set to debut in theatres in December 2022, and the next Star Wars movie in December 2023.\n\nOn Thursday, the AMC and Cineworld cinema chains pushed back the reopening date for their US outlets until at least mid-August, from the end of July.\n\nNew York City and Los Angeles, the two biggest markets in the US, have no concrete plans for reopening cinemas.\n\nWhile cinemas in England were allowed to reopen from 4 July - as long as social distancing guidelines were followed - the picture across North America is much more uncertain.\n\nIn China, the world's second largest movie market, cinemas started to reopen this week after being closed for six months due to social distancing measures.\n\nOne film expert said the delay in Mulan was a \"blessing in disguise\" for Disney given the rising tensions between the US and China.\n\nChris Fenton is the author of Feeding the Dragon, a book about the power struggle between China and American business, particularly Hollywood film studios.\n\n\"No film based on Chinese mythology, set in China, and full of Chinese faces would perform well in America given the current state of anti-Chinese sentiment,\" Mr Fenton said.\n\n\"And in China, the same underperformance would be reciprocated due to hostility towards the US and American-made products, of which, Mulan is one.\"\n\nThe Mulan delay follows Warner Bros' decision to postpone the August release of Christopher Nolan's thriller Tenet. Cinema owners were pinning hopes on the two films to salvage part of the lucrative summer season.\n\nAvatar 2 would have been one of next year's biggest films. It is the follow-up to James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster, which is the second highest-grossing film of all time.\n\nAnother delayed Disney film is Ridley Scott's historical thriller The Last Duel, which stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. That has been shifted from December of this year to October 2021.", "Boris Johnson says 'lessons to be learned' over handling of virus\n\nThe prime minister says the UK government didn't understand coronavirus in the \"first few weeks and months\" and has acknowledged there were things the government \"could have done differently\" in its handling of the virus. Speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Boris Johnson said there were \"lessons to be learned\" about how the virus was managed in the early stages. \"We didn't understand (the virus) in the way that we would have liked in the first few weeks and months. \"The single thing that we didn't see at the beginning was the extent to which it was being transmitted asymptomatically from person to person. \"I think it's fair to say that there are things that we need to learn about how we handled it in the early stages.\" The prime minister also said there were \"very open questions\" over whether lockdown came too late - a marked change from ministers' previous insistence that the right decisions were taken at the right time. Asked whether there was a delay in implementing a lockdown which ultimately cost lives, he said: \"Maybe there were things we could have done differently and of course there will be time to understand what exactly we could have done, or done differently.\"", "None of the St Mirren players have failed their regular Covid tests\n\nSix of the seven coaches and backroom staff at St Mirren who initially tested positive for Covid-19 have now been given the all-clear.\n\nThe Paisley club was put into lockdown after the first batch of results emerged on Thursday evening.\n\nBut further testing by the NHS has since confirmed just one positive case among staff at the Premiership outfit.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged Rangers face an SFA probe into whether the club may have breached testing protocols.\n\nThe SFA want to know if Ibrox players, who took part in a game against Dundee United on Wednesday, had been given the necessary results in time.\n\nAlthough no St Mirren player has tested positive, the Paisley side's planned Saturday friendly at home to St Johnstone has been cancelled.\n\nIn a statement posted on the club's website, St Mirren chief executive Tony Fitzpatrick said the one remaining staff member to have tested positive was in \"strict isolation\" and has not been in contact with any player or other staff member since Saturday.\n\n\"The club will continue to support and look after this staff member to ensure a full recovery,\" he added.\n\nHe said the club had \"complied robustly\" with the official testing and hygiene regime, and he said they would be \"urgently reviewing\" testing arrangements given the initial false positive results at a private facility.\n\nThe chief executive said players were tested on Monday and had returned 100% negative tests, however test results for seven of the coaching staff undertaken at the same time, showed they were positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"We immediately implemented strict isolation protocols and made further arrangements for the coaching staff to be retested at NHS testing facilities on Thursday 23rd,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm very pleased to report that six of the subsequent coaching staff tests have now come back negative this morning.\n\n\"The remaining member of the coaching staff has confirmed as a positive test result and continues to be in strict isolation and has not come into contact with any member of the playing or coaching staff since Saturday 18th July.\"\n\nFollowing the news from St Mirren Park, Premiership clubs have been ordered to revert to two Covid tests per week rather than one.\n\nScottish football's joint response group (JRG) said: \"We immediately contacted the Scottish government and the office of the clinical director for Scotland to relay this information.\n\n\"In light of this and other recent events, the JRG hereby notifies Scottish Premiership clubs that with immediate effect they must revert to twice-weekly testing protocols until further notice.\"\n\nSt Mirren, who start their competitive campaign at home to Livingston on 1 August, last played Hamilton Academical in a friendly on Saturday.\n\nHamilton Academical said all players and backroom staff were tested two days after that match, with all returned results being negative.\n\nA statement from the club said: \"Following the departure of the St Mirren squad on Saturday, the area used was cleaned and disinfected.\n\n\"The location occupied by St Mirren was a segregated area at the far end of our stadium and is separate from the areas used by Hamilton Accies' players and staff on a matchday. Subsequently on Monday, all players and backroom staff were tested with all results returned negative.\n\n\"Hamilton Academical will continue to follow advice from the SFA/SPFL joint response group.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Rangers' investigation relates to two friendly matches played on Wednesday.\n\nCurrent rules state players cannot take part in any matches unless they have negative test results from weekly screenings.\n\nThe Ibrox club's friendly against Motherwell on Wednesday was delayed by two hours due to results being held up.\n\nBut, earlier that day, squad members took part in another closed doors match against Dundee United at the club's training centre.\n\nThe SFA is now looking to see if the players who took part in that game had the necessary results in time.\n\nMotherwell and Hibs have also been asked to explain delayed results which have impacted matches.\n\nScottish football's governing body has already written to clubs reminding them of the importance of sticking to the rules ahead of the new season kicking off on 1 August.", "Elton John and Renate Blauel got married in 1984 and divorced four years later\n\nSir Elton John's ex-wife, Renate Blauel, is seeking an estimated £3m in damages amid claims the singer broke the terms of their divorce deal.\n\nThe sound engineer, who was married to the star for four years, is suing over passages in Sir Elton's 2019 memoir Me, and the hit movie Rocketman.\n\nMs Blauel claims these revealed details of the marriage, breaking an agreement they made when they divorced in 1988.\n\nThe disclosures triggered long-standing mental health problems, her claim said.\n\nIn response, Sir Elton's defence acknowledged the existence of the divorce agreement, which both parties signed, but denied any breaches or causing \"psychological harm\".\n\nAccording to papers filed at the High Court in London, Sir Elton agreed to remove certain passages from his autobiography before it was published last year, and in the final draft, Ms Blauel only appears on eight pages.\n\nSir Elton describes her in positive terms throughout the book, calling her \"dignified\", \"decent\" and \"someone I couldn't fault in any way\".\n\nMs Blauel has never spoken publicly about her marriage to Sir Elton\n\nHowever, Ms Blauel claims some of the remaining passages \"seriously misrepresented the nature of their relationship\".\n\nFor instance, Sir Elton claimed in his book that he did not enter their marriage with the intention of starting a family. Ms Blauel contests that they \"did attempt to have children during their relationship but were unable to do so\".\n\nA request to have this passage removed was rejected, according to court documents.\n\nShe also claimed not to have been consulted about her appearance in Rocketman, in which she was played by Celinde Schoenmaker - although the marriage took up less than five minutes of screentime.\n\nMs Blauel also said that, following the release of the movie and the memoir, a journalist had \"been trying to locate her in her local village\", causing her \"great anxiety\".\n\nHer lawyer, Yisrael Hiller, told the BBC that Sir Elton had \"ignored\" his promise to keep the details of their marriage private.\n\n\"Renate is particularly upset by the film,\" he added.\n\n\"In her mind, the film seeks to portray their marriage as a sham, which she wholeheartedly disputes and considers a false and disrespectful portrayal of their time together.\n\n\"Renate wants the privacy that was promised to her - that is why she is seeking an injunction. Any claim for monetary relief is secondary, and would just cover damages and future expenses caused by Elton's breaches.\"\n\nHer court filing does not suggest a figure for the damages, but the £3m sum is referred to in Sir Elton's defence, as a figure that had been disclosed in previous correspondence between the two parties.\n\nA source close to the singer told the BBC: \"Elton is shocked and saddened by Renate's claim after 30 years of a mutually amicable and respectful divorce, especially as he has only ever praised her publicly.\"\n\nThe pair met in 1983, as Sir Elton recorded his comeback album Two Low For Zero at London's Air Studios, where Ms Blauel worked as an engineer.\n\nThe couple married the following year in Australia, with Ms Blauel telling United Press International: \"He's the nicest guy I've ever met\".\n\nHowever, they divorced four years later. Sir Elton, who had told Rolling Stone magazine in 1976 that he was bisexual, subsequently told the same publication he was \"quite comfortable being gay\".\n\nThe star went on to marry filmmaker David Furnish in 2005, and the couple have two children.\n\nMs Blauel has kept a low profile since the divorce, but Sir Elton has previously spoken of his \"huge guilt and regret\" over the hurt he caused her.\n\nDetails of their legal dispute first emerged last month, when Ms Blauel filed for an injunction at London's High Court. Further details emerged after Sir Elton's team filed a response this week.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police were called to reports of a shooting in Rochford car park on Willan Road\n\nA man and two teenagers have been injured in a triple shooting in north London. The man is now critically ill.\n\nThey were targeted on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham at about 00:45 BST, the Met Police said.\n\nOfficers believe the gunmen arrived in a car, carried out the shooting and then left in the same vehicle.\n\nDetectives say a 19-year-old man is in a critical condition and two 15-year-old boys are also in hospital with serious injuries.\n\nOne of the 15-year-old's injuries have been described as \"life changing\" while the other is not thought to be in a life-threatening condition.\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\nCommander Paul Brogden said: \"This was another appalling crime, where three young black males have become victims in our capital city, two of whom are actually children.\n\n\"The Metropolitan Police will leave no stone unturned to bring to justice those responsible, but we need the help of Londoners to break this cycle of violence.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Treena Fleming said there will be extra police in the Tottenham area in order to investigate the shooting and reassure the community.\n\n\"I fully understand how frightening this will be,\" she added.\n\n\"These incidents cannot be tolerated, a society cannot be indifferent to the plight of young people who are being injured and killed on our streets.\"\n\nA BBC analysis of homicides across the capital show there have been more than 70 murder investigations started in the capital this year.\n\nNine of them have been as a result of fatal shootings - six of them have happened since the start of June.\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.", "Florida is fast becoming America's latest Covid-19 epicentre. The surge in the Sunshine State has been linked in part to younger Americans - but that doesn't mean there's no cause for concern.\n\nLike many Covid-19 stories, it started with a dry cough.\n\nFever, loss of taste and chest pain followed Sanjay Bharath's diagnosis in early March.\n\nMr Bharath, who is a hospital nurse in South Florida, says he caught the virus from a patient when the Covid-19 screening process for admissions was less strict. He was told to self-quarantine two days later.\n\nAt 34 years old, Mr Bharath does not fall into a virus-vulnerable age group. But 14 days after that first contact, he had coughed up blood and checked into the hospital.\n\nTwo days later, on 26 March, he was intubated.\n\n\"I didn't think it was too bad,\" he says, describing his first couple of hours in the ER. \"I honestly thought they weren't going to admit me at the hospital, just send me home with some sort of medication.\"\n\nAs his symptoms worsened, Mr Bharath says he would wake up in a fever-sweat every six hours, feeling chills and lightheaded and unable to catch his breath.\n\nSanjay Bharath, a 34-year-old nurse, was hospitalised over the virus\n\n\"I couldn't take a big breath without coughing and choking,\" he says. \"It's like you're running a marathon constantly just by sitting down.\"\n\nMr Bharath would remain on a ventilator for eight days.\n\nFlorida has been averaging nearly 10,000 new cases per day for the last week. On 12 July, the state broke the national record by reporting 15,300 cases in a single day. A Reuters analysis on 12 July found if Florida were a country, it would be fourth in the world for most new cases in a day.\n\nAs of 14 July, over 4,400 Floridians have died due to the virus and the state's weekly average has risen to 81 people each day by local counts. The same day saw the state's all-time highest daily death toll, with 132 reported deaths.\n\nFlorida saw the biggest daily jump in hospital admissions on 9 July, with more than 400 patients needing treatment, as well as 120 residents, including an 11-year-old girl, dying due to the virus.\n\nCritics say the number of deaths is probably higher, as Florida does not like other states report deaths suspected as having been caused by Covid-19. The state also has yet to report daily hospital admission rates, though officials have promised to do so.\n\nAlong with Texas and Arizona, the Sunshine State has fast become one of the regions with the highest surges in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe positive test rate - which indicates how much the virus is spreading even with testing increases - is nearing 20%, the highest since early March when the pandemic hit the US. That's also four times the standard for reopening set by the World Health Organization, and double the recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control.\n\nFlorida only hit the 100,000 case mark on 22 June, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Just 13 days later, that number had doubled.\n\nNow, there are more than 287,000 cases.\n\n\"There's a lot of misinformation all over the web about the seriousness of this outbreak,\" says Dr Aileen Marty, a Florida International University infectious disease expert who has been working with state officials on the pandemic response. She says this is partly why Florida is now among the worst-hit regions.\n\n\"Since we don't have a consistent message in our state, let alone our country, there's even more confusion.\"\n\nIn May and June, Governor Ron DeSantis had said reopening was feasible as cases had declined. He promised no roll-backs.\n\nAs cases began rising, Mr DeSantis in June reversed his decision to allow bars to reopen. But he has refused to require masks statewide, though local leaders in major cities like Miami have done so, and has joined President Donald Trump in emphasising the importance of keeping the economy open.\n\n\"The way that we've acted after our initial lockdowns has perpetuated the problem,\" Dr Marty says. \"It was a failure because they didn't do it right the first time.\"\n\nDr Marty, who also serves as a World Health Organization adviser, says establishing a contact tracing and isolating system while the state was in lockdown was one key step that never happened.\n\nA lack of early testing of asymptomatic individuals plus weeks of civil unrest, between anti-lockdown protesters and marches against racial inequality, have also worsened the situation.\n\nBut even as Florida's numbers continue to trend upwards, Mr DeSantis said last week he felt the state's numbers had stabilised, telling residents: \"There's no need to be fearful.\"\n\nThe Republican governor has also downplayed the severity of Florida's outbreak by pointing to the increase in testing and younger Floridians being infected - particularly those aged 25 to 34 - as well as a lower death rate.\n\n\"Generally, deaths follow about two weeks behind when we get the positive tests,\" Dr Marty explains. She pushes back against the notion that America is doing well with deaths from this virus, saying even looking at just the raw data shows the nationwide rate - around 5.6% - is concerning.\n\n\"That's considering the fact that we're better at it now than we were,\" she adds. \"We're getting people in beds sooner, moving people to ICUs sooner.\"\n\nTesting, despite delays in getting results, has also aided mitigation. Medication is helping, though the Remdesivir antiviral drug is in short supply at some hospitals.\n\n\"I just don't understand people who say our death rate is great,\" Dr Marty says.\n\nYounger Americans have been blamed for surges across the country, and particularly in Florida, where most new cases are from those under age 30 on the heels of summertime weather and national holidays.\n\nThe median age of infections in Miami-Dade County, the state's most populous region, is 40. In Tallahassee, the median recently hit a low of 25 years old.\n\nBut just because younger people are less likely to die than the elderly from this disease does not make this surge less worrying. Health experts warn there are still serious risks and far too many unknowns about what contracting Covid-19 means in the long-term.\n\nRecent studies have found that some asymptomatic survivors lost some of their sense of smell, even if they did not notice a change. In scans, individuals who otherwise feel fine show signs of lung damage.\n\n\"There is a risk to [young people] now, which is small, and a risk for their future, which is unknown,\" Dr Marty says.\n\nIn hospital, Dr Marty has seen Covid patients develop clots that lead to strokes. Some clots lead to losing limbs. Others develop an inflammation of the heart. All this in addition to the damage to the lungs - the scarring they will feel the effects of for the rest of their lives.\n\nIn the last week alone she has cared for patients ranging from 30 to 80 years old.\n\n\"It's not one and done with this thing,\" she emphasises.\n\nThere are questions when it comes to herd immunity as well - with no proof yet that it works with this virus. Data from the six other coronaviruses that have caused infections in humans suggests none of them produce immunity lasting more than a year.\n\nMr Bharath was one of the first staff in his hospital to catch Covid-19, back in March.\n\nAfter being taken off the ventilator, the 34-year-old was moved from the ICU to recover for four days in a Covid-19-only unit - the same unit where he works now. No visitors were allowed in at all, even family.\n\n\"The recovery was a little difficult at first,\" Mr Bharath says. \"I was still really out of breath, I still had some pneumonia. It was still difficult breathing and moving around.\"\n\nIn the two weeks in hospital over Covid-19, Mr Bharath lost 20 lbs (9kg). Lying still in a hospital bed exacerbated a prior nerve issue in his feet - he lost some feeling in his toes while other tendons had stiffened up painfully. He was out of work for another six weeks.\n\nNow, four months since his hospital stay, Mr Bharath is still recovering. \"I still get short of breath a bit here and there,\" he says.\n\nWhen he returned to work at the start of June, he says he \"hesitated a little bit\".\n\n\"But I felt like I owed the staff and the employees, and there's still a job to be done, so I had to go back.\"\n\nThe never-ending work is beginning to take a toll on healthcare workers across the state. Staff are exhausted, frustrated, scared.\n\nAs of 13 July, there are just over 13,700 hospital beds - about 22% of the total - still available in the state, according to data from the Agency for Health Care Administration. Nearly half of all the ICUs in the state report being at least 90% full, leaving under 1,200 beds available. Over 40 hospitals are already at capacity.\n\n\"There's a limited number of trained and ready professionals,\" Dr Marty says. \"We're talking about doctors, we're talking about nurses, we're talking about aides of all kinds - that know how to even use the kind of equipment that we need to use. A brain surgeon has no idea how to use a ventilator.\"\n\nFlorida will be importing over 100 nurses in the next few days, and it seems likely the state will need to import doctors as well. Personal protective equipment - essential for keeping staff safe and containing the virus' spread in care settings - is also running low again.\n\n\"We're stressed out,\" Dr Marty says. \"Nurses are coming to me because they're being told to wear surgical masks instead of N95s because we don't have N95s.\"\n\nTesting continues to be America's ever-present problem. Without it, keeping Covid-19 contained is a shot in the dark.\n\nTesting sites have seen long wait times and delays in results\n\nThe US had begun to ramp up testing capacity, but demands now are threatening to overwhelm labs in Florida and nationwide. Machines are not able to keep up with the surge in tests, resulting in delays that in turn fuel community spread as people do not know if they're positive for days.\n\nMr Bharath says it's frustrating to see people continue to refuse to wear masks and deny that Florida's recent surge stemmed from its push to reopen.\n\n\"They're putting a lot of people at risk,\" he says, adding that there's always the fear that he might catch it again or bring it home to more vulnerable family members.\n\n\"The weird thing about this virus is it affects a lot of people differently,\" Mr Bharath says.\n\n\"Why take the risk at all if you can?\"", "The victim was found collapsed on Croydon Road\n\nA murder probe has been launched after a man died in what police believe was a shooting in south London.\n\nThe victim, thought to be in his 30s, was found collapsed on Croydon Road, Penge, near the junction with Tremaine Road, in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene, becoming the second person to have been killed in the capital this weekend.\n\nPolice are appealing for witnesses. A crime scene is in place and no arrests have yet been made.\n\nScotland Yard said it is awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination, but believes the man died from gunshot injuries.\n\nInquiries are under way to confirm the man's identity and inform his next of kin.\n\nA few hours before the man was found in Penge, another man was stabbed to death in Kennington, south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British Film Institute competition winners will have their two-minute long TV shows aired on national television.\n\nChildren from across the UK submitted videos about their life in lockdown. Celebrity mentors were assigned to each winner to help fine-tune their videos.\n\nThe winners for the 4-7 age group aired on Milkshake! and the 8-13 group aired on CITV between 8 -10 July, with indigenous language winners airing in Welsh (S4C) and Irish (TG4).\n\nThe 14-18 aged group videos will air on E4 on 15, 16, 17 July.", "Labour is joining the advertising boycott of Facebook \"in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement\", one of the party's senior MPs has said.\n\nShadow minister Rachel Reeves told the BBC the party wanted \"to express our concern about the failure of Facebook to take down some hateful material\".\n\nCompanies including consumer goods firm Unilever have also joined the campaign.\n\nFacebook has said harmful posts would be removed but some could stay if they have news value.\n\nThe Facebook advertising boycott was started by the \"Stop Hate for Profit\" campaign in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis.\n\nThe organisers, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, accused Facebook of allowing \"racist, violent and verifiably false content to run rampant on its platform\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Ms Reeves said: \"All MPs in the Labour Party use Facebook to get across our message, but what we're not doing at the moment is advertising on Facebook.\n\n\"And that is in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter campaign but also in line with what many businesses are doing this month, which is to express our concerns about the failure of Facebook to take down some hateful material from their platform and take more responsibility for the lies and propaganda that are sometimes put out there on Facebook.\n\n\"Facebook needs to do more to take responsibility and this is just one way that businesses and the Labour Party and others can put pressure on Facebook to do the right things and take tougher action on hate crime and hate speech.\"\n\nOf the £40m spent by political parties during the 2017 election, around £3m went directly on Facebook ads, with the Conservatives spending twice as much as all the other parties combined.\n\nMark Zuckerberg with Facebook's head of global affairs, former deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg\n\nResponding to the campaign towards the end of June, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg defended the firm's record of taking down hate speech, pointing to a European Commission report that found the social network removed 86% of hate speech last year, up from 82.6%.\n\nHe said ads would be banned if they describe different groups, based on descriptors such as race or immigration status, as a threat - as well as content deemed to incite violence or suppress voting.\n\nHowever he also said occasionally content that violated the company's policies would be left up \"if the public interest value outweighs the risk of harm\".\n\n\"Often, seeing speech from politicians is in the public interest, and in the same way that news outlets will report what a politician says, we think people should generally be able to see it for themselves on our platforms,\" he said.\n\n\"We will soon start labelling some of the content we leave up because it is deemed newsworthy, so people can know when this is the case,\" he said.", "An artist's impression of what Rishi Sunak would have looked like if he had worn a mask\n\nWhen Chancellor Rishi Sunak served up katsu curries to customers in Wagamama this week, he had his customer service skills down to a tee - the smile, the small talk and even the diplomatic prowess to settle confusion over an order.\n\nBut one thing was missing - there wasn't a mask in sight. Of course it's not unusual for a British politician to be seen without a mask. Cabinet ministers are rarely spotted with covered faces.\n\nBy comparison their counterparts around the world - from Angela Merkel in Germany, to Shinzo Abe in Japan - have been pictured donning facial coverings in public.\n\nThen on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was photographed wearing one in a shop, in his constituency of Uxbridge. It came on the day he said all shoppers in England may soon have to wear face coverings in shops.\n\nIn England, it is currently mandatory to wear face coverings only on public transport and in hospitals, while people are merely advised to wear one in other enclosed public spaces.\n\nSo why aren't more of our politicians wearing face coverings? And could we soon see more of them in masks?\n\nDr Claudia Pagliari, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh who specialises in global health, says there's no scientific study showing what politicians think. But she says it may have been a deliberate move to avoid masks.\n\nSome politicians may want to give the impression coronavirus \"doesn't pose much of a threat\". Or in the case of Mr Sunak's restaurant cameo, she says they could be trying to hammer home the message that the country is \"open for business\".\n\n\"Leaders may be trying to say to their domestic audience, and to the rest of the world: 'My country is strong, I am strong'.\"\n\nNeither the prime minister nor Mr Sunak wore face coverings when they visited Pizza Pilgrims\n\nPoliticians who are relatively new to their posts, like Mr Sunak or Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, may also want to win over voters with their faces.\n\nThey want \"to be recognised and also want to be seen as communicating with the public,\" she says.\n\nYet other politicians have been out and about wearing masks.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock donned one for a visit to a pharmacy last month. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden wore one to the Royal Academy this week - although he was following the gallery's rules.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was pictured in a tartan face covering weeks before they became compulsory in shops there. The rules in Scotland are currently tighter than those in England.\n\nAnd Dr Pagliari says gestures, such as Ms Sturgeon's, are \"a sign that you take this seriously and that you are complying - and that you expect other people to do the same\".\n\nOliver Dowden (centre) said the government's approach to face coverings is \"context specific\"\n\nThere are calls for UK authorities to change their policies on face coverings.\n\nThe British Medical Association has called for them to be worn \"as a matter of course\" and the Royal Society - the UK's national academy of science - has said people should carry one whenever they leave home so that they can put them on when they enter a crowded public space.\n\nA Royal Society report found 71 countries around the world require face coverings in all public places, and a further 15 in all indoor public places. The UK is not one of them.\n\nIts author Professor Melinda Mills, from the University of Oxford, says her international colleagues find it \"strange\" that the face coverings are a subject of debate in the UK.\n\nShe says Asian countries affected by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003 have near-universal mask take-up. \"It's not even a discussion,\" she adds.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wore a tartan face covering during a visit to New Look in June\n\nShe thinks there is more resistance to wearing masks, compared to the guidance around hand-washing or social distancing, \"because it's so visual\".\n\nBut confused messaging has also played a part. In April, the World Health Organization said there was not enough evidence to say healthy people should wear masks. Last month, it changed its advice.\n\nProf Mills believes the confusion may, in part, explain why many British politicians aren't routinely seen in them. That in turn leaves the public \"confused\" and disengaged.\n\n\"It gives out a mixed message. You see one politician in Scotland wearing a mask and then the leader in England not wearing a mask so it immediately seeds doubt,\" she says.\n\n\"Whereas if you wear a mask, like politicians in virtually all countries across the world are doing, then you give a clear message and you set an example to the public that this is necessary - this is protecting me, but further more, and more importantly, it protects others.\"\n\nOn Friday, Boris Johnson seemed to suggest a change to policy in the UK was imminent. He said \"the balance of scientific opinion seems to have shifted more in favour\" of face masks.\n\n\"I don't think we are going to get to a world where we say everyone has to wear face coverings the whole time everywhere,\" he said, before adding: \"We need to be stricter in insisting that people wear face coverings in confined spaces where they are meeting people they don't usually meet.\"\n\nLater, he was photographed wearing a face mask in a shop in Uxbridge.\n\nTime will tell whether we see more politicians wearing face coverings in public places.", "Last updated on .From the section Crystal Palace\n\nA 12-year-old boy has been arrested by police investigating racist messages sent to Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha on social media.\n\nZaha revealed he had received several abusive messages on social media before Sunday's trip to Aston Villa, a game they lost 2-0.\n\nHis manager Roy Hodgson called the abuse \"cowardly and despicable\".\n\nThe Premier League called the abuse of the 27-year-old Ivory Coast winger \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nWest Midlands Police tweeted Zaha to say they would look into the abuse and hours later confirmed an arrest.\n\n\"We were alerted to a series of racist messages sent to a footballer today and after looking into them and conducting checks, we have arrested a boy,\" read a WM Police tweet.\n\n\"The 12-year-old from Solihull has been taken to custody. Thanks to everyone who raised it. Racism won't be tolerated.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky Sports before the arrest, Hodgson added: \"It's been highlighted at the moment anyway with the Black Lives Matter movement and everyone seems to be making such an effort to eradicate this behaviour.\n\n\"It is very sad that, on the day of a game, a player wakes up to this cowardly and despicable abuse. It's right Wilf has made people aware of it and I don't think this is something you should keep quiet about.\n\n\"He wants to put off one of our best players from playing well today, but to do it in the way he has chosen is totally inexcusable.\"\n\nThe Premier League said: \"This behaviour is completely unacceptable and the Premier League stands alongside Wilfried Zaha in opposing this, and discrimination in any form.\n\n\"We will continue to support players, managers, coaches and their family members who receive serious discriminatory online abuse.\"\n\nPlayers in England's top flight have been kneeling in support of the Black Lives Matter movement before every match since the season restarted in June.", "The Twelfth of July is not \"cancelled\" and should be celebrated at home, according to Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster.\n\nAlthough some individual bands are planning to hold parades, large demonstrations have been called off in 2020 because of the risk of Covid-19.\n\nMrs Foster acknowledged it would be a \"difficult\" year for many as a result.\n\nShe was speaking on the Orange Order's Radio Boyne station on Saturday evening.\n\nEach year, the organisation marks the anniversary of the victory of Protestant William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690.\n\nAlthough it has cancelled its summer parades along with the Royal Black Preceptory and Apprentice Boys of Derry, the Parades Commission has been notified of more than 250 parades from individual bands over the 11 to 13 July period.\n\nParades are usually held on 12 July but due to the Twelfth falling on a Sunday this year, it is being celebrated on Monday 13 July.\n\nThe latest Covid-19 guidance from the NI Executive allows for up to 30 people to meet outdoors while social distancing.\n\nThe commission said it considered it necessary to impose restrictions on three parades based upon \"pre-existing parading tensions in those specific locations\".\n\nIt added there had been a \"high level of positive engagement with the vast majority of organisers\".\n\nTwelfth of July parades take place every year in Northern Ireland to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne\n\nMrs Foster said she was particularly missing celebrating the day with her sister and brother-in-law who live in England.\n\n\"We know it's all very difficult, but thanks to Grand Orange Lodge there's a good way to celebrate at home this year,\" she told Radio Boyne.\n\nReferring to the risks from coronavirus, the first minister said \"it's very much under control at present\".\n\n\"We don't want that to build up again when it could be a big challenge for us,\" she added.\n\n\"We're trying to protect the community, protect our older members.\"\n\nSupporting the Orange Order's '12th at home' campaign, Mrs Foster encouraged people to \"make memories with your children\" and said \"2020 will be a year we won't forget\".\n\n\"It's important we still celebrate the Twelfth and still celebrate our culture,\" she continued.", "This is the second ban on alcohol sales since South Africa's outbreak began\n\nSouth Africa has introduced new restrictions, including another ban on alcohol sales, to help contain the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA night-time curfew has been imposed, and the wearing of masks outdoors is now compulsory.\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa said the alcohol ban - South Africa's second this year - would take pressure off the national healthcare system.\n\nIt comes as total infections exceed a quarter of a million.\n\nDeaths resulting from coronavirus have also risen to more than 4,000, and government projections estimate this could rise to 50,000 by the end of the year.\n\nSouth Africa remains the hardest-hit country on the continent, and earlier this week recorded its highest-ever single-day increase in cases. Nearly half of them were in Gauteng, a province that's become the outbreak epicentre.\n\nIn a public address, Mr Ramaphosa acknowledged \"most\" people had taken action to help prevent the spread, but he said there were still some who acted \"without any responsibility to respect and protect each other\".\n\n\"There are a number of people who have taken to organising parties, who have drinking sprees, and some who walk around crowded spaces without wearing masks,\" said the president.\n\nMr Ramaphosa said the new measures were being introduced to help the country to weather the storm of coronavirus, and a state of emergency would be extended until 15 August. The night-time ban would be in place from 21:00 to 04:00.\n\nThe government has also made 28,000 hospital beds available for Covid-19 patients. But President Ramaphosa said the country still faced a \"serious\" shortage of more than 12,000 healthcare workers, including nurses, doctors and physiotherapists.\n\nThe alcohol ban comes just weeks after another three-month ban was lifted in an effort to prevent drunken fighting, cut domestic violence and eliminate weekend binge-drinking prevalent across South Africa.\n\nDoctors and police say the previous ban contributed to a sharp drop in emergency admissions to hospital. But the country's brewers and wine makers complained they were being driven out of business.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. South Africa's province Gauteng has become the epicentre of coronavirus cases in the country.\n• None South Africans cheer as alcohol goes back on sale", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said any move to place restrictions on visitors from England to Scotland would be based on risk, not politics.\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, she said quarantine for visitors from elsewhere in the UK could not be ruled out.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously called the idea \"astonishing and shameful\".\n\nScotland has been recording a lower rate of Covid infections than England.\n\nFigures released on Sunday indicated that 19 people had tested positive for the virus in Scotland in the previous 24 hours.\n\nThis is the highest figure for three weeks.\n\nBut for the fourth consecutive day, no deaths were recorded.\n\nThe first minister said the UK nations need to work together on outbreak management in a way that \"mitigates against having to put any border restrictions in place\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told Andrew Marr: \"One of our biggest risks over the next few weeks, as we have driven levels of the virus to very low levels in Scotland, is the risk of importation into the country.\n\n\"That's why we've taken a very cautious decision about international quarantine.\n\n\"And - this is not a position I relish being in - it also means that we have to take a very close look at making sure that we are not seeing the virus come in from other parts of the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'No immediate plan' for border quarantine\n\nThe first minister pointed out that in countries such as Australia and the United States, controls have been put in place to limit movement across state or regional boundaries.\n\nThe Scottish government would look at similar measures on a public health basis.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"That's not political. It's not constitutional. It's just taking a similar view to countries across the world in terms of protecting the population from the risk of the virus.\"\n\n\"This is not about saying to people in England you are not welcome in Scotland - of course people in England are welcome in Scotland,\" she added.\n\nThe topic of quarantine for visitors from England entering Scotland was raised at Prime Minister's Questions, with Mr Johnson describing the idea as \"astonishing and shameful\".\n\nHe added: \"There have been no such discussions with the Scottish administration about that, but I would point out that there is no such thing as a border between England and Scotland.\"", "Men wearing life vests get ready with their paddle boards as the Bala Adventure and Watersports Centre in Bala, Gwynedd\n\nThe first minister has said Wales is \"absolutely safe\" to visit again after he defended not opening tourism sooner.\n\nFrom Saturday some holiday homes have reopened for the first time since lockdown began.\n\nBut with pubs still unable to open, the Welsh Conservatives have accused the Welsh Government of putting jobs at risk.\n\nMark Drakeford, on a visit to the Vale of Glamorgan, said a \"step by step\" approach was right to lifting lockdown.\n\nIn England, all hotels, B&Bs and campsites have been allowed to reopen since 4 July, with cleaning of shared spaces.\n\nIn Wales, only self contained accommodation, with no shared facilities, such as kitchens and bathrooms, are currently able to open.\n\nFrom Monday, Welsh pubs and restaurants with outdoor spaces, will be able to welcome back customers outdoors for the first time.\n\nBut many businesses have said they will not be opening, saying it will not be viable due to the two-metre (6ft) social distancing rule, which remains in place in Wales.\n\nMark Drakeford visited The Hide in St Donats, in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nShoppers were out in Cardiff as restrictions ease a little further in Wales\n\nMr Drakeford said easing restrictions had to be done \"step by step\" and he thought there would be a \"gradual build-up\" of people wanting to holiday in Wales and go to pubs, restaurants and cafes.\n\nDuring a visit to The Hide in St Donats, Mr Drakeford said the crisis \"has had a profound impact on the visitor economy\" and a phased approach to reopening tourism would give businesses, staff visitors and communities the confidence for a successful reopening.\n\n\"My message to people thinking of making a visit inside Wales or to Wales, is that Wales is open, the tourism industry is beginning again,\" he said.\n\nWalkers enjoy the fine day and the lockdown restrictions being eased with a stroll in the Brecon Beacons\n\nCars parked near the foot of Pen y Fan as people make the most of the lockdown restriction easing\n\n\"The virus hasn't gone away, we still need to do all the things we know. A social distance, hand washing, all those careful things.\n\n\"But the virus in Wales is now at a very low ebb of circulation. It's absolutely safe to be here, but you can play your part as well.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he was \"looking forward\" to going on holiday to Pembrokeshire when he had a chance, and people could help keep others safe by avoiding crowded areas.\n\nSocial distancing in operation on Llandudno pier on Saturday\n\nThe first weekend of the restrictions being eased and people enjoyed a paddle in Porthcawl\n\nBut with many hotels in Wales still closed due to restrictions, Welsh Conservative MP David Jones accused the Welsh Government of being behind the UK government in making decisions.\n\nThe Clwyd West MP wrote on twitter: \"Sadly the tourist season in Wales didn't begin four weeks after England\".\n\nMember of the Senedd, Janet Finch-Saunders, said it was not right that pubs and restaurants in Wales had to wait until 3 August before they could allow customers back inside.\n\nMrs Finch-Saunders said with many not having outdoor spaces, or enough room for customers, the first minister's \"uneven\" proposals would have a \"disastrous impact\" on Welsh jobs.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Drakeford said the \"balance is shifting\" on evidence for the use of face masks.\n\nThe car park at Pen y Pass as Snowdonia National Park is reopened for its first weekend since restrictions were eased\n\nWalkers returned to parts of Snowdonia National Park on Saturday\n\nBut he doesn't yet believe it is \"sensible\" to make use of them mandatory in certain situations.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Drakeford said the view of the Wales's chief medical officer was still that face coverings should be recommended but not required.\n\n\"When the weight of evidence changes, if it does, then we will change our policy.\"\n\nIn Wales, face coverings are recommended in situations where people cannot socially distance, like on public transport.\n\nBut their use is not mandatory - and both the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru are calling for face coverings to be compulsory on public transport and in shops, as is the case in Scotland.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid health spokesman said \"every possible measure to help us leave lockdown safely should be adopted and we have consistently called for the use of face masks in public spaces where social distancing is difficult\".", "Ruaridh and Caroline MacDonald run agency The Cottage Co and have been preparing their own Romany caravan for guests\n\nHolidaymakers are due to arrive at cottages, caravans and yurts in Wales for the first time since March.\n\nHoliday accommodation without shared facilities such as bathrooms are able to reopen from Saturday.\n\nSome in the industry say there is light at the end of the tunnel after a \"rollercoaster\" lockdown rescheduling bookings and issuing refunds.\n\nNow the focus has moved to following guidance for reopening, writing risk assessments and deep cleaning.\n\nSher from Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, booked a cottage near Llangrannog, Ceredigion, as soon as the first minister announced the easing of restrictions.\n\nShe and her husband Dameon are heading there on Monday.\n\nShe said: \"It's my 50th birthday and we were planning to go to Greece so having somewhere to see the sea and countryside after being within five miles for so long is very important.\"\n\nShe said she was not concerned about safety: \"Where we're going is very isolated, but having said that I wouldn't be concerned if it was somewhere more populated, as long as there's proper measures in place.\"\n\nShe said she had not spoken to the owners about what changes they had put in place, adding: \"I've been there four or five times before and it's always been spotless.\"\n\nRuaridh and Caroline MacDonald run self-catering accommodation agency The Cottage Co from their home in Monmouthshire and also have their own Romany caravan which has its first guests arriving on Saturday.\n\nThe MacDonalds' Romany caravan has been deep cleaned in preparation to welcome guests on Saturday\n\nMr MacDonald described lockdown as \"both a challenge and an opportunity\".\n\n\"We realised it was vital to keep in touch with guests and owners and in a funny way it's made the company stronger and strengthened our connection with guests,\" he said.\n\n\"Its been a rollercoaster in terms of moving hundreds of bookings and giving refunds... we've been talking to hundreds and hundreds of guests.\"\n\nHe said a surge in inquires meant they had nothing available for the whole of the summer.\n\n\"There's been significant financial impact but if things are okay from now on that would be a wonderful result,\" he said.\n\nTy Glyn in Criccieth, Gwynedd, is one of many coastal properties preparing to reopen\n\nHe said they had spent time speaking to accommodation owners about their preparation to minimise risk to guests: \"They are very keen to get going and have been deep cleaning, coming up with new risk assessments and simplified what is in the cottage so it is easier to clean.\"\n\nHe said preparing their Romany caravan had not been too difficult: \"Dare I say it but with outdoor glamping social distancing is relatively easy.\n\n\"The caravan is very much on its own so they won't meet anyone else... it's a low-ish risk.\n\n\"It's very exciting to be reopening... and guests are certainly incredibly keen to come.\"\n\nHide Wales' cabins, shepherd's hut and lodge in St Donats, Vale of Glamorgan, are reopening on Monday.\n\nIts owner Paula Louise Warren said of the past three months: \"It's been bonkers.\n\n\"You have to arrange so many things, all our bedding, all our beautiful woollen blankets have all been put in storage and instead we're using cotton as everything needs to be boiled.\"\n\nThe shepherd's hut at Hide Wales will be reopening on Monday\n\nShe said getting ready to reopen had been a \"real journey\" but advice from Visit Wales and Business Wales had been invaluable.\n\n\"We weren't expecting to be able to open until Christmas so we are grateful. It's about being safe,\" she said.\n\nGreg Stevenson is the owner and director of Under the Thatch.\n\nHide Wales says preparing to reopen has been a \"real journey\"\n\nThe agency has 82 holiday properties on its books with about 60 in Wales, seven of which he owns.\n\nHe said his company actually increased its staff's hours through lockdown: \"Right from the start we were corresponding with customers,\" he said.\n\n\"We've seen our advanced sales for the rest of the year are higher than ever before... I'm so pleased thanks to our customers.\"\n\nMenai Holiday Cottages has been taking bookings for cottages such as Belan Fawr on Rhosneigr, Anglesey\n\nHe said he was \"delighted\" to be welcoming guests again: \"We've been waiting for it for a long time.\n\n\"We were very frustrated that the other countries of the UK and Europe had dates [for reopening] and we didn't... we got the date so late which caused huge administration problems and a huge amount of work in the office.\"\n\nGlamping accommodation such as Cwt Alpaca in Llanidloes, Powys, can reopen from Saturday\n\nHe said he was pointing owners to Welsh Government guidance for the sector but it had come in \"too late\" which was a \"niggle\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said the first minister asked owners to begin preparing to reopen three weeks ago and guidance was published on 29 June.\n\nShe said the reopening date was moved forward by two days to enable Saturday to Saturday bookings following calls from the industry.\n\nMr Stevenson said he did not think customers had too many safety concerns: \"We've had very few queries... if I'm reading it correctly the customers are not too paranoid about this issue.\"\n\nHoliday cottages, such as Bwthyn Tresinwen in Pembrokeshire, have been preparing to welcome guests\n\nWhen asked if locals would welcome back tourists, he said: \"I think a lot of people are very cautious at the moment but if you ask them one week after the 11th then they'll be fine.... give it a couple of weeks and people will be more relaxed.\"\n\nMenai Holiday Cottages has 490 properties on its books in Snowdonia, Anglesey, and the Llyn Peninsula in Gwynedd.\n\nIts managing director Jack Matthews said: \"There's finally light at the end of the tunnel.\n\n\"There's a huge amount of excitement. Bookings have climbed back very quickly.\"\n\nCabins with their own bathrooms, such as Caban Llys y Frân in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, can reopen\n\nHe would have liked the reopening date to be 10 July to allow Friday to Friday bookings - about 60% of its cottages are Friday changeover - and to have been consulted by the Welsh Government.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said it had been speaking to the industry through the four regional tourism forums, sector representative bodies including Wales Tourism Alliance, individual businesses and holding a weekly meeting of the tourism taskforce group.\n\nMr Matthews believes communities are ready for the change.\n\n\"Locals are ready for tourists to come back at a distance,\" he said.\n\n\"A minority may have strong views but it's about getting the balance right, I'm sure tourists will be respectful.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJack Charlton, a World Cup winner with England and former Republic of Ireland boss, has died aged 85.\n\nThe former Leeds defender had been diagnosed with lymphoma in the last year and also had dementia.\n\nOne of English football's most popular characters, he was in the team that won the World Cup at Wembley in 1966, alongside his brother Bobby.\n\nHe made a record number of appearances for Leeds and achieved unprecedented success with the Republic of Ireland.\n• None 'He changed our lives' - former players pay tribute\n• None Football Daily: 'He was a natural leader' - a tribute to Jack Charlton\n\nA family statement read: \"Jack died peacefully on Friday, July 10 at the age of 85. He was at home in Northumberland, with his family by his side.\n\n\"As well as a friend to many, he was a much-adored husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.\n\n\"We cannot express how proud we are of the extraordinary life he led and the pleasure he brought to so many people in different countries and from all walks of life.\n\n\"He was a thoroughly honest, kind, funny and genuine man who always had time for people.\n\n\"His loss will leave a huge hole in all our lives but we are thankful for a lifetime of happy memories.\"\n\nThe England football team tweeted to say they were \"devastated\" by the news, while he was hailed as a man who \"changed Irish football forever\" by the Football Association of Ireland.\n\n\"He was a great and lovable character and he will be greatly missed. The world of football and the world beyond football has lost one of the greats. RIP old friend,\" said England's 1966 World Cup final hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst.\n\nCharlton had spells in charge of Sheffield Wednesday, Middlesbrough and Newcastle.\n\nHe led the Republic of Ireland to their first major finals at Euro '88 and the World Cup quarter-finals at Italia 90.\n\nLeeds United, where he spent his entire 21-year playing career and made a joint club record 773 appearances before retiring as a player in 1973, said they were \"deeply saddened\".\n\nCharlton, part of the Leeds side that won the 1969 league title and the 1972 FA Cup, is the third club legend and former England international to die this year after Norman Hunter and Trevor Cherry.\n\nDespite not being called into the England team until days before his 30th birthday, Charlton won 35 caps and, playing alongside younger brother Bobby, lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy at Wembley in 1966.\n\nHe also helped England finish third at the 1968 European Championship, and was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year in 1967.\n\n\"Saddened to hear that Jack Charlton has passed away,\" wrote former England striker Gary Lineker on Twitter.\n\n\"World Cup winner with England, manager of probably the best ever Ireland side and a wonderfully infectious personality to boot. RIP Jack.\"\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland forward John Aldridge said: \"Absolutely gutted that big Jack has passed away.\n\n\"What a football man, loved and adored, especially in Ireland. The best manager I was lucky to play for.\n\n\"The times we had on and off the pitch were priceless. My thoughts are with Pat and the family. RIP my good friend. Never forgotten.\"\n\nHe is survived by wife Pat, whom he married in 1958, and their three children, John, Deborah and Peter.\n\nCharlton's granddaughter, journalist Emma Wilkinson, tweeted: \"Beyond sad to have to say goodbye to my beloved Grandad, Jack Charlton.\n\n\"He enriched so many lives through football, friendship and family. He was a kind, funny and thoroughly genuine man and our family will miss him enormously.\"\n\nIrish president Michael D Higgins said: \"He leaves a legacy of outstanding leadership of a group of players of many diverse talents, which he moulded into the successful team that captured the imagination of the nation.\"", "\"Devolution has gone so much further\" than some people thought it would, according to Mark Reckless, the Brexit Party's leader in the Senedd\n\nThe Brexit Party will campaign in next year's Senedd election to scrap the current system of devolution.\n\nMark Reckless, leader of the party's group in the Welsh Parliament, said \"devolution has gone so much further\" than some people thought it would.\n\nHe is proposing a directly-elected first minister and getting rid of members of the Senedd (MSs).\n\nThe last Welsh barometer poll suggested around 22% of people supported abolishing the Welsh Parliament.\n\nBut in a multiple-choice question, the highest level of support was for leaving the settlement as it is (24%), followed by a Senedd with more powers (20%) and Welsh independence (16%).\n\nAdam Price MS said developments over the last few months had shown the importance of having a separate Welsh Government.\n\nPlaid Cymru's leader hit back at Mr Reckless and said people's understanding and awareness of devolution was at a \"high watermark\" as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Price dismissed the Brexit Party's support for scrapping the devolution system as an attempt to turn Wales \"into western England\".\n\n\"What is the message of the Brexit Party in this regard? It's not just abolishing our democracy, it's abolishing Wales,\" he told the BBC's Politics Wales programme.\n\n\"Is anyone seriously, when we look to the last three months, at the more careful, reasonable, thoughtful approach that the Welsh Government has shown in recent months compared to the reckless policy, the dysfunctional policy of bumbling and blustering its way through the crisis that we've seen from Boris Johnson, do we really want to take the powers that we have to protect our people and give them to Number 10 Downing Street in these circumstances? Absolutely not.\"\n\nSpeaking to the same programme, Mr Reckless said under his plans a directly-elected first minister would be scrutinised by Welsh MPs.\n\nHe questioned the value of having the Senedd and its members in addition to MPs in Westminster.\n\n\"A lot of people who haven't engaged with devolved politics now see the powers this place has, and many of those people would prefer to be governed on a UK basis rather than having things done differently in Wales just for the sake of it, as so often has been the case under Mark Drakeford,\" he said.\n\nThe Brexit Party's four MSs are its biggest group of politicians now that the UK no longer has members of the European Parliament (MEPs) following its departure from the European Union.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage does not \"micromanage\" the party in Cardiff Bay, says Mr Reckless\n\nMr Reckless said party leader Nigel Farage is \"consulted over key decisions... but he doesn't micro-manage us here\".\n\nHe said he did not \"rule out\" a potential rebrand of the party, as had been reported.\n\nThe Brexit Party has been very critical of the Covid-19 lockdown measures.\n\nFormerly the Welsh Assembly, the Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament has been based in the Senedd in Cardiff Bay since 2006\n\nAsked if he believed there should be another Wales-wide lockdown, he replied: \"We think it's much better to trust people's judgment. The individual knows best.\n\n\"I think what we'll see is that many more people will stay at home.\n\n\"But the idea that you tell people how many times they should exercise... I don't believe there's science for that.\n\n\"I also believe that interference with people's lives is so great when the evidence is so very limited.\"\n\nPushed on whether he was against another lockdown in the event of a steep rise in coronavirus cases, he said: \"I think it should be a last resort, and I think the time when you really need to do that is if infections are at such an extent that it threatens the capacity of our health services to cope.\n\n\"I think that is a good reason for closing schools, for government intervention, in order to stop that.\n\n\"But actually, I think when we look back it was that handwashing, it was a degree of social distancing, it was more people staying at home voluntarily that saw the infection rate begin to come down and meant that capacity in the health service wasn't overcome in that way.\"\n\nFormer First Minister Carwyn Jones said the idea showed the Brexit Party \"cannot stand the idea of Wales as a nation.\"\n\n\"So much for respecting the result of referendums [devolution referendums in 1997 and 2011] but let's not forget that this is really a play to get re-elected to the Senedd by appealing to a minority in the hope of getting above 5% in his region,\" he added.\n• None Three Welsh MEPs may run for Senedd in 2021", "Abhishek (L) said his wife and daughter would self-isolate at home\n\nThree generations of a high-profile Bollywood family have tested positive for Covid-19, officials in the Indian state of Maharashtra say.\n\nResults on Sunday showed the actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, a former Miss World, and her daughter Aaradhya, eight, were infected with coronavirus.\n\nHer husband Abhishek and father-in-law Amitabh, both also actors, were taken to hospital on Saturday with the virus.\n\nBoth men were said to have mild symptoms.\n\nAbhishek Bachchan tweeted that they would remain in hospital \"till the doctors decide otherwise\".\n\nAishwarya Bachchan, 46, is one of Bollywood's most famous faces both in India and abroad, featuring in several Bollywood and Hollywood films.\n\nShe won the Miss World pageant in 1994 and is Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS. In 2003 she was the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nAishwarya and her daughter are said to be asymptomatic. Her husband tweeted to say they would be self-isolating at home.\n\nOn Saturday Amitabh Bachchan told his millions of Twitter followers he had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"I have tested Covid positive, shifted to hospital, hospital informing authorities, family and staff undergone tests, results awaited,\" he wrote.\n\nBachchan, 77, has been involved in 200 films over five decades.\n\nBachchan has won multiple awards since rising to prominence in the 1970s\n\nHe and Abhishek, 44, were taken to Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday. Abhishek described them both as having mild symptoms.\n\nAmitabh is currently in the isolation unit of the hospital, news agency ANI reported, quoting a public relations officer for the hospital. He urged anyone who had been close to him in the past 10 days to get tested.\n\nMumbai municipal officials have since put up banners outside the actor's house in the city, classifying it as a \"containment zone\".\n\nThe news has led to an outpouring of support for the family on social media. Among those paying their respects were actress Sonam K Ahuja and former India cricket player Irfan Pathan.\n\nWell-wishers have been praying for Amitabh Bachchan\n\n\"Dear Amitabh ji, I join the whole Nation in wishing you a quick recovery! After all, you are the idol of millions in this country, an iconic superstar! We will all take good care of you. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!\" said India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.\n\nBachchan Snr has enjoyed starring roles in hit movies such as Zanjeer and Sholay. Since rising to fame in the 1970s, he has won numerous accolades including four National Film Awards and 15 Filmfare Awards. France has also bestowed its highest civilian award, the Legion of Honour, for his contribution to cinema.\n\nOutside acting, Bachchan Snr had a brief stint in politics and was elected as a member of India's parliament in 1984 at the behest of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. But he resigned three years later, disillusioned by a corruption scandal under Mr Gandhi's government.\n\nIn recent months, he has been prominent in helping the government get its message across in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nIndia saw a record rise in the number of coronavirus cases by 27,100 on Sunday, with the total climbing to nearly 850,000 - the third highest caseload in the world. There have been complaints about a lack of both testing and frontline medical staff.\n\nIndian megastars don't come bigger than the Bachchans, a family considered acting royalty.\n\nAt the helm of the dynasty is Amitabh Bachchan, one of the most famous people on the planet, with billions of fans spanning continents.\n\nOver five decades, the 77 year old actor has starred in hundreds of Bollywood films, fronted prime time television shows and is revered, even worshipped - by his die-hard followers.\n\nLittle wonder then, that news he has coronavirus is massive news in India and beyond. In 1982, the nation stood still as Amitabh Bachchan spent months in hospital after a film stunt went horribly wrong.\n\nThis time he is said to be stable, with only mild symptoms. The star who has 43 million Twitter followers, has been tweeting thanks to his well wishers from hospital.\n\nHis son Abhishek Bachchan, and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who both tested positive, are big stars in their own right too.\n\nAs attention is focused on this one family, thousands of other Indians are contracting Covid-19 every day. The country is seeing a sharp rise in cases, now the third highest number in the world after the US and Brazil.\n• None Why Amitabh Bachchan is more than a superstar", "Florida has seen protests over shutdown measures\n\nFlorida has registered a state record of 15,299 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours - around a quarter of all of the United States' daily infections.\n\nThe state, with just 7% of the US population, surpassed the previous daily record held by California.\n\nFlorida, which began lifting coronavirus restrictions in May, has proved vulnerable due to tourism and an elderly population.\n\nIts figures eclipse the worst daily rates seen in New York in April.\n\nThe state would rank fourth in the world for new cases if it were a country, according to a Reuters analysis. More than 40 hospitals in Florida say their intensive care facilities are at full capacity.\n\nIntensive care units at many Florida hospitals are reaching capacity\n\nThe latest figures were released a day after Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida reopened, but with safety measures including mask-wearing and widespread use of sanitiser.\n\nThe caseload in Florida has continued to rise despite Republican Governor Ron DeSantis ordering some bars to close again last month.\n\nThe top adviser on the White House coronavirus taskforce, Dr Anthony Fauci, had criticised lockdown easing in the state, saying the data on infections did not support the move. Mr DeSantis has also declined to make mask-wearing obligatory.\n\nThe issue of masks has become highly politicised in the United States, with opponents saying having to wear them encroaches on personal freedom. There have been demonstrations against masks and other coronavirus measures in several states.\n\nBut on Saturday, President Donald Trump appeared wearing a mask in the public for the first time after previously casting doubt on their usefulness. He was visiting the Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington, where he met wounded soldiers and health care workers.\n\n\"I've never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place,\" he said as he left the White House.\n\nThe United States overall has been exceeding new daily totals of 60,000 cases for the past few days. Other states including Arizona, California and Texas continue to see a rising cases.\n\nSince the pandemic hit the US, more than 134,000 people there have died with Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump wears a mask for the first time for a hospital visit\n• None Living in Florida and Texas as virus cases surge", "Bachchan has been a star for five decades\n\nAmitabh Bachchan, one of India's best known film actors, has tested positive for Covid-19, he told his millions of Twitter followers.\n\n\"I have tested Covid positive, shifted to hospital, hospital informing authorities, family and staff undergone tests, results awaited,\" he wrote.\n\nHis son Abhishek, daughter-in-law Aishwarya and granddaughter Aaradhya have also tested positive.\n\nBachchan, 77, has been involved in 200 films in five decades as a star.\n\nHe and Abhishek, 44, were taken to Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday, and his son described them both as having mild symptoms.\n\nAmitabh is currently in the isolation unit of the hospital, news agency ANI reported, quoting a public relations officer for the hospital. He urged anyone who had been close to him in the past 10 days to get tested.\n\nOther members of the Bachchan family have returned negative coronavirus antigen test reports, local media reported.\n\nMumbai municipal officials have since put up banners outside the actor's house in the city, classifying it as a \"containment zone\".\n\nThe news has led to an outpouring of support for the pair on social media. Among those paying their respects were actress Sonam K Ahuja and former India cricket player Irfan Pathan.\n\n\"Dear Amitabh ji, I join the whole Nation in wishing you a quick recovery! After all, you are the idol of millions in this country, an iconic superstar! We will all take good care of you. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!\" said India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.\n\nBachchan has won multiple awards since rising to prominence in the 1970s\n\nBachchan Snr has enjoyed starring roles in hit movies such as Zanjeer and Sholay. Since rising to fame in the 1970s, he has won numerous accolades including four National Film Awards and 15 Filmfare Awards. France has also bestowed its highest civilian award, the Legion of Honour, for his contribution to cinema.\n\nOutside acting, Bachchan Snr had a brief stint in politics and was elected as a member of India's parliament in 1984 at the behest of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. But he resigned three years later, disillusioned by a corruption scandal under Mr Gandhi's government.\n\nHe was also a businessman, setting up the Amitabh Bachchan Corporation in 1995 for event management and the production of films. After the venture failed, he went on to host TV game show Kaun Banega Crorepati - based on the UK game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - and has starred in more movies since. His latest film was the comedy Gulabo Sitabo, released on Amazon.\n\nIn recent months, he has been prominent in helping the government get its message across in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nIndia has seen a sharp rise in the number of coronavirus cases, with the total climbing to nearly 821,000 on Saturday - the third highest caseload in the world. There have been complaints about a lack of both testing and frontline medical staff.\n• None Why Amitabh Bachchan is more than a superstar", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"It's always better to trust people's common sense\"\n\nSenior minister Michael Gove has said he does not think face coverings should be compulsory in shops in England, saying he trusts people's common sense.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Gove said wearing a mask in a shop was \"basic good manners\".\n\nOn Friday, Boris Johnson said a \"stricter\" approach was needed so people wear masks in confined spaces.\n\nSenior government sources have said the issue is being kept under review, as Labour called for clarity on the issue.\n\nCurrently, face coverings are compulsory on public transport in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland to help stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, they are also mandatory in shops. Wales recommends masks but they are not compulsory.\n\nHowever, there have been calls for the UK government to make its stance on masks clearer, following comments from the prime minister on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson - who was pictured wearing a mask for the first time during a visit to his constituency - said: \"I do think we need to be stricter in insisting people wear face coverings in confined spaces where they are meeting people they don't normally meet.\n\n\"We are looking at ways of making sure that people really do have face coverings in shops, for instance, where there is a risk of transmission.\"\n\nAlso on Friday, senior Whitehall sources said the government was considering making face coverings mandatory in shops.\n\nThey said while no decision has yet been made, it is an issue that is being kept under review.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said on Sunday that 44,819 people have now died in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus, a rise of 21 on the previous day's figures.\n\nBoris Johnson wore a mask for the first time as he visited a shop in Uxbridge on Friday\n\nAsked on the Andrew Marr Show about the issue of face masks, Mr Gove said: \"I don't think mandatory, no, but I would encourage people to wear face masks when they are inside, in an environment where they are likely to be mixing with others and where the ventilation may not be as good as it might.\n\n\"I think that it is basic good manners, courtesy and consideration, to wear a face mask if you are, for example, in a shop.\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister added: \"Now of course the government at all times does look at the emerging evidence about what the best way to control the disease is.\n\n\"If necessary, and if tough measures are required and as we have seen in Leicester, obviously a very different situation, then tough measures will be taken.\n\n\"But on the whole... it's always best to trust people's common sense.\"\n\nGuidance on face coverings has evolved over the last few months.\n\nThe key issue now is whether people will wear them without being forced to.\n\nThe Scottish government is worried they won't - and so has told people they have to wear one in shops.\n\nOn Friday, Boris Johnson appeared for the first time in public in a covering and hinted that stricter rules were coming in England.\n\nBut now Michael Gove seems to be saying something different - that we should trust the common sense of shoppers.\n\nMy sources are keen to point out Mr Gove also said the government would take more action when necessary - so mandatory face coverings in England aren't off the table. His comments are also in line with the policy as it stands just now.\n\nBut at a time when public messaging is crucial, some believe the government view on whether or not stronger action is needed isn't clear.\n\nEarlier, Mr Gove told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday that wearing a face covering \"definitely helps you to help others in an enclosed space\". He also urged people to return to work rather than stay at home.\n\n\"We want to see more people back at work, on the shop floor, in the office, wherever they can be,\" he said.\n\nShadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves said Labour would support mandatory face coverings for shops, as it \"would inspire greater confidence and might encourage more people to go out and spend money\".\n\n\"I think people are increasingly wearing them but I think some greater clarity from government about that, I think, would be helpful,\" she said.\n\n\"People want to do the right thing but they want to know what the right thing is. We already have it on public transport.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the early days of the pandemic, the UK government was hesitant about advising people to wear face coverings, arguing the scientific evidence that they reduce transmission was \"weak\".\n\nIn early June, the World Health Organization changed its advice to say people should wear face coverings in public where social distancing is not possible. The WHO originally said there was not enough evidence to say that healthy people should wear masks.\n\nRules compelling people to wear face masks on public transport in England were introduced on 15 June.\n\nEarlier this week, the WHO said there was \"emerging evidence\" of airborne transmission.\n\nProfessor Wendy Barclay, who sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, said coronavirus particles can remain suspended and infectious in the air for more than an hour.\n\nA further 148 deaths were recorded in the UK, according to latest government figures on Saturday, bringing the total number of recorded deaths of people who have tested positive for coronavirus to 44,798.", "The protest was in the wake of a video showing a man being restrained by police in Brighton\n\nThousands of protesters have marched through Brighton in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nDemonstrators held placards and shouted \"black lives matter every day\" and \"UK is not innocent\".\n\nIt follows an outcry over a video showing a man shouting \"I can't breathe\" while being restrained on the ground by three Sussex Police officers.\n\nIn another BLM protest, attended by hundreds in Hull, the police custody death of a man was remembered.\n\nBrighton protesters were serenaded by a string quartet as they passed the city's war memorial.\n\nThe Sussex force said the man was arrested and became aggressive towards officers before being placed on the ground.\n\nThe incident has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nMany of the demonstrators wore face coverings as they marched through Brighton\n\nLast month, more than 10,000 protesters marched through the East Sussex city in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement worldwide.\n\nIt followed the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes in the US city of Minneapolis on 25 May.\n\nHis death sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests, including in the UK.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Police officers in riot gear pictured in north Belfast on Saturday night\n\nThe first minister has condemned attacks on police in north Belfast.\n\nPetrol bombs and stones were thrown at police around the North Queen Street area on Saturday in a second night of trouble.\n\nThe trouble involved nationalist youths and marked a continuation of violence from Friday night.\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Sunday Politics, Arlene Foster urged those involved to \"ask themselves what sort of a Northern Ireland do they want to live in?\"\n\nThe police said officers from Tactical Support Group were deployed to the area.\n\nOn Saturday night, officers were attacked in the North Queen Street area near the New Lodge flats and a small fire was started in the middle of the road.\n\nOfficers dressed in riot gear carried out searches of the area, but were targeted along with police vehicles.\n\nTrouble continued in the North Queen Street area for a second night\n\nSupt Lorraine Dobson said: \"As officers attempted to engage with youths in the area last night, they came under attack from youths, some of whom were masked, who threw bottles and masonry.\n\n\"Damage has been caused to a number of our vehicles but, thankfully, none of our officers were injured.\n\n\"We are again today appealing to young people who are involved in this type of criminal and anti-social behaviour to stop. You need to realise the consequences of your actions, and the impact it has on the community.\"\n\nShe also appealed to parents and guardians to \"know where your young people are, who they are with and what they are doing\" and for those in the community with influence \"to ensure we do not see a repeat of this senseless activity\".\n\n\"We will deploy the necessary resources to detect and deter those responsible in a proportionate manner, and we will seek to gather evidence to bring those responsible before the courts, whether through evidence gathering or arrests at the time,\" added Supt Dobson.\n\nA piece of furniture was set on fire on Friday night\n\nOver the course of Friday evening, a piece of furniture was also set on fire in the middle of North Queen Street and it was reported that youths were throwing stones at houses and passing cars.\n\nCh Insp Peter Brannigan said on Saturday \"there will be consequences for those choosing to engage in this type of behaviour\".\n• None Petrol bomb attacks on police for second night", "The incident occurred in the coastal resort of Marbella, southern Spain\n\nA British man has died in Spain after falling from a hotel balcony in the early hours of Saturday and landing on another man, according to reports.\n\nPolice in Malaga told the Mail they were \"investigating\" the death of two men in Marbella after \"one man landed on another man, killing him as well\".\n\nThe Foreign Office told the BBC it was \"supporting the family of a British man following his death in Spain\".\n\nA spokesman for the FCO added officials were in contact with local police.", "US President Donald Trump has been seen wearing a face mask for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSpeaking before his visit to Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington, he told reporters he would \"probably\" wear a mask and that he had \"never been against\" them - they just had \"a time and a place\".\n\nPresident Trump previously mocked political rival Joe Biden for wearing one and said he would not put a mask on.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nHe won all the major races, including the Grand National in 2003 on Monty's Pass and the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Kicking King and Bobs Worth.\n\nGeraghty was also associated with champion chasers Moscow Flyer and Sprinter Sacre.\n\n\"I am happy to say I'm announcing my retirement,\" said Geraghty, the retained jockey for owner JP McManus.\n\n\"A big thank you to my family, friends and everyone who has supported me over the last 24 years.\n\n\"I've been blessed to have had a wonderful career and I'm looking to what the future holds.\"\n\nGeraghty replaced AP McCoy as the main man for McManus after the legendary jockey retired in 2015.\n\nHe bounced back from a succession of injuries to ride five winners at Cheltenham in March, including the Champion Hurdle on Epatante.\n\nGeraghty, who was Irish champion jump jockey in 2000 and 2004, is the second most successful rider in Cheltenham Festival history with 43 wins, behind only his compatriot Ruby Walsh, who quit the sport last year.\n\nWhat they said\n\nRichard Johnson, four-time champion jockey: \"Happy retirement Barry, an amazing career. Top man on and off the track. No man better on the big day.\"\n\nTrainer Nicky Henderson: \"Enjoy your retirement Barry, we've had many great days together over the years. See you back at Seven Barrows soon, hopefully.\"\n\nJockey Tom Scudamore: \"Wishing you all the best and happiness in retirement. Congratulations on a great career. One of the very best and a gent with it.\"\n\nWhile the timing and nature of his announcement, at 23:00 BST on Saturday via Twitter, may have been a surprise, Geraghty is bowing out at a similar age to McCoy and Walsh.\n\nHe broke his leg in a fall on the eve of last year's Grand National, one of a catalogue of injuries.\n\nYet Geraghty remained at the elite level and one of his last winning rides was one of his best - guiding Champ from a seemingly forlorn position to win the RSA Chase at Cheltenham in March.\n\nHe will be remembered as a successful and likeable rider who managed to thrive in a golden generation of jump jockeys.", "Other surfers tried to save the teenager\n\nA teenage boy has been killed in a shark attack off the northern coast of New South Wales in eastern Australia, police say.\n\nThe 15-year-old was surfing when he suffered severe leg injuries at Wooli Beach, 630km (390 miles) north of Sydney, according to witnesses.\n\nNearby surfers came to help, including one who is reported to have tried to pull the shark away.\n\nFirst aid was given on the beach but the boy died at the scene.\n\n\"Several board-riders came to his assistance before the injured teen could be helped to shore,\" a police statement said.\n\nAn official investigation has been launched, but the authorities have not released the name of the teenager.\n\nOne witness said the shark may have been a great white. They are active in the area at this time of year.\n\nThis is the fifth fatal attack by a shark in Australia this year.\n\nIn April, a shark attacked and killed a 23-year-old Queensland ranger on the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nIn another fatal attack in June, a shark bit the leg of a surfer off Kingscliff, 800km (500 miles) north of Sydney.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drones used to spot sharks on Australian beaches\n• None How do you stop sharks attacking?", "Do people need to be forced to wear face coverings?\n\nGuidance on face coverings has evolved over the last few months. The key issue now is whether people will wear them without being forced to. The Scottish government is worried they won't - and so has told people they have to wear one in shops. On Friday, Boris Johnson appeared for the first time in public in a covering and hinted that stricter rules were coming in England. But now senior minister Michael Gove seems to be saying something different - that we should trust the common sense of shoppers. My sources are keen to point out Mr Gove also said the government would take more action when necessary - so mandatory face coverings in England aren't off the table. His comments are also in line with the policy as it stands just now. But at a time when public messaging is crucial, some believe the government view on whether or not stronger action is needed isn't clear.", "Cabinet Minister Michael Gove has defended his plans for new post-Brexit border infrastructure after Labour said the government was unprepared.\n\nA £705m funding package to help manage Britain's borders has been announced as the UK prepares to leave the EU customs union at the end of the year.\n\nMr Gove insisted the government had been \"laying the groundwork for months\".\n\nBut Labour's Rachel Reeves said the plans were \"too little, too late.\"\n\nThe funding announcement follows a leaked letter from International Trade Secretary Liz Truss raising concerns about the readiness of Britain's ports.\n\nUnder the plans, new border posts will be created inland where existing ports have no room to expand to cope with the extra checks that will be required.\n\nIt relates only to the external borders of England, Scotland and Wales. Mr Gove told BBC's Andrew Marr programme that more details will be set out about the situation for Northern Ireland \"later this month\".\n\nThe new funding will include up to £470m to build port and inland infrastructure, and £235m will be allocated for IT systems and staffing.\n\nThe money for IT and staffing includes:\n\nCabinet Office Minister Mr Gove said the funding would help the UK \"seize the opportunities\" post-Brexit.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January and is now in an 11-month transition period, during which existing trading rules and membership of the customs union and single market apply.\n\nWhat the UK's relationship with the EU will look like when the transition period ends will depend on whether a trade deal is reached.\n\nNorthern Ireland will continue to follow some EU rules on agricultural and manufactured goods even after the transition period.\n\nCustoms checks on EU goods will be delayed until July 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Blake breaks down the next round of Brexit negotiations\n\nA leaked letter, first reported by Business Insider, suggested Ms Truss had expressed concerns about the government's plans to phase in checks on EU goods coming into the UK after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMs Truss reportedly warned fellow ministers that failing to impose full border controls until July could see increased smuggling from the EU, lead to legal challenges at the World Trade Organization, and even weaken the union with Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Gove said: \"With or without further agreement with the EU, this £705m will ensure that the necessary infrastructure, tech and border personnel are in place so that our traders and the border industry are able to manage the changes and seize the opportunities as we lay the foundations for the world's most effective and secure border.\"\n\nFormer national security adviser Lord Ricketts responded on Twitter to Mr Gove's comments. \"It's not clear to me how we will have 'the world's most effective and secure border' (Mr Gove) when we will lose access on 1 Jan to the Schengen Information System which gives alerts on movement of criminals/suspects,\" he said.\n\nHe added that UK police and border staff consulted the shared Schengen system 600 million times last year.\n\nFormer director general of UK Border Force Tony Smith said the funding was \"obviously welcome\" but \"a bit late in coming\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the plan showed the \"sheer complexity of the new bureaucracy\" which businesses face from 1 January and said it had been in discussions with the UK government as various sectors in Wales were affected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about reports the government had bought land in Kent to build a large lorry park as part of preparations for post-Brexit border checks, Mr Gove said: \"It is not our intention to create a massive concrete lorry park, it is the intention to provide the smart infrastructure which in Kent and elsewhere will allow the freight to flow.\"\n\nLabour shadow minister Rachel Reeves said the measures were \"too little, too late\" and accused the government of being unprepared.\n\nAnd on the Brexit talks she said: \"We were promised an oven-ready deal but it looks like the government forgot to turn the oven on,\" referring to the Conservative Party's election slogan.\n\nThe new Irish Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, told the BBC's Andrew Marr that his country does not yet have all the information it needs about the Irish sea border arrangements.\n\n\"We do need more details, we need more precision,\" he said. \"I think we need an injection of momentum into the overall talks between the European Union and United Kingdom in relation to Brexit.\"\n\nHe said although he believes progress towards a trade deal has been slow, he added: \"I believe that if there's a will there's a way in terms of resolving outstanding issues.\"\n\n\"I think there will be a deal, there has to be a deal,\" he said, but added: It can't be at any price.\"\n\nMr Gove said there had been \"movement\" in the negotiations but acknowledged that \"differences\" remained.\n\nBoth sides agreed to \"intensify\" negotiations last month and held the first face-to-face talks since the coronavirus pandemic at the beginning of July.\n\nThe UK government has ruled out extending the transition period in order to reach a deal.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Gove also said the government will introduce a migration policy \"that ensures we're open to the world's best talent\".\n\nThe government is planning a points-based immigration system which treats EU migrants the same as those from the rest of the world and which takes different factors like skills and language into account when awarding visas allowing people to work in the UK.\n\nMr Gove said: \"And the new technology we're introducing will allow us to monitor with far greater precision exactly who, and what, is coming in and out of the country, enabling us to deal more effectively with organised crime and other security threats.\"\n\nMore details about changes to the immigration system will be revealed on Monday.\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We will scrap the bureaucratic Resident Labour Market Test, lower the skills and salary threshold and remove the cap on skilled workers.\"\n\nThe so-called \"resident labour market test\" only allows companies to recruit new workers from outside the EU if they are on the shortage list or if they have been unable to find anyone suitable after advertising in the UK.\n\n\"Our new Health and Care Visa will ensure the NHS continues to benefit from the outstanding health and care professionals who have kept this country on its feet throughout the pandemic,\" Ms Patel added.\n\nAnd she said \"a new graduate route will ensure international students can stay in the country once they have completed their studies\".", "A large police presence remains in the area where the boy was stabbed\n\nA 10-year-old boy has been stabbed and is being treated in a Bolton hospital.\n\nA man, aged 18, was later arrested in connection with the knifing near Bridgeman Street in Great Lever.\n\nEmergency crews were called at about 13:15 BST, but the stabbing is being treated as an \"isolated incident\", Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nThe boy is described as being in a stable condition and the suspect is being held on suspicion of assault, the force said.\n\nA witness told the Manchester Evening News there were five to six ambulances and up to seven police cars at the scene.\n\nIn a statement, GMP said a \"large police presence remains in the area, whilst investigation work is carried out\".\n\nDet Supt Joanne Rawlinson said: \"No child should ever be the victim of such a distressing incident... [but] we are pleased to hear the news the boy is doing well and that he may be discharged later today.\n\n\"I appreciate that such news is likely to cause upset and shock within the local community, as well as the wider public, but I can assure you that we are doing absolutely everything we can to piece together the circumstances of this incident.\n\n\"In a recent development, specially trained officers have made an arrest of an 18-year-old man who will be questioned by detectives in the coming hours.\"\n\nDet Supt Rawlinson added that if people \"have any concerns or issues, we would urge them to speak with the officers\" who remain in the area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pope Francis is the latest religious leader to speak out over the Turkish president's move\n\nPope Francis has said he's \"pained\" by Turkey's decision to convert Istanbul's Hagia Sophia back into a mosque.\n\nSpeaking at a service in the Vatican, the Roman Catholic leader added that his \"thoughts go to Istanbul\".\n\nHagia Sophia was built as a Christian cathedral nearly 1,500 years ago and turned into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of 1453.\n\nThe Unesco World Heritage Site became a museum in 1934 under Turkish Republic founding father Ataturk.\n\nBut earlier this week a Turkish court annulled the site's museum status, saying its use as anything other than a mosque was \"not possible legally\".\n\nPope Francis confined himself to a few words on the issue: \"My thoughts go to Istanbul. I think of Santa Sophia and I am very pained.\"\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the first Muslim prayers would be held in Hagia Sophia on July 24.\n\nThe Hagia Sophia has huge significance as a religious and political symbol\n\nShortly after the announcement, the first call to prayer was recited at the site and broadcast on all of Turkey's main news channels. Hagia Sophia's social media channels have also been taken down.\n\nIslamists in Turkey have long called for it to become a mosque again but secular opposition members opposed the move.\n\nDefending the decision, President Erdogan stressed that the country had exercised its sovereign right, and he added that the building would remain open to all Muslims, non-Muslims and foreign visitors.\n\nThe Pope is one of several religious and political leaders worldwide who have criticised the move.\n\nThe World Council of Churches has called on President Erdogan to reverse the decision. The Church in Russia, home to the world's largest Orthodox Christian community, immediately expressed regret that the Turkish court had not taken its concerns into account when ruling on Hagia Sophia.\n\nThe site is now one of Turkey's most visited tourist attractions\n\nIt has also drawn condemnation from Greece, and Unesco said its World Heritage Committee would now review the monument's status.\n\nOne of Turkey's most famous authors, Orhan Pamuk, told the BBC that the decision would take away the \"pride\" some Turks had in being a secular Muslim nation.\n\n\"There are millions of secular Turks like me who are crying against this but their voices are not heard,\" said Mr Pamuk.", "Alice Williams and Luke Burrows are hoping their wedding in Cyprus will go ahead in September\n\nA couple whose wedding was cancelled twice - by the Thomas Cook collapse and the coronavirus pandemic - are hoping to tie the knot finally in September.\n\nAlice Williams and Luke Burrows, from Leicester, were due to get married in Cyprus in May, before coronavirus prevented them from saying their vows.\n\nThe relaxation of travel restrictions means the couple have now reorganised the big day for September.\n\nMiss Williams said she was \"hopeful\" her big day would go ahead.\n\nThe couple first booked their wedding with Thomas Cook in November 2018 but, ten months later, the holiday firm collapsed.\n\nMiss Williams, 25, said their flights, hotels - and most of their guests' bookings were cancelled.\n\nMiss Williams works as a paediatric nurse and said she is used to being under pressure\n\nThey managed to reorganise the wedding for the same date and location, only for it to be cancelled due to the coronavirus lockdown, along with a party they had organised in the UK for when they returned.\n\nMiss Williams said she is not sure how many guests would be able to travel to her thrice-rearranged bash but added: \"We'll be there, even if it's just me and Luke.\"\n\nMiss Williams received gifts from friends after the wedding fell through for a second time\n\nShe said her job as a paediatric nurse meant she is used to being under pressure and she had not yet turned into \"bridezilla\".\n\n\"I kind of just go with the flow with things anyway; that's kind of who I am,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Police released images of suspects lying on the ground\n\nFive people have been killed after attackers stormed a South African church, reportedly amid an argument over its leadership.\n\nSouth African police said they had rescued men, women and children from a \"hostage situation\" on the outskirts of Johannesburg on Saturday morning.\n\nThey have also arrested at least 40 people, and seized dozens of weapons.\n\nEyewitnesses say the men who stormed the International Pentecostal Holiness Church were part of a splinter group.\n\nThe church's leadership has reportedly been the subject of infighting since its former leader died in 2016. Police had previously been called to the church following a shoot out between members in 2018, South Africa's IOL reports.\n\nThe year before, the church's finances had come under the spotlight, amid allegations some 110m rand ($6.5m; £5.2m) had gone missing, according to The Sowetan newspaper.\n\nOn Saturday, police were called to the church in Zuurbekom in the West Rand at 03:00 local time (01:00 GMT).\n\nA number of weapons have been recovered by police\n\nAccording to national police spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo, a group of attackers indicated to those inside \"that they were coming to take over the premises\".\n\nHe said four people had been found shot and burnt to death in cars, while a security guard, who was thought to have been responding to the incident, was also fatally shot.\n\nFive rifles, 16 shotguns and 13 pistols, along with other weapons, were found at the church, which police have been combing for evidence.\n\nThe South African Police Service (SAPS) said that among those arrested were members of SAPS, the South African National Defence Force, the Johannesburg Metro Police Department and the Department of Correctional Services.\n\nThe International Pentecostal Holiness Church is thought to have about three million members in Southern Africa.\n\nWhile the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, one of the largest churches in that region, has made tabloid headlines over missing money and its leadership squabbles in the last few years, what happened on Saturday took many by surprise - including authorities.\n\nNow police say they have launched a high-level investigation looking into the exact circumstances around the shooting - not least, who ordered the attack.\n\nPart of the investigation is trying to ascertain whether the four people who were killed and burnt inside a car were part of the group who had earlier stormed into the church.\n\n\"We've arrested all those we reasonably believed are suspects. They have been taking in for questioning,\" said police spokesperson Vish Naidoo.\n\nAs night falls, police officers have been deployed to monitor the safety of hundreds of congregants living on the church premises who are said to be fearful of another attack.", "Many in Israel are experiencing economic hardship\n\nThousands of Israelis have staged a demonstration in Tel Aviv to protest against what they say is economic hardship caused by the government's mishandling of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nRabin Square was filled with mainly young protesters wearing masks but not observing social distancing.\n\nThey say government compensation payments have been slow to arrive.\n\nThe event was organised by small businesses, self-employed workers and performing artists' groups.\n\nMany are experiencing economic hardship and have been angered by coronavirus measures which have taken their livelihoods away. They say money they are due from government support schemes has not been paid.\n\nProtesters say government compensation payments have been slow to arrive\n\nWhile workers on salaries received unemployment benefits via a furlough scheme, the self-employed say most of them have been waiting months for promised government aid.\n\n\"I have 40 workers with no income, no money,\" Michal Gaist-Casif, vice-president of a sound and lighting company, told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"We need the government to pump in money until we're back to normal. We haven't been working since mid-March through April, May, June and July, and August is looking to be a catastrophe.\"\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met activists on Friday to discuss their frustrations.\n\n\"We will meet our commitments including hastening the immediate payments that we want to give you,\" his office quoted him as telling them.\n\nIsrael imposed a strict lockdown in mid-March but started lifting restrictions in late May. Unemployment has risen to 21%.\n\nThe country has seen a spike in coronavirus cases with nearly 1,500 new cases reported on Friday. A total of 354 people have died from Covid-19 in Israel, according to Johns Hopkins University data.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Short Stirling Bomber BK716 was lost when returning from a bombing raid in Germany\n\nPlans that could see an RAF World War Two bomber lifted from a lake in the Netherlands by a crane grabber rather than using a dam have been criticised.\n\nThe Short Stirling Bomber, based at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk, was lost returning from a 1943 raid on Germany.\n\nPlane enthusiast Rick Brooks has voiced anger Dutch authorities could use a crane he likened to an arcade \"machine where you grab a teddy\" to lift it.\n\nAlmere city council said it had not yet announced the recovery method.\n\nThe aircraft BK716 was found earlier this year submerged in Lake Markermeer, near Amsterdam, and it is thought the remains of the crew would still be on board.\n\nMr Brooks, who has been involved in previous operations to recover aircraft, said in the past when wartime aircraft were recovered from rivers or a lakes a cofferdam was used so the site could be properly excavated and the remains of the crew could be carefully retrieved with any items found near their remains.\n\nA cofferdam allows water to be pumped out, creating a dry area for land reclamation work to proceed.\n\nThis is the type of plane flown by the crew\n\nThe crew of Short Stirling BK716 were:\n\nBut Mr Brooks, who has been in contact with teams involved in recovery operations in the Netherlands, said he believed Almere council had been looking at the cheaper method he compared to an amusement arcade machine.\n\nMr Brooks, who lives in Ashford, Kent, said to respect the memory of the seven man crew the bomber should be properly excavated.\n\nHe said through the use of cofferdams, teams have had \"success in finding those small items that mean so much to the airmen's surviving relatives\".\n\nMr Brooks said a grabber would be \"destructive\" and would leave behind body parts and \"small items like a wedding ring or a watch\" that he said could help identify the remains.\n\nAlmere council said it had \"decided to respect the wishes of relatives to salvage the aircraft, and to honour the killed crew members\".\n\n\"Care and respect are first priority, both towards relatives and in the method of recovery as decided by the (Dutch) Ministry of Defence,\" it said.\n\n\"We will soon announce the chosen method of recovery and the start date of the recovery process.\"\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.", "Ishak Mostefaoui is the first IS-supporter from the UK to die in the custody of the Syrian Democratic Forces\n\nA man who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria has died while being held in prison in the country, the BBC has been told.\n\nOne source said that Ishak Mostefaoui, previously from east London, was killed while attempting to escape custody.\n\nAnother said the death came during serious disorder in a jail in Hassakeh, which houses IS prisoners from various countries.\n\nThe death and surrounding circumstances have not been officially confirmed.\n\nAfter being captured last year, the 27-year-old was held in a prison in north-east Syria controlled by the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.\n\nSources said he was one of around 10 British men and 30 British women being held by the militia - but he was the first to die in SDF custody.\n\nThe prison where he was held is a converted school. When the BBC spoke to him there last October he admitted joining IS.\n\nThe general situation in the prisons and camps where IS prisoners are being held has deteriorated this year and there have been several riots.\n\nThe British government has refused to allow adult prisoners to return to the UK, saying they should be put on trial in the region.\n\nA government spokesman told the BBC the Foreign Office had advised against all travel to Syria since 2011.\n\nThey added: \"Those who chose to leave the UK and fight for, or support, Daesh potentially pose a very serious national security risk.\"\n\nA cell at the prison where Mostefauoi was being held\n\nThe SDF has said foreign states should take responsibility for their citizens, stating earlier this year that IS prisoners were \"a time bomb\" and \"we need to set up international courts, under UN jurisdiction, and try them in NE Syria where they perpetrated their crimes\".\n\nSeveral countries have arranged for the return of some citizens.\n\nMinisters have said that, of the estimated 900 people who have left the UK for Syria to join violent Islamist groups, 20% have died, 40% have returned to the UK, and 40% are still in the region.\n\nThere are differing accounts of how Mostefauoi died.\n\nThe BBC has been given the two versions: that he was shot while trying to escape, and the other that he was killed during recent rioting.\n\nAn IS propaganda channel on a messaging app claims he was killed while trying to get water during a siege of the prison that also saw food and medication withheld from inmates.\n\nLast year, the BBC revealed that Mostefaoui was one of several University of Westminster students to have travelled to Syria.\n\nHis Algerian family had settled in London when Mostefaoui was five. He was described as a popular, football-loving boy, brought up in a home that was opposed to extremism, but he later became increasingly radicalised while a student.\n\nIn April 2014, Mostfaoui told his father that he was going to Amsterdam for a few days, leaving with just a small bag, and he then secretly made his way to Syria.\n\nIn 2018, Mostefaoui had his British citizenship revoked.\n• None 'At least seven from my university joined IS'", "Scott McGlynn used make-up to hide his acne while he was at school\n\nSocial media influencer Scott McGlynn has more than 150,000 Instagram followers and can earn £6,000 for his beauty and skin care posts.\n\nBut as a teenager bullies targeted him for his acne, dubbing him \"pizza face\".\n\nHis face and back were affected by the condition, which left him lonely and depressed.\n\nNow, a clinical psychology expert has called for more specialist training for healthcare professionals with \"centres of excellence\" in Wales.\n\n\"It was really bad, I had it all over my back as well,\" said Scott, 33. \"It went up my forehead and around my face and cheeks.\"\n\nThe bullying started when he was 12 and Scott, who now has 153,000 Instagram followers, would wear makeup to hide his acne.\n\n\"When people would comment on how I looked it would affect my confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"I would walk with my face looking at the floor, hoping that no-one would say anything. I don't think the teachers were really trained to deal with situations like that.\"\n\nOnce a week, pizza would be served as school dinner and Scott \"didn't even want to eat in the dining hall then\".\n\n\"There was a stage where I would eat lunch in a classroom with two of my friends.\"\n\nScott says the bullies who used to torment him have tried to get in touch with him\n\nHe would avoid PE so he did not have to get changed in front of everyone else: \"Putting myself in a boys changing room, it was a very vulnerable situation. Why would I do that to myself?\"\n\nHis acne and the bullying he suffered left him introspective.\n\n\"If you met me back then you would not think I would ever do anything on social media,\" Scott, from Cardiff, said.\n\nThe support of his family helped: \"Luckily I didn't have suicidal thoughts in my head, the only reason is that I had my family there.\n\n\"If they were not there I do not know where I would be right now.\"\n\nFellow pupils at his school would call him names such as pizza-face\n\nLast year Scott was named a global skincare ambassador for Neutrogena - something he called a \"pinch me\" moment.\n\nSince the publication of of his memoir Out, and his podcast going top five in the UK iTunes chart, Scott said his former bullies have tried to get in touch.\n\n\"I don't want to know,\" he said.\n\nAcne is a common skin condition characterised by blackheads, whiteheads and pus-filled spots.\n\nIt usually starts at puberty and varies in severity from a few spots to a more significant problem that may cause scarring.\n\nA degree of acne affects nearly all people between the ages of 15 and 17.\n\nFor the majority of sufferers it tends to clear up by the late teens or early 20s, but for some it persists longer.\n\nAndrew Thompson, professor of clinical psychology at Cardiff University and a spokesman for The British Skin Foundation, said: \"There is not enough psychological support for people.\n\n\"There are psychological services available to the extent there are general services available. They are not going to turn people away.\n\n\"But those services are rather stretched and many of the practitioners have not had the training for working around people living with the impact of a skin condition.\n\n\"Dermatology services are stretched. Mental health services are stretched. And people with skin conditions fall between the gaps.\"\n\nProf Andrew Thompson said there were not enough psychological services for people with skin conditions\n\nHe said he wanted more training for healthcare professionals in treating people with skin conditions in psychological distress, with \"centres of excellence\" in Wales.\n\n\"There are some centres in London and Birmingham but as far as I am aware I do not think there are any in Wales.\"\n\nOlivia Hughes sits on the committee of Skin Care Cymru, and has suffered from psoriasis since she was seven.\n\nThe Swansea University student is writing her dissertation on the emotional impact of her condition and said there was \"not a lot in Wales\" for people who needed psychological help.\n\n\"It is very much something you have got to seek yourself, it is not something that is offered with treatment,\" the 24-year-old said.\n\n\"The physical aspects of skin conditions are looked at as being more important than the psychological effects, which are seen as secondary.\n\n\"But they are just as significant. There should be more of a combined approach.\"\n\nOlivia Hughes is writing her dissertation on the emotional impact of her psoriasis\n\nTo get psychological treatment people have to go through their GP, she said.\n\nShe accepted funding may be a \"massive issue\" but having a specialised service to help people struggling psychologically \"would be really valuable\".\n\nScott agreed services in Wales needed improving: \"Absolutely, there should be a centre of excellence.\"\n\nThe Welsh government confirmed there were no specialised dermatology services in Wales, but there had been a review of services to examine gaps that existed.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We expect health boards to put in place services tailored to the individual needs of patients, including any psychological support they might require to help them manage their condition.\"", "Areas of southern and central China have been hit by heavy flooding, and the country's flood response alert has been raised to the second highest level.\n\nLevels in Poyang lake have reached a record high, with thousands of soldiers dispatched to shore up its banks.", "The minister of a Welsh church in London said it was \"very strange\" not being able to sing\n\nChurches and chapels in Wales can gradually start to re-open from Monday - but members say they will miss the companionship of singing together.\n\nScientific evidence suggests singing increases the spread of respiratory droplets, thus increasing the risk of spreading coronavirus among a crowd.\n\nChurches in England opened for the first time since lockdown last Sunday, but singing was not allowed.\n\nThe minister of a Welsh church in London said it was \"very strange\".\n\n\"It was a great experience to be back on Sunday,\" said the Reverend Aneirin Glyn, of the Welsh Church of St Benet, in the City of London.\n\n\"But we didn't get to sing or offer after-service refreshments.\n\n\"We're very fond of singing as Welsh people, and it was very strange not to be able to sing as part of our worship.\"\n\nThe Welsh Church of St Benet in London opened its doors to worshippers last Sunday\n\nFrom 13 July, faith leaders will be able to gradually resume services, once they feel ready to do so safely, and services can be held outside.\n\nThe Church-in-Wales has issued guidance saying a cautious approach to re-opening was \"essential.\"\n\nRev Glyn said some members had recorded hymns to play during the service, but \"we could not sing with the recordings\".\n\nAnother who is missing the singing is Delyth Morgans Phillips, author of Companion to Caneuon Ffydd, a reference book on popular hymns.\n\n\"I understand, of course, that we must be careful but not singing hymns is going to be very strange,\" she said.\n\nMs Phillips is also a conductor in Cymanfa Ganu (singing festivals), and a member of the Corisma choir in Cwm-Ann, near Lampeter, and the Ceredigion National Eisteddfod Choir.\n\n\"When the choir doesn't meet, one loses the companionship,\" she added.\n\n\"We are a very social bunch in Corisma and we meet every fortnight to sing but also to laugh and put the world to rights.\"\n\nDelyth Morgans Phillips says choir members lose out on companionship from being unable to sing together\n\nMs Phillips said the National Eisteddfod Choir had been meeting on Zoom to rehearse, but that it was a \"completely different experience\".\n\nThe social element of worshipping and singing is a big draw for most church members in Wales, including Evie Jones, from Lannerch-y-medd, Anglesey.\n\n\"I miss the choir terribly,\" said Mr Jones, who is a member of the Foel Male voice choir.\n\nEvie Jones said he often wonders \"if we will be allowed to sing again\"\n\nMr Jones said he doubts whether choirs would have enough time to practice for the Eisteddfod next year, if it is able to go ahead at all.\n\n\"It's a rather bleak summer this year - I've sung all my life,\" he added.\n\n\"I often wonder if we will be allowed to sing again.\"\n\nThere was no other option but to postpone this year's Cerdd Dant Festival, said organiser John Jones.\n\nJohn Jones is also the conductor of Cor Meibion y Brythoniaid, a choir which usually meets weekly in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.\n\n\"It's the loss of companionship and banter more than anything else - I just hope that a vaccine comes soon,\" he said.\n\n\"But, like all the choir members, I miss the singing as well as the socialising - singing is good for the soul, but must be safe as well.\"\n• None The strange case of the choir that coughed in January", "Last updated on .From the section Republic of Ireland\n\nMick McCarthy believes the passing of former Republic of Ireland manager Jack Charlton \"will be felt in Ireland more than anywhere else\".\n\nCharlton, who led the Republic to their first World Cup in 1990, and again in 1994, passed away on Friday aged 85.\n\nMcCarthy captained Charlton's side at the 1990 tournament in Italy and said his former manager \"changed his life\".\n\n\"He changed everything for all of us who played for Ireland and just look at the memories we have,\" said McCarthy.\n\n\"Jack's passing will touch Ireland, England and the football world, but the loss to football will be felt in Ireland more than anywhere else,\" said McCarthy on FAI.ie .\n\n\"English fans will always remember Jack as one of their World Cup winners in 1966 but what he did with Ireland will, I suspect, mean even more to our fans and the country.\n• None Jack Charlton passes away at the age of 85\n• None Football Daily: 'He was a natural leader' - a tribute to Jack Charlton\n\nThe Football Association of Ireland said Charlton was \"the manager who changed Irish football forever\" after leading his adopted country to three major tournaments.\n\nAfter taking over in 1986, Charlton guided the Republic to the 1988 European Championships and a famous 1-0 win over England in Stuttgart.\n\nQualification for the 1990 World Cup in Italy followed, which included a dream run to the quarter-finals after impressive draws with England and the Netherlands in the group stage.\n\nThe Republic eventually exited the tournament at the hands of the host nation, but gained revenge over Italy four years later at the 1994 tournament in the USA as the Republic once more defied the odds to reach the knockout stage.\n\nMcCarthy, who managed the Republic to their third World Cup in 2002 and left his second spell as boss in April, spoke to Charlton shortly after his 85th birthday in May and said: \"I told him I loved the bones of him that day and I always will.\n\n\"That's how we will remember him, with a great big smile on his face. I know this is a sad day but we will remember the great days as well.\"\n\nNiall Quinn, former Republic of Ireland striker and current interim deputy chief executive of the FAI, also paid tribute to Charlton.\n\n\"Jack Charlton led the band. He brought us, as a players and fans, to places we never thought possible beforehand and gave us so many precious moments,\" said Quinn, who won 92 international caps.\n\n\"He changed lives. For his players, he gave us the best days of our lives.\n\n\"This news has hit me with a bang. We have so much to be grateful to Jack for and I am truly saddened, like so many others, with this news today.\n\n\"Our thoughts go to Pat and Jack's family who shared that wonderful journey with us. May he rest in peace.\"", "The UK coastguard is coordinating a search-and-rescue operation after several boats of migrants crossing from France were spotted in the Channel.\n\nTwo Border Force vessels, the Dover lifeboat and a Coastguard aircraft are working alongside French authorities.\n\nIt is thought up to 200 migrants tried to cross the Channel on Sunday.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the number of crossings were rising despite the efforts of the UK and France and \"simply cannot be allowed to go on\".\n\nShe announced that the two countries had signed a deal on immigration and border management to establish a joint intelligence unit to \"crack down on the gangs behind this vile people smuggling operation\".\n\nMs Patel was speaking after a visit to Calais to discuss the \"new operational approach\" with the recently appointed French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.\n\nMore than 2,400 people have crossed the English Channel from France in small boats this year.\n\nIt is unclear how many of the 200 who attempted to cross on Sunday made it to England.\n\nThe highest number so far to get to the UK in a single day is 166, at the start of last month.\n\nDuring her meeting with Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin in Calais, Ms Patel was shown how French officials were working to target people smugglers\n\nMs Patel said: \"Despite all of the action taken by law enforcement to date - intercepting the boats, making arrests, returning people to France and putting the criminals responsible behind bars - the numbers continue to increase.\"\n\nOne of Mr Darmanin's first moves in his new role was to order the dismantling of several makeshift camps and move hundreds of migrants out of Calais.\n\nOn Saturday, 21 migrants in three boats were brought back to France - including four in a boat that capsized who were suffering from severe hypothermia.\n\nAnd the Home Office confirmed that six migrants were detained by police in Dover after arriving in a small boat and handed over to immigration officials.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "Stroke, delirium, anxiety, confusion, fatigue - the list goes on. If you think Covid-19 is just a respiratory disease, think again.\n\nAs each week passes, it is becoming increasingly clear that coronavirus can trigger a huge range of neurological problems.\n\nSeveral people who've contacted me after comparatively mild illness have spoken of the lingering cognitive impact of the disease - problems with their memory, tiredness, staying focused.\n\nBut it's at the more severe end that there is most concern.\n\nChatting to Paul Mylrea, it's hard to imagine that he had two massive strokes, both caused by coronavirus infection.\n\nThe 64-year-old, who is director of communications at Cambridge University, is eloquent and, despite some lingering weakness on his right side, able-bodied.\n\nHe has made one of the most remarkable recoveries ever seen by doctors at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) in London.\n\nPaul Mylrea has made a remarkable recovery after his stroke\n\nHis first stroke happened while he was in intensive care at University College Hospital. Potentially deadly blood clots were also found in his lungs and legs, so he was put on powerful blood-thinning (anticoagulant) drugs.\n\nA couple of days later he suffered a second, even bigger stroke and was immediately transferred to the NHNN in Queen Square.\n\nConsultant neurologist Dr Arvind Chandratheva was just leaving hospital when the ambulance arrived.\n\n\"Paul had a blank expression on his face,\" he says. \"He could only see on one side and he couldn't figure out how to use his phone or remember his passcode.\n\n\"I immediately thought that the blood thinners had caused a bleed in the brain, but what we saw was so strange and different.\"\n\nPaul had suffered another acute stroke due to a clot, depriving vital areas of the brain of blood supply.\n\nDr Chandratheva says he has never seen such a high level of clotting before\n\nTests showed that he had astonishingly high levels of a marker for the amount of clotting in the blood known as D-dimer.\n\nNormally these are less than 300, and in stroke patients can rise to 1,000. Paul Mylrea's levels were over 80,000.\n\n\"I've never seen that level of clotting before - something about his body's response to the infection had caused his blood to become incredibly sticky,\" says Dr Chandratheva.\n\nDuring lockdown there was a fall in the number of emergency stroke admissions. But in the space of two weeks, neurologists at the NHNN treated six Covid patients who'd had major strokes. These were not linked to the usual risk factors for stroke such as high blood pressure or diabetes. In each case they saw very high levels of clotting.\n\nPart of the trigger for the strokes was a massive overreaction by the immune system which causes inflammation in the body and brain.\n\nDr Chandratheva projected Paul's brain images on a wall, highlighting the large areas of damage, shown as white blurs, affecting his vision, memory, coordination, and speech.\n\nThe stroke was so big that doctors thought it likely he would not survive, or be left hugely disabled.\n\n\"After my second stroke, my wife and daughters thought that was it, they would never see me again,\" Paul says. \"The doctors told them there was not much they could do except wait. Then I somehow survived and have been getting progressively stronger.\"\n\nPaul Mylrea having remote therapy - doctors did not think he would survive\n\nOne of the first encouraging signs was Paul's ability with languages - he speaks six - and he would switch from English to Portuguese to speak to one of his nurses.\n\n\"Unusually he learned several of his languages as an adult, and this will have created different wiring connections in the brain which have survived his stroke,\" says Dr Chandratheva.\n\nPaul says he cannot read as fast as he used to, and is sometimes forgetful, but that's hardly surprising given the areas of damage in his brain.\n\nHis physical recovery has also been impressive, which doctors attribute to his previous very high level of fitness.\n\n\"I used to cycle for an hour a day, do a couple of gym sessions a week and swim in the river. My cycling and diving days are over, but I hope to get back to swimming,\" Paul says.\n\nA study in the Lancet Psychiatry found brain complications in 125 seriously ill coronavirus patients in UK hospitals. Nearly half had suffered a stroke due to a blood clot while others had brain inflammation, psychosis, or dementia-like symptoms.\n\nOne of the report authors, Prof Tom Solomon of the University of Liverpool, told me, \"It's clear now that this virus does cause problems in the brain whereas initially we thought it was all about the lungs. Part of it is due to lack of oxygen to the brain. But there appear to be many other factors, such as problems with blood clotting and a hyper-inflammatory response of the immune system. We should also ask whether the virus itself is infecting the brain.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The wiring of the human brain\n\nIn Canada, neuroscientist Prof Adrian Owen has launched a global online study of how the virus affects cognition. Owen said: \"We already know that ICU survivors are vulnerable to cognitive impairment. So as the number of recovered Covid-19 patients continues to climb, it's becoming increasingly apparent that getting sent home from the ICU is not the end for these people. It's just the beginning of their recovery.\"\n\n\"Sars and Mers, which are both caused by coronaviruses, were associated with some neurological disease, but we've never seen anything like this before,\" Dr Michael Zandi, consultant neurologist at the NHNN, told me. \"The closest comparison is the 1918 flu pandemic. We saw then there was a lot of brain disease and problems that emerged over the next 10-20 years.\"\n\nAs the BBC's medical correspondent, since 2004 I have reported on global disease threats such as bird flu, swine flu, Sars and Mers - both coronaviruses - and Ebola. 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 new reality.\n\nA mysterious neurological syndrome known as encephalitis lethargica appeared around the end of World War One and went on to affect more than a million people worldwide. There is limited evidence of its causes, and whether the trigger was influenza or a post-infectious autoimmune disorder.\n\nAs well as a sleepiness coma, some patients had movement disorders that looked like Parkinson's disease, which affected them for the rest of their lives.\n\nIn his book Awakenings, the neurologist Oliver Sacks told the story of a group of patients who'd been frozen in sleep for decades, and how he used the drug L-Dopa to temporarily free them from their locked-in state.\n\nWe should be careful before reading too much into comparisons between Covid-19 and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. But with so many Covid patients having neurological symptoms, it will be important to look at the long-term effects on the brain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fergus Walsh discovers why the brain is a marvel of evolution", "Walt Disney World was closed in March due to concerns over coronavirus\n\nWalt Disney World Resort has begun to reopen in Florida despite a coronavirus surge across the US state.\n\nThe site's Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom opened on Saturday. Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios are expected to follow from 15 July.\n\nVisitors will be required to wear masks and adhere to other safety measures across the complex in Orlando.\n\nMore than a quarter of a million cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Florida, along with 4,197 deaths.\n\nDisney first closed the resort in March during the early months of America's outbreak. While infections were largely concentrated in New York and California at first, Florida is among several states recording a rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nIn Orange County, where the resort is based, authorities have reported 16,630 cases - some of the highest numbers in Florida.\n\nAs a result, many cities and counties across Florida have reinstated restrictions that were lifted in May when infections began to drop.\n\nDespite the outbreak, hundreds of people made their way to the Disney flagship resort on Saturday.\n\nSome of its competitors, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld Orlando, reopened to visitors several weeks ago.\n\nDisney has also resumed limited operations at its four parks in Asia, and at Disney Springs - an outdoor shopping mall in Orlando. Disney reported a $1.4bn (£1.1bn) hit to profits in the first three months of the year.\n\n\"The world is changing around us, but we strongly believe that we can open safely and responsibly,\" said Josh D'Amaro, Disney's theme park chairman, in an interview with the New York Times.\n\n\"Covid is here, and we have a responsibility to figure out the best approach to safely operate in this new normal.\"\n\nDisney is selling limited ticket numbers to help maintain safety\n\nVisitors are going through temperature checks, and social distancing measures are in place\n\nWalt Disney World was closed in March due to concerns over coronavirus\n\nFirework shows and parades have been cancelled to prevent mass gatherings\n\nHand sanitiser was also widely available", "Police officers in riot gear pictured in north Belfast on Saturday night\n\nPetrol bombs and stones have been thrown at police in north Belfast on Saturday in a second night of trouble.\n\nOfficers were attacked in the North Queen Street area near the New Lodge flats and a small fire was started in the middle of the road.\n\nThe trouble involved young people and marked a continuation of violence from Friday night.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, a police officer warned of \"consequences\" for those involved.\n\nTrouble continued in the North Queen Street area for a second night\n\nOfficers dressed in riot gear carried out searches of the area on Saturday, but were targeted along with police vehicles.\n\nOver the course of Friday evening, a piece of furniture was also set on fire in the middle of North Queen Street and it was reported that youths were throwing stones at houses and passing cars.\n\nCh Insp Peter Brannigan said on Saturday \"there will be consequences for those choosing to engage in this type of behaviour\".\n\nA piece of furniture was set on fire on Friday night\n\nHe said North Queen Street had to be closed for a period on Friday night to allow debris to be cleared and there were two reports of criminal damage caused to two vehicles \"as a result of this senseless behaviour\".\n\n\"I want to make a direct appeal to the young people who were involved in this reckless activity, and to parents and guardians of young people to please ensure you know where your young people are and what they are doing,\" Ch Insp Brannigan added.\n\n\"We will deploy the necessary resources to detect and deter those responsible in a proportionate manner, and we will seek to gather evidence to bring those responsible before the courts, whether through evidence gathering or arrests at the time.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Rathcoole, detectives are investigating an incident in which a car was hijacked and set on fire.\n\nPolice said that shortly after 01:00 BST on Saturday, it was reported that a man driving along along Rathcoole Drive was obstructed by a number of pallets on the road.\n\nThe man tried to drive away but was stopped by about 10 males, some armed with wood.\n\nPolice said he was ordered to get out of his white Peugeot 108 by one of the males while another got inside and drove it short distance away.\n\nThe windscreen of the car was then smashed before the car was set on fire.", "The main contractor on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment overlooked a key fire safety document, the inquiry into the blaze has heard.\n\nIt included requirements regarding the fire hazards of certain cladding materials and had to be kept on-site.\n\nBut Simon Lawrence, contracts manager at building firm Rydon, said the \"sheer amount of information\" involved in the project led to it being missed.\n\nThe inquiry's first phase found that cladding fuelled the June 2017 fire.\n\nHearings in the second phase of the inquiry returned last week after a four-month break due to coronavirus.\n\nThis second phase is examining the refurbishment of the 24-storey residential block in North Kensington, west London, in which 72 people died.\n\nThe inquiry heard on Thursday that a copy of the Standard for Systemised Building Envelopes, compiled by the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology, had to be kept on-site under National Building Specifications.\n\nThe document states that \"the building envelope shall not be composed of materials which readily support combustion, add significantly to the fire load, and/or give off toxic fumes\".\n\nSimon Lawrence, contracts manager at Rydon, said the firm was \"reliant on others\"\n\nAsked about the guidance by inquiry lawyer Richard Millett QC, Mr Lawrence said: \"We wouldn't have had a copy on site.\n\n\"It obviously wasn't picked up in all the documents we had to go through... it obviously wasn't noticed.\"\n\nMr Lawrence said the \"sheer amount of information\" led to it being missed, but said he was familiar with the \"principle\" of the guidance but not the \"technical part\".\n\nAsked about what steps Rydon took to supervise the overall project and ensure the works were being completed with safe materials, he said: \"I think it would be using a competent design team, competent specialist contractors, backed up by building control and all the layers within.\"\n\nPeople released balloons at the base of Grenfell Tower on the third anniversary of the fire\n\nHe said it was up to Rydon's sub-contracted design team including architects Studio E and external wall firm Harley Facades to check that any materials being used on the tower block refurbishment were safe and complied with the regulations.\n\nMr Lawrence, who was involved in the project between June 2014 and October 2015, agreed that this boiled down to Rydon being \"reliant on others\".\n\nHe said in his witness statement that \"at no point\" did he \"have any reason to believe\" materials were to be used which did not meet legal requirements.\n\nThursday's appearance before the inquiry was the first time that Rydon, the company at the centre of the refurbishment, had given evidence.", "Amirhossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi and Saeed Tamjidi denied the charges laid against them\n\nIran's judiciary has suggested it might halt the executions of three young men convicted in connection with November's mass anti-government protests, following a social media campaign.\n\nThe Persian hashtag #do_not_execute was used five million times after it was announced on Tuesday that the Supreme Court had upheld their death sentences.\n\nMany celebrities backed the campaign.\n\nOn Wednesday night, the judiciary said its chief would consider any request from the men to review their sentences.\n\nLawyers for the three men also were reportedly told that they could for the first time examine the court papers and evidence against their clients.\n\nIran is the world's second most prolific state executioner after China.\n\nDespite having to deal with the Middle East's biggest outbreak of Covid-19, which has killed more than 13,000 people and deepened an economic crisis, the Iranian authorities have not stopped trying capital cases and carrying out death sentences.\n\nEarly on Tuesday, two Kurdish men were executed in Urumieh prison in West Azerbaijan province.\n\nDiaku Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdollah, who were in their early 20s and 30s respectively, had been on death row since 2015. They were convicted of planting a bomb at a military parade in Mahabad in 2010.\n\nDiaku Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdollah were executed early on Tuesday\n\nTheir lawyer told BBC Persian they were innocent and that no evidence was presented at their trial other than confessions extracted under severe torture.\n\nAmnesty International said the two men were \"the latest victims of Iran's deeply flawed criminal justice system, which systematically relies on fabricated evidence\".\n\nHours later, the Iranian judiciary's spokesman confirmed that the death sentences of the three anti-government protesters had been upheld by the Supreme Court.\n\nAmirhossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi and Saeed Tamjidi, who are all reportedly in their 20s, were arrested during November's unrest, which was triggered by the government's decision to raise the price of petrol.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters took to the streets in 2019 as fuel price rises were introduced\n\nMillions of Iranians poured into the streets of cities and towns across the country to protest against poverty, inflation and economic mismanagement. They were met with violence by security forces and hundreds were killed.\n\nAmnesty International said the three men sentenced to death in connection with the protests underwent \"grossly unfair trials\".\n\n\"Their allegations of torture and other ill-treatment were ignored and 'confessions' extracted from Amirhossein Moradi without a lawyer present, reportedly through beatings, electric shocks and being hung upside down, were relied upon to convict them of 'enmity against God' through acts of arson and vandalism,\" it added.\n\nGraffiti in Tehran saying: \"Our defenders are in danger of being executed\"\n\nThe social media campaign to halt their executions was joined by many prominent figures both inside and outside Iran.\n\nThe footballer Masoud Shojaei posted on his Instagram page: \"I am asking Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani and Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi: Please be merciful with these three Iranian young people. Please stay their execution because of their families and people's request.\"\n\nThe actor Shahaab Hosseini wrote: \"Swearing on the prophet of kindness and compassion, please stop the executions of these three young people.\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump also called for the executions to be stopped.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nIran's judiciary also announced last month that Ruhollah Zam, a dissident journalist and founder of the influential Telegram account AmadNews, had been sentenced to death for \"spreading corruption on earth\".\n\nOne of the accusations he faced was encouraging people to participate in anti-government protests in 2017 and 2018.\n\nZam was based in Paris, but he was lured to Iraq by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' intelligence service and then kidnapped and taken back to Iran.\n\nIran's government has not offered much help to those affected by the economic crisis, and the country's leaders have expressed concern about future unrest.\n\nMany Iranian human rights activists believe that by carrying out executions and sentencing protesters to death the leaders are hoping to scare people away from returning to the streets.\n\nCorrection 16 July 2020: The original version of the story was updated to say that Iran was reported to have halted the executions of the three anti-government protesters and that a retrial had been ordered. This is inconsistent with a statement issued by the judiciary denying it had ordered a retrial. In light of this, our story has been republished in its original form.", "David Williams' family said he was a \"loving and generous person\"\n\nA man has been sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in prison for the \"motiveless\" murder of a 73-year-old.\n\nKyle Bowen, 29, attacked David Williams after knocking on his door at Danygraig Lane, near Pontwalby Viaduct in Glynneath, on 27 January.\n\nBowen was told at Swansea Crown Court he would not be eligible for release until at least 2035.\n\nCCTV footage showed Bowen buying a bottle of vodka before making his way to Mr Williams' home, but the court heard he was not drunk.\n\nIt is not known how he attacked Mr Williams, whose body was found by his wife.\n\n\"She saw her husband lying on the gravel outside the conservatory,\" John Hipkin QC said.\n\nKyle Bowen left his victim dying, the court was told\n\nEmergency services attended but were not able to revive Mr Williams.\n\nDNA matching Mr Williams' blood was found on Bowen's trousers, along with fingernail scrapings on Mr Williams' hand matching Bowen's DNA.\n\nBowen told police he suffered from mental health problems but did not know why he went to his victim's home that day and had been intending to kill himself, the court heard.\n\nMr Williams and his wife Pearl, 72, would have been celebrating their golden wedding anniversary next year.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mrs Williams said her \"whole world\" had been destroyed.\n\n\"You will never understand the hurt and pain you have caused me. You have made me a prisoner in my daughter's home, too afraid to leave the house.\n\n\"I cry every day, every morning and every night. You murdered my husband.\n\n\"I hope you will never have the opportunity to commit another savage act like this on any other person. You have no right to ever feel sorry for yourself.\"\n\nKirsty Wise, Mr Williams' only child, told the court her mother had been reduced to a \"shadow of the woman she once was\", and her father's death had put her plans to start a family on hold.\n\nDefending, Christopher Clee QC said: \"Kyle Bowen's stance remains that he cannot remember assaulting Mr Williams.\n\n\"We cannot put forward any reason for this senseless killing.\"\n\nSentencing Bowen to a minimum of 16 years - minus time already served - Judge Thomas QC described his actions as \"senseless and brutal\".\n\n\"I believe that your state of mind that day was such that anyone could have been your victim. You then left him dying for his wife to find.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Lewis has been the Conservative MP for New Forest East since 1997 and has previously chaired the Commons defence committee\n\nConservative MP Julian Lewis has been kicked out of the Conservative parliamentary party after beating Chris Grayling to become chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee.\n\nBelieved to be No 10's preferred choice, Mr Grayling was widely expected to get the role.\n\nBut concerns had been raised that the body's impartiality could be undermined, and MPs backed Mr Lewis.\n\nThe committee scrutinises the work of the intelligence and security services.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC that Mr Lewis \"has been told by the chief whip that it is because he worked with Labour and other opposition MPs for his own advantage\".\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy criticised the decision tweeting: \"Completely self-defeating act that bears the hallmark of a government so arrogant it really believes it is above scrutiny.\n\n\"What is in the Russia report that Johnson doesn't want to see the light of day?\"\n\nFormer Tory Cabinet minister and ex-chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Dominic Grieve, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"What troubles me about this episode, quite apart from its utter absurdity, and now withdrawing the whip from Julian, who is indeed highly respected, is the mindset it gives about what on earth is going on in Downing Street.\n\n\"Why did they try to manipulate this process? They shouldn't have done.\n\n\"The committee can only exist, the committee can only be respected... if it is seen to be non-partisan, and independent.\"\n\nAfter Boris Johnson nominated five Conservative MPs for the committee last week - giving them a majority - it had been thought Chris Grayling was a shoo-in for the chairman position.\n\nBut it seems there was a coup. Opposition members of the committee were worried Mr Grayling would be too close to No 10, and decided to back Julian Lewis. It appears he then backed himself, thus securing a majority.\n\nThat's left No 10 embarrassed and it seems angry. Sources say Mr Lewis had the whip removed because he had told the Tory chief whip he would back Mr Grayling.\n\nI hear the committee is meeting again on Thursday to discuss when to publish the much delayed Russia report. Some are pushing for it to be published next week - and believe today's events could make that more likely.\n\nMr Grayling held cabinet positions under David Cameron and Theresa May including transport secretary.\n\nDespite supporting Mr Johnson in the Conservative leadership election he was not given a role in government.\n\nThe other Conservative committee members are Sir John Hayes, Mr Lewis, Mark Pritchard, and Theresa Villiers. There are two Labour MPs - Kevan Jones and Dame Diana Johnson - plus Labour peer Lord West of Spithead. Stewart Hosie is the SNP's representative on the committee.\n\nOne of the first jobs of the newly formed committee will be to publish a long-awaited report on alleged Russian interference in UK politics.\n\nPublication has been held up by the 2019 election and then a delay in setting up the committee. It has been the longest hiatus since the committee was established in the early 1990s.\n\nThe report includes evidence from UK intelligence services concerning Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nThe delay in publication has led to speculation the report contains details embarrassing for the Conservatives, however leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg said the hold up was due to a number of committee members leaving Parliament and the need \"to make sure that the right people with the right level of experience and responsibility could be appointed\".\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Mr Jones said the report should be produced before Parliament goes into recess on 22 July.\n\n\"There's no reason why it shouldn't be. It's been through both the committee, it's been agreed through the redaction process, and it's been agreed by government,\" he says.", "Jen Reid posed with her statue, which appeared on the empty plinth on Wednesday\n\nA sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester, placed on the plinth where a slave trader's statue was toppled, will be removed, Bristol's mayor has said.\n\nThe sculpture of Jen Reid was erected early on Wednesday at the spot in the city where an Edward Colston statue was pulled down during protests last month.\n\nMs Reid had been photographed standing on the empty plinth.\n\nMayor Marvin Rees said it was up to the people of Bristol to decide what would replace the Colston statue.\n\nArtist Marc Quinn said his black resin statue, called A Surge of Power, was meant to be a temporary installation to continue the conversation about racism.\n\nHe said he was inspired to create it after seeing an image of Ms Reid standing on the plinth with her fist raised during the Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June.\n\nMr Quinn then contacted Ms Reid through social media and they worked together on the statue, which was erected shortly before 04:30 BST.\n\nThe new statue has has attracted people both supporting it and those against\n\nBBC producer Alex Littlewood said people had been gathering around the Jen Reid statue for most of Wednesday, with many coming to take a knee.\n\n\"Most people have been supportive of the statue, but for a short time this afternoon a small amount of people arrived calling for the statue to be removed, saying it was an act of vandalism,\" he added.\n\nMr Rees, the city's elected mayor, said removing the new statue was \"critical to building a city that is home to those who are elated at the [Colston] statue being pulled down, those who sympathise with its removal... and those who feel that in its removal, they've lost a piece of the Bristol they know\".\n\nHe added the sculpture was the work and decision of a London-based artist, \"was not requested and permission was not given for it to be installed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marvin Rees This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCouncillor Cleo Lake said while she welcomed the arrival of the statue, she agreed the long term future of the plinth should be decided by the people of Bristol.\n\nShe said: \"I expect the statue will be a temporary intervention and it is great to hear that should the statue be sold then the money raised will in part go towards the Cargo education project set to be rolled out in Bristol secondary schools this September.\"\n\nJen Reid was pictured standing on top of the plinth after the Colston statue was pulled down on 7 June\n\nMs Reid said: \"I think it's something the people of Bristol really appreciate seeing.\n\n\"My husband took the photo on the day of the protests and put it on his social media. He was contacted by Marc Quinn who then contacted myself.\n\n\"I was in his studio by the Friday after the protest with 201 cameras surrounding me, taking pictures of me from every conceivable angle. That went into a 3D print and a mould was made.\"\n\nMs Reid said the sculpture was important because it helped \"keep the journey towards racial justice and equality moving\".\n\nPeople in Bristol stopped to take photos of the new statue\n\nShe said she had felt an \"overwhelming impulse\" to climb on to the plinth during last month's protest.\n\n\"When I was stood there on the plinth, and raised my arm in a Black Power salute, it was totally spontaneous,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't even think about it. It was like an electrical charge of power was running through me.\n\n\"This sculpture is about making a stand for my mother, for my daughter, for black people like me.\"\n\nArtist Marc Quinn's previous works include a sculpture entitled Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was put on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square\n\nMr Quinn said: \"I saw pictures of Jen on the plinth and she spontaneously made this gesture and I thought 'this is amazing'.\n\n\"She's made an extraordinary artwork just by doing that and it needs to be crystallised into an object and put back on to the plinth.\n\n\"It had to be in that public realm and I wanted to put it in that charged spot where Edward Colston had been before.\"\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was pulled from its plinth last month and dragged into the harbourside\n\nOn 7 June, protesters used ropes to pull down the Colston statue, which had been at the Bristol city centre site since 1895.\n\nIt was then dragged to the harbourside where it was thrown into the water at Pero's Bridge - named in honour of enslaved man Pero Jones who lived and died in the city.\n\nBristol City Council later retrieved the statue, which will be displayed in a museum along with placards from the Black Lives Matter protest.\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. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nicola Steedman said less than 5% of Scots exposed to coronavirus\n\nThe percentage of people in Scotland who have been exposed to coronavirus is likely to be less than 5%.\n\nBased on random testing of blood samples between 20 April and the end of June it was revealed that 4.3% had antibodies.\n\nResearchers looked for the specific proteins that the body produces to fight infection.\n\nThe 4,751 samples tested came from routine blood checks carried out by the health service in Scotland.\n\nDeputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nicola Steedman presented the findings from Public Health Scotland during the Scottish government's daily briefing on Thursday.\n\nShe said the research was part of an effort to find out the \"true number\" of infections in Scotland - and to estimate the extent the virus had spread around the country.\n\nThe current number of confirmed cases in Scotland is 18,384, but Dr Steedman said this represented a small proportion of the total infections as many people displayed very mild symptoms, or had none at all.\n\n\"Generally when you hear the positive testing numbers here that we tell you about every day, this is mostly in those people who've been tested for coronavirus because they have symptoms,\" she said.\n\n\"So if you think about coronavirus in Scotland as an iceberg in the water then these positives are like the top of that iceberg that we can see above the waterline.\"\n\nThe population of Scotland is estimated to be 5,463,300, meaning that about 235,000 people in Scotland will have been exposed to Covid-19, according to this research.\n\nThis represents about 13 infections for every confirmed case.\n\nHow many people have had Covid-19 in Scotland?\n\nResearchers tested blood samples that were originally collected for other clinical reasons from labs in six NHS health boards: Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Grampian, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian, and Tayside.\n\nAbout 500 samples were collected each week.\n\nResearchers said that the proportion of the samples with Covid-19 antibodies varied between 1.9% and 6.8%.\n\nThe report added: \"Across these weeks, we can be 95% confident that the value lies between under 1% and 10%.\"\n\nIn an appeal to the public about complying with the current restrictions, Dr Steedman said: \"Only a fairly small proportion of the population have so far likely been exposed to coronavirus in Scotland. And it is this low number of people, likely exposed, that explains and reinforces our on-going messages to you.\n\n\"Firstly, that we need to be careful when we are easing out of lockdown and secondly this is why we still want you to follow all of the current guidance on physical distancing and all the measures that we recommend in order to protect you, your loved ones and in fact protect all of us.\"\n• None Coronavirus in Scotland - School restart plan & one new death", "Ministers want Scotland's schools to reopen in full on 11 August\n\nPupils will not have to physically distance when Scotland's schools return in August, but teachers will, new advice to the government has suggested.\n\nMinisters have set a target for schools to reopen in full from 11 August.\n\nA new report from advisers said \"no distancing\" should be required between pupils in primary or secondary schools.\n\nBut it said staff should stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from each other, and put on face coverings when coming into closer contact with children.\n\nIt is also recommended that \"higher risk\" group activities like assemblies, choirs and gym and drama classes should not be reintroduced immediately.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney said the advice would \"inform the way schools can reopen safely\".\n\nTalks are being held between ministers, councils, parent groups and teachers' representatives to study how to reopen schools in full in August.\n\nA report from the government's advisory sub-group on education said the \"balance of evidence\" suggested that physical distancing requirements imposed elsewhere in society would not be necessary between school pupils.\n\nIt noted that only 151 of the 18,365 coronavirus cases confirmed in Scotland had been in people aged under 15, and that \"the role of children in transmission [of the virus] appears to be limited, both between children and from children to adults\".\n\nHowever the group said 2m distancing \"should remain in place wherever possible between adults, and between adults and children who are not from the same household\".\n\nThey said face coverings \"are not required for most children\", or adults who can maintain a physical distance - but added that \"where adults cannot keep a 2m distance, are interacting face-to-face and for about 15 minutes or more, face coverings should be worn\".\n\nTeachers may not have to wear face coverings if they can keep 2m away from pupils and other staff\n\nThe report comes as Scotland's Children's Commissioner warned of a looming \"children's rights emergency\", citing \"grave concerns\" about the long-term impact of the pandemic and the lockdown on young people.\n\nThe government's advisory paper said teachers \"should be provided with support and backup in how to assess the needs of children who have experienced neglect during the period of school closures\".\n\nThey said priority should be given to reintroducing services which \"particularly benefit children who are more vulnerable\", such as breakfast clubs and outreach work.\n\nThe report contains a series of warnings about the possible resurgence of the virus, and safety measures which should be put in place - with advice that \"hand washing/sanitising should be required for everyone on every entry to the school\".\n\nThey said there should be;\n\nThis means pupils will likely be kept to the same smaller groups for the duration of the school day, while the advice says \"collective activities that cross classes and age groups\" should only be reintroduced \"incrementally\".\n\nJohn Swinney said the reopening of schools was contingent on coronavirus infection rates remaining low\n\nA second paper from the group examined school transport, saying dedicated school buses should be treated as \"an extension of the school estate\" but that parents and pupils should seek to walk or cycle if possible.\n\nMr Swinney said the papers would help inform how to reopen schools safely \"if infection rates continue to remain low\".\n\nHe added: \"We are considering this advice as we develop comprehensive guidance which will give confidence to our school communities that the safety and wellbeing of children, young people and staff is ensured as we welcome them back.\n\n\"Ensuring the highest quality education for our young people, in a safe environment, must be a priority for us all and I know that everyone is committed to make sure that children's education is not adversely affected in the longer term.\"", "An estimated £3-4bn is being laundered via cryptocurrencies in Europe every year, the director of Europol has told the BBC.\n\nIt comes as Treasury Select Committee member Alison McGovern MP says much speedier regulation is needed.\n\nBut what are crypto-currencies? Spencer Kelly explains all.\n\nWho Wants to Be a Bitcoin Millionaire? was first broadcast at 20:30 GMT on Monday 12 February, BBC One.\n\nThe programme will be re-broadcast on BBC World News on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 February 2018.", "Actress Winona Ryder, who was in a relationship with Johnny Depp for four years, gave a witness statement\n\nJohnny Depp's ex-partner Winona Ryder has said it is \"impossible to believe\" allegations from his former wife Amber Heard that he was violent.\n\n\"I truly and honestly only know him as a really good man,\" said Ms Ryder.\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper maintains it was accurate.\n\nHe denies 14 domestic violence allegations which News Group Newspapers is relying on for its defence.\n\nMs Ryder and Vanessa Paradis, also a former partner of Mr Depp, had been due to give evidence at London's High Court via video link.\n\nBut on Thursday the actor's barrister David Sherborne told the court Mr Depp's legal team had decided there was no need to hear from them. Their witness statements were released to the media, following a successful application by the PA news agency.\n\nMr Depp arriving at the High Court on Thursday\n\nMs Ryder, who was in a relationship with Mr Depp for four years, said: \"I understand that it is very important that I speak from my own experience, as I obviously was not there during his marriage to Amber, but, from my experience, which was so wildly different, I was absolutely shocked, confused and upset when I heard the accusations against him.\n\n\"The idea that he is an incredibly violent person is the farthest thing from the Johnny I knew and loved.\n\n\"I cannot wrap my head around these accusations. He was never, never violent towards me. He was never, never abusive at all towards me. He has never been violent or abusive towards anybody I have seen.\n\n\"I truly and honestly only know him as a really good man - an incredibly loving, extremely caring guy who was so very protective of me and the people that he loves, and I felt so very, very safe with him.\n\n\"I do not want to call anyone a liar but from my experience of Johnny, it is impossible to believe that such horrific allegations are true. I find it extremely upsetting, knowing him as I do.\"\n\nIn her witness statement, musician, actress and model Ms Paradis said she had known Mr Depp for more than 25 years - including 14 years when they were partners and raised their two children together.\n\n\"Through all these years I've known Johnny to be a kind, attentive, generous and non-violent person and father,\" she said.\n\n\"On movie sets the actors, directors and entire crews adore him because he is humble and respectful to everyone, as well as being one of the best actors we've seen.\"\n\nMs Paradis' statement said the allegations from Ms Heard were \"nothing like the true Johnny I have known, and from my personal experience of many years, I can say he was never violent or abusive to me\".\n\n\"I have seen that these outrageous statements have been really distressing, and also caused damage to his career because unfortunately people have gone on believing these false facts,\" she added.\n\nEarlier, Mr Depp's bodyguard claimed it was a \"very common occurrence\" for the actor to call his security team \"to take him away from Ms Heard, due to her behaviour\" and \"he would then stay somewhere else\".\n\nSean Bett, who is Mr Depp's head of security, has worked for the Hollywood star for nine years.\n\nIn a written statement, Mr Bett said he saw the couple \"very regularly\" during their relationship, and \"never saw any cuts, bruises or other injuries on Ms Heard\".\n\nSean Bett is a former deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department\n\n\"On the contrary, throughout the course of Mr Depp and Ms Heard's relationship, Ms Heard was verbally and physically abusive towards Mr Depp,\" he claimed.\n\nHe added: \"I would describe it as a recurring cycle that Ms Heard would abuse Mr Depp, who would then remove himself from the situation.\"\n\nThe case centres on an article published on the Sun's website in April 2018. It was headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe article related to allegations made by Ms Heard, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017. The hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "Ms McKee, who was 29, was observing rioting in Derry's Creggan estate when she was shot on 18 April 2019.\n\nA 27-year-old man has appeared at Londonderry Magistrates' Court via videolink charged with possessing the gun used to shoot journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nNiall Sheerin, of Tyrconnell Street in the city, is charged with possession of a .22 pistol with intent to endanger life and in suspicious circumstances\n\nMr Sheerin is charged with possessing the firearm between 12 September 2018 and 5 June 2020.\n\nThe deputy district judge granted bail to an address suitable to police and prohibited him from entering the city.\n\nA police officer told the court that spent rounds from a Hammerli .22 pistol were found after Ms McKee was shot dead during disturbances in Derry on 18 April 2019.\n\nThe court was told that in June 2020 a police operation in the Ballymagroarty area uncovered an explosive device, a pistol and eight rounds wrapped in black bin liners, as well as ammunition in a zip lock bag.\n\nTests were carried out and it was established that it was the weapon used to shoot Ms McKee.\n\nThe officer said the defendant's DNA was found on the slide of the pistol and on the magazine of the weapon.\n\nThe court heard Mr Sheerin made no comment during seven interviews, but did give police a prepared statement in which he denied involvement in the killing of Ms McKee.\n\nMr Sheerin's lawyer said there was no evidence linking his client to the charges apart from DNA, which he said would be challenged.\n\nHe described the case against his client as \"very weak\".\n\nHe applied for bail for his client, which was opposed by police, but was granted by the judge.\n\nMr Sheerin has to abide by a curfew, report to police five times a week and have no contact with the group Saoradh or anyone charged in connection with Ms McKee's murder.\n\nHe is due to appear again in court on 13 August.", "Universities have warned of financial losses from the pandemic\n\nUniversities in England at risk of going bust could apply for emergency loans from the government, in plans announced by the education secretary.\n\nBut any rescue would come with conditions, including cutting pay for vice chancellors and senior staff.\n\nIt could also require universities to focus more on subjects with better job prospects for graduates.\n\nA report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that 13 unnamed universities were facing insolvency.\n\nUniversities have warned of cash problems from the coronavirus pandemic - particularly if overseas students cancel plans to study in the UK.\n\nA recent analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned of a \"significant financial threat\" to the UK's higher education system from the pandemic - with losses that could be between £3bn and £19bn.\n\nTo avoid the collapse of a university and disruption to students, the government has put forward \"last resort\" plans for how it will intervene.\n\nThere are no guarantees of support, or as the proposals say - \"not all providers will be prevented from exiting the market\" - but universities could be offered a repayable loan, which would come with \"restructuring\" conditions.\n\nUniversities are autonomous organisations, but the rescue packages would see the government exerting more control over what was taught and how money was spent.\n\nThere could be cost cutting through \"closing unviable campuses\" and mergers, including with further education colleges.\n\nUniversities would be expected to end courses seen as being of \"low value\", with an emphasis on either high-quality research or courses with good job prospects.\n\nThere have been warnings of the financial risks if many Chinese students cancel plans to study in the UK\n\nVocational and higher technical courses could be encouraged - and universities would be expected to offer courses more closely linked to the local economy.\n\n\"Vice-chancellor pay has for years faced widespread public criticism,\" say the proposals, with an expectation that there would be limits on salaries for senior staff.\n\nUniversities would have to \"strip back on bureaucracy\" and any funding for student unions should be for the \"wider student population rather than subsidising niche activism\", say the plans for the \"restructuring regime\".\n\nJo Grady of the UCU lecturers' union accused the government of \"exploiting\" financial difficulties to narrow what universities offered and to impose its \"evidence-free ideology\".\n\nThe lecturers' leader criticised an \"obsession with graduate earnings as a sole measure of quality\".\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, called on the government to be \"more ambitious, to go beyond a small number of universities in financial need\" and to extend the funding more widely.\n\nThe government has previously announced measures to support universities during the pandemic - including bringing forward tuition fee income and promising that \"research-intensive\" universities could receive loans to cover 80% of international student losses.\n\n\"This new scheme will help those who are still facing financial difficulty as a result of Covid-19,\" said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.", "Kim Kardashian West, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Barack Obama were all 'hacked'\n\nThe FBI has launched an investigation after hackers hijacked Twitter accounts of a number of high-profile US figures in an apparent Bitcoin scam.\n\n\"The accounts appear to have been compromised\" to perpetrate cryptocurrency fraud, said the bureau, urging the public to be vigilant.\n\nElon Musk, Bill Gates and Joe Biden were among those hit in what Twitter said was a \"co-ordinated\" attack.\n\nTheir official accounts requested donations in the cryptocurrency.\n\n\"Everyone is asking me to give back,\" said a tweet from the account of Mr Gates, the Microsoft founder. \"You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.\"\n\nThe US Senate Commerce committee has demanded Twitter brief it about Wednesday's incident by 23 July.\n\nTwitter said the hackers had targeted its employees \"with access to internal systems and tools\".\n\n\"We know they [the hackers] used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf,\" the company said in a series of tweets.\n\nIt added that \"significant steps\" had been taken to limit access to such internal systems and tools while the company's investigation continues.\n\nThe tech firm has also blocked users from being able to tweet Bitcoin wallet addresses for the time being.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre said its officers had \"reached out\" to the tech firm. \"We would urge people to treat requests for money or sensitive information on social media with extreme caution,\" it said in a statement.\n\nUS politicians also have questions. Republican Senator Josh Hawley has written to the company asking if President Trump's account had been vulnerable.\n\nPresident Trump's account was not compromised, the White House said.\n\nThe chair of the Senate Commerce committee has also been in contact with Twitter.\n\n\"It cannot be overstated how troubling this incident is, both in its effects and in the apparent failure of Twitter's internal controls to prevent it,\" Senator Roger Wicker wrote to the firm.\n\nOne cyber-security expert said that the breach could have been a lot worse in other circumstances.\n\n\"If you were to have this kind of incident take place in the middle of a crisis, where Twitter was being used to either communicate de-escalatory language or critical information to the public, and suddenly it's putting out the wrong messages from several verified status accounts - that could be seriously destabilising,\" Dr Alexi Drew from King's College London told the BBC.\n\nTwitter earlier had to take the extraordinary step of stopping many verified accounts marked with blue ticks from tweeting altogether.\n\nPassword reset requests were also being denied and some other \"account functions\" disabled.\n\nBy 20:30 EDT (00:30 GMT Thursday) users with verified account started to be able to send tweets again, but Twitter said it was still working on a fix.\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\nDmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded cyber-security company CrowdStrike, told Reuters news agency: \"This appears to be the worst hack of a major social media platform yet.\"\n\nOn the official account of Mr Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chief appeared to offer to double any Bitcoin payment sent to the address of his digital wallet \"for the next 30 minutes\".\n\n\"I'm feeling generous because of Covid-19,\" the tweet added, along with a Bitcoin link address.\n\nThe tweets were deleted just minutes after they were first posted.\n\nBut as the first such tweet from Mr Musk's account was removed, another one appeared, then a third.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe campaign of Joe Biden, who is the current Democratic presidential candidate, said Twitter had \"locked down the account within a few minutes of the breach and removed the related tweet\".\n\nThe BBC can report from a security source that a web address - cryptoforhealth.com - to which some hacked tweets directed users was registered by a cyber-attacker using the email address mkeyworth5@gmail.com.\n\nThe name \"Anthony Elias\" was used to register the website, but may be a pseudonym - it appears to be a play on \"an alias\".\n\nCryptoforhealth is also a registered user name on Instagram, apparently set up contemporaneously to the hack.\n\nThe description of the profile read \"It was us\", alongside a slightly smiling face emoticon.\n\nThe Instagram profile also posted a message that said: \"It was a charity attack. Your money will find its way to the right place.\"\n\nIn any case, the real identities of the perpetrators are as yet unknown.\n\nCameron Winklevoss, who was declared the world's first Bitcoin billionaire in 2017 along with his twin brother Tyler, tweeted a message on Wednesday warning people not to participate in the \"scam\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Cameron Winklevoss This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the short time it was online, the link displayed in the tweets of targeted accounts received hundreds of contributions totalling more than $100,000 (£80,000), according to publicly available blockchain records.\n\nThe Twitter accounts targeted have millions of followers.\n\nApple's official account has more than four million followers, while Amazon's chief has 1.5 million\n\nLast year, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey's account was hacked, but the company said it had fixed the flaw that left his account vulnerable.\n\nDr Drew recently co-authored a paper warning about the potential of Twitter being used to sow disinformation.\n\nShe said the latest incident highlighted the need for all major social media platforms to check their security measures, particularly in the run up to the US presidential vote in November.\n\n\"Social media companies such as Twitter and, Facebook all have a duty to consider the damage and influence their platforms can have on the 2020 election, and I think some companies are taking that more seriously than others,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Twitter actually has a good history of being forward-thinking and proactive in this space. But whatever the source of this attack [it seems they have] still not done enough.\"", "Charlie Elphicke is charged with three counts of sexual assault\n\nA former MP accused of sexually assaulting a woman agreed to pay her £5,000 to prevent his wife from finding out, a court heard.\n\nCharlie Elphicke, 49, said the complainant demanded to be paid \"compensation\" after he made advances towards her at his London home in 2007.\n\nMr Elphicke said he believed the woman had \"wanted to take matters further\" after they shared a bottle of wine.\n\nAt Southwark Crown Court he denies three counts of sexual assault.\n\nMr Elphicke and the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, drank together while Mrs Elphicke was away on business.\n\nThe former Conservative MP said he had been \"under a misapprehension\" in making advances towards her.\n\nThe woman, in her early-30s at the time, alleged Mr Elphicke tried to kiss her, groped her breast, then chased her around his home while trying to grab her buttocks.\n\nExcerpts from Mr Elphicke's interview with police in March 2018 were played in front of a jury.\n\nIn them he said the woman asked him not to tell his wife about the 2007 incident and to pay her £5,000.\n\nHe said: \"I got it [the £5,000] in smaller amounts - £500, £1,000 - because she was insistent Natalie shouldn't know.\"\n\nAsked if he had ever told his wife about the payments, Mr Elphicke told police: \"No.\"\n\nHe also described how the first alleged incident happened and said that he stopped immediately when the woman told him to.\n\nHe said: \"The atmosphere was very warm and convivial and I believed she wanted to take matters further.\n\n\"I leaned over and kissed her.\n\n\"At first she responded positively, then it became clear it was not what she wanted.\"\n\nHe said: \"I was incredibly apologetic. I believed this was what she wanted.\n\n\"She said she accepted my explanation, my apology, and that I had been under a misapprehension.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "During a memorial service to victims of Covid-19, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said each person who had fallen victim to the virus should be remembered as \"a person and not just a statistic\".\n\nHe paid particular tribute to healthcare staff and other key workers \"still serving people at the height of the pandemic\".\n\n\"We have all seen the world through new eyes during this time, and we can all pray together today and use the insights we've gained from this time to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"Where we value each other more, and think more about what we can give, rather than what we can take.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is of course all for tomorrow. For today, Greater Manchester remembers, gives thanks for the lives we have lost, and pledges to build on the foundations they have left.\"", "Spain has reported 580 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the biggest daily increase in cases nationwide for more than two months.\n\nMost of the new cases detected on Wednesday were in the northern regions of Aragon and Catalonia, where outbreaks have led to the localised renewal of lockdown restrictions.\n\nIn the Lleida area of Catalonia, some 160,000 people have been ordered to quarantine at home as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nThe government of Aragon, meanwhile, said it would limit travel in and out of Zaragoza, the capital of the region.\n\nThe resurgence of cases in Catalonia and Aragon has raised fears of a second spike in infections in Spain, which has already been ravaged by the pandemic. More than 250,000 infections and 28,000 deaths have been recorded in total.\n\nFernando Simón, director of Spain’s Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, said the increase in infections was “worrying”.\n\nHe attributed the rise, in part, to the relaxation of social distancing restrictions.\n\nTourists have been returning to Spain since the nationwide lockdown was lifted Image caption: Tourists have been returning to Spain since the nationwide lockdown was lifted", "There are a lot of unanswered questions about the Twitter hack on Wednesday night - but one thing most agree on is it could have been far worse.\n\nPotentially thousands of people were scammed out of money after hijacked accounts of prominent verified users promised to double the money fans sent them in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.\n\nUsing Twitter's internal systems, the cyber-criminals' messages had a reach of at least 350 million people.\n\nAnd it looks like it made them about $110,000 (£86,800) in the few hours that the scam was active.\n\nIt was an unprecedented attack on privacy, trust and security.\n\nBut experts say the hackers could have caused far more damage.\n\nAs the boss of a smaller messaging service put it: \"Thank God for greed.\"\n\nTwitter has huge engagement in the US, Japan, Russia and the UK.\n\nIt is the platform of choice for some of the most powerful and prominent people in the world.\n\nTheir posts have moved financial markets and caused diplomatic incidents.\n\nWith the US presidential election less than four months away, there are now valid questions to be asked about whether Twitter can be relied upon in the lead up to the vote.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's account was not taken over in the hack.\n\nBut many were watching to see if it would fall after his Democrat rival Joe Biden's account tweeted out the scam.\n\nPresidential hopefuls Mike Bloomberg, who had sought the Democratic nomination, and Kanye West, who has said he will run as an independent, were among those hacked\n\n\"We already know Russia is planning to meddle in the 2020 election just as they did in the 2016 election,\" Dr Heather Williams, from King's College London, said.\n\n\"Social-media manipulation is one of their favourite tools.\n\n\"So this hack shows just how vulnerable social-media platforms are and how vulnerable Americans are to disinformation.\n\n\"If something bigger was at stake, such as the presidency, this could have really disastrous consequences and undermine our democratic processes.\"\n\nThe security implications of the hack are also wide-reaching, not just for Twitter but for all social networks\n\nEarly suggestions are the hackers managed to access administration privileges, which allowed them to bypass the passwords of any account they wanted.\n\nTwitter appeared to confirm this in a tweet saying: \"We detected what we believe to be a co-ordinated social-engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.\"\n\nCelebrities including US boxer Floyd Mayweather and the singer Wiz Khalifa also lost control of their accounts\n\n\"Social-engineering\" could mean one of several things.\n\nIt might imply a targeted phishing operation - a common tactic employed by cyber-criminals, who find out which individuals have the keys to a system they want to enter and then target them with personal emails that trick them into handing over details.\n\nOr it might mean the perpetrators managed to convince one or several staff members to go rogue, by offering a financial inducement or other means.\n\nThe technology company is going to face huge pressure to be more specific.\n\n\"Twitter's reputation is the cost of this cyber-attack,\" World Economic Forum cyber lead William Dixon said.\n\n\"This is a major security breach for Twitter.\n\n\"The worst in its history.\n\n\"More cyber-resilience is needed across the ecosystem to be able to protect social media users around the world.\"\n\nTwitter is not answering reporters' questions directly but said it had taken \"significant steps to limit access to internal systems\" while it investigated.\n\nThe company also said it was \"looking into what other malicious activity [the hackers] may have conducted or information they may have accessed\".\n\nThe chief executive of the messaging service Element has raised the possibility confidential data was also exposed.\n\n\"It's highly likely private direct messages were accessible for a short time,\" Matthew Hodgson said.\n\n\"Next time, harvesting sensitive information could fuel a wave of extortion or something much worse.\"\n\nTechnology companies Apple and Uber have more than 5.5 million Twitter followers between them\n\nThe idea Twitter has the ability to take over people's accounts no matter what security they have may shock some.\n\nBut experts say it is a necessary part of any membership-based service.\n\nFacebook, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube have been approached for comment on their security arrangements.\n\nBut Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos told BBC News all consumer-facing companies needed a way to be able to help consumers recover hacked or otherwise locked-out accounts.\n\n\"The change that can be made here is that Twitter can restrict this ability for high-risk accounts to a much smaller number of users or create tools that require one person to initiate and another to approve the change,\" he said.\n\n\"This is, apparently, what they have already done for President Trump's account, following an incident in 2017.\n\n\"They will need to vastly expand these protections.\"\n\nBeyond a potential loss of trust, Twitter may now face legal consequences too.\n\nThe EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) says organisations such as Twitter have to show \"appropriate\" levels of security.\n\nAnd if data-protection officers judge Twitter failed to take adequate measures to protect European users, it could be fined.\n\nEarlier this year, the company's chief executive, Jack Dorsey, lost control of his account for 20 minutes.\n\nAnd in 2010, Twitter settled with the Federal Trade Commission after it was alleged hackers had obtained unauthorised administrative control, including the ability to send out phony tweets from then-President-elect Barack Obama and Fox News.", "Dr Fauci: \"It's only reflecting negatively on them\"\n\nUS infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has described recent efforts by the Trump administration to discredit him as \"bizarre\" and \"nonsense\".\n\n\"Ultimately, it hurts the president to do that,\" Dr Fauci said in an interview with The Atlantic. \"It doesn't do anything but reflect poorly on them.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a White House official shared a list detailing past apparent erroneous comments by Dr Fauci.\n\nBut on Wednesday Mr Trump insisted he had a \"good relationship\" with him.\n\n\"We're all in the same team including Dr Fauci,\" he said. \"We want to get rid of this mess that China sent us, so everybody's working on the same line and we're doing very well.\"\n\nThe White House statement attacking Dr Fauci criticised him for what it said was conflicting advice on face coverings and remarks on Covid-19's severity.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Dr Fauci told The Atlantic that targeting him was \"completely wrong\".\n\n\"I cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"I think they realise now that that was not a prudent thing to do, because it's only reflecting negatively on them,\" he added.\n\nThe top government expert on infectious diseases took the high road in his first public comments after White House officials, both on and off the record, questioned his professional judgement and handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDr Fauci acknowledges that the advice and analysis he has provided has shifted over time, but he insists his recommendations have always been based on the latest science.\n\nThose views have sometimes led to clashes with the president, who has attempted to shift focus to rebuilding a US economy that has been devastated by the pandemic. Dr Fauci has said that the top priority must be controlling the spread of the virus and recent reopening steps have set those efforts back.\n\nSuch blunt talk has helped make Dr Fauci a popular figure during the pandemic, and that alone may be behind some of the resentment that is simmering within the White House.\n\nThe swipes at Dr Fauci, however, seem destined to be counter-productive. With a general election just a few months away the Trump campaign needs a consistent public message - and an administration attacking one of its own, then distancing itself from those attacks, may only promote a message of chaos and confusion.\n\nDr Fauci was also criticised by Peter Navarro, Mr Trump's top trade adviser, in an opinion piece for USA Today in which he said the disease expert had been \"wrong about everything I have interacted with him on\".\n\nHowever, the White House distanced itself from Mr Navarro's remarks, with communications chief Alyssa Farah tweeting that the article \"didn't go through normal White House clearance processes\" and was \"the opinion of Peter alone\".\n\nAsked about Mr Navarro's piece as he departed the White House for Atlanta, Mr Trump said he should not have written it.\n\n\"Well he made a statement representing himself. He shouldn't be doing that,\" he said.\n\nIn his interview with The Atlantic, Dr Fauci said he was not thinking of resigning over the attacks on him.\n\n\"I think the problem is too important for me to get into those kinds of thoughts and discussions. I just want to do my job. I'm really good at it. I think I can contribute. And I'm going to keep doing it,\" he said.\n\nHe has also told Reuters that he believes the US will successfully develop a vaccine against the coronavirus by the end of the year.\n\nIt follows early stage results from a vaccine developed by the firm Moderna, which Dr Fauci said were promising because the vaccine appeared to offer the type of protection seen in a natural infection.\n\nDr Fauci's comments come after reports that as of 15 July, US hospitals will have to report Covid-19 patient data to the federal health agency in Washington instead of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).\n\nThe CDC, the US's top public health institute, has until now been responsible for handling data about the pandemic from its hospital network.\n\nHealth experts have expressed concerns that data will be politicised, become less transparent and possibly affect the work of researchers and modellers.\n\nThe US has reported more than 3.4 million cases of coronavirus, and more than 136,000 deaths nationwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "Tilbrook played Betty, one of the soap's most popular characters\n\nEmmerdale actress Paula Tilbrook, who played Betty Eagleton in the soap for 21 years, has died at the age of 89.\n\nTilbrook joined the ITV soap as the gossip Betty in 1994 and left in 2015, returning for a brief cameo in the Christmas episode that year.\n\n\"The family of Paula Tilbrook are sad to confirm the peaceful passing of their beloved Paula,\" a statement said.\n\nThe show's producers described her as \"a great talent and a wonderful friend\".\n\nTilbrook died in December, but the news was only made public on The Stage website on Wednesday.\n\nThe family statement said: \"She died of natural causes a few months ago at home with her loved ones beside her.\"\n\nAs Betty, Paula Tilbrook loved a gossip over a glass of sherry\n\nBetty was one of the soap's most popular characters with fans, who revelled in her gossiping, sherry drinking and on-screen relationship with Seth, played by Stan Richards from 1978 until 2004.\n\nA spokeswoman for the show said: \"We are saddened to hear of the passing of our much loved colleague, Paula Tilbrook.\n\n\"Paula was at the heart of Emmerdale for many years and she will be greatly missed by all who worked with her and by the fans of her character, Betty.\n\n\"We have lost a great talent and a wonderful friend but she will forever live in the memories of those lucky enough to have known her.\"\n\nBetty's last scenes on the soap saw her revealing to her fellow Yorkshire villagers her plans to move to Australia after finding love.\n\nTilbrook told Digital Spy at the time: \"I did ask our producer, bless her, not to have me murdered because I was fed up of murders. It's a very, very dangerous place to be - you're better in the Bronx than in Emmerdale village!\n\n\"She said, 'Oh no, of course I won't', and she hasn't. It's a proper ending and it's a happy one. Who doesn't like a happy ending?\"\n\nAs well as starring in Emmerdale, Tilbrook also played several minor characters in Coronation Street, including Estelle Plimpton in 1977, Olive Taylor-Brown in 1978 and 1980, and Vivian Barford between 1991 and 93.\n\nTilbrook's other soap role was as another character named Betty - this time Betty Hughes - in Channel 4's Brookside between 1984 and 85.\n\nThe Salford-born actress enjoyed a wide-ranging career across TV, film, theatre and radio. In 1979, she appeared in the thriller/horror series Tales of the Unexpected, while her film credits included Yanks and Alan Bennett's A Private Function.\n\nShe appeared as dog-lover Mrs Tattersall in Open All Hours and played three roles in Last of the Summer Wine. Her other credits included Crown Court and the BBC's Play for Today.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Children and adults have been spending much more time online\n\nReports of child abuse images online increased by almost 50% during lockdown, according to the Internet Watch Foundation.\n\nIn the 11 weeks from 23 March, its hotline logged 44,809 reports of images compared with 29,698 last year.\n\nThe increase follows months in which both adults and children, many of whom who are working at home, have spent significantly more time online.\n\nThe government has promised to draw up legislation to reduce online harms.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which is supported by most social media and tech companies, works to remove child abuse material.\n\nChief executive Susie Hargreaves said the hugely increased number of people staying at home had led to increased police estimates of offenders online.\n\n\"When you match that with children being online for so much longer during the day, stuck at home, we suddenly have got the conditions for more child sexual abuse images to be generated,\" she said.\n\nThe fastest growing category of images being removed by the IWF in recent years has been those generated by children after grooming or coercion.\n\nThe figures from the IWF are likely to renew the debate about how to keep children safe online, after months of parents grappling to limit the time their children spend online\n\nKelly Anderson has been working to moderate her children's online time\n\nMother of three young children, Kelly Anderson, who started volunteering for the anti-bullying charity, Kidscape, a few months ago in south Wales, says own family have had to work harder at finding a balance with screen time and other activities.\n\nHer children have been spending more time online in recent months, to access school work as well as to keep in contact with family and friends.\n\n\"It's important for us they still have the opportunity to be children, to go outside and use their bikes, and play with their toys,\" she said.\n\nKelly says that as parents they put boundaries around recreational screen time, allowing it after school work, helping with chores and having family time.\n\nShe also uses a parenting app to track the content her children are viewing online each day.\n\nIt allowed her to see when her seven-year-old son accessed video taken from a game that was rated for 18-year-olds.\n\n\"Straight away I was able to ask him why he was looking at it. He said his friends had told him it was really good.\n\n\"It opened up age-appropriate conversations about why it was rated 18, and what sanctions there would be if he looked at it again. \"\n\nThe government has promised to bring forward draft legislation against online harms, but there has been growing concern that it will be delayed by the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How can children stay safe online? Three young people shared their advice\n\nAndy Burrows, head of child safety online at the NSPCC, warned: \"Lockdown has resulted in a perfect storm for online child abuse.\n\n\"Harm could have been lessened, if social networks had done a better job of investing in technology, investing in safer design features heading into this crisis. \"\n\nNSPCC believes they have not done this because they have not been legally required to do so be a regulator.\n\nHowever, there is no data as yet showing an increased incidence of harm to children online during lockdown.\n\nIt is not clear, for example, whether images being reported were taken or shared before lockdown, began or during the period in question.\n\n\"The fear is we don't really know the full extent of the impact of this crisis until children start to go back to school in September and disclose to teachers\" said Mr Burrows.\n\nDr Victoria Baines is a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford, who previously worked as an analyst at the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.\n\nShe believes using existing legislation against criminal activity may be more effective.\n\nShe warns increased concern about risks to children online, and reports of images to hotlines, need to be treated with caution and are not the same as children actually being the victims of such crimes.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Online, we have seen some indications that people with a sexual interest in children are talking about the opportunities in lockdown.\"\n\nThe National Crime Agency said its intelligence suggested increased offending.\n\n\"We believe the full scale will only be revealed once children return to schools and have more access to trusted adults,\" a spokesman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's inflation rate rose to 0.6% in June as the coronavirus lockdown began to ease.\n\nThe Consumer Prices Index (CPI) picked up slightly from May's four-year low of 0.5%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nFood and alcohol prices fell, but prices for clothing and games rose, the ONS said.\n\nDespite the slight increase in the rate, inflation remains below the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nJonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS, said: \"The inflation rate has increased for the first time this year, but remains low by historical standards.\n\n\"Due to the impact of the coronavirus, clothing prices have not followed the usual seasonal pattern this year, with the normal falls due to the start of the summer sales failing to materialise.\n\n\"Prices for computer games and consoles have risen, but food prices, particularly vegetables, have fallen.\"\n\nInflation has fallen sharply during the coronavirus crisis as consumer demand has slumped.\n\nIn June, men's clothing in particular rose in price, with increases coming \"across almost the full range\", the ONS said.\n\nWomen's clothing showed \"a more mixed picture across the different products\", but with the overall effect still upward.\n\nGames, toys and hobbies, particularly computer games and computer games consoles, made the biggest contribution to the inflation rise, the ONS said.\n\n\"It is possible that prices have been influenced by the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown changing the timing of demand and the availability of some items, particularly consoles,\" the ONS added.\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\nSince many areas of the economy were completely shut down in June, the ONS said it had to estimate or \"impute\" some of the data.\n\nJeremy Thomson-Cook, chief economist at financial services firm Equals, said the slight increase in the inflation rate was \"a positive sign\", but added that the outlook remained \"messy\".\n\n\"Food prices are falling from lockdown levels, clothing demand is out of kilter with typical seasonal patterns, demand for entertainment during lockdown provided a pronounced bump in prices, and the ONS has only been able to log 84% of the normal price quotes due to unavailability,\" he said.\n\n\"For now, however, inflation remains low, and both consumers and the Bank of England will be happy with that.\"\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said the small rise in inflation was unlikely to be sustained and that deflation was \"around the corner\".\n\n\"In fact, by July or August, CPI inflation may have fallen below zero,\" he said.\n\nDiscounting from retailers and the impact of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's \"eat out to help out\" scheme would push inflation down, he said.\n\nMr Dales said any bout of deflation would last just a few months, but added: \"It will be a few years before the economy is strong enough to raise inflation to the 2% target.\"", "The arrow points to a \"camp fire\". The circle at bottom-left gives an indication of size\n\nNew pictures of the Sun taken just 77 million km (48 million miles) from its surface are the closest ever acquired by cameras.\n\nThey come from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe, which was launched earlier this year.\n\nAmong the UK-assembled craft's novel insights are views of mini-flares dubbed \"camp fires\".\n\nThese are millionths of the size of the Sun's giant flares that are routinely observed by Earth telescopes.\n\nWhether these miniature versions are driven by the same mechanisms, though, is unclear. But these small flares could be involved in the mysterious heating process that makes the star's outer atmosphere, or corona, far hotter than its surface.\n\n\"The Sun has a relatively cool surface of about 5,500 degrees and is surrounded by a super-hot atmosphere of more than a million degrees,\" explained Esa project scientist Daniel Müller.\n\n\"There's a theory put forward by the great US physicist Eugene Parker, who conjectured that if you should have a vast number of tiny flares this might account for an omnipresent heating mechanism that could make the corona hot.\"\n\nWhatever their role, the camp fires are certainly small - which may explain why they've been missed up to this point, says David Berghmans, from the Royal Observatory of Belgium and the principal investigator on the probe's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI).\n\n\"The smallest ones are a couple of our pixels. A pixel corresponds to 400km - that's the spatial resolution. So they're about the size of some European countries,\" he told reporters. \"There may be smaller ones.\"\n\nThe Metis instrument is a coronagraph. It blocks out the dazzling light from the solar surface, allowing the fainter outer atmosphere of the Sun to be seen. Different frequencies show different features\n\nThe European Space Agency (Esa) satellite was despatched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the US in February. Its mission is to reveal the secrets of our star's dynamic behaviour.\n\nThe Sun's emissions have profound impacts at Earth that go far beyond just providing light and warmth.\n\nOften, they are disruptive; outbursts of charged particles with their entrained magnetic fields will trip electronics on satellites and degrade radio communications.\n\nSolO could help scientists better predict this interference.\n\n\"The recent situation with coronavirus has proved how important it is to stay connected, and satellites are part of that connectivity,\" said Caroline Harper, the head of space science at the UK Space Agency. \"So, it really is important that we learn more about the Sun so that we can predict its weather, its space weather, in the same ways we've learned how to do (with weather) here on Earth.\"\n\nSolar Orbiter's suite of instruments will allow it to untangle the details of what drives the Sun's dynamic behaviour. Sensors can pick out the different layers of the star's atmosphere and track its twisting magnetic fields\n\nSolar Orbiter has been set on a series of loops around the Sun that will gradually take it closer still - ultimately to a separation of less than 43 million km.\n\nThat will put SolO inside the orbit of the planet Mercury.\n\nThe pictures showcased on Thursday come from the most recent near pass, known as perihelion. This occurred in mid-June, inside the orbit of Venus.\n\nFor comparison, Earth sits about 149 million km (93 million miles) on average from the Sun.\n\nAt a particular wavelength of light known as Lyman-alpha, the EUI will pick out the hydrogen in the Sun's lower atmosphere (chromosphere). Temperatures in this region are 10,000 to 100,000 degrees\n\nTo be clear: while the new images have been taken from the closest ever vantage point, they are not the highest resolution ever acquired. The largest solar telescopes on Earth will always beat SolO on that measure.\n\nBut the probe's holistic approach, using the combination of six remote sensing instruments and four in-situ instruments, puts it on a different level.\n\nEsa's senior advisor for science & exploration, Mark McCaughrean, told BBC News: \"Solar Orbiter isn't going closer to the Sun just to get higher-resolution images: it's going closer to get into a different, less turbulent part of the solar wind, studying the particles and magnetic field in situ at that closer distance, while simultaneously taking remote data on the surface of the Sun and immediately around it for context. No other mission or telescope can do that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Solar Orbiter trying to do?\n\nIt will be a couple of years yet before Solar Orbiter makes the first of its very close encounters with the Sun (at a distance of 48 million km).\n\nAs the mission progresses, SolO will, with the gravitational assistance of Venus, also lift itself out of the plane of the planets so that it can more easily see the Sun's poles. \"Terra incognita\", as Sami Solanki, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and PI on Solo's Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager, likes to call these regions.\n\nIt's at the poles where we may finally learn the fundamentals of the Sun's magnetism.\n\n\"We know that the magnetic field is responsible for all the activity that the Sun produces, but we don't know how the magnetic field itself is produced,\" Solanki said.\n\n\"We think it's a dynamo that is doing that inside the Sun, similar to the dynamo inside the Earth. But we really don't know how it functions. But we do know that the poles play a key role.\"\n\nHolly Gilbert, the Solar Orbiter project scientist at the US space agency, Esa's major partner on the mission, enthused about the science ahead.\n\n\"If we've already made some discoveries with just the 'first light' images, just imagine what we're going to find when we get closer to the Sun, and when we get out of the ecliptic. Very exciting.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Kim Kardashian West, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Barack Obama were all 'hacked'\n\nBillionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam.\n\nThe official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West also requested donations in the cryptocurrency.\n\n\"Everyone is asking me to give back,\" a tweet from Mr Gates' account said. \"You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.\"\n\nThe US Senate Commerce committee has demanded Twitter brief it about the incident next week.\n\nTwitter said it was a \"co-ordinated\" attack targeting its employees \"with access to internal systems and tools\".\n\n\"We know they [the hackers] used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf,\" the company said in a series of tweets.\n\nIt added that \"significant steps\" had been taken to limit access to such internal systems and tools while the company's investigation was ongoing.\n\nThe firm has also blocked users from being able to tweet Bitcoin wallet addresses for the time being.\n\nMeanwhile, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted: \"Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.\"\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre said its officers had \"reached out\" to the tech firm.\n\n\"While this appears to be an attack on the company rather than individual users, we would urge people to treat requests for money or sensitive information on social media with extreme caution,\" it added in a statement.\n\nUS politicians also have questions. Republican Senator Josh Hawley has written to the company asking if President Trump's account had been vulnerable.\n\nPresident Trump's account was not compromised, the White House said. \"The president will remain on Twitter. His account was secure and not jeopardised during these attacks,\" a statement said.\n\nThe chair of the Senate Commerce committee has also been in contact with Twitter.\n\n\"It cannot be overstated how troubling this incident is, both in its effects and in the apparent failure of Twitter's internal controls to prevent it,\" Senator Roger Wicker wrote to the firm.\n\nHe added that the company must brief the committee's staff about the hack no later than Thursday 23 July.\n\nOne cyber-security expert said that the breach could have been a lot worse in other circumstances.\n\n\"If you were to have this kind of incident take place in the middle of a crisis, where Twitter was being used to either communicate de-escalatory language or critical information to the public, and suddenly it's putting out the wrong messages from several verified status accounts - that could be seriously destabilising,\" Dr Alexi Drew from King's College London told the BBC.\n\nTwitter earlier had to take the extraordinary step of stopping many verified accounts marked with blue ticks from tweeting altogether.\n\nPassword reset requests were also being denied and some other \"account functions\" disabled.\n\nBy 20:30 EDT (00:30 GMT Thursday) users with verified account started to be able to send tweets again, but Twitter said it was still working on a fix.\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\nDmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded cyber-security company CrowdStrike, told Reuters news agency: \"This appears to be the worst hack of a major social media platform yet.\"\n\nOn the official account of Mr Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chief appeared to offer to double any Bitcoin payment sent to the address of his digital wallet \"for the next 30 minutes\".\n\n\"I'm feeling generous because of Covid-19,\" the tweet added, along with a Bitcoin link address.\n\nThe tweets were deleted just minutes after they were first posted.\n\nBut as the first such tweet from Musk's account was removed, another one appeared, then a third.\n\nThe Biden campaign said Twitter had \"locked down the account within a few minutes of the breach and removed the related tweet\".\n\nA spokesman for Bill Gates told AP news agency: \"This appears to be part of a larger issue that Twitter is facing.\"\n\nThe BBC can report from a security source that a web address - cryptoforhealth.com - to which some hacked tweets directed users was registered by a cyber-attacker using the email address mkeyworth5@gmail.com.\n\nThe name \"Anthony Elias\" was used to register the website, but may be a pseudonym - it appears to be a play on \"an alias\".\n\nCryptoforhealth is also a registered user name on Instagram, apparently set up contemporaneously to the hack.\n\nThe description of the profile read \"It was us\", alongside a slightly smiling face emoticon.\n\nThe Instagram profile also posted a message that said: \"It was a charity attack. Your money will find its way to the right place.\"\n\nIn any case, the real identities of the perpetrators are as yet unknown.\n\nThese \"double your Bitcoin\" scams have been a persistent pest on Twitter for years but this is unprecedented with the actual accounts of public figures hijacked and on a large scale.\n\nThe fact that so many different users have been compromised at the same time implies that this is a problem with Twitter's platform itself.\n\nEarly suggestions are that someone has managed to get hold of some sort of administration privileges and bypassed the passwords of pretty much any account they want.\n\nWith so much power at their fingertips the attackers could have done a lot more damage with more sophisticated tweets that could have harmed an individual or organisation's reputation.\n\nBut the motive seems to be clear - make as much money as quickly as they can. The hackers would have known that the tweets wouldn't stay up for long so this was the equivalent of a \"smash and grab\" operation.\n\nThere are conflicting accounts of how much money the hackers have made and even when a figure is settled upon, it's important to remember that cyber-criminals are known to add their own funds into their Bitcoin wallets to make the scam seem more legitimate.\n\nEither way, it's going to be very hard to catch the criminals by following the money. Law enforcement, as well as many angry users, will have some strong questions for Twitter about how this could have happened.\n\nCameron Winklevoss, who was declared the world's first Bitcoin billionaire in 2017 along with his twin brother Tyler, tweeted a message on Wednesday warning people not to participate in the \"scam\".\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 the short time it was online, the link displayed in the tweets of targeted accounts received hundreds of contributions totalling more than $100,000 (£80,000), according to publicly available blockchain records.\n\nThe Twitter accounts targeted have millions of followers.\n\nApple's official account has more than four million followers, while Amazon's chief has 1.5 million\n\nLast year, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey's account was hacked, but the company said it had fixed the flaw that left his account vulnerable.\n\nDr Drew recently co-authored a paper warning about the potential of Twitter being used to sow disinformation.\n\nShe said the latest incident highlighted the need for all major social media platforms to check their security measures, particularly in the run up to the US Presidential vote.\n\n\"Social media companies such as Twitter and, Facebook all have a duty to consider the damage and influence their platforms can have on the 2020 election, and I think some companies are taking that more seriously than others,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Twitter actually has a good history of being forward-thinking and proactive in this space.\n\n\"But whatever the source of this attack [it seems they have] still not done enough.\"\n\nThe FBI's San Francisco field office put out a statement on Wednesday about the latest cyber-breach.\n\n\"The accounts appear to have been compromised in order to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud,\" it said.\n\n\"We advise the public not to fall victim to this scam by sending cryptocurrency or money in relation to this incident.\"", "Police spoke to Ingrid Antoine-Onikoyi and her husband Falil in June\n\nA complaint against police officers who accused a black woman of \"jumping on the bandwagon\" is to be probed by a watchdog.\n\nTwo officers asked Ingrid Antoine-Onikoyi and her husband Falil for their details after they parked cars in Ipswich, saying \"because we can\".\n\nSuffolk Police said it had referred the complaint to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe couple, who are from Watford, were confronted by police outside a relative's house in Ipswich. The incident was filmed on Mrs Antoine-Onikoyi's phone and the footage has been viewed on Twitter more than two million times after it was shared by their daughter.\n\nMs Antoine said in her tweet: \"It's suspicious to walk from your car to your house, while black. The UK is not innocent.\"\n\nThis 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\nSpeaking to the BBC after receiving news of the IOPC investigation, Ms Antoine said: \"I am pleased, as long as it is properly investigated. What we need is a proper apology.\"\n\nAfter the incident Suffolk Police said it was due to give a formal apology to the couple.\n\nWhen the BBC submitted a Freedom of Information request to discover what action had been taken the police said: \"The Joint Norfolk and Suffolk Professional Standards Department have recorded a complaint and referred the matter to the IOPC who are conducting an investigation.\"\n\nMaja Antoine said she was pleased the IOPC was investigating the incident\n\nA Suffolk Police spokesman said the case was \"voluntarily referred to the IOPC\" which would \"conduct an independent investigation into the complaint and therefore it would not be appropriate for the force to comment further at this time\".\n\nThe IOPC confirmed it had started an investigation.\n\nThe couple had just parked their cars on a residential street when a police car \"blocked them in\".\n\nMrs Antoine-Onikoyi said: \"They started questioning my husband, asking who he was, were our cars ours, and asking to see his driving licence.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online retailer Boohoo has been criticised by MPs who say it has failed to address claims of exploitation at factories in Leicester.\n\nPhilip Dunne MP said he found it \"incredible\" Boohoo was surprised by allegations of poor working conditions.\n\nBoohoo had said it was \"shocked and appalled\" by reports that workers had been paid as little as £3.50 per hour.\n\nBut Mr Dunne suggested the firm was already aware of the issues. Boohoo said it would respond \"in due course\".\n\nThe firm's co-founder, and then-chief executive, Carol Kane appeared in front of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) of MPs in 2018 over links Boohoo \"may have to illegally low pay in Leicester garment factories\".\n\n\"It is incredible that over a year since the committee highlighted illegal working practices in its supply chain, Boohoo has publicly denied any knowledge of what has been happening for years,\" Mr Dunne, who is chair of the EAC, wrote in a letter to the company.\n\n\"It is shameful that it took a pandemic and the ensuing outrage about working practices in their supply chain for Boohoo finally to be taken to task for turning a blind eye,\" he said.\n\nLast week, Boohoo - which also owns the Pretty Little Thing brand - faced a backlash after a report claimed workers at a Leicester factory that supplied clothes to Boohoo were paid just £3.50 an hour, while being offered no protection from coronavirus.\n\nThe national minimum wage for people over 25 years-old is £8.72 an hour.\n\nBoohoo also owns PrettyLittleThing, which has collaborated with celebrities like Little Mix\n\nThe fashion firm ordered an independent review of its UK supply chain as a result, which will by led by Alison Levitt QC, a barrister specialising in business crime and financial services.\n\nThe committee also asked what measures the online retailer had taken to protect the workers that make its clothes during the pandemic, and whether it would allow the establishment of formal trade unions.\n\nThe letter cited claims by Usdaw that workers had been told \"not to speak with trade union representatives\".\n\nOther fashion stores have distanced themselves from Boohoo over the recent reports.\n\nNext, Asos and Zalando all announced that they had stopped selling Boohoo clothes on their websites in July.\n\nThe retailers said they were pausing relationships with Boohoo's brands, pending the outcome of the company's investigation.\n\nBoohoo's share price has plunged over the past month. It currently stands at 210p, after hovering around the 410p mark for most of June.", "The Welsh and UK governments have clashed in a new row over how trade rules will operate post-Brexit.\n\nUK government plans ask all four nations to accept rules and standards set by each other to ensure trade remains seamless across the UK.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had not seen the plans and any system forced on Wales would be \"deeply damaging\".\n\nUK Business Secretary Alok Sharma said the plans continued \"hundreds of years\" of a \"seamless internal UK market\".\n\nThe Welsh Government negotiated an agreement with the UK government in 2018 that means powers in areas such as food labelling, support for farmers and energy efficiency - currently regulated at EU level - will return to Cardiff.\n\nThe UK government has however said that devolved administrations will have to recognise the rules of all four nations, so as not to harm trade within the UK.\n\nIn a policy paper, it says this will ensure a level playing field for all firms regardless of which UK nation they are in, to ensure a UK-wide \"internal market\".\n\nMr Sharma told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"What we are proposing today in the white paper is a continuation of what's happened over hundreds of years which is a seamless UK internal market.\"\n\nHe said the devolved administrations \"have known the direction of travel\" and the UK government would be \"engaging with colleagues extensively across all the devolved administrations and getting their views.\"\n\nHe added: \"The UK has some of the highest standards when it comes to the environment, animal welfare, food safety, and that is not going to change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said while it supported the principle of seamless trade any rules must be agreed by the devolved nations.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Any new system must have independent oversight and dispute resolution.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the UK government has not managed to share the paper with us, and Welsh ministers have had no recent discussions with the UK government on these issues.\n\n\"Any attempt to unilaterally impose a system will be deeply damaging.\"\n\nBut Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said Wales was a \"vital part\" of the UK's single marketplace and 75% of Welsh goods were consumed in the rest of the UK.\n\n\"Securing this internal market will ensure this trade remains seamless, safeguarding thousands of Welsh jobs,\" he said.\n\n\"It is vital for our shared prosperity and our ability to bounce back from the pandemic that people, products, ideas and investment continue to flow unhindered throughout the UK.\"\n\nDuring a Commons statement on the legislation, Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams called it a \"power-grab\" transferring \"vast powers over devolved areas to Tory ministers\".\n\n\"Thirty-five years ago, in 1985, the then Tory European Commissioner's white paper detailed 300 legislative proposals to complete the European Single Market and that with a seven-year deadline,\" he said.\n\n\"On the 'UK Internal Market', this Tory government is giving a four-week consultation over the summer.\n\n\"Persuasive evidence, were it needed, that the UK internal market is first and foremost a convenient headline - a veneer lacking detail or a legal basis.\"\n\nAfter Welsh ministers had complained about a lack of consultation and not seeing the proposals before they were made public, it emerged that the Welsh Government had cancelled a meeting that would have given the first minister a briefing on the plans.\n\nA spokesperson for the Welsh Government said: \"Given the significance of the changes the UK government is planning to impose on Wales, we asked for a copy of the paper ahead of any meeting with the secretary of state for Wales.\n\n\"This would have allowed for a more meaningful discussion on these deeply damaging changes.\n\n\"Regrettably, this did not happen.\"\n\nThis is really all about who gets to decide things such as food standards after EU rules stop applying at the end of the year.\n\nMinisters in Cardiff Bay are concerned about a hollowing out of devolution by the back door.\n\nTake the proposal for a \" mutual recognition principle\" as an example -.. they say it effectively means the lowest common denominator wins because every UK home nation has to recognise every other home nation's standards.\n\nSo in the trade negotiations with the US - the proverbial chlorinated chicken issue - if the UK government negotiated a trade deal with the US allowing lower standard food into England, the Welsh Government couldn't stop it coming into Wales.\n\nBut the UK government insist they will protect British food and farming standards in the negotiations so the issue won't arise.", "The al-Hol camp in north eastern Syria is an overflowing vessel of anger and unanswered questions. Inside are the lost women and children of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), abandoned by their men, their nightmare caliphate and their governments.\n\nSome cling to their hate-fuelled ideology: \"We are undefeated!\" they scream in your face. Others beg for a way out - a way home.\n\nUmm Usma, a Moroccan-Belgian woman, clings to a fantasy that she helped the women and children of Syria in her six years here, most of it with IS.\n\nThe former nurse grabs her niqab with a black-gloved hand, \"This is my choice,\" she says. \"In Belgium I couldn't wear my niqab - this is my choice.\"\n\n\"Every religion did something wrong,\" she said. \"Show us the good.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There are different degrees of radicalisation among the women\"\n\nAs she shouts with a group of other black-clad women, a badly burnt child is pushed in a buggy through the mud by his mother. \"Look at what they did,\" her mother shouts, referring to US-backed forces.\n\nAl-Hol is a nightmare, a camp that has grown from 11,000 people, to more than 70,000. It is swollen with the dark aftermath of the collapsed pseudo-caliphate. It is ready to burst.\n\nUmm Usma says she has no need to apologise for the 2016 IS attack in Brussels in which 32 people - not including the bombers - were killed. In her mind, an attack against her country by the group she joined doesn't need to be answered. She has cloaked herself in victimhood. She believes the West and its air strikes against the last IS hold-out of Baghouz are to blame for their misery. The hate and violence perpetrated by IS are forgotten.\n\nThis is the jihadist mind-trick, a selective memory that erases any wrongdoing.\n\n\"I won't talk about what my husband did, I don't know what he did,\" Umm Usma claims. She has lived under democracy and under IS. She tells me she knows which one is better. \"Your mind is closed,\" she says as she turns her back and walks away.\n\nIt is only two weeks since Baghouz, the last of IS-governed territory, fell to Kurdish-led forces. The Kurds had taken their time, allowing ceasefire after ceasefire so that women, children and the injured could leave. The coalition warplanes that killed civilians in Mosul and Raqqa, IS's two lost capitals, were more cautious over Baghouz.\n\nIS used its families as a last line of defence.\n\n\"In one day, at least 2,000 people were killed,\" one Iraqi boy, who survived the combat, tells me. \"IS parked vehicles among the tents of families. We knew that vehicles were targeted, so we told them to take the vehicles away. But they didn't, and the vehicles exploded.\"\n\nWhen the fighting was over, Baghouz was cleared of corpses before the media arrived.\n\nThe men of IS were not just soldiers on a battlefield. They brought with them women, children and extended families.\n\nNour is a victim of their catastrophe. She lies on an examination bed in the camp's Red Crescent clinic. The six-year-old has been shot in the face. That was 15 days ago, and since then she's only been given the barest of medical attention. Her cheeks are swollen and her teeth shattered. The pain appears to be something she's become accustomed to, because she only screams when she's moved.\n\nIt was a sniper's round that came through the tent in Baghouz. She was hiding out there with her family, part of an army of hardcore believers who stayed with IS to the end.\n\nIn al-Hol, many of the war wounded are children. Nour's mother, from Turkmenistan, is too sick to stand. She curls on her side, beside Nour, teetering on the edge of the bed. Her IS fighter husband is already dead.\n\nNour's condition needs urgent attention and she is sent to a hospital in the city of Hassakeh. Now the clinic bed is emptied and a new occupant is placed on its black leather surface.\n\nBut Asma is barely there at all: she's a faint speck of a human being, almost transparent. Too weak to cry much, she looks only days old. She is, in fact, six months old. Her sister, a girl herself, stands above her, eyes cast down. As IS fought to the last, their families starved.\n\nSome 169 children have died since escaping Baghouz - children who did no wrong. Those that remain are at risk from sickness and disease. And there is a greater danger that Western governments appear to have ignored. They are still in the care of extremist parents, and their malice isn't being countered or re-educated - it is being left to fester.\n\nThose that survived IS were brought in open cattle trucks, across the desert in their tens of thousands to al-Hol. The village by the camp is where IS once sold Yazidi women as slaves. Not far from here, hundreds of Kurdish-led forces were killed in a single IS attack. The two-storey school in the village still has the IS flag painted across it. The spring rains and summer sun are fading it to nothing.\n\nThe campsite is at the village edge: a mini-state, a displaced caliphate, a growing danger that is now larger than the village itself.\n\nWhat remains inside, no-one wants. A few governments have taken people back: Russia, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. The United States has taken back a single woman. The UK has no plan to repatriate fighters or their families. Al-Hol is the camp where Shamima Begum, the teenager from London, was first held and where she learned she had been stripped of her British citizenship. France has taken back a handful of orphans whose parents died fighting for IS.\n\nThere are degrees of radicalisation, and the immediate aftermath of a war is no place to judge who can be reformed, who can be saved.\n\nThe foreign women in the camp are kept separately, under armed guard. Here the ideology is at its most toxic. This is where the true believers are contained. A guard outside points to his bruised head. \"They threw rocks at us yesterday,\" he says.\n\nBy the entrance, a bag of raw chicken pieces lies tied up in the dirt. Women are pressed up against the chain-link fence, demanding to be let out. They are from everywhere: Brazil, Germany, France, Morocco, Somalia, the list goes on.\n\nThe western women are wary of speaking inside. They fear being attacked by the more radical women in the camp, if they are seen speaking to a man. If they remove their veils, they are set upon by some of the women. Tents have been burned to the ground in retribution.\n\n\"The Tunisian and Russian women are the worst,\" says 19-year-old Leonora Messing from Germany. She points to two large communal tents. \"They were last to come out from Baghouz.\"\n\nMessing joined IS at the age of 15, a month after another 15-year-old, Shamima Begum, and her friends fled Britain for Syria. Messing became the third wife of a German extremist who is now, too, in Kurdish custody.\n\nThe German woman is full of regret, born not only of circumstance, but regret, she says, that long predates the defeat of IS.\n\n\"I was a half-year in Isis and I asked my father if he can help me to send a smuggler to bring me out. They sent a smuggler but security from Isis, they killed him. And then they catch me also because they find pictures of me on his phone. And then I was locked up first time in prison [in Raqqa] and then a second time in [the village of] Shaafa,\" she explains.\n\nIn her arms, she cradles a two-month-old, wrinkle-faced baby, her second child, born in Baghouz as the fighting raged all around them.\n\n\"I gave birth alone. There was no doctors, no nurses\", she says, \"I sent my husband out. I sent him. I was crying. You know how woman have faith. I said you search. He said there is nobody. I said GO SEARCH.\"\n\nShe still loves her extremist husband and says she will wait for him if he is sent back to Germany to serve a prison sentence.\n\nShe talks about the death of Shamima Begum's son, who was born in the camp, and died just 20 days later. Both of her own children have been sick, but she says she has reason to believe they will be safe.\n\nOur second meeting is cut short. Leonora Messing has an appointment. A convoy of armoured-vehicles, protected by armed men arrives, with Westerners inside. \"The German government wants to check on my children,\" Messing said.\n\nBritain's foreign secretary has said it is too dangerous for UK diplomats to travel to Syria, a place where, like Germany, it has no consulates or embassies. There is still no plan to repatriate women and children, many of whose husbands have been killed or stripped of their UK citizenship.\n\nAs rain clouds swirl and thicken above, two gangly young women march across the muddy ground with purpose, heading straight for my Syrian colleague and me. The camp smells bad, there isn't proper sanitation and the rain isn't helping. One of the pair is carrying, incongruously, a patent leather handbag, with a little diamanté clasp. Through their veils I see what looks like the eyes of teenage girls.\n\n\"Where are our husbands? When will they be released?\" they demand, but without much menace. When my colleague shrugs his shoulders, one of the women says, \"ask him,\" pointing at me with a black-gloved hand. A giggle emerges from under the other black dresses.\n\nThey may have their answers in the coming days, as Iraq, too, prepares to take back its people. The high-value prisoners will go first and will almost certainly be executed, and their women and children will follow to Iraq. Camps are already being prepared, not very far from al-Hol, on the Iraqi side of the border.\n\nThat will alleviate pressure at the camp, but it will not solve the enduring question that al-Hol presents the West: how much mercy should be shown to an enemy that offered none? And, what is to become of their women and children now that IS is gone?", "Tributes were paid to the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic and the health workers combating it, in a ceremony on Thursday led by King Felipe VI.\n\nRelatives of those who died with the virus laid white roses on a black pedestal surrounding a bowl of burning coals outside the Royal Palace in Madrid.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShamima Begum said she joined the Islamic State group (IS) in search of the perfect family life, and it was in Raqqa, shortly after she arrived in Syria four years ago, that it arranged a marriage between her and Dutch armed extremist Yago Riedijk.\n\nShe was 15 at the time and he was 23. In the UK, he would be committing a sexual offence.\n\nHe sits opposite me in a yellow plastic chair, 27 years old now, in a freezing interview room in a Kurdish detention centre. His guards have just removed his handcuffs.\n\nIf I see Shamima, he asks me to \"tell her that I love her and have patience\".\n\n\"Hopefully soon we'll be together again and things will turn out all right - hopefully.\"\n\nIt seems unlikely that will happen anytime soon.\n\nOver the next hour, he paints a contradictory picture of an insulated home life, and a maelstrom of terror outside.\n\nHe said he kept the two separate and that his wife, despite her public statements to the contrary, was ignorant of IS's crimes.\n\n\"I was keeping her in a protected shell,\" he said.\n\n\"I did not give her any information about what was going on outside. The problems that I was facing, the dangers.\n\n\"She was just sitting inside taking care of the household while I was trying to get by.\n\n\"Feed her, feed myself. Try to keep out of trouble. Try to not getting killed by secret services.\n\n\"You know, making decisions that changed our lives, trying to keep us in safety.\"\n\nIS was driven out of Raqqa, the de facto capital of its \"caliphate\", in October 2017\n\nWhen I met Ms Begum last week, she said she had joined IS in search of the perfect family life.\n\nShe told me: \"My family wouldn't help me get married in the UK and the way they showed family life in IS was pretty nice.\n\n\"Like the perfect family life, saying they'd take care of you and take care of your family. And that was true.\n\n\"They did take care of me and my family at first but things changed after that.\"\n\nIt was a world of headless corpses and IS prison and torture for Mr Riedijk.\n\nWhen I asked him if he knew of any Yazidis - the religious sect IS enslaved and murdered - he had this to say: \"I heard about one Dutch guy. He had a slave.\n\n\"That's about as close as I ever got to a slave. I heard she was about 40 years old.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nMs Begum had said she had seen a human head in a bin; her husband explained it was in a bag on top of a pile of dead IS prisoners wearing military uniforms.\n\nAnd he attended the stoning of a woman accused of \"fornication\".\n\n\"I actually never witnessed a beheading,\" he said. \"I've actually witnessed a stoning once.\n\n\"And I've watched, I've seen people who have been executed but not the execution itself.\"\n\n\"Actually, she wasn't stoned to death,\" he corrected. \"She stood up and she ran away.\n\n\"And, after that, they said to the guys who were throwing stones: 'Stop throwing stones.'\n\n\"It's not allowed to throw the stones after she gets up and runs away. So we stopped throwing stones at her and she escaped. After that they left her alone.\"\n\nMr Riedijk's wife claimed that he \"wasn't really a fighter\", but he went to fight for IS in Kobane and was injured.\n\nHe fought again in Aleppo.\n\nHe said: \"I made a huge mistake. I've thrown away years of my life. It was not my life.\n\n\"Luckily, I didn't directly hurt other people. But me joining and supporting a group like that. It's something that's not acceptable.\"\n\nHe added that he had hardly used his weapon.\n\nNow he says he wants to return to the Netherlands, with his wife, and his newborn baby son.\n\n\"I would love to go back to my own country,\" he said, \"which I now understand the privileges that I lived with. The privilege of living there as a citizen.\n\n\"And, of course, I understand that many people have a problem with what I did and I totally understand that.\n\n\"I have to take responsibility for what I did, serve my sentence. But I hope to be able to return to a normal life and to raise a family.\"\n\nFor now, Ms Begum and Mr Riedijk have neither their passports nor control of their own fate.\n\nThey gave up both when they joined the Islamic State group, and are unlikely to see the return of either anytime soon.\n\nMs Begum is in a woman's internment camp not very far away from her imprisoned husband.\n\nKurdish officials say there are no plans for them to be reunited.\n\nCorrection 4 March 2019: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the husband of Shamima Begum could be liable for statutory rape under English law.", "The committee is looking into Moscow's alleged influence on UK votes\n\nA long-awaited report into alleged Russian interference in the 2017 general election and the 2016 Brexit vote is to be published next week.\n\nThe Intelligence and Security Committee voted unanimously for it to be released before Parliament's summer break.\n\nThe delay in publishing the report, which was completed last year, has led to speculation that it contains details embarrassing for the Conservatives.\n\nBut the government denies that political considerations were involved.\n\nThe report is thought to look at a wide range of Russian activity - from traditional espionage to subversion - but the greatest interest is in possible interference in the 2016 and 2017 votes.\n\nDowning Street gave clearance for publication last autumn, but it did not come out before December's general election was called - at which point the old committee's membership was disbanded.\n\nPublication was further delayed by the replacement committee not being set up until this week.\n\nEspionage, subversion and influence: that's what the Russia Report is all about. How far has Russia been carrying out such activities and has enough been done to stop them?\n\nIt is not just about the traditional spy-versus-spy intelligence-gathering to steal secrets, but also Russia's use of new techniques like cyber-espionage and social media campaigns to interfere in political life.\n\nBut it is also about Russian influence, especially though money, which critics argue has seeped into public life and compromised various institutions.\n\nThe information in the report came from the intelligence agencies but also from independent experts. Some of them are believed to have painted a stark picture of a long-term failure to deter Moscow, all the way back to the weak response to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium in 2006.\n\nHow much detail is there and how damning is it? We are about to find out.\n\nThe decision by the nine-member ISC - which meets behind closed doors - to bring out the report follows the election of Julian Lewis as its chairman on Wednesday.\n\nA Tory MP since 1997, he put himself forward for the role, apparently against the wishes of Downing Street, which had preferred former cabinet minister Chris Grayling for the job.\n\nThe three Labour members and one SNP member of the committee supported Mr Lewis, who, immediately after being named chairman, was expelled from the Conservative Parliamentary Party.\n\nChris Grayling had been the PM's preferred choice for committee chair\n\nBut in a statement, Mr Lewis said the 2013 Justice and Security Act had \"explicitly removed the right of the prime minister to choose the ISC chairman and gave it to the committee members\".\n\nHe added: \"It was only yesterday afternoon [Thursday] that I received a text asking me to confirm that I would be voting for the prime minister's preferred candidate for the ISC chair.\n\n\"I did not reply as I considered it an improper request. At no earlier stage did I give any undertaking to vote for any particular candidate.\"\n\nMr Lewis also said the government had denied wanting to \"parachute\" a preferred candidate in to the chair, adding:\"It is therefore strange to have the whip removed for failing to vote for the government's preferred candidate.\"\n\nBut House of Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg accused him of of \"playing ducks and drakes with the Labour Party\" and said that was why he had had the Conservative whip withdrawn.\n\nHowever, Conservative MP Peter Bone said Mr Lewis was \"exceptionally well-qualified\" to become chairman and \"would do and excellent job\", while some in Downing Street had had a \"huge hissy-fit\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"good thing\" the committee had chosen Mr Lewis.\n\nHe added: \"They obviously chose to reject the imposition by the prime minister of his preferred chair on them…They're an independent committee and we should respect the decision they came to.\"", "UK banks fear up to 800,000 firms employing 3 million could go bust in the next year if they cannot defer repayments on government-backed loans.\n\nThe lending industry is proposing a student loans-type scheme, where coronavirus loans can be converted into a tax debt repayable over a decade.\n\nLike student loans, the money would only be repayable when and if the businesses can afford it.\n\nBanks want the scheme to be administered by HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nHMRC would have the operational horsepower, existing relationships with, and adequate knowledge of, companies to manage a programme of this scale.\n\nBanking industry lobby group TheCityUK is proposing to set up a \"UK Recovery Corporation\", through which companies could convert their short-term debts into a longer term financial obligation to HMRC and pay back the debt when they are making enough money - a so-called contingent tax obligation.\n\nThis, the banks argue, would be far simpler and faster to arrange and administer, than the UK government taking direct ownership stakes in hundreds of thousands of companies.\n\nThere has been widespread acknowledgement that many firms will struggle to repay the £46bn in loans taken out so far, under government schemes designed to help business survive the coronavirus crisis.\n\nGovernment guarantees of between 80-100% are to the lender, not the borrower. This means that the banks may get repaid by the government, but companies in trouble will still be in default and therefore likely to go bust.\n\nPut simply, government guarantees to lenders will not save the firms doing the borrowing, or their employees.\n\nThe appeal to the banking industry is that they will not incur the reputational damage of having to pursue small businesses for repayment for loans that are already largely guaranteed by the government.\n\nAnd the government will not be left with accelerated losses when the banks write off the loan and call in their government guarantees.\n\nThe banking sector argues that the scheme would be a better alternative to government rescue deals\n\nIf such a scheme were to be introduced, firms would be able to defer debt interest repayments that start coming due in March 2021, at a time when they will have already faced a backlog of VAT and business rate bills, plus the expiration of the job retention scheme, which has seen the government pay 80% of over 9 million people's wages.\n\nIn time, say the banks, these IOUs from business could be parcelled up and sold to investors, much like the bundles of student loan debt and bad loans from the financial crisis have been, thus taking it off the government's hands.\n\nThe government is already on the hook for most of this debt through their coronavirus loan guarantees to the banks. The banks would also relish the opportunity of earning any fees associated with arranging these sales.\n\nThe Treasury described the proposals as \"a useful contribution to discussions on how businesses can be best supported through this difficult time\".\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, the Chancellor said the bar for government intervention was \"very high\" and should be \"exceptionally rare and only in situations where companies have some strategic value, clearly have a long-term viable future and where the creditors and shareholders have shared in the burden and are not just looking for a free ride on the taxpayer\".\n\nThe financial services industry counter that this would not amount to a direct ownership stake and that the government has already clearly recognised that a jobs apocalypse is on the horizon.\n\nWithout a means of converting a short-term debt emergency into a longer-term repayment plan, it will arrive by March next year.\n\nThese proposals are unlikely to be the final answer. They could be subject to abuse - like any large and fast intervention. For example, there should surely be some strings attached so that firms could not pay their own shareholders fat dividends having parked their debts for the time being.\n\nMany will also scoff at the nerve of the banks to try and offload the problem from their balance sheet to the taxpayers after what happened a decade ago. But to be clear, the government has already guaranteed most of these debts. It's already the taxpayer's problem.\n\nSooner or later the government will be left with a massive bill for this crisis. The banks argue that the later the bill comes, the smaller it will be for the taxpayer and the smaller the damage to the social fabric of the UK.", "Workers are self-isolating at the Herefordshire farm\n\nA group of farm workers in Scotland have been quarantined after they were on the same flight as people who travelled to a coronavirus-hit farm\n\nVegetable producer A S Green and Co in England went into lockdown after tests showed 93 people had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nSome of them were on a flight bringing agricultural workers to the UK which included 63 people heading to Scotland.\n\nTesting has been made available to them and none has shown Covid symptoms.\n\nThe Scottish government said officials in Scotland were alerted by Public Health England.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"A number of farm workers in Scotland travelled to the UK at the same time as those in Herefordshire.\n\n\"All those farm workers are understood to have undertaken the required 14-day quarantine on the farms where they are based and have exhibited no symptoms in that time.\n\n\"The risk of infection is understood to be very low in this case, however testing is being made available to all those working on these farms.\"\n\nIt is understood two farms in Scotland were affected, but their location has not been revealed.\n\nThe A S Green farm in Mathon, Herefordshire, employs a mix of seasonal workers from the UK and abroad and they have been asked to quarantine at the site's live-in accommodation.\n\nThree workers who left the farm against health advice, one of whom had tested positive for Covid-19, have now been traced and are self isolating.\n\nKatie Spence, Public Health England's Midlands health protection director, said: \"Information gathered from both the recruitment company and from the workers themselves suggested that those workers who tested positive were not showing any symptoms of Covid-19 at the time they travelled to the UK.\n\n\"We know, however, that there is a risk that people can transmit the infection before - or without ever - developing symptoms, and this is why we've taken a precautionary approach to follow-up workers who were on the same flight as the confirmed cases.\"", "The Intelligence and Security Committee report into potential Russian interference in British politics has not been published\n\nParliament's Intelligence and Security Committee faces a serious challenge in ensuring its credibility, after an unprecedented wait for its formation along with the delay in publishing its Russia report.\n\nThat has raised concerns that it could set-back oversight in the UK after an often-troubled journey over the quarter of a century since the committee was first created in 1994.\n\nQuestions about its effectiveness have hovered around it thanks to questions over its membership and its ability to prise real accountability out of an often-reluctant secret state.\n\nThe delay since the 2019 election in creating a committee is far longer than seen previously and has raised questions about whether the government is seeking to create a more pliant body. The issue of membership had been problematic in the past.\n\nOne person who has sat on the committee describes membership as often having been treated as a form of \"occupational therapy\" for ex-ministers from both Labour and Conservative governments, a way of giving them something to do and easing the blow of losing office.\n\nIn the past, that fed into a sense the ISC was a group of the great and the good who could be trusted - including trusted not to be too difficult.\n\nThe committee had a particularly difficult period in the 2000s.\n\nIt looked at the evidence behind the claim Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But its report was thin and it took the Butler Inquiry to provide real answers.\n\nA similar problem came with a report into the 7 July 2005 attacks and whether MI5 had missed opportunities to stop it.\n\nThe committee had not seen crucial evidence and had to go back and try again.\n\nMI6 did not reveal all it knew about the rendition of terrorist suspects\n\nBut the most problematic issue has been the complicity of British intelligence in US rendition and torture of terrorist suspects. The ISC's initial inquiries failed abjectly to get to the bottom of events.\n\nMost embarrassingly, it did not even appear to know of one major case involving MI6 and Libya until the fall of Gaddafi led to files revealing the operation being unearthed.\n\nThis was not all the ISC's fault. It came about because MI6 failed to disclose the details when asked what it knew.\n\nBut it spoke to a criticism that the committee lacked teeth and simply saw what the intelligence agencies wanted it to see. The issue proved to be a tipping point.\n\nIn order to address the credibility gap, the ISC was given new powers in a 2013 act which beefed up its powers and remit.\n\nAfter that, it began to improve its reputation and credibility with a series of tougher reports.\n\nNow there are fears that the oversight the system relies on is simply not there.\n\n\"It was a fundamental part of the deal when the intelligence agencies got more intrusive powers to combat terrorism that at the same time Parliament got stronger powers of oversight,\" Lord Peter Ricketts who was National Security Adviser between 2010 and 2012 told the BBC.\n\n\"That's how we preserve the balance between liberty and security. But the deal falls apart if the government drag their feet on setting up the ISC to exercise that oversight.\"\n\nIn the past five years, there has been friction with both the government and the intelligence agencies, including over calling witnesses on torture, but a degree of friction is what you would expect from robust rather than cosy oversight (and is still nothing like the tension the US Senate's oversight committee had with the CIA over torture).\n\nThe intelligence agencies occasionally complain about its work but most on the inside also recognise the value of at least a perception of rigorous oversight.\n\nMost of the friction has not been with the spy agencies but with the Cabinet Office and Downing Street.\n\nThe ISC is supposed to have a formal meeting with the prime minister once a year in the Cabinet Room when its annual report is discussed. But no collective meeting with the PM has taken place since 2015, those who have served on the committee say.\n\nUnlike other select committees, the ISC reports directly to the prime minister and that has created particular tension since it gives Downing Street some sway over what is censored in any report on grounds of national security and over the timing of any release.\n\nIn the case of the Russia Report that has proved particularly controversial.\n\nThe report was commissioned amid concerns of Russian interference in UK political life and was supposed to look at espionage and influence.\n\nThe report was completed in March 2019 and an agreed text was sent to the prime minister. But then nothing happened.\n\nThen-chairman Dominic Grieve said there was no reason the report could not have been released before the December general election and a date was identified in late October.\n\nBut the report never saw the light of day.\n\nThe failure to do so raised questions as to whether it was because the report contained details that could be embarrassing to the Conservative Party, such as donations from Russian businesspeople.\n\nBut the report is thought to be mildly embarrassing rather than explosive.\n\nOther observers wonder if the delay was more due to a fit of pique from Downing Street against Dominic Grieve who had the Conservative whip withdrawn over his opposition to Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson's top adviser Dominic Cummings was said to be in an \"incandescent rage\" at Mr Grieve with Downing Street turning the report's release into a trial of strength, with one person on the inside describing the story of the delay as \"The Tale of Two Dominics\".\n\nAs a new committee is formed, the report could be out of date. Many of the evidence sessions took place a year and a half ago.\n\nIn theory the new committee could start again, hold new hearings to update the report, edit the existing text or even junk it altogether.\n\nBut the latter option may cause an even greater outcry than the long delay.\n\nThe issue of when the report comes out and in what form will now be a key test of credibility.\n\nBut it is not likely to be the last test for the ISC to see whether it can provide parliament and the public that there is real oversight over the UK's spies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has named Tony Sewell as chair of its new commission looking into race disparity in the UK.\n\nThe formation of the body was announced in June by Boris Johnson in the wake of anti-racism protests following the death of George Floyd.\n\nMr Sewell said the commission would \"seek to inform a national conversation about race, led by the evidence\".\n\nBut the Muslim Council of Britain said he was the wrong choice as he was \"keen on downplaying race disparities\".\n\nThe prime minister said Mr Sewell shared his \"commitment to maximising opportunity for all\".\n\nThe commission is tasked with looking at all aspects of inequality, including criminal justice, education, employment and health.\n\nIt will report back directly to Mr Johnson with its findings by the end of the year.\n\nBut Labour's shadow women and equalities secretary, Marsha de Cordova, said most of the evidence the commission would examine had already come to light in previous reviews on race, calling for \"action on the structural racism that we already know exists\" as a priority.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat's equalities spokeswoman, Christine Jardine, also called for the PM to ensure any recommendations from the commission \"don't just sit and gather dust\".\n\nNow the boss of education charity Generating Genius, Mr Sewell worked with the PM in 2013 when he was Mayor of London, leading his education inquiry into the capital's schools, and sat on the Windrush working group.\n\nHe is a longstanding commentator on racial issues and education, attracting criticism from some quarters for his views, such as claiming boys were being failed by schools because lessons had become too \"feminised\".\n\nHe also said an anti-intellectual Afro-Caribbean youth culture was one of the reasons girls performed better than boys in school.\n\nAnd, writing in Prospect magazine in 2010, he said \"much of the supposed evidence of institutional racism is flimsy\".\n\nThe BBC's community affairs correspondent, Rianna Croxford, reported that he was understood to be in line for the role earlier on Thursday.\n\nAfter the appointment was confirmed, Mr Sewell said: \"I have spent my entire career in education striving to help all students achieve their full potential.\n\n\"I know however that inequality exists, and I am committed to working with my fellow commissioners to understand why.\"\n\nThe commission was announced following Black Lives Matter protests held across the UK\n\nThis commission had its sceptics from the moment it was announced.\n\nSome opposition MPs and organisations working on race equality were uneasy about Boris Johnson's comments that he wanted to \"change the narrative\" on race and \"stop a sense of victimisation and discrimination\".\n\nThere was also concern one of the prime minister's closest aides, Munira Mirza, who's been overseeing the setting up of the commission, had previously questioned whether structural racism existed.\n\nTony Sewell, who's now been chosen as chair, has written in support of both of these views.\n\nAs Downing Street was working to recruit the commission's members, I understand that a number of prominent figures in the black community - who did not want to be identified publicly - sought to distance themselves from the process.\n\nSources said some who'd been reluctant to pursue discussions with the government regarded the commission as \"toxic\" and a way for ministers to \"play for time\" or \"pay lip service\" to the idea of race equality.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"It is untrue to suggest that a number of prominent Black individuals have rejected the opportunity to be a part of the commission.\"\n\nThe choice is sure to be a controversial one but it's clear the government wants to make a break from what has come before.\n\nThe Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch, said the commission will \"inform and improve\" the conversation about race - but the question will be, how much it can achieve if it doesn't have the full support of the communities its working to help?\n\nThe commission will face high levels of scrutiny after accusations another government review into race is a distraction from the issue.\n\nThe other members confirmed for the commission are:\n\nA spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain condemned the appointments, saying: \"The composition of the government's commission on race disparities sends a strong signal about its intentions. Many are partisans of a culture war keen on downplaying race disparities.\n\n\"Tony Sewell's appointment clearly demonstrates this. The composition of this commission tells us that the government intends to row back on previous work to tackle racial disparities.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Mr Sewell said he did believe \"racism exists in structures\", but added: \"I do think some of the disparities there may not have origins in race. They could be rooted in class, different geographies, or different powers.\n\n\"We need to examine that... and take an intellectually wider view of this, rather than a narrow view.\"", "China's economy grew 3.2% in the second quarter following a record slump.\n\nThe world's second biggest economy saw a sharp decline in the first three months of the year during coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nBut figures released on Wednesday show China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) returned to growth during April to June.\n\nThe numbers are being closely watched around the world as China restarts its economy.\n\nThe figure is higher than experts were predicting and points towards a V-shaped recovery - that is, a sharp fall followed by a quick recovery.\n\nIt also means China avoids going into a technical recession - signified as two consecutive periods of negative growth.\n\nThe bounce-back follows a steep 6.8% slump in the first quarter of the year, which was the biggest contraction since quarterly GDP records began.\n\nThe country's factories and businesses were shutdown for most of this period as China introduced strict measures to curb the spread of the virus\n\nThe government has been rolling out a raft of measures to help boost the economy, including tax breaks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nThe Chinese economy managed to grow more strongly than expected as it emerged from the lockdown.\n\nAll the stimulus measures announced by the authorities seem to be working - with factories getting busier, evident in growth in the industrial production data.\n\nBut one sector that hasn't recovered as quickly as they had hoped is retail sales.\n\nThey still fell in the second quarter - and getting people spending again will remain a challenge.\n\nAnd just as the economy starts to recover, tensions with the US are flaring up - especially over Hong Kong.\n\nThat is why some economists are reluctant to call it a V-shaped recovery just yet.\n\nA research note from Deutsche Bank said the \"V-shaped recovery\" was \"largely completed\".\n\n\"Consumer spending is still below its pre-Covid path, but the remaining gap is largely concentrated in a few sectors - travel, dining, leisure services-- where rapid recovery is unlikely,\" it added.\n\nIn May, China announced it would not set an economic growth goal for 2020 as it dealt with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is the first time Beijing has not had a gross domestic product (GDP) target since 1990 when records began.\n\nFor the first six months of the year, China's economy fell 1.6%, its National Bureau of Statistics said.", "Dom Sibley and Ben Stokes batted England into a strong position on an attritional first day of the second Test against West Indies.\n\nSibley inched his way to 86 not out from 253 balls, adding an unbroken 126 with Stokes, who batted beautifully for his unbeaten 59.\n\nIn closing on 207-3, England recovered from being reduced to 29-2 by off-spinner Roston Chase removing Rory Burns and Zak Crawley with successive balls either side of lunch.\n\nNot only that, but the home side dealt with the disruption of dropping Jofra Archer for a breach of the bio-secure protocols.\n\nPace bowler Archer was left out after travelling to his Brighton home in between the first Test in Southampton and this game at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nWithout him, England fielded an entirely different pace attack to the one that lost the series opener, but it was their batsmen who were thrust into the action when West Indies won the toss on a murky day in Manchester.\n\nThe touring pace bowlers, so impressive in the four-wicket win at the Ageas Bowl, looked weary and were not helped by their fielders, who dropped Sibley twice.\n\nWest Indies also face the prospect of having to bat last on sluggish pitch that is already offering turn and some uneven bounce.\n• None Archer trip could have cost 'tens of millions of pounds'\n• None Archer left out after going home between Tests\n• None Watch Today at the Test on iPlayer\n\nArcher's omission was announced three hours before play was due to begin. Without it, this would have gone down as an unremarkable day of Test cricket.\n\nThe bio-secure, behind-closed-doors environment in Southampton was masked by the quality of the match, while the openness of the ground provided life from the outside world.\n\nThis may yet mature into a similarly compelling contest, but the urban, enclosed nature of the impressively redeveloped Old Trafford resulted in a sense of claustrophobia.\n\nA crowd, usually so boisterous in Manchester, was missed, while the conditions - leaden skies and a tacky surface - was not conducive to thrilling cricket.\n\nThe weather prevented any action before 12:30 BST, and the players were still out there when the sun finally appeared at 19:30.\n\nEngland had much the better of it, vindicating captain Joe Root's view that he would have batted on winning the toss, rather than unleashing a new-look pace attack of Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes and Sam Curran on a day that would have been ideal for them.\n\nSibley is unlikely to earn plaudits for his style, but the manner in which he values his wicket has been needed by England not only here, but for so long in their search for a reliable opening pair.\n\nHe dropped anchor in a vigil that mainly included leaving anything outside off stump and shovelling the ball to the leg side any time West Indies bowled straight. His first boundary did not come until the 91st ball he faced, and only 14 of his runs were scored in front of square on the off side.\n\nHe saw all of Burns, Crawley and Root gift their wickets away. Burns played down the wrong line to be lbw to Chase, Crawley softly turned his first ball to leg slip, and Root edged a wild drive off Alzarri Joseph to second slip.\n\nAt 81-3, England were teetering, only for Stokes to join Sibley. When Stokes lofted Chase for a straight six, it ended a period of more than an hour without a boundary, during which time Sibley was dropped at short leg off Chase on 44.\n\nWhile Stokes took time to find some fluency, he was never troubled, and it brief flashes of his strokeplay provided the highlights of a day when England hit only 11 fours and one six.\n\nOn a rare occasion that Sibley, on 68, was drawn into playing outside off stump by Shannon Gabriel, West Indies captain Jason Holder could not hold on to a straightforward chance at second slip.\n\nAfter their pace bowlers bowled with such incision in Southampton, West Indies pounced on the opportunity to do so again in grey Manchester, ignoring the history that says no side has won a Test on this ground after winning the toss and choosing to field.\n\nThey instantly looked flat. Gabriel, man of the match with nine wickets in the first Test, sent his second delivery down the leg side for five wides and later spent time off the field with what looked like a groin problem.\n\nChase was only bowling in the first hour because the pacemen were so poor, but struck with his second and third deliveries, and remained tidy throughout the day.\n\nThe sprightly Joseph led an improvement of the fast bowlers, getting his reward when Root chased an outswinger he could barely reach.\n\nKemar Roach and Holder managed one threatening spell apiece, in the afternoon and evening respectively, but Holder was also forced from the field.\n\nWhen he returned, he missed the chance off Sibley, was in the firing line when another Gabriel wide went straight to second slip, and could not inspire his team into finding a way to past England's increasingly comfortable fourth-wicket pair.\n\n'This is how Test cricket should be played' - what they said\n\nEngland head coach Chris Silverwood on Sky Sports: \"Dom concentrates very well. He's willing to bat for long periods of time - and that's what we needed at the top.\n\n\"Those partnerships have put us in a great position. We've got to back it up tomorrow.\"\n\nEx-England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"You only have to go back a year or two ago and we were criticising England for being too flamboyant and the mentality not being right.\n\n\"This is completely the other end of the spectrum - and I prefer this end. It's been a day's play I would see in the 80s. This is what I believe Test cricket should be played like.\"\n\nWest Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite: \"West Indies need someone like Dom Sibley but with the ball. It's not going to look pretty all the time. Sometimes you just need someone to run in and do the hard yards.\n\n\"It looks as though the bodies aren't quite holding up as well as they thought they would. We need to see more with the ball.\"", "People who are \"shielding\" in Scotland are to be allowed to stay in holiday accommodation and visit outdoor markets and gardens, in a change to advice.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said virus restrictions for the most vulnerable group are to be eased from Friday.\n\nThis will allow these people to go out more, and for couples who do not live together to meet up without distancing.\n\nAnd the first minister said it was hoped the need for shielding could be paused entirely at the end of July.\n\nThere are about 180,000 people shielding in Scotland.\n\nThe shielding group includes those who are at the greatest risk of becoming seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nPeople who have certain types of cancer or severe respiratory conditions, and those who have received solid organ transplants come into the category.\n\nThe restrictions on this group are gradually being phased out, and they were allowed to cease physical distancing with people they live with last week.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the change would be welcome, but could also be \"quite daunting\" for some\n\nThe latest move - to take effect on Friday - will see advice changed to say the shielded can stay at holiday accommodation, including hotels.\n\nThey will also be able to visit outdoor markets and public gardens, and couples who do not live together will be allowed to meet up without maintaining a physical distance.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she hoped to be able to pause the need for shielding entirely at the end of July, but said \"we would still encourage those in this group to take extra care\".\n\nShe added; \"I know returning to something like normal life will be welcome, but I appreciate it is also known to be quite daunting.\n\n\"The Scottish government will provide more information nearer the time and will do everything we can to support you in this transition.\"\n\nThe first minister said people who are not shielding should think about how they can help, giving the example of wearing face coverings in shops and on public transport.\n\nAnd she said employers should consider how they can make workplaces as safe as possible for those in the shielding group.\n\nShe said: \"This is good news, but will be prompting some understandable stress and anxiety - so all of us can take some small steps that might make some difference to people who are shielding.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is \"snobbery\" not to include comedy in a package to help the arts industry, comedians say\n\nComedians have called for their work to be recognised as an art form so the industry can qualify for a slice of a bailout package.\n\nLive comedy has been described as being on the brink of collapse as a result of the pandemic.\n\nComedy rarely qualifies for art grants and performers say it now needs to be considered equally.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it is seeking to meet the needs of the arts sector.\n\nComedian Mike Bubbins said the industry is often left \"scraps from the table\" when it comes to funding.\n\n\"Is it snobbery why comedy isn't recognised as an art form?\n\n\"It's hard to say it's not snobbery when theatre gets funded, opera gets funded, the visual arts get funded and comedy is waiting for scraps off the table,\" he said.\n\nThe support package from the UK government is worth £1.15bn in England and means an extra £188m for the devolved administrations.\n\nWhile Wales gets £59m, Scotland will receive £97m and £33m will go to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I believe comedy has been viewed by people who run the arts as a self-funded art form because it doesn't cost a lot - but those people have never done a run at the Edinburgh Festival which can cost a performer £10,000 and you're not getting any of that money back, but you do it to push your career,\" said Mr Bubbins.\n\n\"It's an expensive art form to be involved in and we just seem to get the sharp end of the wedge. It's not about a hand out, it's about being fair and recognising what comedy is.\n\n\"It's not just a bloke or a woman with a microphone in their hands telling a few jokes... you've spent years gigging, travelling, writing material and rewriting material.\"\n\nHayley Southgate on stage at the Glee Club in Cardiff Bay\n\nMr Bubbins, who is also an actor and writer with recent work including BBC Wales' Tourist Trap, said the Welsh Government needed to lead the way.\n\n\"I'd love it if Mark Drakeford said we're going to recognise comedy as part of Welsh culture and treat it fairly,\" he added.\n\n\"You'd hope that England, Scotland, Northern Ireland would then look at Wales and follow.\"\n\nThe Live Comedy Association has published a report saying 77.8% of venues in the UK fear they will have to close within the year, saying the industry is on the brisk of collapse.\n\nThe association surveyed more than 660 people working in comedy, from venue owners and stand-up performers to producers and publicists, about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt revealed more than three quarters of performers earned less than 5% of their pre-pandemic estimated income from online performances.\n\nIn Wales, 48% of those asked said they had already lost more than 50% of their annual income and more than 18% have either already left or need to immediately.\n\n\"I was booked to do shows on 10 cruise ships, but one by one they were cancelled and everything in between went too because I had gigs booked across the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"That's all gone, it's terrifying to think what's happened to an industry so quickly.\n\n\"I'm just getting by on donations from the social media quiz or tickets to the online comedy shows I've started during the lockdown.\"\n\nHayley Southgate started out just a year before the pandemic struck, running Babi Comedi in Cardiff and performing shows for parents who can bring babies to daytime performances.\n\n\"Comedy can bring entertainment to some groups who can be isolated, for people like myself, if you've got children under two years of age you might not be able to access the arts but they could come to my comedy event,\" she said.\n\n\"It's an art form which covers all demographics. It's such a shame it's been sidelined at this time and it's to the detriment of venues too.\"\n\nNick Capaldi, chief executive of the Arts Council of Wales, said: \"Comedy has not been a big part of our funding, but given the kind of difficulties, particularly the kind individual artists are facing, this is something we are going to have to think about.\n\n\"I think they [the Welsh Government] will want to support arts and culture... but the smaller scale venues, the venues where younger comedians cut their teeth and depend on, these are the venues that are really struggling at the moment, and we need to take a look at that.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said it would continue to work with the Arts Council, the National Museum and others to meet the needs of the sector - with an announcement due in the next few weeks.\n\nMeanwhile Helen Mary Jones, chair of the assembly's culture, Welsh Language and communications committee, called for a commitment that the entire £59m of funding will be spent on the arts industries.\n\n\"They are a key part of our economy, providing skilled jobs and putting Wales firmly on the map around the world,\" she said.\n\n\"We are fast running out of time if we are to stabilise and sustain our creative industries.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England fast bowler Jofra Archer was excluded from the second Test against West Indies after breaching the bio-secure protocols.\n\nThe 25-year-old went to his Brighton home between the first Test in Southampton and second in Manchester.\n\nAll of England's matches this summer are being played behind closed doors and in a bio-secure environment.\n\n\"I am extremely sorry for what I have done. I feel like I have let both teams down,\" said Archer.\n\nWith Mark Wood and James Anderson rested, Archer was set to be the only member of England's pace attack from the first Test retained in the side for the second.\n\nAfter he was excluded, England opted to include Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes and Sam Curran in their side at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nHe also said any questions over why players made their own way between venues, rather than travelling together, were for those making logistical arrangements, rather than him.\n• None Archer trip could have been a 'disaster' - Giles\n• None Watch Today at the Test on iPlayer\n\n'I have let both teams down'\n\nArcher, who made his England debut last summer, said: \"I have put not only myself but the whole team and management in danger. I fully accept the consequences of my actions and I want to apologise to everyone in the bio-secure bubble.\n\n\"It deeply pains me to be missing the Test match, especially with the series poised.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Test Match Special: \"I would think the management would feel very let down. He's a young kid who has made a silly mistake, and England will miss him.\n\n\"I look at the West Indies and what they've given up to be here.\n\n\"They have come to a country that has been hit by Covid more than most. They've had to live at Old Trafford for two and a half weeks. For one England player to break that protocol, when he's only been away from home a couple of weeks...\"\n\nFormer England captain Alastair Cook said: \"It does throw it into a little bit of disarray. England wanted to have some pace and bounce in their bowling attack throughout the summer but now they're going to be robbed of that.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew said: \"They put the trust in the player and 99.9% of the people involved have done the right thing.\"\n\nWest Indies limited-overs all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite told TMS: \"As a personal friend, I'm disappointed, not only in what Jofra's done, but the scrutiny you get from the media.\n\n\"That said, it does not excuse what he does. Without me trying to sound disrespectful or accepting of what he did, there's a lot worse things he could have done, outside of popping home.\"\n\nHow did it happen?\n\nCook said all the England players would have known they were not allowed to return home between Tests.\n\n\"He knew what he was doing was wrong,\" said Cook. \"He will have been briefed; he's been in the bubble for long enough.\n\n\"Someone will have questioned 'can we go home?' and it would have 'no, this is what we've agreed to'.\n\n\"What we don't know is did he go home to get something he genuinely needed and it's just a mistake.\"\n\nVaughan said: \"I'm led to believe that (team manager) Phil Neale sent a WhatsApp group message to the England players just before 7:50 this morning saying 'I need to see you all', before the news about Jofra Archer got out at 8am.\n\n\"One or two of them didn't see it because they were fast asleep and woke up about 8:30-8:45 and were like 'eh what's going on here?'\"\n\nArcher must now isolate for five days, during which time he will take two coronavirus tests, both of which must return negative results before he can return to the England squad.\n\nWest Indies were informed of the sanctions and were satisfied with the restrictions imposed.\n\nAn extraordinary amount of planning went into creating the bio-secure environment and the punishment for what some might see as a minor indiscretion from Archer shows just how seriously England are taking the safety protocols.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had previously acknowledged the need for players to leave the bubble from time to time, but on this occasion they were expected to head straight from Southampton to Manchester.\n\nThe experience in Southampton demonstrated just how strict life in the bubble is - regular coronavirus tests, temperature checkpoints, mandatory face masks and hand sanitiser in every location imaginable. The movement of everyone on site - players, staff, media and hotel workers - is tracked by a fob worn around the neck.\n\nArcher will have known what is expected. It is a great shame for him and the England team that he has erred.\n• None Reaction to the latest twists in the race for Europe", "Shamima Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nWhen women make the news because of terrorism, the focus has often been on their role as victims or as potential allies in countering the threat.\n\nBy contrast, women who take part in and support extremism have sometimes been overlooked.\n\nThis changed when runaway teenager Shamima Begum was described as the \"poster girl\" for Islamic State after being tracked down at a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nFour years ago, she left the UK with two friends to join IS, but claims she was \"just a housewife\".\n\nNevertheless, the UK home secretary stripped her of UK citizenship, saying: \"If you back terror, there must be consequences\". She is set to be granted legal aid to appeal the decision.\n\nMs Begum's case has raised a number of questions on women's active and willing participation in violent extremism both in IS and other groups.\n\nRusi analysis suggests that 17% of extremist recruits in Africa are women, while separate research has indicated 13% of IS foreign recruits in Iraq and Syria are female. The exact figures remain vague and could be far higher.\n\nShamima Begum (right) with two school friends, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana, at Gatwick Airport in 2015\n\nA number of Rusi-backed studies and others have investigated the roles women play in organisations such as IS and al-Shabab, one of the deadliest militant groups in Africa.\n\nResearchers interviewed women who had been directly or indirectly involved with al-Shabab's activities, to find out how they were recruited, and the impact that taking part in violent extremist activity has on women.\n\nThe work was conducted by academics in Kenya, who were able to use their long-standing experience and networks within communities identified to be at risk of radicalisation.\n\nThe roles played by women vary between groups.\n\nWomen in al-Shabab have often held what could be seen as more traditional roles, as wives of fighters and domestic help. They are also sometimes made to work as sex slaves.\n\nThey can also help attract new members. One study in Kenya discovered women were lured by others who promised them jobs, financial support and counselling.\n\nFor example, Hidaya (not her real name), a dressmaker, was recruited by a client who offered to invest in and expand her business. She was persuaded to travel to a border region, from where she was smuggled into Somalia.\n\nWithin IS, women often recruit - especially online - and play an active role in projecting the group's beliefs.\n\nIn Shamima Begum's case, her recruitment could be seen by IS as a propaganda victory, despite her suggestion that she had done little more in Syria than take care of her husband and children.\n\nWomen under IS are also allowed to serve as doctors and healthcare workers, with certain restrictions, while the group has an all-female morality police force.\n\nSally-Anne Jones became a recruiter for IS and travelled to Syria, where she was thought to have been killed in a drone strike in 2017\n\nHowever, differences between groups have become increasingly blurred as organisations become \"inspired\" by each other.\n\nIn Somalia, where al-Shabab is attempting to establish an Islamic state governed by Sharia (Islamic law), cases of female frontline or suicide fighters have also been seen.\n\nAnalysis of al-Shabab suicide attacks between 2007 and 2016 found 5% were carried out by women.\n\nThis is also the case in other parts of Africa, such as Nigeria where militant Islamist group Boko Haram has used women as suicide bombers.\n\nThere are a number of factors driving women's recruitment into these groups.\n\nTo an extent, it appears that what motivates men also works for women, such as the pull of strong ideology and financial benefits.\n\nHowever, tactics aimed specifically at women also emerged, such as the appeal of returning to traditional gender roles.\n\nFor instance, one of our studies indicated al-Shabab recruiters preyed on the insecurities of some young Muslim women who feared that higher education would delay their marriage prospects.\n\n\"If I get a man who will marry and protect me, why should I stress myself with studies or education?\", one Nairobi University student asked researchers.\n\nOthers appear to have been initially attracted by promises of jobs, money and other opportunities.\n\nHowever, discerning their motives for joining is difficult. Many of the women we interviewed claimed they had been recruited against their will.\n\nLike Shamima Begum, some claimed they either weren't actively involved in the group's activities, or else took part against their will. Some say they were victims.\n\nWhile some are likely to have been coerced in some form, denying responsibility is a useful way to try to reintegrate back into the larger community.\n\nThere are a number of rehabilitation approaches applied to former or returning fighters, but few that are aimed specifically at women.\n\nPolicymakers and security services need to take the specific issues women leaving extremist organisations have into account when devising prevention, rehabilitation and reintegration strategies.\n\nFor example, many will have had children with dead or absent fighters, while others will require counselling for trauma stemming from rape and sexual assault.\n\nIt is critical that governments address these issues when engaging with the female role in violent extremism. This would start with better understanding of how gender-based differences fuel women's involvement and the specific impact it has on their lives.\n\nThis would benefit their communities by managing the risk they present and helping to prevent more women from joining extremist groups.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.\n\nMartine Zeuthen is an anthropologist and leads Rusi's EU-funded Strive programme, which aims to reduce extremist recruitment and radicalisation in the Horn of Africa.\n\nThe Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) is an independent think tank specialising in defence and security research.", "Ten residents at the care home died during the outbreak\n\nA member of staff at a coronavirus-hit care home on Skye has retested positive for the virus.\n\nNHS Highland confirmed the worker at Home Farm care home in Portree had been advised to isolate following the positive test.\n\nContact tracing has also been carried out.\n\nMore people will be re-tested following the new case with NHS Highland saying results will be issued \"as soon as they are available\".\n\nThe home, which was the subject of a court hearing earlier this year after 10 residents died amid the Covid-19 outbreak, has been closed to new admissions.\n\nA statement from NHS Highland health board said evidence was emerging internationally that some people had \"prolonged positive swab results\", while others could have intermittent negative and positive results over many weeks.\n\n\"As such, an ongoing positive result does not mean that an individual is still infectious or that they pose a risk to others,\" the statement said.\n\n\"However, when combined with new symptoms, it is necessary to adopt a precautionary approach as it is not possible to exclude the potential of a new infection or reactivation.\"\n\nThere are no other confirmed Covid-19 infections in the local community or in the rest of Skye, according to NHS Highland, which said it did not believe there was an an increased risk of infection to the wider community.\n\nThe statement added: \"However, the virus can recur even in rural communities and so everyone should continue to adhere to physical distancing guidelines, wear a face-covering when in enclosed spaces, clean your hands and surfaces regularly and immediately self-isolate if you develop symptoms.\"\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. Dominic Raab: \"Reasonable confidence\" Russia tried to interfere in 2019 election\n\nRussians almost certainly sought to interfere in the 2019 UK general election through illicitly acquired documents, the government has said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said any attempt to meddle in UK democracy was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe documents - on UK-US trade discussions - emerged online and were used by Labour in the 2019 campaign.\n\nA much-delayed report into allegations of wider Russian interference into UK democracy is due next week.\n\nLabour said it condemned \"any attempt by Russia, or any foreign power, to interfere in our country's democratic processes\" and pledged to work to protect the nation's security.\n\nThis is the first time the government has acknowledged with such certainty that Russians interfered in the UK's democratic processes.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman dismissed as \"nonsense\" suggestions that the timing of Mr Raab's statement was aimed at pre-empting the publication of the Russia report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.\n\nAt the 2019 election, then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the documents proved the Conservatives were planning to include the NHS in a future trade agreement with the US - something denied by the government.\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, Mr Corbyn accused the Conservatives of wanting \"to distract from the damage a Trump trade deal would do to our NHS by continuing to push the bogus claim Labour received Russian support\".\n\nHe added that the government's claim \"is an attempt to divert attention from the threat to the NHS and the Tory party links to Russian oligarchs expected to be revealed in the long-buried parliamentary Russia report.\"\n\nThe government launched an inquiry into how the papers got into the public domain, with help from the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nThe announcement comes as a group of national security services warn that Russian hackers are targeting organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nDespite many suspicions of Russian attempts at meddling in the referendum and other campaigns, significant concrete evidence is in short supply.\n\nSo, it matters that this is the first time a UK minister has made an explicit link to Russia, in one way or another, trying to meddle in elections in the UK.\n\nBut the timing of that statement creates its own intrigue too.\n\nNext week, at long last, the powerful group of MPs who monitor UK intelligence will publish a report on the Russian threat to the UK - a report that has been anticipated for a very long time and may perhaps set the record straight on all of this.\n\nIs it politically convenient for ministers to acknowledge the threat themselves just before others may make embarrassing claims about it?\n\nLabour politicians have frequently accused the Conservatives of ignoring Russian interference because of their relationship with Tory Party donors.\n\nDid it suit the government to publicise the claims that material used by Labour was also manipulated by Russia?\n\nIt seems, as one former UK ambassador to Moscow said, a \"remarkable coincidence\" that the government decided at this moment to admit explicitly, for the first time, that Russia has tried to stick its nose into our politics - especially when there is a running criminal investigation into who obtained the documents to start with.\n\nBut Downing Street denies that there is any link in the timing at all.\n\nIn a written ministerial statement, Mr Raab said \"the government has concluded that it is almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 general election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked government documents.\n\nHe said the documents were disseminated online via the social media platform Reddit.\n\n\"When these gained no traction, further attempts were made to promote the illicitly acquired material online in the run up to the general election,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign secretary goes on to say that there is \"no evidence of a broad spectrum Russian campaign against the general election\" but that \"any attempt to interfere in our democratic processes is completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe forum website Reddit said the unredacted papers had been uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nIt suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".\n\nMr Raab's statement is not connected to the Intelligence and Security Committee's report into Russian interference, which is due to be published next week.\n\nJeremy Corbyn holds up the leaked documents at a press conference on 27 November\n\nThe committee launched its inquiry in November 2017 following concern Russia sought to influence the US 2016 election and the 2016 Brexit vote.\n\nAfter the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March 2018 the investigation became the \"primary focus\" of the committee.\n\nThe committee heard evidence from independent experts as well as the secret intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.\n\nBBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the committee's report has looked into Russian activity from traditional espionage to subversion - with a particular focus on possible interference in the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nIn addition to cyber-espionage and social media campaigns, the report also examines Russian influence through money.\n\nThe delay in publication has led to speculation the report contains details embarrassing for the Conservatives - specifically in relation to the party's Russian donors.\n\nHowever, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted the hold-up was due to a number of committee members leaving Parliament and the need \"to make sure that the right people with the right level of experience and responsibility could be appointed\".\n\nRussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Mr Raab's statement was \"ambiguous\" and \"confusing\".\n\nShe said Mr Raab had said there was \"no evidence of full-scale interference\" by Russia in his statement but had also claimed \"any attempts of such interference are unacceptable\".", "The socially-distanced service was led by the Dean of Manchester Cathedral Rogers Govender\n\nA memorial service has paid tribute to victims of coronavirus in Greater Manchester.\n\nThe Manchester Cathedral service was held with a maximum of 70 people attending to allow social distancing, and was also streamed online.\n\nDean Rogers Govender said it was a chance to \"honour\" victims of the virus when traditional funerals had not recently been possible.\n\nAn online book of remembrance has also been opened.\n\nAs well as people sitting 2m apart, the interfaith service featured no choir or singing, in line with current guidelines.\n\nA member of the congregation sanitises his hands before the ceremony began\n\nThere have been more than 290,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and more than 45,000 people have died, government figures show.\n\nIn Greater Manchester 2,933 people have died, according to available data up to 3 July.\n\nAddressing the small congregation, the Very Reverend Rogers Govender said: \"We are a grieving world, a grieving city.\n\n\"We hope this will make a difference to you spiritually, emotionally and otherwise. Your loved one is a precious human being, whose life is cherished.\"\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said each person who had fallen victim to the virus should be remembered as \"a person and not just a statistic\".\n\n\"These were people who looked after us when we were growing up, people who taught us, people who cleaned our streets, our hospitals, our offices, our churches, who drove our buses, trams and trains, who poured our pints, shared our food and shared a joke as they did it,\" he said.\n\n\"People who put out fires, kept our streets safe but most of all people who dedicated themselves to the care of others and we think most of them today.\"\n\nHe also paid particular tribute to healthcare staff and other key workers \"still serving people at the height of the pandemic\".\n\n\"We have all seen the world through new eyes during this time, and we can all pray together today and use the insights we've gained from this time to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"Where we value each other more, and think more about what we can give, rather than what we can take.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is of course all for tomorrow. For today, Greater Manchester remembers, gives thanks for the lives we have lost, and pledges to build on the foundations they have left.\"\n\nBishop of Manchester the Right Rev David Walker said every victim was \"a precious human individual, somebody's son, daughter, husband, wife, friend, parent, grandparent\".\n\nHe added: \"We mourn them and we honour them, particularly today because it hasn't been possible in most cases for them to have the kind of funeral rites that we would have expected.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish and UK governments have clashed in a fresh row about how powers will be shared out post-Brexit.\n\nPlans for how a UK-wide \"internal market\" will operate after the country leaves the EU have been published.\n\nUK Business Secretary Alok Sharma told BBC Scotland that the move would see \"the biggest transfer of powers in the history of devolution\".\n\nBut Scottish Constitution Secretary Mike Russell said this was a \"lie\" and that powers would really be taken away.\n\nThe proposals were set out in a white paper, with legislation to follow later in the year.\n\nWhen the UK cuts its final ties with the EU at the end of the Brexit transition period in the New Year, a raft of powers currently exercised from Brussels will return to more local control.\n\nThe Scottish and UK governments have been locked in a lengthy dispute about who will ultimately be responsible for issues such as air quality, animal welfare and food quality.\n\nMany powers are set to be directly controlled by the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations, in fields including food labelling, energy efficiency and support for farmers.\n\nHowever, the UK government has said the devolved administrations will still have to accept goods and services from other parts of the UK - even if they have set different standards locally - to ensure a level playing field in the \"internal market\".\n\nScottish ministers believe this means standards across the country could be dragged down if the UK government makes concessions in new trade deals.\n\nAlok Sharma said it was important to give \"certainty\" to businesses\n\nMr Sharma told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the move was a \"power surge\" for the devolved administrations.\n\nHe said: \"We've had a seamless UK internal market for hundreds of years and that's been very good in terms of free flow of goods and services within all part of the UK. Our plans are for this to continue after the transition period.\n\n\"Ultimately this is about certainty for businesses, its about protecting jobs and livelihoods and supporting investment decisions, it's going to be good for consumers as well and ultimately this is about underpinning the recovery.\n\n\"All devolved policy areas will stay devolved, and there will be the biggest transfer of powers in the history of devolution at the end of the transition period.\"\n\nThere has been a long-running row over how \"common frameworks\" of regulations will work across the four nations, with UK ministers saying it is vital for \"all UK companies to trade unhindered in every part of the UK\".\n\nThe government said there could be \"serious problems\" if Welsh lamb producers were unable to sell their products in Scotland, or if Scottish whisky producers were unable to buy barley from English farms because different rules were in place on either side of the border.\n\nMr Sharma said: \"The devolved nations can of course set their own regulations, but the key thing is that businesses are able to continue to trade.\n\n\"We have been working with the devolved administrations in terms of our common frameworks, which is about sitting down in a collaborative way and coming up with regulations that apply to the whole of the UK.\"\n\nMike Russell said the UK government was lying about the new powers\n\nMr Russell said Mr Sharma's claims about new powers for Holyrood were \"not true\", saying MSPs had already legislated in a series of areas highlighted.\n\nHe said: \"The list of powers that's been issued by the UK government is simply dishonest. It's one of the most shocking pieces of dishonesty I've seen from a government.\n\n\"It's a mishmash of things the Scottish Parliament already has, things they've already decided we won't have because of the frameworks, and things that could be automatically overridden by a decision by the UK government to take a power away.\n\n\"There aren't new powers for the Scottish Parliament, that is a lie. Nobody should be fooled by this - what is actually happening here is taking away very significant powers that will have an effect on our daily lives.\"\n\nMr Russell said the Scottish government had been happy to abide by the \"high and sensible standards\" set at an EU level, but said the UK government could \"lower those standards dramatically\" to win trade deals.\n\n\"The US will not give trade deals unless agriculture is involved, and US agriculture will drive down standards. That is what we are facing.\"\n\nMr Sharma insisted that the UK government \"has always set very high standards\", adding that \"in some areas our standards have been higher than those of the EU\".\n\nHe added: \"What we are not going to be doing in any of these agreements is compromising the very high environmental, animal welfare and food safety standards that we have.\"\n\nThere is a hint of déjà-vu about this continuation of a row that has been rumbling along pretty much ever since the UK voted to leave the EU more than four years ago.\n\nIs this a \"power grab\" or a \"power surge\"? As ever in politics, the answer is a bit more complicated than either side is letting on.\n\nThe operation of cross-border regulatory frameworks and state aid rules might not be hot talking points down the socially-distanced pub, so perhaps it is understandable that politicians are reaching for sweeping rhetoric rather than detail - particularly given their starkly opposed positions on the underlying issue of Brexit.\n\nBut ultimately these rules could have an important impact on everyday life. There are real concerns about whether the UK's new trade deals will see our markets opened up to sub-standard products from abroad - but also about the security of cross-border trade between the four nations, which is hugely important to many businesses.\n\nA lot of the nuance in this complex debate risks being lost amid the political rammy.", "The Republic of Ireland has decided not to move forward to Phase 4 of its roadmap for easing lockdown amid concerns about the spread of Covid-19.\n\n\"This virus has not changed, indiscriminate in its cruelty and relentless,\" said the taoiseach.\n\n\"The concern about the rise in cases in recent weeks is very real, the R (reproductive) number has risen above 1 in this country,\" Micheál Martin said.\n\nMr Martin said the Irish cabinet had agreed that current public health measures should remain in place and the Republic of Ireland would not progress to Phase 4 of the agreed roadmap.\n\nHe was speaking following a meeting with his cabinet colleagues on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe five key priorities identified by Irish government are:\n\nPhase 4 of Ireland's plan to move out of lockdown - which could have seen pubs that do not serve food reopen- was due to start on Monday.\n\nIt comes as two further Covid-19-related deaths were recorded in the Republic - the death toll is now 1,748.\n\nPubs will not now reopen until 10 August\n\nFourteen new cases of coronavirus have also been recorded, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 25,683.\n\nPubs and hotel bars operating as restaurants have already been allowed to reopen, under Phase 3. They are only allowed to serve alcohol to customers who purchase a \"substantial\" meal.\n\nThe news that the country will not move forward comes amid concerns about a rising number of new cases of the virus - particularity in young people - since lockdown eased and the Republic of Ireland opened up again.\n\nThere has been an increase in the number of clusters of Covid-19 in private households, particularly in the last week.\n\nCurrently a maximum of 50 people are allowed to gather indoors. This had been due to rise to 100 on 20 July.\n\nSome 200 people can gather outside. This had been due to increase to 500 in Phase 4 of the easing of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe increase in the size of crowds permitted would have allowed cultural and arts facilities, such as theatres, cinemas and galleries, to reopen their doors.\n• None Ireland to further ease restrictions on Monday", "Workers are self-isolating at the Herefordshire farm\n\nA further 19 workers have tested positive for coronavirus on a farm which went into lockdown.\n\nVegetable producers A S Green and Co in Herefordshire ordered crop-pickers to self-isolate after 74 tested positive.\n\nHerefordshire Council and Public Health England (PHE) said the number of cases had now risen to 93.\n\nTwo groups of workers who arrived in the UK via bus and plane - including some who worked at A S Green - are being traced as a precaution.\n\nIn a joint statement, the council and PHE said those who tested positive were not showing symptoms when they travelled to the UK.\n\nThey have begun contact tracing with a group of workers who travelled into the UK by private coach, including some who went on to work at A S Green and Co.\n\nAuthorities in Scotland have been notified about a group of 63 workers on the same flight who travelled to Scottish farms, the statement said.\n\nNo cases have been identified among a further 76 workers on the flight who went on to other farms in England.\n\nThree workers, including one who had tested positive for Covid-19, have been traced after they left the site against health officials' advice.\n\nAll are said to be self-isolating.\n\nOn Wednesday, Herefordshire Council said a fourth worker who tested negative for the virus had also left the site. They are also said to be self-isolating.\n\nAbout 200 workers are in quarantine at the site's live-in accommodation, and others are being tested, the council said.\n\nKaren Wright, Director of Public Health for Herefordshire, said: \"We continue to test workers at the farm and expect to see the number of cases rise over the coming days before social distancing and infection prevention measures start to take effect.\n\n\"We're aware that local residents are concerned, but the risk to the general public remains low.\"\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 appealed for witnesses to come forward\n\nTwo women have died after a crash involving a car and a lorry in Gwynedd.\n\nParamedics attended the scene on the A487 between Garndolbenmaen and Penmorfa, Porthmadog, shortly after 15:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe driver of a red Volkswagen Polo and her passenger were both pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the road was closed while it dealt with the incident before it later reopened.\n\nThe force asked anyone with information about the crash involving a yellow rigid flatbed lorry to contact them.\n\nSgt Emlyn Hughes of the force's Roads Policing Unit said: \"Our thoughts remain with the family of those who died. They will now be supported by specially-trained family liaison officers.\n\n\"I am urging anybody who may have witnessed the collision, or anybody who was travelling along the A487 just prior to the collision and who may have dashcam footage to come forward.\n\n\"We now need to piece together what happened, so anybody who has information that could assist with the investigation is asked to contact us urgently.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The swabs in some batches of one brand of coronavirus home-test kits are \"not up to standard\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nAs a precaution, the government says the kits made by Randox should not be used until further notice.\n\nThere is no evidence of harm being done and no impact on access to testing, Mr Hancock said.\n\nRandox claims to be responsible for up to 17% of the total tests carried out in the UK.\n\nThe company is a healthcare diagnostics group based out of County Antrim in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe swabs are used to collect a sample from the back of the throat and nose, which is then sent to a lab to test for the virus.\n\nMr Hancock told the Commons he was contacted on Wednesday afternoon about the problem.\n\nHe said the certification behind the CE safety mark on the product was \"not forthcoming\".\n\nIn a statement earlier on Thursday, the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"The risk to safety is low and test results from Randox kits are not affected.\"\n\nIt said it would be \"supporting all testing settings to receive replacement kits as soon as possible\".\n\nTests kits produced by Randox Laboratories, which have been used in care homes and sent to people at home, are clearly marked with the company's name.\n\nKits that have already been used can still be collected for processing as normal.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding, head of NHS Test and Trace in England, which has a separate contract with Randox, said it was too early to comment on the impact of the safety issue, but she said test results were \"not affected\".\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The way the UK reports unemployment may not reflect the \"true scale of joblessness\", says a think tank.\n\nUnemployment rose by 34,000 in April to reach 1.3 million, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBut the Resolution Foundation argues that the 23% drop in average hours worked between early March and late April is a better indicator of unemployment.\n\nThe ONS said it publishes a large selection of analysis on employment.\n\nOfficial numbers on how many people are out of work and claiming unemployment benefits will be published on Thursday.\n\nResolution Foundation chief economist Mike Brewer said: \"Britain is in the midst of an unprecedented economic shock that is profoundly affecting millions of people's jobs.\n\n\"Unemployment is forecast to hit 4 million for the first time ever. And yet our official data is failing to show the true extent of this jobs crisis.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the government's budgetary watchdog, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR), projected that unemployment could reach 4 million people, if the UK's economic recovery is poor, up from 1.3 million in 2019 in its latest analysis.\n\nMeanwhile, data for people claiming benefits soared to 2.3 million for April.\n\nBut these figures could include some people who are eligible to claim support while still employed. The ONS said: \"Enhancements to Universal Credit, as part of the UK government's response to the coronavirus, mean that an increasing number of people became eligible for unemployment-related benefit support, although still employed.\"\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says this data is not a good reflection of the true picture either because it includes furloughed workers who initially made a claim when the crisis first struck.\n\nThe think tank says it estimates that \"fewer than half (700,000) of the 1.6 million increase in the claimant count between March and May is related to people who are newly out-of-work, and not receiving furlough pay or self-employed grants from the government\".\n\nIt urges the ONS to make more of its ability to count the number of workers who are employed and not temporarily without work, alongside the headline employment rate, as this would provide \"a far more accurate picture of labour market activity\".\n\nThe ONS said it agreed that data on hours worked was an important component in understanding the unemployment picture in the UK.\n\n\"However, our detailed Labour Force Survey estimates are based on interviews with tens of thousands of people and provide vital detail not available from any other source,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It is difficult to interpret claimant count figures, as we know these include some people in work.\"\n\n\"Measuring the labour market, like many areas of the economy, presents additional challenges at the moment, especially with so many people furloughed. That is why the ONS has introduced new surveys and data sources to provide the best possible indicators of the impact of the pandemic. \"\n\nSeparately, the British Chambers of Commerce is warning that almost a third of UK businesses (28%) they surveyed expect to cut jobs in the next three months.\n\nThe figure compares to last year, when only 7% expected to do so.\n\nSome 7,400 firms took part in the BCC survey, which found more than a quarter of the firms (28%) said they had already shrunk their workforces since the pandemic began.", "Ms Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nShamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship, the Court of Appeal has ruled.\n\nMs Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015.\n\nHer citizenship was revoked by the Home Office on security grounds after she was found in a refugee camp in 2019.\n\nThe Court of Appeal said she had been denied a fair hearing because she could not make her case from the Syrian camp.\n\nThe Home Office said the decision was \"very disappointing\" and it would \"apply for permission to appeal\".\n\nThe ruling means the government must now find a way to allow the 20-year-old, who is currently in Camp Roj in northern Syria, to appear in court in London despite repeatedly saying it would not assist removing her from Syria.\n\nLord Justice Flaux - sitting with Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Singh - said: \"Fairness and justice must, on the facts of this case, outweigh the national security concerns, so that the leave to enter appeals should be allowed.\"\n\nThe judge also said that the national security concerns about her \"could be addressed and managed if she returns to the United Kingdom\".\n\nFormer Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who made the decision to strip Ms Begum of her citizenship in February 2019, tweeted a statement saying he was \"deeply concerned about the judgement\".\n\nHe said that regardless of the outcome of her case, if Ms Begum came to the UK \"it will prove impossible to subsequently remove her\".\n\nDaniel Furner, Ms Begum's solicitor, said: \"Ms Begum has never had a fair opportunity to give her side of the story.\n\n\"She is not afraid of facing British justice, she welcomes it. But the stripping of her citizenship without a chance to clear her name is not justice, it is the opposite.\"\n\nHer father Ahmed Ali told the BBC he was \"delighted\" by the ruling, adding that he hoped his daughter would get \"justice\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said that while the government \"doesn't routinely comment on individual cases\", the decisions it made about Ms Begum had not been \"taken lightly\".\n\nHe said the government would \"always ensure the safety and security of the UK and will not allow anything to jeopardise this\".\n\nShamima Begum is not yet packing her bags to return to the UK - there's no government plane warming up the engines at a military airfield to bring the young Eastender home.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal could not have been clearer in its wording - she needs to be allowed back to make her case in the interests of justice.\n\nThis is an unprecedented ruling - and the government has a matter of weeks to convince the Supreme Court to look at it again.\n\nIf it stands, it could have major implications for the UK's policy of excluding some British-born IS supporters by depriving them of nationality once they're out of the UK.\n\nScores of these people - all deemed a threat to national security - could seek to return to the UK as they fight their case to get back their British citizenship.\n\nOther governments have voluntarily repatriated these fighters and sought to contain their threat through prosecutions, monitoring and intensive deradicalisation. The UK has so far refused to do the same.\n\nMs Begum's legal team challenged the move on three grounds - that it was unlawful because it left her stateless; it exposed her to a real risk of death or inhuman and degrading treatment; and she could not effectively challenge the decision while she was barred from returning to the UK.\n\nUnder international law, it is only legal to revoke someone's citizenship if an individual is entitled to citizenship of another country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum spoke to the BBC from a refugee camp in Syria in February 2019\n\nIn February, a specialist tribunal - the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) - ruled that the decision to remove Ms Begum's citizenship was lawful because she was \"a citizen of Bangladesh by descent\".\n\nShe is understood to have a claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother.\n\nSIAC, a semi-secret court which hears national security cases, also said that although there were concerns about how Ms Begum could take part in the proceedings in London, those difficulties did not mean the home secretary's decision should be overturned.\n\nIn his ruling on Thursday, Lord Justice Flaux said: \"It is difficult to conceive of any case where a court or tribunal has said we cannot hold a fair trial, but we are going to go on anyway.\"\n\nHuman rights organisation Liberty, which intervened in Ms Begum's appeal, welcomed the ruling, saying the right to a fair trial was \"a fundamental part of our justice system and equal access to justice must apply to everyone\".\n\nLiberty lawyer Katie Lines added: \"Banishing someone is the act of a government shirking its responsibilities and it is critical that cruel and irresponsible government decisions can be properly challenged and overturned.\"\n\nMs Begum left Bethnal Green, in east London, aged 15 for Syria in February 2015, with two school friends.\n\nWithin days she had crossed the Turkish border and eventually reached the IS headquarters at Raqqa, where she married a Dutch convert recruit. They had three children - all of whom have since died.", "That's all from us here on BBC Scotland's live page, on Thursday 16 July 2020.\n• Pupils will not have to physically distance when Scotland's schools return in August, but teachers will, new advice to the government has suggested\n• People who are \"shielding\" will have virus restrictions eased from Friday\n\nTeachers may not have to wear face coverings if they can keep 2m away from pupils and other staff Image caption: Teachers may not have to wear face coverings if they can keep 2m away from pupils and other staff\n• The percentage of people in Scotland who have been exposed to coronavirus is likely to be less than 5%\n• Unemployment in Scotland rose between March and May as the impact of lockdown was felt, official figures indicate .\n\nFinally, the first minister confirmed she was to scale back the daily coronavirus briefings to three days a week over the next fortnight.\n\nSo we'll be back on Tuesday with our live page. Until then, take care and stay safe.", "\"It was finished, but it has become unfinished\" - welcome to what seems to be extremely tricky wrangling over the report into Home Secretary Priti Patel's alleged behaviour towards staff.\n\nIt is a long time now since I spent a very strange Saturday morning, standing in the pouring rain in North London, listening up close to the extraordinary resignation statement from the top official at her department, Sir Philip Rutnam.\n\nThe former mandarin announced his intention to sue the government, making a series of incendiary allegations about how she acted.\n\nThe home secretary fervently denied his version of events, but as you would expect, the Cabinet Office swiftly announced that there would have to be a separate investigation into whether she had broken the ministerial code - the rules that guide how senior politicians are meant to behave in office.\n\nThe Cabinet Minister Michael Gove confirmed to MPs a matter of days later that it was \"vital this investigation is concluded as quickly as possible in the interests of everyone involved\".\n\nAt that stage, no one would have bargained on the coronavirus pandemic slamming the brakes on much of the business of government with its urgent demands.\n\nBut as Parliament looks to the summer break, there is an increasing sense of tension over what on earth has happened to the report into the home secretary - one of the most senior politicians in the country, the most senior woman in government - who Boris Johnson would be loath to lose.\n\nGiven the importance of her position in government, and the sensitivities around the issue, almost everyone you try to talk to about it sighs when the subject is raised.\n\nIt is not very easy to get to the bottom of exactly what is going on. It is clear however, that there is a problem.\n\nSome in Ms Patel's camp suggest that the hold up in the government's own inquiry may be down to the separate employment tribunal claim being pursued by Sir Philip through the legal system.\n\nThat is dismissed as nonsense by those backing his claim. Dave Penman from the FDA union which represents senior civil servants told me \"it's quite separate from the tribunal process.\"\n\nThere are no restrictions whatever on the prime minister around making a decision. The tribunal may not even take place until next year.\n\nOne senior official told me the initial inquiry into how the home secretary had behaved hadn't come up with much, there was nothing really amiss.\n\nOfficials in fact had been preparing to publish the outcome more than a month ago.\n\nBut then \"there was a pause\". And after another bit of work, it's suggested some issues were uncovered, but that there was no slam dunk finding that would make it impossible for her to stay on in her job.\n\nTwo separate sources concur that the inquiry has found some evidence of poor behaviour during her time in government.\n\nBut according to the senior official the report itself has since been \"parked\".\n\nNot, it's said, because it contains the kind of explosive material that would require the home secretary's automatic exit.\n\nBut because no one agrees what to do next hence, in a phrase worthy of the fictional Sir Humphrey himself, the report is now 'unfinished'.\n\nOne of the suggestions I'm told is that officials believe that there should be some \"learning\" for the home secretary, or perhaps even an apology for past mistakes, but there is not much enthusiasm on Downing Street's side for that.\n\nThere are even claims, that are denied by the Cabinet Office, that the senior official who has put the report together has threatened to resign over Number 10's reluctance to act.\n\nBut several insiders have also suggested that the tension is, in part, a result of the less than happy wider atmosphere between the Cabinet Office and Downing Street.\n\nUnease is thick in the air in Whitehall over No 10's plans for shaking up the civil service.\n\nThe service boss is on his way out, the prime minister's team are set on making change.\n\nHackles are up. Nerves are fraught. Bullying allegations against one of the most senior politicians in the land would, at any time, create tensions around the place.\n\nNeither Ms Patel's team, nor Downing Street will comment. Any kind of bullying allegation has always been and is still firmly denied by Ms Patel.\n\nAnd her allies say that she is still in the dark about what is in the report itself, and was told, it's claimed, near the start of the process, that there had been no formal complaints.\n\nBut this is a messy business, and it is nearly five months since the start.\n\nIf the decision to publish is to be made before the end of this Parliamentary session, it has to happen soon.\n\nOne insider joked the decision may come towards the end of next week, part of \"dump week\", when the government pushes out a flurry of announcements before MPs disappear for the summer.\n\nBut in the end, believe it nor, the government is under no obligation to publish the full findings.\n\nThe ministerial code has many pages, many principles, and many rules.\n\nBut whatever the investigation has found, the code makes plain it is for the Prime Minister himself to decide what to do.", "Wretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of his father falling downstairs after being Tasered\n\nNo further action will be taken by the Met Police over the Tasering of rapper Wretch 32's father, the force has said.\n\nThe 35-year-old musician posted a video on Twitter of Millard Scott falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in north London in April.\n\nThe case was referred to the police watchdog at the force's request but it was then passed back to the Met.\n\nThe force said there had been no public complaint or indication of misconduct so no further action would be taken.\n\n\"Should a public complaint be made or information provided about injuries we will re-refer the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC),\" the force added.\n\nOfficers had gone to the address in Bromley Road, Tottenham, on 21 April as part of an operation to tackle a drugs supply linked to serious violence in Haringey.\n\nAs they entered the building, they were confronted by a man who \"started moving towards an officer suddenly\", the force said.\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\nFootage posted online showed Mr Scott tumbling downstairs at his home after an officer was heard to warn: \"Police officer with a Taser. Stay where you are.\"\n\nThe 62-year-old was assessed by paramedics but did not require treatment.\n\nA 22-year-old man inside the address was arrested and later charged with encouraging another to commit an offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007.\n\nA 52-year-old woman was also later charged with obstructing/resisting a police constable in the execution of duties.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Met's Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House told members of the London Assembly that the IOPC had decided that the matter should be handled internally by the force \"in a reasonable and proportionate manner\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the IOPC confirmed it was because they had \"not received a public complaint or confirmation the man involved sustained a serious injury\".\n\nScotland Yard has previously spoken with the family about any concerns they had about the Tasering and said they would now write to Mr Scott to tell him about the decision.\n\nCommander Treena Fleming said the force understood why the use of a Taser \"did look alarming in this case\".\n\n\"Met officers are highly trained to engage, explain and try to resolve situations, using force only when absolutely necessary.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS in England will get an extra £3bn of funding to prepare for a possible second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe funding will also help ease winter pressures on the health service, Downing Street said.\n\nIt follows warnings a second wave this winter could see as many as 120,000 Covid-19 deaths in UK hospitals.\n\nThe prime minister made the funding commitment at a No 10 briefing, where he also pledged a new testing target.\n\nCapacity will be increased to at least 500,000 tests a day by the end of October, Mr Johnson said.\n\nConfirming the extra £3bn in funding for the NHS in England, he said Covid-19 could become \"more virulent\" in winter.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"Demand for testing is not the only challenge that winter will bring. It's possible that the virus will be more virulent in the winter months and it's certain that the NHS will face the usual annual winter pressures.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're making sure we're ready for winter and planning for the worst.\"\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive additional funds, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called for an urgent review into how coronavirus deaths have been recorded in England.\n\nDowning Street said the new NHS funding would be available immediately and would allow the NHS to continue using additional private hospital capacity and maintain the temporary Nightingale hospitals until the end of March 2021.\n\nThis will provide additional capacity for coronavirus patients, as well as allowing the NHS to carry out routine treatments and procedures, No 10 said.\n\nNon-urgent operations were suspended as the UK went into lockdown, to free up hospital beds during the first wave of coronavirus - but in May NHS England told hospitals they should restart procedures.\n\nIn normal times an announcement of £3bn to help the NHS in England cope with winter pressures might look generous.\n\nBut these are not normal times as the government pumps tens of billions into the economy to soften the blows of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe head of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, has been in talks with the Treasury to get guarantees that the Nightingale hospitals can stay open through until next spring in case there is another Covid surge.\n\nHe also wanted secure funding in place to do a deal with private hospitals to help tackle the backlog of cancelled non urgent operations such as hip and knee replacements.\n\nThat money now seems to have been secured, though we await further details.\n\nThe question is, will this be enough to get the health service through what could be one of the most difficult winters in its history?\n\nThere have been predictions that the waiting list for routine surgery will swell to 10 million as fears of a second wave of Covid cases in the depths of winter won't go away.\n\nHighlighting other measures to protect the NHS as it heads into the winter, Mr Johnson said the government would carry out the biggest flu vaccination programme in the history of the health service, while supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators had also increased.\n\nThe announcement was made as the prime minister announced a further easing of lockdown measures.\n\nThe prime minister encouraged people to return to using public transport, while advice for employers will change from 1 August.\n\nFrom the beginning of next month, Mr Johnson said employers would have more discretion to bring staff back to the workplace providing it was safe to do so.\n\nSince late March the government had been advising people to work from home if possible to help curb coronavirus.\n\nLast week Mr Johnson had signalled a change, saying: \"I think we should now say, well, 'Go back to work if you can'.\"\n\nBut the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told MPs on Thursday there was \"absolutely no reason\" to change the government's current guidance on working from home.\n\nSir Patrick wore a mask as he spoke to the Commons Science and Technology Committee on Thursday\n\nEarlier this week a report, requested by Sir Patrick, called for immediate action to reduce the risks posed by a second wave of coronavirus this winter.\n\nAmong its recommendations were increasing the capacity of the test and trace programme and having more people vaccinated against flu.\n\nAsked to model a \"reasonable\" worst-case scenario, scientists suggested a range of between 24,500 and 251,000 virus-related deaths in hospitals alone, peaking in January and February.\n\nThe estimate does not take into account any lockdowns, treatments or vaccines.\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\nResearch suggests the virus can survive longer in colder conditions and is more likely to spread when people spend more time indoors.\n\nExperts are also concerned the NHS will be under extreme pressure, not just from a resurgence of coronavirus but also from seasonal flu and a backlog of regular, non-coronavirus workload.\n\nThe British Medical Association chairman, Chaand Nagpaul, has called for more detail on how the £3bn funding will be used.\n\n\"The government talks of winter planning, but we need transparency on this, including how far this money can stretch in tackling a modelled worst-case forecast - including a second peak, additional non-Covid demand and a possible flu outbreak,\" Dr Nagpaul said.\n\n\"Crucially, the government must make prevention a priority and take every necessary step to try and avoid a national second spike all together.\"\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospitals and other NHS organisations, echoed the call for clarity over what the money will be used for, saying funding is already in place for Nightingale hospitals and private beds.\n\nWhile welcoming the financial support, deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery added: \"Trusts need more than that. They have got to recover the lost ground of the last four or five months and put measures in place to manage the additional activity that always happens in winter.\"", "British Gas-owner Centrica will tell thousands of staff to accept new working conditions, including no extra overtime pay, or risk their jobs.\n\nThe firm said if employees don't sign the contract, there will be a fresh wave of layoffs, although it insists that is a \"last resort\".\n\nCentrica has already outlined 5,000 job cuts as customer numbers tumble.\n\nThe firm said it had \"been open about the changes\" needed to win back customers.\n\nThe proposals are all subject to a consultation period with unions, the company stressed.\n\n\"Our employees' base pay and pensions will be protected, but simplifying and modernising their terms is essential if we're to become more flexible and price competitive,\" said Centrica.\n\n\"We have over 80 different employee contracts with 7,000 variations of terms, many of which are outdated and stop us delivering for customers.\"\n\nUnions and workers said they were concerned about the move and criticised the timing amid lockdown.\n\n\"They are using this as an excuse because they know we can't even have discussions and meetings,\" said one British Gas engineer, who has worked for the firm for more than 15 years and spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity.\n\n\"This really is a divide-and-conquer moment.\"\n\nThe company says it must become more competitive to protect jobs in the long term.\n\nCentrica proposes to fix overtime pay at the same rate as regular hours, according to a presentation seen by the BBC.\n\nPreviously, overtime could attract double the hourly rate, depending on a worker's contract.\n\nEngineers who might previously have been asked to work shifts between 08:00 and 20:00 in the busier winter period could be allocated hours any time between 06:00 and 23:00.\n\nCentrica follows British Airways in combining proposed layoffs with new contracts which unions describe as unfavourable. Both companies insist the deal offered is fair.\n\n\"What is really painful is that when this coronavirus kicked off, we all rose to the challenge,\" said the engineer.\n\nHe and other British Gas workers volunteered to deliver meals for vulnerable people for the Trussell Trust.\n\nThis gave him and his colleagues a sense of purpose, he said, together with continuing to repair broken heating systems during lockdown.\n\n\"We were going into houses. We were feeling proud, as we were key workers,\" he said. \"It's a huge slap in the face.\"\n\nCentrica said a so-called Section 188 notice, which employers are obliged to give to workers' representatives if they are considering large-scale layoffs, was a last resort if workers did not agree the new terms.\n\n\"We've been open about the changes we need to make to win back customers, grow our company and protect jobs in the long run,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nThe GMB union said it had started talks with the company on planned changes, as Centrica has set a deadline of agreeing a deal with employees before winter.\n\nAssistant general secretary Christina McAnea of the Unison union branded the move \"disgraceful behaviour\".\n\n\"Employees have worked hard throughout the past few months to ensure customers are well-served, despite the pandemic,\" she said. \"This is no way for company directors to repay them.\"\n\nThe company is scrambling to stem the flow of customers from its energy supply business.\n\nLast month, it began trialling a cheaper, digital-only brand under the name British Gas X.\n\nIt also already plans job cuts at its head office.\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 has about 27,000 employees, with 20,000 of these based in the UK.", "The world's poorest \"will pay the greatest price\" of plans to merge the Department for International Development (Dfid) with the Foreign Office, MPs have said.\n\nAnnouncing the plans, Boris Johnson said the \"long overdue reform\" would ensure \"maximum value\" for taxpayers.\n\nBut the Commons International Development Committee called the move \"impulsive\".\n\nIts report also said the decision could reduce the UK's international standing.\n\nIt also criticised the lack of consultation with the development sector before the decision was taken. Former prime ministers David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair have also criticised the move.\n\nThe timing of the merger, in the middle of the global coronavirus crisis, was \"perplexing\", the report said. \"Now is not the time for a major government restructure,\" it added.\n\nIt recommends the retention of a minister responsible for development, as well as a specific related Commons committee.\n\nThe government's current plans do not include retaining Dfid's current secretary of state, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, in her post.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson has pledged that the department's budget will be protected and will still be ring-fenced for aid projects.\n\nChair Sarah Champion, a Labour MP, said Dfid \"is something we should all be proud of\", adding that it was \"deeply disappointing that the government failed to recognise\" the department's strengths.\n\n\"Now we are on the brink of this expertise being lost and our international reputation being damaged beyond repair.\n\n\"The fact that there was no consultation, seemingly no evidence as to why this is a good idea, really lets down the communities that UK aid is there to support,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will place our world-class development programmes at the heart of our foreign policy.\n\n\"Combining the development expertise of Dfid with the diplomatic reach of the Foreign Office will maximise the impact of our aid budget in helping the very poorest, while making sure we get the very best value for UK taxpayers' money in a world-leading department.\"", "US and UK intelligence agencies claim state-sponsored Russian hackers are trying to hijack internet hardware\n\nThe latest warning of Russian intrusions is another sign that cyber-space is becoming one of the focal points for growing tension between Russia and the West.\n\nBut so far, much of the talk about cyber-war remains hypothetical rather than real.\n\nIt is true that Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is on high alert for the possibility of some kind of Russian activity. More people and resources have been devoted to monitoring and investigation.\n\nThere has also been outreach to companies to warn them on what to look out for and what to do.\n\n\"Russia is our most capable hostile adversary in cyber-space, so dealing with their attacks is a major priority for the National Cyber Security Centre and our US allies,\" NCSC chief Ciaran Martin said in a statement.\n\nBut so far, there has not been any sign of a significant cyber-attack or change of behaviour from Russia.\n\nThat is not to say that officials are not seeing any Russian activity. Quite the opposite, the reality is that they are almost always seeing Russian activity and they have done for close to 20 years.\n\nRussian espionage - the theft of information - dates back at least to the late 1990s.\n\nMore recently, in the past few years, officials in the UK and US have said they have seen Russia pre-positioning in networks that are part of the critical infrastructure in a way that could be used for destructive acts of sabotage, for instance taking down parts of the electricity grid.\n\nIt is possible that Russian intrusions may be increasing. But it is too early to know for sure if this is the case, since it takes time to spot this - if it is spotted at all - and to be sure it is Russian.\n\nThe crucial thing is whether Russia actually employs its offensive capability to actually do something destructive.\n\nSo far, there has been relatively little sign of this in the US or UK, although Russia is accused of launching destructive attacks against Ukraine, which spilled over into companies that did business there.\n\nIt is worth saying that Britain and the US will be carrying out almost identical activities in Russia, pre-positioning in Russian networks to be able to respond.\n\nWhat no-one is quite sure of is whether this creates a deterrent a bit like mutually assured nuclear destruction in the Cold War. Or if the fact that cyber-attacks are harder to trace and at least partially deniable - unlike a nuclear missile - makes the threshold for action much lower.\n\nIt was notable though that the head of GCHQ last week made public reference to the use of Britain's offensive cyber-capability.\n\n\"For well over a decade, starting in the conflict in Afghanistan, GCHQ has pioneered the development and use of offensive cyber-techniques,\" said Jeremy Fleming.\n\n\"And by that I mean taking action online that has direct real world impact.\"\n\nIn this case, Mr Fleming was talking about activities targeting the Islamic State group.\n\n\"We may look to deny service, disrupt a specific online activity, deter an individual or a group, or perhaps even destroy equipment and networks,\" he said.\n\nTalking publicly about the capability is also likely to be seen as a means of warning Russia that Britain could respond if it was targeted.\n\nOne possibility is that Russia could take action primarily in the information space.\n\nIt has already been accused of unleashing bots and trolls to push its narrative of the Salisbury poisoning, although such activity does not fall under the traditional definition of a cyber-attack.\n\nIt has previously been alleged that a hacking group called Fancy Bears has worked with the Russian military\n\nBut it could use cyber-intrusions to steal compromising data and then release this into the public domain to punish those it is opposing.\n\nThis tactic was used with information stolen from sporting anti-doping bodies but also in the case of the Democratic National Committee in the US.\n\nSuch activity is a reminder that cyber-space should not be seen as somehow completely separate from other fields of activity - whether information flows or traditional military activity.\n\nParticularly in the Russian doctrine of hybrid warfare, it is simply part of a continuum.\n\nBut as the field that is newest, the rules in cyber-space of what constitutes war and an attack are much less clear. And that may be the danger, as miscalculation could lead to escalation.", "Strict physical distancing measures will be in place when trials resume at the High Court in Edinburgh\n\nThe first High Court trial in Scotland since lockdown will get under way in Edinburgh on Monday.\n\nDigital technology has been installed to allow the jury to watch the case from a different room within the court building on the Royal Mile.\n\nIf successful, it could lead to juries operating from remote locations such as conference centres or even cinemas.\n\nThe proposals were drafted by a working group which includes representatives from across the justice sector.\n\nLord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, who chairs the group, said: \"The challenges in conducting a 15-person jury trial in a physically distanced environment cannot be underestimated and I would like to thank all those involved for their commitment to ensure that justice is delivered safely.\"\n\nThe last trial to take place at Edinburgh High Court was that of the former first minister Alex Salmond.\n\nIt started more than a week after the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in Scotland.\n\nAlex Salmond with his defence lawyer Gordon Jackson QC outside the High Court in Edinburgh after he was cleared of sex assault charges\n\nOn 23 March, the day Mr Salmond was cleared of sexually assaulting nine women, he addressed a scrum of camera crews, photographers and reporters.\n\nHours later Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the UK-wide lockdown in a televised address to the nation.\n\nThe last High Court trial in Scotland ended in Glasgow the following day.\n\nThe High Court hears the most serious criminal cases in the land, with sixteen trials normally running every day in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Livingston.\n\nBut the backlog that was already there before lockdown has grown over the last four months.\n\nBy August, 750 High Court cases will be in the system waiting to go, delaying justice for victims and accused alike.\n\nTape in the dock reminds the accused to keep their distance from the security guards\n\nThose arriving at court are reminded to maintain a \"safe 2m distance\" from others in the building\n\nA working group chaired by a senior judge was set up to find solutions, and on Monday the High Court in Edinburgh will begin a new chapter in social distancing for the judicial system.\n\nThe accused will be in the dock flanked by socially-distanced security guards, with room for the media in the public gallery.\n\nThe general public will not be allowed in and the jury will be present only in digital form.\n\nCourt number three, a huge room that has witnessed some of Scotland's most notorious murder trials, will from next week take on a very different role.\n\nScattered around the room each juror will sit in front of a monitor showing different views of the trial being held downstairs.\n\nOn Monday, 15 jurors and five or more substitutes will be balloted remotely, then asked to come to the court to hear the case.\n\nIt means jury trials will be up and running again but very few of them will take place initially.\n\nOne option under consideration is to use the same technology with the juries in remote locations like cinemas and conference centres.\n\nRonnie Renucci QC, president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association, told BBC Scotland: \"If that particular model is favoured then, because it frees up courts, then there should be no reason why we can't at least get jury trials up and running in the High Court to the levels they were running before.\n\n\"Now we appreciate that might take time and it will be a slow build but we certainly feel that we can get there.\"\n\nA second trial will begin in Glasgow on Tuesday, with the jury sitting in the public gallery of the courtroom.\n\nThe Scottish government is considering other ideas which would require a change in the law.\n\nIt has been suggested the country could have smaller juries, like it did during World War Two.\n\nMultiple cameras in court will allow jurors to follow the action\n\nThe pressure is on to find a solution as Victim Support Scotland says the delays and uncertainty are having a huge impact on the mental health of people affected by serious crime.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf welcomed the \"innovative approaches\" taken to enable trials to resume.\n\nHe said: \"I am very conscious of the impact of the pandemic on justice systems across the world and the inevitable backlog of cases that require to be dealt with as a result of this.\n\n\"Behind each delayed jury trial are victims, witnesses and accused, who are all anxious to have their day in court and move on with their lives.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said \"further operational and legislative options\" were being considered.\n\nHe added: \"While no single solution will be sufficient, the resumption of solemn trials is an important milestone on the journey to recovery for the Scotland's court system and the safe administration of justice in the most serious cases.\"\n\nThe Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has published an information pamphlet and a separate information sheet for jurors detailing the measures in place to ensure the safety of all parties.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Henry's wives in Six: Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Parr\n\nA major tour of the hit musical Six, which had sold out several drive-in venues in the UK, has been cancelled due to uncertainties over local lockdowns.\n\nThe concert series, organised by Live Nation, was also expected to feature performances by Kaiser Chiefs, Dizzee Rascal, Sigala and others.\n\nPromoters said the \"latest developments over local lockdowns\" meant they couldn't proceed \"with any confidence\".\n\nSix's producer, Kenny Wax, said on Wednesday: \"We are so very disappointed to have received the news of the cancellation earlier today.\n\n\"The previous hour has been spent telling the 60 members of our company that the job they were about to embark on has disappeared.\n\n\"We know that ultimately there is nothing more important than the safety and wellbeing of our company and the Six Queendom [the show's fans]. We look forward to better times.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes at the Arts Theatre in London to meet the sassy women in King Henry VIII's life\n\nWax added that the tour of the West End musical, which is based on the six wives of King Henry VIII, had been designed not as a money-maker but to put dozens of freelancers back to work.\n\nThe drive-in shows were announced last month, with outdoor venues such as airports and race courses booked in 12 cities, including Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Edinburgh and Bristol.\n\nThey were designed \"as a way to reimagine the live music experience during a time of social distancing by allowing fans to enjoy concerts in the safest way possible,\" said Live Nation's Peter Taylor.\n\nConcert-goers would have been able to stand outside their vehicles in allocated spaces, or sit in their fold-out chairs, although umbrellas were not permitted. Attendees were also banned from bringing their own food.\n\nHowever, with concern growing over coronavirus \"hotspots\" in some locations - including Liverpool, where a week of gigs was planned - organisers have decided to pull the plug.\n\nAn artist's impression of what drive-in gigs could look like\n\nA statement from organisers said: \"The Live From The Drive-In concert series will no longer proceed as planned this summer.\n\n\"We received huge support from artists, the live music production contractors... and of course you, the fans. However, the latest developments regarding localised lockdowns mean it has become impossible for us to continue with the series with any confidence.\n\n\"We thank everyone for their support and eagerly await a time when we can watch live music together again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Danes have learned to embrace live music drive-ins\n\nOther socially-distanced gigs are still set to go ahead this summer. The Comedy Story is hosting a series of drive-in shows at rugby grounds and racetracks throughout July and August; while Gosforth Park in Newcastle will see performances by Supergrass, The Libertines and Maxïmo Park next month.\n\nThose shows will take place at what's been billed as the \"UK's first socially-distanced live arena\", where fans will have their own private viewing platforms, placed two metres apart with food and drinks available for pre-order.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK and US have issued a joint warning cyber-spies are targeting the health sector.\n\nHackers linked to foreign states have been hunting for information, including Covid-19 data and vaccine research, they say.\n\nUK sources say they have seen extensive activity but do not believe there has been any data theft so far.\n\nThose behind the activity are not named in the alert but are thought to include China, Russia and Iran.\n\nThe three countries have all seen major outbreaks of the virus but have denied previous claims of involvement in such activity.\n\nThe joint advisory says the UK and US are currently investigating a number of incidents in which other states are targeting pharmaceutical companies, medical-research organisations, and universities, looking for intelligence and sensitive data, including research on the virus.\n\nUnderstanding how other countries are dealing with the Covid-19 crisis and progress in research has become a high priority for intelligence agencies around the world.\n\nIn a crisis, every state will want to use its intelligence capability to better inform itself.\n\nAnd in a locked-down world, cyber-espionage is more practical than traditional human espionage, making it another field where an existing trend towards online working may be accelerated.\n\nAnalysts say they are seeing a particular rise in aggressive operations from a range of states at the moment.\n\nAnd this has meant organisations that might not have considered themselves to be top targets for hackers from foreign states are now in their sights.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been working with these organisations since the start of the crisis, to offer advice and protection.\n\nAnd the new public advisory, issued jointly with its US equivalent, the Cyber-security and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA), aims to further increase awareness of the threat.\n\n\"In today's world, there is nothing more valuable or worth stealing than any kind of biomedical research that is going to help with a coronavirus vaccine,\" senior US intelligence official Bill Evanina told BBC News last week.\n\nAt Tuesday's daily briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"As well as providing practical advice, the UK will continue to counter those who conduct cyber-attacks.\n\n\"And we're working very closely with our international partners both to respond to the threats but also to deter the gangs and the arms of state who lie behind them.\"\n\nUK authorities are understood to have offered advice to Oxford University, at the leading edge of developing a vaccine, and Imperial College in London, which has played a key role in the epidemiological modelling that has shaped policy responses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe advisory warns cyber-spies are targeting supply chains and taking advantage of people remotely working, with a technique called password-spraying - in which they try to use commonly used passwords to access accounts.\n\nAnd cyber-criminals could target healthcare providers, knowing they may be even more willing than usual to pay a ransom for the return of their data.\n\n\"Protecting the healthcare sector is the NCSC's first and foremost priority at this time and we're working closely with the NHS to keep their systems safe,\" operations director Paul Chichester said.\n\nMeanwhile, Western spies will be focusing hard on China as they seek to understand what Beijing may know of the virus's origins - with the US administration pushing the theory it may have escaped from a lab - as well as looking for any data on the true extent of the outbreak in the country.", "Edward Enninful took over as editor of British Vogue in August 2017\n\nBritish Vogue editor Edward Enninful has said he was racially profiled after being told to \"use the loading bay\" by a security guard as he entered work.\n\nEnninful, who has been editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine since 2017, said the incident happened as he walked into his offices on Wednesday.\n\nIn a social media post, he said Conde Nast, which owns British Vogue, \"moved quickly\" to dismiss the security guard.\n\nBut he said \"change needs to happen now\".\n\nEnninful, who was appointed an OBE in 2016 for services to diversity in the fashion industry, wrote on Twitter: \"Today I was racially profiled by a security guard whilst entering my work place.\n\n\"As I entered, I was instructed to use the loading bay.\n\n\"Just because our timelines and weekends are returning to normal, we cannot let the world return to how it was.\"\n\nIn a separate post to his one million Instagram followers, he said: \"It just goes to show that sometimes it doesn't matter what you've achieved in the course of your life: the first thing that some people will judge you on is the colour of your skin.\"\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\nIt is understood the security guard, who works for a third party contractor, was dismissed from the site immediately and placed under investigation by their employer.\n\nEarlier this month, when accepting an industry award for his work at the magazine, Enninful said: \"It would be disingenuous of me not to point out that I am the first black person to ever win this award - the first black person in 40 years.\n\n\"Diversity is making its way into our commissioning and on to our pages. But what about inside our workplaces?\n\n\"Who are we hiring? Who are we nurturing? Who are we promoting? How do our office environments treat people? Who is allowed to get to the top?\"\n\nWhen he took the helm of British Vogue three years ago, Enninful said he hoped to create a more diverse magazine that was \"open and friendly\".\n\n\"My Vogue is about being inclusive,\" he said at the time.\n\n\"It is about diversity - showing different women, different body shapes, different races, different classes [and] tackling gender.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edward Enninful 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.", "Banksy spray painted his tag in the colours of a medical face mask\n\nCleaners did not know graffiti on a London Underground train was by world-renowned artist Banksy when they removed it, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe piece, If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, was painted inside a Circle Line service carriage.\n\nBut by the time he unveiled the work on his Instagram account, it had been wiped away by Transport for London (TfL) cleaning crews.\n\nA TfL source said: \"It was treated like any other graffiti on the network.\"\n\n\"The job of the cleaners is to make sure the network is clean, especially given the current climate,\" they said.\n\nA video posted online showed a man - presumed to be Banksy - disguised as a cleaner and armed with stencils.\n\nIt is thought the stunt, revealed on Tuesday, was designed to encourage the use of face masks.\n\nIt was a smudge on a cleaning cloth long before the artist revealed on social media he'd done it.\n\nIn the current climate, it is perhaps reassuring that the cleaners on the Tube did their job quickly and efficiently and cleaned off the work so quickly.\n\nGraffiti is regarded - certainly in the transport world and by many commuters - as something that contributes to a threatening, unwelcoming atmosphere.\n\nOf course there will be those who say it should have been kept or protected as art but that is somewhat academic.\n\nYou get the feeling Banksy, who has previously destroyed his art on purpose, knew exactly what would happen to his work by putting it inside a carriage.\n\nThis was perhaps all part of the plan.\n\nAn official statement said the art was removed \"some days ago\" in line with the London Underground's \"strict anti-graffiti policy\".\n\nAll public transport users in London must wear a face covering, and TfL said it appreciated \"the sentiment of encouraging people\" to do so.\n\n\"We'd like to offer Banksy the chance to do a new version of his message for our customers in a suitable location,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The model and her mother were found guilty of tax evasion\n\nIsraeli top model Bar Refaeli has been given a large fine and sentenced to nine months of community service for evading taxes.\n\nThe 35-year-old pleaded guilty to charges of providing false tax returns while living abroad in order to avoid Israeli taxes.\n\nThe court in Tel Aviv ordered her to pay a 2.5m-shekel fine (£577,000; $730,000), in addition to arrears.\n\nThe model's mother was also convicted of tax offences.\n\nTzipi Refaeli, who also acted as her daughter's agent, was sentenced to 16 months in prison and also ordered to pay a 2.5m-shekel penalty and taxes owed.\n\nThe two women pleaded guilty and were sentenced under a deal agreed with authorities last month.\n\nIsraeli authorities began their investigation into the case in 2015.\n\nBar Refaeli admitted to not declaring her worldwide income for certain years, claiming that she spent most of the time abroad, although her lawyers said she had not intentionally avoided the tax payments.\n\nHer mother, meanwhile, was convicted of signing property leases under the names of relatives to obscure the model's residency status, among other charges.\n\nThe model, who previously dated US actor Leonardo DiCaprio and hosted the 2019 Eurovision song contest, has been involved in controversy during her career.\n\nShe has faced anger from the Israeli army for not completing military service and in 2018 appeared in a controversial advert featuring the niqab.\n\nIn 2015, her request to close the air space over her wedding venue sparked a row.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli want a no-fly zone?", "Police officers detain protesters in Hong Kong during a rally against the new national security law\n\nBoris Johnson says the UK's extradition arrangements with Hong Kong will be changed, amid rising tensions with China.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab is expected to suspend an extradition deal with the territory later.\n\nIt comes after Beijing imposed a controversial national security law on the ex-British colony, introducing new crimes with severe penalties.\n\nChina has accused the UK of \"brutal meddling\" in its affairs.\n\nThe UK has already offered residency rights and a path to UK citizenship to around three million Hong Kongers in response to the law's imposition.\n\nBeijing has insisted it is committed to upholding international law, and has promised a \"resolute response\" if the UK withdraws from extradition arrangements.\n\nThe extradition treaty means that, if someone in Hong Kong is suspected of a crime in the UK, then the British authorities can ask Hong Kong to hand them over to face justice - and vice versa.\n\nThe UK fears the arrangement - which has been in place for more than 30 years - could see anyone it extradites to Hong Kong being sent on to China.\n\nHong Kong has extradition agreements with 19 other countries apart from the UK, including Canada and Australia, which have already suspended theirs following the imposition there of China's new security law - which makes acts of subversion punishable by life sentences.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK had \"concerns\" over the new law, and it had to think about the rights of people in Hong Kong to participate in democratic processes.\n\nBut he added: \"There is a balance here. I'm not going to be pushed into a position of becoming a knee-jerk Sinophobe on every issue, somebody who is automatically anti-China\".\n\n\"We've got to have a calibrated approach. We're going to be tough on some things, but we're going to continue to engage.\"\n\nThe UK handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997 but, as part of an agreement signed at the time, it enjoys some freedoms not seen in the mainland.\n\nBut political and economic relations between the UK and China have become strained in recent months.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK decided to ban Chinese tech firm Huawei from its 5G network, citing security concerns denied by the company.\n\nThe UK, US and EU have accused Beijing of undermining the \"One Country, Two Systems\" principle, which has guaranteed a high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong since it was handed back to Chinese rule in 1997.\n\nThey say the security laws which came into force last month breach the terms of the 1984 Joint Declaration protecting political and economic freedoms - which agreed the conditions under which Hong Kong would be run when Britain gave it back to China in 1997.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK denounced the new laws as \"deeply troubling\", with the foreign secretary calling the move \"a grave step\".\n\nIn response, the UK has offered the 350,000 Hong Kong residents who hold British Overseas National passports - and a further 2.6 million who are eligible for them - enhanced residency rights should they wish to come to the UK and a route to possible citizenship.\n\nBut China has warned it will retaliate if the UK imposes sanctions on any of its leading officials in relation to human rights offences and allegations of police brutality in Hong Kong.\n\nProposals for an extradition treaty between Hong Kong and mainland China provoked widespread protests last year amid concerns about political interference in the Chinese judicial system and the right to a fair trial.\n\nSuspending extradition to Hong Kong is a very obvious step to take.\n\nEven if the treaty remained fully in place, it would be hard to imagine the circumstances in which the UK would now agree to hand over any suspect to the Hong Kong authorities for trial - knowing they might end up in a Chinese mainland court, and then a prison far from Hong Kong.\n\nBritish suspension of the treaty - rather than outright abandonment - is quite normal.\n\nDiplomatically, it allows China a way back, however unlikely it is there will be any retreat by Beijing.\n\nThe UK does not want to be the side to initiate a trade war with China, hence the focus on justice and the rule of law.\n\nChina has already warned - in the context of Huawei as well as Hong Kong - that Chinese businesses may judge Britain an unsuitable or unreliable partner in future.\n\nThe UK won't be the one turning up the heat in that area. But further British measures against China can't be ruled out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"\n\nThe UK has also stepped up its criticism of China's human rights record, accusing Beijing of \"gross and egregious\" abuses against the Uighur population in Xinjiang province.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that reports of forced sterilisation and wider persecution of the Muslim group were \"reminiscent of something not seen for a long time\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party would support a change to extradition arrangements with Hong Kong, calling it a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nBut he called on the government to \"go further\" by considering immediate sanctions on Chinese officials involved in rights abuses against Uighur Muslims.\n\nDrone footage that has been widely circulated - and authenticated by Australian security services - appears to show Uighurs being blindfolded and led to trains.\n\nHowever, China's UK ambassador, Liu Xiaoming, dismissed talks of concentration camps as \"fake\".\n\nOn Monday Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said accusations of forced sterilisation of Uighurs in Xinjiang were \"nothing but lies\".", "The world eagerly awaits a coronavirus vaccine, and labs are racing to develop one. Some have now reached the stage of human trials and are looking for volunteers. So what's it like to be part of a vaccine trial?\n\nI remember very clearly my first medical trial. It was in Oxford where I was going to receive an experimental vaccine against bird flu.\n\nThis was in 2006 and at the time H5N1 avian flu was a big deal. It was a deadly virus, killing half of those it infected. That would make it perhaps 50 times more lethal than Covid-19.\n\nSo there was a need for a vaccine, and the Oxford Vaccine Group was to conduct a trial of healthy volunteers.\n\nI didn't hesitate about sticking my hand up, or rather, rolling up my sleeve. After all, I rely on patients to agree to me filming them in order to illustrate some aspect of healthcare, so it was a good thing for me to experience what that's like. Very often they are taking part in a medical trial, be it for cancer, diabetes or any number of other conditions.\n\nNaturally I was filmed while receiving the vaccine. I can remember being determined not to grimace because I didn't want to set a bad example. The immunisation takes just a few seconds, and I also had to give some blood samples the same day.\n\nAs the needle for the blood draw was about to go in, a kindly doctor said \"sharp scratch\" which was my cue to look into the lens and deliver a faultless \"piece to camera\" - the bit in most TV reports when correspondents pontificate. But with a needle in your arm you have to get it right the first time.\n\nAs my blood entered the test tube I spoke about antibodies and immunity.\n\nI think it went fine, but I remember a recent occasion that was a nightmare. Again, I started speaking as the needle went in, and my words, thankfully, flowed out on cue. The trouble was, the red stuff did not. It was like getting blood from a stone. It took four needles, and by the end of the filming the colour had drained from my face and I was in a cold sweat.\n\nAs the BBC's medical correspondent, since 2004 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. Now it's here I wish, like everyone else, it would go away. Sadly, we may have to live with coronavirus indefinitely. In this column I will be reflecting on that new reality.\n\nThe bird flu vaccine trial went well. The following year it was approved for use, but bird flu never made the full jump from animals to humans, so it's not been needed.\n\nNot so with coronavirus. To say the results of vaccine studies are eagerly awaited would be the understatement of the year. There are lives, livelihoods and whole economies depending on a successful vaccine against Sars-CoV-2, to give the virus its proper name.\n\nMore than 100 vaccines are in development around the world. Many of these may never get to human trials, but several have already reached that stage, in record time. Normally it would take years, decades even.\n\nThe Chinese government shared the genetic sequence of coronavirus on 11 January, and within weeks a team at the University of Oxford had developed an experimental vaccine. Their human trial, the first in Europe, began last month.\n\nMore than 1,000 volunteers are now part of the Oxford vaccine study. Half will get ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, as the vaccine is called, and the rest a control vaccine which protects against meningitis. The trial is \"blinded\" so that the researchers and the volunteers won't know which jab they are getting.\n\nThe use of a real vaccine as a control, which may result in the odd sore arm, means volunteers really won't know whether they have got the real thing. That's important, as all of them will need to keep a daily health diary for up to four weeks, and come back for several blood tests.\n\nSamples of the vaccine have been made for the trial\n\nI wanted to volunteer for the first phase of the vaccine trial, but was ineligible. It's the first time I've been too old for a clinical study - the cut-off was 55 years and I'll be 59 in September. Though the trial has now been extended to include older adults and children aged five to 12, I may still be ruled out. Anyone who already has antibodies to coronavirus is excluded, and as I explained last week, I'm pretty sure I have these. I have signed up online just in case they will have me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elisa Granato was the first volunteer to be injected\n\nIn order to check whether the vaccine works, it is vital that those given the jab come across the virus in their daily lives. So the team would like volunteers who have public-facing roles, especially health workers, who are more likely to be exposed to coronavirus.\n\nYou don't need all of your volunteers to get up close and personal with the virus, but it's important that some do, and in the absence of a guaranteed treatment it would be unethical to deliberately infect them.\n\nThe volunteers are all told to maintain the same social distancing as the rest of us. And remember they don't know which vaccine they have received.\n\nFergus holding a vial of the vaccine developed by the Oxford team\n\nThere's one big problem surrounding all of this, which is that you need a lot of virus to be circulating to know whether the vaccine protects the people who've been immunised, and at present cases are decreasing. It's reckoned about one in 1,000 people in England are currently infected, not counting cases in hospitals or care homes.\n\nA further 10,000 volunteers are being recruited at sites across England, Wales and Scotland. At present there are more cases in parts of the north of England and Scotland than in Oxford.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nVolunteers are absolutely crucial to medical advances; we'd never get anywhere without them. The same goes for blood donors. With all the volunteers I've spoken to over the years there's a really strong element of giving something back. People say, \"Well, it may not help me, but it'll help those coming after me.\"\n\nSome years ago, I covered a typhoid study in Oxford, in which they were immunising people with a new vaccine, and then infecting them deliberately with the disease - they could do this because it can be treated with antibiotics. The volunteers had to swallow a drink that had typhoid bacteria in it, and I remember one of them saying, \"Down the hatch!\" before they drank it.\n\nThat vaccine is now being used in Pakistan and Zimbabwe, and has reduced cases of the disease by 80%. When I let those volunteers know recently, they were delighted. That trial was of absolutely no benefit to their daily lives, they did it purely because they felt it was the right thing to do. But with the coronavirus trial there may be some benefits for volunteers.\n\nThere has been much speculation about when we will get results from the Oxford vaccine trial. I've heard September, even June. The hard truth is, it's not certain when we will know. It depends on whether we get a second wave of infections.\n\nIf, and it's still a big if, the vaccine does work, hundreds of millions of doses could be made within months because of a manufacturing deal struck with the pharma giant, AstraZeneca. It says it could produce a billion doses by the end of 2021.\n\nAnd the Oxford vaccine is not the only show in town. Imperial College London is developing a coronavirus vaccine which will begin human trials next month. All the researchers I've spoken to have said this is not a race to be first, but a race against the virus. It's a race we all hope they will win.\n\nFind out more about the Oxford Vaccine trial\n\nAntibody tests which show that you have had a Covid-19 infection are being rolled out, prioritising NHS and care staff. So what happens when you test positive? Carry on as before - and I should know.", "England's contact tracers have only reached about 50% of people who have been in close contact with someone with Covid-19 in an area of Lancashire where new cases are rising.\n\nThe figure was revealed by Prof Dominic Harrison, public health director of Blackburn with Darwen Council.\n\nHe warned of \"exponential growth\" of new infections if the system did not become more efficient.\n\nThe government said the NHS scheme had helped identify thousands of cases.\n\nIt is not clear why the contacts provided were not able to be reached.\n\nThe government's most recent statistics reveal that of the people in England who tested positive for Covid-19 between 2-8 July, 17.1% could not be reached and a further 4.1% did not provide their phone number.\n\nIt said 71.1% of the contacts provided were reached, but 21.8% of those who originally tested positive said they had not been in close contact with anyone during the required time frame.\n\nA leaked report, seen by the Independent, suggested that fewer than half of contacts were reached in Oldham, St Helens, Manchester and Rochdale.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, Prof Harrison said that Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire, which he oversees, faces a \"rising tide\" of infections.\n\n\"The key issue here is that 40% of people who are infected by someone with Covid-19 who goes for tests because they have symptoms, will be infected by them before they have those symptoms,\" said Prof Harrison.\n\n\"So, there's a 48 hour window which is critical to get the contacts of the first case contacted, and if we don't get them contacted, and if they don't then get tested and self-isolated, and they then have symptoms, we do risk the spread progressing.\"\n\nIt later emerged that the Jamia Ghosia mosque in Blackburn said it is being investigated by the police and public health officials after holding a funeral on 13 July, attended by 250 people.\n\nThe Imam has since tested positive for coronavirus and is recovering.\n\nThe mosque has emailed its congregation advising everybody to self-isolate and said it \"made a mistake\" in allowing more than the officially-permitted 30 mourners to attend.\n\nProf Harrison called for testing and tracing to be carried out at a local rather than national level, and for Public Health England to share more data with local authorities.\n\nProf Harrison said PHE had only begun sharing data about the postcode areas in which new infections were being registered on 29 June.\n\n\"That has made a great difference in three weeks for us in being able to identify what our local outbreak issue is,\" he said.\n\n\"Had we had that data much earlier in this pandemic, I think we could have made progress much more rapidly.\"\n\nIn response the Department for Health and Social Care said the NHS test and trace scheme had so far \"helped test and isolate more than 180,000 cases\".\n\n\"The service is working closely with local authorities across England to help manage local outbreaks and data is shared daily,\" it added.\n\nIt also urged anyone with coronavirus symptoms to seek a test and self-isolate immediately.\n\n\"The service relies on everyone playing their part - please book a test if you have symptoms, self-isolate and help us trace anyone you've been in contact with.\"\n\nThe NHS test and trace scheme is a crucial part of the government's plan for managing the spread of the virus.\n\nIt began on 1 June and Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed it would be \"world beating\".\n\nSage, a committee of medical experts which advises the government, has said that at least 80% of contacts would need to isolate for the test and trace system to be effective.", "The officer found the Nazi symbol etched on their belongings\n\nA police officer's belongings have been vandalised with a swastika by a colleague.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the officer found the Nazi symbol on their items when they began their shift earlier on Sunday.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain said he was \"appalled that one of our employees felt that this behaviour was acceptable\".\n\nThe force has launched an internal investigation.\n\nGMP said the \"disgraceful and disgusting act\" had been declared a hate crime and said its professional standards team was treating it \"incredibly seriously\".\n\n\"A colleague has been subjected to a hate crime and there is no place for behaviour like this in GMP or policing nationally, and it's being treated incredibly seriously,\" Mr Hussain said.\n\n\"We serve one of the most culturally diverse areas in the United Kingdom and we're incredibly proud to have a diverse workforce to serve and represent our communities.\n\n\"It is absolutely unacceptable that an officer has been faced with such an atrocity during their shift and we're urging any officers or staff with any information to report it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Property website Rightmove and catering giant Compass have said they will reject the offer of millions of pounds in payouts from the government's job retention bonus scheme.\n\nThey follow Primark and John Lewis in shunning the bonus, which pays firms £1,000 for each furloughed worker they keep on past January.\n\nIt is meant to help stop a spike in joblessness when wage support programmes end in October.\n\nBut some firms say they do not need it.\n\nIt comes as MPs and economists warn that job retention bonus money could be claimed for staff that would have been returned from furlough anyway.\n\nRightmove, which furloughed 160 employees after the coronavirus crisis hit, would have been eligible to claim £160,000 in bonus payments had it applied.\n\nHowever, it said: \"Now that the housing market has reopened across all parts of the UK we're in a fortunate position that by the end of July all of our furloughed employees will be back at work, and therefore we will not need to make use of the furlough bonus scheme.\"\n\nSome 21,000 Compass staff are currently on furlough - around half of its workforce - meaning it could have claimed up to £21m.\n\nEarlier this month, fashion retailer Primark promised to sacrifice a £30m payout after saying the bonus was unnecessary under \"current circumstances\".\n\nFashion retailer Asos, holiday park operator Center Parcs and retailer John Lewis are among others to have said they will not use the scheme.\n\nSome 9.4 million workers are currently having 80% of their wages, up to £2,500 a month, paid under the government's furlough scheme. However, there are fears unemployment could top 11% after the programme is wound down.\n\nEarlier in July, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the bonus scheme as part a package of measures designed to prevent this outcome. However, if every furloughed worker returned to their jobs, it could cost the public purse more than £9bn in bonus payments - something that has fuelled scrutiny of the policy.\n\nThe most senior civil servant at HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, wrote to Mr Sunak this month, raising doubts over whether the policy offered value for money.\n\nAnd MPs on the Treasury select committee last week echoed warnings from economists that the scheme could risk funnelling money to already-rich companies.\n\nMr Sunak rejected the criticisms, saying he believed the bonus would \"serve as a significant incentive\" to preserve jobs amid the pandemic.\n\nA Treasury spokesman told the BBC: \"It's great to see employers getting their staff back to work and protecting jobs without needing to draw on the extra support the job retention bonus offers, and we welcome the decision of businesses to do so.\n\n\"For those who do need further support, the £1,000 bonus will represent a significant benefit to them and make a difference to those people in the nine million jobs currently furloughed who can be brought back to their jobs.\"", "Christopher Kapessa's body was found in a river on 1 July\n\nA 14-year-old boy who pushed a boy, 13, into a river before he died will not be prosecuted, a review has concluded.\n\nChristopher Kapessa's body was found in the River Cynon near Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff on 1 July 2019.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it upheld its earlier decision that he was pushed into the river as a foolish prank.\n\nHis family said it had treated a \"black child's life cheaper than the public interest afforded to the suspect\".\n\nIn February, the CPS concluded that although there was sufficient evidence for a prosecution for manslaughter it was not in the public interest to proceed.\n\nBut the family appealed the decision under the CPS's Victims' Right to Review scheme, which allows victims to request that a prosecutor, not previously involved in the case, re-examine the case to ensure the correct decision was made for the right legal reasons.\n\nOn Monday the CPS said the prosecutor had upheld the earlier decision.\n\nThe review found the push amounted in law to a common assault and was therefore an unlawful act.\n\nIt also found the push resulted in Christopher's death and so there was a \"realistic prospect of conviction for manslaughter\".\n\nBut it maintained a prosecution would not be in the public interest.\n\nJenny Hopkins, who oversees the appeals and review unit within the CPS, said: \"Although there was evidence to support a prosecution for manslaughter it was not in the public interest to prosecute.\n\n\"Christopher's tragic death occurred after a group of children went out to have fun by the river.\n\n\"The evidence showed that Christopher was pushed into the river as a foolish prank with nothing to suggest that the suspect intended to harm him, although that was the awful consequence.\"\n\nPolice focused on a bridge over the River Cynon, near Fernhill, during investigations\n\nShe said they had considered the young age of the suspect, his lack of a criminal record and otherwise good character.\n\nShe said the \"principal aim of the youth justice system is to prevent offending and there is no suggestion that the suspect would commit further offences\".\n\nThe welfare and impact on Christopher's friends who may be called to give evidence and have to relive the death of their friend was also considered, she said.\n\nConcluding, she said: \"The factors militating against a prosecution outweighed the factors in favour of a prosecution.\n\n\"We recognise our decision will be upsetting for the family who may feel the suspect's life has been prioritised over Christopher's...\n\n\"We have applied our legal test to the evidence and I hope they can understand how and why we came to the decision.\"\n\nChristopher's mother Alina Joseph says not prosecuting \"goes against all the principles of equality and justice\"\n\nThe CPS also said there was nothing in any of the statements of the young people that suggested any racial issues or that this was a hate crime.\n\nEvidence presented to the CPS showed the day before Christopher's death he and several other children had visited the Red Bridge over the Cynon River after school. Some had jumped from the bridge into the water but Christopher had not and the day had passed without incident.\n\nOn the day of his death, Christopher had returned to the bridge near Fernhill and was among about 16 young people.\n\nWitnesses told police Christopher made his way to the rocks, changed into swimming trunks and took off his top, his glasses and his footwear.\n\nChristopher was visiting the Red Bridge for the second consecutive day when he died\n\nSome of the group recalled him saying that he really wanted to jump in while others stated that Christopher told them he could not swim and they told him not to jump in.\n\nJust before he entered the water, Christopher was on the rocks with three other boys.\n\nWitnesses described Christopher being pushed by the suspect from behind as a foolish prank and falling into the water, taking another boy in with him.\n\nAlmost immediately some of the group realised that Christopher was in difficulties.\n\nThe suspect and some other children jumped in very quickly to try and help him but were unable to rescue him.\n\nChristopher's mother Alina Joseph said on Monday: \"The decision taken by the CPS not to prosecute those responsible for the death of my son goes against all the principles of equality and justice and the inequality that many campaigners have fought to eradicate for many years.\n\n\"I keep hoping for justice but it seems that I have to fight for it at every given step and turn.\"\n\nThe Christopher Kapessa Family Justice Campaign described the review decision as \"perverse\" and \"not simply a gross injustice given the facts of the case but represents a damning landmark for Criminal Justice Agencies for Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nReflecting on the previous decision by the CPS not to prosecute, it said: \"At that time, we stated that this was a perverse decision because it considered a black child's life cheaper than the public interest afforded to the suspect.\"\n\nIt said Ms Joseph was considering lodging a judicial review against the CPS' decision and seeking a personal intervention of the Justice Secretary through her MP.\n\nThe CPS found there was a \"realistic prospect of conviction for manslaughter\" but it was not in the public interest\n\nMs Joseph's lawyer Hilary Brown said the decision \"sends a message that his life did not matter\".\n\nShe added: \"Christopher did not lose his life as a result of an accident or by his own actions. Christopher was pushed to his death by someone and the criminal justice system in the UK should seek to ensure that justice is delivered for Christopher and his family.\n\n\"After studying the CPS review, we are now in the process of examining all our legal options.\"\n\nChristopher's family also made a complaint to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), about how South Wales Police managed the investigation.\n\nAn IOPC spokeswoman said: \"Our investigation into South Wales Police's investigative steps following the recovery of Christopher Kapessa's body from the River Cynon was partially suspended while the Crown Prosecution Service reviewed its charging decision following a request from Christopher's family.\n\n\"Our investigation is considering whether South Wales Police acted in accordance with relevant policies and procedures in investigating Christopher's death.\n\n\"While we have made good progress, we have some outstanding lines of inquiry which we will work to complete now the CPS has made its decision.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police has previously said it had \"full confidence\" in its investigation.\n\nResponding to the CPS upholding its decision not to prosecute on Monday, a spokesman said the force was \"committed to implementing any opportunities for learning\".\n\n\"We can only imagine how difficult the past year has been for Christopher's family and the pain and grief that they are enduring after his tragic death,\" he said.\n\n\"The tragic death of Christopher deeply shocked the local community as well and we continue to work closely with support agencies to ensure the right help is there for all those that need it.\"", "Face coverings are becoming compulsory on all public transport across the UK\n\nFactories in south Wales and Lancashire have started making \"high quality\" face coverings as part of a push to produce a million a week.\n\nSome £14m is being invested by the UK government, with productions underway in Port Talbot and Blackburn.\n\nFace coverings are already compulsory in shops across Scotland, and will be in England from 24 July.\n\nMasks are also compulsory on all public transport across the UK, including Wales from 27 July.\n\n\"This is a major step to ensure that this country can meet any increase in demand for face coverings by working with British firms to establish the capability, capacity and skills required to manufacture these items at scale,\" said Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove.\n\n\"These production lines will be able to get millions of face coverings to the public, without putting any additional pressure on NHS supply chains.\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office said 10 production lines had been bought, including 34 tons of equipment and machinery, while a further 10 had been commissioned from Coventry-based automotive company Expert Tooling and Automation Ltd.\n\nThe mask will be disposable, single-use coverings.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said the investment at British Rototherm was welcomed\n\nEngineering firm British Rototherm Group at Margam, in Neath Port Talbot, has expanded its workforce to meet the new mask orders.\n\nCookson & Clegg in Blackburn has also begun manufacturing.\n\nA third site at Transcal at Livingston in Scotland will be online in the coming weeks.\n\nVisiting the south Wales site on Monday, Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said the investment was good news for the company and for the UK.\n\n\"There aren't many good news stories coming out of Covid - this happens to be one of them,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\n\"This is about members of the public being properly equipped, not just now but also for any future similar occurrences, if that was ever to happen.\"\n\nUK officials said the new production sites would ensure public demand for face coverings did not impact on the supply of higher-grade face masks for front-line NHS staff.", "Warner Bros has said it is delaying the release of Christopher Nolan's latest movie Tenet again due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe fantasy spy epic was originally set to debut on 17 July but this was pushed back to 12 August.\n\nTenet was expected to be the first big-budget Hollywood film to be released in US cinemas during the summer.\n\nBut the studio said it would be re-evaluating its release date \"amidst all this continued uncertainty.\"\n\nIt also suggested that it might consider releasing the film in overseas markets before the US.\n\n\"We are not treating Tenet like a traditional global day-and-date release, and our upcoming marketing and distribution plans will reflect that,\" said Toby Emmerich, chairman of the studio's Pictures Group.\n\nMr Emmerich said that a release date would be shared \"imminently.\"\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 Warner Bros. Pictures 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\nTenet focuses on a protagonist, played by John David Washington, trying to save the world from disaster. Its other stars include Robert Pattinson and Sir Kenneth Branagh.\n\nBritish director Christopher Nolan's other films include Inception, Interstellar and the Oscar-winning World War II film Dunkirk. He also directed the three films in the so-called Dark Knight trilogy - Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.\n\nThe delay of Tenet's release comes as coronavirus shutdowns continue to devastate the film industry.\n\nIn the face of rising infections and deaths, cinemas in New York City and Los Angeles, two of the biggest markets in America, still do not have permission from city authorities to open.\n\nCinemas in China - one of the world's largest box-office markets - reopened on Monday for the first time in six months, though strict rules are in place which limit their capacity.\n\nIn light of the pandemic, several studios have postponed the filming and release of movies, including Disney's live-action remake of Mulan, which is now set for release on 21 August.\n\nBut while some distributors have shifted to on-demand releases, Tenet is one of several big-budget films that have been delayed to ensure a full theatrical release.", "Ruth Morrissey and her husband Paul, of Monaleen, County Limerick\n\nThe Irish cervical cancer campaigner Ruth Morrissey, who was awarded €2.1m (£1.8m) in damages over the alleged misreading of smear tests, has died aged 39.\n\nMrs Morrissey had claimed that if tests in 2009 and 2012 had been correctly interpreted and reported, she could have avoided developing cancer.\n\nShe sued the Health Service Executive (HSE) and two laboratories in 2018.\n\nIn a statement, her husband Paul said she never received an apology.\n\nHe added that it was now \"too late\" for either the HSE or the state to say sorry.\n\nMrs Morrissey died at Milford Hospice in County Limerick on Sunday morning.\n\nDuring her legal action, the High Court heard that Mrs Morrissey was not told until 2018 that a review four years earlier had showed the tests carried out under the CervicalCheck screening programme had been reported incorrectly.\n\nThe HSE admitted it owed a duty of care to Mrs Morrissey, while the laboratories denied all the claims.\n\nIn February 2018, she was diagnosed with a recurrence of her cancer and given a prognosis of 12 to 24 months.\n\nGiving evidence in court in July 2018, Ms Morrissey said she had to have the \"most difficult conversation\" she ever had to with her then 7-year-old daughter.\n\nShe told the court she did not want to die.\n\nIt was the first case of its kind to be heard in full in the Republic of Ireland and considered in a High Court judgement.\n\nIn July 2020, the Irish Supreme Court heard the family had received the full amount of money awarded to them.\n\nPaul Morrissey said his wife showed \"courage and determination\" during the trial and is an \"enduring inspiration of strength and determination that should help many others through difficult times in the future\".", "Sam Barnett at Aberdare Park with her daughter\n\nPlaygrounds, outdoor gyms and funfairs are now able to reopen in Wales after being shut during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIt is the latest round of measures to ease restrictions.\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes were able to resume trading outdoors from last Monday, and hairdressers were also able to reopen.\n\nFrom 27 July, cinemas, museums and galleries, beauty salons and tattoo parlours can also reopen.\n\nHowever things will not be immediately back to normal, with Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire confirming some attractions will stay closed, admission will be on an advanced ticketing basis and there will be limited opening hours.\n\nAnd it is up to individual councils whether they reopen their facilities, with Neath Port Talbot council's playgrounds not reopening for another week.\n\nCouncils can also set rules such as only one adult being allowed to accompany children at a time, and banning food and drink.\n\nCommunity centres are also able to reopen from Monday, meaning some childcare schemes will be able to operate again - on the same day some councils are ending childcare provision for key workers for the summer.\n\nBack training: Mark Humphries is opening outdoor sessions at his gym\n\nMark Humprhies owns a gym in Bangor, Gwynedd, and is opening up again for clients after three months of online-only classes.\n\nHis car park will now become an open air venue for \"bootcamp-style\" training session, along with local playing fields.\n\n\"We are only allowed to have 30 people in the sessions, and they are already filling up,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast programme.\n\n\"At the end of the day, we do live in Wales - so come rain or shine we are going to go for it.\"\n\nAlison Davies said her children had missed the play area \"big time\"\n\nAlison Davies visited Aberdare Park with her children for the play area reopening.\n\nShe said: \"It's nice, the kids have been really really looking forward to it.\n\n\"Since we've been stuck in, we've come here for walks and things and they can see it all and they've been desperate to get on the swings and the slides.\n\n\"They've been really missing it. It's just something a bit extra to keep them occupied. They've missed it big time.\"\n\nSam Barnett also brought her two young daughters with her to the park, and was delighted so see it open.\n\n\"It means the world because obviously they've been stuck indoors now for months,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm from Cwmaman so we do have a lot of mountain areas but its not quite the same to have fun with them here, so it's good.\n\n\"I have told them not to put their hands in their mouths until we get to the car because we've got hand sanitiser there in my bag but I don't want to push my anxieties onto them. We will be cautious but not overly cautious.\"\n\nIt comes as Public Health Wales (PHW) reported 31 new cases on Sunday, meaning 16,928 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Wales.\n\nThe rise of 31 cases is the largest since 6 July - the day the Welsh Government eased the stay local lockdown restrictions.\n\nPHW have said 1,547 people have died with coronavirus, but Office for National Statistics figures shows that figure is at least 2,470 when all registered deaths where Covid-19 is suspected or proven are included.\n\nOn Thursday it was announced that those most at risk from coronavirus can stop shielding after 16 August.\n\nAbout 130,000 people in Wales with underlying health conditions had been advised to stay indoors since the start of the pandemic to protect themselves.\n\nLockdown measures have been in place in Wales since March\n\nAddressing the final daily coronavirus briefing on Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"A tiny proportion of people tested in Wales are turning out to have coronavirus.\n\n\"We continue to look carefully at the latest medical and scientific evidence and the current state of the virus as we make decisions to unlock our society and economy.\n\n\"With rates of the virus in Wales continuing to fall, we are able to carry on with our gradual, step-by-step lifting of the restrictions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Privacy campaigners say England's test and trace programme has broken a key data protection law.\n\nThe Department of Health has conceded the initiative to trace contacts of people infected with Covid-19 was launched without carrying out an assessment of its impact on privacy.\n\nThe Open Rights Group (ORG) says the admission means the initiative has been unlawful since it began on 28 May.\n\nThe government said there is no evidence of data being used unlawfully.\n\nThe test and trace system involves people being asked to share sensitive personal information. This can include:\n\n\"In no way has [there] been a breach of any of the data that has been stored,\" said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"I think your viewers will understand that if we are to defeat this virus, we do need to have a test and trace system and we had to get that up and running at incredible speed.... Are you really advocating that we get rid of a test and trace system? I don't think you are.\"\n\nORG had threatened to go to court to force the government to conduct a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) - a requirement under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for projects that process personal data.\n\nA letter from the Department of Health to the group confirmed that a DPIA was a legal requirement and had not been obtained.\n\nORG's executive director, Jim Killock, said the government had been \"reckless\" in ignoring this legally-required safety step and had endangered public health.\n\n\"A crucial element in the fight against the pandemic is mutual trust between the public and the government, which is undermined by their operating the programme without basic privacy safeguards,\" he added.\n\nEngland's Test and Trace initiative is run by Baroness Dido Harding, and is the responsibility of the Health Secretary Matt Hancock\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all carry out parallel contact-tracing schemes of their own but have not been accused of the same failing.\n\nThe government has told the ORG it is working with the Information Commissioner's Office to make sure that data is processed in accordance with the requirements of the law.\n\nThe ICO confirmed this and told the BBC it was providing guidance as \"a critical friend\".\n\nBut the regulator added that, while it recognised the urgency in rolling out the programme, if the public were to have confidence in handing over their data and that of their friends, \"people need to understand how their data will be safeguarded and how it will be used\".\n\nThe watchdog is already investigating the Test and Trace programme after the Sunday Times reported last week that some contact tracers had posted private patient data to WhatsApp and Facebook groups.\n\nA Department of Health spokeswoman said: \"NHS Test and Trace is committed to the highest ethical and data governance standards - collecting, using, and retaining data to fight the virus and save lives, while taking full account of all relevant legal obligations.\"\n\nThe ORG's complaint stems from work carried out on its behalf by Ravi Naik, a lawyer at the AWO data rights consultancy.\n\nHe said the legal requirements for data processing were more than just a tick-box exercise.\n\n\"They ensure that risks are mitigated before processing occurs, to preserve the integrity of the system,\" he explained.\n\n\"Instead, we have a rushed-out system, seemingly compromised by unsafe processing practices.\"\n\nMr Naik added the ORG had already won a concession from the government. It had originally planned to keep data for 20 years but has now cut that to eight years.\n\nSince the test and trace programme was launched, its 27,000 staff have contacted more than 155,000 people, who may have been infected with the virus, and asked them to go into isolation.\n\nAre you a contact tracer? Have you been contacted by NHS Test and Trace? 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 number of people aged 18-24 claiming Universal Credit or Jobseeker's Allowance doubled in the UK in the last three months, figures show.\n\nThe Walton area of Liverpool is among the most deprived parts of the UK. About 7,500 people there are aged between 18 and 24 and its economy is largely dominated by small retail.\n\nBut the BBC analysis shows 19% of people in that age bracket are now claiming benefits - making it the worst-hit constituency in the UK.\n\nAndrew Adams, 21, has lived in the city all his life and has a degree in promotional design. Currently, he is sending out between four and five job applications a week with no success.\n\n\"At the moment I'm just looking for admin work, warehouse stuff, desk work - nothing to do with my degree at all,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm just getting no response. It makes me feel kind of hopeless. Once I got my degree I thought it would be smooth sailing, but it isn't at the moment.\"", "UK High Street stalwart Marks and Spencer is to cut hundreds of jobs as coronavirus continues to hit trading.\n\nThe retailer said 950 store management and head office jobs were at risk because it needed to accelerate its restructuring.\n\nA spokesperson said the move marked \"an important step\" in it becoming a \"stronger, leaner\" business.\n\nM&S was already undergoing a transformation that included cutting costs and closing some stores.\n\nThe firm said that because of the pandemic, those measures would be accelerated under a programme called Never The Same Again. M&S said it now wanted to \"make three years' progress in one\".\n\nM&S said it had started collective consultation with employee representatives and had set out plans to offer voluntary redundancy first to affected staff.\n\nSacha Berendji, director of retail, operations and property at M&S, said: \"Through the crisis, we have seen how we can work faster and more flexibly by empowering store teams and it's essential that we embed that way of working.\n\n\"Our priority now is to support all those affected through the consultation process and beyond.\"\n\nM&S's food stores were open throughout the coronavirus lockdown, but trading in other parts of the business was severely affected. Clothing sales fell by 84% year-on-year at the lowest point, the firm said in May, warning that some customer habits had \"changed forever\".\n\nM&S was already struggling to adapt to the rise of online shopping and changing customer tastes.\n\nThe company had been facing increasing competition from fashion giants such as Primark on the High Street and Asos on the internet.\n\nIt is also one of the few big food retailers without its own internet-based delivery service. However, the retailer's partnership with Ocado starts in September, replacing the online grocer's existing deal with Waitrose.\n\nIn May, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe said that the impact of the virus lockdown had driven \"effects and aftershocks\" in the retail sector that would \"endure for the coming year and beyond\".\n\nIts latest announcement comes after a wave of redundancies on the High Street, with John Lewis, Boots and Debenhams among retailers announcing huge job cuts.\n\nOther lay-offs announced during the pandemic have included:\n\nOn Monday, Ted Baker confirmed it could cut about a quarter of its UK workforce after the coronavirus pandemic added to its financial difficulties.\n\nThe fashion retailer did not confirm the number of redundancies, but there are reports that 500 store and head office jobs will go.\n\n\"We have not taken this decision lightly and would like to thank all our colleagues for their hard work,\" a spokesperson said. The move is intended to save about £6m by the end of the year.\n\nBoth part-time and full-time roles will be affected. About 200 jobs will go at the Ugly Brown Building, its London headquarters, with the rest from its 46 shops across the UK and Europe, as well as many store concessions.\n\nTed Baker had also been struggling before the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK. The firm reported a pre-tax loss of £79.9m in the year to 25 January, against a £30.7m profit the previous year.\n\nAre you a Marks and Spencer employee or contractor? 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.", "There are now 23 coronavirus vaccines in clinical trials around the world - including at Oxford University\n\nThe UK government has signed deals for 90 million doses of promising coronavirus vaccines that are being developed.\n\nThe vaccines are being researched by an alliance between the pharmaceutical companies BioNtech and Pfizer as well as the firm Valneva.\n\nThe new deal is on top of 100 million doses of the Oxford University vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca.\n\nHowever, it is still uncertain which of the experimental vaccines may work.\n\nA vaccine is widely seen as the best chance of getting our lives back to normal.\n\nResearch is taking place at an unprecedented scale - the world became aware of coronavirus at the beginning of the year, but already more than 20 vaccines are in clinical trials.\n\nSome can provoke an immune response, but none has yet been proven to protect against infection.\n\nThe UK government has now secured access to vaccines that use three completely different approaches:\n\nUsing different styles of vaccine maximises the chance that one of them will work.\n\nKate Bingham, the chair of the government's Vaccine Taskforce, said: \"The fact that we have so many promising candidates already shows the unprecedented pace at which we are moving.\n\n\"But I urge against being complacent or over optimistic.\n\n\"The fact remains we may never get a vaccine and if we do get one, we have to be prepared that it may not be a vaccine which prevents getting the virus, but rather one that reduces symptoms.\"\n\nIf an effective vaccine is developed then health and social care workers, as well as those at highest risk of the disease, will be prioritised.\n\nIt is possible a vaccine will be proven effective by the end of 2020, but wide-scale vaccination is still not expected until next year at the earliest.\n\nBoris Johnson said: \"Obviously I'm hopeful, I've got my fingers crossed, but to say I'm 100% confident we'll get a vaccine this year, or indeed next year, is alas just an exaggeration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In April, Elisa Granato was the first volunteer to be injected in Europe\n\nThe announcement also includes an agreement with AstraZeneca to buy treatments made from neutralizing antibodies, which can disable the virus.\n\nThese could be given to people who cannot be vaccinated because they have a weakened immune system or are having treatment for cancer.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is hoping to get half a million people to sign up to trials of vaccines in the UK through the NHS Covid-19 vaccine research registry website.\n\nAt least eight large scale coronavirus vaccine trials are expected to take place in the UK.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer, said: \"Now that there are several promising vaccines on the horizon, we need to call again on the generosity of the public to help find out which potential vaccines are the most effective.\"", "Most of Blackburn's new cases are in the south Asian community\n\nA local lockdown in Blackburn with Darwen is \"the very last resort\" in tackling the area's rise in coronavirus cases, its public health boss has said.\n\nThe Lancashire borough is overtaking Leicester as England's coronavirus hotspot, according to official figures.\n\nIt recorded the highest infection rate, with 82.6 cases per 100,000 people, in the week to 17 July, Public Health England data showed.\n\nProf Dominic Harrison said he would be \"reluctant\" to impose a local lockdown.\n\nThe number of cases in the borough nearly doubled to 123 in the past week, compared with 63 the week before.\n\nThe latest figures are subject to daily revision, but they reflect the position reported on Monday afternoon.\n\nNew measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Blackburn with Darwen have already been introduced after a spike.\n\nThey include wearing face coverings in enclosed public spaces and tighter limits on visitors from another household, while officials have also urged people to bump elbows in place of handshakes and hugs.\n\nNew cases in Leicester, where there is a local lockdown, have fallen to a rate of 81.6 per 100,000, with 290 new infections, compared with 428 the previous week.\n\nThe data on new cases of coronavirus is published every afternoon, and that means new results for previous days are being added in all the time.\n\nSo far, looking at the week up to Friday, Blackburn with Darwen has recorded twice the number of cases it had in the previous week, while cases in Leicester - which is in a localised lockdown - appear to be falling.\n\nLast Wednesday, Blackburn with Darwen recorded 35 cases and Leicester had 38. However, with Leicester having a population more than twice the size of Blackburn with Darwen, that gave the Lancashire borough a higher rate of new cases per 100,000 residents.\n\nMost new cases in the Blackburn area have been among the south Asian community centred in terraced houses with a high number of occupants, public health officials have said.\n\nProf Harrison, public health director of Blackburn with Darwen Council, warned that cases would continue to rise.\n\nHe said: \"We should be concerned the figures have gone up, but I entirely expected them to and I expect them to rise again this week.\"\n\nProf Harrison warned a local lockdown could be imposed if things were not turned around, but added: \"We would only use those powers as a very, very last resort.\n\n\"We've had good co-operation, so I would be very reluctant to use the powers.\"\n\nAt the weekend it was revealed that contact tracers had reached only about half of Covid-19 contacts in the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't want to end in lockdown like Leicester'\n\nSam Ali, from the Switch Youth Community Organisation in the town, said: \"We have all been affected by this.\n\n\"Anyone across the country wouldn't like to be on the radar of going into another lockdown, but it's important to realise that the pandemic is still here.\n\n\"We need to wear the appropriate masks, we need to wash our hands, we need to keep distant.\n\n\"Blackburn is a fantastic town. We're going to get stronger from this.\"\n\nSam Ali urged locals \"to realise that the pandemic is still here\"\n\nSteve Hartley, 52, who lives in Darwen, said: \"You see more people in masks but a lot of people aren't social distancing or wearing them.\n\n\"It's shocking but some people still just aren't taking it seriously despite everything that's going on.\n\n\"Now a lot of shops have signs in the windows telling people they can't come in without a mask.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warns Beijing: \"The UK is watching and the whole world is watching”\n\nThe UK government will suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong \"immediately and indefinitely\".\n\nAnnouncing the move, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK \"wants a positive relationship\" with China.\n\nBut he said the \"imposition\" of the new security law in Hong Kong by Beijing was a \"serious violation\" of the country's international obligations.\n\nLabour said it would support changes to the law, calling it a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nThe extradition treaty means that, if someone in Hong Kong is suspected of a crime in the UK, then the British authorities can ask Hong Kong to hand them over to face justice - and vice versa.\n\nThe UK fears the arrangement - which has been in place for more than 30 years - could see anyone it extradites to Hong Kong being sent on to China.\n\nMr Raab also confirmed the government would extend its arms embargo - which has been in place with China since 1989 - to Hong Kong, stopping the UK exporting equipment, such as firearms, smoke grenades and shackles, to the region.\n\nBut China has accused the UK government of \"brutal meddling\", insisting it is committed to upholding international law.\n\nThe country also promised a \"resolute response\" if the UK withdrew from extradition arrangements.\n\nBeijing introduced the security law at the end of June, creating new offences which could see Hong Kong residents sent to mainland China for trial.\n\nCritics said it could see pro-democracy protesters in the region being served with life sentences.\n\nThey have also said the law breaches an agreement made with the UK before Hong Kong - a former British colony - was handed over to China in 1997.\n\nUnder the 50-year agreement, China enshrined civil liberties - including the right to protest, freedom of speech and the independence of the judiciary - in Hong Kong's Basic Law, an approach which came to be known as \"one country, two systems\".\n\nMr Raab told MPs: \"There remains considerable uncertainty about the way in which the new national security law will be enforced.\n\n\"I would just say this: the UK is watching and the whole world is watching.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary also confirmed plans for a path to UK citizenship for around three million Hong Kong people would be in place by early 2021, in response to the law.\n\nHowever, Border Force officials have been given the ability to grant leave to any applicants before then.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolitical and economic relations between the UK and China have become strained in recent months.\n\nMr Raab referenced a number of tensions during his speech, including the decision by the UK government to ban Chinese firm Huawei from the country's 5G network.\n\nHe told MPs: \"We will always protect our vital interests including sensitive infrastructure and we won't accept any investment that compromises our domestic or national security\"\n\nThe foreign secretary also raised his \"grave concerns\" about the \"gross human rights abuses\" taking place in China's Xinjiang region against Uighur Muslims, after reports of forced sterilisation and wider persecution of the group.\n\nHe said they had raised the issue with his Chinese counterparts and with the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab added: \"We want a positive relationship with China. There's a huge amount to be gained for both countries, there are many areas, where we can work productively, constructively to mutual benefit together.\n\n\"For our part, the UK will work hard and in good faith towards that goal. But we will protect our vital interests, we will stand up for our values, and we will hold China to its international obligations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, denied reports of a \"concentration camp\" in Xinjiang\n\nThe change in the treaty was praised by MPs from other parties.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said Labour \"strongly welcomed\" the measures, adding they should lead to a \"new era\" in the two countries' relationship.\n\n\"This must mark the start of a more strategic approach to China based on an ethical approach to foreign policy and an end to the naivety of the 'golden-era years',\" she told MPs.\n\n\"Our quarrel is not with the people of China, but the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong, the actions of the Chinese government in the South China Sea and the appalling treatment of the Uighur people is reason now to act.\n\n\"We will not be able to say in future years that we did not know.\"\n\nBut other MPs called for the government to go further.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael wanted action on imports from China - especially surveillance equipment - while the SNP's Margaret Ferrier called for sanctions against individuals responsible for human rights violations.\n\nConservative MPs also called for further action.\n\nTory MP and former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said: \"For decades we have turned a blind eye to China's democratic deficit and human rights violations in the hope that it would mature into a global, responsible citizen [but] that clearly hasn't happened.\n\n\"Can I ask the secretary of state, is this now the turning point that we drop the pretence the China shares our values, given its actions... [and] can we have a strategic overhaul of our foreign policy in relation to China?\"\n\nMr Raab said the government was carrying out an integrated review about its strategy.", "Sea ice is declining in the Arctic in both thickness and extent\n\nPolar bears will be wiped out by the end of the century unless more is done to tackle climate change, a study predicts.\n\nScientists say some populations have already reached their survival limits as the Arctic sea ice shrinks.\n\nThe carnivores rely on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean to hunt for seals.\n\nAs the ice breaks up, the animals are forced to roam for long distances or on to shore, where they struggle to find food and feed their cubs.\n\nThe bear has become the \"poster child of climate change\", said Dr Peter Molnar of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.\n\n\"Polar bears are already sitting at the top of the world; if the ice goes, they have no place to go,\" he said.\n\nPolar bears are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with climate change a key factor in their decline.\n\nFemale polar bears need to store sufficient fat to feed their cubs\n\nStudies show that declining sea ice is likely to decrease polar bear numbers, perhaps substantially. The new study, published in Nature Climate Change, puts a timeline on when that might happen.\n\nBy modelling the energy use of polar bears, the researchers were able to calculate their endurance limits.\n\nDr Steven Amstrup, chief scientist of Polar Bears International, who was also involved in the study, told BBC News: \"What we've shown is that, first, we'll lose the survival of cubs, so cubs will be born but the females won't have enough body fat to produce milk to bring them along through the ice-free season.\n\n\"Any of us know that we can only go without food for so long,\" he added, \"that's a biological reality for all species\".\n\nPolar bears rely on sea ice to catch their prey\n\nThe researchers were also able to predict when these thresholds will be reached in different parts of the Arctic. This may have already happened in some areas where polar bears live, they said.\n\n\"Showing how imminent the threat is for different polar bear populations is another reminder that we must act now to head off the worst of future problems faced by us all,\" said Dr Amstrup.\n\n\"The trajectory we're on now is not a good one, but if society gets its act together, we have time to save polar bears. And if we do, we will benefit the rest of life on Earth, including ourselves.\"\n\nUnder a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, it's likely that all but a few polar bear populations will collapse by 2100, the study found. And even if moderate emissions reduction targets are achieved, several populations will disappear.\n\nThe findings match previous projections that polar bears are likely to persist to 2100 only in a few populations very far north if climate change continues unabated.\n\nSea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface, forming and melting with the polar seasons. Some persists year after year in the Arctic, providing vital habitat for wildlife such as polar bears, seals, and walruses.\n\nSea ice that stays in the Arctic for longer than a year has been declining at a rate of about 13% per decade since satellite records began in the late 1970s.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dentist and mother-of-three Nia Patten was disappointed when childcare ended in Cardiff in the summer holidays.\n\nKey workers say they are struggling to find childcare for their children as school hubs shut for the summer holidays.\n\nOnly four councils have said they will continue to offer care for school-aged children in hubs.\n\nAnd with many holiday clubs cancelled and grandparents often out of the picture due to lockdown restrictions, parents say it is a \"scramble\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said £2.6m had been made available.\n\nThe money is intended to fund places for vulnerable children, but the government said councils could also use it to provide places for critical workers' children if they wished.\n\nBut the only local authorities who confirmed they would offer some provision during the summer holidays for key workers' children aged older than five were Caerphilly, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Torfaen.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing in Wales (RCN) urged other authorities to reopen childcare for critical workers.\n\nSome key-worker parents only found out two weeks before the end of term that school hubs would close.\n\nDiane Powles, from the Royal College of Nursing, says nurses are struggling to find childcare\n\nDiane Powles, the associate director for nursing policy professional practice at the RCN, said the change had been a \"real challenge\" for nurses and other key workers.\n\nShe said: \"We have had members' feedback that they have struggled.\n\n\"They want to be there and provide that patient service.\n\n\"But equally, they have an obligation to make sure they look after their children as well.\"\n\n\"We would really like to encourage that there is that equitable provision across Wales, so key workers have the same opportunities to have childcare,\" Ms Powles added.\n\n\"Nurses need to feel valued, not just in their salary, but in the way they are treated.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government is funding places for children under five through the Coronavirus Childcare Assistance Scheme (CCAS) until 31 August.\n\nChildren had three or four weeks back in school before the holidays\n\nMother-of-two Natasha Albinus, 29, from Haverfordwest, is a support worker for adults with learning disabilities.\n\nAlthough her two-year-old daughter's childcare is provided through CCAS until the end of August, her six-year-old daughter Ruby was left with no childcare when Pembrokeshire council said it would be closing hubs.\n\nShe said: \"I just felt like 'what am I going to do?'\n\n\"Without childcare I would have not been able to work which would have made a huge impact on our family life and our finances, our mortgage, everything.\n\n\"I found a place for Ruby somewhere at the last minute, but I was lucky.\"\n\nA nurse and mother-of-two from Bridgend, who did not want to be named, said she and her husband, who also works for the NHS, had been left with no childcare for their eldest child, aged five, during the summer.\n\nShe said: \"I can't get all the days we need covered. I have limited family support and friends are unable to look after her as we are not in their social bubble.\n\n\"We have used a huge amount of annual leave already this year to cover childcare and done the right thing by keeping children at home as much as possible, however now it has approached the school holidays the support has gone.\"\n\nGemma Stubbs, a single mother from Cardiff, works in a hub for preschool children. The 34-year-old said she had been forced to turn to her parents, who are shielding, for childcare.\n\n\"I look after other key workers' children, but no-one was going to look after my own,\" she said.\n\n\"My daughter would normally go to holiday club but that isn't opening this time.\n\n\"I'm really lucky that my mum is going to help me out, but I feel really frustrated and angry. I didn't expect to have childcare for free, but to have nowhere to send her and having to rely on my mum is not right.\"\n\nNia Patten says finding childcare has been \"very stressful\"\n\nMother-of-three Nia Patten, 40, from Cardiff, has struggled to find somewhere for her eight-year-old.\n\n\"I had been told the hub would be running over the summer,\" said Mrs Patten, who works as a dentist.\n\n\"The first thing I heard that wasn't the case was in a school newsletter.\n\n\"It meant I had two weeks to find somewhere for my daughter to go.\n\n\"I only needed childcare for two days a week but most private settings were only taking children full-time on the current guidelines.\n\n\"I managed to sort something out in the end, but it was very stressful.\"\n\nA spokesman for Cardiff council said: \"No decision on key worker childcare was taken at the beginning of the outbreak. The pandemic and how it was managed was evolving throughout.\n\n\"We apologise if there has been any misunderstanding but there was no official council communication stating provision would continue throughout the summer holidays.\n\n\"As soon as we had information to communicate about key worker provision we did so.\"\n\nThe leader of Newport council, Jane Mudd, said the local authority had decided to provide critical care workers with four weeks' childcare during the summer.\n\nShe said: \"We felt it was really important to do whatever we could to support families and support key workers during this period.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"Childcare and play settings across Wales have been increasing their operations since 22 June.\n\n\"We are working with local authorities and the childcare sector to ensure all can open as soon as possible and have also published guidance to support childcare settings in reopening.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sitel said it was \"urgently investigating\" the outbreak with Public Health Scotland\n\nSix people have tested positive for coronavirus in an outbreak at a test and trace call centre in North Lanarkshire.\n\nSitel, which carries out contact tracing for NHS England, said it was aware of a \"local outbreak\" at its Motherwell site.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland the call centre has been closed.\n\nHe said \"extensive contact tracing\" was under way.\n\nSitel said it was \"urgently investigating\" the outbreak with Public Health Scotland.\n\nThe company said it had requested that all staff who have been working at the site undergo testing within the next 24 hours.\n\nA spokeswoman for NHS Test and Trace said everyone at the site is currently working from home while a deep clean takes place.\n\nNHS Test and Trace is a service operated by the NHS in England to track and help prevent the spread of Covid-19 south of the border.\n\nMr Swinney told the BBC that the situation came to light at 08:00 on Sunday and since then a number of contacts of the people who tested positive have been identified.\n\nIt was a \"pretty realistic conclusion\" that there had been transmission of the virus in the office, he added - but an investigation into how it spread is being carried out.\n\nMr Swinney also said work would need to be undertaken to \"get an understanding\" of how guidance was being followed within the facility.\n\nWhen asked if penalties could levied against Sitel, Mr Swinney said: \"These are all issues that will be explored, but what our primary focus is on is to make sure that we interrupt any transmission of the virus.\n\n\"The virus is at a very low level within Scottish society today, the compliance efforts of members of the public have successfully reduced the prevalence of coronavirus, but we have to keep it that way.\"\n\nMr Swinney added that actions being taken by NHS Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire Council were \"reassuring\".\n\nThe outbreak involves a call centre which carries out coronavirus contact tracing\n\nConcerns had been raised after 23 new cases of Covid-19 in Scotland were announced on Sunday, although only three of these were in the Lanarkshire health board area.\n\nThis followed 21 cases being confirmed on Saturday, with both of these figures the highest recorded since mid-June.\n\nHowever the number of new positive test results dropped back to seven on Monday, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcoming \"a reduction compared to recent days\".\n\nShe said all cases \"will still be closely examined and contract tracing undertaken as appropriate\".\n\nDr David Crome, a consultant in public health medicine at NHS Lanarkshire, said the health board was investigating the situation and putting measures in place to reduce risk.\n\nThe Scottish government said contact tracing is under way following the detection of \"a small number of potentially linked cases in North Lanarkshire\".\n\n\"Where potential clusters of cases develop we must find them and act quickly to prevent further spread and we are grateful to local partners for their swift response,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman said \"a small increase in the number of cases is not unexpected as lockdown is lifted\", adding that it highlights the importance of the public co-operating with contact tracers as well as following guidelines on social distancing and wearing face coverings.", "Mrs Merkel (left) and Mr Macron (second left) say there has been some progress\n\nEU talks aimed at reaching an agreement on a huge post-coronavirus recovery fund have stretched into a fourth day but there are signs of progress.\n\nGermany and France said a framework had now been sketched, during a summit in Brussels that has seen testy exchanges.\n\nThe main division is between hard-hit nations like Italy and Spain, and EU members who want to lessen funding.\n\nSo-called \"frugal\" nations want grants limited - and €390bn (£352bn; $445bn) appears the latest compromise figure.\n\nThey had argued the proposed €750bn overall package was too large and should be mostly loans.\n\nThe discussions - which were originally scheduled to end on Saturday - were to get under way again on Monday afternoon for what is now the longest EU summit since Nice 2000, when talks lasted five days.\n\nThe confirmed number of coronavirus cases has reached 14.5 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nMember states are largely split between those hit hardest by the outbreak - and keen to revive their economies - and those more concerned about the costs of the recovery plan.\n\nTempers have often been frayed. In the early hours of Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly banged his hand on the table and threatened to walk out.\n\nHowever, as he arrived for the afternoon session, he was more upbeat, saying: \"There were very tense moments, moments that will likely still be difficult but on this topic things have moved forward and we must now get into the details of the new proposal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe proposal concerns the main area of dispute - the amount to be paid out in grants. At least one earlier proposal on the issue had been put forward during the summit.\n\nThe self-proclaimed frugal four - Sweden, Denmark, Austria and the Netherlands - along with Finland, had opposed allowing €500bn to be offered in the form of grants to countries hardest-hit by Covid-19.\n\nLed by Dutch PM Mark Rutte, they had set €375bn as the limit, plus conditions including the right to block requests. The others, including Spain and Italy, were refusing to go below €400bn. Diplomats say the figure of €390bn could now be the compromise.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said: \"Yesterday night, after long negotiations, we found a way to find a possible agreement. That is a step forward and we are hopeful that we can reach an agreement.\"\n\nThis is the first face-to-face meeting between leaders since governments began imposing lockdowns in March in a bid to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nItaly was one of the earliest European countries to suffer an outbreak and has recorded 35,000 deaths - one of the highest tolls in the world.\n\nPM Giuseppe Conte, who earlier complained that Europe was \"under the blackmail of the 'frugals'\", said he was cautiously optimistic a deal would be reached.\n\nEven Mr Rutte said he was a \"bit more hopeful\".\n\nOn Sunday, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban had accused Mr Rutte of a personal vendetta and of trying to link financial help to political issues. Mr Orban, and his ally Poland, have threatened to veto the package if it adopts a policy of withholding funds from nations who do not meet certain democratic principles.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, left, with Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right\n\nThis is now the longest European summit since Nice 20 years ago, which went into day five when leaders agreed to expand the membership. This time around, money is at the heart of the negotiations and the issue of trust is the cause of the quarrelling.\n\nTempers have flared, and there has been some name calling, too. Mostly at the Dutch leader, Mark Rutte. Bulgaria's leader Boyko Borissov accused Mr Rutte of \"acting like the policeman of Europe\". Hungary's Viktor Orban said, \"It's Dutch guy who's to blame... I don't know why he dislikes us.\"\n\nFrench officials tell me President Macron \"banged his fists\" on the table , as he told the \"frugal four\" that he thought they were putting the European project in danger. An Italian diplomat said Prime Minister Conte told Mr Rutte: \"You might be a hero in your home country for a few days. But after a few weeks you will be held responsible for blocking an effective European response to Covid-19.\"\n\nThese negotiations may become known unofficially as the \"stiff-leg summit\" - a term being used by the Dutch here meaning that Mr Rutte has been sticking to his guns.\n\nThere was a notable show of social-distancing etiquette when the leaders first arrived, faces covered by masks. But photos from Sunday evening show that the masks have slipped, along, it seems, with their approach to diplomacy.", "Khloemae Loy died from a single stab wound to the neck\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a woman who was stabbed to death at a hotel.\n\nKhloemae Loy, 23, was pronounced dead at the Holiday Inn on Bugsby's Way in Greenwich, south-east London, on 5 July.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she died from a single stab wound to the neck, the Met Police said.\n\nTaye Francis, 39, has been charged with her murder and will appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nPolice were called to the hotel at about 10:00 BST to reports that a woman had been stabbed.\n\nOfficers and paramedics found Ms Loy, who had suffered serious injuries, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nMs Loy was pronounced dead at the hotel\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. China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming: \"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang\"\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population and said sanctions against those responsible cannot be ruled out.\n\nReports of forced sterilisation and wider persecution of the Muslim group were \"reminiscent of something not seen for a long time\", he told the BBC.\n\nThe UK would work with its allies to take appropriate action, he insisted.\n\nChina's UK ambassador said talk of concentration camps was \"fake\".\n\nLiu Xiaoming told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the Uighurs received the same treatment under the law as other ethnic groups in his country.\n\nShown drone footage that appears to show Uighurs being blindfolded and led to trains, and which has been authenticated by Australian security services, he said he \"did not know\" what the video was showing and \"sometimes you have a transfer of prisoners, in any country\".\n\n\"There is no such concentration camps in Xinjiang,\" he added. \"There's a lot of fake accusations against China.\"\n\nIt is believed that up to a million Uighur people have been detained over the past few years in what the Chinese state defines as \"re-education camps\".\n\nChina previously denied the existence of the camps, before defending them as a necessary measure against terrorism, following separatist violence in the Xinjiang region.\n\nThe authorities have recently been accused of forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in an apparent attempt to limit the population, prompting calls for the UN to investigate.\n\nAsked whether the treatment of the Uighurs met the legal definition of genocide, Mr Raab said the international community had to be \"careful\" before making such claims.\n\nBut he said: \"Whatever the legal label, it is clear that gross, egregious human rights abuses are going on.\n\nAccording to recent research by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the rate of population growth in the two largest Uighur prefectures in Xinjiang fell by more than 80% between 2013 and 2018.\n\nChina does not accept the findings and pressed on the figures, China's ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming said that the Uighur population in Xinjiang stood at four to five million 40 years ago and had now grown to 11 million.\n\n''People say we have ethnic cleansing, but the population has doubled,'' he added.\n\nDemographic research, which draws on Chinese official data and media reports, doesn't go back as far as 40 years.\n\nBut it suggests there was a rapid rise in the growth rate of the population in Xinjiang between 2005 and 2015, followed by a sharp fall over subsequent years.\n\n\"It is deeply, deeply troubling and the reports on the human aspect of this - from forced sterilisation to the education camps - are reminiscent of something we have not seen for a very long time.\n\n\"We want a positive relationship with China but we can't see behaviour like that and not call it out.\"\n\nThere are growing calls for the UK to impose sanctions, such as asset freezes and travel bans, on Chinese officials responsible for the persecution of the Uighurs.\n\nA petition backing the move has amassed more than 100,000 signatures, meaning it will be considered for debate in Parliament.\n\nThe UK recently took action against senior generals in Myanmar who orchestrated the campaign of violence against the Rohingya and against North Korean bodies behind forced labour camps.\n\nMr Raab said this showed that the UK was prepared to take action unilaterally, as well as through bodies like the UN, but it was \"not as simple as deciding you can willy nilly sanction X or Y\".\n\n\"You have to, as we have done with the Rohingya and North Korea, build up an evidence base and that takes a long time to do because you have got to identify accurately and responsibly those involved,\" he said.\n\nBBC News diplomatic correspondent James Landale said: \"The risk for Britain is that it gets caught in the crossfire between Washington and Beijing.\n\n\"The price for defending human rights could be less trade with China - and that could prove costly in a post-Covid economic downturn.\"\n\nConservative MPs are also pressing for action against senior officials in the Hong Kong government following the imposition of a new security law which the UK says violates international agreements protecting freedoms.\n\nThe foreign secretary is due to update Parliament on Monday on the UK's response, amid speculation it will scrap the UK's existing extradition treaty with the former British colony.\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, the Chinese ambassador said if the UK - which has also offered residency rights to three million Hong Kongers eligible for British passports - targeted its officials, his country could retaliate.\n\n\"If the UK goes that far to impose sanctions on any individuals in China, China will certainly make a resolute response to it,\" he said.\n\nHe dismissed claims of \"ethnic cleansing\" of the Uighurs as baseless, saying they \"enjoy peaceful, harmonious coexistence with other ethnic groups of people\".\n\nHe said figures suggesting population growth in Uighur areas had fallen by 84% between 2015 and 2018 were \"not correct\", claiming the number of Uighurs in the whole of Xinjiang had \"doubled\" over the past four decades.\n\n\"There is no so-called pervasive, massive forced sterilisation among Uighur people in China,\" he added. \"Government policy is strongly opposed to this kind of practice.\"\n\nWhile he \"cannot rule out single cases\" of sterilisation, he insisted \"we treat every ethnic group as equal\".", "Thousands of fans attended the event, despite police appeals for mass gatherings to be avoided because of Covid-19\n\nA huge clean-up operation has taken place after police officers were injured when thousands of Leeds United fans celebrated their club's promotion.\n\nOne officer sustained a serious head injury during the event, attended by about 7,000 fans, after Leeds' Premier League promotion after 16 years.\n\nBottles were thrown at officers and nine people were arrested for public order offences.\n\nVolunteers, including fans, joined council staff in cleaning up the area.\n\nCouncil staff were faced with mounds of rubbish in the city centre following Sunday's celebrations\n\nThe clean-up operation took several hours to complete\n\nSunday's city centre celebrations in Millennium Square came after fans had previously gathered on Friday and Saturday at the club's Elland Road ground.\n\nThe club's promotion was confirmed on Friday, with the Championship title secured on Saturday after Brentford lost to Stoke.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said a female officer was being treated in hospital after sustaining a serious head injury.\n\nA number of other officers received minor injuries and 15 members of the public were also hurt, it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunday saw 7,000 fans take to the city centre to celebrate\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Oz Khan said the force had continued to stress to fans the importance of Covid-19 precautions, appealing for large gatherings to be avoided and deploying officers to try to ensure the safety of those present.\n\n\"Almost 7,000 people gathered in Millennium Square in Leeds; whilst the vast majority of fans were enjoying themselves and celebrating, there were a small minority of people who began to throw bottles at police officers,\" he said.\n\n\"The safety of fans and the wider public is our primary concern. Violence towards police officers will not be tolerated and we deployed an appropriate police response to ensure that the festivities concluded safely.\"\n\nFans had been urged to stay at home if Leeds secured promotion\n\nThe club's owner Andrea Radrizzani had urged fans to stay at home if Leeds secured promotion.\n\nHe said he shared their desire to celebrate the club's success but did not believe what he had seen over the last 24 hours was responsible.\n\n\"Everybody wishes to get together and celebrate and we would love to open the stadium soon,\" he said.\n\n\"If we are not following the rules, if we take these superficially, then this might cause more cases, more problems and then we will have to postpone what we want which is to be back home at Elland Road as soon as possible.\"\n\nCouncil staff were joined by volunteers, many of them fans, to clean up the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some fans helped council workers clean up the litter left at Millennium Square\n\nVolunteer Nick Moss, who did not attend the event on Sunday, said he was not surprised so many people decided to celebrate.\n\n\"Everybody's been in lockdown, there's a lot of emotion, it was like a big release for Leeds to get promoted,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw the mess and thought 'You know what I am going to come down and volunteer to help'.\n\n\"I am proud to do it, I love Leeds, I love the city, I love Leeds United, it was a natural thing to do.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Delivery giant Hermes says it will create 10,500 jobs in the UK after seeing a surge in demand from people shopping from home during lockdown.\n\nThis will include 1,500 full-time roles across its delivery network and head office, and 9,000 freelance couriers.\n\nHermes also said it would not accept any money from the government's job retention bonus scheme, designed to help struggling firms.\n\nIt comes as a raft of companies make job cuts due to the pandemic.\n\nHermes boss Martijn de Lange said: \"The pandemic has expedited the already phenomenal growth of online shopping and we see no sign of this changing.\n\n\"As a result, it is important that we have the right infrastructure and people in place to support this. This is good news for the many people who have sadly had their income affected and we are pleased to be able to support the UK economy with so many jobs at this time.\"\n\nHe said the firm had received thousands of applications from pub staff, hairdressers, pilots and others who had been let go at the start of lockdown.\n\nThe German firm, which has operated in the UK since 2000, has a network of more than 15,000 self-employed couriers in the country. It said it was investing £100m in its expansion and had already opened 90 new sub depots this year.\n\nHermes follows Primark, John Lewis and Rightmove in promising to shun the government's job retention bonus scheme, which will pay firms £1,000 for every furloughed worker they retain past January.\n\nIt is meant to stop struggling firms from cutting jobs, but MPs and economists have warned that healthy companies could also be tempted to use it.\n\nHermes, which has been criticised for its treatment of casual workers in the past, also said that all new self-employed hires would get holiday pay. It follows a deal with the GMB union last year.\n\nThe jobs news comes after a raft of companies have announced cuts citing the effects of the pandemic.\n\nOn Tuesday, Marks & Spencer and fashion brand Ted Baker said they would slash almost 1,500 roles between them.\n\nOther lay-offs announced in recent months have included:", "Hundreds of migrant boats have been filmed being stored at a location in Dover.\n\nSince the beginning of the year, 2,900 people have crossed the English Channel in small dinghies.", "The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed today's progress towards a vaccine but says work still needs to be done to combat the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAt a briefing in Geneva, Dr Mike Ryan, director of the WHO emergencies programme, congratulated the scientists behind the Oxford vaccine, saying: \"This is a positive result but again there is a long way to go.\"\n\nHe added that now, \"real world\" trials must be done on a larger scale. There are 23 potential vaccines in development thus far.\n\n\"But it is good to see more data and more products moving into this very important phase of vaccine discovery.\"\n\nWHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also emphasised that any successful vaccines must be accessible to all.\n\nHe said many countries are seeing the advantages of making the vaccine \"a global public good\", but some are \"going the reverse direction\".\n\n\"When there is no consensus, it could be actually owned by those who have money and those who cannot afford it may not have access to the vaccines.\"\n\nThe director-general also said that while vaccine research continues, \"we have to save lives now\".\n\n\"We must continue to accelerate vaccine research while doing more with the tools we have at hand.\"", "Martin Lewis says the new website promotes poor financial decisions by graduates\n\nChanges to the Student Loans Company's website are \"irresponsible and dangerous\", the consumer finance expert Martin Lewis has claimed.\n\nMr Lewis says a new \"quick repayment\" tool gives UK graduates a \"damaging, demoralising\" picture of their debts.\n\nHe says the tool exaggerates the status of their outstanding loans.\n\nThe SLC says its online repayment service gives the most up to date student loan account information that has ever been made available.\n\nThe company's website has been moved from the site SLC.co.uk to the Gov.uk site.\n\nBut Mr Lewis, founder of the website Moneysavingexpert.com, says that \"far from taking on board widespread concerns that student loans information is misleading and promotes financially poor decisions by graduates, the SLC has in some places doubled down on the opposite\".\n\n\"The first thing university leavers see when they log in, in a large font, is the amount of 'debt' they owe.\n\n\"This is demoralising, damaging and dangerous,\" he said.\n\n\"Owing £30,000, £300,000 or £3m makes no difference to your annual repayments, which are set at 9% of everything you earn over a threshold (currently £26,575 per year for Plan 2 loans and £19,390 for Plan 1).\n\n\"The only impact the amount of debt has is whether you clear it or not within the 30 years before it wipes; and it's predicted the vast majority, 83%, of university leavers won't be earning enough that their repayments clear it in full.\n\n\"They'll keep repaying it for the whole 30 years, like an additional tax - so the debt amount for them is pretty irrelevant.\"\n\nThe SLC says the online repayment service is designed \"to make it easier for graduates to access their account, manage their student loan and to avoid over repayment\".\n\nThe company added: \"The service was extensively researched and tested prior to launch and the overriding feedback from our customers was that they wanted to be able to quickly and easily access their loan balance online.\n\n\"The balance information is particularly important to customers in the final stages of repayment as it helps them to determine when they should switch their repayments to direct debit.\"\n\nThe SLC said the site made it clear that customers should carefully consider their circumstances before making any additional voluntary repayments and that any outstanding balance is written off at the end of the loan.\n\n\"In the coming months we will be contacting customers to remind them that, irrespective of the outstanding loan balance, they can only be required to pay 9% of earnings above the repayment threshold, and that they should consider their circumstances carefully before making any voluntary repayments.\"\n\nBut Mr Lewis says the new site majors on a \"scary, but often irrelevant, number\" of the debt owed.\n\n\"That makes many think they should overpay like a normal debt.\n\n\"Yet, unless you're making huge overpayments, for most people overpaying does diddly squat - you'll still continue to repay 9% of everything over the threshold for 30 years,\" he said.\n\n\"So I was flabbergasted to see they went live with a 'quick repayment' system, without detailed warnings, cautions and explanation.\n\n\"That's irresponsible and dangerous beyond belief. It's doubling down on the damage.\"\n\nMr Lewis says he will be writing to the SLC and the universities minister, Michelle Donelan, calling for the quick repayment facility to be removed immediately and for a thorough overhaul of the new government website.", "Video-sharing app TikTok has denied accusations that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nTheo Bertram, TikTok's head of public policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said it would refuse any request from China to hand over data.\n\n\"The suggestion that we are in any way under the thumb of the Chinese government is completely and utterly false,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTikTok has come under pressure by Washington over its future in the US.\n\nIts owner, ByteDance, which is based in Beijing but domiciled in the Cayman Islands, has had talks with the UK government about basing its HQ in London.\n\nBut the US is considering banning TikTok and may only allow it to keep operating if it splits from China and becomes an American company.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - who is visiting the UK this week - has alleged that TikTok users in the US are at risk of their data ending up \"in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party\".\n\nMr Bertram told the BBC's Today programme that TikTok had not made any decisions about where to site its international headquarters, but added: \"We are committed to growing further in the UK.\"\n\nHe added that if TikTok were approached by the Chinese government, \"we would definitely say no to any request for data\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for International Trade said: \"ByteDance's decision on the location of their global HQ is a commercial decision for the company.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Bertram also denied allegations that TikTok was lenient towards paedophiles caught grooming children through its app.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph said it had seen leaked documents showing that users found messaging children in a sexual way had to commit three offences before incurring a permanent ban.\n\nBut Mr Bertram said TikTok had changed its policy more than a year ago and that it had \"zero tolerance\" for such behaviour.\n\nAny posts of that kind would be removed and the perpetrator reported, he said.\n\nThe latest development comes as tensions mount between the UK and China over the government's recent decision to order the removal of Huawei's 5G equipment from Britain's mobile networks by 2027.\n\nThere are fears it could prompt a tit-for-tat economic war between the two countries.\n\nThe Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, told the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday: \"We are still evaluating the consequences. This is a very bad decision.\"\n\nTikTok employs about 1,000 people in Europe, with the majority of those based in the UK and Ireland.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that a decision by TikTok to build its headquarters in the UK has the potential to create 3,000 jobs.\n\nThe Chinese video-sharing platform is hugely popular and the app has been downloaded two billion times.\n\nIndia has already blocked TikTok as well as other Chinese apps. Australia, which has already banned Huawei and telecom equipment-maker ZTE, is also considering banning TikTok.", "A long-awaited report on the nature of Russian interference in UK politics will be published on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe publication has been delayed since before the 2019 election, because it relied on a decision by the Intelligence and Security Committee, which was not reformed until last week.\n\nThe government has been accused of delaying the formation of the committee to avoid scrutiny.\n\nDowning Street denied that the delay was due to political reasons.\n\nThe report is expected to assess the extent of Russia's interference in the 2017 election and the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nLast week, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said such interference was \"almost certain\" to have happened.\n\nIt was already known that the report would be published this week after the newly established committee voted unanimously to release it before the Commons rises for its summer break on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes after a row over the election of Julian Lewis as the committee's new chair.\n\nDr Lewis lost the Conservative party whip after he was elected by the other members of the committee ahead of Chris Grayling, who was believed to be No 10's preferred choice for the role.\n\nIt is expected that the report will include details of Russia's use of new techniques like cyber-espionage and social media campaigns to interfere in political life.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera says it will also include details of Russian influence, and particularly money, which critics argue has seeped into public life and compromised various institutions.\n\nEver since last autumn, barely a week has gone by at Westminster without someone demanding to know when we would see what has become known as the 'Russia report.\"\n\nIt cropped up frequently as a question during the general election campaign before Christmas, with critics of the government asking what it was trying to hide.\n\nMinisters insisted normal practice was being followed before the publication of a potentially sensitive document.\n\nThe delay dragged on as it took ages for a new Intelligence and Security Committee to be put together after the election. That only happened last week.\n\nNow - finally - we'll get to read what its predecessor committee, the politicians on it before the election, had to say.", "Amber Heard and Johnny Depp were at London's High Court for day 10 of the case\n\nActor Johnny Depp \"threatened to kill\" ex-wife Amber Heard \"many times\", the US actress has claimed.\n\nShe described a \"three-day hostage situation\" during which she claimed Mr Depp was on a \"drug and alcohol binge\".\n\nMr Depp, 57, is suing the publisher of the Sun over an article that referred to him as a \"wife beater\" - but the newspaper maintains it was accurate.\n\nHe denies 14 allegations of domestic violence on which News Group Newspapers is relying for its defence.\n\nMs Heard took to the witness stand at London's High Court on the 10th day of the case, and her written witness statement was also submitted to the court.\n\nIn it, she accused Mr Depp of verbal and physical abuse including screaming, swearing, issuing threats, punching, slapping, kicking, head-butting and choking her, as well as \"extremely controlling and intimidating behaviour\".\n\n\"Some incidents were so severe that I was afraid he was going to kill me, either intentionally, or just by losing control and going too far,\" she said.\n\nUnder cross-examination, Ms Heard later said that although there were times when she \"lost her cool\" with Mr Depp, it was only in self-defence.\n\nMs Heard, 34, claimed Mr Depp had a \"unique ability to use his charisma to convey a certain impression of reality\" and \"he is very good at manipulating people\".\n\n\"He would blame all his actions on a self-created third party instead of himself, which he often called 'the monster'.\n\nA court artist sketch shows Amber Heard giving evidence, as ex-husband Johnny Depp looks on\n\nShe said at the beginning of their relationship, he would be \"intensely affectionate, warm and charming\" and it felt like she was \"dating a king\".\n\nMs Heard, who was married to the film star from 2015 to 2017, said Mr Depp had pursued her romantically while they were filming The Rum Diary in 2009 but nothing happened between them then because she was in a relationship.\n\nShe said they next saw each other whilst promoting the same film in 2011, which was when their \"romantic relationship\" began.\n\nMs Heard said the pre-nuptial agreement was left on Mr Depp's team's desk and \"no-one did anything\"\n\nHer witness statement added: \"When Johnny puts his attention on you, with all his intensity and darkness, it is unlike anything I've ever experienced.\n\n\"When I say he was dark, he had a violent and dark way of speaking: the way he talked about our relationship being 'dead or alive' and telling me that death was the only way out of the relationship.\"\n\nIn her statement, Ms Heard also described visiting Mr Depp in Australia in March 2015, while he was filming Pirates of the Caribbean, and described the trip as \"like a three-day hostage situation\".\n\nShe said during this time, there were \"extreme acts\" of \"psychological, physical, emotional and other forms of violence\".\n\n\"It is the worst thing I have ever been through. I was left with an injured lip and nose, and cuts on my arms.\"\n\nShe claimed Mr Depp grabbed her neck, shoved her against the fridge, tore off her nightgown and pushed her against a bar.\n\n\"He was pressing so hard on my neck I couldn't breathe. I was trying to tell him that I couldn't breathe. I remember thinking he was going to kill me in that moment,\" she said.\n\nJohnny Depp is bringing the case against the Sun over an article published in 2018\n\nShe added that she later found her nightgown, saying: \"There were pieces of it wrapped round something and I realised it was the steak I had planned to cook.\n\n\"He had also gone around and painted on all my clothes in the closet,\" she said.\n\nThe court previously heard from Mr Depp, who said the top of his finger was severed when Ms Heard threw a vodka bottle at him during the trip to Australia.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Heard said: \"I didn't actually see the finger being cut off, but I was worried that it had happened the night before.\n\n\"I figured it might have happened when he was smashing the phone on the wall by the fridge.\"\n\nMs Heard also said Mr Depp accused her of having affairs with fellow actors, and claimed she had to justify to him why she accepted film roles.\n\n\"He accused me of having affairs with each of my co-stars, movie after movie: Eddie Redmayne, James Franco, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Costner, Liam Hemsworth, Billy-Bob Thornton, Channing Tatum; even women co-stars like Kelly Garner.\n\n\"He also accused me of having affairs with stars I auditioned with, like Leonardo DiCaprio. He would taunt me about it - especially when he was drunk or high - and had derogatory nicknames for every one of my male co-stars he considered a sexual threat.\n\n\"For example, Leonardo DiCaprio was 'pumpkin-head'. Channing Tatum was 'potato-head'.\"\n\nEarlier, from the witness stand, Ms Heard told the court that she had been subjected to repeated and regular physical violence by the time of the couple's marriage in 2015.\n\nMr Depp's lawyer, Eleanor Laws QC, asked her about her allegations regarding an argument in January 2015, and suggested it was over discussions with lawyers about a pre-nuptial agreement between herself and Mr Depp.\n\n\"There was an argument in a hotel room in Tokyo that resulted in Johnny kneeling on my back and hitting me on the back of the head,\" Ms Heard told the court.\n\nShe added: \"But then Johnny was also accusing me of having an affair with a co-star and that is what led to the actual argument.\"\n\nMs Heard said Mr Depp had told her he did not want a pre-nuptial agreement but it was his sister, Christi Dembrowski, who wanted the couple to get one.\n\nMs Heard added that she had hired a lawyer who worked on a draft pre-nuptial agreement and it was sent to Mr Depp's team but never signed.\n\nShe denied that she was interested in Mr Depp's money, saying: \"I never had been, I never was.\"\n\nShe said she did not have a \"problem\" with controlling her temper, when challenged by Mr Depp's lawyer, who also suggested that Ms Heard would have \"outbursts of rage and anger\".\n\nMs Heard said \"there were times when, yes, I lost my cool with Johnny in our fights...\"\n\nMs Laws referred to a medical note written by a nurse, Erin Boerum, who wrote that Ms Heard had reported \"experiencing increased anxiety and agitation and has had several outbursts of anger and rage\", and also that she was \"nervous about being alone while husband is working on movie set in London (and) dealing with feelings of insecurity and jealousy\".\n\nAsked by Ms Laws if she felt \"insecure and jealous\" when she wasn't in Mr Depp's presence, Ms Heard said she had expressed \"concerns\" about his travel because it was a \"trigger\" for him, when they were apart.\n\nMs Laws asked Ms Heard if she ever \"got violent\" with Mr Depp, to which the actress replied \"no\", adding that he put her in situations where she was faced with \"unimaginable frustrations and difficulties, often that were life-threatening to me\".\n\nShe added that she would \"try to defend myself when he got serious and when I thought my life was threatened, but I was never violent towards him\".\n\nMs Heard said it was \"years into the relationship\" before she tried to defend herself; adding \"before that\" she had \"just checked out\".\n\nMs Heard was then played a recording of a conversation between her and Mr Depp, in which Mr Depp can be heard to say that he is not the one who \"throws pots\".\n\nIn the recording, she can be heard saying that she has \"thrown pots and pans\". When questioned by Ms Laws on this admission, she said she threw things \"only to escape\" Mr Depp.\n\nThe lawyer put it to Ms Heard that she was \"not injured at all\" as a result of anything that happened on the night of 21 May 2016.\n\nMs Heard had alleged that Mr Depp had thrown her mobile phone at her face, hit her in the eye, pulled her hair and grabbed her face.\n\nMs Laws suggested that Mr Depp \"didn't cause any damage whatsoever in that penthouse\", to which Ms Heard said the actor had \"caused damage to multiple apartments and my face... he did a significant amount of damage to the property\".\n\nMs Laws showed Ms Heard a photograph taken days after the 21 May incident, and after Ms Heard was said to have had \"a four-hour meeting with your legal team\".\n\nThe lawyer said: \"It doesn't appear as if you have got any marks on your face at all there\".\n\nMs Heard said the photo was a \"paparazzi shot with long lenses\", adding: \"If I went out in Los Angeles, I would wear makeup, except for my court appearance.\"\n\nMs Laws then suggested that, in earlier photos which are said to show injuries, she had put bruises on \"yourself through makeup or lighting or any other means - it wasn't any injury from Mr Depp\".\n\nMs Heard said she disagreed \"wholeheartedly\" with this, adding that she had been forced to \"cover up many bruises\" as it was \"embarrassing\" to be seen with them.\n\nThe lawyer added that \"far from being petrified of Mr Depp\", Ms Heard had, between 21 May and 27 May, contacted Mr Depp on the phone.\n\nMs Heard she had been \"attempting to\", and Ms Laws said: \"You were not displaying any signs of being fearful of him in those texts.\" Ms Heard replied: \"No.\"\n\nMs Laws suggested that, by the time Ms Heard and Mr Depp met in July 2016 in San Francisco, \"you were no longer petrified of him\".\n\nMs Heard denied this. She alluded to her earlier statement that it was \"the monster\" in the relationship that she was \"terrified of\" and not \"Johnny\" whom she \"loved\".\n\nThe libel case centres on an article published on the Sun's website in April 2018 headlined: \"Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?\".\n\nThe article related to allegations made by Ms Heard. The hearing is expected to last for three weeks.", "China's cinemas are reopening after being closed for six months to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nThe China Film Administration said screens in \"low-risk\" areas could open their doors again from today.\n\nAs most of the country is now classified as low risk it is expected to be essentially a nationwide reopening.\n\nChina's cinemas were hit hard by the shutdown that started in January, with many already forced out of business.\n\nCinemas that reopen will be subject to a strict set of rules, including screenings being limited to 30% capacity and the number of movies shown at a venue capped at 50% of its previous volume.\n\nCustomers' temperatures will be taken, and masks will have to be worn at all times by both cinema goers and staff.\n\nTickets must be purchased online and separate groups of customers will have to sit at least a metre apart.\n\nUnder the restrictions no food or drinks will be allowed to be served in cinemas. This will be a particularly major new blow as it has long been a significant part of the industry's revenues.\n\nChina, which was the first epicentre of the pandemic, is the world's second largest market for movies, with the country's box offices taking in $9.2bn (£7.4bn) in 2019.\n\nBut that figures is, unsurprisingly, expected to fall sharply due to cinema closures and domestic and Hollywood film releases being cancelled or moved online.\n\nEarlier this month China's largest cinema owner, Wanda Film, warned that it would swing to a loss for the first six months of the year.\n\nThe company, which has more than 600 cinemas across the country, said it expected a loss of up to 1.6bn yuan (£182m), compared to a 524m yuan profit for the same time last year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 500 cars were parked along the roads in Snowdonia\n\nVisitors to Welsh beauty spots are \"putting lives at risk\" with dangerous parking, officials have warned.\n\nOver the weekend more than 500 cars parked on mountain roads in Snowdonia, with people camping in laybys to hike up Snowdon.\n\nIn Barmouth visitors blocked a potential rescue by parking on the lifeboat forecourt.\n\nThe RNLI warned they were \"putting lives at risk\".\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it was holding \"urgent talks\" to plan and agree a way forward after chaotic scenes near Snowdon.\n\nHelen Pye, of SNPA, said staff and volunteers said the number of visitors to Snowdon at the weekend \"was nothing like they'd ever seen before\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nSnowdonia and the Brecon Beacons national parks were closed at the start of lockdown, after 'unprecedented' crowds flocked to Snowdon and Pen y fan despite advice against non-essential travel.\n\nCar parks and paths reopened in Snowdonia on 6 July to visitors for the first time after the stay local travel restrictions were lifted.\n\nOn Sunday, pictures were shared on social media of cars parked along the side of the mountain road, as people flocked to hike to the highest peak in Wales.\n\nAt Pen y pass 180 parking fines were issued on Sunday, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nAnd by 08:16 BST on Monday, the Pen-y-Pass car park, the closest car park to the summit of Snowdon, in Gwynedd, was again full.\n\nNia Jefferies, who had cycled from nearby Porthmadog on Sunday, said it was \"frightening\" as people had parked on bends, turning it into a \"single track\".\n\n\"There were walkers there, motorbikes there, cyclists and big campervans, and it was down to single file,\" the Gwynedd councillor said.\n\n\"It was the worst I've ever seen it, it was so scary, I was frightened.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMs Jefferies said people were camped in laybys, and the Sherpa bus to bring hikers to the mountain could not get through due to the \"reckless parking\".\n\nHundreds of people were fined by police, but with the fine only being about £30, Ms Jefferies said it was not a deterrent.\n\n\"People just think they want to go up it because it is the highest mountain in Wales, but there are so many other places,\" she added, calling for Visit Wales to actively promote other routes.\n\nMs Jefferies said while business owners were desperate for tourists to return to the area, people needed to respect the national park and think about the consequences of their actions.\n\n\"We are lucky we have the scenery, I know lockdown has been hard for people living in cities, but people are not respecting the environment or other people,\" she said.\n\n\"It was just so haphazard, fancy stopping on a mountain on a bend, and not thinking about the consequences, and just going for a walk, it's so selfish.\"\n\nTickets have been issued to some cars\n\nPlaid Cymru politicians said the scenes were \"truly shocking\" and called for a park and ride scheme to be brought in urgently.\n\n\"Nothing can excuse the behaviour of those who wantonly abandoned their vehicles on an exceptionally busy stretch of the A4086,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"What events over the weekend underscored is that we cannot wait any longer for a lasting solution to this problem.\"\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority, Gwynedd and Conwy councils have been reviewing parking and transport for the area.\n\nMs Jefferies said having a park and ride service could be a solution, to get people to spend in villages and towns, or passes for local residents.\n\nIn Barmouth, Gwynedd, the RNLI said people had parked outside the lifeboat station, blocking spaces for volunteers.\n\nIn a tweet the service said: \"We need this space for crew to park in case of a shout and to get the lifeboats out.\n\n\"You are potentially putting lives at risks parking here.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nConcerns have also been raised about litter left in beauty spots since restrictions were eased, and visitors returned to popular beaches and mountains.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the amount of litter being left on The Great Orme, Llandudno, by people picnicking was \"unacceptable\" at the weekend.\n\nHelen Pye said people were queuing at the top to reach Snowdon's summit\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said they were holding urgent talks with partners, including police and other national parks.\n\nHelen Pye, of SNPA, said: \"We've had things in place to cope with a busy period as lockdown eases, but there's only so much that one mountain can take. \"It's almost as if people are working out their pent up longing for open spaces and the countryside. \"It's lovely that people want to come and visit, but we do need everyone to check the car park situation before they arrive and park sensibly when they do.\n\n\"Once people are on the mountain, everything seems fine. Our wardens at the top of Snowdon itself say that there are queues for the summit, but people are being good natured and are social distancing.\"", "Beefeaters and other iconic uniformed staff are facing job cuts at the Tower of London\n\nBeefeaters guarding the Tower of London face \"heartbreaking\" redundancies to cut costs following a drop in visitors.\n\nThe pandemic forced the closure of six sites run by Historic Royal Palaces (HRP), and \"dealt a devastating blow\" to its finances, bosses said.\n\nThe Tower attracted nearly three million visitors in 2018, making it the UK's most popular paid for attraction.\n\nHRP confirmed a voluntary redundancy scheme was in place and compulsory redundancies were likely to follow.\n\nThe organisation believes it is the first time the guards have faced redundancy since the unit was formed by Henry VII in 1485.\n\nJohn Barnes, HRP's chief executive, said: \"Historic Royal Palaces is a self-funded charity. We depend on visitors for 80% of our income.\n\n\"We are heartbroken it has come to this.\n\n\"We have taken every possible measure to secure our financial position, but we need to do more to survive in the long term.\n\n\"We simply have no choice but to reduce our payroll costs.\"\n\nSix sites run by Historic Royal Palaces temporarily closed due to the pandemic\n\nThe temporary closure to visitors has created a £98m shortfall this year, HRP said.\n\nThis is made up of current losses, the high maintenance costs of heating and providing electricity to large properties, and an expected slow recovery in tourism.\n\nLast year it cost HRP £32m to run its six sites, which include Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace.\n\nAt least two of the 37 Yeoman Warders, nicknamed Beefeaters, who guard the Crown Jewels, have reportedly taken voluntary redundancy already.\n\nThe site reopened on 10 July but only welcomes fewer than 1,000 people each day due to new safety measures - a huge drop from the 12,000 who would visit on a normal day.\n\nJobs at Hampton Court Palace are also at risk\n\nThe head of the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents many workers at HRP sites, said the decision to cut jobs \"is a disgrace\".\n\nGeneral secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"Our members help guard the Crown Jewels and keep historic royal monuments and premises clean and safe.\n\n\"They should not be paying for the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister said: \"We recognise the important role which the Beefeater guards play in the UK's rich cultural history.\n\n\"We are providing unprecedented financial assistance, which many heritage organisations including the Historic Royal Palaces have taken advantage of.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Firefighters are tackling a blaze that has hit three beach huts and spread up the hillside from Bournemouth beach.\n\nThe fire is causing \"significant smoke\" across the promenade and West Hill Road, Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nPeople are being asked to stay away from the area and keep their doors and windows closed.\n\nThe service was called at about 15:50 BST and eight crews have been sent to the scene.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester United goalkeeper David de Gea endured a Wembley nightmare as Chelsea strolled to victory and set up an FA Cup final date with Arsenal.\n\nUnited manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ditched his usual FA Cup keeper Sergio Romero to keep faith with De Gea - but the experienced Spain international produced two horrendous errors either side of half-time to gift Chelsea two goals.\n\nDe Gea made a flimsy attempt to deal with Olivier Giroud's flick in first-half stoppage time then weakly fumbled Mason Mount's tame 20-yard shot into the net moments after the restart.\n\nChelsea's excellent performance fully merited this victory and United's abject misery after a dreadful performance was complete when captain Harry Maguire diverted Marcos Alonso's cross into his own net at the near post with 16 minutes left.\n\nFrank Lampard's side were in complete control from first to last as they comprehensively ended Manchester United's 19-match unbeaten run in all competitions.\n\nBruno Fernandes pulled a goal back from the penalty spot late on after Callum Hudson-Odoi fouled Anthony Martial but it could not even be described as a consolation as Chelsea closed out the win.\n• None 'Solskjaer says De Gea is best in world - he's not even best in Manchester'\n• None How you rated the players\n\nLampard is now in position to make his first season in charge a highly satisfactory one as they contemplate a place in the FA Cup final and lie third in the Premier League, in position to reach next season's Champions League.\n\nAnd no-one can question their right to this win as they dominated from start to finish, particularly in midfield, where they were able to subdue the influence of the talented Fernandes.\n\nOnce again 33-year-old Giroud demonstrated his influence, leading the line selflessly and being rewarded with that crucial first goal, even though it received a large helping hand from De Gea.\n\nChelsea were more energetic, dangerous and aggressive and while they were thankful to those mistakes from De Gea, the margin of victory was no more than they deserved.\n\nLampard's side cut off any supply line to United's forwards and it will be an intriguing final on 1 August back here at Wembley, when he pits his wits against another rookie manager in Arsenal's Mikel Arteta.\n• None More to come from Chelsea, says Lampard\n\nUnited went into this semi-final high on optimism on that long unbeaten run and with the sense that Solskjaer was starting to get to grips with the big rebuilding job.\n\nThat continues and United are still in decent shape to reach next season's Champions League, either via the Premier League or Europa League, but this was a savage setback.\n\nAnd the main culprit was De Gea, who gives the impression of a goalkeeper either in permanent decline or going through a very long slump.\n\nDe Gea changed the face of this FA Cup semi-final with those mistakes, allowing Chelsea to transform their dominance into a two-goal lead.\n\nFernandes was overpowered in midfield and United had no punch in attack, where Solskjaer decided to leave the potency of Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood on the bench, along with Paul Pogba.\n\nIt was perhaps a sign that Solskjaer knew all was not well when he introduced Martial for defender Eric Bailly when he sustained a first-half head injury while Greenwood and Pogba were only introduced in desperation when the game was gone.\n\nBailly suffered a cut to the back of his head and Solskjaer said the Ivorian had been taken to hospital for \"routine checks and protocols\".\n\nIn defence they were also vulnerable, Victor Lindelof losing Giroud too easily for Chelsea's opener and captain Maguire ending any hopes with that own goal.\n\nUnited complained they should have had a penalty when Martial went down under Kurt Zouma's first-half challenge but this was a miserable experience for Solskjaer and his players.\n\nSolskjaer's side have had many good days in recent months. This was a very bad one.\n• None Chelsea have reached their 14th FA Cup final. Only Arsenal (21 including this season) and Manchester United (20) have made the final on more occasions.\n• None Manchester United have been eliminated from the FA Cup by Chelsea for a sixth time (including three of the last four seasons) - only Arsenal (seven) have knocked the Red Devils out of the competition on more occasions.\n• None This was Chelsea's first victory against Manchester United since the 2018 FA Cup final - the Blues were winless in six matches across all competitions against the Red Devils prior to today (D2 L4).\n• None Chelsea are the first side to beat Manchester United since Burnley in the Premier League back in January, ending United's 19 game unbeaten run in all competitions.\n• None Mason Mount became the first Englishman to score for Chelsea at Wembley since John Terry in the 2015 League Cup final versus Tottenham.\n• None No player has scored more goals for Frank Lampard in his managerial career than Mason Mount (18 - level with Harry Wilson).\n• None Since his Manchester United debut in February, no Premier League player has been involved in more goals across all competitions than Bruno Fernandes (17 - nine goals and eight assists).\n• None Manchester United have both taken (19) and scored (15) more penalties than any other Premier League side this season in all competitions.\n• None Go Ask Your Mother:\n• None Attempt missed. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Tammy Abraham.\n• None Reece James (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Nemanja Matic tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Chelsea 3. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) header from very close range is just a bit too high. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Q Magazine attracted some of the biggest names in rock and pop\n\nQ Magazine, a cornerstone of rock journalism in the UK, is to close after 34 years.\n\n\"The pandemic did for us and there was nothing more to it than that,\" said the editor Ted Kessler in a tweet.\n\nHe also shared the editor's letter for the final issue, due on 28 July, in which he said: \"I must apologise for my failure to keep Q afloat.\"\n\nThe magazine's circulation had fallen to 28,000 per month from a peak of 200,000 in 2001.\n\nFounded in 1986 by Smash Hits writers Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, Q arrived at the same time as the CD revolution took off - and its glossy, aspirational format chimed perfectly with the times.\n\nIts hefty and comprehensive reviews section not only covered new releases, but the copious re-issues that were starting to appear as record labels plundered their archives to bolster the new format.\n\nYet the magazine was characterised as much by its irreverence as its knowledge.\n\nPop stars lived in fear of ending up in Tom Hibbert's \"Who The Hell Do They Think They Are?\" column, which was launched in the late 1980s to \"lampoon ego-mania and harpoon narcissism\" and ran for several years until PR gurus got wise.\n\nHibbert had a knack of needling his interviewees until they dispensed with niceties and revealed their true selves: \"Don't nit-pick me, boy,\" Jerry Lee Lewis once berated him, after a volley of questions about his rivalry with Elvis Presley.\n\n\"You mention Elvis to me again, you keep digging me about that and I'm gonna kill you, so help me God!\"\n\nRingo Starr, meanwhile, was forced to compare his 1992 solo album Time Takes Time with some of his earlier, better, work.\n\n\"My album can't beat the Abbey Road album as an album?\" he asked incredulously. \"That was 30 years ago, man. I'm still making records and you can hear that I'm a great musician on the new record.\n\n\"This is an actual bloody legend in front of you. I'm not expecting you to comb the bloody legend's hair but if you could mention the new LP and these other fine musicians I'm still playing with.\"\n\nBut on the whole, Q tended to be on better terms with its subjects.\n\nThe annual Q Awards were a famously boozy affair, where rock royalty rubbed shoulders\n\nThe first cover star was Paul McCartney, closely followed by Rod Stewart and Elton John (Headline: \"The wit, the wisdom, the wardrobe\").\n\nFuture editions saw the likes of Madonna, Prince, Kate Bush, Nirvana, a pregnant Britney Spears and a naked Terence Trent D'Arby grace the cover. Former editor Danny Kelly later said he'd worked out that D'Arby was \"the only star beautiful enough and egotistical enough to get their kit off\".\n\nIt flourished during the Britpop years, but saw its reputation stall in the mid-2010s with a listicle format (\"the 10 greatest gigs of all time\" or \"the 120 greatest stories in rock 'n' roll\") that minimised the strength of its journalism.\n\nMore recently, the magazine had rediscovered its voice under Kessler, who was appointed editor in 2017, and promoted revealing, in-depth interviews with the likes of Lana Del Rey, Tame Impala and The Streets; alongside deep dives into the back catalogues of The Specials and the Beastie Boys.\n\nHowever, in May, Q's owner Bauer Media put the title under review, along with a number of others in its portfolio, as sales and advertising revenues diminished during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe penultimate issue of the magazine read like a eulogy, with writers past and present recalling their most memorable interviews of the last 34 years.\n\nWriter Adrian Deevoy recalled a 1991 encounter with Madonna, where she declared: \"Everyone probably thinks I'm a raving nymphomaniac, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.\"\n\nAnd Dorian Lynskey recounted a trip to Argentina with Noel Gallagher, where the erstwhile Oasis guitarist demanded a DJ played Madonna's Hung Up, and slow-danced with Bono to David Bowie's Let's Dance.\n\nDavid Bowie and Iman were guests at the 1995 Q Awards\n\nBono appeared on the magazine's last page, too, reflecting on its fate.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss it if it goes, because it had everything I want from a music mag,\" he said. \"All the serious and all the silly... The scholarship deftly done\".\n\nThe magazine will eke out one final issue after those words. Kessler shared an image of the cover on Twitter, suggesting it will be another trawl through the archives, under the headline: \"Adventures with Legends, 1986 - 2020\".\n\nIn his editor's letter, he wrote: \"\"We've been a lean operation for all of my tenure, employing a variety of ways to help keep our head above water in an extremely challenging print market.\n\n\"Hopefully these final issues will provide inspiration to someone canny enough to fill that huge, Q-shaped hole on the news stand.\"\n\nTim Burgess, frontman of the Charlatans, was among those paying tribute, saying: \"Sad news … Q was good to us over the years, I learned much from its pages, ever since I bought the very first copy.\"\n\nRock band Field Music called the closure \"extremely crappy news,\" pointing out that Q was \"a small but significant piece of the jigsaw which holds the music industry together\".\n\nSleaford Mods added that \"an article in Q\" was something \"musicians dream about achieving\" and sent best wishes to Kessler and the rest of the staff.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "There are now about 10,000 red kites in the UK\n\nThe reintroduction of red kites to an area of outstanding natural beauty 30 years ago has been a \"true conservation success story\", an expert has said.\n\nNumbers of kites had declined over a 200-year period and by the 1980s they were one of only three globally-threatened species in the UK.\n\nThirteen young birds were brought over from Spain and released in the Chiltern Hills in July 1990.\n\nThey are now \"thriving\", with an estimated 1,800 UK breeding pairs.\n\nThe red kite is one of Britain's most distinctive birds of prey, known for its reddish-brown body, angled wings, forked tail, and \"mewing\" call.\n\nThey used to breed across much of the UK, but persecution over the years saw numbers fall as they increasingly became a target for egg collectors.\n\nAt one point there were just a few breeding pairs in central Wales.\n\nThe Chilterns area was chosen as it met the criteria set out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for the project.\n\nThe birds were brought to the UK from Spain\n\nThirteen young kites were initially released in the Chilterns\n\nThe Chiltern Hills were designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1965 and stretch from Goring in Oxfordshire, through Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, to Hitchin in Hertfordshire.\n\nMore birds were introduced and by 1996, at least 37 pairs had bred in southern England.\n\nRed kites can now be seen in most English counties with an estimated 10,000 birds in the UK, including 1,800 breeding pairs.\n\nTony Juniper, chair of Natural England, said these \"most majestic birds of prey\" had been \"persecuted to near-extinction\", but the \"pioneering reintroduction programme in the Chilterns stands out as a true conservation success story\".\n\nTheir reintroduction has been hailed a \"conservation success story\" by the RSPB\n\nWhile the \"majestic\" red kites have been targeted by hunters and egg thieves, they have also had some bad press themselves as numbers have increased.\n\nReports including the birds swooping on school children as they ate their lunches, and \"sweeping up chickens\", prompting calls for people to stop feeding them as there was plenty of wild food for them to eat.\n\nHowever, Jeff Knott, the RSPB's operations director for Central and Eastern England, said the reintroduction project \"might be the biggest species success story in UK conservation history\", resulting in the \"near-extinct\" species becoming a \"daily sight for millions of people\".\n\nThe UK is now home to almost 10% of the world population of red kites.", "Ben Stokes and Stuart Broad again provided the inspiration for England to complete a series-levelling 113-run victory over West Indies in the second Test at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nStokes cracked 78 not out from 57 balls to allow England to declare on 129-3, setting West Indies 312 to win or 85 overs to survive.\n\nBroad took 3-1 on the fourth evening and tore through the top order with three more wickets on Monday to leave West Indies 37-4.\n\nTheir recovery came in the shape of a century partnership between Jermaine Blackwood and Shamarh Brooks, who both made fifties.\n\nStokes produced the breakthrough, having the tangled Blackwood top-edge a pull to a diving Jos Buttler in a sustained spell of short bowling.\n\nFurther resistance came from West Indies captain Jason Holder but, when he was bowled by Dom Bess, England could scent victory.\n\nThe win was completed with nearly 15 overs to spare, Bess having Kemar Roach caught at short leg to leave West Indies 198 all out and the series level at 1-1.\n\nThe only concern for England was the sight of Stokes pulling up mid-over, appearing to hold his groin, late in the day, but he said there are no concerns over his availability for the third and final Test beginning on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'Stokes is Mr Incredible - we are in the presence of greatness'\n• None Watch Today at the Test on iPlayer\n\nDespite the surreal behind-closed-doors environment, this series has served up two superb finishes - West Indies' run-chase in Southampton and England's race against time in Manchester.\n\nIn order to level the series, England produced an excellent performance, overcoming the disruption caused by Jofra Archer's breach of the bio-secure protocols, being asked to bat in difficult conditions on day one and the obstacle of the entire third day being lost to rain.\n\nIn doing so, they have set up an intriguing finale when they will look win back the Wisden Trophy, defend a six-year unbeaten home record and prevent a first West Indies series win here since 1988.\n\nThey face decisions, especially around the make-up of a pace attack that has been rotated. Do they retain any of Broad, Chris Woakes and Sam Curran, or recall Archer and either of rested pair James Anderson and Mark Wood? Will off-spinner Bess make way for Jack Leach?\n\nCan West Indies, an hour away from earning the draw that would have guaranteed a share of the series, stir themselves to ensure they do not end their tour empty handed?\n\nThe suspicion is that England have the momentum, and they will have been relieved when Stokes explained that his discomfort was only a result of stiffness from his exertions in this match.\n\nStokes and Broad have combined to engineer this victory one match after Stokes, as stand-in captain, was part of the decision to omit Broad for the first Test, leaving the pace bowler \"angry, frustrated and gutted\".\n\nWhile Broad responded with a reminder of his enduring quality, Stokes produced another sensational all-round display.\n\nWith England resuming on 37-2 and looking for quick runs on the final morning, Stokes - on 16 after opening the batting - signalled his intent with a glorious loft over long-off for six off pace bowler Roach in the first over.\n\nLet off on 29 when John Campbell dropped a simple chance at deep cover, Stokes moved to 50 from 36 balls - the fastest half-century in Tests by an England opener - and took his match tally to 254 runs after his careful 176 in the first innings.\n\nBroad's burst revived England on Sunday, and he picked up where he left off, nipping the ball in to the right-handers from a full length, endangering pads and stumps.\n\nWhen England were held up, Stokes produced another Herculean spell of 11 overs to open the door, and the hosts chipped away from there.\n\nWest Indies have been determined with the bat throughout the series, and their spirit almost ensured they escaped this match with a draw.\n\nAfter 15 overs, they were in disarray. Campbell played an awful drive to be caught behind, Shai Hope was bowled by one that nipped back and Roston Chase was lbw shouldering arms, all to Broad. Kraigg Brathwaite was stuck on the crease to be leg before to Woakes.\n\nHowever, Blackwood rescued West Indies from 27-3 in Southampton and he counter-attacked here. Brooks was more circumspect, but also hit Bess for two straight sixes.\n\nThey were parted when Blackwood flapped at Stokes, Buttler taking a wonderful catch, and after Shane Dowrich and Brooks were leg before to Woakes and Curran respectively, only Holder and the tail remained.\n\nBess had endured a frustrating afternoon, but two balls after he was launched for a straight six by Holder, he fizzed a quicker ball through the captain's defence.\n\nStokes had Alzarri Joseph held at point by Bess before hobbling to his fielding position in the slips midway through an over, leaving Bess to take the final wicket.\n\n'I expected this from England a week ago' - what they said\n\nPlayer of the match Ben Stokes on BBC Test Match Special: \"To come here after a disappointing loss in Southampton, to perform like we did here, especially with rain, shows we are capable of putting in performances like this. It can be driving force for us.\"\n\n\"The way we bowled all day was unbelievable. The way Broady has come back has been absolutely awesome. Everyone has put their hands up and contributed to a great win.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"Ben keeps developing his game and improving all the time. Credit to him - he really has taken every opportunity to make himself a better player.\n\n\"Throughout the game you've seen how destructive he can be when he needs to be, and when he needs to bat time and play to the situation, he can do that too.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"This kind of performance by England is what I expected a week ago. For whatever reason last week they didn't arrive with the bat in hand.\"\n\nEx-England captain Alastair Cook: \"England will be pleased with how they batted here. They dug in and learnt the lesson of going big. You don't lose many games when you get 450.\n\n\"England will go into Friday with a lot of confidence.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Jason Holder: \"I'm a little disappointed with the way we batted. Yesterday's evening batting performance really set us back.\n\n\"We need a few more of those starts and capitalising on certain moments in the game. We just have to tighten up a little more.\n\n\"It's all to play for. This is the perfect return to cricket.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson says the new law \"violates Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy\"\n\nUp to three million Hong Kong residents are to be offered the chance to settle in the UK and ultimately apply for citizenship, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said Hong Kong's freedoms were being violated by a new security law and those affected would be offered a \"route\" out of the former UK colony.\n\nAbout 350,000 UK passport holders, and 2.6 million others eligible, will be able to come to the UK for five years.\n\nAnd after a further year, they will be able to apply for citizenship.\n\nBritish National Overseas Passport holders in Hong Kong were granted special status in the 1980s but currently have restricted rights and are only entitled to visa-free access to the UK for six months.\n\nUnder the government's plans, all British Overseas Nationals and their dependants will be given right to remain in the UK, including the right to work and study, for five years. At this point, they will be able to apply for settled status, and after a further year, seek citizenship.\n\nThe PM said Tuesday's passing of a new security law by the Hong Kong authorities was a \"clear and serious breach\" of the 1985 Sino-British joint declaration - a legally binding agreement which set out how certain freedoms would be protected for the 50 years after China assumed sovereignty in 1997.\n\n\"It violates Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy and threatens the freedoms and rights protected by the joint declaration,\" he said.\n\n\"We made clear that if China continued down this path we would introduce a new route for those with British National (Overseas) status to enter the UK, granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the UK and thereafter to apply for citizenship. And that is precisely what we will do now.\"\n\nForeign Office permanent secretary Sir Simon McDonald expressed the government's \"deep concern\" about the new law to China during a meeting with the country's ambassador Liu Xioming.\n\nThe UK government has been raising concerns about the national security law and very publicly trying to pressure Beijing into a change heart.\n\nThat has clearly failed - so ministers are now fulfilling their promise to allow some three million British Overseas Nationals to come to the UK. This is a significant move and the government wants to send a strong message.\n\nBut there will be more pressure now to rethink other elements of our relationship with China - not least the deal to allow Huawei to build parts of the UK's 5G structures.\n\nMany Tory MPs have been lobbying against that for some time - and this will only add to their concern.\n\nUpdating MPs on the details, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there would be no limit on numbers or quotas and the application process would be simple.\n\n\"This is a special, bespoke, set of arrangements developed for the unique circumstances we face and in light of our historic commitment to the people of Hong Kong,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Peston programme, Mr Raab acknowledged there \"would be little we could do to…cohesively force\" China to allow British Overseas Nationals to come to the UK.\n\nDowning Street said further details of the scheme will be detailed \"in due course\".\n\nIn the meantime, British National Overseas Passport holders in Hong Kong will be able to travel to the UK immediately, subject to standard immigration checks, the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThey will also will not face salary thresholds to gain their visas, he added.\n\nHong Kong's new national security law, which targets secession, subversion and terrorism with punishments up to life in prison, came into effect on Tuesday.\n\nI was born in Hong Kong before 1997, the year when Hong Kong was handed back to Chinese rule. That means I had a British National Overseas (BNO) passport as a child.\n\nWhen the news broke that BNO passport holders were eligible for British citizenship after living and working in the UK for five years, and after spending another year of being granted settled status, many of my friends were excited. They say at least there's a way out for Hong Kongers after the national security law came into force.\n\nBut many questions remain. Currently there are 350,000 BNO passport holders, but about three million Hong Kong residents are eligible for BNO passports - and that doesn't appear to include dependants born after 1997.\n\nWill the UK be ready to take in so many Hong Kong residents? Will there be enough jobs? Will BNO passport holders have recourse to public funds? And will they be covered by the NHS?\n\nSome also say it's good that there's a lifeboat, but do they really want to leave their home?\n\nSeveral people have already been arrested under the new powers, including a man carrying a pro-independence flag as police used pepper spray to disperse some protesters gathered to mark 23 years since British rule ended.\n\nCritics say it effectively puts an end to the \"one country, two systems\" principle enshrined in the Joint Declaration. China has rejected criticism of its actions, saying they are internal matters.\n\nBritish National Overseas Passports do not confer nationality or the automatic right to live and work in the UK\n\nThe UK government has come under growing pressure to take a firm line with Beijing from MPs, who are worried about China's increasingly assertive role regionally and the security implications of Chinese firm Huawei's involvement in the UK's 5G network.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Raab said he wanted a positive relationship with China but Beijing had \"broken its promise\" to the people of Hong Kong through its \"flagrant assault\" on freedom of speech and right of peaceful assembly.\n\nLabour said it welcomed the government's action but said there must be no discrimination on those allowed into the UK on the basis of income or other factors.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the UK also had a responsibility to consider the welfare of those who were not able to re-locate or who wished to stay in Hong Kong.\n\nShe urged the government to work with its international partners, through the UN, to force an inquiry into police brutality in Hong Kong and also called for the UK to re-examine its commercial relationship with China.\n\n\"For too long in relation to China we've had no strategy at home and no strategy abroad. I hope he can give us a commitment today that this marks the start of a very different era,\" she said.\n\nAre you a Hong Kong resident with a British National Overseas passport? Share your views, plans and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Numbers had dwindled by Sunday morning from the thousands police said were at the scene overnight\n\nPolice say they did not have the manpower to stop an illegal rave near Bath which attracted more than 3,000 partygoers through the night.\n\nThe event, at the former RAF Charmy Down airfield about three miles from the city, began late on Saturday.\n\nPeople living as far away as Bristol complained they had been kept awake.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said despite officers arriving at the scene within minutes of being alerted there were already \"many people at the site\".\n\nCh Supt Ian Wylie said the force was aware a major gathering was likely this weekend, but it was unable to pinpoint where it might take place.\n\nOnce officers were called to the former RAF station, he said, it was too late.\n\n\"We got the call just after 23:00 (BST) and we were there within 10 minutes but all the stages were set up and all the music was already going with many, many people at the site,\" he said.\n\n\"It became impossible for us to do anything... because of the safety of those partygoers, many of whom were drunk, many of whom were on drugs, and the safety of the officers attending.\"\n\nHe said it was not possible to gather enough officers to disperse such a large number of people at that time of night.\n\n\"We don't have a standing army waiting to deal with these issues,\" he added.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Avon and Somerset Police said despite closing off approach routes, officers were still turning vehicles away on Sunday morning.\n\nCh Supt Wylie said the music was stopped just after 13:00 on Sunday and the site was eventually cleared three hours later.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police closed the event down at 4pm on Sunday\n\nLocal resident Dulcie Walpole said as well as the noise issue, the arrival of huge numbers of cars had also caused disruption.\n\n\"We had appointments to go to this morning and we couldn't actually get out of the lane, there were cars parked all the way down and it's all blocked off,\" she said.\n\n\"All of our neighbours have called the police and complained and it doesn't seem to have done anything.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam Joinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTanya Rich, who lives in Weston in Bath, said the music from the rave, held close to the A46, woke her up at 05:00.\n\n\"I heard this thumping sound. I thought someone had their car stereo on loud and it would stop, but it kept going,\" she said.\n\nPeople said they could hear the event several miles away\n\n\"I went on my local Facebook group and everyone was talking about it and complaining.\n\n\"People have been saying they can hear it as far away as Longwell Green, even Kingswood.\n\n\"It's so loud. You couldn't have a window open.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Emma Moxham RN QN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCh Supt Wylie said an investigation would take place into how the rave was organised.\n\n\"This is just, frankly, selfish actions of individuals who seemed determined to ignore the Covid-19 legislation, and all of the health advice that has been widely publicised,\" he said.\n\n\"They have caused significant disruption to the people of Bath and the local area.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Berman: \"If you believe you are a victim of this man... we want to hear from you.\"\n\n\"I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'\" Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011. \"It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.\"\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nIt came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender.\n\nThis time, he was accused of running a \"vast network\" of underage girls for sex. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe 66-year-old in the past socialised with Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut who was Jeffrey Epstein?\n\nBorn and raised in New York, Epstein taught maths and physics in the city at the private Dalton School in the mid 1970s. He had studied physics and maths himself at university, although he never graduated.\n\nA father of one of his students is said to have been so impressed that he put Epstein in touch with a senior partner at the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.\n\nHe was a partner there within four years. By 1982, he had created his own firm - J Epstein and Co.\n\nThe company managed assets of clients worth more than $1bn (£800m) and was an instant success. Epstein soon began spending his fortune - including on a mansion in Florida, a ranch in New Mexico, and reputedly the largest private home in New York - and socialising with celebrities, artists and politicians.\n\n\"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\" Donald Trump told New York magazine for a profile on Epstein in 2002. \"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\n\n\"No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein, left, with Donald Trump at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997\n\nIn 2002, Epstein flew former President Bill Clinton and the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on a customised private jet. He made an unsuccessful bid to buy New York magazine with then film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2003 - the same year he made a $30m donation to Harvard University.\n\nBut he also strove to keep his life private, reportedly shunning society events and dinners in restaurants.\n\nHe dated women like Miss Sweden winner Eva Andersson Dubin and Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of publisher Robert Maxwell, although he never married.\n\nRosa Monckton, the former CEO of Tiffany & Co, told Vanity Fair for a 2003 article that Epstein was \"very enigmatic\" and \"a classic iceberg\".\n\n\"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath,\" she said. \"What you see is not what you get.\"\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. A police search of the property found photos of girls throughout the house.\n\nThe Miami Herald reports that his abuse of underage girls dated back years.\n\n\"This was not a 'he said, she said' situation,\" Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told the newspaper. \"This was 50-something 'shes' and one 'he' - and the 'shes' all basically told the same story.\"\n\n\"He has never been secretive about the girls,\" columnist Michael Wolff told New York magazine for a 2007 profile piece, as the case against Epstein moved through the courts.\n\n\"At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, 'Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.'\"\n\nHowever, prosecutors forged a deal with the hedge fund manager in 2008.\n\nHe avoided federal charges - which could have seen him face life in prison - and instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nPrince Andrew, left, has been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nThe Miami Herald says that the federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta - who was Secretary of Labour in the Trump administration - struck a plea agreement hiding the extent of his crimes and ending an FBI investigation into whether there were more victims or more powerful people who took part. The paper described it as the \"deal of the century\".\n\nMr Acosta resigned in July 2019 over the scandal, though he defended his actions as guaranteeing at last some jail time for Epstein.\n\nSince 2008 Epstein had been listed as a level three on the New York sex offenders register. It is a lifelong designation meaning he was at a high risk of reoffending.\n\nBut Epstein maintained his properties and his assets after his conviction.\n\nIn December 2010, Prince Andrew, the third child of the Queen, was pictured in New York's Central Park with Epstein, drawing controversy.\n\nIn a BBC interview in November 2019, the prince, who had known Epstein since 1999, said he had gone to New York to break off their friendship. He said he regretted staying at the financier's house while he was there, and that he had \"let the side down\" by doing so.\n\nAn Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - would later allege that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew in the early 2000s when she was 17.\n\nPrince Andrew categorically denied having sex with her and said he has no recollection of a photo of the pair being taken together in London.\n\nEpstein was arrested in New York on 6 July 2019 after flying back from Paris on his private jet.\n\nProsecutors were reportedly seeking the forfeiture of his New York mansion, where some of his alleged crimes occurred.\n\nEpstein always denied any wrongdoing, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.\n\nAfter being denied bail by the court, he was being held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center. He was taken to hospital briefly in July for what was widely reported to be injuries to his neck - which neither prison officials or his lawyers would officially comment on.\n\nAt his last court appearance on 31 July, it became clear that he would spend a year in prison, with a trial no earlier than summer 2020. Prosecutors said they wanted no delay, and bringing the trial quickly was in the public interest.\n\nNow, Epstein will never face the trial at all.\n\nAfter Epstein's death, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nShe was arrested in July 2020 at her secluded mansion in the US state of New Hampshire on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nIn December 2021, a jury in New York City found her guilty on five out of six counts, including the most serious charge - that of sex trafficking of a minor.\n\nThis carries a possible 40-year sentence, which means the 60-year-old could spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe Oxford-educated Ms Maxwell is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York.\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator.\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors alleged Ms Maxwell preyed on and groomed young girls for Epstein to abuse. Her defence claimed she is being used as a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes following his death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katie Price: “The trolling is so bad, it is ridiculous, something has to be done.”\n\nThere has to be \"some kind of justice\" for those who are bullied online, ex-model Katie Price has told MPs.\n\nAppearing virtually at the Commons Petitions Committee, the reality TV star said trolling was getting worse because there were \"no consequences\".\n\nMs Price spoke about the abuse her disabled son Harvey has received, as part of an inquiry into the issue.\n\nThe PM has said the government is \"working at pace\" on new legislation against \"online harms\".\n\nBut Lord Puttnam, chairman of the Lords Democracy and Digital Committee, said earlier this week that the government's landmark online protection bill could be delayed for years.\n\nThe Online Harms Bill may not come into effect until 2023 or 2024, he warned. The government, however, said the legislation would be introduced \"as soon as possible\".\n\nWhen the government first outlined proposals in its \"online harms\" white paper last year, critics raised concerns about risks to freedom of expression.\n\nThe petitions committee say they want to end online abuse, especially as more people spend time online in lockdown.\n\nMPs are calling for evidence as part of their new inquiry, \"Tackling Online Abuse\", from campaigning organisations, legal professionals, social media companies and other experts.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Ms Price - who used to be known as Jordan - said: \"Throughout the years I get a lot of trolling and online abuse, the difference is I'm able to speak out myself, but my son Harvey was born with disabilities, he gets a lot of racial abuse, disgusting despicable things.\n\n\"He gets memes made about it, TikToks, posters, he gets mocked in such a serious disgusting way, there has to be some kind of justice.\"\n\nShe suggested to MPs that social media companies should carry out ID checks on users and there should also be fines.\n\nHer mother, Amy, told the meeting there should be an online register of offenders.\n\nKatie Price with her son Harvey in 2018, who was trolled online because of his disabilities\n\n\"People think it's funny to show to their friends, there is no penalty, they might get their account closed down but they open it in another name or another email address and carry on,\" Ms Price said.\n\n\"Nothing has improved, things have got worse.\"\n\nMs Price added: \"There needs to be fines in place, there needs to be consequences... if there are consequences online people will be careful because there will be fines or they will be put on the register, it might not stop everything but it might make people start thinking.\"\n\nMs Price first appeared before the Petitions Committee in 2018, after more than 220,000 people signed her petition to make online abuse a criminal offence.\n\nCommittee chairman Catherine McKinnell said: \"It is clear there is a big problem, it is getting worse, not better and something needs to be done.\"\n\nShe said the government had looked into the issue and a proposal document - a white paper - had been produced.\n\nShe said the work had stalled because of the coronavirus pandemic but the committee was now attempting to raise profile of the issue and its \"urgency\".\n\nThe MP said the committee will be taking evidence from social media companies as part of the inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes after The Only Way is Essex star, Bobby Norris, spoke to MPs to share his experiences with homophobic abuse.\n\nMore than 133,000 people signed his petition on tackling trolling.\n\nAddressing the issue of \"online harms\" in the Commons last month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"There is a real risk that, during the lockdown, terrible things have been going on behind closed doors and closed curtains in this country on the internet.\n\n\"We had a summit on the matter in Number 10 recently, and we are working at pace, as he knows, on new legislation against online harms.\"\n\nBut when the government first published its online harms white paper last year, Index on Censorship, a campaigning organisation, said the plans risked damaging freedom of expression in the UK.\n\nIt said a proposed new statutory duty of care to tackle online \"harms\" and \"substantial fines\" would \"create a strong incentive for companies to remove content\".\n\n\"The 'harms' are not clearly defined but include activities and materials that are legal,\" the organisation said.\n\nElsewhere, Ofcom's boss has said the watchdog will not hesitate to impose fines on social media firms who fail to deal with harmful content, if, as expected, it is appointed as regulator.\n\nChief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said Ofcom would also consider temporarily suspending platforms in extreme cases of harm.", "The UN has been under scrutiny over allegations of sexual misconduct in recent years\n\nThe United Nations has placed two of its workers on unpaid leave over allegations of sexual misconduct in an official car in Israel.\n\nThe men were filmed in a UN-marked vehicle on a main street by Tel Aviv's seafront.\n\nIn the video, a woman in a red dress is seen straddling a man in the back seat of the car.\n\nThe UN launched an investigation into the 18-second video after it was shared widely on social media last month.\n\nStéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN's secretary general, said he was \"shocked and deeply disturbed\" by the footage.\n\nNow the UN says the men in the video have been identified as staff members of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), UN military observers based in Israel.\n\nThe two staff members have been suspended without pay until the investigation into the incident has concluded.\n\nMr Dujarric told the BBC on Thursday their suspension was appropriate \"given the seriousness of the allegations of failing to observe the standards of conduct expected of international civil servants\".\n\n\"UNTSO has re-engaged in a robust awareness-raising campaign to remind its personnel of their obligations to the UN Code of Conduct,\" Mr Dujarric said.\n\nThe UN has strict policies against sexual misconduct by its staff members.\n\nStaff may be disciplined if they are found to be in breach of conduct rules. They may be repatriated or banned from UN peacekeeping operations, but it is the responsibility of their home nation to take further disciplinary or legal action.\n\nThe UN says it has \"zero tolerance\" for sexual misconduct within its ranks\n\nThe UN has long been under scrutiny over allegations of sexual misconduct by its peacekeepers and other staff. There have been frequent allegations in recent years.\n\nIn 2019, there were 175 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against UN staff members, a report said. Of those allegations, 16 were substantiated, 15 were unsubstantiated and all others were still being investigated.\n\nSecretary General António Guterres has pledged to take a \"zero-tolerance\" approach to sexual misconduct within the UN's ranks.", "Tesla has become the world's most valuable carmaker, overtaking Japan's Toyota, after its stock hit a record high.\n\nShares in the electric carmaker touched $1,134 on Wednesday morning before falling back, leaving it with a market value of $209.47bn (£165bn).\n\nThat is roughly $4bn more than Toyota's current stock market value.\n\nHowever, Toyota sold around 30 times more cars last year and its revenues were more than 10 times higher.\n\nShares in Tesla have surged since the start of 2020 as investors have begun to feel more confident about the future of electric vehicles.\n\nThat is despite its founder Elon Musk having wiped $14bn off Tesla's value in May after tweeting that its share price was too high.\n\nAfter years of losses, the Californian firm has also delivered three profitable quarters in a row and maintained that momentum during the first three months of 2020 despite the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nToyota, however, remains a far larger business in terms of sales.\n\nThe Japanese company sold 10.46 million vehicles in the year to March and posted revenues of 30.2 trillion yen ($281.20bn).\n\nTesla ended 2019 with sales of just $24.6bn, having delivered 367,200 vehicles last year.\n\nHowever, investors are excited by the US firm's potential, believing it could dominate the future electric car market.\n\nAnalysts at the stockbroker Jefferies said the firm remained \"significantly ahead of peers in product range, capacity and technology\".\n\nIn a reflection of that, the firm is also now worth around three times the combined value of US rivals General Motors and Ford.\n\nMr Musk has said Tesla will deliver at least 500,000 vehicles in 2020, a forecast the company has not changed despite the coronavirus pandemic.", "Carlos Ghosn fled from Japan to Lebanon last December\n\nJapan has asked the US to extradite a former special forces soldier and his son for allegedly helping ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn flee Japan last year.\n\nEx-Green Beret Michael Taylor and his son Peter were held in Massachusetts in May, several months after Japan had issued warrants for their arrest.\n\nThe US authorities confirmed a formal extradition request was submitted.\n\nMr Ghosn, who was detained in Japan on financial misconduct charges in 2018, made a dramatic escape last year.\n\nThe former Nissan boss denies the charges against him.\n\nDespite being under house arrest and monitored 24 hours a day, on 29 December he managed to fly to the Lebanese capital Beirut via Turkey.\n\nDetails of the Taylors' alleged involvement in the escape are unclear. But Japanese prosecutors have said the two were in Japan at the time and helped Mr Ghosn evade security checks as he left.\n\nIn May, prosecutors in Turkey charged seven people over the escape. The suspects - four pilots, two flight attendants, and an airline executive - are also accused of helping Mr Ghosn flee.\n\nThey go on trial in Istanbul on Friday, with Turkish prosecutors seeking up to eight years in jail for the four pilots and the airline executive.\n\nFull details of the escape have never been fully explained. Mr Ghosn, who holds Brazilian, French and Lebanese nationalities, ran Renault and Nissan as part of a three-way car alliance.\n\nHe is accused of misreporting his compensation package, but has insisted he can never get a fair hearing in Japan.\n\nSince his arrival in Lebanon, he has told reporters he was a \"hostage\" in Japan, where he was left with a choice between dying there or running.", "China has passed a controversial security law giving it new powers over Hong Kong, including criminalising sedition and effectively curtailing protests.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, pro-democracy supporters say they are concerned the new law takes away the 'one country, two systems' form of government.\n\nHowever those supporting the new law hope it brings greater security to Hong Kong, which has seen widespread unrest and instability from the pro-democracy movement.", "Geoffrey Rush won a defamation case against The Daily Telegraph last year\n\nAn Australian newspaper has lost its appeal against a record defamation payout awarded to actor Geoffrey Rush.\n\nMr Rush was awarded A$2.9m (£1.57m; US$1.99m) last April after winning his case against Nationwide News, a publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch.\n\nIts newspaper, Sydney's Daily Telegraph, had run stories accusing Mr Rush of behaving inappropriately towards a former theatre co-star.\n\nThe publisher lost its appeal against the judgement and the size of payout.\n\nLawyers for Nationwide News had argued the payout - the largest ever awarded to a single person in Australia - was \"manifestly excessive\".\n\nBut three Federal Court judges ruled the sum was \"appropriate high\" given the \"extremely serious\" allegations and the harm caused to Mr Rush's reputation.\n\nThe original front page story carried the headline \"King Leer\" and detailed accusations from a 2015 Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear.\n\nIt alleged Mr Rush had acted inappropriately towards a co-star, later revealed to be actress Eryn Jean Norvill.\n\nThe Federal Court agreed with the original trial judge's assessment that Ms Norvill - who gave evidence for the newspaper at the trial - was an unreliable witness and \"prone to exaggeration\".\n\nIn doing so, it rejected the publisher's arguments that the story should be exempt from a defamation finding because the allegations were \"substantially true\".\n\nMs Norvill testified to the court last year\n\nIt also dismissed an argument that the judge had been wrong not to allow evidence of another actress who came forward with allegations about Mr Rush.\n\nThe actress, Yael Stone, has accused Mr Rush of acting inappropriately towards her - allegations he denies.\n\nNationwide News was ordered to pay Mr Rush A$850,000 for general and aggravated damages, more than A$1m for past economic losses, A$919,678 in future economic losses and A$43,000 in interest.\n\nThis and other high-profile defamation cases have also sparked wider debate about Australia's tough defamation laws.\n\nAustralia puts the legal onus on a person making allegations to prove that they are true. This is different to the US, for example, where the onus is on the accused person to prove an allegation was made with malice.\n\nCritics have argued Australia's laws have a \"silencing effect\" on media companies to publish stories which may be in the public interest.", "Duffy said she had \"to witness these tragedies, and my tragedy, eroticised and demeaned\"\n\nSinger Duffy has criticised Netflix for streaming the film 365 Days, saying it glamorises \"the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape\".\n\nThe film follows a young Polish woman who is imprisoned by a Sicilian man.\n\n\"This should not be anyone's idea of entertainment, nor should it be described as such,\" said Duffy, who recently revealed she was held captive and raped a decade ago.\n\nNetflix said it would not remove the film, which it said carried warnings.\n\nAdapted from a novel by Polish writer Blanka Lipińska, 365 Days was not produced by Netflix, but was picked up by the streaming service in June after a theatrical run in the UK and Poland in February.\n\nBilled as an \"erotic drama\", it has quickly become one of the platform's most popular films.\n\nThe Guardian recently described it as \"the Netflix softcore porn film that people can't stop watching\", and The Atlantic said it was \"Netflix's first summer hit\".\n\nVariety magazine, however, called it \"thoroughly terrible\" and \"politically objectionable\".\n\nIn a letter to Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings, Duffy wrote: \"It grieves me that Netflix provides a platform for such 'cinema', that eroticises kidnapping and distorts sexual violence and trafficking as a 'sexy' movie.\n\nItalian actor Michele Morrone is the star of 365 Days\n\n\"I just can't imagine how Netflix could overlook how careless, insensitive, and dangerous this is. It has even prompted some young women, recently, to jovially ask Michele Morrone, the lead actor in the film, to kidnap them.\n\n\"We all know Netflix would not host material glamorising paedophilia, racism, homophobia, genocide, or any other crimes against humanity. The world would rightly rise up and scream.\n\n\"Tragically, victims of trafficking and kidnapping are unseen, and yet in 365 Days their suffering is made into a 'erotic drama', as described by Netflix.\"\n\nHer comments came after a petition was set up on Change.org, calling for the movie to be removed from Netflix for \"perpetuating the glamorisation of rape culture\".\n\nHowever, production has already begun on a sequel, actor Michele Morrone confirmed earlier this week.\n\nNetflix did not comment on Duffy's criticisms, but told the Reuters news agency the film carried warnings for violence, sex and nudity.\n\n\"We believe strongly in giving our members around the world more choice and control over their Netflix viewing experience,\" a spokesman said.\n\nIn February, Duffy re-emerged after a decade out of the spotlight to reveal she had been \"raped and drugged and held captive over some days\" in the past.\n\nShe gave more details of her ordeal in April, saying she had been drugged in her own home for four weeks and taken to a foreign country.\n\n\"I was lucky to come away with my life, but far too many have not been so lucky,\" she wrote in the letter to Netflix. \"And now I have to witness these tragedies, and my tragedy, eroticised and demeaned.\"\n\nShe also addressed viewers directly: \"I encourage the millions who have enjoyed the movie to reflect on the reality of kidnapping and trafficking, of force and sexual exploitation, and of an experience that is the polar opposite of the glossy fantasy depicted in 365 Days.\"\n\nShe said 25 million people were currently trafficked around the world, a figure also quoted in the US Department of State's latest Trafficking In Persons report, published last month.\n\nLast month, Duffy released a new song, River in the Sky, which was described by The Times as \"a dignified, low-key return for an important, undervalued British singer\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tables and deckchairs are set out to respect social distancing on the Promenade des Anglais beach in Nice\n\nDozens of countries will be exempt from a travel quarantine from Monday, UK government sources have indicated.\n\nCurrently, most people arriving into the UK from anywhere apart from the Republic of Ireland have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nMinisters had previously indicated they were working to establish a relatively small number of travel corridors.\n\nTravel and tourism companies have been calling for urgent clarity over the corridors amid rising bookings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nLast weekend, the government said it would relax its advice on travel abroad and would rate countries as either green, amber or red, depending on the prevalence of the virus.\n\nNow government sources have indicated that a very long list of countries is likely to be published by the end of this week.\n\nIt is possible that up to 75 countries deemed low or very low risk will be exempt from the UK's quarantine from Monday, 6 July.\n\nSome of the countries on this new list do still have restrictions on people travelling in the other direction, from the UK.\n\nOther higher-risk countries, such as the US, will be categorised as red.\n\nSo the government is about to announce something which aviation bosses, many MPs and some scientists have advocated from the beginning - a targeted quarantine which only impacts people arriving into the UK from high risk 'red' countries.\n\nIt is the opposite of the government's blanket-style approach which has been in place for less than four weeks.\n\nYou could call it a 'U-turn'.\n\nFor days, if not weeks, the government has indicated that it wanted a relatively small number of bilateral-style 'travel corridors', namely with European nations, where the virus is under control.\n\nIt appears that approach hit a number of hurdles.\n\nSome countries, like Greece, weren't willing to reciprocate in the short-term.\n\nWhile there was nothing to stop people travelling into the UK from a higher risk country, via a lower risk one to avoid the quarantine.\n\nThe optics concerning Portugal are illuminating. First it seemed to be top of the list of exemptions. Then last week sources indicated it was off the list. The situation regarding Portugal now is unclear.\n\nThe process was further complicated by both the Welsh and Scottish governments saying they might follow a separate approach.\n\nTravel companies will be pleased about a much longer list of exemptions but they've been pulling their hair out over the confusion, and the delay in making a final announcement, which is now expected by the end of this week.\n\nAnd critics will question why the government did not go for a more nuanced approach in the first place.\n\nIt seems that agreeing a small number of travel corridors with specific countries was fraught with risk. The Scottish government has expressed concern about plans to relax the quarantine and it is still in discussion with officials and politicians in Westminster.\n\nTravel companies have called on the government to publish its list as soon as possible, to end the confusion.\n\nGeorge Morgan-Grenville, chief executive of travel company Red Savannah and long-time critic of the quarantine rules, told the BBC he was \"very encouraged\" by news that a clarification was imminent.\n\nHe said the restrictions had been \"a disaster for the industry, which had been prevented from getting back on its feet\".\n\nMost people intending to travel overseas when restrictions are lifted may find their travel insurance does not cover every risk created by coronavirus.\n\nA number of new policies will now cover medical treatment for Covid-19 which has been caught while in a resort.\n\nHowever, people who need to cancel a holiday because they develop symptoms before going away, or are told to self-isolate at home, might not be covered.\n\nPeople who bought an annual policy before the outbreak could have greater protection, depending on the terms and conditions of the cover.\n\nThose on package holidays will get a refund or can rebook if travel restrictions are re-imposed but, as with new travel insurance, most will not get their money back if they pick up symptoms or are told to self-isolate just before they are due to travel.\n• None How is lockdown being lifted across Europe?", "Newsreader fears for the mental health of children\n\nHome schooling is causing stress in millions of homes across the UK. BBC newsreader Kate Silverton, who is also a trainee child psychotherapist and a mother-of-two, has like most parents found lockdown a very challenging time. \"Home schooling may have been a success for some but in my overall experience - and that of the parents I have spoken to - those successes have been few and far between,\" she writes. \"Whether at the school gates, or in the counselling arena, mums and dads tell me they cannot cope. I would go so far to say that anyone who thinks working and schooling young children from home has been a success is sadly ill-informed.\" \"My husband and I have tried to make the memories of this time more joyful and positive. So we camped in our (courtyard) garden and have had more late nights, cuddled up watching movies than we would have done previously. However, it has inevitably been a very demanding time for everyone. \"When people ask how I am doing, I often joke that I am \"surviving not thriving\". When the work calls start, it is very hard to be there for our children.\" Read the full story.", "Samples could be collected from specific points in the national network of wastewater-treatment plants\n\nA sewage-based coronavirus test could be an \"easy win\" that would pick up infection spikes a week earlier than with existing medical-based tests.\n\nScientists led by UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology are working on a standardised test to \"count\" the amount of coronavirus in a wastewater sample.\n\n\"The earlier you find [a signal], the earlier an intervention can happen,\" says lead researcher Dr Andrew Singer.\n\n\"That means lives will be made much more liveable in the current crisis.\"\n\nA network of scientists from universities including Newcastle, Bangor and Edinburgh have already teamed up with local water companies to collect samples of untreated sewage from treatment plants; the first stage in mapping the outbreak through the sewers.\n\nWastewater-treatment plants could provide sampling points to map the outbreak\n\nEarly in the Covid-19 pandemic, research revealed that people infected with the virus \"shed\" viral material in their faeces. That insight prompted an interest in \"sewage epidemiology\".\n\n\"By sampling wastewater at different parts of the sewerage network, we can gradually narrow an outbreak down to smaller geographical areas, enabling public-health officials to quickly target interventions in those areas at greatest risk of spreading the infection,\" said Dr Singer.\n\n\"Our network already has six labs that are capable of doing that work, so a national surveillance system could happen tomorrow.\"\n\nSo while the researchers say they already have a reliable test that can show the presence or absence of the coronavirus, they are now working on a way to measure levels of infection regularly and reliably across the water-treatment network.\n\n\"It's relatively easy to say whether something's there or not with genetic fingerprinting,\" explained Newcastle University's Prof David Graham, who is involved in the development of that test. \"But for the sake of epidemiology - which has life-and-death impacts - we wanted to be more exact.\"\n\nProf Graham and his colleagues say they are in the final stages of developing a way to quantify the genetic material from the coronavirus.\n\nThe genetic 'signature' of the coronavirus can be detected in a sample of wastewater\n\n\"We can count how much virus is in a sample,\" he explained. And, because each sample comes from a wastewater network that serves a specific community, we can also tell you an approximate number of humans from which it came.\"\n\nHe pointed out that it currently took a number of days to establish whether one person has the disease, but he said: \"We can collect a sample of sewage and give you an accurate number of virus per person within a few days - and that's for the community.\"\n\n\"We can tell you whether someone in the community has it a week earlier.\"\n\nWastewater contains other contaminants that could affect the viral material, making accurate measurements tricky\n\nThe researchers want to fine-tune and reproduce this test before it can be rolled out as part of a Covid-19 alert system.\n\nWhile many countries, including Spain, have started monitoring their wastewater, there have been some early problems - one result that suggested the coronavirus was present in Barcelona in March 2019 may have been the result of laboratory contamination.\n\nThere are problems to be solved in order to maximise the accuracy and value of a sewage-based surveillance system: the propensity of the virus to break up when it is in water, the effect on the result of other contaminants and how many sampling points need to be included in a UK-wide network in order to build up a useful picture of the outbreak.\n\n\"It seems obvious that we should be doing this,\" said Dr Singer. \"But it's an approach that's never been considered for an active outbreak.\"", "John Lewis has warned it could close shops as a plunge in profits forced it to cut staff bonuses to their lowest level in almost 70 years.\n\nThe retailer, which also owns Waitrose, has launched a review of the business which it said would involve \"right sizing\" its stores across both brands.\n\nThe review would involve store closures \"where necessary\" as well as space reduction in existing stores, it said.\n\nThe conclusions of the review are expected to be announced in September.\n\nNew chairwoman Sharon White - who took over last month - said the changes would kick-start a \"vital new phase\" for the partnership, and said she had \"no doubt\" the business would be stronger as a result.\n\n\"We need to reverse our profit decline and return to growth so that we can invest more in our customers and in our partners.\n\n\"This will require a transformation in how we operate as a partnership and could take three to five years to show results.\"\n\nThe group announced that three Waitrose stores would close later this year at Helensburgh, Four Oaks and Waterlooville as part of the overhaul.\n\nJohn Lewis also said as fears about coronavirus continued to spread, it had see increased demand \"particularly this week\" for some food items as well as things such as hand sanitiser, soap and loo roll.\n\nJohn Lewis's finance director, Patrick Lewis, said it was working \"very hard with suppliers on an hourly basis\" to keep up with demand.\n\nSharon White took the helm at John Lewis last month\n\nThe John Lewis Partnership is owned by its staff - known as partners - who usually receive a bonus each year.\n\nThis year, staff bonuses have been set at 2%, the lowest since 1953 when it paid no bonus.\n\nProfits at the partnership dived by 23% last year to £123m - the third year in a row that profits have fallen - as it continued to struggle with the slowdown in consumer spending.\n\nThe John Lewis department stores saw \"significantly reduced profitability\" following weaker sales of home and electrical goods, although profits rose at Waitrose after a \"solid performance\", the company said.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said the fall from grace for John Lewis had been \"spectacular\", and warned that if Ms White could not turn around the business \"the fallout could be much worse\".\n\n\"Once the envy of the retail industry, the company has suffered dismal trading performances over the past few years, demonstrating that the retail race is so fast that even those seemingly on an unstoppable march one year can be vulnerable the next.\n\n\"This goes to show that no retailer is safe.\"\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, the chief executive of retail analysts Savvy, said store closures appeared inevitable.\n\n\"I think the business is going to have to be slimmed down,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's very difficult to close some of the department stores down because they're on really long leases, but certainly I think where there are opportunities to close stores that aren't performing they will look at that.\"\n\nShe added that Ms White did not have much time to turn the business around.\n\n\"She's talking about changes taking three-to-five years, I don't think there are three-to-five years in retail at the minute where there isn't going to be an enormous amount of change. She hasn't got that much time on her side. John Lewis have been 'strategically reviewing' things for quite a while - we need some action.\"\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman told the BBC the firm's staff bonus scheme was an \"absolutely fundamental\" part of its ethos.\n\n\"The key competitive edge John Lewis has is customer service, that is delivered by its staff. If you take away part of their remuneration then your customer service levels are likely to be impacted.\n\n\"And I think that over the past few years as that bonus has gone down we've been seeing a bit of that. It's a really difficult dilemma they have.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Brooks says \"there was no support there for me\" after his partner, Iago, took his own life\n\nThere has been a significant rise during lockdown in the UK in the number of LGBT people seeking suicide-prevention support.\n\nSupport group LGBT Hero reports 11,000 people have accessed its suicide-prevention web pages - up over 44% on the first three months of the year.\n\nAnd other LGBT charities have service users who have killed themselves.\n\nThe government considers LGBT people to be at higher risk of suicide but no national data on LGBT suicides is kept.\n\nThere are usually many factors that can lead someone to kill themselves.\n\nJust months after celebrating his 20th birthday, Elaine's son, Jack, killed himself, in April.\n\nHe had been in contact with LGBT support services, both online and in person.\n\nBut Elaine says he \"massively struggled\" with being disconnected from the community during lockdown.\n\n\"I knew he was struggling with his sexuality,\" she says.\n\n\"And he was in contact with some LGBT groups.\n\n\"But I just wish he'd have held on.\n\n\"He had so much ahead of him.\"\n\nJack moved out of his parents' house in his teenage years and headed to London.\n\nBut he had recently returned to his hometown, in the South East, after the breakdown of a relationship.\n\n\"I'm guessing that lots of gay people in these situations have families that don't accept them,\" Elaine says.\n\n\"But we loved and supported him.\n\n\"He came out really young.\n\n\"And it changed nothing for us.\n\n\"It just wasn't enough though.\"\n\nChief executive Ian Howley says since lockdown there has been a 44% increase in people contacting the LGBT Hero suicide-prevention service\n\nIn total, eight charities told BBC News they had seen an increase in LGBT people accessing their support for suicide prevention.\n\nThe LGBT Foundation has received more calls about suicide \"than ever before\".\n\nMermaids, which helps young trans people, has had to alert police following concerns about callers wanting to kill themselves.\n\nGavin Boyd, of The Rainbow Project, based in Northern Ireland, said: \"In just the last three weeks, we know of three LGBT people who have ended their lives.\"\n\nAnd another chief executive of a charity, in the south of England, who did not want to be named in case it affected its funding, said: \"We know of two young LGBT people in the past two weeks.\n\n\"We're under more pressure to deliver than ever before.\n\n\"The government has done absolutely nothing to help regional LGBT charities cope with the demand from our already struggling service users.\"\n\nIn 2018, the government acknowledged there was a higher prevalence of mental health issues among LGBT people than the general population in the UK and launched its LGBT Action Plan, \"focused on reducing suicides amongst the LGBT population\".\n\nBut, two years on, the plan has not begun.\n\nAnd one year on from its \"updated Suicide Prevention Strategy\", the government is yet to start its \"rapid evidence review\" into LGBT suicide.\n\n\"LGBT lives are being lost and we need to know more. It is so frustrating. Recording this data must be a nationwide campaign,\" said Helen Jones, CEO of MindOut, the UK-wide dedicated LGBT mental health charity.\n\nLGBT mental-health charities are reporting a big increase during lockdown in contact with people having suicidal thoughts\n\nSam Brooks's fiance, Iago, killed himself at the end of last year.\n\nSam had struggled to get mental-health support for Iago and has been grieving in isolation during lockdown.\n\n\"Before lockdown, I was in touch with mental-health services for therapy,\" he says.\n\n\"I was in touch with my GP too.\n\n\"In lockdown, I've heard from nobody.\n\nIn England, suicide prevention is the responsibility of the Department of Health and Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the responsibility to report deaths by suicide lies with coroners, who are not asked by the Ministry of Justice to collect data on sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nAnd Sam feels the system has failed his fiance by not recording data and learning from his death.\n\n\"Iago's been forgotten and failed by the government,\" he says.\n\n\"As an ethnic-minority gay man, he was let down big time and he deserved more help.\n\n\"Not counting our data means the struggle will continue for others.\"\n\nCharities' bosses say the lack of national data prevents them from securing funding and helping others.\n\n\"Unless we are counted, we don't count,\" LGBT Hero chief executive Ian Howley said.\n\nAnd Emma Meehan, of the LGBT Foundation, said: \"Due to the government's frustrating lack of proper reporting, we'll never be able to put a true figure on the scale of this crisis.\"\n\nThe government has acknowledged the need to improve LGBT data collection on suicide.\n\nA Department for Health official said: \"We are absolutely committed to supporting everyone's mental health and wellbeing, especially during this unprecedented period.\"\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available: BBC Action Line .", "Fox News has fired one of its leading anchors over claims of \"wilful sexual misconduct\" involving a colleague several years ago.\n\nEd Henry co-presented the America's Newsroom programme, which is broadcast mid-morning every weekday.\n\nHis former co-host Sandra Smith gave viewers the news on air on Wednesday.\n\nFox News said it received a complaint last week and fired Mr Henry after hiring a law firm to investigate. He has not yet commented.\n\nThe 48-year-old's profile has already been deleted from the network's website, and the page for America's Newsroom now lists Smith as the sole anchor.\n\nFox News said the complaint was made on 25 June by the lawyer of a former employee.\n\nMr Henry was suspended the same day and has now been fired based on \"investigative findings\" from the law firm, according to an internal memo provided to the Reuters news agency.\n\nOn Wednesday's programme, Smith read a statement from Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace, saying they had taken the decision as part of an \"effort to bring full transparency\" to the matter.\n\n\"We strive to maintain a safe and inclusive workplace for all employees,\" they added.\n\nSmith said rotating anchors would co-host the programme with her until a replacement is named.\n\nFormer anchor Gretchen Carlson has called for employees to be released from non-disclosure agreements\n\nThe former employee has not been identified. Mr Henry joined Fox News from CNN in 2011. He has served as the network's chief national correspondent and previously hosted several weekend shows.\n\nHe is not the first Fox News figure to face allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nFormer chairman Roger Ailes resigned in 2016 after being accused by former employees of sexual harassment.\n\nThe case against him was made into a 2019 Hollywood film, Bombshell, which starred Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.\n\nAfter Mr Henry's departure, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson called for the network to release former employees from non-disclosure agreements.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils will face the front, but the safety plans will not be based on social distancing\n\nThe return-to-school plans for autumn in England will involve entire year groups staying in separate \"bubbles\".\n\nA draft of the plans, set to be announced later this week, has been published by the Huffington Post.\n\nIt means that groups of up to 240 pupils could be kept apart within a school, with a separate time for starting and finishing.\n\nIt could also mean they would all be sent home if there was a Covid-19 case in the group.\n\nThere will also be a recognition of the need for pupils to catch up after months out of regular lessons, with an emphasis on core subjects such as English and maths.\n\nThe plans, understood to be draft documents shared as part of a consultation, show the approach to safety in the autumn is an expansion of the \"protective bubble\" approach already used.\n\nRather than relying on social distancing, the aim is to limit the points at which the infection could be spread, by keeping pupils in separate, isolated groups through the school day, with their own breaks and lunchtimes.\n\nIn primary schools this term, these bubbles have been up to 15 pupils, but in the plans for the autumn they could include a full secondary year group, which if there were eight classes, could be 240 pupils.\n\nIn primary schools in the autumn, the bubbles are expected to be a whole class of 30 pupils.\n\nIn secondary school entire year groups could be kept apart in the protective \"bubble\" system\n\nIf a pupil shows coronavirus symptoms, parents will have to quickly come to collect their child.\n\n\"While waiting, the child should be kept 2m away from the supervising teacher,\" says the leaked guidance.\n\n\"If that is not possible, in the case of a young child or one with complex needs, staff should wear full PPE - disposable gloves, a disposable apron, a fluid-resistant surgical face mask and in some cases eye goggles.\"\n\nThere will not be any fixed social distancing requirements for pupils in primary school - and in secondary it will be 1m, but only where possible, the leaked documents suggest.\n\nBut teachers will be expected to maintain social distancing at the front of a class - in classrooms in which pupils will face forward, rather than facing each other around circular tables.\n\nOn Monday, the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson promised a comprehensive track and trace system would be in place for autumn.\n\nThat would allow year groups or schools to be closed down if there were Covid-19 cases, or if there were signs of a local upsurge infections.\n\nThere will be routines of regular hand-washing, but there are not expected to be temperature checks or masks, either for staff or pupils.\n\nPupils will be encouraged to get back on track with their learning when schools return for full-time lessons.\n\nAttendance will be compulsory - with confirmation on Monday that penalty fines can once again be issued to parents who do not send their children back to school, at the usual level of £60 and then £120 for late payment.\n\nAnd there will be a push on helping children to catch up in English and maths, which could include narrowing options in GCSE subjects and repeating work from before the lockdown.\n\nAn increase in disruptive behaviour is anticipated - but it is expected that Ofsted will not be carrying out routine inspections during the term.\n\nIn response to the leaked documents, a Department for Education spokesman said there would be continuing consultation, ahead of the full plans being published this week.\n\n\"We've said we want to see all children back at school in September - returning to full primary and secondary class sizes in a safe way,\" said the DfE spokesman.", "The UK and EU have said serious differences remain over a post-Brexit trade deal, following the latest negotiations in Brussels.\n\nEU negotiator Michel Barnier said the bloc's position needed to be \"better understood and respected\" by the UK if an agreement is to be found.\n\nBoris Johnson said a \"good deal\" was possible but it must recognise UK sovereignty in areas such as fishing.\n\nThe UK has ruled out extending the December deadline to reach a deal.\n\nThe prime minister told LBC Radio he was \"more optimistic\" than Mr Barnier about the chances of a deal but, if it did not happen, the UK would happily trade with its neighbour on more limited terms similar to Australia.\n\n\"I am not remotely disrespectful of Michel or the EU system that I understand deeply,\" he said.\n\n\"But I just don't think that it's right for us to proceed on the basis of the European Court of Justice continuing to arbitrate in the UK or us having to continue to obey EU laws when we are out of the EU.\"\n\nThe latest round of talks, the first to be held in person since the Covid-19 crisis struck, came after both sides agreed to \"intensify\" negotiations last month.\n\nNegotiations have continued throughout the pandemic via video link. An additional five weeks of in-person talks are planned for July and early August.\n\nBBC Europe reporter Gavin Lee said the latest round of talks had broken up a day early, with a discussion between the two chief negotiators tomorrow cancelled.\n\nMr Barnier said \"serious divergences remain\" after the four days of talks, although the EU believed an agreement was still possible.\n\n\"The EU engaged constructively, as we had already done during the fourth round of negotiations in June,\" he added.\n\n\"The EU expects, in turn, its positions to be better understood and respected in order to reach an agreement.\n\n\"We need an equivalent engagement by the United Kingdom.\"\n\nTalks started in Brussels on Monday and were due to last until tomorrow afternoon, but finished earlier today.\n\nIt is understood very little progress was made this week - but discussions in London scheduled for next week will continue as planned.\n\nEU officials told the BBC that \"one positive is that the UK now appears to understand our position more clearly on the areas of disagreement\".\n\nOfficials on both sides were keen to play down the decision to end talks early.\n\nOne EU official told the BBC that the planned discussion for this afternoon was for \"extra questions to be raised\" and that \"it wasn't a \"huge issue\" that the two negotiators wouldn't meet tomorrow.\n\nMr Barnier underlined that the EU expects \"parallel progress\" in all areas of the negotiations.\n\nThis is a point of difference with the UK - which wants to negotiate separate agreements in areas such as fisheries, alongside a basic free trade deal.\n\nMr Barnier also reiterated the EU would not agree to a deal without \"robust\" guarantees on the so-called \"level playing field\" for competition between business.\n\nHe added this would include the area of state support for companies.\n\nJust like when it was an EU member, the UK remains tied to the bloc's \"state aid\" rules during the 11-month transition period due to end in December 2020.\n\nDavid Frost (L) is due to take up a role as UK national security adviser in August.\n\nThe UK has not yet unveiled plans for its post-Brexit state aid regime, but PM Boris Johnson has previously said he wants to make it easier for the UK government to provide assistance to struggling firms.\n\nThe two sides also remain deadlocked over the issue of fishing rights - an area where they had previously pledged to find agreement by last month.\n\nThe EU wants to uphold its existing access to British waters for vessels from member states, to avoid economic disruption for their fishermen.\n\nBut the UK wants to hold annual talks with the bloc over access to its waters, as it currently does with nations such as Norway.\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "As the ads boycott grows, Mark Zuckerberg shows no sign of backing down.\n\n\"My guess is that all these advertisers will be back on the platform soon enough\" the Facebook chief executive has said.\n\nCampaigners accuse the tech firm of being too slow and reluctant to remove some hateful content.\n\nBut Zuckerberg added: \"We're not going to change our policies or approach on anything because of a threat to a small percent of our revenue.\"\n\nThe comments were made to Facebook staff at a private meeting last Friday, and were subsequently leaked to the Information news site.\n\nThe social network has confirmed they are accurate and also announced a fresh development: its chief executive is to meet the organisers of the boycott - Stop Hate for Profit.\n\nIt illustrates the concurrent ways Facebook is dealing with the matter.\n\nThe educational group behind the TV show Sesame Street is among those who have said they will refrain from running ads on Facebook\n\nThe first is to be publicly conciliatory: offer smaller changes and hit home its message that hate has no place on the platform.\n\nThe second is to privately play down the impact of the boycott: reassure advertisers and resist any fundamental changes to Facebook's business model.\n\nYesterday the firm's global affairs chief, Sir Nick Clegg, published an open letter to the ad world.\n\nHe attempted to assuage fears the company hadn't done enough to combat hate. Not surprisingly, he didn't echo his boss and add: \"You'll be back.\"\n\nNow, of course companies have different internal- and external-facing messages.\n\nBut this one in particular underlines the delicate tightrope that Facebook is trying to tread.\n\nThe company is undoubtedly rattled by this boycott. According to a list compiled by its organisers, more than 600 brands are now involved.\n\nThis week Facebook sent an email to companies and ad agencies assuring them it was doing all it could to remove hate speech.\n\n\"This work is never finished, and we're proud of how our apps can help people come together, learn, and organize against hate and show their solidarity\" an email to one ad agency said.\n\nBut the boycott isn't hurting Facebook as much as you might think.\n\nIn fact, Zuckerberg, in that same employee meeting, called the problem a \"reputational and a partner issue\" rather than a financial one.\n\nAnd he has a point. The vast majority of large companies are still advertising with Facebook.\n\nAnd thousands upon thousands of small-to-medium-sized businesses are doing likewise.\n\nOne advertising executive sent me an expletive-riddled text yesterday, dismissing the idea its clients would stop advertising on Facebook.\n\nIt's that kind of message that gives Zuckerberg reason to be bullish.\n\nAreeq Chowdhury, from WebRoots Democracy, also believes the companies that have joined the boycott will come back.\n\n\"The advertising being offered by these internet giants is unparalleled.\" he says.\n\n\"The level of targeting they can achieve is not matched anywhere else, so I find it hard to believe that a lot of them will stop advertising in the long run.\"\n\nThat seems to be what the market thinks, too.\n\nAfter a dip in Facebook's share price, it's back to pretty much where it was last week.\n\nSo, Facebook's strategy so far seems to be working.\n\nThe far greater worry is contagion - for example, if users started to leave Facebook and Instagram in large numbers in response to the boycott. But once again, there's little evidence of that happening.\n\nMr Zuckerberg last gave testimony to US lawmakers in October 2019\n\nOn Wednesday, it was confirmed that Zuckerberg - along with Google's Sundar Pichai, Apple's Tim Cook and Amazon's Jeff Bezos - would testify before Congress in an antitrust hearing later this month.\n\nIf the boycott continues to gather force, it could be an uncomfortable encounter, however secure Facebook may feel.", "If you could fast forward to September and schools in England were not opening there would be outrage from parents.\n\nPubs would have opened, there might be a few holiday sun tans and whatever is left of the high street will be back in business.\n\nSo it would have been impossible not to have a plan for a return to school.\n\n“We can’t sit back and say children won’t go back to school,” said the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nSo, in many ways, these plans represent the art of the possible, rather than the ideal.\n\nBut parents have raised doubts about the tactic of separate bubbles.\n\nWhat happens if families have children in different years?\n\nWhat about all the mixing up of children on public transport?\n\nThere are big academic unknowns too.\n\nHow will full versions of GCSEs and A-levels go ahead when pupils have missed months of school?\n\nAnd tucked away in the details are suggestions Year 7 might have to retake chunks of Year 6 again because of all the holes in learning.\n\nIt’s not going to be easy - and there could be stop-starting from local lockdowns - but not going back at all would have been much more politically toxic.", "Sayagi Sivanantham was found with fatal knife wounds at a property in Mitcham\n\nA five-year-old girl who died after being found with knife wounds at a flat in south London has been named as Sayagi Sivanantham.\n\nSayagi was found alongside a 35-year-old woman who also had knife injuries on Monarch Parade in Mitcham at about 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA murder investigation has begun. Police are not looking for anyone else and said Sayagi knew the woman.\n\nNeighbours described Sayagi as a \"smart kid\" who was \"always smiling\".\n\nElsa Gonzales, who has lived on Monarch Parade for 12 years, described hearing screaming and crying coming from the flat next to hers.\n\nThe 47-year-old, who used to work in an emergency department, said she found the woman and child in the bedroom.\n\nPolice were called to a flat on Mitcham Parade, in Merton\n\n\"I saw the woman lying on the floor in a pool of blood,\" she told the PA news agency.\n\n\"There was blood everywhere.\n\n\"She was a cheeky little girl, always playing with the neighbourhood kids. To see her so lifeless, it's like my heart is bleeding.\"\n\nThe woman is being treated in hospital for life-threatening injuries\n\nBoth Sayagi and the woman were taken to hospital. The woman is being treated for life-threatening injuries.\n\nSayagi's next of kin have been informed and post-mortem tests are due to take place.\n\nA 15-year-old neighbour, who wanted to remain anonymous, said her family were friends with Sayagi.\n\nShe described her as \"playful and talkative\".\n\n\"We feel sad hearing the news,\" she said.\n\nSiobhain McDonagh, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, tweeted: \"Truly tragic events in Mitcham over the last [two] days. My sincere condolences to family and friends.\n\n\"My thoughts are also with neighbours & residents who have witnessed such tragedy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Clark confirmed on Thursday that he had resigned from his post as New Zealand's health minister\n\nNew Zealand's health minister has resigned after criticism of the government's response to coronavirus and his own breaches of lockdown rules.\n\nDavid Clark had already been demoted after breaking rules to take his family to the beach.\n\nHe said continuing in his role was distracting from the government's overall response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed on Thursday that she had accepted his resignation.\n\nNew Zealand has been hailed as a success story when it comes to tackling the coronavirus.\n\nThe country has recorded 1,528 confirmed or probable coronavirus cases and 22 people have died. Last month, all Covid-19 restrictions were lifted and the nation was declared virus free.\n\nHowever the country's handling of border and isolation facilities has recently come under fire. In one case, two people were allowed to leave isolation early to visit a dying parent without being tested for the virus. They were later confirmed to have Covid-19.\n\nMr Clark said: \"I take full responsibility for decisions made and taken during my time as Minister of Health.\"\n\nHe said that now was the appropriate time to move on, with no evidence of community transmission in the country.\n\nMr Clark was already under pressure following several breaches of lockdown rules. In April, he was demoted after driving his family 20km (12 miles) to the beach during the first weekend of lockdown.\n\nHe also went mountain biking during the lockdown, however this was not as clear a breach of the rules as driving to the beach, the New Zealand Herald said.\n\nHe previously offered his resignation but was kept in his role because of the ongoing crisis.\n\nMs Ardern agreed with Mr Clark's decision to resign and said it was \"essential our health leadership has the confidence of the New Zealand public\".\n\nEducation Minister Chris Hipkins will take charge of the health department until the country's election in September.", "A trade union has called for urgent government intervention after the announcement that the majority of 1,730 UK Airbus job cuts will be at Broughton in Flintshire.\n\nPeter Hughes, Unite Wales regional secretary, said the number of jobs being lost was \"far larger than we originally anticipated\".\n\n\"Our calls for Boris Johnson’s government to intervene in the crisis that is engulfing the aerospace sector have so far fallen on deaf ears,\" he said.\n\n\"They can’t hide anymore - the voices of thousands of workers and their families from across north Wales and north west England are screaming for help.\"\n\nDaz Reynolds, Unite convenor at Airbus Broughton offered support to members following the \"desperate news\".\n\n“Our members at Broughton are devastated to hear of the scale of the job losses for our site.\n\n\"We are a world class workforce who have built up Broughton to be one of the best manufacturing sites in Europe.\n\n\"The workforce recognises the enormous challenges facing Airbus and are prepared to look at every avenue available to mitigate the proposed job losses.\"", "The statue of Edward Colston was pushed into the harbour after being toppled by protesters\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nA bronze memorial to the 17th Century slave merchant was torn down in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June and was dumped in the harbour.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it would review footage of a \"small group of people\" filmed pulling down the statue with ropes.\n\nA 24-year-old has been held on suspicion of criminal damage.\n\nThe statue was pulled from its plinth on 7 June\n\nOfficers previously appealed for the public's help to identify 15 people they wanted to speak to.\n\n\"In the eyes of the law\", the force said, a crime had been committed and the force was \"duty-bound to investigate without fear or favour\".\n\nThe statue was pulled from its plinth in the city centre and was rolled into the harbour.\n\nIt was later recovered from the water and is due to be given a new home in a city museum displayed with placards from the Black Lives Matter protest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new law was greeted with protests in Hong Kong\n\nChina has introduced a new national security law for Hong Kong. The BBC's Michael Bristow takes a closer look at the detail, and what it will mean in practice.\n\nLawyers and legal experts have said China's national security law for Hong Kong will fundamentally change the territory's legal system.\n\nIt introduces new crimes with severe penalties - up to life in prison - and allows mainland security personnel to legally operate in Hong Kong with impunity.\n\nThe legislation gives Beijing extensive powers it has never had before to shape life in the territory far beyond the legal system.\n\nAnalysis of the law by NPC Observer, a team of legal experts from the United States and Hong Kong, identified what they consider a number of worrying aspects.\n\n\"Its criminal provisions are worded in such a broad manner as to encompass a swath of what has so far been considered protected speech,\" said a posting on its website.\n\nArticle 29 is perhaps an example of this broad wording.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt states that anyone who conspires with foreigners to provoke \"hatred\" of the Chinese government, or the authorities in Hong Kong, could have committed a criminal offence.\n\nDoes that include criticism of China's governing Communist Party?\n\nOn Wednesday at a media briefing, Hong Kong's Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng was asked to define exactly what the provision means. She was unable to give a clear answer.\n\nIt gives Chinese mainland security operatives the right to investigate some national security cases that are \"complex\", \"serious\" or \"difficult\".\n\nAs the NPC Observer team note, these words are \"highly subjective and malleable\".\n\nHuman rights organisations have pointed out how the law seems to undermine protections previously offered to defendants.\n\nMany are worried about what the law may mean for people in Hong Kong - and elsewhere\n\nTrials can be held in secret (Article 41) and without a jury (Article 46). Judges can be handpicked (Article 44) by Hong Kong's chief executive, who is answerable directly to Beijing.\n\nThe law also reverses a presumption that suspects will be granted bail (Article 42).\n\nThat same provision also appears to suggest there is no time limit on how long suspects can be held. It says only that cases should be handled in a \"timely manner\".\n\nEntire cases - from investigation to judgement to punishment - can be simply handed over to the mainland authorities (Article 56).\n\nForeign nationals outside of Hong Kong face prosecution under the law (Article 38).\n\nDonald Clarke, writing for the China Collection, a blog focusing on Chinese issues, wrote that a US newspaper columnist advocating Tibetan independence might fall foul of the law.\n\n\"If you've ever said anything that might offend the PRC (People's Republic of China) or Hong Kong authorities, stay out of Hong Kong,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Clarke, of the George Washington University Law School, said the biggest worry was the institutions and processes that the law has established.\n\nThe legislation allows China to set up the Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong - a mainland Chinese body to be staffed by mainland Chinese personnel.\n\nArticle 60 makes it clear that anyone who works there does not have to abide by Hong Kong's laws. They shall not be subject to \"inspection, search or detention\".\n\nAs Mr Clarke wrote: \"They are untouchable.\"\n\nHong Kong's leader Carrie Lam, however, has welcomed the law\n\nClaudia Mo, an opposition lawmaker in Hong Kong, said the aim of China's national security legislation was to \"stun Hong Kong into nothingness\".\n\n\"People will be so petrified, so frightened and intimidated, that they wouldn't dare say anything or do anything in opposition,\" she said.\n\nOf course, that is not the view in Beijing.\n\nZhang Xiaoming, of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said on Wednesday that the law would help return stability to the territory.\n\nIt will bring Hong Kong more in line with the laws, procedures and practices of mainland China.\n\nWhether or not you think the legislation was necessary, it is impossible to deny its significance. As Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam put it: this is a turning point.", "The old emblem for the Finnish Air Force Command (left) featured a swastika, but the current emblem of the force does not\n\nIt was long a rather surprising choice of imagery for Finland's Air Force Command - a swastika and pair of wings.\n\nThe symbol will always be intrinsically linked with Nazi Germany and its crimes, even though its roots go back many thousands of years.\n\nBut now it has been confirmed the Air Force Command has quietly stopped using this unit emblem.\n\nThe change was first observed by University of Helsinki academic Teivo Teivainen.\n\nHe had previously questioned whether the continued use of the symbol was helpful for the Finnish armed forces.\n\nFinland's air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918, shortly after the country became an independent nation and long before Nazism devastated Europe.\n\nUntil 1945 its planes bore a blue swastika on a white background - and this was not intended to show allegiance to Nazi Germany, though the two nations were aligned.\n\nWhile the symbol was left off planes after World War Two, a swastika still featured in some Air Force unit emblems, unit flags and decorations - including on uniforms, a spokesperson for the Finnish air force told the BBC.\n\nThis veteran DC-2 plane has been restored and shows the wartime insignia of the Finnish air force\n\nSince January 2017 the emblem for Air Force Command has been similar to the Air Force service emblem - a golden eagle and a circle of wings, the air force said.\n\n\"As unit emblems are worn on uniform, it was considered impractical and unnecessary to continue using the old unit emblem, which had caused misunderstandings from time to time,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe geometric symbol takes the form of a cross with further arms coming off at right angles. The word swastika comes from the Sanskrit for well-being or luck.\n\nIt has been used for thousands of years in Indian cultures and worldwide, and became a fashionable motif in the West in the early 20th Century.\n\nHowever, in 1920 Adolf Hitler adopted the swastika for his National Socialist party, which came to power the following decade in Germany. The genocidal crimes of the Hitler regime mean that the swastika symbolises Nazism and anti-Semitism for most Westerners.\n\nProf Teivainen told the BBC that swastikas could be seen in Finland on buildings dating from the 1920s.\n\n\"In Finland there's this idea that it's a random decorative sign - which to some extent it is,\" he said.\n\nThe famed Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela first used the symbol in a painting in 1889.\n\nThe Romantic painter went on to use a swastika as part of his designs for the insignia of the Order of the Cross of Liberty. He used a cross with much smaller hooks, so the visual similarity to Nazi symbolism is much less pronounced. It also features on the official flag of the Finnish president.\n\nThe Finnish president's flag features the Cross of Freedom in the top left corner\n\nBut the swastika became associated with the Finnish air force via a very different man - a Swedish nobleman called Count Eric von Rosen.\n\nThe count used the swastika as a personal good luck charm. When he gifted a plane to the nascent air force of Sweden's newly independent neighbour in 1918 he had had a blue swastika painted on it. This Thulin Typ D was the first aircraft of the Finnish air force and subsequent planes all had his blue swastika symbol too, until 1945.\n\nSupporters of a continued use of the symbol point out that there were no Nazis in 1918 so the air force's use of the swastika has nothing to do with Nazism.\n\nHowever, while Eric von Rosen had no Nazi associations at the time of his 1918 gift, he did subsequently become a leading figure in Sweden's own national socialist movement in the 1930s. He was also a brother-in-law of senior German Nazi Herman Göring, and, according to Prof Teivainen, a personal friend of Hitler.\n\nThis vintage training aircraft performed at an air show to mark the 100th anniversary of the Finnish air force in 2018\n\nThe Finnish air force said that, having been von Rosen's symbol, the swastika remains in some Air Force unit flags and decorations, albeit no longer that of the central Air Force Command.\n\nProf Teivainen told the BBC he had never argued that the swastika should be banned in Finland (as it is in Germany).\n\nBut he said the military's duty \"is to defend the nation - not to defend an old symbol given by a Swedish count in 1918\".\n\nHe was concerned that it could affect young Finns' attitude to the military (at a time when male citizens are still conscripted). Finland's huge neighbour Russia might see the symbol as a sign that its neighbour remains an enemy, he thought - and, crucially, could it impact on Western neighbours' attitudes to supporting Finland if the non-aligned nation ever came under threat again?\n\nWhile the emblem of the Finnish Air Force Academy still features a swastika - superimposed with a propeller - the unheralded move away from the old insignia of the central Air Force Command suggests that the military top brass are ready to move on from Count von Rosen and his blue and white swastika.", "A statue of former Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie has been destroyed in a park in Wimbledon, south-west London.\n\nPolice are investigating the incident, which took place in Cannizaro Park on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe damage to the bust was carried out by a group of around 100 people, according to an eyewitness.\n\nIt appears to be linked to unrest in Ethiopia sparked after a popular singer, Hachalu Hundessa, was shot dead earlier this week.\n\nDemonstrations following his death saw a statue of royal prince Ras Makonnen Wolde Mikael, the father of Selassie, Ethiopia's last emperor, torn down in the city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia.\n\nMany people from Ethiopia's ethnic Oromo group say they were oppressed under Haile Selassie's reign and their language and traditional religion were banned.\n\nHachalu's songs focused on the rights of the Oromos and he had been a prominent voice in anti-government protests that led to a change in leadership in 2018.\n\nLocal resident Andrew Morris told the Press Association he had seen a mostly male group in the park, carrying fliers with Oromo slogans, while out walking his dog.\n\n\"I heard the statue being smashed up, but didn't actually see it happen,\" he added.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said inquiries were ongoing and no arrests had yet been made after they were called to a report of criminal damage at 17:10 BST on Tuesday.\n\nSelassie lived in Wimbledon in 1936 during his exile following the Italian invasion of his country. The statue was sculpted by Hilda Seligman, while he stayed with her family, and later erected in Cannizaro Park.", "Magda Raszowska said it was \"like going back to March\"\n\nSchool pupils in Leicester have been kept at home once again, after the city was made subject to the UK's first local lockdown.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has ordered schools in the city to close to all but a small number of pupils following a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe said although children were at low risk of serious harm from Covid-19, they could spread the infection.\n\nSchools had been allowed to welcome back some year groups from 1 June.\n\nThe tighter restrictions are also affecting schools and nurseries outside the lockdown area in Leicester, with pupils told to stay away if they live within the affected area.\n\nThe Department for Education has said only vulnerable children and children of key workers could travel across the boundary in either direction for school or appointments with social workers.\n\nPaul Galvin, head teacher of St Luke's Primary School in Thurnby, said: \"It might be difficult for families who are inside the lockdown zone - as we are just outside the boundary - especially if they are not children of critical workers.\n\n\"There are a small number of children affected at our school. I am deeply sorry for the problems this may cause parents and carers.\"\n\nHe said the school had \"adapted and will keep adapting to changes\" during the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says a number of under 18s have tested positive for coronavirus\n\nMagda Raszowska, whose five-year-old daughter attends Launde Primary School in Oadby, said it was \"like we're going back to March\".\n\n\"I'm sad for my kids and sad for myself but obviously safety comes first,\" she said.\n\nFernvale Primary School, which is outside the boundary, will no longer welcome pupils like seven-year-old Ava who lives inside the boundary.\n\nHer parents said they felt sad their daughter was being forced to say goodbye to her friends for a second time.\n\nSeven-year-old Ava is not allowed to attend school even though it is staying open\n\nMr Hancock said: \"This virus hardly impacts on children, they're very low risk. It's very unusual for a child to get ill with coronavirus - it's one of the saving graces of the virus.\n\n\"We've sent in a lot of extra testing into Leicester and found under-18s testing positive.\n\n\"Therefore because children can transmit the disease we think the safest thing to do is to close the schools.\"\n\nSchools run by Leicester City Council were already due to close for the summer holidays on 10 July, while county council schools are due to break up on 14 July.\n\nThe city council said its schools would remain open \"to vulnerable children and children of key workers until the end of term\".\n\n\"Where there is no take-up of this provision, individual schools may chose to close but will be prepared to reopen as and when required,\" it said.\n\nThe local lockdown is due to be reviewed from 18 July.\n\nBirstall is among several villages and suburbs included in the lockdown\n\nA group of councillors in Birstall said they planned to request that the village was removed from the lockdown area at the next review if the county council does not provide evidence showing why it was deemed to be at risk.\n\nCouncillor Roy Rollings said: \"Late last night Public Health England released a 25-page reporting setting out what's going on in Leicester, listing the top 10 wards and where the infection areas are.\n\n\"There was not one mention of facts and figures for Birstall and the other county areas.\"\n\nNational Express said its coaches would not be stopping in Leicester until 18 July at the earliest.\n\nCommercial director John Boughton said the decision had been made \"in light of government advice on essential travel\".\n\n\"We'll keep monitoring the advice and hopefully in 15 days we can bring Leicester back into our network,\" he said.\n\nAcademics and clinicians from the University of Leicester said reimposing the lockdown in Leicester represented a \"failure of timely intervention\" in the city.\n\nIn a letter to The Lancet medical journal, they said data on the spike in coronavirus cases was \"not communicated in a timely manner\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said the government had been \"working closely with our local partners\", and added: \"All councils in England now have the ability to access testing data, right down to an individual and postcode level.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government has played down a decrease in Leicester's coronavirus infection rate which was mentioned in a Public Health England investigation into the outbreak.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The report itself shows a slight decrease but that is not considered statistically significant.\n\n\"The seven-day infection rate in Leicester is 135 cases per 100,000 people which is three times higher than the rate for the next highest city, which is Bradford.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live, work or run a business in the area? How will this affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe use of face coverings will become mandatory in shops in Scotland as coronavirus restrictions are eased, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nNon-essential shops have reopened in Scotland and bars and restaurants are due to open up again later this month.\n\nThe first minister said the 2m physical distancing rule would be eased for some premises when the country enters the next phase of its routemap on 10 July.\n\nAnd she said face coverings would be mandatory in shops from that date.\n\nMs Sturgeon also announced that children under the age of 12 would no longer need to maintain physical distancing from other households while outdoors from Friday.\n\nThe first minister had ordered further scientific study of the 2m (6ft 6in) physical distancing rule after it was announced a \"one metre plus\" system would be introduced in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe said advice was clear that \"as the distance between people decreases, the risk of transmitting the virus increases\", but said this could be \"mitigated by other measures\".\n\nThe first minister said the \"general advice will remain unchanged\" and that \"as far as possible\" people should remain 2m away from other households.\n\nBut she said in view of the \"serious economic implications\" of maintaining the rule in all circumstances, she would allow \"exemptions for specific sectors\" where a 1m (3ft 3in) distance could be used if other safety measures are introduced.\n\nAn example of this would be a pub or restaurant being allowed to relax the physical distancing rule when they can reopen from 15 July if plastic screens are used to separate customers, or better ventilation is installed.\n\nBusinesses will also be expected to display \"clear signage to show people are entering a 1m zone\", and to collect a list of customers and their contact details to help trace them if there is an outbreak.\n\nMany pubs have been installing plastic screens ahead of reopening on 15 July\n\nThe change to the distancing rule will be introduced from the start of \"phase three\" of the government's \"route map\" towards lifting lockdown, currently set to be reviewed on 9 July.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said that from the start of phase three, the use of face coverings would become mandatory in shops, with exemptions for young children and people with certain health conditions.\n\nShe said that using face coverings - which are already mandatory on public transport - could \"help reduce the risk of transmission indoors\" and \"provide an additional layer of protection\".\n\n\"We have proceeded for a period with a voluntary approach to this,\" she said. \"Some people are complying and some are not, I'm not pointing fingers or trying to blame people for that but we have to make a judgement if we're heading into a period where more people are interacting.\n\n\"And we've been having a discussion with more sectors like retail about reducing distancing, and that increases the importance of mitigations like face coverings.\"\n\nBusiness group CBI Scotland welcomed the easing of the social distancing rule, saying it would \"make a substantial difference to the viability of thousands of firms in Scotland\", particularly in the leisure, tourism and hospitality sectors.\n\nHowever, the Scottish Grocers Federation said it was \"extremely disappointed\" at the move to make face coverings mandatory, saying it would increase pressure on staff to enforce measures.\n\nMs Sturgeon said shop staff would not be expected to enforce the rule, with the police instead mandated to issue fixed penalty notices to people not wearing face coverings.\n\nShe accepted that this may not be an easy rule to police, saying officers would act \"very proportionately and sensitively\".\n\nThe Scottish government has targeted effectively eliminating the virus north of the border, with the number of people estimated to be infectious falling to 1,500 by the end of June.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"continued low prevalence of the virus\" meant further changes to lockdown restrictions could be introduced.\n\nThe current five-mile limit on travel for leisure purposes is to be eased from Friday, with people urged to \"behave responsibly\" and \"be sensitive to people living in rural areas\".\n\nHowever, there will be an exemption for some towns in the Dumfries and Galloway area where an outbreak of the virus is being investigated.\n\nTen positive cases have been identified around Annan and Gretna, although Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very hopeful this outbreak will be contained\".\n\nShe said people in surrounding areas should \"assume there is a higher risk of infection right now\" and avoid travelling, adding: \"I am genuinely sorry about that, but this outbreak is sharply reminding us just just how infectious Covid is.\"", "The House of Lords Gambling Committee says video game loot boxes should be regulated under gambling laws.\n\nThe Lords say they should be classified as \"games of chance\" - which would bring them under the Gambling Act 2005.\n\n\"If a product looks like gambling and feels like gambling, it should be regulated as gambling,\" their report says.\n\nAnd they warn that such a change should not wait.\n\n\"The government must act immediately to bring loot boxes within the remit of gambling legislation and regulation,\" said a statement accompanying the report.\n\nLoot boxes have long been controversial in video games. They offer players a chance at a randomised reward when opened. To further complicate matters, boxes can often be bought for real money, and the rewards can sometimes be traded.\n\nLord Grade, chairman of the committee, told BBC Breakfast that lots of other countries have already started to regulate loot boxes because \"they can see the dangers\" which is teaching \"kids to gamble\".\n\nHe said the Gambling Act was \"way behind what was actually happening in the market\" but he added that the \"overwhelming majority\" of the report's recommendations \"could be enacted today\" as they don't require legislation.\n\nThe Lords report says there should be new regulations explicitly stating that loot boxes are games of chance\n\nThe Lords report is wide-ranging, covering the entire gambling industry, but focuses in part on new forms of gambling, and those targeted towards children.\n\n\"There is academic research which proves that there is a connection, though not necessarily a causal link, between loot box spending and problem gambling,\" it says.\n\nOne expert, Dr David Zendle, explained to the committee that either loot box spending causes problem gambling, due to their similarity - or that people who have gambling problems spend heavily on loot boxes. But he warned that either way, the connection was \"extraordinarily robust\".\n\nThe Lords report concludes that ministers should make new regulations which explicitly state that loot boxes are games of chance. It also says the same definition should apply to any other in-game item paid for with real money, such as FIFA player packs.\n\nThe government told the committee that its planned future review of the Gambling Act would focus on loot boxes. But the Lords report warns: \"This issue requires more urgent attention.\"\n\nThe Lords join a range of parents and childrens' groups, as well as a previous report from the digital committee on addictive technologies, in calling on ministers to regulate loot boxes as a form of gambling.\n\nSome action has already been taken: in Belgium, loot boxes were banned in 2018 due to similar fears. Earlier this year, game-rating agency Pegi said clearer warning labels would be added.\n\nAnd in the video game industry, some companies have taken the initiative and elected to change the way their systems work.\n\nAs part of its wider review of the sector, the Lords report also notes that young people are \"most at risk\" of becoming problem gamblers.\n\nIt says 55,000 problem gamblers are aged between 11-16. As a result, it says, all new online gambling games should be reviewed to see if they appeal to children - and their potential to cause harm should be assessed.\n\nThe report also highlights the problems with eSports betting as another potential gateway for young people.\n\nResearchers told the committee: \"eSports represents the largest growth opportunity for sports gambling and presents a particular worry, as its players and spectators are young.\"\n\nUK games industry body Ukie said it was working hard to address the concerns raised in the report.\n\n\"The majority of people in the UK play video games in one form or another, so we take these concerns seriously. We've worked hard to increase the use of family controls on consoles which can turn off or limit spending and we will be working closely with the DCMS during its review of the Gambling Act later this year,\" chief executive Jo Twist said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tom Symonds is shown how a customised Android phone with EncroChat installed works\n\nA top-secret communications system used by criminals to trade drugs and guns has been \"successfully penetrated\", says the National Crime Agency.\n\nThe NCA worked with forces across Europe on the UK's \"biggest and most significant\" law enforcement operation.\n\nMajor crime figures were among over 800 Europe-wide arrests after messages on EncroChat were intercepted and decoded.\n\nMore than two tonnes of drugs, several dozen guns and £54m in suspect cash have been seized, says the NCA.\n\nWhile the NCA was part of the investigation, it was initiated and led by French and Dutch police, and also involved Europol - the EU agency for law enforcement cooperation.\n\nWil van Gemert, deputy executive director of Europol, told a press conference in the Hague that the hacking of the network had allowed the \"disruption of criminal activities including violent attacks, corruption, attempted murders and large-scale drug transports\".\n\nArmed raids on properties resulted in more than 800 arrests across Europe\n\nThe NCA says the Europe-wide operation, which lasted over three months and involved police forces across the UK, has had the biggest impact on organised crime gangs it has ever seen, with 746 UK arrests, including two law enforcement officers.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, whose force made 171 arrests and seized £13.3m in cash, described it as a \"game changer\".\n\nShe said: \"This is just the beginning. We will be disrupting organised criminal networks as a result of these operations for weeks and months and possibly years to come.\"\n\nNikki Holland, NCA director of investigations, said the operational team had described it \"as akin to cracking the enigma code\".\n\n\"They see this as that significant in terms of getting that inside information, effectively having a person inside an organised crime group telling us what they're up to,\" she said.\n\nAn estimated 60,000 people, among them up to 10,000 in Britain, subscribed to France-based EncroChat, which has now been taken down.\n\nThe system operated on customised Android phones and, according to its website, provided \"worry-free secure communications\".\n\nCustomers had access to features such as self-destructing messages that deleted from the recipient's device after a certain length of time.\n\nBank notes seized by Essex Police during the operation\n\nThere was also panic wipe, where all the data on the device could be deleted by entering a four-digit code from the lock-screen.\n\nThe NCA says the messaging system has been used as a \"criminal marketplace\" to co-ordinate the supply of Class A drugs across the world, and import weapons including assault rifles, sub-machine guns, shotguns, pistols and hand grenades.\n\nLaw enforcement agencies began getting data from the site on 1 April after the encryption code is believed to have been cracked in March.\n\nGangs are also believed to have used the handheld devices to plot attacks on rival groups, plan ways of enforcing drug debts and arrange for money to be laundered.\n\nThreats to life detailed on the site included acid attacks and threats to chop off limbs.\n\nDozens of organised crime groups have been dismantled, says the NCA, with the bulk of arrests in London and north-west England.\n\nLockdown \"worked in our favour\", says the agency, in that many more suspects were at home when they were raided.\n\nMany of those arrested are said to form the \"middle tier\" of crime gangs while some are described as the \"Mr and Mrs Bigs\" of the underworld.\n\nEncroChat sold encrypted phones with a guarantee of anonymity, with a range of special features to remove identifying information. The phones themselves cost roughly £900 (€1,000) each, with a subscription costing £1,350 (€1,500) for six months.\n\nEuropol said that French police had discovered some of EncroChat's servers were located in the country, and that it was possible to put a \"technical device\" in place to access the messages.\n\nIn June, rumours began to swirl about EncroChat being compromised by law enforcement.\n\nThe Netherlands' National Police said that users began to throw away their phones once the company became aware that messages were being intercepted - \"but it was too late\".\n\nPolice had already intercepted millions of messages, some of which have been acted on already - and others that may be used in the future.\n\nIn London, those targeted in the Met operation, codenamed \"Eternal\", are alleged to include members of \"high-harm\" organised crime networks with longstanding links to violent crime and drug dealing.\n\nDame Cressida said: \"These people are in business to make enormous amounts of money. Many of them lead a very respectable lifestyle - and definitely a high-end lifestyle in fancy houses with big cars going to... clubs and restaurants, splashing the cash sometimes, but sometimes being very discreet about it.\"\n\nThe Met said that in June, its detectives identified a plot by an international drugs and firearms gang to shoot dead a member of a rival network.\n\nAccording to the force, it managed to prevent the shooting by arresting an individual for conspiracy to murder and seizing a loaded pistol, which was believed to be the planned murder weapon.", "The owner of High Street restaurant chains Café Rouge and Bella Italia has gone into administration.\n\nNinety-one Casual Dining Group outlets will close immediately, and 1,900 of the firm's 6,000 staff will lose their jobs.\n\nAdministrators Alix Partners are seeking offers for all, or parts, of the remaining business.\n\nUK firms have announced thousands of job cuts this week as the impact of the pandemic on the economy continues.\n\nCasual Dining Group, which also owns the Las Iguanas chain, applied in May to appoint administrators at the High Court as it found it increasingly hard to pay its rents.\n\nOn Thursday, the firm said it had already received \"multiple offers\" for the business and hoped to pursue these.\n\n\"We are acutely aware of our duty to all employees and recognise that this is an incredibly difficult time for them,\" chief executive James Spragg said.\n\n\"Working alongside the administrators, we will do everything we can to support them through this process, with a view to preserving as much employment as we are able to.\"\n\nThe firm owns the Bella Italia chain of restaurants\n\nThe restaurants that are closing are mainly located in England, with some in Scotland and Wales. 159 of the group's 250 outlets will remain open.\n\nRestaurants in the UK were struggling even before the pandemic, but their revenues collapsed when the UK went into lockdown in March.\n\nRestrictions will be eased from Saturday, but demand is likely to remain depressed for some time and some chains have already acknowledged the severity of the impact.\n\nThis week Byron Burger said it planned to bring in administrators, putting 1,200 jobs at risk. Upper Crust and Caffe Ritazza owner SSP Group said it would cut up to 5,000 roles.\n\nThe government's furlough scheme - which is paying 80% of the wages of nine million workers - will start to be pared back from August, and so many firms are cutting jobs now to reduce costs.\n\nThousands of job losses were announced in other sectors too this week, including:\n\nWH Smith, Bensons for Beds, Wrights Pies, tableware-maker Steelite International, the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool and Norwich Theatre Royal have also announced plans to reduce staff.", "Younger children will no longer have to follow distancing rules when meeting other children or adults outdoors in Scotland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the change in guidance for those under the age of 12 would be introduced from Friday.\n\nChildren aged between 12 and 17 will still need to obey distancing rules.\n\nBut there will no be no limit on the number of different groups of people they can meet during a day.\n\nThe first minister said she hoped the changes would make life \"a little bit easier and a little bit more fun\" for children over the summer holidays.\n\nChildren in both age groups will still be restricted to meeting outside in groups of up to eight people from no more than three households.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that removing the requirement for those aged under 12 to physically distance from each other would allow them to \"play normally with your friends\".\n\nShe said that children aged between 12 and 17 wanted to \"have your own lives and meet your own friends\".\n\nThe changes will allow them to meet as many groups of friends as they want at different times of the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Kids and teenagers - what are the new rules?\n\n\"It also means that you won't be prevented from meeting your friends just because your parents or carer, or your brother or sister, happens to be meeting their friends,\" she said.\n\nHowever, the first minister stressed that older children were still being asked to continue observing the 2m social distancing rule.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Thursday that the general advice remained that people should remain 2m away from other households.\n\nIt will be possible for the rule to be relaxed by some businesses - such as pubs and restaurants - if other safety measures have been introduced.\n\nThese exemptions will be allowed after Scotland enters the third phase of its route map for easing the lockdown.\n\nThe Scottish government is also making it compulsory for people to wear face coverings in shops from 9 July.", "Mystery surrounds the \"completely unprecedented\" deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months.\n\nDr Niall McCann said colleagues in the southern African country had spotted more than 350 elephant carcasses in the Okavango Delta since the start of May.\n\nNo one knows why the animals are dying, with lab results on samples still weeks away, according to the government.\n\nBotswana is home to a third of Africa's declining elephant population.\n\nWarning: Some people may find the following images upsetting\n\nDr McCann, of the UK-based charity National Park Rescue, told the BBC local conservationists first alerted the government in early May, after they undertook a flight over the delta.\n\n\"They spotted 169 in a three-hour flight,\" he said. \"To be able to see and count that many in a three-hour flight was extraordinary.\n\n\"A month later, further investigations identified many more carcasses, bringing the total to over 350.\"\n\n\"This is totally unprecedented in terms of numbers of elephants dying in a single event unrelated to drought,\" he added.\n\nBack in May, Botswana's government ruled out poaching as a reason - noting the tusks had not been removed, according to Phys.org.\n\nThere are other things which point to something other than poaching.\n\n\"It is only elephants that are dying and nothing else,\" Dr McCann said. \"If it was cyanide used by poachers, you would expect to see other deaths.\"\n\nDr McCann has also tentatively ruled out natural anthrax poisoning, which killed at least 100 elephants in Bostwana last year.\n\nBut they have been unable to rule out either poisoning or disease. The way the animals appear to be dying - many dropping on their faces - and sightings of other elephants walking in circles points to something potentially attacking their neurological systems, Dr McCann said.\n\nEither way, without knowing the source, it is impossible to rule out the possibility of a disease crossing into the human population - especially if the cause is in either the water sources or the soil. Dr McCann points to the Covid-19 pandemic, which is believed to have started in animals.\n\n\"Yes, it is a conservation disaster - but it also has the potential to be a public health crisis,\" he said.\n\nDr Cyril Taolo, acting director for Botswana's department of wildlife and national parks, told the Guardian they had so far confirmed at least 280 elephants had died, and were in the process of confirming the rest.\n\nHowever, they did not know what was causing the animals' deaths.\n\n\"We have sent [samples] off for testing and we are expecting the results over the next couple of weeks or so,\" he said.", "Stanley Johnson posted pictures of his arriving in Athens on Wednesday\n\nBoris Johnson's father has been criticised for travelling to Greece during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nStanley Johnson shared a number of pictures on his Instagram account on Wednesday, showing him arriving in Athens and at an airport in a mask.\n\nHe told the Daily Mail he was in the country \"on essential business\" to ensure a property he rents out was \"Covid-proof\" before holidays restart.\n\nBut the former Tory MEP has come under fire for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Jamie Stone said the incident \"stinks of one rule for them and another rule for the rest of us\".\n\nWhen asked about his father's behaviour, the prime minister told LBC: \"I think you really ought to raise that with him.\"\n\nThe current guidance on air travel from the UK Foreign Office advises against \"all but essential international travel\" because of the virus.\n\nAnyone who then returns to the UK has to isolate for 14 days, under the government's existing rules.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael raised concerns in the Commons, saying the prime minister could \"explain his views on the fact that apparently his own father has jetted off in defiance of the guidance to Greece\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReferencing reasons given by Boris Johnson's most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, when he was accused of breaking the lockdown rules in March, Mr Carmichael added: \"Maybe, I don't know, he just needed an eye test or something like that, but I think we would all welcome an explanation.\"\n\nAnswering for the government, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said: \"I seem to remember somewhere in the Bible that the sins of the father will be visited on the son, but I don't remember it ever being the other way round.\n\n\"I think that the honourable gentleman is really fishing desperately to try and make any criticism of the PM.\"\n\nPeople arriving in England from more than 50 countries including France, Spain, Germany and Italy will no longer need to quarantine from 10 July, the Department for Transport has confirmed.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh government have yet to announce any changes to regulations, while in Northern Ireland, quarantine remains in place for travellers arriving from outside the UK and the Republic of Ireland.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock first mentioned an \"outbreak\" in Leicester on 18 June\n\nThere is no obvious source for a recent surge in coronavirus cases in Leicester, a report has found.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) found \"no explanatory outbreaks in care homes, hospital settings, or industrial processes\".\n\nIts analysis of cases showed more \"young and middle-aged people\" in the city had tested positive for Covid-19 than in other parts of the Midlands.\n\nBut the spread did not appear to be \"unconstrained\", it found.\n\nThe report was released on the evening before schools in the city were due to close to all but a handful of children as part of local lockdown measures.\n\nThe preliminary investigation said the increase in reported cases could partly be due to a \"growth in availability of testing\" in Leicester.\n\nIt confirmed a concentration of new cases in the North Evington ward of the city.\n\nThe report said hospitals in Leicester were currently treating 80 patients with Covid-19, 10 of whom required ventilation.\n\nPatient numbers had \"decreased rapidly\" since a surge in early April but new admissions had \"remained steady\" at between six and 10 per day throughout June.\n\nSchools and non-essential retail have closed in Leicester as a result of the local lockdown\n\nThe report said the increase in positive cases was \"most marked\" among the under-19 year group.\n\nWhile there had been \"good provision of primary school access for children\" since the beginning of June, researchers said, they could find no \"analytical link\" between this and \"any real or apparent rise in new infections\".\n\nHowever, they said it would \"seem sensible to investigate\" in order to exclude a link between this and an increase in young people testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nFive schools in the city closed as a result of positive coronavirus tests, it added.\n\nFrom Thursday, all schools in the lockdown area will be closed to all but children of key workers and pupils deemed vulnerable or having educational or health needs.\n\nThe rapid response investigation found 3,216 Covid-19 cases had been confirmed in the city since the start of the epidemic in March, and the majority of positive cases were found through Pillar 1 tests - those conducted in hospitals.\n\nBut since May the bulk of Leicester's infections have been discovered under Pillar 2 tests done outside of hospital.\n\nBetween 11-24 June, 944 were reported, 71 were in hospital, 873 were in the community.\n\nThe report said the increase in positive Pillar 2 tests is \"probably linked, in part, to the availability of testing to the general public\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live, work or run a business in Leicester? Have you been affected by coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Almost 90% of people who lost their sense of smell or taste while infected with Covid-19 improved or recovered within a month, a study has found.\n\nThe study, in Italy, found 49% of patients had fully regained their sense of smell or taste and 40% reported improvements.\n\nBut 10% said their symptoms remained the same or had worsened.\n\nGiven the scale of the pandemic, experts warn hundreds of thousands of people could face longer-term problems.\n\nA change in - or loss of - someone's sense of smell or taste are now recognised as core symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nAccording to NHS advice, anyone who experiences them should isolate, together with their household, and be tested.\n\nThe international team of researchers surveyed 187 Italians who had the virus but who were not ill enough to be admitted to hospital.\n\nThe individuals were asked to rate their sense of smell or taste soon after they were diagnosed and again a month later.\n\nA total of 113 reported an alteration in their sense of smell and/or taste:\n\nPeople who had severe symptoms found they took longer to get better.\n\nProf Claire Hopkins, one of the researchers and president of the British Rhinological Society, said her team was now doing more research on people with long-lasting symptoms.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"Data from other viral illnesses, and some of the new data we are gathering, suggest the vast majority of people will get better but for some, recovery will be slow.\n\n\"For people who recover more quickly it is likely the virus has only affected the cells lining their nose.\n\n\"For people who recover more slowly it may be that the virus has affected the nerves involved in smell, too. It can take longer for these nerve cells to repair and regenerate.\"\n\nShe suggests anyone with concerns can find further information from charities such as AbScent.\n\nWriting in the same journal, Dr Joshua Levy, a specialist at the Emory University School of Medicine, said: \"Even with a high rate of resolution, the staggering number affected by this evolving pandemic suggests an almost certain deluge of patients likely to present for the treatment of unresolved symptoms.\"\n\nBut he says there are \"frustratingly few\" interventions for people who experience these problems.\n\nHe suggests that in long-term cases people could consider therapy used for similar conditions - such as smell-training.\n\nThe paper is published in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Derek Owusu (left) got his book deal after coming to the attention of Stormzy's manager\n\nThe first novel to be published by Stormzy's #Merky Books has scooped a prestigious £10,000 book award.\n\nDerek Owusu's That Reminds Me follows the life of a boy called K from foster care to his birth family in Tottenham.\n\nIt has won the Desmond Elliott Prize, which is given to the year's best debut novel in the UK and Ireland.\n\nAuthor Preti Taneja, who chaired the judges, said they were \"as shattered by the truths of the story as we were moved by the talent of its writer\".\n\nStormzy launched #Merky Books in 2018 to showcase writers \"from all different walks of life, especially those who may have never had the opportunity to get into the industry so early\".\n\nStormzy's memoir Rise Up was the first book published by his #Merky imprint in 2018\n\nOwusu, 32, did have a foothold in the industry, working part-time for #Merky's parent company Penguin Random House, and came to the attention of Stormzy's manager after editing a collection of essays titled Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space.\n\nThat Reminds Me is his first work of fiction and is described as a novel in verse. The overarching story of K's life mirrors the author's own, from being in foster care in Suffolk to moving in with his biological family in north London before being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.\n\nHe told BBC News why he created K as \"almost an alter ego\", how the publishing industry can improve on diversity, what Stormzy thinks of his book - and how he's also got the backing of Idris Elba.\n\nI had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and had a string of suicide attempts so I was put into a place called a recovery house - like a mental health facility.\n\nI was writing verses just to pass the time and eventually there was a narrative structure to them, and that's when I created K, as almost an alter ego of myself, to try to understand what had led to me being diagnosed and having this breakdown. So I put K through a series of life events that I thought would lead to somebody having a breakdown.\n\nHow autobiographical is it?\n\nAbout 20%. The majority of the life events that happen to K didn't happen to me. The similarities are that he's Ghanaian, he was in foster care, and obviously the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. But the details of his life are not details that are mine.\n\nDid writing the book help you understand yourself?\n\nI think it helped me understand other people and how I was relating to them, because I had to really put myself into the shoes of K when he's interacting with other fictionalised characters, and then think, how would that person react to this?\n\nIt made me get a better understanding of the way I interact with other people, especially when I'm presenting symptoms. I'm more aware now of how it could impact on another person.\n\nDo you know what Stormzy thinks of the book?\n\nYeah, he came to the launch and said he likes the book. He's a very, very nice guy. He was just like, 'I think you're an amazing writer and I'm very happy to publish the book.'\n\nOwusu is now writing a book tracking his attempt to get his brother into reading novels\n\nWhat did it mean to be shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize?\n\nI've been an avid reader for so long and always follow prizes. When the email came through that I'd been longlisted, I was really blown away. I didn't write this to get published, I wrote it for myself.\n\nAnd an award like the Desmond Elliott, they're really trying to give debut novelists a platform to continue writing. The National Centre for Writing [which runs the award] is about giving writers platforms and opportunities. What they stand for is really important and something I'm really passionate about as well - getting more young boys reading and showing them they can write a book if they put their mind to it.\n\nYou recently signed a letter as a member of the new Black Writers' Guild calling for change in the publishing industry - what does the industry need to improve in terms of race?\n\nWhere to begin? You can't make promises about publishing more books by black authors if you don't have any black commissioners.\n\nUnconscious bias plays a part in everybody's life. You read a novel, you understand the themes, they're familiar to you, the person looks like you or is the same background - you're more likely to like that than a book where the cultural references go completely over your head. That doesn't mean it's a bad book, though.\n\nA lot of commissioning editors don't recognise their own unconscious bias. Actually it starts with agents and the books that they're getting in. There needs to be more people from more diverse backgrounds picking up these books, commissioning these books, and then editing these books.\n\nYour next book is based on your attempts to encourage your younger brother to read novels - how did that come about?\n\nI discovered literature so late in life - I was 24 - and as clichéd as it sounds it changed my life. After discovering it, I felt like I should be trying to get other people to read and experience this thing that happened to me.\n\nI realised I was talking to so many people about books but I wasn't talking to my brother. So I turned my attention to him and said, 'I really think you'll benefit from this'. I didn't like where his life was at that time, and I thought reading a book would change that.\n\nHe has said to me he wants one book to change his life. I said, 'You have to read many books and usually it's an accumulated effect'. So I chose 12 books that I think will help you. He was umming and aahing, so I said, 'I'll give you £50 per book', and he was, 'All right'.\n\nIs it right that Idris's production company has bought the rights to that?\n\nThey've optioned it, yeah, and I think they are hoping to turn it into a TV series. That would be very exciting.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "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.", "Opening the doors to the UK to as many as around 3 million people from Hong Kong is a big step.\n\nNo one in Westminster tonight would expect anything like that number will move here, to escape the increasingly fraught reality of life in Hong Kong. But the decision is important, and not just for those to whom the UK may now provide sanctuary.\n\nIt reflects immediate concern in the government about what has been happening on the streets in that packed, throbbing territory.\n\nBut the decision was also fuelled by the legacy of British control there. This kind of citizenship was not offered, despite some calls to do so, at the time when Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.\n\nRemember that handover took place on the basis that its partial democracy and market economy would be respected. But that's been eroded so visibly in recent years.\n\nIt was notable not one MP in the House of Commons spoke against the next phase of Britain and Hong Kong's story being to offer a home to islanders here. Government's decisions are still affected by choices made decades ago.\n\nThe decision also reflects a souring of the atmosphere around relations between the UK and China.\n\nIt's not that long ago that former Prime Minister David Cameron rolled out not just the red carpet, but the Queen's golden carriage to welcome the Chinese Premier.\n\nWe rarely saw the then Chancellor George Osborne happier than on visits to China extolling the virtues of trade.\n\nThe balance between the opportunities of doing business and objecting to China's human rights policy was awkward then.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping with Queen Elizabeth II at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace in 2015\n\nBut the dilemma is more acute, not least because a group of Tory MPs, including some up and coming key figures on the backbenches, have joined forces with some of the more traditional 'awkward squad' to oppose close links with China regularly and loudly.\n\nMost prominently they have been concerned about whether the UK government should allow the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei a place in building the 5G phone network.\n\nSeveral of those involved in trying to change the government's minds are increasingly confident that Number 10 will soon find a way of rolling back the firm's participation in the project.\n\nAs a group they have organised, and they have some strength in numbers, as a previous rebellion suggested.\n\nOne of those involved in the manoeuvrings suggested the government had to be pushed to act on Hong Kong.\n\nChina is a vast economic power that can't be ignored. There are areas, such as trade and climate where ministers are keen to cooperate.\n\nAnd the prime minister, asked just yesterday about it, said that: \"The position is very, very simple: I'm not going to get drawn into Sinophobia because I'm not a Sinophobe.\"\n\nBut the characteristics of the relationship between the two countries have definitely changed.\n\nIn the words of one government source today, the UK approach has not hardened, but \"China's more aggressive preferences have been revealed.\"\n\nA group of Conservative MPs have put pressure on the UK government about allowing the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei a place in building the 5G phone network\n\nThe government's promise to Hong Kongers comes at a junction in our immigration policy.\n\nIt was only yesterday that MPs backed the Immigration Bill that ends freedom of movement - the product of a referendum that was fought on the concept of controlling immigration which, for many voters meant getting the numbers down.\n\nIsn't it a contradiction therefore that the government has sent out this message to potentially several million to come to our shores?\n\nA clash for many perhaps, depending how and when people from Hong Kong arrive here.\n\nBut for ministers, the decision is a testament of the principle that the UK out of the EU can make its own decisions about who arrives and who leaves.", "After the death of US financier Jeffrey Epstein in jail, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nHer trial on sex trafficking and other charges begins this week in New York City, where she has been jailed since her arrest in July 2020.\n\nShe faces charges in the US after being arrested by the FBI on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nFour charges relate to the years 1994-97 when she was, according to the indictment, among Epstein's closest associates and also in an \"intimate relationship\" with him. Two other charges - of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor - came in an amended indictment and relate to the period 2001 and 2004.\n\nAnother two charges are allegations of perjury in 2016. She has pleaded not guilty on all charges.\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August 2019 as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nDetails of the allegations against Ms Maxwell emerged earlier in documents unsealed by a US judge in August 2019 in a 2015 defamation case.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of Epstein, has accused Ms Maxwell of recruiting her as a masseuse to the financier at the age of 15.\n\nShe sued Ms Maxwell in 2015 for defamation - a case which has since been settled - after the media heiress, daughter of the late newspaper tycoon, Robert Maxwell, said Ms Giuffre was a liar.\n\nThe daughter of a disgraced newspaper tycoon, Ms Maxwell (R) is a well-connected socialite\n\nAnother of Epstein's alleged victims, Sarah Ransome, has told BBC Panorama that Ms Maxwell worked closely with him.\n\nShe said: \"Ghislaine controlled the girls. She was like the madam. She was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation.\"\n\nMs Ransome said Ms Maxwell would visit Epstein on his private island in the Caribbean \"to make sure that the girls were doing what they were supposed to be doing\".\n\nShe added: \"She knew what Jeffrey liked. She worked and helped maintain Jeffrey's standard by intimidation, by intimidating the girls, so this was very much a joint effort.\"\n\nMs Maxwell has previously denied any involvement in or knowledge of Epstein's abuse.\n\nBorn on Christmas Day in 1961 outside Paris, Ms Maxwell is Oxford-educated and said to speak several languages,\n\nA well-connected socialite, she is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York (who was accused in the court papers of touching a woman at Jeffrey Epstein's US home, although the court subsequently struck out allegations against the duke).\n\nBuckingham Palace has said that \"any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors\" by the duke was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward, the Washington Post reports.\n\n\"She had an upbringing and taste and knew how to run a house and a boat and how to entertain,\" an acquaintance is quoted by the UK's Daily Telegraph as saying. \"You can't buy that. You can't buy access, either.\"\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator, the Post reports.\n\nMs Maxwell is the daughter of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, his ninth and youngest child.\n\nShe is said to have had a very close relationship with her late father, and he named his luxury yacht - the Lady Ghislaine - after her.\n\nGhislaine was said to be very close to her father, Robert Maxwell, who died nearly 30 years ago\n\nIt was near this yacht that his body was found in the sea off the Canary Islands in November 1991.\n\nAlthough a verdict of accidental drowning was recorded, the mystery surrounding the circumstances of his death was never cleared up.\n\nHe had succeeded in building a global publishing empire, but after his death, it emerged that he had taken money from pension funds of his Mirror Group Newspapers to keep his companies afloat and boost the share price.\n\nSoon after her father's death, Ms Maxwell left the UK to settle in America, where she worked in real estate, and not long after met Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nShe sold her Manhattan townhouse in 2016, and kept a low profile until she was arrested last July at her secluded mansion in the state of New Hampshire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US prosecutors have appealed for alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein to contact the FBI", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Airbus: \"Most people who live in the area, work here\"\n\nWhen the fortune of a town is so inextricably linked to one employer, any threat to jobs will have a \"devastating\" effect on the local community.\n\nAirbus is to Broughton what Hoover once was to Merthyr Tydfil, Ford to Bridgend and Tata Steel still is to Port Talbot.\n\nMore people are employed at the Airbus factory than live in Broughton itself.\n\nSo it is little wonder jobs losses are seen as a \"hammer blow\" to the area.\n\nThe company said it planned to cut 15,000 jobs in total, including 1,700 in its UK sites at Flintshire and Bristol, as it dealt with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"The majority of people living in the area work there so [job losses] are going to be a great shame to a lot of people. I have family working there, everyone is going to impacted,\" said one resident.\n\n\"I thought I had a job for life, I'm devastated,\" said worker Ross Leeding\n\nAnother added: \"It's a big part of the community, one of the main sources of jobs around here. So if anything happens it would have a big blow - devastating.\n\nOn the shop floor, the mood has been \"sombre\" since the news broke.\n\n\"People are shocked and the uncertainty over numbers is only adding to that,\" said worker Daz Reynolds, of the Unite union.\n\n\"People have families to feed and they want to know what their future looks like at Airbus. It's simple.\n\n\"This is going to have a devastating effect. There are highly-skilled workers here but also thousands of people in the supply chain in towns and villages across north-east Wales and Cheshire. Everyone knows someone who works with Airbus.\"\n\nAgency worker Ross Leeding, already on furlough, added: \"I wish they would tell us if we're being made redundant or not - not maybe. It's frustrating not to know.\n\n\"I'm devastated. I was happy here and thought I had a job for life here. I'm 60 years old now, so where am I going to get a job like this?\n\n\"There are others with kids, mortgages, loans who are worse off than me. It's the bread and butter for Broughton.\"\n\nAirbus employs more than 6,000 people at its site in Broughton\n\nThe aftershocks from job losses are likely to ripple out across the entire region, to suppliers and the local economy that has been built around the success and size of Airbus.\n\nBen Francis, policy chairman at the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"extremely worrying news\".\n\nHe added: \"The importance of Airbus to the north Wales economy cannot be overstated. There are families, communities, and small businesses who rely on Airbus, as does the wider regional economy.\"\n\nThomas Smith runs the nearby New Glynne Arms inn that relies on Airbus staff for trade.\n\n\"We rely on passing trade so if you take away thousands of people, it's terrifying to think what might happen,\" he said.\n\n\"It's going to affect the local economy big time because so many work there. You just don't know what the future is.\"\n\nLocal businesses will also be badly affected, said local pub landlord Thomas Smith\n\nWrexham MS Lesley Griffiths said the effects would be felt \"throughout\" the local supply chain and Flintshire council leader Ian Roberts said the factory was of \"immense\" importance for the county.\n\n\"It's devastating for Flintshire and the wider region - 50% of the workers come from outside the county,\" said Mr Roberts.\n\nThere is concern that job losses will not only affect current staff, but young people in the area.\n\nColeg Cambria in Connah's Quay offers engineering students an undergraduate apprenticeship with Airbus.\n\nThousands more people are employed in the supply chain around the Broughton site\n\nDavid Jones, a former chief executive of the college, said the scheme was the biggest of its kind in the UK with 150 new apprentices joining each year.\n\n\"With older people and other workers that receive training, around 1,000 people are linked with Airbus training in Coleg Cambria and other colleges and universities,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"The goal now must be to win the contract to build a new type of wing that will be developed over the next five years.\n\n\"There are huge developments in the aerospace sector, meaning that wings will be produced in completely different ways to today.\n\n\"Whoever manages to secure that next contract, it will be hugely important regarding the long term future of wing building in north east Wales.\"", "Liam Gallagher, Dua Lipa and Sir Paul McCartney are among 1,500 artists who have signed an open letter calling for support for the UK's live music scene.\n\nEd Sheeran, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay also signed the letter to the culture secretary warning of the impact of Covid-19 on venues and musicians.\n\nIt says the music industry faces \"mass insolvencies\", with gigs and festivals unlikely to return until 2021.\n\nThe organisers said there had already been \"hundreds of redundancies\".\n\nJob losses, across a range of connected professions, have been reported by venues, agencies and promoters, they said.\n\nThe letter to Oliver Dowden reads: \"With no end to social distancing in sight or financial support from government yet agreed, the future for concerts and festivals and the hundreds of thousands of people who work in them looks bleak.\"\n\nIt calls for a \"clear, conditional timeline\" for reopening venues without social distancing, as well as financial support and a VAT exemption on ticket sales.\n\nSkepta was also among the signatories\n\nEric Clapton, Beverley Knight, Little Mix and Skepta are among the other stars to have added their names to the campaign, entitled Let the Music Play.\n\nIn an accompanying statement, Dua Lipa said she was \"proud\" to have worked her way up through small clubs, theatres, arenas and festivals.\n\nShe said: \"But the possibility for other emerging British artists to take the same path is in danger if the industry doesn't receive much needed government support in the interim period before all the various venues, festivals and promoters are ready and able to operate independently again.\"\n\nFormer Oasis frontman Gallagher added: \"Amazing gigs don't happen without an amazing team behind the stage, but they'll all be out of jobs unless we can get back out there doing what we love.\"\n\nIn response, a spokeswoman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said the government was \"already providing unprecedented financial assistance which many music organisations and artists have taken advantage of\", pointing to loans and the job retention scheme.\n\n\"We recognise that this pandemic has created major challenges for the sector and are working closely with them to develop comprehensive guidance for performances and events to return as soon as possible,\" she said.\n\nMusic venues have been closed since mid-March, and the government has not given a date for the return of live performances.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the culture secretary said he was looking to provide the music industry with a \"clear roadmap back\" and fixed dates for when venues could reopen.\n\nMr Dowden added: \"These involve v difficult decisions about the future of social distancing, which we know has saved lives.\"\n\nResearch carried out by Media Insight Consulting and published alongside the open letter suggested the UK music industry contributed £4.5bn to the UK economy in 2019 and supported 210,000 jobs.\n\nBen Lovett of Mumford & Sons, who also runs the Omeara and Lafayette venues in London, told BBC News that music \"defines our culture\".\n\nThe multi-instrumentalist said: \"When people think about Britishness I hope that they're talking these days about Stormzy through to the Beatles.\n\n\"People kind of assume it is a just a self-fulfilling industry that doesn't really need much help - rock and grime and pop - but actually it needs help sometimes and right now it really does.\"\n\nAs well as being in the Brit Award-winning band, Lovett is chief executive of the Venue Group, which employs 210 people.\n\nHe said he was \"sad\" and \"shocked\" to have already had conversations with people who have now decided \"they're not going to be a musician any more\".\n\nYoung British artists will have less chance to forge their careers, as potential future Glastonbury headliners, if they can't gain experience and earn money playing in small venues, he warned. As the likes of Stormzy, Sheeran, Florence + the Machine, and his own band did.\n\nHe said: \"Losing 2020 and not giving them support and not finding a way to protect the industry means that you fast forward to 2023, and I really think we're going to be scratching our heads being like, 'Oh, isn't this the same as we saw last year?'\n\n\"There won't be anyone coming through. There won't be any new talent.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "With travel restrictions and tight budgets many British people are choosing to holiday at home this year. The Lake District is seeing a surge in holiday bookings, as Sarah Corker reports.", "Airbus has two UK sites, in Flintshire in Wales and Filton near Bristol\n\nAerospace giant Airbus says it plans to cut 15,000 jobs as it deals with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt will cut 1,700 jobs in the UK, along with thousands more in Germany, Spain and elsewhere.\n\nThe move is subject to talks with unions which have opposed compulsory redundancies.\n\nThe Unite union said the Airbus announcement was \"another act of industrial vandalism\" against the UK aerospace sector.\n\nSome 134,000 people work for Airbus worldwide, with around a tenth of them in the UK.\n\nThe firm said the UK cuts would fall only on the commercial aircraft division at its two sites at Broughton in Flintshire and Filton, Bristol.\n\nMore details of the job losses and how they will break down between the two giant factories will come at the end of the week after talks with unions.\n\nHowever, Unite said it expected 1,116 manufacturing jobs and 611 office-based jobs to go, shrinking Airbus's UK workforce by 15%.\n\nThese cuts were inevitable. The only question was just how severe the pain would be.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has been little short of catastrophic for the airline industry. At one point in April, global air traffic was down by more than 90%.\n\nWhen planes aren't flying, they aren't earning money. Yet they still need to be maintained and leasing costs or loans still need to be paid.\n\nThe result? Airlines are struggling to survive and simply can't afford to take on new planes right now. And that, of course, means Airbus has had to curb production.\n\nAirbus has delayed these cuts and has made full use of support from governments. But ultimately it had little choice.\n\nAnd the pain being felt in places such as Broughton, Toulouse and Hamburg will echo through the entire supply chain.\n\nThe firm expects to make the cuts by summer 2021, but hopes the majority of redundancies will be voluntary or through early retirement of staff.\n\nThe company warned in April that it was \"bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed\" as it struggled with the impact of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said on Tuesday that production had dropped by 40% in recent months, and that it did not expect air traffic to get back to pre-pandemic levels until 2023 at the earliest.\n\n\"Airbus is facing the gravest crisis this industry has ever experienced,\" said chief executive Guillaume Faury. \"The measures we have taken so far have enabled us to absorb the initial shock of this global pandemic.\n\n\"Now, we must ensure that we can sustain our enterprise and emerge from the crisis as a healthy, global aerospace leader, adjusting to the overwhelming challenges of our customers.\"\n\nNews of the cuts comes as the international aviation industry reels from the impact of the pandemic. On Tuesday, EasyJet said it would close three UK bases and cut about 2,000 staff.\n\nAnd Reuters reported that Air France/KLM was targeting more than 6,500 job cuts over the next two years.\n\nJim McMahon, Labour's shadow transport secretary, called for more government support in the UK.\n\n\"Labour has consistently called for an extension to the furlough in the most impacted industries, and a sectoral deal that supports the whole aviation industry including securing jobs and protecting the supply chain, while continuing to press for higher environmental standards.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We understand this will be a difficult time for Airbus's employees and their families, and we stand ready to support anyone affected in any way we can.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with the sector to ensure firms are able to rebuild as the civil aviation market recovers.\"", "The worldwide economic impact of the coronavirus has been seismic and the job losses are starting to crash on the shores of the UK with increasing frequency and severity.\n\nThe 1,700 job losses at Airbus had a grim inevitability to them, given the destruction of demand in the aviation industry.\n\nDemand for air travel in April and May was down more than 90% and normality is not expected to return for up to three years - maybe never for the more lucrative business class travel.\n\nBA, Easyjet, Ryanair and Rolls Royce have already announced 20,000 job losses between them, so Airbus was never going to emerge unscathed.\n\nThe travel wipeout has seen SSP, the owner of stalwart transport hub tenants Upper Crust and Café Ritazza, cut 5,000 posts.\n\nWe already know that the number of workers on UK payrolls shrank more than 600,000 between March and May, according to the ONS.\n\nThat looks like the thin end of a very big wedge as the government's unprecedented job support scheme tapers off, with employers being asked to share the burden of the cost from the end of July to its withdrawal at the end of October.\n\nThe European head of a large investment bank told me this morning that one of their key concerns was the \"fraying of the social fabric in the UK\", thanks to a toxic cocktail of mass redundancies which will hit the low-wage jobs the UK has excelled in creating.\n\nEmployers are discovering that with increased use of technology, they can do many things with fewer people.\n\nThe march towards a more automated world has been accelerated by the virus - and the UK, with its high levels of employment in lower-skilled work, has further to fall compared to others, he said. The divide between the digital skills \"haves\" and \"have-nots\" will widen.\n\nThe chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, has provided some relief to the gloom by saying the hit will not be as bad as expected and the recovery faster, but it's fair to say that his is not a mainstream view.\n\nThe reason the government has thrown tens of billions of pounds at trying to hold back the waves of unemployment is they realise that it does long-lasting damage to demand in the economy.\n\nThere is no doubt that the furlough scheme helped delay the impact, but this barrage of job cut announcements suggests the government is now struggling to turn the tide.\n\nBoris Johnson described the virus as \"still circling like a shark in our waters\". It was an odd metaphor to use, considering the PM has previously praised the Mayor in Jaws for keeping the beaches open.\n\nOne thing seems certain: to combat the huge economic shock whose repercussions are being felt in airlines, factories and now High Streets, the government will need a bigger boat than the £5bn of previously announced spending accelerated yesterday.\n\nThe pressure is now on Captain Sunak.", "Almost a quarter of the Airbus jobs in Broughton are being lost\n\nA total of 1,730 jobs will be cut at two of aerospace giant Airbus's UK factories, the company has confirmed.\n\nIt is part of plans to axe 15,000 jobs worldwide in response to the hit it has taken during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was \"deeply concerned\" about the 1,435 jobs being cut at Broughton, Flintshire and urged the UK government to \"get to grips\" with the economic crisis.\n\nA further 295 jobs will go in Filton, Bristol.\n\nPreviously, the company said the jobs would go by summer 2021.\n\nAirbus, which employs 6,080 workers at Broughton, hopes the majority will come via voluntary redundancies or staff retiring early.\n\nBut another 500 agency workers who were furloughed will not be returning.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"This split reflects the significant impact the Covid crisis has had on the UK's commercial aircraft manufacturing activities, which are concentrated in Broughton.\n\n\"Airbus will continue to meet regularly with its trade union partners in the UK in order to identify solutions that will help us implement this adaptation while minimising the social impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the company.\"\n\nSir Keir told a call with voters in Flintshire on Thursday evening he feared it was the beginning of an economic crisis \"the like of which we haven't seen for many, many years\".\n\n\"It's one of the reasons that we've been saying to the [UK] government, it is all very well saying build build build… but at the moment the thing that matters more than anything else is preserving jobs and having a laser-like focus on preserving and protecting jobs.\"\n\nOne of Airbus's senior vice presidents admitted \"it's going to be a difficult period,\" but added that the company remained \"confident in the future\" of the Broughton site.\n\nPaul McKinlay, head of major component told BBC Wales: \"If we didn't act, the viability and future of Airbus would be at stake. It's set at the right level, we believe, for when - we really hope - that recovery starts to come in two to three years, that we're ready for that brighter future.\"\n\nHe welcomed support given to the industry and company by both the Welsh and UK governments.\n\n\"With such devastating news and impact on our industry, any opportunity of support would be welcomed,\" he said.\n\n\"But I think if you look at the aviation sector and how much it's been devastated by this dreadful virus then I think there's quite a strong case for why the aviation sector needs support.\"\n\nBaroness Morgan said it was \"a larger number of jobs than we feared may happen\" and the Welsh Government would be \"working with the UK government to make sure that we keep on pressing to see if we can get more specific support for the sector\".\n\nThe cuts in Broughton represent almost a quarter of the workforce. Filton currently employs 3,200 people.\n\nThe job losses in Broughton have been described as \"a hammer blow\" for the area\n\nLlyr Gruffydd, North Wales Member of the Senedd, said it was \"gut-wrenching\" that 1,435 jobs were being cut at Broughton.\n\nThe Unite union described it as \"another act of industrial vandalism\" against the UK aerospace sector.\n\nIts regional secretary for Wales, Peter Hughes, said no one ever thought it would be \"this bad.\"\n\n\"Yesterday when the announcement was 'over 1,700,' we knew that was bad, and then today over 1,400 from here, (it) is just a massive number,\" he said.\n\n\"Especially when you think that's probably about a third of the workforce.\n\nMr Hughes said the union would be pushing for no compulsory redundancies and called on the UK Government to \"make sure they deliver for Welsh workers.\"\n\nThere would be \"a domino effect\".\n\n\"This is going to knock all of the other dominoes down,\" he said.\n\n\"There's going to be massive knock-on effects.\n\n\"Every one worker here is six in the supply chain, you can do the sums yourself.\"\n\nSome 134,000 people work for Airbus worldwide, with about 10% of them in the UK.\n\nThe factory in Broughton makes wings for the Airbus A380 - the world's largest passenger plane.\n\nThe Filton site is responsible for wing assembly and equipping the Airbus A400M, a military transport plane.\n\nIn April, the company warned it was \"bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed\" as it struggled with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said on Tuesday that production had dropped by 40% in recent months and it did not expect air traffic to get back to pre-pandemic levels until 2023 at the earliest.\n\nOn Tuesday, EasyJet announced it had started consultations on plans to close bases at Stansted, Southend and Newcastle, with Unite saying nearly 1,300 UK crew members faced losing their jobs.\n\nThe Airbus A400M is equipped at the company's Filton site\n\nLeader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Jane Dodds, said: \"Airbus is a huge part of north Wales' economy and provides thousands of well-paid, high-skilled jobs. This announcement is a real blow for Broughton and surrounding communities.\n\n\"We need to do all we can to support those who face losing their job at this difficult time. I hope both the UK and Welsh governments will respond quickly to put additional support in place.\"\n\nDelyn MP Rob Roberts called Airbus \"a vital part of the economy in our part of the country, and I am therefore deeply concerned for workers at the plant at Broughton, their families, and our wider community\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson says the new law \"violates Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy\"\n\nUp to three million Hong Kong residents are to be offered the chance to settle in the UK and ultimately apply for citizenship, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said Hong Kong's freedoms were being violated by a new security law and those affected would be offered a \"route\" out of the former UK colony.\n\nAbout 350,000 UK passport holders, and 2.6 million others eligible, will be able to come to the UK for five years.\n\nAnd after a further year, they will be able to apply for citizenship.\n\nBritish National Overseas Passport holders in Hong Kong were granted special status in the 1980s but currently have restricted rights and are only entitled to visa-free access to the UK for six months.\n\nUnder the government's plans, all British Overseas Nationals and their dependants will be given right to remain in the UK, including the right to work and study, for five years. At this point, they will be able to apply for settled status, and after a further year, seek citizenship.\n\nThe PM said Tuesday's passing of a new security law by the Hong Kong authorities was a \"clear and serious breach\" of the 1985 Sino-British joint declaration - a legally binding agreement which set out how certain freedoms would be protected for the 50 years after China assumed sovereignty in 1997.\n\n\"It violates Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy and threatens the freedoms and rights protected by the joint declaration,\" he said.\n\n\"We made clear that if China continued down this path we would introduce a new route for those with British National (Overseas) status to enter the UK, granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the UK and thereafter to apply for citizenship. And that is precisely what we will do now.\"\n\nForeign Office permanent secretary Sir Simon McDonald expressed the government's \"deep concern\" about the new law to China during a meeting with the country's ambassador Liu Xioming.\n\nThe UK government has been raising concerns about the national security law and very publicly trying to pressure Beijing into a change heart.\n\nThat has clearly failed - so ministers are now fulfilling their promise to allow some three million British Overseas Nationals to come to the UK. This is a significant move and the government wants to send a strong message.\n\nBut there will be more pressure now to rethink other elements of our relationship with China - not least the deal to allow Huawei to build parts of the UK's 5G structures.\n\nMany Tory MPs have been lobbying against that for some time - and this will only add to their concern.\n\nUpdating MPs on the details, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there would be no limit on numbers or quotas and the application process would be simple.\n\n\"This is a special, bespoke, set of arrangements developed for the unique circumstances we face and in light of our historic commitment to the people of Hong Kong,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Peston programme, Mr Raab acknowledged there \"would be little we could do to…cohesively force\" China to allow British Overseas Nationals to come to the UK.\n\nDowning Street said further details of the scheme will be detailed \"in due course\".\n\nIn the meantime, British National Overseas Passport holders in Hong Kong will be able to travel to the UK immediately, subject to standard immigration checks, the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThey will also will not face salary thresholds to gain their visas, he added.\n\nHong Kong's new national security law, which targets secession, subversion and terrorism with punishments up to life in prison, came into effect on Tuesday.\n\nI was born in Hong Kong before 1997, the year when Hong Kong was handed back to Chinese rule. That means I had a British National Overseas (BNO) passport as a child.\n\nWhen the news broke that BNO passport holders were eligible for British citizenship after living and working in the UK for five years, and after spending another year of being granted settled status, many of my friends were excited. They say at least there's a way out for Hong Kongers after the national security law came into force.\n\nBut many questions remain. Currently there are 350,000 BNO passport holders, but about three million Hong Kong residents are eligible for BNO passports - and that doesn't appear to include dependants born after 1997.\n\nWill the UK be ready to take in so many Hong Kong residents? Will there be enough jobs? Will BNO passport holders have recourse to public funds? And will they be covered by the NHS?\n\nSome also say it's good that there's a lifeboat, but do they really want to leave their home?\n\nSeveral people have already been arrested under the new powers, including a man carrying a pro-independence flag as police used pepper spray to disperse some protesters gathered to mark 23 years since British rule ended.\n\nCritics say it effectively puts an end to the \"one country, two systems\" principle enshrined in the Joint Declaration. China has rejected criticism of its actions, saying they are internal matters.\n\nBritish National Overseas Passports do not confer nationality or the automatic right to live and work in the UK\n\nThe UK government has come under growing pressure to take a firm line with Beijing from MPs, who are worried about China's increasingly assertive role regionally and the security implications of Chinese firm Huawei's involvement in the UK's 5G network.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Raab said he wanted a positive relationship with China but Beijing had \"broken its promise\" to the people of Hong Kong through its \"flagrant assault\" on freedom of speech and right of peaceful assembly.\n\nLabour said it welcomed the government's action but said there must be no discrimination on those allowed into the UK on the basis of income or other factors.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the UK also had a responsibility to consider the welfare of those who were not able to re-locate or who wished to stay in Hong Kong.\n\nShe urged the government to work with its international partners, through the UN, to force an inquiry into police brutality in Hong Kong and also called for the UK to re-examine its commercial relationship with China.\n\n\"For too long in relation to China we've had no strategy at home and no strategy abroad. I hope he can give us a commitment today that this marks the start of a very different era,\" she said.\n\nAre you a Hong Kong resident with a British National Overseas passport? Share your views, plans and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The US economy created jobs at a record pace in June as firms took on more staff after the coronavirus downturn.\n\nPayrolls surged 4.8 million, the most since the Labor Department began keeping records in 1939, helped by the reopening of factories and restaurants.\n\nIt follows May's jobs rebound, when 2.5 million joined the labour market, and comes after consumer spending data saw a jump in activity.\n\nBut a recent spike in Covid-19 cases has raised fears for continued growth.\n\nJune's rise is far higher than the three million jobs that many economists forecast would be created last month.\n\nHowever, separate Labor Department data also showed that in the week ending 27 June, initial claims for unemployment fell only slightly, to 1.43 million, on the previous week.\n\nCompanies, including in populous states such as California, Florida and Texas, plan to scale back or delay reopening because of the fresh coronavirus outbreaks, which would hold back hiring.\n\nThis week, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged the rebound in activity, saying the economy had \"entered an important new phase\". But he warned that continuing growth would depend on \"our success in containing the virus\".\n\nAnd despite two months in a row of jobs growth, employment is still about 15 million below its pre-pandemic level, with the jobless rate just above 11%.\n\nThe US Labor Department said the leisure and hospitality sector added more than two million jobs, while retail added 740,000.\n\nThe resumption of routine medical appointments also helped, with healthcare employment rising 568,000. The reopening of factories meant manufacturing employment continued to rebound, rising by 356,000, driven mostly by a 195,000 gain in the car industry.\n\nThe surge in job creation in the past two months has been spurred by the government's Paycheck Protection Program, which gives businesses loans that can be partially forgiven if used for wages. But those funds are drying up.\n\nMichael Pearce, senior US economist at Capital Economics, said he expects \"the recovery from here will be a lot bumpier and job gains far slower on average\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump said the job numbers were 'spectacular'\n\nAccording to a report by the Reuters news agency, analysts at investment Goldman Sachs have estimated that US states accounting for half the population have paused or partially reversed their reopening plans, with limits reimposed most often on bars, restaurants and the size of gatherings.\n\nMoody's Analytics economist Sophia Koropeckyj said the June jobs surge was \"bittersweet\", as the rise in the number of cases was \"diminishing the likelihood of a continued V-shaped recovery\".\n\nShe \"expects that the rebound in employment will fizzle and payrolls will flatten out until a vaccine is widely available\".\n\nDespite the caution, Wall Street share markets rose at the open, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq index jumping more than 1% to a record 10,268.7 points.\n\nUS President Donald Trump called the job numbers \"spectacular\" and said they proved the economy was \"roaring back\".\n\n\"These are historic numbers in a time when a lot of people would have wilted, but we didn't wilt,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nHowever, Mike Bell, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management in London, said the resurgence of coronavirus cases in some cities meant it was \"too soon to say for certain that this recovery in employment sounds the all-clear for investors\".", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nAn inquest has been opened into the death of Aintree chairman Rose Paterson, who died aged 63 last week near her Shropshire home.\n\nThe hearing was told her body was found in a search of woodland after her husband, the Conservative MP Owen Paterson, had called police.\n\nHe contacted officers on the evening of 23 June after she had not been seen since about 22:00 BST the previous day.\n\nPolice say there are no suspicious circumstances regarding the death.\n\nIn a statement on 24 June, Owen Paterson 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\"Rose and I were married for 40 happy years. She was a wonderful, caring wife, mother and grandmother,\" he said.\n\nThe couple married in 1980 and had two sons and a daughter.\n\nA minute's silence has been held at race meetings in her memory and that of Grand National-winning jockey Liam Treadwell, whose death was announced on 24 June.\n\nRose Paterson, 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\nHer husband is MP for North Shropshire and a former Northern Ireland secretary.\n\nThe inquest was opened and adjourned until 22 September.", "Wings for all the Airbus commercial planes are made in Wales\n\nPlans to cut 1,700 UK Airbus jobs have been described as \"utterly devastating\" by a Welsh minister.\n\nEconomy, Transport and North Wales Minister Ken Skates called on the UK government to take \"decisive action\" to support the flight sector.\n\nMr Skates said a \"significant share\" of the job losses were expected at Broughton, in Flintshire.\n\nThe company said it planned to cut 15,000 jobs in total as it dealt with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe site in Broughton makes wings for the Airbus A380, which is the world's largest passenger plane.\n\nMr Skates said \"compulsory action\" at the Broughton site, which employs 6,000, could not be ruled out.\n\nHe said within the next three weeks he would be convening a high level summit to discuss the future of the aerospace, automotive and manufacturing sector and he would be pressing the UK government to take part.\n\nThe minister added it was \"vital\" the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak \"takes the lead\", calling for an \"evolution\" of the furlough scheme to support a shorter working week.\n\nKen Skates called on the UK government to take \"decisive action\" to save jobs at Airbus in Broughton\n\n\"Nobody should be under any illusion about the impact covid is having on aerospace, a critical part of the Welsh economy,\" Mr Skates said.\n\n\"The sector is in crisis and the UK government needs to take swift and decisive action now to save the industry and its supply chain.\n\n\"The alarm bells have been sounding for weeks and we need urgent steps at a UK level to prevent this crisis becoming even worse.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart told Radio Wales: \"There's this idea that there hasn't been much UK government involvement, but there has been £10bn worth so far [in the aviation industry] and we'll keep doing that because we want it to survive…\n\n\"I spoke to [Airbus] yesterday or the day before and I have done throughout this crisis….\n\n\"There is a role for Welsh Government in this too, don't forget they protect their devolved areas very carefully… I'm looking forward to hearing what the first minister is going to do, what Ken Skates is going to do and what their role is in this rather than complain about the UK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, at Prime Minister's Questions in Westminster, Cardiff South and Penarth MP Stephen Doughty asked what Boris Johnson was doing to help workers who \"don't want to hear slogans\".\n\nThe prime minister said there was a \"£600bn plan for investment\" in jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Airbus: \"Most people who live in the area, work here\"\n\nAt the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Mr Skates said ministers would not \"abandon\" Airbus workers and would do all they could to help.\n\n\"This cannot - and will not - be the beginning of the end for Airbus at Broughton,\" he added.\n\nFlintshire council leader Ian Roberts said he would \"like to hear assurances that there will be a two-government approach to this\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"Too often governments blame each other.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford responded, saying he would \"definitely agree that all levels of government will need to work together very closely\".\n\nHe said it was what happened when Ford announced it was closing its engine plant in Bridgend last year.\n\n\"We will need to mobilise exactly the same sort of effort,\" he said.\n\nUnite Wales Regional Secretary Peter Hughes urged the UK government to act: \"If the UK government does not step in now to ensure the support is there for Airbus to get through this crisis, the consequences for Wales could be catastrophic.\"\n\nHe said the union would \"not accept any proposal that involves compulsory redundancy for our members\".\n\nHe called on Airbus to \"hold their nerve and step back from implementing their plan\".\n\nMore details of the job losses and how they will break down between the two giant factories will come at the end of the week after talks with unions.\n\nThe firm expects to make the cuts by summer 2021, but hopes the majority of redundancies will be voluntary or through early retirement of staff.\n\nMr Skates said his thoughts were with workers and their families.\n\n\"As a Welsh Government we will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the company, its workforce, the unions and the communities impacted by this,\" he said.\n\nAirbus employs more than 6,000 people at its site in Broughton\n\nPlaid Cymru's Llyr Gruffydd warned two-thirds of the 1,700 job losses could be in Broughton.\n\nThe Member of the Senedd for North Wales said workers had told him that they expected to potentially lose 1,100 jobs.\n\nHe said Airbus supported another three local jobs for every one at the firm.\n\n\"We are talking about 25,000 dependent on Airbus in Broughton for their work,\" he said.\n\nIn a joint statement, a group of Conservative MPs with constituencies in north Wales said the announcement was \"immensely worrying for local employees\".\n\nWrexham MP Sarah Atherton, Clwyd South MP Simon Baynes, Ynys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie, Vale of Clwyd MP James Davies, Clwyd West MP David Jones, Aberconwy MP Robin Millar and Delyn MP Rob Roberts said: \"We have spoken to Airbus and will continue to work closely with the company, trade unions and both the UK and Welsh governments to do everything we can to support Airbus' workers, their families and the wider community.\"\n\nThey said the UK government had provided \"significant support to help Airbus face the challenges that have emerged as a result of this pandemic\".", "More than 160 people have died after a landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar.\n\nA wave of mud triggered by heavy rain engulfed those collecting stones in the Hpakant area of Kachin state.\n\nMyanmar is the world's biggest source of jade but its mines have seen numerous accidents, many involving people who scavenge for stones.", "Dotty has announced she's leaving BBC Radio 1Xtra after six years.\n\nThe DJ told listeners her departure will be at the end of July, and that she \"wanted to end on a high note\".\n\n\"This week marks my four year anniversary on The 1Xtra Breakfast Show and it has been the most incredible experience of my life,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"After almost 1,000 early mornings, I think it's finally time for me to turn off my alarm clock and rest.\"\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\nDotty, whose real name is Ashley Charles, first arrived at the station in 2014 and has since hosted a number of shows from the Saturday 4-7pm show to the weekday 1-4pm slot before getting the breakfast gig.\n\nIn July 2016 she took over the reins of The 1Xtra Breakfast Show - being the first solo female to host the show in the station's history.\n\nIn that time since she's interviewed the likes of Will Smith, Stormzy and Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nAnd earlier this year Dotty won best music breakfast show at the Radio Academy awards.\n\nShe announced: \"I'm sitting here after six years and I feel like I climbed to the top of the mountain.\n\n\"With love in my heart and a bit of a lump in my throat it is time to say goodbye to 1Xtra.\"\n\nGreg James, who presents the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from a few studios away, says he's \"sad\" to see Dotty go.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Greg 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\nDotty's last show will be on Thursday 30 July, with the station currently auditioning for who will take over.\n\nHer producer Robby Williams, with whom she hosts the podcast Too Rude for Radio, is also leaving the station.\n\nNadia Jae will take the reigns while a replacement is found.\n\nMark Strippel, Head of Programmes at 1Xtra, says: \"Dotty is an incredible and unique talent and will always be part of the 1Xtra family.\n\n\"I speak on behalf of everyone at the station when I say that we'll miss her loads, and thank her for every ounce of passion and commitment she has put into 1Xtra!\"\n\nThere have been a number of standout moments over the past few years that have led to Dotty's show being crowned the best music breakfast show in 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. Skip twitter post 3 by BBC Radio 1Xtra This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of those have been the interviews she's conducted - with two in particular standing out.\n\n\"I wanna talk to you about something which... I wasn't sure I was going to ask you about,\" Dotty said to Stormzy on the morning his latest album, Heavy Is The Head, was released.\n\nShe was talking about Stormzy's break-up with Maya Jama, and it led to an honest conversation that Stormzy might not have been so comfortable having with another presenter. At one point they both looked close to tears.\n\nOn the other end of the spectrum was the interview with Wiley last year where the grime godfather blasted Ed Sheeran as a \"culture vulture\".\n\nIt again probably wouldn't have been so raw - and hilarious - had somebody else conducted the interview. Dotty was able to challenge Wiley because of the relationship they have.\n\nAlong the way have also been repeat interviews with the likes of Kevin Hart, and chats with The Rock, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Janet Jackson and Jorja Smith.\n\nAnd regular features like Trashbag Tuesday - where Dotty gives a monologue about something that's been getting on her nerves and puts it in the bin - have helped propel the 1Xtra Breakfast Show to its highest-ever listening figures.\n\nHer presenting style could probably be best summed up in a quote she gave the BBC a few years ago.\n\n\"When I first started on radio, I wasn't trying to be like any other presenter. I wanted to be the anti-presenter.\n\n\"So where your traditional presenter would say, 'wasn't that a brilliant song', I'd rather be the person that says, 'well, that song is six out of 10' - you know, just be honest. And I thought maybe my thing can be that I'm honest, and say what people are thinking.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None The rise and rise of 1Xtra's A.Dot", "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\nIn the first evening Downing Street briefing for more than a week, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson stressed the importance of all children once again attending school in England from September. Earlier, the government published guidance on measures to ensure that return. Speaking alongside Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer for England, Mr Williamson said it was important not to \"underestimate the value that our children going back to school brings, not just them but the whole of society\". He added: \"That is why we cannot sit back and cannot be in a position where we just say children cannot go back to school.\"\n\nFace coverings will become mandatory in shops in Scotland by the end of next week, Nicola Sturgeon announced today. Non-essential shops have already reopened in Scotland, with bars and restaurants due to open up again later this month. The first minister said the 2m physical distancing rule would be eased for some premises when the country enters the next phase of its routemap on 10 July. And she said face coverings would be mandatory in shops from that date.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic continues, High Street restaurant chains Café Rouge and Bella Italia have now gone into administration. Owners Casual Dining Group said 91 outlets will close immediately and 1,900 of the firm's 6,000 staff will lose their jobs. Administrators Alix Partners are seeking offers for all or parts of the remaining business.\n\nPM Boris Johnson's father, Stanley Johnson, has been criticised for travelling to Greece during the coronavirus lockdown. The former Conservative MEP shared a number of pictures on his Instagram account on Wednesday, showing him arriving in Athens and at an airport in a mask. He told the Daily Mail he was in the country \"on essential business\" to ensure a property he rents out was \"Covid-proof\" before holidays restart - but has now come under fire for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nStanley Johnson posted pictures of his arrival in Athens on Wednesday\n\nIn April 2020, Sue Martin told the BBC how her husband Mal had contracted Covid-19 and his chances of survival were almost zero. Three months on, Mal has recovered - and his family recorded the moment he arrived back home, cheered on by his neighbours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friends and family line the street in an emotional homecoming\n\n...mandatory MOTs for vehicles in England, Scotland and Wales are being reintroduced from 1 August. We have five tips to get your car out of lockdown.\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.", "Primark is going ahead with plans to open five new stores in the US, France and Poland, despite economic uncertainty over the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes as other High Street brands cut costs and lay off staff.\n\nThe latest update from Primark owner AB Foods revealed the full impact of the lockdown on trade, with Primark's sales down 75% in the past quarter.\n\nNow though, all but eight of Primark's 375 stores are trading again.\n\nSince reopening, Primark shoppers have been buying up children's wear, leisure clothes and night wear. Summer fashion items such as shorts and T-shirts are also in high demand, while sales of men's formalwear and travel-related goods are down.\n\nShantel Brown and her daughter Tee went to Primark's Milton Keynes store the day it reopened\n\nEager customers lined up outside Primark stores on the day they reopened in England in mid-June.\n\nThat pent-up demand resulted in strong trade at the tills: the company has reported it sold more in the week ending 20 June than it did in the same week last year, across the UK and Ireland.\n\nPrimark says stores in regional areas and retail parks are doing well, but city centre stores continue to suffer from a lack of tourists and much lower footfall.\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\nNonetheless, the chain is optimistic about the next few months and has placed orders worth more than £800m for the coming autumn/winter season.\n\nPrimark's new US stores are planned for New Jersey and Florida, although the company says retail restrictions due to Covid-19 may push back their opening dates. The new openings will bring the total number of US stores to 11.\n\nIn France, Primark will be opening in the Belle Epine and Plaisir shopping centres in Paris. The company is also set to open its first new store in Poland, in the capital, Warsaw. In the coming months, Primark will also expand existing stores in Malaga and Lisbon.\n\nShoppers waited in the rain from 05:30 when Primark reopened in Glasgow on 29 June\n\nPrimark was hit particularly hard by the lockdown measures, as it does not have an online store or offer click-and-collect services for its products. Before the lockdown, it had been generating sales of £650m a month.\n\nCommenting on the financial results, Emma-Lou Montgomery from Fidelity Personal Investing said: \"Primark's full-year operating profit is expected to be a third of what it was last year, coming in at between £300m and £350m, but that's really no surprise when all 375 stores had closed by 22 March.\n\n\"The absence of an online shopping site didn't help and will have held it back when compared to its competitors. But as we have seen, with queues forming from 05:00 on reopening day - open the stores and shoppers will come,\" she said.\n\nPrimark's move to expand its global empire is in contrast with moves made by other retailers battling tough economic conditions brought on by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThis week, John Lewis announced it would be closing stores and cutting an unconfirmed number of staff, while Harrods, TM Lewin and Topshop's owner Arcadia announced hundreds of job cuts.", "Comments on slavery by David Starkey have been criticised for being racist.\n\nThe TV historian and author told an online show hosted by the conservative commentator Darren Grimes that slavery was not genocide because of the survival of \"so many damn blacks\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, former chancellor Sajid Javid said: \"David Starkey's racist comments are a reminder of the appalling views that still exist.\"\n\nStarkey has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nFitzwilliam College, part of Cambridge University, where Starkey holds an honorary fellowship, described his remarks as \"indefensible\".\n\n\"We support and promote freedom of speech in our academic community, but we have zero tolerance of racism,\" the college said in a statement on Thursday. \"Dr David Starkey's recent comments on slavery are indefensible.\"\n\nThey added: \"The matter of Dr Starkey's honorary fellowship will be considered by the Governing Body at its meeting next Wednesday.\"\n\nThe Mary Rose Trust said it was \"appalled\" by Starkey's comments, adding on Thursday evening they had accepted his resignation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Mary Rose This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Mary Rose\n\nStarkey made the offensive remarks in an episode of Grimes's YouTube show Reasoned, entitled \"Dr David Starkey: Black Lives Matter Aims To Delegitimate British History\".\n\nThe show's host tweeted on Thursday: \"I reject in the strongest possible terms what Dr Starkey said in that clip and so very wish I'd caught it at the time. I am still learning the ropes, I will be much more alert to challenging this kind of thing in future.\"\n\nIn it, Starkey said: \"Slavery was not genocide otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.\"\n\nHe also claimed that the Black Lives Matter protests, following the death of George Floyd, had been characterised by \"violence\" and \"victimhood\".\n\nHe described cancel culture and the pulling down of statues as \"deranged\".\n\nThe academic went on to discuss the links between slavery and the British Empire.\n\nStarkey said: \"As for the idea that slavery is this kind of terrible disease that dare not speak its name, it only dare not speak its name, Darren, because we settled it nearly 200 years ago.\"\n\n\"We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.\"\n\nStarkey's comments were heavily criticised by several social media users.\n\nNicholas Guyatt, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, tweeted: \"Can't speak for my employer but as someone who teaches history at Cambridge I'm ashamed of our connections with David Starkey and urge both the University and Fitzwilliam College to cut all ties with him.\"\n\nIt's not the first time Starkey has been involved in a public race row.\n\nIn 2011, the BBC received nearly 700 complaints about Starkey's claim that \"whites have become black\", during a Newsnight discussion about riots in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Duchess of Sussex felt \"unprotected by the Institution\" of the monarchy and was \"prohibited from defending herself\" against media reports while pregnant, according to court documents.\n\nThe papers form part of Meghan's legal action against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online, after articles reproduced extracts of a letter she sent to her father in 2018.\n\nThe duchess is suing for breach of privacy and copyright infringement.\n\nNo trial date has yet been set but details are continuing to emerge from legal negotiations between the parties in the case..\n\nThe court documents, seen by the BBC, reveal answers to questions posed by Associated Newspapers about the duchess's case.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now based in California, having stepped back as senior royals at the end of March.\n\nIn reference to interviews five of her friends gave about Meghan to a US magazine in February last year the documents said: \"The Claimant had become the subject of a large number of false and damaging articles by the UK tabloid media, specifically by the Defendant, which caused tremendous emotional distress and damage to her mental health.\n\n\"As her friends had never seen her in this state before, they were rightly concerned for her welfare, specifically as she was pregnant, unprotected by the Institution, and prohibited from defending herself.\"\n\nIn the court papers, Meghan's legal team also argued the security costs of her wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018 - which were paid for by the public purse - would have been far outweighed by the tourism revenue it generated which they put at more than £1bn.\n\nThe tourism revenue from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding was more than £1bn, according to the court documents\n\nThe duchess is seeking damages, which she has said will be donated to an anti-bullying charity, from Associated Newspapers for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act.\n\nFollowing a preliminary hearing in May, the judge struck out parts of Meghan's claim against the publisher, including allegations that it acted \"dishonestly\" by leaving out certain passages of the letter from her father.\n\nHe also dismissed Meghan's claims that the publisher deliberately \"stirred up\" issues between Meghan and her father, and that it had an \"agenda\" of publishing intrusive or offensive stories about her.\n\nAssociated Newspapers wholly denies the allegations and says it will hotly contest the case.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The shadow chancellor says the reward for workers after the coronavirus pandemic “cannot be a redundancy notice”.\n\nMore targeted economic support is required to prevent job losses in the wake of Covid-19, the shadow chancellor has said.\n\nIn a speech, Labour's Anneliese Dodds demanded that job retention schemes be extended in parts of the UK hit by local lockdowns.\n\nShe called on ministers to end a \"one-size-fits-all approach\" on help to shore up jobs.\n\nThe chancellor is due to outline an economic support package next week.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to bring forward infrastructure investment to create \"thousands of high-paid high-skilled jobs\".\n\nThe government's furlough scheme is paying 80% of the wages of more than nine million workers but is due to be pared back from August, and will finish at the end of October.\n\nMs Dodds' speech came after UK companies announced thousands of job cuts this week, with many firms cutting jobs now to reduce costs.\n\nFrom 1 August, employers will have to pay National Insurance and pension contributions for their staff.\n\nThey will then have to pay 10% of furloughed employees' salaries from September - rising to 20% in October.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Dodds blamed the latest round of job losses on the government \"refusing to shift from its one-size-fits-all approach\".\n\nShe added that workers in struggling sectors \"cannot and should not be treated the same way\" as those in sectors \"already back to full capacity\".\n\n\"To avoid the same flood of redundancy notices for workers within smaller companies later on this month, government must act now\".\n\nShe called on the chancellor to ensure projects announced as part of his recovery package are carbon neutral or help reduce emissions.\n\nMs Dodds also said jobs schemes should be extended in areas in localised lockdown, so that spikes in the virus in there \"don't wash away businesses and jobs in their wake\".\n\nThe owner of Cafe Rouge became the latest UK firm to announce job cuts on Thursday.\n\nIn an economic statement on Wednesday next week, Chancellor Rishi Sunak is due to set out \"the next stage in our plan to secure the recovery\".\n\nIn a speech earlier this week, Boris Johnson promised a £5bn \"new deal\" to build homes and infrastructure to help aid a post-Covid economic recovery.\n\nHe also outlined plans for an \"opportunity guarantee\" to ensure every young person had the chance of an apprenticeship or placement.\n\nResponding to Ms Dodds' comments, Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling said the government had a \"clear plan to protect and create jobs\".\n\n\"Every Labour government has left unemployment higher than when it entered. Sir Keir Starmer would be no different,\" she added.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted the furlough scheme must come to an end in October - saying it would not be \"healthy\" to extend it further.\n\nThe hospitality sector, including pubs and restaurants, is reopening in Northern Ireland on Friday, with England following on Saturday.\n\nIn Scotland, beer gardens and outdoor restaurants will be allowed to reopen from 6 July. Indoor areas are due to follow from 15 July.\n\nPubs, bars, cafes and restaurants in Wales are due to be able to reopen outdoors from 13 July.", "Communities like Luss will open up again for visitors Image caption: Communities like Luss will open up again for visitors\n\nWith the relaxation of the five-mile rule for travelling coming tomorrow, the country's beauty spots are bracing themselves for visitors arriving over this weekend.\n\nStirling Council is to reopen routes at Callendar and from Drymen to Balmaha after emergency closures to keep people away from Loch Lomond and Sandy Fraser admits that businessmen like himself and the local communities have to work more closely together.\n\n\"We have generally had a good relationship between the businesses and the locals, but I would have to say that has been severely stretched in the last 14 weeks and we've got some bridge building to do and we really need to recognise that I like it to be sunny with lots of people coming to the national park, some of our neighbours must dread it and wish for rain,\" he tells BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nJames Fraser, chair of the conservation group Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, adds: \"It is a real milestone day tomorrow and it's one that businesses in the park and throughout Scotland have looked forward to.\"\n\n\"People have been coming here, flouting the rules for weeks and residents have suffered greatly with people coming and with car parks and toilets closed.\"", "Pop group McFly have signed their first record deal since 2009, and will release a new album via BMG this year.\n\nIt comes seven years after the group's last single, after which they scrapped an entire record to form a \"supergroup\" with fellow pop stars Busted.\n\nInter-band tensions later derailed an attempt to reunite as McFly in 2017.\n\n\"There was a strong possibility McFly would never happen again,\" singer Tom Fletcher tells the BBC. \"We genuinely didn't know how to get back on track.\"\n\nAt one point the four-piece even considered group therapy to resolve their issues.\n\n\"Although we never thought they would, things got a bit weird between us,\" admits drummer Harry Judd.\n\n\"We tried to talk it out a couple of times over those years and it just was very unproductive. So, yeah, there were moments where we talked about, 'Do we need to get in a room with a therapist and document this?'\"\n\nHarry Judd and Aliona Vilani won the ninth series of Strictly in 2011\n\nIronically, the tension arose when each of the members launched successful second careers during the McFly's hiatus.\n\nTom and bassist Dougie Poynter wrote a successful series of children's books about pooping dinosaurs, while Harry won the ninth series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nGuitarist Danny Jones went on to write and produce records for acts like Rihanna and One Direction, while Dougie played with the rock bands A and INK.\n\n\"A lot of those things became the unspoken issues,\" says Tom.\n\n\"These are your best friends, who you want to be stood on stage with - and seeing them do things without you is really difficult to deal with.\"\n\nThe catalyst for the band's return turned out to be their manager of the last 18 years, Matt Fletcher.\n\n\"He booked the O2 without telling us and he said, 'Are you going to play it or not?'\" recalls Tom, \"and we all obviously said yes.\n\n\"I think having a date in the diary that said 'McFly at the O2' just made us all realise we'd been stupid.\"\n\nThe band played a comeback gig at the O2 last November\n\nIt can't have hurt to know that the gig sold out in minutes - nor that the band were greeted by ear-splitting screams as they rose up through the stage to play hits like All About You, Star Girl and 5 Colours In Her Hair last November.\n\n\"That was the start of the next chapter,\" says Tom.\n\nEnthused and re-energised, the band released the demos for their \"lost\" sixth album, clearing the decks for new material, before booking a recording studio for two months at the start of 2020.\n\nThe idea was to hunker down and compose together, instead of hoping that someone would turn up with the perfect comeback song, fully-written and ready to go.\n\n\"That was almost the problem before - hoping that a song would be the answer,\" says Tom.\n\n\"That really puts pressure on you as the writers, to come up with a hit that all your fans will love, but will also reunite you as a band and repair your relationships. We needed to get all of that out of the way first and come at it completely fresh.\"\n\nSo they settled into a routine: Tom would get up and take his two young sons to school, then come up with a melody or a riff on the drive to the studio.\n\nOnce he'd arrived, he'd play it to the rest of the band on the piano, and they'd instantly start working it up. Harry would go first, recording a drum track over which the others would lay guitars and vocals, and they'd keep going until sunset.\n\n\"That process, of allowing your brain to come alive and creating a song from nothing - that's amazing,\" says Danny.\n\n\"It's the first time I feel like we've all been part of it. We were all involved, split down the middle, and it was just such a collaborative, energetic process.\"\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 McFly 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 McFly\n\nThe four new tracks McFly play for the BBC instantly bring to mind the jangly positivity of Britpop - in the vein of The Boo Radleys' Wake Up Boo, or Dodgy's Staying Out For The Summer.\n\nWhen we make those references, the band can't suppress their smiles.\n\n\"That was exactly the feeling we wanted to create,\" confirms Harry.\n\n\"I'm really stoked you said that,\" adds Dougie. \"There was something special about Britpop back in the day.\n\n\"They were amazing songs but you had bands like Blur who could jump genres - from Song 2 being super rocky and crazy, to something weird like Parklife.\n\n\"There were no boundaries and that's what we wanted - to go off in different directions depending on what we were feeling that day.\"\n\nThe band's debut single went to number one, and they went on to sell 10m records worldwide\n\nThe first taste of McFly's new material lands later this month. The title of their comeback single is still under wraps, but it's an intoxicatingly upbeat crowd-pleaser, which the band describe as having a \"festival vibe\".\n\n\"There's that hands-in-the-air feeling about it,\" says Danny, \"like when you're drunk or you're having a barbecue.\n\n\"You can put it on and your kids will dance to it, your wife will dance to it, your granddad, everybody. Even the lads can get involved, the football crowd. I could really hear it on the Fifa soundtrack.\"\n\nThe carnivalesque riff was inspired by the band's massive following in South America, and there's even a samba sample thrown in for good measure.\n\n\"We had to contact the family of the artist,\" says Danny. \"They don't even have a Spotify page or whatever, and they were so chuffed we were using it. They were like, 'Our music's not been played in years! We can't believe it!'\"\n\nOne of the album's other highlights is a ballad centred around the lyric, \"you're my special\", which could rival All About You as a future wedding song, while Tom promises other tracks will be \"really heavy or slightly emo, with big cheesy power ballads and really weird and quirky ones, too\".\n\nCrucially, the album was almost finished before the band signed a record deal with BMG - the German-owned rights company which has become known for working with established, global artists like Kylie Minogue, Keith Richards and The Cranberries.\n\n\"We had a really instant connection with Jamie Nelson who wanted to sign us,\" says Harry. \"He just came in, heard some of the song and put his cards out on the table and said, 'I love what I'm hearing, I've always kept a close eye on you as a band, and I've always enjoyed what you've done'.\n\n\"He basically played to our egos and said all the right things.\"\n\nNelson, for his part, says he's \"delighted\" to have nabbed the band from their former label Universal. \"If our early interactions are anything to go by, it will be anything but dull,\" he says.\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 Island Records UK 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\nLike everything else, the band's comeback has been dampened by the coronavirus pandemic. Tours of the UK and Brazil have been delayed, and the band are isolating at home with their families... well, mostly.\n\n\"The amount of times I've visited the loo has increased by 40% during lockdown,\" laughs Harry.\n\n\"Yeah, your screen time averages at 12 hours a day,\" jokes Tom,\" and eight of them are on the loo.\"\n\nBut even on Zoom, McFly display a genuine sense of camaraderie and excitement for the new material. They've come a long way since their manager sprung a surprise show on them last summer.\n\n\"In hindsight, what we really needed was a break to realise how much we needed McFly,\" says Tom.\n\n\"We've spent our whole adult lives being called Tom McFly or Danny from McFly - and part of you desperately wants to justify that that doesn't define who you are.\n\n\"But the truth is McFly totally defines who we are. It's in our DNA.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None 'McFly is forever': The boyband is back", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nA man has been charged with murdering two sisters who were stabbed to death in a London park.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found at Fryent Gardens in Wembley on 7 June, two days after a birthday party in the park.\n\nDanyal Hussein, of Guy Barnett Grove, Blackheath, has been charged with killing both women and possession of an offensive weapon, the Met said.\n\nThe 18-year-old will appear at the Old Bailey on 6 July.\n\nMr Hussein was remanded into custody at Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday.\n\nThe sisters had met up with friends in the park from about 19:00 BST on 5 June to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday.\n\nThey were found dead two days later.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of both of their deaths as 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